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"YOU HAVE GOT TOI I WIN! "

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"YOU HAVE GOT TO I I WIN! DUTCH JOURNALIST ON THE > WAR. TWO ROUSING MEETINGS AT SWANSEA. Large audiences at the Swansea Elysium on Sunday afternoon and evening had the great privilege of hearing the views of an eminent neutral on the war, and particu- larly Germany's aims. Mr. Van der Veer, the London editor of the Amsterdam Telegraaf," now banned in Germany on account of its sympathy with the Allies, was the principal speaker at two great meetings held under the auspices of the Navy League, and the Merchant Seamen's Union, and at (' which a short musical programme was also gone through, including organ recitals by Mr. J. W. Barlow in the afternoon, and Mr. G. H. Beard in the evening. The plat- form included Councillor Henry Macdonnell (who presided in the afternoon in the ab- sence of the Mayor), Mr. A. W. E. Wynne (president of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce, the evening chairman), Mr. P. J. Hannon, J.P. (secretary of the Navy League), Mr. John Williams (Brynmill, local hon. secretary), Mr. George Gunning (local secretary of the Seamen and Fire- men's Union), Rev. E. D. Henry, Dr. Stewart (former ship's surgeon), and ethers. Mr. Wynne declared that if the Little Navy party had had its way this country would now be in a very dire position. (Hear, hear.) Swansea, he added, in the words of McDermott's famous song, had, ior the Government: "Got the ships and Got the, s h lp s and got the men and got the money too." (Applause.) Mr. George Gunning said, with scathing criticism, that if the pacifists were honest they would refuse to fill their" dirty car- 'I cases with ths iood that British sailors enabled them to get. (Applause.) He de- clared that the seamen's boycott of Ger- mans resolution was going to be put into effect whether the general public liked it or not. We have fed you," he said; "we have clothed you, and you have never thanked us, and, now, unless you were with us in this resolution, why. we could starve you into submission!" (Hear, hear.) He added that No German, naturalised or un- naturalised, should be allowed to go iree in this coun- try. (Great applause.) There was one at a local docks, a.nd he was .surprised that the dockers had not downed tools and said, We will have him out." (Applause, and a Voice Not too late now.") Mr. Gun- ning moved the boycott resolution referred to. Mr. John Williams (Brynmill) and Mr. J, P. Hannon seconded a.nd supported re- spectively. In further support, Mr. Van der Veer delivered a rousing and eloquent speech. He paid a high tribute to the British Navy and the splendid mercantile marine, and spoke of Germany's little wars of the past, how by means of steps it sought to pave the way to the ultimate destruction cf the British Empire. Had Great Britain not entered the present wa.r in defence of little Belgium, Germany would have smashed France and swallowed up all the little nafilbns on the Continent of Europe, and England would have been left without a friend in the struggle that was intended against her. (Hear, hear.) In the past the British, he said, had been too good- hearted, too good-natured, too soft." (Laughter.) He wanted them to be a little harder, and to steel their hearts and their minds against the intriguing Huns in the future. They have been making money an your country," he went on, "and they are now fighting you to-day with it. An extraordinary people you are. Some of you say you will do it again" (—cries of "No") — that you will receive the liermans with open arms, and speak of them as those good., dear Germans.' (A Voice": "I don't think.") If you 10," added the speaker, with emphasis, I will clear out. So long as I have a little bit "of strength left I tell you Beware of the Germans, now and hereaiter." -Ili-. Van der Veer, in other remarks. denoiinGed-Von Kttblmann in the t scathing terms, predicted a glori- ous victory for the Allies—(" You have got to win!" he cried)-and said that Germans would now have so much of war that their taste for it would be destroyed for ever. (Loud applause.) The motion was carried unanimously and the speakers cordially thanked. During the meeting the film, Sons of Empire," was thrown upon the Elysium screen. ——

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