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"WE SHALL LIVE."I
"WE SHALL LIVE." I I DYING BOY'S REMARKABLE I LETTER TO PARENTS Before young Lieutenant Eric. E. L. Townsend, of the London Regiment, went into action, he wrote a letter to hia parents t-o be sent in the went -of his falling. He was killed, and the letter was sent to his parents. It is a document that should bring consolation to any bereaved parent's heart. Ife &-tys:- Dearest Mother and Father,— You are reading this letter because I have gone under. Of course, I know you will be terribly out up, and that it will be a long time be- fore yon ge-t over it, but get over it you must. You must be imbued with the spirit of the Navy and the Army to "carry on." Y UIl will still have dear little Donald, who is j»fe atmiT for eome j while. If lie should ever have to go on active .service I somehow feel that his in- variable good hick will bring him through. N, Oil must console yourselves with the thought that I am happy, whereas if I had lived--who knows? Remember the saving attributed to Solon, ( all no man happy till he is dead. Thanks to your self-sacrificing love Pn(I devotion I have had a happy I time .ail my life. Death will have deliv- ered me from experiencing unhauDlness. FLEETING FAME. I It hps always seemed to me a very piti- fu] thing what little difference the disap- pearance of a man makes to any institu- tion, even though he may have placed a very important role. A moment's regret, a. moment's pause for r(-adiustinent, and another man steps forward to carry on, and th* machine clanks onward with scarce a check. The death of a leader of the nation is less even than a seven days' wonder. To a* very small number it is given to live in history; their number i-s scarcely one in ten millions. To the rest, if is only granted to live in their united achievements. But for this war I and all the others would have passed into oblivion like the countless myriads before us. We should have gone about our trifling busi- ness, eating, drinking, sleeping, hoping, marrying, giving in marriage, and finally dying with no more achieved than when we were born; with the world no difft-rent for our lives. Even the cattle in the field fare no worse than this. They, too, eat, drink, sleep, bring forth young, and die leaving the world no -different from what they found it. "WE SHALL LIVE." I But we shall live for ever in the results of our efforts. We shall live as those who by their sacri- fice won the Great War. Our spirits and our memories shall endure in the proud position Britain shall hold in the future. The measure of life is -not its span but the use made of it. I did not make much use of HI" life before the war, but I think I I have done so now. One ometimps hP.:1Tg people ay. when a foung rutin is killed, "Poor fellow, cut off ?o early, without ever having had ;) J chance of knowing ?nd enjo?-in? life." But I 1'0" myself, thanks to all that both of you have done, I have crowded into twenty j years enough pleasures, sensations, aid j ?xperienees for an ordinary lifetime, j Never brilliant; sometimes almost a failure in anything I undertook: my sym- pathies and my inforests *omehow or (it,h(-r-wbyl I cannot tell—were so wide that there was scarcely an amusement, an occunation, a fdoling which I could not ap- preciate. And as I have said, of most of I flie,s,p I had tasted. I don't suppose I ever met anybody who was not my superior in knowledge or achievement in one particu- lar subject; but there his knowledge and I his interest ended, whet?ea? my intert?to comprised nearly the whole field of human affairs a'ld ae?vitie' ?nd that is why it is no hardship for me to leave the world I so young. THE EASIER TASK. I Well, I have talked a lot of rot which must have given you great pa.in to read and which will not bring you much com- fori. I had intended to try and say words of comfort, but that scarcely being pos- sible, it has drifted into a sort of con- fession- of faith. To me has been given the easier task; to you is given the more difficult-that of living in sorrow. Be of good courage that at the end you may give a good account. Diss Donald for me. Adieu, best of pa rentes.—Your Tovins son, ERIC. I
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-=- ¡ SELF-MUTILATION. Extraordinary Conduct of Men Ordered Abroad. Dressed in khaki, a man named Reginald Arthur Bland, a marine, was placed in a chair by the side of the dock at West- minster on Thursday, charged with caus- ing grievous bodily harm to his brother, Harold Paul Bland, also a marine, by par- tially severing a toe on his Jeft foot with a chopper. Detective-Sergeant Purkiss said Bland had been brought from King George's Hos- pital, Waterloo, where his brother was still under treatment. The two men were found in a collapsed condition at Victoria District Station on Tuesday afternoon. They had their boots off, and were bleed- ing profusely from the feet. It was then stated that prisoner had chopped off his toes with a chopper, and had partially several a toe on his brother's foot. In a dazed way, prisoner said, Yes, I must have done it. I don't know what made me. We were under orders for abroad, and it has worried me." A ijemand was ordered, defendant being carried out of court.
SPECTACULAR ATTACK. I
SPECTACULAR ATTACK. A Political Dodge in Presidential Campaign. Washington, Thursday (received Fri- day).—The Secretary for War announces that he has information that the enemies of the Government's policy in Mexico ? have arranged with bandits for a spec- tacular attack upon American troops be- fore the Presidential Election in order to create 6entiment against the admini- stration.
HIGH TREASON TRIAL.I
HIGH TREASON TRIAL. Amsterdam, Thursday (received Fri- day).—A Sofia telegram says at the trial of M. Shenadiff and others connected with him of high treason, Shenadiff was deprived of evil rights for five years after serving 10 years' imprisonment.
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"HUGHES' OWN." Predicted Conscription Victory In Australia. Melbourne. Thursday (received Friday). —Mr. Hughes, the Premier, appeals to the citizens to be trltoe to themselves, to Australia, and to the Empire. 'Official re- ports from all States forecast a vidory for conscription. Two thousand me'c n i'iry d' going compulsory training have volun- teered for service overseas. Men under- going compulsory training are dubbed a Hughes' Own."
!FIERCE ATTACKS  AT VERDUN.
FIERCE ATTACKS  AT VERDUN. HUGE GERMAN LOSSES. I WAVES OF ASSAULT FALL BACK IN DISORDER I OUR GUNS AND AIRMEN BUSY I FRENCH OFFICIAL. I PARIS, Thursday, 11 p.m. North of the Somme an attempted enemy attack, on the farm of Bois l'Abbe, south of hkmchavesnes, was easily repulsed. The artillery fighting continues very lively in the region of Sailly Saillisel, as I as to the south or the bonmie iu the sector Vermand Ovill en-Cha u Ines. On the Verdun front the day was marked by violent attacks of the enemy. On four different occasions the Germans attacked the positions which we captured from them in the region of Douaumont. At 8.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. two attacks directed against the fort and against our front to the east were broken by our artil- lery and infan try fire in spito of the in- tense bombardment by which they were preceded and accompanied. About 3.30 p.m. a third very powerful attack was launched from liardaumont Wood. Taken under the fire of our batteries and our machine guns the four waves of as- sault of which they were composed, were forced back in disorder after suffering heavy losses. A Some isolated parties who had ap- proached our front line were made prison- ers. Finally a fourth attempt on our trenches to the south of Chaffouy Wood aleo suf- fered a complete check. Our front is entirely maintained. The total number, of prisoners counted np to the present is 5,000. Several hun- dred wounded brought in by our ambu- lances should be added thereto. EverywherfS else the dav was quiet. BRITISH OFFICIAL. i GENERAL HEADQUARTERS. I France, Thursday, 9.30 p.m. This morning, after a bombardment, the enemy delivered an attack against Stuff Trench, which runs north-west of Stuff Redoubt. He was driven off with consider able loss. our artillery proving very effec- tive. Forty-one prisoners remain in our hands. During the day the enemy's artillery ha? been active against our front south of the Ancre and in the neighbourhood of Loos and Fouquevillers. In spite of unfavourable weather, our aeroplanes yesterday co-operated RUcceSiY fully with our artillery and bombed many enemy billets and depots. Three of our machines have not re- turned. VERDUN ADMISSIONS. I Amsterdam, Thursday.—The official I communique received from Berlin to-day says:— Army Group of Prince Ruppreoht of Bavaria. Our artillery effectively silenced fire from trenches, batteries, and I works of the enemy on both sides of the Somme. Our positions on the northen bank were subjected to heavy bombard- ment; which preceded local attacks by the British north of Coureelette, Le Sare, Gueudecourt, and Lefiboeufs None of their attacks was successful, but only cost the enemy new sacrifices. Army Group of German Crown Prince. II-The French attack the day before yes- terday north-east of Verdun was favoured by misty weather and penetrated our battered-down trenches as far as the fort and village of Douaumont. The fort, 'was e,aciiated by which was in flames, was evacuated by our troops and in face of the enemy we did not succeed in re-occupying it. Only after express1 orders did our troops reluc- tantly move to previously prepared trenches a little to the north, where they yesterday repulsed all French attacks, including some especially severe attacks against Fort Vaux.
CONCERT FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS.I
CONCERT FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS. I Another of those excellent concerts ar- ranged by Mr. Lawson Evans was given the wounded soldiers of the Y.M.C.A. Hospital, Swansea, on Thursday evening, when a delightful programme was greatly ??rcciated. Mr. Ben Bottomley presided, and Me hall was well filled with wounded Tommies and soldier# stationed in the dis- trict. ThoGe who contributed to the even- ing's entortainmmt w&ro M&ster Edgar I Williams, Master J. Cinnick. Miss Lilian Edwards. Mr. Sid Jones, Madame Beynon, Mr. W. J. Williams, Misses Campbell and Beynon, Mr. Sol Solomon, and "Bert and Beryl," the famous wooden shoe expert dancers, who same direct from London and Moes' Empire, for whom they have been touring the halls. Their dancing found ready appreciation, as indeed did the whole programme, and thanks were duly accorded to Mr. Lawson Evans for arrang- ing such an excellent programme, and to the chairman, the artistes, and Mr. Harry Thomas, the local secretary of the Y.M.C.A. concerts. The singing of the National Anthem brought a most enjoy- able evening to a close.
VERDUN VICTORY.I
VERDUN VICTORY. I FOUR SUCCESSIVE WAVES OF ENEMY I TROOPS HURLEO BACK. A FORMIDABLE STRUCCLE Paris, Thursday (received Friday)-The; expert commentator writ-es:-The order, of the day of General Deviile emphasises the seriousness of the defeat suffered by the Germans on Oct. 24th before Verdun. As the smoke of battle clears we see bet- ter the importance of the event which in a sense is symbolic. After having taken eight months in capturing the advanced line which we gave up foot by foot in, the struggle of exhaustion deliberately devised by us, the enemy lost at one blow in a decisive attack positions obtained at the price of huge sacrifice. The French, j thanks to their unshakable self-sacrifice, came out as victors from a most formid- able struggle. The account of the fight- ing on Oct. 24th reveals officially who i were the gallant men who achieved the victory on this splendid day. It pays a i well deserved tribute of gratitude to the French and native troops who gave proof of the most noble emulation, and brought into prominence the names of their two chiefs, as clever in conception as they were vigorous in execution—Generals Nivelle and Mangin. ENEMY DESPERATION. Moreover, the victory at Verdun isl again confirmed, and emphasised by the complete defeat of the enemy's most furi- ous counter-attacks. The Germans in fact to-day renewed with still greater forces and with increasing desperation their counter-attacks of yesterday, but met with no better cuccess, and could not regain the smallest bit of ground. Four successive waves of assault were hurled against Fort Douaumont and the positions which cover it on the west and east. Four times our barrage nre shattered their dash and decimated t? e?ir ranks. At the end of the day our line was intact. Prisoners continue to come in. The number of unwounded men taken now reaches 5,000, and to this figure can be added hundreds of wounded which have not yet been counted. On the French side the losses are comparatively trivial, since they amounted for the 24th to only half of the number of prisoners taken by us. GERMANY'S CONFESSION. ihe enemy does not cease to travesty the truth or do violence to it. Thus, he began by declaring categorically on the 24th that attempted French attacks before Verdun had been foiled; on the 25th he was constrained to admit that our troops had gained ground as far as the smoking ruins of Fort Dou- aumont but it is only to-day, after two days' reflection, that he decided upon this embarrassed confession: The day before yesterday the French, favoured by misty weather, advanced, passing over our battered down trenches, to the village and fort of Douamont. The fort, a prey to flames, had been evacuated hy the gar- rison, which did not succeed in resuming a footing in it before the enemy. Our troops, to a large extent acting upon formal orders and reluctantly occupied positions prepared beforehand strongly established to the North." It seems very improbably this strange version of a voluntary retirement by the Crown Prince's army will find any cre- dence in public opinion in Germany.
A WEST WALES WORKS.
A WEST WALES WORKS. Mr. Montagu and Stack- ing 11 Allegations. In the House of Commons on Thursday, in reply to Mr. Andersen'? question re" carding recent allegations at the West Wales Munitions Court at Swansea, Mr. Montagu said: My attention had already been called to this matter, and inquiries ape being made into the allegations. I understand that the cases were dismissed by the tribunal. I am informed that the controlled establishment in question has had frequent difficulties in obtaining cer- tain materials, with the result that the sub-contractors' work was delayed. Fur- ther inquiries were toeing made.
COFFEE ESSENCE PROFIT.I
COFFEE ESSENCE PROFIT. I Large profits by a coffee essence manu- ¡ facturer were disclosed in a House of Lords appeal on Thursday. Messrs. R. Paterson ad Sons, Limited, of Glasgow, witli a share capital of £ 63,000, made a profit in the year ending March 31, 1915, of £ 20,143. Mr. Campbell Paterson, the former managing director, objected to the action of his two coni-wkio had taken the direction of the business—in transferring to reserve out of these profits £ 3,000. The sons had guaranteed that the father? share of pronto would not in nny I year be le?s than S7.MO. n? House of Lords decided in favour of the father.
LLANELLY TRAGEDYI
LLANELLY TRAGEDY I THE SUICIDE OF A WllL-KNOWH I DEACON INQUEST AND VERDICT I An inquest was held at Llanelly on Friday by Mr. W. W. Brodie concerning the death of Mr. John Edmunds, 159, I Old Castle-road, a retired steel worker, and a well-known deacon of Lloyd-street Chapel. Richard Edmunds, deceased's son, ¡ gave evidence of identification, and said that on Thursday morning he was called from bed by his sister. He entered the wash-house and saw his father's body suspended from a beam. Two men who happened to be passing camo in and cut the body down. His father was dead. When witness saw him last at 1.30 p.m. ¡ on Wednesday, deceased was in the best of spirits. The Coroner: What had he been doing on the previous day? Witness: Removing the furniture. Was there to be any change, then?— Yes, he was going to live with my married sister in Brynmor-road. Why?-Only that another married sister was going to live at 159, Old Castle- road. Did he ever threaten to take his life?— No. So that yon were quite surprised at what you found?—Yes, I cannot fathom it, sir. Had there been I anything that upset his mental balance?—No, nothing. Had be been unwell at all?—Ten years ago he suffered from shock when my mother died and he had been under medical; treatment for heart trouble, but not of late. The jury returned the verdict that deceased, while oft unsound mind, did kill himself."
TO A PONTARDULAIS MAN.I
TO A PONTARDULAIS MAN. I An Inquiry About a Letter. I If the Pontardulais correspondent who I wrote to a military officer at Swansea will I write again giving his name and address, together with any further information, it I will be treated as confidential. A place of meeting can also be arranged, I at which the whole matter may be di- i cussed.
ITALY AND RUMANIA.I
ITALY AND RUMANIA. I Rome, Thursday (received Friday).— The following semi-official statement has been issued oore :_a The current impres- sions caused by recent events in Rumania are due to excessive sensibility, rather than to a clear estimate of the situation. Besides just that, the complete efficiency of the Rumanian Army is a serious 01>- stacle for the enemy, the crossing of the Danube represents enormous difficulties. There is a large series of natural and artificial barriers which the enemy must face, especially when they have crossed ) Predeal Pass, while the assistance Russia is bringing will soon reverse the prema- ture rosy predictions of the German High Command."
A MAJOR'S DESPAIR.
A MAJOR'S DESPAIR. Major Henry Keith Barr, of London, aged 44, shot himself while staying at Holcombcroes, a North Devon village. He was suffering from defedi eyesight, pro- bably caused by shell shock. After 24 years' service in India he had been in France since the beginning of the war. At the inquest the widow said he worried because he thought be would not be sent back to the front.
SALONIKA WAR NEWS. I
SALONIKA WAR NEWS. In the Ilono-, of Commons on Thursday Mr. Ellis Davids asked the Secretary for War if he would state why, in view of the foot that the war correspondents of the leading British newspapers were re- quested to withdraw from Salonika and that the order was complied with, the) representative of one newspaper had been allowed special facilities to send special dispatches from the Serbian Ileadquartersi through Salonika; and whether he can see his way to extend the same privilege to the representatives of other newspapers or provide that the information obtained shall be supplied to all papers alike. Mr. H. Forster, answering for Mr. Lloyd George, sadd: This question is now under discussion between the Newspaper Pro- prietorg" Association and the War Office, and it is hoped that some solution satis- factory to bcotl-, may shortly befound.
THE DEUTSCHLAND STORY.
THE DEUTSCHLAND STORY. Licenses were applied for at the Patents Office on Thursday to publish English tranalations of The Voyage of the Deutschland," by the submarine vee- sel's captain, Paul Konig, and of Nau-I mann's work, Mittel-Europe," which deals with the amalgamation of the Central Powers with Turkey and the Balkans for. military and economic pur- poses. C. Arthur Peareon, Ltd., were the ap- plicants in the first case, and .Messrs. King and Son, Ltd., in the second. The latter bad already been printed before the new Copyright Act vesting the copy- right of enemy books in the Crown.— Judgment was reserved.
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HOCKEY. < LJandilo County School v. Llandilo Town. Llandilo County School mixed team met the Town miged hockey team on the School Ground on Thursday. The game was exceedingly fa6t, and most interesting plav was witnessed. '1?0 teams wer vry evnly matched, and after a clo?e and ex- citing game, the final whistle blew with the score: Llandilo County School, nil; Llandilo Town, nil. Captain W. L. Roberts refereed.
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IMISS EMILY HOB HO USE.
MISS EMILY HOB HO USE. Visits to Germany and Belgium. Lord ltobert Cecil, in the House of Common3 on Thursday, informed Major Hunt that the Government was aware of Miss Emily Hob ho use's visit to Ger- many and Belgium. Evidently it took place with the consent of the German authorities, The Government had no knowledge of the matter till the lady re- turned from Switzerland. Mr. Penefather: Surely she had a passport. Lord R. Cecil: I can assure the hon. gentleman that the Foreign Office never issued a passport to enable this lady to enter Germany. He presumed She had a passport before she left the country, and added that he would not care to say that if the lady obtained a passport she did so under false pretences. Replying to Sir William Bylee. Lord Robert said he thought it very undesir- able that any British subject should pay visits to German territory. Mr. Pennefather, M.P. for the Kirk- dale Division of Liverpool, had ques- tions on the paper in reference to Miss Hobhouse's visit, in the course of which he asked whether the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs was aware that Miss Emily Hobhouee has been enabled to travel hundreds of miles through Ger- many and Belgium, and has written in the organ of the Union of Democratic Control an article which minimises the sufferings of Belgium and links up the British Army with the German Army under the general description of Hums ?
LORD HALDANE ABUSED.I
LORD HALDANE ABUSED. I ) Alleged Offensive Conduct by I W.S.P.U. Members. Lord Ilaldane has refused to charge Mies Jessie Kenny and Miss Hope, two young women who were arrested on Wed- nesday night. It appears that Miss Kenney and six l other women, said to be members of the W.S.P .U., followed bis lordship from the Houses of Parliament to his house in Queen Anne's-gate, and shouted "Traitor Haldane." They accused him of trying to lose the war in the Balkans. Mise Hope. who followed her companion to Rochester-row Police Station, was taken, into custody. I His lordship preferring no charge, they I were allowed to go.
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.I
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. I In the light of the new experience gained from the war the Committee of Imperial Defence will review all the as- pects of the situation." This important was made by the Prime Minister on Thursday to a deputation from the Channel Tunnel Par- liamentary Committee.
- I THE PORTUGUESE ENGAGED.…
THE PORTUGUESE ENGAGED. | Enemy Forces Forced to Retire. Laurenco Marques, Thursday (received Friday).—It is officially stated that a re- connoitring party encountered the enemy on Saturday at Nakalala, forcing them to retire. There was another encounter with the enmy on Sunday at Newala, the enemy being forced to a precipitate retirement, abandoing, arms, ammunition, and tools. The Portuguese casualties were one European killed and three natives slightly wounded.
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BUTLER'S SUICIDE, I
BUTLER'S SUICIDE, I Detective's Struggle in the I Dark. Given a cheque for IZ153 to pay soirle bills, John Wadham, aged 43, butler in j the service of Lady Caroline Gor&n- Lennox, of 30, Wilton-creecent, S.W., I settled some of the aooounts but absconded with S74 odd. i He disappeared on October 4. and on I Tuesday night he returned to his iiiistrfe-s s housft. Detective-Sergeant Purkess was summoned by telephone, and found Wad- j ham crying. The butler was arrested, but- whilo he was being taken through Belgrave-?quare he put a medicine bottle to his mouth. and the detiYe asked him what it con- tained. Wadham replied: Only whisky, j sergeant. Have a drink; it won't h rTrt you." The officer took the bottle from j the prisoner, and shortly afterwards Wadham turned round and caught the I detective by the collar with his two hands. It was pitch dark at the time. They struggled, and Wadham sank to his knees. He died an hour later. A blue bottle, oon- taining cyanide of potassium crystals, was found in his pocket. At the inquest on Thursday the detective said that Wadham's defalcations were rather extensive. Although hN was married, there were two or three women in the case, and the man had indulged in letting. I Dr. Evanis said that death was due to I pruseic acid poisoning, and the jury re- turned a verdict of felo de se.
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THE CURFEVV BEL __n- Shops to Close an Hour Later. The new Early Closing Order which W to come into force on Monday met wi such a chorus of condemnation in ther Housf- of Commons on Thursday nightf that the Home Secretary was compelled ta: agree to an important modification. TlwW Older, as issued, provides for the closing, of shops, with some few exceptions, ati seven o'clock on the first four working"1 days of the week (apart from early clos-f ing), at eight o'clock on Fridays, and at nine on Saturdays. As a result of the dis-; cussiun Mr. Herbert Samuel agreed to/ issue an Amending Order on Friday sub- stituting eight o'clock for seven o'clock:, on al day" except early closing daya and!; Saturdays, and leaving the nine ó'clock: provision as to Saturdays untouched. The debate took place on a motion forJ, adjournment proposed by Captain Bar- net t. who, though he was elected for Wesfc' St. Pancras only some ten ¿YS ago, had1 the satisfaction of securing a .ubstantia5 concesgion from the Home case he put forward against the Order, was that it would ruin many of the small shop keepers and cauw., inconvenience an hardship to the rest. About a dozen mem, bers joined in the protest, and not a singlet voice was raised on th-e other side. After; listening to the case made out against the, Government proposal, Mr. Samuel agreed\ ?N [r. gamuel agreed?' I to the modification described abore.0 whereupon the adjournment motion waai withdrawn. »
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