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MARVELLOUS ESCAPE OF BARMOUTH…

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MARVELLOUS ESCAPE OF BARMOUTH MEN. Truly has it been said that out of the seemingly most trivial cir- cumstances the greatest events of the ages arise. A man's fear of a thunderstorm was the direct cause of the Reformation that led to entirely new political and religious ideas and formations in Western Europe. Martin Luther, frightencd of th0 ,i:¡,1 p!n' ('of lightning, vowed that, were only his life spared, he would turn Monk In the Monastery be entered, he found covered with the dust of ages a New Testament in the original Greek. His per- usal of the original led ultimately to his nailing on the door of Wurtemberg Church those ninty- five thesis that, in their turn, started the train of Revolution and Reformation. And in our own day a similar seemingly in- significant event proved the match that set alight such a con- flagration in Europe that has exceeded the wildest surmise. Just three years ago, in the little known town of Serajevo, the fan- atical minds of a tailor and his boon companionR decried monar- chy and began to devise means for the destruction of those who dwell in high places. From their guttural imprecations and wild plans came the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne. How this murder proved the tinder that set all Europe ablaze is now, of course, a matter of common knowledge. The scene of connagra.tion has ever widened until the ngbt for liberty is now waged alike in ice- bound tiin(ll"as l, and on arid, waterless sands where a pitiless sun beats down with unfailing glare. It has been in these arid desert-lands that some of the Allies' most successful battles have recently been fought. Notably must we mention the Battle of the Gaza fought on March 26th last. Very many brave men known personally to all of us in Barmouth took part in that fight. How strange it all is Owing to the fanaticism of a Serbian tailor, Bavmuuth boys- many of whom never thought to roam from the purple bills of Wales—have known the din and lust of battle where countless centuries since Samson, stricken, toiled at th3 behest of the Philistines, "Eyeless, in Gaza, at the mill with slaves." Truly the ways of Providence are inscrutable. Very nerce was the Battle of Gaza. Thousands of our enemies fell, and our own soldiers paid the price of victory, gave to death his toll That those of the sol- diers of the Welsh Regiments engaged were Barmoutb men is known frnm the letters which their relatives in the town have received. We have been privi- leged :to have the contents of many of these letters, recounted to us, extracts from one or two of which we quote in this issue, and in each occurs a note of thanksgiving that, despite the gallant part our own men played—and that it was very gallant, there is ample testimony —not one of them received any .serious hurt. This is indeed a reasan for the whole town's ar- dent rejoicing. In very truth a benencent Providence watches over those dear to us in what- ever strange land they may find themselves.

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Letters from Egypt.I

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