Papurau Newydd Cymru
Chwiliwch 15 miliwn o erthyglau papurau newydd Cymru
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The new Government contains some unmis- takwbie ¡;;urp1"Í5Ct'; its charad..eri.t.ic is streneth in 1.dmtat ve capaÓty and it is predominantlY Ü mOlllst in complexion \tr LJiovd George has summoned ro-me of tha m<Mt successful business men of the country to cope with work which is now tu so great a. decree that of a gigantic business under- taking. The War Cabinet, contraiy to ex- pectation. docs not contain Sir E. Carson, ?o takes on the Admiralty, but ..ncl? Lord Milner, whose gre? a.bi)ity has too ki? been left un?ed, a?d Lord L? ur/on, a second commanding capacity. Lord Devon- ? ? Food Controller; ?r Joseph Ma<- ay ? Shipping Controller; Sir Arthur b?nley ?t the Board of Trade Dr H. A. L F?her at the Board of Education; Lord Rbondda at the Local Gu\dnmelH Board; h. It. A. Protheroe :1t the Board o. \gr¡eultL:re: of caHing all exemp'H!v the s<ime principl of calling in mei. of aff a-irs tlieii, success ia great indi.istric<l .md hasiness oigainisa.- lions, The transference of Mr. Balfour to the! Foreign Secretaryship and the retention of Lord Robert Cecil as Minister of Blockade have a well m.¡nked significance in London, and paiticula.rlv in certain journalistic '('ircles. Lord Derbv brings to the Secre- tarvship for War a reputation as 3 typical, solid, plain, common sensible Englishii-mn. The Irish appoiJltnwlJts i,ertain untouched.. Sir George Cave. the iif-v,, Home Secretary, was one of the ablest of the voung Conserva- tives. Mr. B..nnr Law' as Chancellor of the Exchequer, has a s-- at upon the War t Council, but Is not expected to ait regularly. yt is a business and 'a1' ptlrpue Cabinet. Labonr share of repre!"entat;oll tha \\å:< under i.tood to have ¡¡('CII prumiged it. apd Mr. Barup. Pen- sions 'MImstrv. rr. I{Ud(J'l' s.P- pomtment will bp npprpciated in South 'dei>. where he ;F rpppected as a sound, safe. and prudent leader of Labour. The ofncia! and ex-omtin] Liberal eleinen). which stands aloof. i I no doubt fiiii-i;sb a keenly critical -Opposit :"n. It is a f-.ov.rrrunpnt rifh in prnctk- .1 ex- perience o.f an.r.r-. distins'ushpd for the outstanding success in so many spheres of. so many of its mpmb-.T' ')CiOllS and ex- perienccd. ,th stroug pereonalitip? in t.h.e! Wn!- It is a. Ministry which wiU. inspire confidence, nn particular amongst r.f the country; 1,,lid i certain of 11". Lloyd CTree's choioea are of fix' highest wom;se. has broken Jiew ground in Cabinet making, and .has for the firt time In our h!?tory drawn freely upon tllP '1 "hnn,r\nt of ca.pa.c't\' in cur busi- ness \\orM 'A-,
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Since wars teach us geography, M. Ie Bars, the acting French Co)isul,iu deliver- ing his always a.ccepta.ble and highly inform- ill. iprt.'LU-et.. 's !eat'!iine; g:"att! S\YJnea for he was up at St. Luke's on Saturday night speaking on the subject of "The British ajid French Press During the War," for the benK&t of the War Prisoners' Fujtd.
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We read of the 9 Tuta-bion coa.1 scheme. Yes, the price i? th' .Umit." <?? %-?x?- Orders issued to'- t?''J''?t'eiah Volunteer in- spection rigorously a'?nounce "Wet or fine, every man must attend." \Yh.ere discrepa cies have occurred amongst Swansea! dnokv.orkers' bonuses the amounts are now being levelled up. At Shemeld bowling greens ;Md lawn ten nis courts ha.ve been broken up and culti- vated. Now, Swansea Parks Committee I Swansea, tram conductresses who think it's a hard life this weather may be interested to I know that in trance women drive trams bare-beaded. Eighty German prisoners are to work at I farmo and market gardens at Evesham, at 5s. per day. Swansea could do with a few on .ÓihpstQ!1 Common. ???->?:<t- <- Mr. John Hodge, the new Labour Minister, is fond of a swim, and during the summer. when visiting Swansea, he frequently visits the Swansea Swim mine; Baths. Swansea is t!tp. d-e'prc.st plac? hi the country to live in. "—(Aid. CbIwiII.)—Even the high organisation in certain directions doesn't make for hsppine&s then. 0<i ? ? -< t >-<x ? Request by Swanse.i tot: Dadda, take me to see 'Robinson' Crew.' This was near enough for the intelligent parent to maJM for the Continenta-Ic, High-street. Ald. ColwUI, at Swansea Education Com- mittee, on Monday said: "People in Swan- fea hardly knew how to make both ends meet." He forgot to mention what section of the community, however, Let there be no misunderstanding. Every player who participates in the Xmas matches for the War Prisoners' Fund is in one form cr another, in his oocupation or caliing, doing his country s work." "-< A bottle of King's Ale." filled in 1902, was sold by auction at Carmarthen a few evenings ago, ana fetched £2 4s. It was afterwards raffled in the room, and was won by a total abstainer 0 < t $ ?< ? The late Sir Roland Vaughac Williams trsquently sat at tite Swansea. Assizes before the law courts w ;M remodelled, and Mr. Upland Vaughai-i K C hi.)! )11. != attached to the Söhth Wales Circuit, j Chief instrnci-or of Swansea Naval Bri- gade explaining a n<tvaj gun sight to the boys "Now, can any boy tell me what a, fine sight is?''—" Please, sir," answered a coming tar with a grin, a thousand sailors on the Iow<ir deck eating their Xmas dun. < ?<?-<S?!?-? The Welsh R'ugby Interna-fional team to play the New Zealanders at Swansea is very representative and a "real" Welsh side. including as it does five Newport men, five j Swansea men, three from Neath, three from Aberavon, one Cardiman, ajid one Llanelly- ite, from whom the ultimate team will be picked. <!X X "Puzzled" (a Swa,Lt&ea- Hotel) writes:— I cover a good many towns in my travels, and it h&s been my misfortune to spend several Sundays lately in different centres,' but I hGvebn in no iplace where people are herded together in doorways, etc., in. the pitch dark. with apparently no homef to go to. What is the re>asQn 1-Perhaps some qf our social reform frien4is will !ODUge. < > > < S >o-< ? < t "It would be ungracious, not to s&v un- grateful (writes Musicus ") did one not record appreciation of the programme sub- nutted by the musical direcbo-rship of cue of ..swansea's cinema haj!s on Saturday after- noon last. for a selection that included Itlasa.iiiell,o I overture: morceau baiut d' Amour' the descriptive Cloches da St. Main,' and the entr'acte Na.rcis.sus.' exhi- bited a line artistic sensf) worthy of note." A military ofh-car, recently stationed a,L Swansea, was one dark evening motorin-s. to the MumMes with his cha.uSeur. and seeing two ladies standing out of the rain irndcr Blacbpill bridge, he polled up his car and asked if they were bound in his direction. On being answered in the f-furmative, he bade them jump in. When their dos;til1;1,tioa wa.s reached one "6'ered him a sh.iiJ.ing-. spy- ing: ''You and your friend go and have ;< drTJTjk. I know you poor Tommies don't get too much Captain Niles, for years the Port Com- mandant of Gibraltar, and m tl)at capacity the friend of every S\yan&eét.it.é pasaing through the Straits, is at home prc&trated by over two years' ¡;tr enuo\Jr.3 duty under to sot !oss than three months i.n bed as the essential prelimiiT)ary to the restoration of his old .self. H,eaI}Jd Mrs. Xiles reached Woodneld-ter- racc. via Madrid, PariE. and Southa.m?to);. after nve da.yg a,d iiigi-,tr- of c.onÜn.nal tra.veUing. The Belgian concert on Thursday evening will. in a muiaica.1 sense, be top-notch, ror every artiste represents the best. that the ]ittl& country has produced. And the causa to be ben'entted could not possibly be set bÎ1'11e1' sinfoe the proceeds a're for the Belgians j wounded in the war—the stricken fight..el'f'! wrth no homeland from witich t o expect succour. TheFC should be a rea,I Swansea rally, otherwise LlaneIIv and Pontypridd. not to mention CardiSP, Newport, and Mer- thyr. may excel us. 4 3 < ?<?-<?-? The New Zeala-nd tea,m are so keen upca beating Wale.<I at Swansea, on Boxing Day that they have written asking that an Eng- ii&h referee be appointed. We have agreed. a.nd the En.glish Ru.giby U.n.Mn-havc suggest' ed Mr. G. Trallope, Kecre.tary of the London Referees' Society, whom both teams have a.greed upon. and this gentleman has been f.sked to omciate. The All Blacks regard this game ap a real internationa.1 struggle. .md many of them will be on their last leave during the Christmas week. < < ?< < >- ? < ? > o 4>- If, as all hope, the promoters of the Xmaa Soccer game for the benefit of the War Prisoners' Fund arc successful in securing the services of Meredith and Wedlock, pat- rons of the match will enjoy the privilege of seeing the finest wuig uje game has ever known, and will note that Meredith always plays with a quill toothpick in his month, and also appreciate Wedlock, a sturdy "ban- tam," whose personality, pluck and endu- rance have upon many occasions won the .game for his side. "Wait and gee" what "pu&h and go" will accomplish. The, be--z <í,!> l ),ut. Air. Lloycl Tbp be?t thi'ig yet ? !i<t about Mr. Lloyd George M- that he wa.! w&?th hip weight in— fugar: ? -< > < >- ? ? $' More good iiswg for shopkeeper. Two weeks' Army and Navy allowanee ai<f payabJe toother this. Xm; < $ >< ? ? -<ex ? ? Iratft Gower farmer: "Hey; Can't you read that 5)gn' "-Tre8pa.ing pedestrKiri (calmly): "I nevr read anythtng mar4ed Private' ?i Quite considerate on the psrt of the Swan- sea G&s Company not t-.t put up t price of gaf before the Xnms g')ose comes t4) be <,< "Im in for a good ..1, mii." said the sar-' doHic Swansea Br'nfdic' the v.'ifa has already bought me m' prp&ejat—a Hew pair oi ha.i1g"'r for the f I i) ot parlour There was oiuy Otte on the Swansea borough sheet, and one on the county sheet at Swan.e.a Police Court oji Saturday. People saYin.g Uip for Christmas? The Swansea motor that mad? such a big effort to get into the Sw. nspa Savings' Bank, must either have had sinister designs upon that institution or ebe wanted to ptart a deposit. The "Christian World describes Walter- road Congregational Church, Swansea, of which the Rev. George McLuckie. B.A.. has consented to become pastor, as one of the most famous of Welsh pulpite." ? There are th08e '-Yho gramble at the situa- tion and insignincance of the Sv;ansea, Gene- ral Post 01tic{', but Cheerful v-ntes to tell us that he nnds it a most comforting ivait- mg-room for tramcars on wet days." "Steady on, there! sa;d the Swansea customer in the tonsorial esta.blishment. "rm before you: "Quite all right, '-ir," wa& the cheerful rpsponse: "I'm the boss just going to put my apron on. Next!" ?-?-?-<&?-<? Swansea docksmen experts in the grading of coal now talk learnedly of "lump," "sifted," "granulated," "moist/' "brown," "demerara. and all sorts and descriptions of sugar, and bow and when possible to obtain it. Nemesis: A ")wa-:1<¡¿a employer, who h&.d intimated to his only aM.istant that he could not permit him—a Volunteer—to go to Cardiff on Thursday, has himself had orders to report himself at the Ne:,ic)n- streef institution Tii*, roncer-, at the A' Tn% coDceri at the Albert Hall, 5Wall:ffia. next Thursda.y, should furnish a great treat for loca! IJjc¡-lovers. All the are I tIie pick of t<he former Belgian operatic and concert plat.form; which have aJways ranked very high in Con-tinenti.i mmical circles. "dimple Sim( ]i" v.-ants to know "In the event of,t'ptlf' t1y;, wb-t gna.raDtpe Y-ill the aathorities have tha the* Order is re- spected? Will household be s"pto"d upon? And he adds "If defau Lers are discovered, I hope they will get fir deserts." H'mi ?t—?-t?-??. ChauSeurs and ov.-Tin- drivers must under- stand that tramcar "storping-places" are not suitable pu!k up fc,mot-or-car, It !& a practice that'not only causes inconven- ience to, but is highly dangerous for thase alighting from or desirous of bearding public COnVeyaD,De- Twelve months <go this week the Derby campaign was drawing to a close, and swarms of men w,-re besieging the onioo opened in High-street, light-heartedly draw- ing their 2s. 9d.-most of them never dream- ing they would ever be called up, or not, untaJ this Xmas, at any rate. in the caf=f of the oider classes. Perhaps the perstn who appropriated the necessary part of the specially-constructed vehicle of the Swansea hero who lest both ? legs m the war will be man enough to return same. The hero referred to is Elan Da vie?. who left his ca.rria.ge in an open space and the rear limp? stolen. They can be returned to these omccs. A recent story in this cojumn a.E€r,t .u] V. C." hero i'.i the Sandneids who proved himself to be a humble "V.T.C. man, h&d a. parallel one dav last week. A "Pod reporter who. on his way M work, heard that a Townhili I re-.side.nt's son had won the coveted V.C.. \v&s, after painfuUy toiling up the heights. gleefully infonnpd by the tmv d.iughter ?"i the house that ?'unky" had icined the V.T.C. TjK- jtt.w l?a,boui Miniver received R t-ele- gr.a.rn from the Welsh Plate ,Ed Sheet A:J:Soc:iation on heartily coi,- -it 1-, 1, t him U!'<r' hi<-= appointtnent )e- gardi:'j.; this promotion as beinc (til;e reward f&r the gie.:t herv'ices r&ndered by yr-u not .mly to fhs cau¡;c.. of LaboTr a.)id industry, hut Rise m the interests of the general weifare of the cou:tt,)y durmg the r.ntical period we af posing throTjgh." The Bc'ud i on Monday thoroughly endorsed the I'c&oht tion, whiüh wLs greeted with chcefo'. It iill1trat.e:: a Ca.rd)it' tue a/fixiety to oma.in Sl1gR.l' t 1t: :,ome of them the nt,her d:i, to- hvery wagon lOJl which ivii-e thought to be hag" of the mu<;h-gou.ght-or contUtodity) ngtit ;.nd up to tll,! classic ) region of Cwmhwrla. Their diMppointment may be imagined when :'(. the end of th'?:" long tnmp they were to!d by the i.hop' keeper at whose shop hvered that they coMtamed, not sugar, bu; wa&luug poda..—But since when issug?r s'Id off w,g'ons to housewi ves' Courter?a <:Xx :?<?><-0 .? u' Courtenay C:-ci! ?.fansel, as .ilready re- ported m the "Pc&t;" after bf'ng rejected! from the Army for defective eyesight, has succeeded in passing the doctors, and ex- pects to be caHed to the rankc shortly. This recaUs a romance \if the. baronet3ge. In 1838 Sir Courtenay'g grandfather cont-rac-ted a Scottish marriage, which was blessed with a son, Edward, and nine years later the couple vfre married with religious rites, another boy. Richard, subsequently being born. When the ba-ronet died, in 1885, Richard succeeded him in the tttle, m the i beHcf that the Mght of his elder brother Edward was not valid. Sir Richard died: in 1892, and his son. the present baronet, a&sumad the title. Eleven years later it was discovered from certain documents that came to light that the first marriage of the ninth baronet was perfectly valid, as was borne out by the Scottish court a few years later. Neither Sir Courtenay nor his father had, therefore, <any right to the title, and Sir; Conrtenay resigned in favour of his unc!e; Edward, the eider son of the ninth baronet. On his death, in 1908. Sir Courtenay as- sumed the title for the second time, an d on this occasion as tine real heir. The family hcme is Maesycrugia.u Manor. Carmarthen- shire, and Mansetton, Swansea, i< of course, owned by the family, i Th.PT? isasonc'J?thc market entitled. "ir'?3,i)d?tustMH-u\c-n. FurLheC.O. Y?'.  Lhe 0 Although there wei e no pn.Ottei'b ic'r tria! R. .)'.vans'>a. Po'icp Court 011 Thurd3Y, the business lasted until 2,:Ü, there heavy cases dov.n for hearing. The -Daiiy ?cv.?" -Aye tne Xorthchn'e! PresB has bp? "p<?<h-pooh'"m" thp enoits of the old Cabinet. It would be mor* correct tohavcvrittpu nah-poohing." t,-) h,3%-e v-r-!tten ?-nah-).ooh;i,. g A Swa.«'a. wa, u.p late 'L.i'e oth<*r ma:ht for a special rnarria.ge license. The cHller was 8_"kf>d to come again in t.he. morning, but hf expbunsd bis wedding was 'I -i.ower the next ttay. The knot was tied bv th?'.?-r-Lc?ihe I?cepyp straight AW?y. ? %-?-? -< ? < Patriot tho;H(ll average S-wa,n?ca tradesman may ba to the backbone, onej CAr't get him to enthuse much over "wa.r- time economv at XuiMtLde. Trmh to kll, be a.n.t'cipates, it may as weH be said— a.rer'.ordtime. j Swan'>'¡l ALM?tIon€<?r: GE"utlemen! Gentle- men! Here ntM I elling an article, war- rented >p per- bottom and Mvetted right through a.nd sthmped wit.h the British !ion. guara.ut'eed made in England in direct oppo- s itio:) to Gerrnat' tnde. an.d I OtUy have one bid—Nineppnce t x ? -< & 0 ?- Corporal Heun Fayette, formerly ol Messrs. Dfpeaux, Swansea, writes a Sketty friend that cc: for domestic purposes in France is now .S6 a ton, and that all shops in the big towns clQfe at 6 p.m. fcr economi- cal I'easocLS, also thal, the ii.ghting arrange- ments are quite as stringent as in Swansea. ??????? During the welcome-home meetings held at F;orestfach the most stnking thing is the conSdence of victory shown by the lads in khaki. Their usual injunction is "Carry 'j on," wUlst frequently they also show their aaiger at the statements sometimes made that soldiers are ungodly and drunken. These they rightly term as "libellous." ?x?-?-?<@r-? The method adopted by the authorities for whitewashing the kerbs of Swansea's streets. mentioned in this column a few days ago by "Common SeMe. has been remedied, to the satisfaction of all. it is to be presumed. A barrier, that cannot easily be mistaken, pre- vents anyone from stepping on the newly whitewashed kerh.  Boltoi) N?lan- d eie-S.. as well as Vi?a.rd, of Boli,on \?'an<iei'erg. a? well as dm'Mett, of the same team, have been g;ven Ie: ve to assist the Welsh team in th.e grand Soccer" match at Swansea on December Srd. The former is r&putad to be the cleverest outride left in the country. ESorts are being ma.df to securii the assistance of Meredith, of Manchester, ac-d Wedlock, oi' .M?ere?d 'th, of Mane-4e&tei? ar?,ti Wr--ik?ck-, ?,.f < + Bomb. R. T. vabe has shown fine sporLf- rna-nship in replying to an mvitsticm to' vÙdes against thp -New Zea.Ia.nders at Swansea on Boxing Day. He said "I am afraid I am in the &ere and yellow. but if I y(m eannot ¡If'tanybodi else I will be de- i'ghted to !u'h a. wort-hy object. a.nc! 1811 you every success. This is only: just what might Itavt; been expected from so tine A type .of Welsh sportsman. <ix?-<?-?<?<a> T'c swef:. ?ouug thing blew inL? th?e aii? t,\xi?ttp,-ed sweetly If we could ycLurn the w?r poem ?nt in "a bo?t tv-?I vc r ?,Lurti the -,var I)oe, 'moinths ago 'y Th.cmJones. \V'e wa.dcd con&cjcntiousty through a vast accutfu'ation of such stun', und had tc- regTetful'y irifoirn her t',jat,. li; 1 he Rujnaman chance of i\.oeplll I>khare.t, it, had d"z;appL,.Ii-ed." Oh, ]t. was Writen by Private Muith r.he us sprightly. We—well, but, what c&n you do with v'cmsn? When a deiendant in a case at- Swans-ea Police Court on Thursday said he ran away J fr<om complainant, fomeono made the- ra- mark. "Too proud to fight"; and this re- mi ad;! the writer of a case where two "ladies" were havaig a "scrap." The one who wa.. getting the biggest part of tihf hammering ran away and when asked by a looker-on why we didn't stand her ground 'succinctly replied. "Bet.ter to be a coward ??????' The ii-ual fir>!> wa.ruing. is issued by the British Fire Prevejition Committee and haf, reference pa.rtjcularlv tn hospitals, c&mp?, btHets and private blies. Fibres at hoEday time mostly occur in buildin.gs nUed with people and may become holocausts. Careful attention is directed to candLes, pa.per lantercs. cotton wool, cellu- loid. Xma., trees an-d electric wiring. Blanksts should be ready to smother the in- cipient nre-s. The Swansea oiacer, not by any mean:, un- known ut foot.baU circles.. wa" home on Iea.\e..He had been tra veiling a couple of days and had ha<i nc sleep, a.nd so he de- clared t.ha.t he \33 going to bed and intended tú deep the n;gM.and the "hole of Hie next ,d<;y. Xo you won't." said a relative, re- feI:iinl to ;t bouncing ba.by boy that had .been burn to the o6ner' & wife during the time he ha.d been in France and whom the. ?ofnoer had not yet S££ll. And the relative was right—the long nap didn't corn? off The. fact that the Swansea Rugby and Cricket Club Committees have kindly ,?raj]tpd the "DaHy Post" the uge of St. Helen's for the grand charity "&occer'' .natch on December 25rd. has given a lot r d has giveii a. lot of rarefaction locally, H.ud ?ome of the most "iiious exponents in the country w tU have ample opportunity of displaying j their pace and cisverness, because they can play on a fun-sized fi,old with plenty of room I)-p-tweeii the to\lch-line and the railings, and T. :n therefore be less liable to accident. ??<t-<&-????<? A Uttie 'u?'y nt S\van.?ee. the oUier dav ?=? ? father to give him threepence to ;;iye to n l{).me na.n at the end of the i&t-r?t.t. Fle?e'd a.t the tad's melting .charity, the father 'hellcd out. with some compIiMenMry remark .<. that fount of pitv that ittakes the whole world km: Later on in the day b,, saw the iad play'ng with an 'ingenious new toy.nd askeè him -vhere he ,ot it. 1 bot's-ht it iiiis morning witj< t-ha-t tlu'2openny-bIt. the boy. "What:' Bu t didn't you t-ell me," said the irate father. "thdl you w<i!)t€d to give it to 3.. poor Iamcm;tn' Lc,i'k here. if'Id thought "Well, yea. dad; that vzis the man who wHf .scHtng thc-m. He was very Ja.nie ;a'.id poor: yon to I'.avc een Mm. '?<!x?> ?>-?>t> ) Cinema English 1? not least ;imon?t the attractions of the pictur" ''pala<'e< °Jn the 'c?e of French or Ita.lia.n nim? th?ro are fre- (lueiit nils-L-,ID,Illllgs, and the style ip fM— qu!eiitiv Ollendornia.n. But the text of the storiM which pJ ucidatr. Amciica.n nhn:. is the purer joy. Sometimes the slajig ;.< intel- ligible: but wlien we get such phrases as She hIe\ the burg" (She.'s cleared out of the Nix on the lough stun' (No dirty work here), and She's dtoable crossed u., (She ha.? played us fake)—why, in those even tht; veteran picture-goer is non- piu&K<d. Some American stang is rejtilv a form of 3p<Mch onw current hut now obsolete in this country the English farm 1,1Jbourer. for instance, often uses "some" in the Ajnericac sen&& It do ra.in ¡:;omc." Hut other AJ1wric.<¡.n slang i gin)p]y à ba.'rharOIJii jargon. ———————————— We are to have meatle:¡;: dav! make no jt bone" about it. Tofan.?—"ta..i<'ybre?d''the?€ days ig* ? "weighty" mattei. wc ') A doggy mau in SwajisM 1 favour? an increased dog-tax. He puts thf J Ar; f'mpt.y box v.?. peea on top ot a Swan. j sea &fh-ca!t marked Dynamite Sto'!v deaf ? of tlic boilerf." We h.uld t;ay O: ? The "barks'* in Swansea Market &B. Thurs(h.'Y next invite t-û provide much ,need0:l t.tte {or ou.r 1,6cai lads who afe prisoner!! r,f v.-a; Don't forget the clog ? ? ? ''These 'ere forecasts of the new Ca.binet. l'èmarked the old-time punter glooiaily as h. put a.ide his newspaper. 'rcinds me of ths, i old da-ys when 'NN--Iiat's ;oing to 'in?' waj) all that ma-ttered." ? < >- ? < S There has nevpr h&en anv unHormitv ijt the weight of brea.d at. L tra,N-es ¡}.oj n&, I ;old varying I't weight from lib. 4ozs. tc li1b, C&mmeudrfg on Monday next; Sb. of 41b. ictavas o;]y -III ts.o¡d, ¡ The coal-trimmers in South Wales porta lL&.ve decided to make a ar,&iit of lOp. as a Ghristmaa box to each single man new serv- ing with his Majesty's torces whose depen- dentj ajp not at pre&ent drawing from their ? ?warfund. ? war ,'and. } It wiH be noticed v.ith Ratisiadiol1 that five of the seven ba.ckg chosen to represent Wales against the New Zealanders are in tba Army and that ha!f the side are wearing t. khaki. The remainder of the team are all (E ? reserved occupations. Little BoGreek has lost her fleet; And cannot tell where to and them; But leave them atone ;.nd they wi!) come t home, ? And meanwhile the Allies will mind 'em. —(Lines by a wounded p3tient in t '\Iumbi'es Hospital.) It was a Kidwelly omcer, Captain D. is. ? Anthony, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who: t composed and despatched the celebrated mes- sage from the Welsh troops in the trenches which was read at the National Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth, and to which Mr. Lloyd" George made a striking reference in his j) memorable t I He was a working gardener at Swansea, ? devoting a day or halt c. dny here or there a.9 the cix cui)astances. dictated. After put- ting in half a day he vms proffered the recog- P nised remuneration—thiee ehUiu'gg. In- ¡ stead of accepting it be said, "Here's two ¡ ehi)l.i ¡ ..send. the crown to the War t Prisoners' Fund." That's a bit of the re<J 'war spirit. f According to the plan outlined by the Glamorgan Education Committee re utilising t-h? Minor classes of the YHJ'iou? ??d§. ? tchoc'Is a-nd mixed 'departments in sewing & c<jnuorts ifjr soldiers, it is ol<?:isant t.o t:nc"'t that many schuol? have t.ikeii up Uta wofk f w1t.h enerTgy. It 'goSs without saying tba, t the 'children tske the rroa:' uest interest in ? their work. new that. their work is for sach ? a good purpose. S -<:>-<><i> Carmarthenshire used, with justice, to } pride itself on the condition ')f its road. Appaj'ently/ hcwever. there arc exceptions, t for a. highway !iesY Llanelly was described this week as resembling a "shelled neld, ? for which re&son'perhaps it was suggested t that German prisoners might be requisitioned i to repair it. This road has a formidabia < rival in the north-west of the county, neajt ? Lla,nnhajigel-ar-arth, where the ruts are re- ? ported to be a foot and a half deep-verit- § able trenches, in fact.R- <>-< S ? t Everything for Jtm." S "I never see'd a woman like her. The f other day she thought newt of nobody but I herself: but now that she's married, it' I ¿yerything for Jim. '—(Heard io Walte! f road. ) ¡ A nux<.)m hiaid of thu'ty-iivf Went to the'altar ga-ily She'd neT?r had a swain before, t Hersalf she' d thought of daily: j! But now that Hymeu's fa&t embrcK:e J? Ra-s linked her unto him, Tb&re's no one else in all the world— ? It'p everything for Jim t T——E. § .$r!:$ 6 Some Socia-liste—we gay ''some" ad- ? viaedly, for there are the patriotic onee— are alike all the world over. Mr. Cuttin (writes m the "Times":—" I went to a. ? cheap little beer-room" (in Berlin), "where several bad, but really harmless. Social Dec-ocrats used to gather. Among them was )* the inevitable one who Lad been to America, aaid I had become acquainted with them through him. They talked in the new strain of their type. that they might as well be under the British or French as under their ? own Government." Same story here, in some R cA,2,e. with the name of the Government 1 changed. f ><.i><><" t GcJn,g to de dog show, said a coloured friend of 1' is; do r, you tJ-nnk I ;s going to let a tre-it Hke dat ? pass'. Not d)s chic.kt'r'. I used to be 3 dog. ? i?ncjer myxcit once. ?nd o?vned a beautiful -r >¡'rouogh,bTtJ spaniei crossed w:th a bull- t ¡;¡p retriever "oit p,-wcs everywhere It p only h<:<l one f.tutt—it suRpred 'fron: flet6 t ;'nd it s:ot :0 Lad dat de dog -show judges wou'dn t coTe neAr him. So a fooi ot a told me to ruh pa,ramn oil hini .md let him dry in front oi de nre. And wbPn I v, ent l,me u.,te was no dog—-only a st-on,, ,mfI, dat's Oh, -es, I an-, going t, d' bo\v on de 14th of de insta.nt; but. I am not 14-1 to give any a.d vicr how to i" Scuc S]a.her..>>- I With j'efeiecce to a discussion at Swan- sea Markets Comnitt-ee as to the housing of if the prohibited f c:rea restrictionki wer? removed, a corres- pondent. point" out. the Penmaen Workhouse would be an ideal place if the prisoneTB wer< t? be employed en thp Gower Commons Thpre a'-e veTy ?-w inmates now at Penmaea, and together with the i?an would not num? b-er much more than twenty. The u.p-keep J of the institution runs annually into thou- sands of pouudc. The cam'e co-respondent savs there has been reof'J1'tly built by tb'=' Local t Government Boifd O¡..qCl' a new' Illation I Hospjta! at the entpancp to FaÍTwOúd Corn. mon which ,ill C{)t at leMt .62.000 a ve&r upkeep and t-he'-e is only o.ne t Criticixm is f?ays a. We:.t* rr Mail" ? w.i?r) directej by Skettv RaKpa'ver? As- 'f sociation against the Corporakon chargiM for allotmemts more than thev are pavi.ng themselves for the land. Considering that they are letting good-sized pJot-s for ten shil- ling" a yea.r. providins: water and !ra.tes thejeo:nd supplying advice and a demon. ii plot. t.he criticism on the face of it ,ec,rn., unca l le d foi, scorns uncalled for. But 3-F one man said OOTUe people," if they were given a Mece of land by th€ Corpor:ltion, rent free. would df. ma.nd that the Towu C!erk and borou'-h <ur. v?y? shouM come and dig it for them ia their aMeged superabundant MMfr? tima.
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the editor ot the aver&ge provincial evei,v week-day to an in- finitely larger co;)g'?'cg'ation than comps within the reach of the voice of the most popular divine on a.ny Sunday. His linden coiifrerei- f-xuound their A'iews to great mul- titudes. colouring the thoughts if not mouM- ing thp opinion? of the majority. He !S acceKS dui-ing the orient war to informatton —mainly of an onicial character. denied to <he puohc—which, if forbidden publication. serves at. lea,st 1'01' guida.noe. There never was a war in which the persons who ii i, the more important journals knew so much and had to ma.ke such sparing use of their information. Official reports, confjdantial measap'ps, ]1-ri,)dica.1 conferences with re- sponsible MinitoêI' supplement the ordinary soui res of supply. It mny be recaJled t.hit a couple &l weekb ago. memliers of Parli'i- ment were complaining in thf HOllfl9 of Com- mons of this preferentia.! trea.tment of press- men. An increased of importance—a.s weU as of responsibi'tity Ig thereby .ittached to newspaper comment 'Jo11 cmrent events re- lating t-o the war which has its effect upon the spirits of the readers, bo they few or nT."nv. i-li!' Robertson. the highh- pitted Cliief of the British Army/StaB'. and therefore in a. sense the bT"I;ii-i of the latter. 'on a recent evening urged upon the people the duty of cultivating cheerfuhieFs aa a na- tional oi value. Th.i!- quality is not to be confounded with an exaggerated o-ptim- ;"111 which ma-kes Hgitt of disasters a.nd is contemplating an early. ea;.y and yictorious lkaCe. On the other hand. it should be an 0{fedive antidùt.e for the (--11.nal foreboding of chtcnically cat-down folk v.ho eeJl1 to experience a. mispra.ble kind < j'y b'' behoving the wor.t ha.H hfppened or j" t}.bout to happen. The nGw:-pa)ier bet-t serves its dientete that succeeds i't avoiding extrem-es one way or "nether. evades the contagion of excessive jubiiatio;) "ve:' a sucress. aild equally of dol orous depression following a defeat. ilnd tries stedfai,,tiv to move on nn even keei, giving the public 'bhe. truth as It ?pfp'e'rs to a mind hone:.t)y endeavouring to achieve ?detach- Tnent.from the innuem-c' of the wi.sb to be- lieve that, things are as the desire. wou]<! ¡ have them to be. Tbn ideal is, however. dinicult-t' attain, if oi-iv because of tempera- ment.'I and othpr causes, and the presMna-nis su blef't to hopeful mp?ds ?nd depre?ion? like th? rest '? humankiiid, and consequently ?o<*s not t?an? thR conception of innexible, judicial impart.ialitv 'r,€cpMary for a, perfect balance oi judgment in regard to the daily devel?pnient of ?u'nirs. tbi At the moment iL is unmi.'?'kablv the case that the British are in the Doldrums and dispo?d to xee Uack everywhefe just as the mjd)y infuriated sec nothiug but j.?.j. The we'?ness wil! p;??-. But it hn-s to be furiously tnken into account, for the moral of the civilian population rpa-ct? n.pon the nldier in the :1111 t!i.e =KHor keening Ms lonely vigil on tl:f high NV" ta-k c )a-).veto amrm positively, confidently, that there is no real ùCC¡i;i,()n to L: deprc:scd. I Frauk and truthful descriptir.:i of a Mack patch. as Rumania for example now pre- tents, hhould not be permitted to obsc'LU'o) MM ch.tracter of t.hc funeral situation, which ts full o! prc'nnse. Prolonged wars bave the chapafcteristic—tbevwouM not othefwise be prolonged—which yields alternate apeIL; ot t-ejoiong and lamentation. If you r&ad tha Shronicies of the Nnp-)Ieonic wars the wonder I prows that we ever won through. There Were time<a when utter defeat neemcd unes- tapable, a.nd t]je demands for the dti,,ini,sii bf that inca.pa<ble Wellington" most rea- sonable, and when Nelson wa,<; .regarded tna'nly af a great nuisa.nq,e to the Admiralty. Loo-king b.tck. our vision clarified by time Md accurate information, we realise that jhe greatest capta.iu of h'is time and the best- ??tched of the ma.ny opponents of thf ?rrea.t torsicun was to a grievous degree hampered att'd hai'a'-sed by amateur politica! tactictans tmd hopelessly misunderstood by his coun- trym-en, and that Xelsou. the super-sailor of &I1 timeo, failed during the greater part ft his life to secure the recogulLion du6 to haa. The ups and downs of the public spirit in these islands during the stormy and critical years that Napoleon was seeking to impose his rule on the world would, it set out on a chart, be wonderfully helpful to us nowaday:?. Let the facL<; be faiily faced, not a.s they are presented in one section, but in the many constituting the far-flung battlefront; We ha/ve a political crisis at home, but every one of the Allied countries has gone through the like without apparent injury. The pity i'- that ours did not mature a year earlier, since a,s the result we might have been appreciably better off. The late Government fought the war with gloves on as if it were a lawsuit, and the national patience was demonstrated in the tolerance conceded; to most namby- pamby methods gravely detrimental to the national interests. We' owe it to Mr. Lloyd George that later rather than sooner the pro- cedure of a Chancery suit was challenged where the fate of the Empire was involved. The political crisis is likely to prove the be- ginning of better times. The recurrence in an aggravated form of sabmanne piracy d'squletc more pa.rticuia.rly the shipping community. The latter :nteUi- 'entlv realises the menace to our food sup- ply. Our Navy mastered the German under- water craft in the first innings and had them Fairly held in the second. Now the new with a wider radius of. action and a longer term of endurance have temporarily estabushed ascendency over the i ur-fence. But only for a time. The matchless I ,o,!rcefulness of the British Admiralty will k:tcr be acclaimed—but only when the war is over. We venture to predict a subsidence II! L' boat, ::divitt' tu income marked ea"Iy !n thf Xew Ye.ar, ]11 .the West. twc-t.hi¡d" of th bt,st troops of (,rerma,nv are lodged, tire en'emy is uti tLt; det'en.-tive, and on the T:'en- titto and the Izouso; in Galicia, Serbia a.nd the Caucasus. He is aggressive in Rumania. Otjiy. There a.nothe;- mall nation ha.s been --truck down. An evc'it. painfully humili- atn'p to the Entente Allies and calculated to mnphasist- the claim of tne Germans that dia- L %ter (J\"(JI't-akei; every fresh Ally of the En- ti-nte. T!)f lai-ing of troops from every quaiter to overwhelm Rumania before the Russian: bsset wiLh diSicuItips of transport, coulj i.eacit the ilghting line in a.daquate Hnmber, a.tieaLs to the enicifiicv of the G-er- .man Hih Stati'. And, incidenta.ny. to the appreciation by the h'.tte!' of the necessity 'o s&rurf suppHes of grain, oil, and cattle to :'e!x've thr; economic strain in Au-sfro-Hun- gary and Germany.' Tf. as the reports sug- Rumnnta.n'? fired the granaries and dEstroyed the pla.!tt at the oil wells before retreftting, the invaders wHI have little sur- plus left nfter the needs of the occupying i ..rmies have been satisfied. The retirHnpnt of the Runronian Armies i with their n.rti!iery to bns&s 'here they will join up with Russian reinforcement' ties down snbstantisi bodies of the enemy to 1ine.s which, if weakened, are liable to be forced. And SarraH, though embarri,-sc-d by the rl?a('heTOng mu \'0. of the p'ro-'&ei'man Gre'ek King. iB v-c{ serious menace to any G-er- rr!p.') thrust k-' .d° Adriatic. G'eece "t,th€ of t eff:ti""e b1o"'t'6t'Íld, in a apace of weeks, bT-ing tf i- SUTI(I%till in Old i Gree('f'ano fin)) dip10matic action should ¡ ;"l'J-mptly:nd (.rft'ctu.aUv dispose of the dan. ger oi r'n nttack from the rear on the part of King Tine's pro-German Army. The indul- gent treatment of the husband of the Ka'ser' masterful sister Is one of the myster. i&s of the war.
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Th "secret of the Reichstag is out. On j Tuesday the Gm'man (Chancellor made the i th'st formal ar.d public proposal of peace negotiation to the Allies, (m behalf of the Coalition of the Central Powers. We are not aware, at the time of writing, what t,rms would be proposed nor do they greatly mat- tfi'. The simpJe fact is that it is impossible for the Allies to think of peace at this mo- ment. because so far they have lost the, war. Franco invaded but the most insignincajit scr.,p of the lost provinces recovered; Bel- gium almost every acre of it German by con- quc?t: Serbia, extinct; Montenegro extinct; IL.ly baulked Russia strip:pedof Poland and the Baltic Provinces; Rumania more than half conquered—these a'pe the facts of tb" moment, as the situation stands. Ber- ji;)! t-o .Bagdad, the long cherished dream of nn'TI1an Imperialists Germany master of the facts, political, territorial, economic and moral are all solid established verities. Germany can afford to talk ot peace she has attained her objectives, and it is now a question of holding them. The Allies simply cannot, except as a. beaten I eom'bil1ation. In all casas but two they have di?a?fpr in some cases overwhelming disas- ter—to ] etna's. '1" 'T'l '\11' The answer is plain. The Allies, we can ""w ah'eady, will not. listen to the oNer. Their change of Government is for the more vigorous and successful prosecution of the I war. Germa'ny expects such an answer, for h<?r own preparations for the conduct of the war in the future are gigantic, and are in- deed impelling the Allies to countp-r-exer- tM)LM of similar magnitude. What, then, H the motive of an oger the rejection of which is a foregone conclusion ? It is not so very ?dimcult to discern it. Throughout the ? e7 1 ra! Powers' domains there is much public weariness of the war. its privations, its SMi'i- nces, the b.leak ontlook for the future. With a blunt negative for the reply the political leaders of the Central Powers and their satellites can turn to their people and say :— \Vc have oSered pearf and they have re- fused it. It is therefore they and not we who are' responsible for the prolongation of the war. They are bent upon our destruc- tion henceforth we are fighting on the de- tensive, a? all t?''e world can see, for it i? we who HMt offered fo cease nghting. We must now wage the struggle to the last breath of man and horse in defence of the Fatherland. We must ngbt on or be- destroyed. The contrast between the energetic pre- parations for the continua.tioji of the waj, which are nowhere more conspicuous than in Germany itself, a.nd the public offer of peace (there have been private subterranean peace movements, as in Russia, which have beon signally frustrated) is in itself su9i- cient to indicate that the offer was made solely for some such purpose as we have in- dicated above and with no real belief in the likelihood of its a-cceptatnce. Probably the over-running of Rumania was considered to, furnish an opportune moment. The Ger- man argument would run that the Allies said that the intervention of Rumania would in- dicate who was the winner, Rumania ha<s intervened, and has been pretty well wiped out; are not the Allies satisfied now ? Of oourjM!, the Rumanian action was simply dictated by the opinion of the Rumanian Government and General Staff, which few will bo disposed to consider as an oracle to- day. But internal considerations probably prompted the offer, otherwise singularly inopportune with the Allied countries re- organising their lGovernment, and in some cases their military high command, in order to reverse the verdict so far given in the i war. There could be of co-uMe no justification at all for the Allies to make peace upon terms which could not conceivably be concluded at I this stage without a tacit admission of the enemy's mHitary superiority. We havf not yet beaten them, but we have visibly begun to do so, in the West, where two-thirds of the German military power js massed. Next year there is every reason to believe we will nt lust achieve the decisive victory which wi'l be to the wanaje of the treaiches what the Marne was to the battle in the open. Or. if not. we are prepared to go on fighting, irrespective of the cost, and achieve victory even at the cost of a ruinous financial bur- den and t.he devastation of our manhood. So !on? as that granite resolution s ?,?d there is no public evidence that it has been shaken—it is useless to talk of peace until the military situation, as it is set forth upon the map, is transformed. Mr. Asquit.h hag set forth in sonorous and imposing phrases the objects for which Brit- ain went to war. We hav-3 a-chieved none of them iridood: they have grown in number and widened in scope. Serbia. has been added to .Belgium. Rumania to Serbia., and the Venezelist Greeks to Ruma-nian. Mr. Lioyd GEorge will no doubt revise the for- mula nnJ bring it up to date, but he stajids even more forcibly than Mr. Asquith for the expression of the innexible national resolu- tion to nght the war out to its bitterest end. All that has happened lately signifies that a hard task has been made appreciably harder, for one broad path into the enemy territory has been shut and barred and barricaded. But the disaster to Rumania lessens not one whit the boding menace that overhangs th,- pnemy in the West. The Rattle of the Somme was perhaps richer in promise than attainment; for in themssh'-t?. tha capture of these positions or those are of little value save as leading up to the attainment of far greater aims—the libe- ration of France and Belgium, of which the breakmg of th& maul mass of the Crerman Army will be the outward a,nd visible sign. Thai i", atui for the future. But all that occurred in tJie West in 1916 is most gravely disquieting to the enemy's staff, and it is the recognition of that which al,-o may partly inspire the offer of terma when the en.emy is still at the zenith of his success and whilst the blows dealt- by the Allies have fallen ftf short of their mark. With an inveterate tendency to misinter- pret the sighs of the times, there will, on the other hand, be in some quarters far too great a tendency to imagine that the enemy is very near breaking point, and that hi? offer is inspired by the consciousness of that. The situation as set down on the map, which has been drawn by more than two years 6{ desperate battle, should be sufficient to destroy that dangerous delusion. A year at the least is what the enemy is still good for and there will have to be, if peace is to come within that period, some drastic change in the situation such as the Allies have so far been totally unable to accomplish. A-fter all the reverses of 1916 (though it has by no j means been a year,, of unbroken reverses on every front), the enemy is still strong enough to take on a new fresh armv exceeding a third of a million, and clear it out of the better part. of ,jtf's'ou!1h';i' gr;wely reduced in numbers and perm&nently weakened, The omcial intimation of readiness to enter into peace discussions, made by all the enemy Powers simultaneously, will inspire in those countries a temporary wave of joy amidst a' popular which is, in some cases, more de- airous of ,peace tha'n critical of the terms, The morat en'ect which it is sought to secure is the rallying in all the&e countries of every element of the nation m a struggle which henceforth can plausibly be represent&d as a war of -national defence against a relentless coalition of enemies. Probably it will be sought to extract also an admission by the Allies that they have so far been the loserfs. The enemy is welcome to any a-dmission of the sort which he can discover. It is the truth that the Allies are everywhere far from the attainment of their objectives but it is also equally undeniably the fact that their resolution to persist is in no way diminirhed, and the Somme. East/am Galicia, Gor- izia. Jutland ajK) Veraun have proved to the world the growth of their power and the be- ginning of the wane of the enemies'. 10;
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For over a year the Markets Committee of the Swansea Corporation has been carry- ing on a persistent propaganda to induce the production of fruit and vegetables on a larger scale in this locality. Leaflets have been produced and widely distributed point- ing out that scores of thousands of pounds are being annually paid for garden produce imported from a distance and arriving stale and dry, which, if grown locally, could be! marketted fresh and wholesome much:, cheaper. The land for cultivation was here, afnd the necessary labour if intelligently t directed. The splendid use made by the Parks Committee of idle land acquired at Llangyfelach for cemetery purposes was cited as an example of the benencial em- ployment of the soil that encouraged the Council to ventm'e upon a scheme of small allotments, the provision of model kitchen gardens staffed with experienced men. whose skill nnd knowledge should be at the free disposal of the ratepayers, The extension of the borough bounda.rles would bring within the reach of the Corpora- tion hundreds of acres of potentially fertile common Jaiid, now on'y grazed over by a few mountain ponies and sheep.. because of manorial and <omrnoner&' rights, m&re relics of the feudal era. Swansea aimed at being and was a pioneer in the iii<>veiiient to bring ) theea unoccupifd and wasted lands under cultivation. The war made this not only locally expedient, but, in view of the scarcity of food products, s..national necessity. It is preposterous that should be con- .fronted with a proba.ble potatoe famine when these c&mmon lands offer the nveans whereby thousands of tons of this indispensable ar- ticle can be grown. Within the last few days an "Ord'er of Council has been issued vestmg local a.u- thorities with extensive powers over these unoccupied la.nd. the i,e of which can now be compul&orily acquired, a.nd over pr!- vately ownpd lands, which can be acquired by consent of the owners, so that sma<ll ajlotments can be rented on to people prepared to give their leisure, wholly or in part, to the cultivation of gar- den produce—not fruit, but pot.ato.ps and oa.bbages. The Government, in short, has! followed where the Swansea Corporation has! led. It remai ns to be seen whether the de- partmental authorities, breaking away from red-tape traditions, will co-operate prac- tically in furnishing steam-ploughs to break up virgin soii. and implements and seed for prospective growers to ensure real results on a generous scale. The Swansea Corpora- tion. by a direct appeal to the Board of Agri- culture, is about to put the matter to the t€.st.