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CASH IN THE CORN SACKS, j The report 9f Messrs. Thomas and < Evans and John Dyer, Ltd., presented at the annual meeting on Saturday, showed a netpront for the year of i'14,034 4.6. 2d. After allowing for Preference and Ordi- nary shore interim dividend, a dividend of 10 per cent, per annum (less interim dividend already paid on the Ordinary shares). This was proposed by Mr. Dyer, and seconded by CHpt. R. M. G. Evans. The sum of £1,000 was placed in the pen- sion fund. Capt. H. M.. G. Evans, re- tiring director, was re-elected, as were the auditors, Messrs. J. F. Harvey and Sons

I GRADE 1 (BI) EXPLAINED. t At'the Law Society Appeal Tribunal on Friday, when a solicitor, referring to a Grade 1. (B 1) man of the new military age, said, that, according to the decision of the authorities, he was really only a Grade II. man, the chairman (Mr. Albion Richardson, M.P.) corrected him, point' ing out that the decision was not that such men should he treated as Grade 11., but Grade I. (,B 1). The only difference in tlie new grad- ing, and I agree that it is an important diSerence." said Mr. Richardson, is that it was agreed with the War Office that men of the new military age passed in Grade 1. should not be trained for the first-line infantry. That was the only undertaking."

OUTRAGE ON SPAIN. I Another Ship Said to Have Been I  T doed. I Torpedoed. l'AHLS Saturday. I It is announced that another Spanish vessel has been torpedoed in the neigh- bourhood of the Canarit-s. SHELLED OFF THE CANARIES. Paris, Saturday.—A telegram from Heud?ye to the Petit Parisien et?tes that the r?ort is confirmed oi shelling of a Spanish vec&el off the Canaries by a German submarine.

TRIUMPH OVER TYPHOID. Sir James Cricliton Browne, in his presidential address, at the annual con- ference of the Sanitary Inspectors' As- socation in London on Friday, said that in three years amongst 3,0(10,000 men on j our western trufit we have ha<i only 2,(100 cases of typhoid fever, instead of the 300,000 which, according to precedent, we should have had, and the weri had en for themselves that that disease hus fastened with special virulence ou the small uninomlated minority ,jl their comrades, ul\d they would turn a deaf ear to anti-vaccinati* n dia. tribes-

HUNS' BRITISH WIVES. Replying to a letter from Sir Henry Dalziel, Sir George Cave, the Home Secretary, says: There is no foundation for the sugges- tion that the British-bom wives of Ger- man husbands are being deported, to Ger- many against their will. Some four or five British-born' women have been re- quired to leave because they had shown themselves violently pro-German, some of these, though British-born, being of Ger- man origin; but. with these exceptions, any Britich-born woman or child who has left this country for Germany has done so voluntarily

PLATE-LICKING LESSON. How the German people were aroused in 1915 to the danger of the coming food shortage was described in the Times on Friday by Mr. Arthur N. Davis, the Kaiser's American dentist. School teachers gave daily talks to the children .to eat everything on their plates. One went so far as to announce: "I always lick my plate, children, and you should do the same."

Police Reservist F. W. French has been awarded the National Canine Defence league medal in recognition of his brave action in rescuing a dog from a firpo. At Swansea Police Court on Saturday, Maggie Jones (23). unfortunate; was "eJ! down for three months for being within the area of the South Swan- sea, on Friday. Defendant had been con- vieted five times previously.

f I TO'DAY'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. There is nothing to report on the ¡ French, front generally: I BALDOYLE MEETING. 'I 2.30— Belluna 1, Oat Koek 2. Golden I Sell 3.-E ran. « to 1 winner.  i I.. I ¡ J ,it i I I I j ( • ( I 1 f I I I

RACING IN IRELAND. Meetinq at Baldoyle. 2.0 -GOLDEN FLEECE 1, SILVER RING 2, ASHWORTH 3. Also ran: Good Health, I See, Kroo Boy, Little Pickle, Minstrel Park, Golden DaIsy. Lady White, Trepam, Cumara. Betting: 5 to 2 Golden Fleece, 4 to 1 Golden Daisy and Lady White, 6 to 1 Good Health, 8 to 1 Silver Ring, Little Pickle and I See, 10 to ] Trepam, Kroo Boy, Ashworth, 100 to 6 others.

'Thomas Hendon, aged 90. whose dpatb, was the subject of an inquest on Friday," received his ealling-up papers a few days ago. Shuttle kissing in cotton mill;, is said to spread influenza, and Blackburn weavers are to discuss,the subject with the medical officer.

LOCAL ELECTIONS WHAT SHALL SWANSEA DO ? 1 Our space is greatly taken up to-day by important matters, and we admit that we dislike lung letters. But the writer of the following-a well-known towns- man who tells us that, since he dis- cusses principles and not persons, noth- ing is gained by revealing his identity —deals with a subject of such pressing interest that we feel obliged to fptre hizr. the necessary room. t To the Editor. I Sir,—Fugitive paragraphs and a little comment have already appeared in the local press regarding the electoral situa- tion as it affects the municipal govern- ment of Swansea. Names of prospective iiew candidates have been mentioned, and altogether we have been given the iiu- piession that we are to have an election oji the old familiar lines. The arguments ue not new: We v. ant new blood. We want a more lively Council." And indeed we do. There are Councillors who lower the dignity of our town. Up to this we are all agreed. But let us do things in seemly fashion, Why was the Act postponing local el ec- tions passed? It was passed because it was net considered proper that -w hen Britain was at war there should he dis- sension at home; because it was not con- sidered fair thut those who stayed at home, the è.j and the weaklings, should exercise franchise privileges de- nied to the men who are saring the country. If we at home are unable to fight, then we should keep very quiet about our rights at the poll when others are fighting for these rights of ours. The sense of the country agrees that it is Dot fitting ior the people at home to exercise municipal or other social an d < functions now denied to the sailors nyw -den?-ed to the z-aijors Therefor?, although technical consider- ations make it necessary for an election to be held, may I appeal to the rate- payers who are "carrying on" im Swan- sea net to violate the spirit of this national compact? We ought not to take advantage of such an opportunity. This also for other reasons which. I will enumerate. (1) It is not seemly to have contested elections now, witii all that they will meau. in bitterness and in displays of personal ambitiou. iho tuues aro too grave for electioneering without <canse. (2) We should not, as stayers at home. be anxious to do that which the sol- dier cannot do becaute he is lighting ior us. (3) Wo should at such a period as this discourage men who waut to feed am- bition or vanity by becoming councit- lors. There is sufficient work of national importance" to occupy all their spare time if they are anxious to serve the country. (4) It is necessary to secure continuity of policy just now. We are at an im- portant stage in Swansea's history, and it is not desirable to swop horses. A few words upon each point. With re- gard to the-first, I need not elaborate. We have our nerves too highly strained over war events to stand complacently the spectacle of Mr. X lambasting" Mr. Y, or to have the town riven with cheap Section cries. We have our eyes fixed too steadily upon France to tolerate Mr. Z, who has been waited upon by a large and influential deputation," coming into our line of vision with his tale of his ex- cellences. With the second point I have dealt. Abo^ the third: The man who is dying to he? bis town or hiB country can do it in a hundred ways to-day. If he cannot tight, he: can do hospital work—there are illimit- able chances for him. But the law of to. day is conservation of effort. As little di& turbance as possible. The fourth point if very important. We have councillors pre ruruably familiar with the very difficul' business of inaugurating the Create; Swansea scheme. Change just now woul< be dangerous. Consider what difficult, would be created if the men who are guid Itjj the Act into being were off the Conn cil now. • Frankly, other thiagw being equal, wonld like an election. 'But they are nc equal. Wti cannot afford the luxury. W ought to carry on as we are. Th time will come, and soon I hope, for complete expression of the municapt will; but this is not the day. And I d (■seriously suggest to my fellow citizei that the wisest and the most proper ar dignified procedure just at present is allow the Council as it is to be returne Next year we may be able to say our c4 about things. Let the election then be formality. Let us frze out the man wj is merely ambitions of being Councill X; he may have his chance some oth day. The watchword of to-day is Car On." Let the present Council carry on it can quite easily be arranged-until t cessation of war makes it possible for to have a little fighting on the Swans sector.-Y, ouis, ete., I Carry On.'

RUGBY LEAGUE FOR SWANSEA1 Mr. Will Owen, son of Councillor W Owen, of Milton-terrace, Swansea—w has just recovered from a severe bout malaria—is willing to take the lead organising a meeting for the formal in Swansea and distsict of a Rugby leftg Fie suggests that something of the Jq would be welcomed by munition work and others, and is confident that the Helen's ground would be readily pi*, at their disposal. Pendragon hae b asked to ventilate the matter with a v to securing the co-operatio'n of all in ested. Mr. Owen's idea is certainly serving of commendation.

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O'IVL N ?? slommbl 9 '10 09 000 Ct* OVER 20,000 PRISONERS. -M ST. MIHIEL SALIENT Flattened Out By Americans. British Progress S. W. of La Bassee. General Pershing's Army on the Western front has splendidly ful- filled the expectations formed of it. At one blow the formidable St. Mihiel" salient has been wiped out; and the line straightened from Ragny to Hattoiiviile. The modest wording of the first American communique only im- perfectly indicated the success obtained. The total of prisoners is over 20,000, and 60 guns have been taken. LAST NIGHT'S AMERICAN OFFICIAL. France, Friday Xight. In the St. Mihiel sector we have achieved further success. The junction of our troops advancing from the south of the sector with those advancing fron\ the west has given us possession of the whole salient to points 12 miles north-east of St. Mihiel, and has re- sulted in the capture of many prisoners. Forced back by our steady advance, the enemy is retiring, and is destroying large quantities of material as he goes. The number of prisoners has ri sen to 13,000. Our line now includes Herbonville, Thlilot, Hattcnviile, St. Be- noit, .Xammes, Joulny, Thiaucourt, and Vieville. 7,000 MORE PRISONERS. Paris, Saturday Afternoon. The Echo de Paris declares tliat the figure of 13,300 prisoners given in the American communique is exceeded by 7,000, and includes 5,000 Austrians. LAST NIGHT'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. t Paris, Friday, 11 p.m. In the course of the day we made progress between Savy and the road from St. Ouentin to Harti. To the 6cuth of Ailetter we have extended our positions north of Antheuil la Foseee. German counter-attacka were repulsed in the region of Laffaux and Moiry Farm. The successes in the region of St. Mihiel are reported in the American com- munique. LAST NIGHT'S BRITISH OFFICIAL. 1 France, Friday, 8.10 p.m. In the Vermand and Jeancourt sector (north-west of St. Quentin) our troops. Stive gained ground in contact with the #neiny'e advanced detachments and have taken prisoners. South-west of La Bassee our progress has continued in spite of opposition from hostile. machine guns. Our troops have gained possession of Fosse Bight de Beth- I ?ne and of the &lag heap adjoining it. This plap heap, known as "The Damp," forms an important local feature, giving wide observation over the surrounding .country to, the north of it. Our troops hold the German trench lines immediately west cf Auchy-lcz-la- Bassee, and are pressing forward into the village. We captured a few prisoners during the night in the neighbourhood of Lill-e- beke Lake. On September 12 a strong wind, low clouds, and heavy rain prevailed through- out most of the day. Enemy aircraft were not active. Our own machines en- gaged on contract patrol and artillery observation work had to contend with lno-,t unfavourable weather conditions and could only fly at a low altitude. During the brighter intervals some photographs were successfully carried out. One of our ¡ machines is missing.

= I AUSTRIA FED UP." I American Belief in Imminent I Break. Washington, Friday.—The "New York I Herald" say-.—"Recent news leaking from Austria indicates that dramatic develop- ments are due any time there, and that they are go delicate and precarious as to1 compel President Wilson to defer his pro- posed western tour. Recognition of the Czfifho-Slo^aks and Marshal Foch's vie- tories are precipitating the Austrian situ- ation to such all extent as to induce the belief in Washington circles that the final "break in Austria is imminent.-Em- change.

DOCKS SEIZED. I Washington, September 13.—The Cus todian _of Alien Property has seized the Hamburg-America I.ine's docks and coal- ing stations in the Virgin Islands, West Indles.-Reuter.

STANDARD SUITS. I Permits for the sale by tailors of stan- dard made-to-measure suits will he issued in a day- or two. and the first of these wits should be obtainable to customers' infli- vidual measurements by the end of next veek.

??- 7 SPECTACLED "SPUD." I An allotment holder named Heaven has lifted from "his nlot on the Tredegar es- tate, Newport (Mon.), a. potato which wears a pair of spectacles. The bridge of the spectacles resets across the niiddle of the potato in which it iE embedded. The glasses are unbroken, but the stea frame is rusted.

EXPORTS DOWN. I The Board of Trad9 returns for last raonth. issued on Friday, show that im- ports totalled £ 110.235,141, against £ 100.557,618 in August last year, an in- crease W J&6"523. Exports amounted to £ 43,522,257. asrainst £ 49,803,715. a de- crease of J6.281.478. There was an in- crease in imports of articles of food, drink, and tobacoo totalling < £ S,816,450, and a decrease in grain and flour amount- ing to £$,489,077.

BIRCH- FOR BAD BOYS. I Fowls Stoned to Death at Sketty. At Swansea County Juvenile lohce Court on Saturday, two small boyr., aged q and 10 years, were respectively ordered to receive three strokes and eix strokes with the birch, for stealing a fowl, valued Us.. from Singleton Gardens, Sketty. and Jailing it, on Friday. The parents of thP- boys were also fined 20s. each. It was stated that the boys went into the grounds to collect horse chestnuts, and while there stoned two fowls to death. They then caught another and cut its liwd of with a knife,

THE EX-CZAR'S FAMILY. Bolshevik Denial cf Murders i Copenhagen, Friday, Sept. 13. The Swedish Folkets Dagblad" states that Tchitcherin. the Russian Minister, denies that the Russian cx-Cziti-ina and her daughters have, beeu iiiurdered.-Ex- change. This statement, corning from such a source in such a circuitous manner, should not receive tnuch credence. It is the policy of the Bolsheviks- to deny any crime which they have committed. It was many days before fhey admitted the murder of the ex-Czar..

MILITARY FUNERAL. At the military funeral of Mr. J. A. Coombe (38). who resided at 12. Argyle- street, which took place on Friday at Danygraig Cemetery, the following mourners were prpsfiit.Afrs. Coombe (wife), Mrs. Greenslade and Mrs. Hop- kin (sisters), Pte. E. Coombe (brother), Sergt.-Major Hopkin (brother-in-law). Mrs. Bladder (mother-in-law), Mr. R. Greenslade (brother-in-law), Mr. and Mrs. Brookes (brother-in-law a.nd sister- in-law), and Miss G. and M. Blacker (sisters-in-law). The. firing party were from the Lancashire Fusiliers.

-0_ "BIG BERTHA'S" MASK. Paris, Friday.—A special correspondent of the "Temps" telegraphsThe plat- form of the last Big Bertha to fire on Paris has been discovered in Corbie Wood. The gun position was composed of two parts-an emplacement of a real gun and an emplacement for a dummy gun. The gun turned on a revolving platform, and it was remarkable that only the dummy gun was camouflaged. The real gun had probably not been hit.by our airmen, but the camouflaged emplacement showed signs of bombardment.—Reuter.

GUilTY-BUT INSANE. Eva Grace Thompsori, aged 33, lately a night nurse at the Sydenham Infant Wel- fare Centre, was fouad guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday of the wilf-ftl iiiurdor of James Matthew Ernest Smith, aged two months, who died from a fractured skull. The jury accepted the defence that she had been addicted to drugs, suffered from epilepsy, and was not responsible for her actions, and Mr Justice Darling ordered Irer detention during the King's pleasure. Charg?g of murdering another child elml1 injuring and neglecting three others w?r( not proceeded with. „ '-t ,j( ? .? j

I NO TIME FOR I LOOTING. I I St. Mihiel Left Intact. PRECIPITATE RETREAT I OF THE ENEMY. PARIS, Saturday. Reuter's Expert Commentator, writing 1,Iit night, -a -vs:- The communiques to-day are again Lulktins of victory, and the victory is of such importance that the enemy Are en- deavourihg tc mislead their people at hojne by falsehoods, which are really ridi- culous. The German public will not be deceived thereby. We have, moreover, striking and most fortunate proofs that the evacuation of the. St. Mihiel salient, contemplated for several years, had not been prepared, and that the Germans and the Austrians, who admit that they had concentrated forces there intended to hold St. Mihiel, and the whole triangle of which the town formed the apex. Every time the enemy has leisure to prepare a retreat he systematically 'destroys the places he abandons and removes to Ger- many the whole of the able-bodied popula- tion. ST. MIHIEL INTACT. But the attack of American and French ) armies was so swift. and the inittiediato retreat was so necessary, for the Germany that our-soldiers found the toy.. n of St. Mihiel intact,. Two divisions defended the town and environs. After a very sharp fight the Americans and French won the day. The large number of prisoners who remained in our hands would. moreoyer, prote, if there was any need for it, that the salient was no* evacuated according to plan. I THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. I The Premier will have the satisfaction of learning the details ot the. triumphal entry into St. Mihiel from tb-e? mouth of r his own son. Captain Clemenceau, of the Colonial Infantry, who I was the first French cfficer to euter reC()lIq 11ere French oiffcer to enter the reconquered town at the head of his troops. The booty taken by our troops is immense. As may Lc imagined there has been no time yet to make all inventory of it. hut it includes guns ct all calibres and large stocks of 1 ammunition. One of the most thrilling moments of the two days' battle n-M when the armies which had btarted from the region of Les Eparges met at St. Bcnoi the armies which had come from the south, The net was closed, and all the Germans who had not time to pack off were caught. The most important of the liberated places is St. Iihièl, with its 9,350 inhabi- tants. which is important above all from a military point of ,-ie" EFFECT OF THE VICTORY. Its possession gives us back the use of I the great Verdun (St. Mihiel—Commercv -'roui-l'\aney) Railway. About 30 other- places were re-captured hy u6. We have reached Theacourt and Vigiieulles les | HattoTiclifatel. ana impbrtant towns like I V erdun. Commeroy. Toul. and Nancy, are more distant from the front, where h. b they are no longer threatened with being turned. Even if the victory stopped there it would already bo the most glorious for Genera l Pershing Jind his army. But it would be very surprising if it did not have other fortunate consequences. "ACCORDING TO PLAN!" I German Excuse for St. Mihiel I Failure. Amsterdam. Friday \received Satur- day).—Dealing with the American offen- siv'e at St. Mihiel, a Berlin semi-official telegram .says:— In expectation of the attack, evacua- tion of the bend. which was unsuited to the fighting of a defensive battle. because it was enclosed on both sides. had been begun some days earlier. The trench mortars, entrenched guns, 1 and ammunition for the greater part had been withdrawn from the Lorraine Ridge, The enemy attacks, in the course (If j which the enemy gained ground m the direction of Thiaucourt, until our coun- ter-attack eheckcd his advance, were nn- able to carry out the movements accord- ¡ ing to plan. I EXTENSION OF BATTLE I I PREDICTED. PARIS, Saturday. M. Clemenceau, who saw Marshal Foph yesterday, in an interview with a repre- sentative of the Echo de Paris," stated .that 2..100 inhabitants remained at St. M,'ihiel. The day before they left the Germans took away 76 persons, mostly young men. The Premier added, simply. It will go very well." The same journal foreshadows an extension of the battle. BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS i. The Petit Parisien" states that ac- cordiii? to information receivm from the Mayoralty of Rheims the Germans Dro continuing to bombard the city, and sm to ?concentrating their efforts against thp cathedral. The north of the town, which survived the great fire of 19H, ¡I threaten* to fall between the shells.

lRENCH ATTACK AT DAWN. i ————- Two Distinct Blows Delivered. PROGRESS ON 11 MILE FRONT. I More Villages Captured. France, Saturday, Xcon. The Press Association dealing with the military situation, says:— This morning at dawn, the French began a fresh attack on both sides of the Ayiette and also south of the Aisne, between the Aisne and the Vesle. Both attacks are believed to be prGgresing favourably. To the south of the Ayiette the French have captured Mcn-des- To the of tli(- A-?,lette t'-Ije I-'reiiel-i lian-e captured on ,Siques all([ tit(-, o' land Sane- an d are. apl)ar?:nt l v on This indicates an advance of one or two miles en a front of 11 miles. One division has captured 1,000 prisoners, the total being 1,800. TO-DAY'S BRITISH OFFSCIAL. France. Saturday, 11.45 a.m. The number of prisoners captured by us in t'e operations carried out by the Third Army with complete success in the Triescault-A vrin- c.uurt sectors on the 12tli inst. exceeds 1,500. As the result of the progress made by our troops yesterday north. west of St. Quentin, our lines have been established at the villages 01 Vechecourt and Flanccurt. During the past 24 hours the enemy has macte several determined but unsuccccsfiil attempts to recover the positions recently captured by us in the neighbourhood cf Jcusecourt and Havrincourt. lesterday. h strong, ,hostile attwk in which the enemy employed flainmehwerfers, was repulsed with heavy losses. South of Jouzecourt we secured general prisoners. At Havrincourt the enemy. attackrcl yesterday morning in force, and under cover cf a heavy artillery bombardment, penetrated the eastern portion of the village. After hard lighting- the attacking German infantry were driven cut and our positions restored. I North of Havrincourt we advanced slightly on the village and Canai. J In the eveaing the enemy attacked east of Tresc-ault and gahled a 1 footing in cur • LrencheS, but were driven out immediately, leaving a number of dead ■ In front of our lines. • During the night a-strong bombarding attack in which liquid fire was employed, was made against our positions north-west of Gouzeaa- court, after forcing our advance post to withdraw. This attack was also successfully beaten off. Local fighting took pbeù yesterday in the Moeuvres sec-t?o?r .without iiiateri,it0 kID, took- yesterdayin the i\loeu%,res sectc)r.withou,, During the night the enemy attacked south of Moeuvres, and was repulsed. » We have established new positions during the night along the west bank of the Caaat du Nord, in the neighbourhood of Souchy-Ccuchy, and opposite Oin le Verger. In the La Bassee sector we have occupied Auchy-lez-Bassee. '———————— i

STATUS OF SWANSEA, Cardiff Paper and a Kite." I The "South Wales Daily News" ears: "'A kite floA-n with the object of pre- paring tho people o: Swansea for the nos- sibility of disappointment in regard to an. early announcement of the improved sta- tus of the town, of, which they are so de- servedly proud, contains the following sentence:—' A long procedure has to bc gone through when a town is raised to the rank of a city, and many difficulties not exactly obvious have to be overcome." As a matter of fact, t-his long procedure' was started many months ago by one of Swansen'si most far-sighted public men, and all that is now required is a single* etep which may be expected unless too many cooks chime in at the last moment and spoil the broth." We have no desire to add to our original paragraph, which was based upon accu- rate knowledge, and still stands, as far as we are concerned, as a. fair and discreet summing up of the situation.

Two German prisoners wwho escaped from Banbury, have given Themselves up, and another who oscaped from Fpavon has heen recaptured Acton is in the pasiiion of having no fewer than six prospective Parliamentary candidates.