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Chwiliwch 15 miliwn o erthyglau papurau newydd Cymru

Cuddio Rhestr Erthyglau

15 erthygl ar y dudalen hon

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The war is over. It is difficult to write of ;\his tremendous event while it is yet too ireah for all its significance to be realised, let alone expounded. The week-end has seen the rapid march of events to this vic- torious conclusion. Revolution has come to Germany as peace has come to the world. The Kaiser is a fugitive at the moment when all the world is rejoicing at the utter defeat of his plot against its life and its liberty. It is a just and we hope it will not be the only retribution that will fall upon him. We cannot attempt at this supreme moment to express all the gratitude and all the hope with which it is fraught. That gratitude must go first of all to the gallant fflen of the Services who on land and sea through all the horrors of the most terrible of all wars have never flinched or faltered. I To their self-saorificing loyalty, to their in- describable heroism, we owe it that to-day tutooracy and militarism are in the dust. For the strong lives that we could least I afford to lose that have been sacrificed in this conflict, for all the physical agony which brave men have endured, for all the life- long suffering that many of them will have to endure, we must at once express our thankfulness and we must see to it that our debt to them is not forgotten, when the dra- matic appeal of the coming of peace has Passed. Compared to that overwhelming debt all others are comparatively small, but thfere are some that we ought not to omit to Mention. The bravery of our arms and of those of our Allies might have been of much less efficiency if they had not been guided and controlled all along by brave and com- petent leaders and especially the victory that has crowned their efforts might have been much longer delayed but for the military genius of Marshal Foch and the fact that that genius was given supreme command in the most critical days of the struggle. To the establishment of unity of command under Marshal Foch our victory must in- deed in no small measure be attributed. And for the establishment of unity of com- mand we should not forget that Mr. Lloyd George was largely responsible. The complications of peace can be dis- cussed hereafter. Let it suffice for the moment to say that victory has come to us toder circumstances which can be regarded all an adamtwnt assurance that peace in its final form and the reconstruction that is to follow will seoure to the peoples of the "World the full fruits of the triumph which I lhey have gained over their enemy. In a speech which he delivered in Bir- mingham a few days ago, the Minister of Labour, Mr. Roberts, outlined the Govern- ment's scheme to secure reinstatement in civil life for demobilised men. The machi- nery which will be utilised is that of the employment exchanges. The men will be freed in such a way as to meet the needs of national trade in order that they may have the best possible assurance of entering em- ploynjent and earning a living, Leo"1 ..jid- Visory Committees have already been given a general idea of the tasks they will be called upon to undertake, and they will be required to collect information in their re- spective districts as to the state of indus- try. This information will enable the de- mobilisation officers to judge of the class of labour that can be placed. The Ministry of Labour has been able to calculate approxi- mately the number of people who can be handled day by day by the committees. Mr. Roberts warned the nation that it was in- evitable that there should be feme disloca- tion, for the more immediate problem was that of the release of the large army of civil workers who would be displaced when the orders for munitions ceased. The -Minister of Labour also declared that the Government had reoognised that provision tor the men and women who might be ,thrown out of employment by the change Would be regarded as a State liability, while those released from munitions work were afforded a fair chance of looking round for other employment. War ia being waged on the rat. It is hoped it will not take the form of merely local or spasmodic attacks, but that it will be an all-over-the-country offensive. The I Joint Agricultural Committee have, in view of the enormous destruction of food by these rodents, decreed the doom of the rat. In an appeal which has been issued to them, with seven suggestions as to the extermina- tion of rats, farmers are urged to regard the question seriously, for the rat is declared to be a worse enemy to the country than the submarine. Our sailors may be trusted to deal with the latter, but the farmers, must keep the rat in check. Rats multiply so quickly that it ie possible for a single pair to have a thousand descendants in a year. According to experts, rats cost the country nearly one million pounds a week, and there are nearly as many rates as human beings m Great Britain. In six months one hun- dred rats will eat or waste the equivalent of 2,000 quartern loaves, together with nearly 30 bushels of sharps and more than 60 bushels of bran. Let the farmer ask whether such a loss would not be well avoided at the price of a few hours' work at 'the proper .season. Apart from the menace- to our food supplies, rats cause a danger to the public health. They are carriers of the Plague, conveyors of the tape worm to the 'Pig which in one stage produces trichuinosis, a disease communicable to man, and they spread influenza from stable to stable, and are carriers of foot and mouth disease. Every farmer must realise that he is morally responsible for the rats on his premises, and do all in hi.s power to keep them down.

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