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FRUIT LAXATIVE FOR CHILDREN. ¡ Delicious "California Syrup of FIBS" Can't Harm. Tender Little Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Every mother realises, after giving her children Ualifornia Syrup of Tigs," that this i. thi ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant taste and it thoronghly clean^s the tender little stomach, liver and bowels, withoui griping. When cross, irritable, feverish, or when the breath is 'had and the stomach dis- ordered, look at the tongue, mother! If oo.i t.ed, give a teaspoonfud ot thris harmless fruit laxative." and in a few hours all bp- foul, constipated waste-matter, sour bile and undigested food pas-see out of the bowels, and you have a healthy, plaiul child again. When its little system is ly with a cold, when it has sore throat, sftomac-h-ache, diarrhoea, indiges- tion, colic —remember, a good" inside- cleansing should always be the first treatment giv-en. Millions of mothers keep California Syrup of Figs handy; they know a tGa- t;pooidul to4a?- s?res a oWId from beit\^ ill to-BMrrov. Ask your chemist for a hcrtle ? of ? C?Iiiomia. Syrup od Figs," ?hich?ha-? directions for babies, children of all a?es and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Beware ct counterfeits aodd here. ?4et the gcnuiop. m?d'? by" California )? Syrup Compa.ny;" and ?old by all feadio? cbemi:.?,J,H and J 9.. ¡

On the 'giiarterly meeting of Kior Sunday School, Burryport, -was 1rl, I wh? a large congregation were r''c?t!t)? ?f'frnoop?idcv?iinp. T?' ??nda'?* officials bad ji-cp?red ? splendid ?rusramme for each meeting. I

j OUR NAVY. I i GERMAN SHIPS SWEPT FROM THE i I SEA: On the motion to go into Committee on th Xary Estimates in the Commons on I M-cndaf, the. First Lord of the Admiralty i-ia-do a. highly importa.nt statement. Mr. Churchill at the outset r?markr.l "hat after the outbreak of war Lord Kitchener had to create an Army eight or t&Q times as large as any preTio?t-ty m-im?uned or even contempiat?U m this country,-and th(--War'Ofliee had been aud is engaged in a vast process ot expansion, I improvisation, and development entirely without parallel in military experience. Thanks, however," Mr. Churchill weut j on, "to the generous provision made "so eguL'l.rl- for the last five years by the lionSe M Commons for the Koyal Navy, no such difficulties or labour have con- fronted the. Admiralty. On the dedHii. tirm of war \*e were able to count upon a Fleet of sllflicien t superiority for all our coeds with a goad margin for safety in | vital matters; fuijv mobilised,placed in its wa. supplied and equipped wit h every requirement -down to the smallest detail that could be foreseen, with reserves of ammunition and tor- pedoes-up to and above the regular iotatlld- ard, with. ample, supplie, of tuel and oil, ■ with adequate lewrves of stores of all kinds, with a complete sysitem of trans- pdrt and supply, with fuli numbers of trained officers and men of all ratings, •vit.h a large surplus reserve of trained ill en. with adeciuate establishments for training new men, with an immense pro- gramme of new construction rapidly motur:ng to reinforce the Fieert and to re- place casualties, and witli a prearranged .vvtem for accelerating that new con- struction which hns been found 10 yield isfactory and even surprising results. (.Hear, he-<Jr.¡ As regards men, no more widespread delusion existed abroad than that, al- though we might build ships, we could neV -r find the men to man them, and even in some quarters in this country the idea was festered that when, mobilisation took place ships couid not be sent to sea fully manned. When.mobilisation took place we were able to man every ship in the Navy fit to send to sea; we were able to man a. number of old ships which we had nit at first intended to send to sea. but which, after being- repaired and refitted, we found to have possibilities of useful- in them. • Wf. were able 1(\ man in addit-ion powerful nfiw vessels building for foreign countries, for which- the provision had been made, and we were ablp to man several score of armed merchant ships whir.o have been taken up and wilj play: aD important part id,o-ur arrangements for thrv control of traffic and trade. We: were also able. to provide all the meni necessary for the Royal Tfoval air service.! which never existed three years ago, bul l whicJi has already made a name for itself —(cheers)—and is becoming a considerable and formidable body.—(Cheers.) "We were able to keep our training schools full to-the very bTim, so a; to p i-p-, pare a continuous supply of drafts for the new vessels which are coming on in sucli great number?, and orer and above that] we were, able without inj ury to any o-ifl the,«e important interests to supply the j nucleus of instructors of trained men to torn) the cadres of the Royal Naval Divi-1 ion. which has now reached a respectable total, and have developer] an efficiency which enables them to be counted on im- me(-linf,pl.r as_a fa,lfcr in th" defence of the c untry and very soon as ap elenjent ih the force we" can use 'overseas. (Cheer's). We have never, been a military nation, although now we are going to takf a hand in that. We have always relied for our safety on naval power, and in that r?p?t it is not trn,, to "y fba?t we pn?rfd this war unpr?parfd. (ChM'r?.' On the CODfrary, tbp German Army was not mnTl" ready for offensive war on a I, gigantic scale than was the British Fleet for national defence. <Cheers.) Thp credit tor. this is due to thÃ. House of Com- rtintis--wbicb, irrespective of party in- tcrests. has always, by overwhelming, and in lattpr ears unchallengeable, majorities supported th" Government, and the Mini-ster in every demand for naval defence.. "Since November, when I last ad- dressed the ..House on naval matters, twin considerable event?; have b.ap¡)!>nO¡I"th victory off the Falkland#Inlands and the I sifcce?5tul crui.spr action near the Dogger Ba n k Bpth -1 hese even t s a re sat i sf a c t ory ir, themselves, but still more are thfy satietactory in their consequences and significance. I shall venture, to enlarge upon thein and hang the trend of my argument upon them. The victory off the, the first phase of the naval war by effecting decisively the I clearance of the German flag from the oo#>an-s of the world/ (Cheers.) "1 he blocking in of the enemy armed j merchantmen at thp very outset, and the conserjuent frustration of his whole pla-n for thr destruction of r'Dmroer(:p; t,b", re-, auction of his. base at Tsing-Tao. and the cxpu?ion of his ship? from China seas by -lapan—(cheersthe. hunting down of the Konigsbwg and Emd''n. the ?att?r by an AustraUan cruiser—(cheers^—were ?t?ps along tbp Pthwa;. and <b? goal was MaJl\' r?achpd whn Admiral Von SpM**s powrful "?uadron. ha\'i't1gn Utl-! "ucc??funy, though galla DHy., en?g?d ¡ off Coronel. was b/ought to action and destroyed on Per. 8 by .Sir F. Sturd^e. Only two>noall German "cruisefs and two armed m Prehaiif-nien remain at large of i all their formidable for t I 9.11 th-ix f(irmiaab l e pT-epar a-tio-n,; f.,3r i attack -upon'trade routes, and thog« ves-j «els are-at present in hiding." During the last three months, Mr.! Churchill went on, on the average British 'ressM had been continuously at; E'e3.' There had been 4.4K5 arrivaio; and ?.<WO "ilinga from ?'nited Kingdom ,-4.600, Only 19 v?st:? bad been sui?i I)y t he enemy, a nJ' of tho?p only four were I sunk by abare-water craft. That was a j very remarkable result. If before the I war-Lord Charles Beresford bad been offered such a pro-I)ect, he %roiild have said it was to-i go(xl to be trtie. (Lord C. Beresford "Hear, hear. H) (l: iJ gh. ter.) I The great sailors.of the past would have been astounded. 1}1 the wars from 1793 to 1811, 10,871 British merchant ships were captured or sunk by the enemv. j Even ?fter Trafalgar the loss of British ships went oa at the-rate of over ?5001 ships a year. Our total losses on the high scAs in the ?ix months. includíngll ships other than trawlers engaged in mine-sweeping aDd including losses by mines and' submarines, were only 63. (Cheers). Our reflOu rees for defending trade routes were incomparably superior I now than before the war. While crodit was due to our outlying squadrons, it must not he forgotten "that, the whole naval situation was dominated and decided by the influence of i r, J. Jellieoo's fleet. (Cheers). The Leader of the Opposition laet week quoted a ship- owner as to the incapacity of the Admiralty trans-port department. No word could lie more unsuitable than in- \1 capacity. Sinc the war the Admiralty transports had mored about all over the l world approximately one million men without any accident or lose of life. (Choeps). event, the advantage of which would only be fully appreciated by tho" who had full knowledge «f all that had taken pittc?. The action off the Dogger Bank wM of imm?n? significance and value in the light it threw upon the rival krstems of deaign and armament and gunmery effi- ciency. It vindicated our theories of de- I slgu. and particularly the big gun arma- ment, always identified with Lord Fisher. (Cheers.) The range of the British guns- was tound to exc<v?d that of the Germans. the destructive po"r of our shells was S i'cater, and ouj shooting was at least as

I URBAN DISTRICT OF GLYNCORRWG. I STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE of the Urban District Council of the above-named Urban District during the Year ended on the 31st day of March, 1914. I r PART 1,Receipts and Expenditure other than out of Loans. RECEIPTS. EXPENDITURE. s. d. £ s. d. E 6. d. £ s. d. X f. d. oe 5. d. General District Rate (total raised for all Maintenance, Improvement, &c., of Public purposes 9894 14 01 Roads and Streets;- 9s94 14 OJ, Other Roads:- Private Street Works—Amounts received Maintenance and Repair 1266 2 0 in respect of charges on promises under Ixuproveiueiifc of Roads 5;'11 12 7 t Private Street Works Act, 1S92 195 16 4 ————— 1817 14 7 19.5 16 4 -————— 1S17 11 7 Waterworks:— V Other Payments "■ 38 0 0 I.—From Water Rales, Rents, or Charges within the District for cavenging Stfi 0 9-V domestic purposes 106 10 11 PLirki 100 Water Service 71 19 2 495 10 11 i;L;rti" 2 i —————— 71 19 2 I Private Improvement Works:— 568 10 1 L-Pri,te Street Works 171 14 2 I Gasworks;— Waterworks 17 9 I.—From "as Rentals (including rent Gaswork5 .I.93 10 0 of Metersi 2865 7 7 Public Lig-h<jnc. ?? Oil ot Meer;) _86,) 7 7. Ubll .uIgh1.Jng- LI.-Salr:'s of Residual Products .66 1 1 ,Cemeter.v If)() 1 4 ::t;t. 5 1 1 I }:cnfaí'('tjfj'ti. 5 6 18 51 infectious Disease Prevention 51 15 11 3594 7 H Public Offices 60 3 7? Cemeiery 106 9 6 In rospeet of Loans:- Highways \n ]7 8 Amount paid for Interest and Divi-, Parses II 1 0 dends during the year (including Public Buildings 1 7 6 Income Tax) 6537 17 S Sink-ing Funds and Redemption Funds:— Amount of Debi repaid during Year;- Interest. 6 6 2 (I> Out of Invested Sinking Funds I From the County Counoil:— or Redemption Funds 1000 0 0 In respect of Maintenance and Repair (2) Otherwise than out of Invested of Main Roads 1516 0 0 Sinking Funds or Redemption In respect, of Salaries of Medical Funds 1891 13 8 Onicers'of HeaJth a.nd Inspectors of —————— 2891 13 8  ?42911 5 I Nuisances 170 ft 0 8429 11 5 P, L" n Ef .i.  3 3 Officers r) f Health and —: 1686 0 0 Salaries: —. Rente 133 Medical Oiffcers of Health and fees 8 10 0 Inspectors of Nuisances • 172 10 0 Other Receipts 237 0 71 Other Officers and Assistants 859 16 10 j — 1032 6 10 Total Receipts • 16312 3 3] Est-ablisbmenfc Ch arges :?5 1 Balances brought forward from prenöus El&ction Expenses 6 5 1 inaneial Statement, viz.:— ? ¡ Legal and Parliamentary Expenses 7 5 10 I General 2192 3$2 Other Expenditure 139 1 6? General < 219 3 S ¡ ;{ ,i): "'tS;¿;th"l-;t"f 19 1 6} Loans. 16768 4 9 Balance:— General 1736 2 3J Total Exppii(iittil-P, (c)ilier tha.,i out of Total JET38504 7 tfi Loans) and Balance £ 18504 7 0i I PART !—Recc!pt? from and Expenditure Out of Loans. E'PEDITURE. ¡. | — -? RECEIPTS. s. d. £ I). d. 8. EXPENDITURE. d. J!, 8. d..£! d. I i ? a. d. £ a. d. ? s.d. d. A s. d.Xd. Spvgra?eand.Sevage Disposal  17597 0 0 Sewerage and Sewage Disposal 13252 9 7 Total Receipts from Loans —————— 17597 0 0 -Rcoads 161.6 5 Balance brought forward from previous Total Expenditure out of Loans ————— 13413 16 0 I-inaneial Statement 2867 3 3 Balanees at the end of the Year, via.:— Purpose of Loan. Road Deposit .I 2365 0 0 Enad Current 2 17 4 Recreation Ground 25 13 f; Bridge Loan 19 9 Bridge T,0aii .I.19 10 J Sewerage Loan 4641 16 10 Total Balances ————— 7050 7 3 —————— Total Expenditure out of Loans and —————— 1'^al £ 20464 3 3 Balances £ 20464 3. 3 PART III.-Summary,of the Receipts and Expenditure. RECEIPTS. I EXPENDITURE. • • t s. d. X 8. d. ■ £ 8. d. «. d. of; e. d. Xd. Other than from Loans 1H312 3 311 Of her than out of Loans 16768 4 9 From Loans 17597 0 0 Out of J.cans 1341316 0 Total.£30182 0 9 Expenditure on which Stamp Duly —————— is payable £ 30182 0 9 Total J333909 3 3} Amount, allowed at Audit £ 30182 0 9 CUTI1BERT50N & POWELL, Clerks to Urban District Council. I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have compared the Fjutrie? in this Financial Statement with the Vouchers and other Documents relating thereto, and that the Regulations with 'raspect' to such Statement, have been duly complied with. T HEREBY ITjRTHER CERTIFY that. I have ascertained by Audit the correctness of such Statement, and that the Expenditure of the Urban District Council during the year ended the 31st day of Mqrch, 1914, included in such Statement, and' allowed' by-me. at the Audit, is =680,182 Os. 9d. AS WITNESS my hand this 22nd day of January, A, R, H. HOBBS, Assistant District Auditor.

At the centenary celebrations of Edward Forbes, the naturalist, held on Saturday in London by the London Manxman Society, Sir Archibald Geikie said ii: was sad to think that a naturalist in the fore- front. of tbe scientific men. of h is country struggled' eraual to that oi a flecoxtd-claas clerk. 1 C" {.

I FREEMASONS' NEW OFFICER. I In t,he room of ?the late Mr. Marmaduie Tennant, Aberavon. Worshipful Master AM?ymam H. P Cherlec. Neath, ha? been I a.ppointed by Lieut.-Col. VonabIea Llewelyn, Provincial Grand Master of the E?et?rn I D-ii,ision,of tha South WaJ?s district of 1're-e-I • mon.a5 his deputy. Aid. H. P. Charles, who is the. registrar of fhe Neath County Court and High lialliff. has held many high Masonic offices. He ha.8 been Registrar of England, a.nd is a Past Master of the Cambrian Lodge, Neath; the Talbot Lodge, Swansea; and the Hendre Lodge, Cardiff. The new deputy, who resides at Westfield House, Neat h Abbey, takes a deep and active interest in .the public life of the town. He is an ex-mayor and alderman of the borough, a member of the Education Com- mittee, and a Poor Law Guardian.

NEATH LIBERAL CLUB. I At the annual meeting ot the Neath Liberal Club on Thursday evening. Aid, Hopkin Morgan, J.P., presiding, an encouraging report was presented by Mr. Harry Williams, the popular secretary. Notwithstanding the war, the member- ship of the club was substantially in- creased, and in all departments there was financial progress. Patriotic, grants had been made as follows: Prince of Wales Fund, £5 5s.; Mayor's local fund, £ 5 5s.; Princess Mary's Fund, £ 2 10s.; Y.M-C.A. Camp Tants, £4: 4s.: and genepa.1 collec- Camp Tpmts? e4 4 s tions towards tho Belgian Relief Fund, 913. The officers were re-elected as follows: President, Aid. Hopkin Morgan; c>air- man of committees, Mr. J. S. Church; trustee (in the room of the late Mr. Geo. Steer), Mr. David Shy-ras; treasurer, Mr. Ivor Thomas; secretary. Mr. Harry Wil- liams. The retiring members of tne com- mittee were re-elected: The Mayor (Ccrn- cillor Matthew Arnold), Messrs. W. ,JSrejinaru. Parry „ Evarus* D. y, Jcnrins, I and D. W. Prosser. Á A

I .APPEAL ALLOWED. SEQUEL TO AGREEMENT FOR THE I LIGHTING OF LLANSAMLET. j In the Court of Appeal. the (-f t h c, Rolls. L-ord Justice iPhilhmore. and Mr. Justice Joyce heard an appeal by the Swansea Gas Co. from a judgment ot Mr. Justice Warrington, dismissing an a-tion by them against the Swansea Rural District Council. Mr. Cave, K.C., for the appealing plaintifis. said the ground of Mr. Justice "A arringtou's judement, so far as it was material, was that a certain agreement tor lighting Llansamlet and Clase Huntl had become inoperative or had be?n rescinded by reason of certain transac- J tions which took place when a Pro- j visional Order was obtained from Parlia- I mellt. The appellants maintained that 1 the agreement was still in oper,f' and that the court should s') d' j The Swansea Gas Coiap?uy was l?? !< I porated by the Swansea Gas Act of 1S61. By that Act the limits of supply were confined to a radius of a mile from any part of the borough. In !?!) thQ borough oi Swansea was extended. By the Swan- sea Gas Act of 1898 it was provided that the price of gas within the borough as extended should not exceed 3s. 6d. nor b? j more than 5s. outside the borough. In 790S the Rural District Council, having jurisdiction, over parishes outside tha borough,, obtained an electric lighting order entitling them to light their district with electric light. At the moment, at all events, they did I not desire, to use the electric lighting powers, and til ay negotiated with the I plaintiff company for an agreement that the Swansea Gas Light Company should light the parishes of Llansamlet and Clase Rural. By Article 16 the Council agreed that they would not. owing to the continuance of the agreement, put ia force the powers conferred upon them by the Llansamlet Electric Lighting Order. 1908, so far as the supply of electrical energy for street lighting, private con- sumers, or other lighting purposes with- in that portion of their district agreed to be lighted by gas under this agreement was concerned, and also that during the 25 yt-.a,rs for which the agreement was to be current they would not substitute any other mode of lighting for gas in the I district served by the company. The Judge held that, to agree not to light 1 5 Vears as d i vet-,t i Li, with electricity for 25 years as divesting themselves of a power given to them on the part of the Rural Council, and as such cam* within the pro- hibition contained in Section 11 of the Electxic Lighting Act of 1882. He was now going to ask their lordships to take a different view. The Master of the Rolls: What effect I. has that on the whole agreement ? Mr. Cave; The rest of the agreement stands. I Mr. Cave, proceeding with his opening statements, said the Board of Trade issued a draft provisional order to the Gas Com- pany, by which the then existing limits of supply were defined. The drafts made no provision for a maximum charge. Two objections were taken by the Council. They said (1) We want the maximum price of gas in the whole new area to be the same as within the borough; (2) we want same guarantee in the oruer that you will extend your mains into the new parishes we are taking in. In reply the Gas Company submitted that it would not be fair to extend the provisions of the agreement with regard to Llansamlet to flenderry, and Cockett, which were remote. These agreements were considered by the Board of Trade, who took a middle course. This case I am not sure did not satisfy the Council, who are insatiable. Proceeding, counsel said that by this Provisional Order the Gas Company were to be at liberty to charge a maximum of 3s. 6d. per 1,000 cubic feet in the Borough cf Swansea, and in the new area a maxi- mum of 3s. 10d., but there was an inter- mediate rone in which it was doubtful whether the maximun\ under the Order was not 5s. per 1,000 feet. The Council were not satisfied, and petitioned against the Bill confirming the Order on this ground :-When the Bill came before the Parliamentary Committee it was agreed (1) That the price of gas within one mile of the th"n existing borough boundary should be the same as in the borough; (2) That tha price outside, the one-mile limit was only to exceed the Swansea price by more than 4d. a 1,000; (3) Jf the company did not. extend their mains to Birchgrov; within a year of the date of the confirma- tion Order the Council were to be at liberty to put in force their electric lighting powers eo far as they related j to Birchgroye. These terms were embodied in clatisei inserted iL the Order. For the respondents Mr. Clausen eaid the action was really brought with the object of preventing the Council from lighting Birchgrove by electricity. At the time the agreement, of 1009 was entered into, the Gas Company had power to supply gas in LIansamlet and Clase Rural. They *were minded to get their districts extended so that they should have pow er to supply all over the district. On their application the Board of Trade made a Provisional Order. which, in tho view of the Council, con- tained absurd provision^. Ibe Council accordingly opposed. Representatives of both parties met outside tho committee room, and a com- promise was arrived at. On tho balance of the evident it was plain that t.h«r« was discussion as to whether the agree- ment should be torn up, and he sub. mitted that after the Bill had been passed in its agreed form, no one con- templated that reliance should be placed on the agreement. The Master of the Rolls, in giving judgment, said many points had been argued on which it was not necessary to express an opinion. There was a docu. ment executed in 1909 which the district council said had been superseded by an agreement made in the Lobby of 1he House of Lords when the company were obtaining their Provisional Order. In order to succeed the council had to estab- Ush that there was a contract to thia uiiec'.t. Mr. Justice Warrington had come to the conclusion that there was no such bargain. and it was impossible for them to take a different view, but the judge had said that: although there was no bidding agreement made in 1910 for the sup- pression of the document of November,, 1909, yet the committee had proceeded on the footing that there was some such agreement. That was a proposition of which there had been no real argument, and it was not necessary to decide. It had beon argued that the ment of 1909 was illf-ri and that it was irrelevant that a subsequent Act validated contract, but M.r Justice Warrington had found that the application for a Provisional Order extending the Gas Company's limits of supply was in the minds of both parties in November, 1909, and under those circumstances it was not open to the council to eay the contract could not be enforced. The. other, members of the Court coiv curved. Their Lordships discharged the order of Mr. Justice Warrington, and made a declaration that the agreement of 1".00 had not been cancelled or determined by any suc h agreement as was suggested, JJor was it varied, save, if at all, so far as it was varied by the Provisional Order. The applicants were awarded the of the appeal, and it was directed that th(1re should be no coets in the court below.

-r ABERAVONS NEW MAGISTRATES' CLERK. Mr, Ernest Tennant Appointed. At a-epee-ia! Meeting of the Aberavon Borough Justice-, of the Peace, the Mayor (Mr. W. ,r. Williains, J.P.) presiding, on Saturday, the appointment of Magistrates' Cletk va.s mide. There; wore three appli- cants for the position, viz., Mr. Ernest. Ten- uant (son and deputy of the late Clork), Mr. Lewis M. Tlioma?, tolicitor. Aberavon, aud Mr. D. Kervyn Reo-, solicitor, Cardiff. At the last moment, Mr. Lewis Thomas, who had been a strong favourite for the position, withdrew, and Mr. Ernest Tcnn.mt, wa.s unanimously appointed. The appoint- ment is an extremely popular one, aud, after the meeting, Mr. Tennant was en- thusiastically congratulated on a.11 hands. The new magistrate possesses many of the elements which made his father one of the most trusted and respected men in the country, lie was articled to his father, and was .admitted solicitor in 1906; four years later he became a, partner. During the late Clerk's indisposition, extending over 18 months, the duties cf Town Clerk, Magis- trates' Clerk, Clerk to the Port Talbot County School Governors, secretary of the Morta. Relief Commit! cc. and secretary to the Britonferry Cottage Company, were carried on by Mr. .Pernant. The new Cleric is a Churchman, and has for many yeai-s associated himself with all social and philanthropbic matters, in the town. He was a member of the old volunteers, a.,id held a commission as lieutenant in the Glamorgan Battery of the Royal Horse ArtdHsrr. A good all-round athl'Ste. he has rendered valuable/services to the Margam Cricket Club, the Aberavon Golf Club, and other branches of sport.

good as tbc Germans', fLaughter.) The Navy had always credited the German# with super-Affio.i<>fic,y in gunnery, and were always prepared fbr some surprise in their systfm of control and accuracy of tire, but after Jan. 24 thete 'was a. fe>eiing that 7>erhaps our PFiral officers wore too ditb- dent in regard to their own flkill In gun- nery. Our 13.5 guns were unequalled by any weapon yt brought on the Rcpno, and now we had 15in. guns comi.ng into th" line on the fivo, Que^a Eli/aV-^th^ and the five Royal ^oTcreigns, which would be vastly more powerful. Another rebiarkable feature of the action was the steaming of our ships. All the vessels engagpd exceeded all previous records, though they had been at sea for some months. It was a remarkable proof of the .excellence of British machinery and the glorious industry of the engine-room branch. (Cheers). The Kent, was an old vessel designed to go 23i knots. At tha Falklands she had to go for tl-ic N-uremburg, built to go 341 knots. The Kent did 25 knots and caught and sank the Nurfanburg. (Cheers). The truth was the Navy was as sound as a beil all through. (Cheers). The great lesson os.the action off the Dogger Bank was that it showed us and the. world that there was no reason to suppose that, ship for ship. gun for gun, a.nd man tor man. we could not give-a good account of ourselves. The- Germans did not think it prudent to engage us. They accepted without doubt or hesitation their iu- feriority, and thought only ot flight They were wise in that -new. and if they had. taken any other course they -would have been destroyed. 1 When, if ever, 'h h'II..J- n .w:;n, 1í, e\'el', 'uI. C ure 1 clared, the two great Beets draw out for a, general battle we shall hope to bring into the line a preponderance, not only in quality, but in numbers, which will nqt he five to four, but will be something considerably greater than that. There- fore we n) ty consider this extra margin as an additional insurance against un- expected losses by mine and submarine. Such may at any moment occur in the preliminaries of, a great pitched battle. It is for these important reasons that we must regard this, action on the Doggor Bank as an important and. I think I may say, a satisfactory event." (Cheers.) The lossee of the :Na.vy" he JIl(,eeeded, although small compared with the sacri- fices of the Army, had been heavy. We had lost, mainly by submarine, the Jives of about 5,500 officers and men, "nut we had killed, mainly by gunfire, an equal riumbejv-(cheers)—which was, of ftoxse, a much larger proportion of the German forces engaged. We had also takèn in sc-a fighting 82 officers and 934 tien V i; of "IVai..No British naval prisoners of war had been taken in fighting at 8ea by the Germati. (Cheers,) When they had the inclination they had .lot the eppor- tunity, and when they ,nad the oppor- tunity they had not the inclination. (Laughter.) For the loss Qf these lives we had lived safely--e-ren prosperously. We had established a command of the sea such 36 we never anticipated. When I think," the First Lord pro- cefvied, of the groat scale of our opera- tions and the" enormous turge* we expose and the number of EUipe vfeNM i&ovements .¡,J(" f""I P¡& bAi-P to be arranged for and the nava.1 con- j dition* to which I have referred, it, is marvellous to me how few our looses have been. (Cheers.) The cam and vigilance everci-cd by the admirals afloat and by the Admiralty staff appears to me—and will certainly be regarded bv ot hers study- ing this war in history—as praiseworthy in fhe highr--Ft degree. (Cheers.) ".The ta^sks which lie before us are anxious and grave. We are. it now ap- pears,, to be the object of a. kind of war- fare which has never before pi-ac- tised by a civilised, State. The sinking at aght. without search or- parley, of mer- chant ships by submarine agency is. a. totally novel and unprecedented departure It is a state of things which no one had over contemplated before the war, and which would have n universally repro- bated and rcpudiatpd hdore the war. (Cheery But it mut not be 11PP()(>d I that because the attack is e'?traordiuarv that a good defence and a ?nod reply can- not be made. (Cheers.) The statutes of ancient Ronie contained no provision for the punishment of parricide, but When tbe first offender appeared it was found that satisfactory arr.ingemente could he made. (Latfgbter.) ".Loeees no doubt will be incurred, but we believe that, no vital injury can be done if our traders put to sea regularly and act in the spirit of the gallant captain of the merchant ship Laertes. (Cheers; Jf they* tak' the precautions which a-re proper and legitimate we expect that thy loeae5 will be confined within mana^eabla limits, even at the outlet, wiien the Cllemv may be expected to make his greatest effort to produce a.n impression. All losses can, of course, be cohered by resort on the part of ehipownera to the Government insur- ance scheme, the rates of which are now one-fiitb less than they were at the out- break of war. "I thank the :Udust- Mr. Churchill con- cluded, "for the attention with which they have listened to me. The streoe and strain of this war are not inipe-roeptible to those who are called upon to bear", part in the responsibility for the direction of the tre- mendous and terrible events which are now taking place. They have a risrht to the ffenerous and indulgent judgment and sup- Dort of their fellow-countrymen—("Hear, hear")-%nd to the goodwill of the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Wo cannot tell what lies before us, or how soon or in what way the next great developments of the struggle, will declare themselves, or what thc- state of Europe and the world will he at its close. "But this I think we can alrwrdy say. in so far as the British Navy is concerned, that although no doubt new dangers and perplexities will come upor. us continually, and anxiety will make its Qode in our dwellings, yet the dangers and anxieties which now are advancing upon us will not, be more serious or more embarrassing than thoss through which we have already suc- cessfully made our way. (Cheers.) For in the months that are to come the British Navy, and the sea power which it exerts, will unceasingly dominate the general situa- tion- It will be the main and unfailing re- source of the a.ljied nations while progres- sively paralysing the fighting energies of I our antagonists, and it oould, if need be. even in default of all other favourable -(. ill tlm.j fely, bv itself, dowift tite issue I of this waj," (Loud cheersj fJ}, 4, (14.1! ,p", jJ,¡, M'