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Whilst the Allies in the West await the shock of the renewed German onslaught, events develop in the East which, if less spectacular and much slower in their pro- gress, are nevertheless of possibly even graver import to the fittliee of the new Europe than the issue of one battle out of many, which may not, after all, be a, real turning-point of the war. These events call urgently for a Russian policy on the part of the Allies in general, and a Near Emterri-- Central Asian policy on the part of the Brit- ish Government in particular. The Ger- mans have their policy; it is simple, easy of execution, and is progressing allace. The Allies have no common policy towards Rus- sia, and no measures to propose beyond the Idiea of a Japanese intervention in Siberia, which, it is understood, is blocked in America from quite good and disinterested Reasons. The enemy's policy is plain enough. A great belt of territory miming from ttte Arc- tic Ocean through Finland,. Esthonia, Litlm- j ania, Russian Poland, the Ukraine, the Crimea, the Russian Caucasus,, from the White Sea to the Caspian, is being seized and gripped tight by military, political, and economic infiltration. This area bars inland Russ ia from any access to the sea, any com- munication with Western friends except by the enormously long Siberian-Pacific Ocean route, and establishes a great highway to Central Asia. It includes the chief grain- growing region of Russia, the ore fields, and great mineral deposits. The Germans arc assured of many millions of new customers, of .grain in abundance -,when the harassed and distracted land has had a little order and scientific guidance, and, in brief, a vast reservoir of new strength, in men, in" food, in industry and commerce. By river, rail I,iid sea the Ger- mans control a route which runs from Berlin to the shores of the Caspian. It is for the time being impossible for the Allies even to approach it. The German stands upon the borders of Russian Central Asia, and his alliance with the Turk promises a favourable introduction to swarms of Mo- hammedans, who inhabit that zone. The menace to Europe and the world at large consists in the probability tha,t Ger- many, once she is consolidated in Russia, will not only greatly expand her present strength and permanently dispel any fear of the recurrence of her present chief weak- ness—shortness in men and food-but will pursue in another continent, Asia, the am- bitions that have made harvoc in Europe. Unless, moreover, some radical alteration as made in Russia, it is exceedingly hard to discover how a' situation could be reached after the war which would deprive Germany of the power for mischief implied in her future position of a big, solid State, whose people are endowed. with conspicuous abilities, standing alone on the borders of a. welter of little States, all more or less independent, but all liable to be drawn within her sphere, as the satel- lites revolve around the big planet. "Restoration" is one of the Allied princi- ples, and keystones of an Allied peace. But what do we propose to restore in Russia? Not Ozardom, which has fallen; not a re- sponsible, capable and liberal Government, for that has to be created, and cannot be restored because it never existed. Once the kard core of Czardom, with the system of Government which had crystallised around it and slowly developed since Peter the Great, had been cracked and 'crushed, there remained nothing. Rule in Russia drifted into the hands of a subversive and hope- lessly wrong-headed group of fanatics, w.ho brought all to ruin, and such educated and responsible middle-class as -existed between the fanatical demagogues and the bureaucrat of Ozardom proved utterly impoteftt and incapable. Russia disintegrated rapidly, and it hardly Heeded the exterior pressure applied from Germany to dissolve into a seething mob of peoples and revolutionaries which had once shown so smooth and bold a facade to the world, apparently solid as anite, as the Russian Empire. The Bolsheviks are re- ported to have shown latterly some sign of penitence and to lean more favourably to Alliim-whom they.have hitherto depicted as capitalists, neither more nor less the com- mon enemy than German capitalism. But when they request, should they request, practical support to enabLe them to recon- struct a Russia that could make head in the field against the small bUt audacious Ger- man units which do as they like in Russia, and in the Council Chamber against the more subtler and deadlier influence of the pro- German agent, all their past sins rise up in judgment against them—the squandered millions, the many thousands of British and French slain by the fire of the guns whom the Bolsheviks so basely abandoned to the German. The incompetence of the Bolshevik is de- monstrated beyond cavil; his good faith is, to put it mildly, more than suspect. The one practical measure which at the moment indubitably engages the attention of "the Allied Powers is the matter of preventing German penetration from proceeding beyond the Urals and mastering Siberia. This in its tarn has widened from an original project with the modest aim merely to preserve the vast accumulations of munitions at Vladivo- stok into the idea that via the Siberian railway—which ha.s been double-tracked- Japan could gi ve moral and military sup. port sufficient to enable a Russian Govern- TfJ^nt to stand up again and speak with the rltikrty within its gates without the dread of ?Bing over-run promptly by armies which, However email and poor in quality, are at stny rate in direction and leadership far more than a match for any rabble that could be put in the field against them. America, however, does not adhere to the generally favourable view of the idea which is takeii in Europe. The point of the Ameri- can objection is that the Russians, fearing aggrandisement by the Japanese called in to help them in their troubles, may receive the Japanese with active hostility, or may re- gard their intervention as proof that the Allies have, like the Germans, resolved to partition and spoliate downcast and helpless Russia for their own profit and gain. It is a Serious objection in view of the irrational suspicion with which so much of Russian opinion regards the Allies. For the moment It prevents any active step, and the field is prieanwhile left open to the Germans. It is the obligation of Allied representatives who remain in Russia to ascertain and to con- vince the present rulers that the Allied iu- tentions a.re purely disinterested, and it is through friendship, and a desire to raise up ii, Russia herself despairing of her own cause, that they contemplate an' invasion from the East to offset the invasion from the West. The Chinese and Japanese Governments have, however, between themselves, drafted the lines upon which they will take joint Paction to check further anarchy or a Ger- 1-nic advance in Siberia; and the Coosack leader, Somenoff, is gradually restoring some sort of control which is at any rate Rmbi-C-rrnan as well as anti-Bolshevik, Kbrougjh Eastern Siberia. And in Mr. Wil- Jwn the Allies possess an advocate who may yet be persuasive and convincing in Russia tohere they themselves, through the voice of Jiheir European counsellors, have faiiled. For khe moment German activity, moreover, may pe concentrated upon Russian Central Asia. ttreaty of peace is being concluded with he Caucasian peoples who might have threatened communications over the Black tea, south of the Caucasus, to the Caspian nd northern Persia, a/nd in this case Russia ind Siberia may obtain a deliberately ar. janged respite. It is in this quarter that the glisf peril to the British Empire lies. Ih« wa,r is rapidliy creating wholly new %Mditiew in Asiatio warfare. Tracks whjfj$' can carry motor traffic do away with much of the obstacles that the great distances for- merly presented to the movements of armies encumbered with an elaborate equipment. A road, railway and inland sea system of communication exists between Russia, Turkey and Central Asia, and there are upon I the road thithor a. large number of fighting tribes who could be drawn upon to provide the nucleus for enemy-led native armies. Germany, installed in Tashkend and Khiva, would be a far more real peril to the Indian Empire than ever Russia even was in the days of Skobeloff. The potential enemy is sb much mora dangerous in quality, science has abolished so many of the handi- caps which formerly safeguarded India tlia great trackless aud almost waterless and foodless spaces—and an avenue of approach also lies open through North Persia. Pushed away from the line of direct; access to the Persian Gulf by our success- ful campaigns in Mesopotamia, the Germans, with their customary strategy of testing another weak spot, are now likely to ex- pend their Eastern energies upon a new line of advance south of and across the Caspian. If our Indian resources had been adequately drawn upon we could probably place in the field in Persia an army amply sufficient to deal with any effort that the Germans are likely to instigate in that quarter for a. long time to come. A decisive military victory in the West would solve many of, our difficulties in the East, but it would still leave the Allies confronted with a disintegrated Russia misruled by a dozen incompetent govern- ments with no visible sign of capable and sagacious successors. If would still leave? the Russian Empire severed into so many units that they would jointly offer no prospect. of that restraint upon Germany which the Russian Empire used to exerelse; until the outbreak of war in 1914. Never- theless, whilst-straining every nerve to at- lain the end of the overthrow of the German legions 'in the field--ai)d we do not share General Smuts' apparent belief that other methods must supplement purely military means to attain that end—we have to de- vise a policy of encouraging Russian inde- I pendence, of resisting the multifarious and insidious German infiltration, and of takr ing in time due military measures to thwart further German progress, either in the north in Siberia, in the centre towards Middle Asia, or in the south through Persia. The breaking down of German military resistance, and the securing of a remodelled Europe can be effected by force, but it will assure no guarantee against the recru-des- ceiice in the future of new German ambi- tions and plottings unless there is a revo- lution in the entire Rental attitude of the German people, upon which we find it diffi- cult to calculatev We have not only to pull down a German imperialism which' rests upon military autocracy, but to build. up a Russian liberal and orderly govern- ment upon the ruins of Czardom and Bol- shevism. In the long run we see no reason to despair of either aim. Historical expe- rience is that, whether the impulse towards aggrandisement Conies from men or sys- I, tems, conquerors or philosophers, it does not long survive defeat in the field. It promises also that in time the Russian people will revert to a government based upon the only lines upon which a country can survive, with a prosperous and pro- gressive people. I
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I Mr. Frank Simmonds, the editor of the "New York Times," and the most con- vincing of American critics of the great war, dealt at a comparatively early stage of the lattet with the miscalculations which have been mainly responsible for German disappointment with its course and charac- ter. The Potsdam schemers, for example, believed that in no circumstances would conscription be introduced into this coun- try, for even if a Government had the hardihood to propose j I, the, people were too indisciplined to submit to enforced ser- vice. Also, that if the improbable hap- pened, resultanteftcct would be not armies, but armed mobs, since the essential officers could not be improvised. In respect of the latter, Mr. Simåtonds commented, they forgot the public schools of Great Britain, which in the hour of need furnished a great supply of young men, whose school life and its pastimes, whose characters and traditions, made them ready with the minimum amount of training to' act as unit leaders in the grim game of war. The public schools saved England in the hour of her greatest stress, declared the American j writer. The public schoolboys who, when the tocsin sounded the call of the country in danger, flocked to the flag without waiting to be fetched, were unequal in worth, capa- city, and in the purity of their patriotic im- pulses, but as a class they knew the im- portance of discipline, the value of unsel- fishness in collective action, and many of them as boys had learned to command as well as obey. They embraced the very flower of our youth, and, by example and precept, invested with a fine moral the first army of volunteers. If they did not save their country, they at least powerfully contributed to the salvation. That is one side of the picture; there is another in- finitely pathetic and depressing. It reveals the ardent-young souls, the trained intel, lects, the idealists of a generation falling in swathes oja the battlefield, creating an imperishable story of self-sacrifice and heroism, enriching national annals; en- nobling their race, but at the same time leaving gaps in the ranks of the thinkers and workers for the years to come that cannot be filled. Amongst the public schoolboys who, in dying, entered into that glorious company, henceforward an integral part of the most terrible and uplifting of episodes of our i Island story, was Paul Jones, son of Mr. Harry Jones, the actiyg editor of the "Daily Chronicle," who, like Mrs. Jones, is a native of Llanelly. The father has written a memoir of the young soldier- student, into which are brought in many of the pre-war writings of the latter, as well as some produced in the battle-zone in France. 1 The book might well serve as a revelation of the best type of public school- boy at nis best. The measure <>f Paul Jones' strangely-matured powers—he was but 21 years of age when death came not unexpectedly to him in the fighting line-ds to be gathered as much from the estimates given by a fond and .grieving father as from i his own writings. The reader is constrained to realise contact with a rare and lofty spirit and a. thinker of uncommon parts. His vindication of amateur football as a beneficial agency, a national asset, is so re- markable that the letter in which it is set out—-addregsed to his old friends at Dulwich College—should find an enduring place in the literature of British pastimes. "War Letters of a Public. Schoolboy," published by Cassells, is a book so compact with good writing and inspiring guidance that a place should be found for it in every school library. It is wholesome, bracing, literature, concerned with a strenuous, heroic period, and the too brief life of a gifted, j clean-living, spiritually-minded boy, clear of vision, and with a judgment much older than I his years. A brilliant career was cut short when a German sniper shot do%n Lieutenant Paul Jonas in July of last year. j
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I ALIENS AT ABERCFMVE. A deputation attended Saturday s meeting of the executive council of the South Wales Miners' Federation from the Ahercrave Colliery respecting the em- ployment of ?ens, and it was resolved ?tbat Mr. J. Winstone should attend a Meeting at Abererave in order to investi- gate O-e matter. 
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Harriet Barrett (31), of a certain class, I was sent down for three months at' Swa,n- sea on Monday for rioutou conduct on the Strand on Saturday last. There were sixty against her.
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A Swansea, magistrate*and his family are living in an hotel because of the servant problem. "The Germans are the hounds of hell, and I trust they will go home. "—(Mr. A. R. Dawson, at the Swansea Chamber of Com- merce.) Mr. \V. G. Foy liays the Swansea docks- men have had to run through a minefield of regulations. And they haven't been tor- pedoed yet. We have avery strenuous president."— (Mr. Arthur Andrews' testimony to Mr. A. W. E. Wynne, president of the Swansea., Chamber of Commerce.) An Oxford-street (Swansea) multiple shop manager took a golden sovereign the other day-the first for three months. He is keening it as a enriositv. I Mr. Johones (to military policeman) "I see you've got M.P.' on your sleeve. Are you a member of Parliament, then?" Military Policeman (sarcastically) No; I'm Mother's Pet." • $ :r. Mr. Arthur Andrews was presant in khaki at the Swansea Chamber of Commerce on Friday wearing yellow-tinted spectacles as the result of being recently badly gassed in French Red Cross work. »-»><» ■*» The utmost enthusiasm is displayed by au- diences at the Swansea Empire when nightly the stirring message from the men on the Western front is thrown on the screen:— "They shall not pass; they will not." Threatened limbs, like threatened men, often last long. A Llandilo septuagenarian has had his leg amputated as the result of an accident to that member whicit occurred —sixty years ago. Surely, this is a record. "Cncle Tom," coal-black, and with white wooley hair and whiskers, was to be seen this week among that wonderful cosmopolitan crowd that assembles around Swanse;1 Docks Shipping Offices these days, "signing off" and "signing on." < -< -< t Recently Mr. A. R. Dawson returned to Swansea for a few days. According1 to Mr. Tom Couch, he looked pale on arrival, but in 48 hours his clothes fitted him and his face was like the rising sun. Mr. Daw- son had been sunning himself in the bays. «MxKX>- A correspondent writes pointing out tha¡¡ sonic Df the small shopkeepers are as big profiteers as anyone. He walked into a fried fish ghop on Friday evening and was charged 9d. for a couple of miserable tails. We have forwarded the. complaint and de- tails to the Food Office. It e.. You know almost every public-house in Swansea?" inquired Mr. Edward Harris of the Temperance Party renresentative nt Swansea Licensing Court on Thursday. "Yes --ii-oni the outside," was the answer. The chairman added, From the inside, too!" We admire the powers of endurance of the person who sang the Red Flag" in a suspici- ously dry and liusky voioe (there was a con- spicuous absence of beverages) at Pwlldu last week. The sunshine was beating down, but the singer bellowed forth the sanguin- ary slogan with great ardour. -iry  It is certainly surprisilJg1 to learn, and from a reliable source, that Neath has never taken kindly to the Salvajion Army." Now, Swansea has Jong since lived down the lato General. Booth's denunciation that it was "Gospel-hardened, for the Salvation Army is now a generally accepted spiritual power in the town. If the patriotic gentleman (?) who was so "cultured" as to steal the bag' of potatoes from the Mumbles Red Cross plot will apply to Mr. Harry Sanders, market gardener, ^Norton,«he will be pleased to hand him the name of the variety, hints-for culture, and the guarantee that they are Government seed irtinuine from wart disease. When Inspector Gill, of Skewen, com- pleted the trail of the henroost robbers at Seven Sisters lie discovered the hidden re- maills of a couple of ducks and of xnt-iiy fowls, together with much feather. The culprits had been having rare feeds of poul- try. Certainly their fare will be less "chic" during the next few moiiths t I It is stated that the famous Welsli preacher, the Rev.. William Williams o'r Wern, attributed his conversion to the ap- peals of an itinerant preacher, of the name of Rhys, or Rhys of the Wooden Leg. He lived in Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, and when not on his preaching tours provided food for merriment to Dr. Havard, -i:I, well- known medico who lived in that neighbour- hood, the history of whose practical jokes played on poor Rhys would form a most interesting volume. It seems orange to the average person whioi desires to get margarine at Swansea &nd finds it not obtainable—except in quan- I I e-excel?t in quitii- tities resembling the widow's mite. Why cant I" (asks "Pater") purchase margarine, which is cheaper, and which certain of my family prefer." The reason is that only 25 hundredweight of margarine is being allo- cated to Swansea by the authorities, and that whi1,e there is plenty of butter procur- abte little margarine may be expected. Still it's hard lines on those who want it, both from choice and necessity. Miiss Mullings, the new head of the Swan- sea, High School for Girls, is tall and fair, and can express herself well. Her educa- tional career was begun at Croydon Hill School. Then she went to Newnham Col- i lege, Cambridge, and took her mathematical tripos, after which she was appointed -iiia,- thematical mistress at Dai lev Dale School, Derbyshire, when she was awarded a scholar- ship at Led ford College, Cambridge, where she took her London Teachers' diploma. Then she was appointed to her present posi- tion at Putney County Secondary School. Miss Mullings has -.spent 18 months in France. More Pickings from Punch." j Old Lady: "Can you tell me what is in- side the sandbags, young man?" Special: "Sand, ma'am--henee the na-me." Client: "None o' them two last sittings I bought from you have hatched out." Dealer: "Have you tried the 'All Clear' on the bugle, mum?" The Driver: "Yus, I married my old girl through sympathy, like. Yer see, I knocked 'er dithrí viÍv me old taxi." The Misogy- nist "They ought to make that compulsory. There wouldn't be so many blinkin' acci- i dents then." v Irish "Feed" Orderly "Please, Sor, it's two feeds short I am. Which of the horses I' will I give them to?" S.S.M. (also Irish): I "The mules, av coorse." *-I q E-. e The most startling occurrence at&- the Cardiff charity bowling tournament this week was the dismissal of Mr. D. A. Suth- I erland, the Swansea crack,, from the com- petition, and the manner of its perform- ,anee. D. A." seemed to have the game well in hand, to win as he pleased, at 18—9. When last year's champion led at ?C0H his prospects were particularly rosy. But Mr. Lew Jones, the Cardiff (dackin- tosh) artist, proved himself a true Briton when his opponent laid game five or six consecutive times. True to a hair, the dis- tuning wood rested the other out, until at last the game was Called at 20 all." At the last head somebody had to win—and the victor proved to be, amidst the most tense excitement, Mr. Lew Jones. The game will go down in history as the most sensational match ever snatched from the fire. Signs of the times:—Gower farmers smok- ing cigars. ■ ■ S weet are the  of a d versity. &weet are the uses of adversity. "— Swansea is to become a sugar dJ.SLnbutlon cenue. ■>» Go to Putney Weil, the Swansea Education CoiiumLtee dia so' for the new head of the High School for Girls. Swansea has sl a few more Labour leaders who would not decline invitations 1 to contest Parliamentary consHtuencies. i j Judging by the frequency of the tele- pboiie operatcr's reply, "Number en- gaged," business in Swansea is locking up. "If, as is stated, horse-racing will be con- fined to Nmarket, this will surely be a sad blow to Clyne V a,.L -ey,write-. "Old Crock. What is the reason that with such large supplies of butter available the price still keeps We wonder!   ") .d Frozen meat is (writes "CurIous ) said to be inevitable; but how comes it that a few butchers can get home-kilien whilst others have to go empty away? $-$$ae v "The greatest of the uuee towns in Wales from the future poiut of view is Swansea."— ?Mr. Wm. Lew.s, J.P., Morriston, at the Swansea Chamber of Commerce.) A defendant at Swa.ns.ea County Police Court on Saturday explained his laxity in obtaining a dog license by stating that he had bought potatoes with the money. Never- I I theless, he was fined 5s. The death of Mr. W. T. A. Beare, for 'many years president of the Ba-Baas," will recall to memory many great and glo- rious struggles on the historic ground of St. Helen's at .Swansea. Two young men passing- through Swansea streets on Saturday afternoon cairyirg a large cricket bag caused needless comment, for they were two "Bft" men, and the bag contained allotment tools. to; It "Sospan Fach" wnjits to know "when is Ben Da.vies going to write up his reminis- cences of Llanelly football," as lie asserts that "they will prove of wide interest out of and beyond the tinphjte town." See that these are delivered at once aoes not appertain in war times, as the Swansea docksman who carried home a bundle of sticks of rhubarb camouflaged in his evening paper can testify. It was when a lady passenger, with a facetious remark concerning deference to 1 age, proffered her seat to a "strap-hanger" 'of her own sex that the atmosphere in a Swansea tramcar became oppressive. According to "Flickers," the artistio posters advertising a film of Eastern interest oil show in Swansea this week afford a pleas- ing contrast to the familiar and crude efforts that greet the eye from street hoardings. A hint from a correspondent to Mr. Bliss, Swansea's park superintendent :— Would it not be feasible, and pay well, to keep nanny goats? No cost—or very little —and the -milk is in demand for invalids. Wo have .received the following com- miiiil(llie; In reference to your par., I am the N.C.O. referred to. I do not wear the gloves because I have cold hands-it's because I have cold fcet.-Yours, Dis- I' gusted." A wor,,V-per, alt a clyirch not a hundred ,mJIs from Swansea possessed such an ex- cellent memory that he repeated the whole of the morning prayer without opening his X omnion rrayei liook, which lay at the desk, whilst other occupants of the seat stood without such a .memory—and tliout a Common Prayer Book. "What were we doing with the liberty that-had been won at such a terrible price? if the old spirit of Jack is as good as his master was allowed to rule we would never make progress or obtain success in life. We were not all as good as cur roaster. JQr every man had his better, no matter who he was." -(Rev. E. D.* Henry at Holly Trinity, Swan- i sea. ) Two Swanse" men who visited the North of England a few days back indulged freely in their native Welsh. Suspicion was aroused, and the pair were filially accused of being German spies—not the first occasion by any means for this ludicrous blunder to 1' st. l.) I)ose d spies were be pM'pntrated. The si pposed spies were very indignant, and no wonder. very iiidign,iit, and-. iio wonder. would like" (writes- Musicus") "to express appreciation of the impressiva rendering by the Swansea Police Band of the solemn march Regrets' and the sub- Iiiiie Alart!h,' 911 the occasion of a j military funeral that passed through Swan- Kea streets on Saturday afternoon last. The tone a.nd precision were excellent." In a local Church Sunday fecliool a young lady chose for the instruction of her cla.s of little boys the text: "Eschew evil and do good; seek peace, and ensue it." First, she taught them to repeat the words after her in unison, then delivered a simple ser- mon on the, subject, and finally asked one of the best boys to repeat it. for the benefit of the others. f Unhesitatingly he recited "Chew evil, it's too good; seek pieces of suet." We take the following from the "Stebon- heath Hospital Magazine," the second num- ber of which has just been published:— j She asked me where I was wounded, Sl,.e itsked me where I was hit; But I did not want to break her heart, So I told herwhere I sit. j Tommy had a little bandage, It looked so very nice, And everywhere that Tommy went, j They let him in half-price. ffi .t'h "C' 1 d' An officer, writing in the "Goleuad," pays ] high tribute to the standard of morality. among the Weisli troops in France. The newspaper discussions about the "maisons tolerees," he says, have been the cause of unnecessary anxiety to parents. The Welsh Division, which has been in France for two and a half years, has only once been sti- tioned within five miles of'a town colitaiiiing one of these houses, and at no ether time has even this limited opportunity for vice been possible. Of those who contracted dis- ease the majority acquired it when home 011 leave. There is a local man, a great country- lover, who spends the greater portion of his leisure time in and around a spot near j.{isiii)yston • v ali/ey. His passion lor the countryside was rather damped because of 1 (he slt-ni'? debates r? a fe"" c'? ?".)?s ( (or "land-rails" as they are generally known around tba localltv) who persiste d 1llcral{lllg at tor-, wpo from c¡n-nnt 1", o'clock each evening until dawn. In fact, the noise -r.'ns so eMsn riVne th-f-t small pnrty of sufferers attempted to exterminate the oifenain., huv one occasion and pro er;.r! tS tlp field whpro thonght its nest would be,* armed with a brand new hat- chet -HI • successfully pvt to flight, but an hour or two later, when they were all snugly ensconced in their camp beds, it commenced its vile rattling once more. So they still continue to "rail at if; Pickings from Punch." I It is not only in Germany t'.iat the war J has proved all incentive to petty pilfering. I An English daiiy paper has an article en-v titled, How to pincl Chrysanthemums." Since the announcement of further rall- Vay restrictions we understand that Mr. Smith, of Tootill, has decided to dispose hij. "Bradshaw Only been used a few times. Professor • Ernst Ha-eckel declares that it is Hindeuburg who is responsible for the nresent oiiejijive. The Kaiser, whose battle it wa<s to start with, came to the same con- clusion as soon as he saw how things were ,¿oiu}.! I i Three meatless, weeks ha.ve ueen ordered at Cuxhaven, sáYa despatch. It may make the German sailoa' savage, but we doubt if it will make hira fight.
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— =-:z. In the recent battles in France, nearly I 100 of the Church Army Huts, providing re- creation al-l refreshment near the trenches, | were destroyed.
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SWANSEA OFFICER'S MILITARY I CROSS. Official news is to hand that Second- Lieutenant T. P Mcjrick, Notingpst sen I of Mr. and Mrs. PhIllip Meyrick, of Man selton-road, Swansea, has been awarded I the Military Cross for I gallantry in the: field on March 27 last He joined the Welsh Regiment in the early days of the war, and saw much active ser- vice at Ypres and Mametz Wood. Re- commended for a com- mission by his com- manding officer, he re- ceived a commission iu the Berkshire Regi- ment early last year, since when he has been continuously at thfe front. taking part in the Cambrai push and all the recent heavy fighting.  Second-Lieutenant Meyr?ck is 22 years ot i age, and before joining the Army was with Mr. Gunning at the local offices of ¡ the Sailors' and Firemen's Union. i
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GOOD NEWS FOR SWANSEA I SERGEANT'S WIFE. Good news has beeu received by Mrs. | Harris, of 61, Norfolk-street, Swansea, that her husband, Sergt. D. R. Harris, Argyle I and Sutherland^, who was reported a fort- night ago as having been killed, is a prisoner of war is many.. In a postcard i to his wife he says: "Just a few lines tc you know I am right, but I am a prisoner of war. e have not finished mov- ing about yet, but as soon as I ani able I will send an address for you to w: ite and then for heave ? eake send nve a parcel with some shaving soap and some ordinary soap in it first. Sergeant Harris has been three years in the Army and prior to that was employed by the late Mr. Griff Davies, builder. Ll — LT^JWI
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WOUNDED AND CAPTIVE. News has been re- ceived by his parents, who reside at Lyn- wood, Vicarage-road, .Morriston, that their -011, Pte. Wr-1. Jones, of the Machine Gun Corps, is wounded in he foot and a prisoner H war in Germany Pte. Jones is 27 years 'f age, has1 been in the Army* about a year. Hid prior to that was employed at the Mor- i-iston Tmplnte* Works. » mm———mi factory at Barrow- l:n-.Furnes. I factory at Barrow-
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Mr. and Mrs. Seth Phillips. Cwmbwrla, Swansea, have been no- tified that their son, Pte. Seth Phillips, Welsh Regt., is a prisoner of war. An- other son, Able Seaman Phillips, Royal Naval Division, has been eassed. and their son- in-law, Sergt. J. Price, ILE., who has been in France since the out- break of War, is at the base wounded.
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Mrs. Mansfield, 181, Neath-road, Landore, lias received official news that her brother, Pte. F. G. Roberts, is missing. He is the son of the late George Roberts, of 20, Hafod-' streei. Pte. Roberts joined the 6th Welsh at the outbreak of war wljen only 16 years of age, but av;is transferred to the M.G.C. Ho has seen over two years of active service, and has two brothers in the forces—Lieut. W. Roberts, .in France, and Corpl. 0. Koberts, who is in a mili- tary hospital in North Wales.
DIED IN GERMAN PRISON HOSPITAL.…
DIED IN GERMAN PRISON HOSPITAL. r Mr. John Charles Evans, of Rhondda- street, Mount Pleasant, father of Mr. Charlie Evans, the well-known Swansea newsagent, has received news from Cassel, Germany, stat- ing that his son, Pte. Sydney Evans, K.S.L.I., died of wounds on 28th April 1 in the Cassel Camp Hospitaf, and was buried in the cainp cemetery. 4 De- ceased was formerly employed as manager for Messrs. Cash and Co., boot merchants, I Oswestry.
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Pte. Wm. Percy Morse, Field Ambu- lance, R.A.M.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morse, 18, Dyfatty- street, Swansea, has sent a postcard home to say he is a prisoner in Germany. lie had been missing since 9th April, and formerly worked at the Graigola Fuel Works.
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Mrs. Henry Lewis, 26, Jersey street, j Hafod, Swansea, has be.en officially informed by the War 'Office that her son, Pte. Willie F. I- ewis, Lewis, King's Own Lancaster Regiment, is reported missiiv since April 18+11. Only 19 years old, he joined up a year ago, and had only been in France three weeks. His father and two bro- thers have been serving since the outbreak of ihe war. Before enhst- ng he was employed at the Hafod Isha Woiks..
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v Signaller W. Gibbs, Newslade View, Rhos- siily, killed in action in Francs.
OLD AND THE YOUNG; BRIGADE.…
OLD AND THE YOUNG; BRIGADE. 'i "EMPIRE SUNDAY" PARADE AT SWANSEA. h 'n .1:1. i Empire Day was celebrated on Sunday bj the Swansea United Service Bii^ade by s church parade, and tne "old veterans" ir; their procession to Holy Tnn-ty were ac- onipaniau oy several of the no 11;, brigades —the Swansea Telegraph Messengers, the Church' Lads' Br.gade, Boy Scouts, etc. General Sir James Hills-Johnes, V.C., G.C.B., journeyed down iroiu Dolaucothi for the purpose of attending, ¡lL t e pr,si- dent of the brigade was accompanied to church by the Mayor, Aid- Ben Jones (weir- ing his chain of ofiice), Commandant Clr rbs ,,S, Captain Fred Bradfoid. L eul.-C 1. Donaldson (in command of the C u c., L ds* Brigade), with Inspector Richards (in charge of the Telegiaph Messenger j. Sc !kitmi-ster A. Gemmell, and otheis. Tne .r.-mways Band led the process on. The Chaplain (Rev. E. D. Henry) con- ducted what proved to be a line service. At the outset the Vicar read the loy.d m."es;'ge sent to his Majesty from the brigade and the reply, already published, it was v'.ie birth- day of the Queen, the Vicar added, and he was. sure they ali wished her many happy returns of the day. Proceeding with his sermon,- the rev. gentleman scfici vve r_s a nation had not been entirely cut awav from freedom aiid liberty, and the git at question that we had to ask ourselves was this -Al what price had it been 'obtained? Had it kll pf the n-osi not been obtained at the mice/if the rrosl precious of the noblest and .068. of our sor-.s \Ve prided ourselves oil the fact that the British flag was unfurled in every corner of the globe but had we as a nation in the past sjiowed our appieciation of what cur old veterans had done for their country ? The fact that the United Service Li igade placed its claims before I' er; -v. s a suaine and a standing disgr e ior what -,oe 'ad failed to do in the past. Special hymns wer, sung and the service closed with the singing 0: t'?e Natena: Anthem. Suh&eq:.?mly Gencr.J Su J;.me: Hills-Johnes spected the Legacies .old ana young) in Alexandra road, and expressed general satisfaction. .<-
WALES AND LANCASHIRE.
WALES AND LANCA- SHIRE. ENJOYABLE BLEND AT SWANSEA EMPIRE. DUTCH AUCTION REALISES FINE SUM. The combination of North and South— the Lancashire Fusiliers and Swansea Ladies—provided a really splendid after- noon's entertainment at the matinee or- ganised to raise funds for the Lancashire Fusiliers' War Fund, held at the Empire, Swansea, on Saturday afternoon. The programme opened with an a:ui.H::ig little sketch, ph.; a officers and men or the fusiliers, entitled "A barrack Scene," in which some admirable n-nsicat numbers were introd uced. Madame J. Brader's Welsh sougs were enthusiastically received. Of that wonderful little Sw.nsea comedienne, Little Nancy Davies, litt.e need be said Les Kiieks, presenting "Toe, Spider and the Fly," and The Three Mer rills," comedy cyclists, were a strong adui. tion to the programme. Serge.))t lsri.es, juggler; Lance-Corporal Holden, basso and Private R. H. Howard, an exei.ienl Lancashire comedian, were splendidly re- ceived. That delightful little Welsh character sketch, "The Bakehouse." by Oswald Francis, weli portrayed by Swansea ladies, brought an excellent programme to an end. During an interval L. i 1- bridge sold by Dutch" a tion a pigi fowl, two hams, matches, bottle of wh.sxy. etc. The former, given by Mr. A.- W. E Wj una 'president of-the Chamber of Com rnereei sold nine times over, the pur- chasers being Mr. Wynne, Mr. W. A. Jei* kins, Air. Uwen Harries, Mr. W. J. Rees, Col. Morgan, Mr. Coonan, all £5 each Mr Cory Yeo, £ 6. Air. Harries aga.in pur chased at Cg 10s. alt gave it back for re- sale, and it was again purchased for £5 b] Mr. W. A. Jenkins. The fowl realisec £ 8 5s. A puppy was bought twice by lr. Lueocq Mr. Cory Yeo bought the whisky, lib bacon and a doz. matches for J64 smoked ham, was sold for E3. another for £ Z, and Miss Dillwyn purchased two pots of jam for fa. Seven pounds of sugar went to Mr. (Jory Yeo for L5, and another lot for £ 4 to Mrs. Burroughs, who also purchased the auc- t oneer's hanimer for £1 15s. Air. Hyam Goldberg. failing to catch the auctioneer's eye. sent a cheque for 2s., and the totaJ result was £34.
- - - __n-HOLIDAYS INTERVENE.
__n- HOLIDAYS INTERVENE. EFFEC7. UPON SWANSEA'S SHIPPING: Swansea, Monday>—The holidays had a. material effect on the trade of the harbour last week. There was a fair supply of ton- nage, but supplies of coal were much re- stricted cos sequeiUly operations in the coal and patent trades, also the tinplate and allied industries, were more or less reduced. The falling off Was "hivfly in coal and patent fuel exports, but tne clearances of tinplate, iron, steel, etc., also 'suffered. No improvement was shown in the import trader' Compared with the preceding week, the decrease amounts to 57,000 tons, and 2,000 tons as aga,inst the corresponding period last year. Imports 2,224 tons, exports 79,867 tons, and total trade 82,091 tons, compared with 119,727 tons the preceding week and 84,477 tons the corresponding week last year. Ship- ments 01 coal 60,267 tons, patent-fuel 16,190 tons, and tinplates, iron, steel, etc., 3.390 tons. The latter for France and home ports. Shipments of tinplate 6,857 boexs, and re- ceipts from works 11,815 boxes. Stocks in the dock warehouses and vans 82,344 boxes, c- mpared with 77,366 boxes the preceding Week and 120,987 boxes at this date last year.
AMMANFORD COLLIERY DISPUTE,
AMMANFORD COLLIERY DISPUTE, Five hundred men at the Tirvdail Col. lier £ /■ Ymmanford, were idle on Saturday morning as the result of a dispute. .1 v
NEW SWANSEA CUSTOMS COLLECTOR.
NEW SWANSEA CUSTOMS COLLECTOR. Mr. James 1;\ ios.. London, has been appointed new cc .lector 01 Customs and1 Excise at Swansea.
I I DEATH OF SWANSEA JOURNALiST.
I DEATH OF SWANSEA JOURNALiST. The death took place on c'atiuday afternoon of Air. James M. Wignaii, a Swansea journalist, li-ing wit his parents at 06, Cromwell-terrace, and for many years engaged in the sub-editorial department of the Cambria Daily Leader." The deceased had 'bren ajij" for four years, following a breakdown in health, his complaint laterly being diabetes, which rapidly developed. A week ago he went to Lydney, j Glouces- tershire (where he died), where his father (N-r. James Wignall, J.P;), was last Monday declared Labour candidate nt the next election. Wignall, who wa? aged 34 and sing tvas the second ol four brothers, the idest >being Lieut Trevor Wignall, who is now at Bermuda The third brothoi, Ted, :5 in F -ance and the yonng ;t, Frank, is in South Africa There is one sister, who lives at h une The body will be brought to Swansea or Tuesday.
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An enthusiastic allotment. holder jjiow de- clares that he can positively see his pro- j duce grow. The Swansea Borough Treasurer has bared his upper lip for the coming war savings campaign. i# (i Estimates of the number of people who spent Whit-Monday in the Mumbles, the bays, and Gowerland run as high as 100,000. j "Are you married or .single?" was the question asked en a form that was read at the Swansea, tribunal, and the answer was yes. .j'(: Norway very nearly comes up to our Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogoch, for we read that the first 1,000 tons d.w. concrete motor-boat has ben launched at Jernbeton- skibsbyggeriet's Dockyard. At Swansea Grand Theatre this week is Miss Cicely Byrne behind the footlights; also Mr. Tom Byrne, in the front of the house, and although not related, each is in- terested in "The Little Brother." What is the explanation oi the long period which elapsed between the arrival of the first and the second brakes which con- veyed the wounded from the district war hospital to the Mumbles last week-end? Who said "Chips"? $ $ lit "That's a good idea, ma'am," said the new servant, "having soda and water in them bottles with the squirts. I ha.ve done the scullery flo-or in no time, and there's three bottles left out of the dozen yet."—(Mr. Charles Davres, at Sketty.) The "Daily Post" War Prisoners' Fund is now spending 103 wtekly in supplying provisions to prisoners of war. in Germany. Whilst the fund "looks after" prisoners of the Walsh Regiment chiefly, it also sends provisions to local "boys" belonging to other regiments. i' ;¡¡ f8.. A grand patriotic whist drive will be held at the Cameron Hotel at 6.53 p.m. on Satur- day in aid of the "Daily Post" Prisoners' of War Fund. As a month has elapsed since the last drive—and this will probably be the last of the seas-an-a, hig attendance is ex- pected to help this worthy cause. Three handtrucks were necessary to con- vey to the bankers all the copper and silver collected by the small army of volunteers Vho llaboured so unselfishly on behalf of the "Daily Post" War Prisoners' Fund Flag Days. It is interesting to note that the copper weighed a little over half a ton. Very businesslike spring cabbages are growing ion the circular borders of a promi- nent garden in front of a large villa resi- dence in Swansea. Many daily passers-by are unduly interesting themselves in the problem—when they will be ready for table and what the gaps will be filled with as they are cut. < & -<!x t *-?-<S- Messrs. Baldwin's, Ltd., contemplate the expenditure of about 04 millions sterling on their various undertakings, the Port Talbot and Aberavon districts benefitting largely from this vast outlay. The firm are oniy waiting for material to construct ore smelt- ing works at the King's Dock,Swansea, de- tails connected with which have already exclusively appeared in the "Post." Mr. Daniel Dan Villas, Pontar- dulais, was singing rt a concert in Shefinld in aid of the wounded soldiers- last week. Danm; m interval the first wonnc^d soldier to be wheeled up to. him for an introduction was the very man who had worked behind the rolls for him as behinder at the new Dulais Tmpiate Works before it was closed down at the commencement of the war .11. There was curiosity and some excite- ment at Gorseinon when the German pris- oner who had escaped from Llandebie was marched through the place to the station, the streets being crowded. The Gorseinon police are to be complimented on their clever capture. The smart and healthy appearance of the recaptured prisoner speaks volumes as to the care extended by the British to these prisoners. The brilliant war correspondent, Mr. Per- cival Gibbon, who is a Welshman, being a son of the Hev. J. Morgan Gibbon, the eminent Congregationalist, and formerly pastor of the old Castle-street Chapel, Swan- sea, is now in the Royal Marines, with the rank of major, and is the official reporter to the Government. We believe (says fche British Wecklv") that the account or- the sealing of Ostend, which appeared in the papers of May 15th and was universally admired, was from his able pen. The high intrinsic and sentimental value with which the "Daily Post" parcels arc regarded by those of our gallant; lads who have been fated to be captured by "the Huns was visibly brought to our attention the other day. An Amman Valley soldier who had escaped from our cruel foes, on return- ing to his heme at Ammanford was ap- proached by a pressman for his experiences during captivity. "I am very sorry," broke in the soldier, "but I do not feel justified ln I giving your paper any details until I have first been to see the editor of the 'Daily Post. I have been getting parcels from his fund whilst I was a prisoner of war, and I cannot describe how deeply indebted I feel to him. These parcels kept me from starv- ing, and they were often the only things I had to remind me that my. dr old Wales ¡ still existed intact. < '-< x  <  t The Farmer's Cirl. I "The Farmer's Boy" we've sung oi., yore, And yelled the chorus till throats were sore, But now there's another song we must roar, The song of the Farmer's Girl. j She's doing her agricultural bit, And it isn't the housework that keeps her fit, Because 'tis herself that is well "knit"— We'll sing of the Farmer's Girl. She does her sowing upon the soil, A stitch in the side's the result of toil; No "Song of the Shirt t make o-ir blood I boil, But the song of the Farmer's Girl. I She's making beds of onions and leeks; The carpet green, no shaking it seeks; She can hobble a horge (not a clothes lone) in breeks— So sing of the Farmer's Girl. Then tune up, boys, and give it a yell, She's "ploughing" the land, Jack the sea as well; We'll all reap peace when the Kaiser's in Hurrah for the Farmer's Girl. "JACK POINT."