The Cambria Daily Leader

MINISTRY COMPLETE. I 0921- Lord Rosebery's Son Succeeds Mr. F. D, Aciand. The following appointments were officially announced last evening at 111, Dowjjing-strcet-— Mr. Neil Pr;.mro--e, M.P., to be Ender- ^•eretary to the Foreign Office, in suc- cession to Mr. Franeis D. Acland, who has become Financial Secretary to the Treasury- Mr. Cecil B. Harmsworth, M.P.. to be Under-Secretary to the Horn? Office in place. of Mr. Ellis J. Griffith, h,C"1 M.P., resigned. With these new appointments the Ministry is complete. The Hon. Noil James Primrose is the fo unger sm of Lord Rosebery. He was horn in December, lZ. and educated at Et"? and Xew Ccllfge. Oxford. He repre- sents the Wisbech division of Cambridge- (l iv;?s i oi-i -) i' Cambr i Mr. Primrose is an ?xcfll'?nt sneaker, and has the making of a great House of Commons man. ru. chief at the Foreign Office, Sir Edward Grey, is an old friend and a quondam disciple <>i Lord Rosebery. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth was born in ¡8r. He represented the Droltwich division in the 1301,-10 Parliament, and v.as returned for the Luton division at a by-election in July, 1911. Mr. Harmsworth as Parliamentary Secretary to Mr. Runeiman, has been closely identified with two great depart- ments-the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Board of Trade. His: work on behalf of our spa fisheries and our sea fishermen has been exceedingly j valuable. A business man of first-rate nbiliti^s, he is certain to prove a success- ful Minister! Mr. Harmsworth is a j brother of Lord Northcliffe and of Lord Kothermere.

CHILDREN HATE CASTOR OIL AND PILLS California Syrup of Figs" Best for; Tender Stomach, Liver, Ðowels- Tastes Delicious. Look back ail: your childhood days. Re- member the doæ" mother insisted on -castor oil or pills. Ho*' you felted them: How you fougjit against taking t-hc,.in I With our children it's different. Mothers who cling to che old form of physic simply don't reaiise whait they do. The children 5 revolt is well-Jounded Their tender little insidee are. injured by dr?i.iric purga- tives. If your child's stomach, liver and ,bowel; need cleansing. give only delicious I Califoraie. Syrup of Figs. Its action in positive, bi] t, gon Millions of mothers keep this harmless "trmt laxa- tive" handy; they know that children love to tak-e it,; ami that it never fails to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach. A teaspoonful given to-day saves a child from a bilious attack to-morrow, Ask your chemist for a bottle of California Syrup of Figs." whicin has full directions for be-hies., children of all ap-p\< and for grown-ups plainly on each h^-ttle. Beware of counterfeits sold here. See that it is made by California Fii; Pyrup CompanyCalifornia Syrup of Figs is sold by all dwrni.tJ5, ls. lid. and 1. 9d. Refuse any other kind with oon- } 'jempt. j

BREAD UP AGAIN I Another Halfpenny on the I 41b. Loaf in Swansea. I On and after Monday next broad will cost Swansea pjsople 2d. per lb., the. Swan- sea and District Master BakersJ and Millers' Association having come to the decision to charge Sd. per 41b. loaf owing to the continued advance in the price of Sour. Jbven so, Swansea is slightly better off tfcan Cardiff, the master bakers and millers of that town, meeting at the Queen's Hotel last night, having unani- ntously 4ocided to increase the price of bread to 8d. and &jd. per quartern loaf, according to quailty. This is another id. increase. In normal times. the Trice of a quartern loaf varies from 5d. to 5id. Seen after the meeting., one of the master bakers told a reporter that he thought the bakers were dealing fairly with their customers in view of the alarm- ing increase which had taken place in the price of flour. Within, the last seven or eight days flour had gene up by 5s. a sack, and whereas-jji July last ^hey were paying 25e. a sack for fir-ef- to-day they iwere called upon to pay nearly 58s. a sack.

The complimentary dinner to the = ei kT soiriierp of the "F" and "G" Companies of the 4th Welsh RegiBient. which had been ar- ranged for Boxing Day. and vCiiich had sub- <^quently to be jxratpo;;«<1, will -ii -lu proba- bility he held on Monday evening DOU at

I OFFICIAL NEWS. I REPORTS FROM ALL QUARTERS. HEAVY FIGHTING PROCEEDING IN EAST PRUSSIA. 6 1 A 2,000 PRlSJNERS TAKEN FRENCH. 11.0 p.m. There have been artillery combats in Belgium and to the north of A; ras. To the west of the road between Lille and Arras we have carried some 200 to 300 metres of the enemy's trenches. j Xear H.ebuterne, north of Albert, our lire has reached some bivouacs and con- voys. The iire of our artillery has been very effective. and in the valley of the Aisne silenced the enemy's batteries, causing an explosion of ammunition, dis- persing. workmen and putting aviators to flight. .Before Verdun we have brought down an aeroplane and made the aviators prisoners. In Alsace a German attack near fHheltz has completely failed. GERMAN. GER1fAN. AMSTERDAM, Thursday. A telegram from Berlin states the fol- lowing official statement from the German Main Headquarters was issued there to- day :— Renewed French attacks near Perthes were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. North and north-west of Massiges (north-west of St. Meneliculd) our troops yesterday attacked and penetrated three parallel lines of French trenches, ^od occupied the French main position along a front of two kilometres. All French counter-attacks, .continued during the night, were repulsed. We captured seven officers. 601 men. nine machine- guns, nine guns of small calibre, and j much war material. In the Middle Vosges fighting of minor importance between our ski troops and French Chasseurs ended favourably for, us. ) In East Prussia weak Russian attackB, against our positions south of Memel were repulsed. In Poland, north of the Vistula, there were skirmishes between small detachments of troops, On the Bzura, south of Soehaczew a Russian night attack broke down with heavy Russian losses. Our attack east of Bolimow is making progress, in spite of lieaw counter-attacks by the enemy, and the number of prisoners taken is steadily increasing- In the Carpathians for some lays past German troops have been fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Austro- Hungarian Army. Our allied armies have scored some good successes m th* difficult mountain region- RUSSIAN. PETROGRAD, Thursday. 1 An official communique issued by the Headquarters Staff-ft East Prussia says: Yesterday we made progress along both sides of the Schesiyoopa River in the Lasdener district- On the left bank of the Vistulaj! the J battle (1) the Borjrinoff—Volia—Sc-Iiid- lodska front continued with extraordinary violence, the enemy advancing in com- pact. masses in an endeavour to break through our lines. At this point, the enemy brought up in a section of 10 versts seven divisions supported by a hundred batteries, and several divisions deployed on a front of only one verst. I Our counter-attack began on Wednesday night, and was immediately followed by a series of bayonet (Vi.rges, in which we compelled the enemy to act on the defensive. Near Roxjrinoff we took two lines, of German trenches, and drove hack the enemy from Gumine. After an obstinate- struggle, our troops gained possession of the Volia-Schidiorska Estate, which the enem'v had held for two days- The neigh- bouring distillery, however, was still in the hands of the enemy on Wednesday. The battle still continues with the same fury. In the Carpathians, fighting is in I progress along the front from the Dukia Pass to Vishkoff heights. 1 c

Amsterdam, Thursdays—According to the Ber^ner Tageblatt," th death sentence on the British prisoner of war, Private Lonsdale, has teen commuted" by Ilic Imperial Military Court to 20 years'

1 ?gale. i uni.que opportuni. ty—Kirklaud'a SaJe.

I THE RED-HEADED LADY. I I I H?oM;s of Spy-Hu?i?g at! theF?o?t. I I Tht) humour of spy hunting on the I battlefield is described by an artillery officer. lie wi--ites:- Three days ago had information there was a spy in the neighbourhood of one of our batteries. Took measures,' as th.ey.say) and informed all battery com- manders that our spy was said to he a woman with flaming red head, not very common in this part of Belgium. The day ¡ after these instructions I came back about I luneli time (a time of day I am most punctual) and was told that a corporal and two men had a ladv ior me to see with a red head; went out and found she could speak nothing but Flemish; went j hack to lunch, and at the pudding stage j (hread and jam) some oni.) tapped and --zai(i, Beg pardon, sir, but there is a j corporal and two men with a lady for yon to see.' I said I knew it already and went I on eating. Three Ugly Females. I A few minutes later another tap and the same message. Thinking some one was trying to be funny at my expense, or that the corporal was tired of -wiaiitiag. I used language and said if any one else came and told me of the red-headed lakly I would make tho corporal wait all the afternoon. Finished an excellent lunch, and strolled out of the back .door to tdl 4-liem to take the prisoner to the* Assistant .)ncr to t,io Ae,; i ,-tajit Provost-Harshal—wliift was my horror to see three corporals, three files, and three j red-headed females' Each battery had caught its own. At this period the Regi- mental Sergeant-Major saluted and said in a hoarse whisper that if I wanted any more there was another in the next farm. This appalling collections of hdero- geneous females, all red-headed and all ugly, completely unmanned me, but not for long I sent the who-Loboiling off to the Provost-Marshal with a note that 1 had more arriving later. Result, a motor- orderly to beg me not to send any more, as he had already got a yard full of them and was at his wits' end to know how to feed or keep them quiet, for they were all n?hting! (Shunting is off!)"

THE BOER PROPHET. I Pretoria, Feb. 3—It is officially an- nouneed that the rebel leader Bezuiden- -hout surrendered with Kemp, as well as j the prophet Yan Rensb, whose influence was largely responsible tor the rebellion. The surrenders took place at Upiugton. It ioB expected that -Ilaritzys men will sur- render before the end of the w-k. The suxi>ender.s in Kemp's commando number 43 officers and 4S6 burghers.— Reuter. rropliet, -ai.ned Van Rensburg, the prophet." gained fame during the South African war by foretelling a few Boer successes, and when Maritz's rebellion began he predicted that the Boer Republic would be re- established.

FREE DENTAL TREATMENT fOR SOLDIERS A fund has beeqj. started for providing, I free dental attention to the ine4 of the 6th I (Reserve"* Battalion of the Welsh. Regiment [' whose defective teBfb. axa the imly impedi- ment to their being accepted for foreign service. Already sever&I suijacriptiona ?ve been recen'cd.. b?? mOTe are need ML ajid ti"13 work should make a strong appeal. Ch?qnp<s should be made payable to Ld?ut. ) Cornel J. E. Thomas, V.D. We undM-?nd (hat Sir Alfred Mond, j ??'t.? M.r? ]aw promised ?2? 1

WHO'S WHO AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD INQUIRY.

TWBT1 RELATiOIS Simi13 WITH THE COLOURS I Sergeant-Major W. J. Chapplle, R.F .A., Calcutta. fmpL ,Y. R. Chappie. R. G. Chappie, I Welsh Horse (late sergeant A.S.C. E. Chapple. 2nd Welsh (now at the front. —————  H. Chappie, I Royal Xaval I Division. I?pector W. E. C.happle of the Swansea Corporation Waterworks Department, j who nase served many yRars in the Naw and AuxUiai-y Forcea. has over twen I relatives with the Colours. We give the portraits of his four sons, three of whom I are in tho Army and the other in the Nav y. '1' -1 111,

FAlNTiNG SCHOLARS. Serious Allegations Regard- ing a Llaeiefiy School. Serious statements were made at tne meeting of the Llaneliy Intermediate School Managers regarding the lack of accommodation at the Assembly Hall of the school. Mr. T. H. Bevan said that when the scholars assembled in the hall in the mornings many cases of pupils fainting on account of overcrowding had been re- ported. A- scheme of ext ent ion of the hall had been placed before the county auth- orities for quite a long time, and the matter had been shunted merely because the architect could not fiud time to deal with the proposal. The Headmaster (Mr. Wm. Lewis) said that it was a scandal that they fchould he neglected in. the way they were by the County Education Authority. I do not know whether our represctntatives ou that authority are aliTB or not," added Mr. Lewis. Rev. J. R. Rees suggested that the County Authority should be written to agaiu. The Headmaster: We have done that bofore, and it is not enough. Mr. Morlcy Joseph said that they should point out to the committee that the lack of accommodation in the hall was dangerous to the health of the chii-j dran. It was resolved that the managers inti-j mate the County Authority that they would appoint an architect with a view of having the work proceeded with at once, and would undertake to bear one- third of t-h-e cost. FOR WOMEN WHO BUFFER WITH: CORNS, 4, hint as to a eer.aia method of cure will b& appreciated. First, V, ilftaer the com is hard or toft, remove the pressure of the shoe, If b3twcen the toee. -separate the toes TOth a piece of ootton wool. Apply Rich's Waukwell Corn Cure according to direc-j tions, %nd you 'n?t only get immediate re- lief, but a permanent curE. Try it to-<lay. Prices la. ??d. a-nd 3?. 9d. (postage 1. extra), From R10h. The C?miat, 30, Hi??tr?t. Swansea.. Foot Shampoo Powders 2d. each make a deligluful foot-bath for tired feet. Consult Hr. Kich cu all Foot Ailment?. Advice

I A BOCUS V.C. HERS. I Prosaic End to a Feting Movement. At Bow-street Police Court yesterday, Lancelot Dickinson Chapman. 31, a bom- bardier, was charged with being a de- serter from the UBth Battery of the Royal^ield Artillery. Chief-Inspector Gough. of Scotland Yard, said that the prisoner was only charged at present as a deserter, but for j I some time past he had been presenting himself to be the holder of the Victoria Gross, the Order of Leopold, and the Legioa of Honour. Lpon tnoso represen- tations it was alleged that he had ob- tained and attempted to obtain various emus of money. As a V.C. hero he had taken part in a music-hall tableau, his j photograph had appeared in illustrated new spapers and had been eshioited in. a shop window in Camberwell-road, where he was lodging- When arrested hQ made I tho following statement: Tiie truth is I am not entitled to the, j Victoria Cross. The one I have been wearing I bought out of a curiosity shop for 30s. about a fortnight ago. I also bought the other medals in a similar way at different times. I have never been in France, and the statement' made by me to the effect that I was presented with the Victoria Cross by King George in France is untrue." An application for the money found on the prisoner was made by a man in court, who said that it had been borrowed from him and his &on. Inspector Gough mentioned that the applicant was the father of a girl whom the prisoner had promised to marry. He 1 had been living at the applicant's house J and had obtained £2 10s. from him and it $5 from Iv-s son. A letter had been 60nt I J to the Mayor' ci Camberwell suggesting t that the prisoner should be feted in the borough, and several persons had. iute-r- ( ested themselves in a movement for giv- ( ing him a great reception. ( The Magistrate said that he could not ( make any order at present. Prisoner wa-3 j remanded.

< I Fourteen more Belgian refugees have I J arriv'?da,tManeHy,andha.Ye taken up 1 their residence at WMt?n, Felinfoel, Mr. 1 Evan Thomas having Get apart a portion of his mansion lor the purpose.

I STRANDED ABROAD. SWANSEA PASTOR RELATES HIS EXPERIENCES IN SWITZERLAND. 1 WHEN WAR BROKE CUT. It is just five years to-day since I came to Swansea," remarked the Rev. H. C. Mander at the annual meeting of the Mount Pleasant Church on Thursday evening. He thanked all for their kind- ness to him. and referred appreciatively to the peacefulness of church life ik- Mount Pleasant. He was able to report for the year's progress. The membership stood at something like 850, and the income was only about JCfi less than the year before. He thanked Miss Mabel Bowen for her voluntary service, week by week, at the prayer meeting; Mr. Austin for decorating the church motto, and the roll of honour, which contains the names of 60 to 70 men. The ladies also who contributed towards parcels for their soldier friends at Christ- mas time. He had received a whole bundle of letters, which showed that their -bret h- ren greatly appreciated the gritjts. Mr. blander a-lso called srnccial atten- tion to the February part of the. Swansea Free Church Magazine, which is a Mount Pleasant number, containing a history of the church by the Rev. James Owen. Mr. Mander then gave a lucid account of his experiences when held up in Swit- zerland at the beginnine: of the war. They loft London on July 31st. At Calais and every station on the route there were military nicvem.e??., but it was not till they reached Beff'ort that the position f,iev re?-tched Beffo-,t that the They were told that the Germans had cut the line three miles ahead, and that they couldn't go any farther. Thouqh war had not then been officially declared, J an act of v.br had been committed. They could not go back, for the French had commandeered all the railways for the troops. But a train was made irp of car- riages bolonvin- tc) the Swiss Railway Co. and so they proceeded to Basle. They were cut off from the world, with nothing but Germ-i-n newspapers. These stated thait there was a revolution in Paris, and there was a circumstantial ac- count of the sinking of the British Fleet off South Shield's! LateT on the British Government sent £ 14,000 to Switzerland for stranded English of that came to Lucerne. The return journey was undertaken contrary to advice, which foretold that they might be regarded as spies and shot under martial law. But it was wonder- fully smoothed by the good offices of a I Roman Catholic priest—a Professor of Civil Law in a Paris University. When Mr. Mander introduced himself as a Pro- testant Baptist mini-srer, the re- plied, Then I'll shake hands with you. for the English and the Frenehare (Applause.) Mr, Slander had many amus- ing stories to tell of how the priest cleared the way for the pattv- and at the end, in and )t -.the, flid, in on ?i, Stintia,v ni,orning, they a.llfzf?oqi Jolly d th,,t, san. For a

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LANDORE DEACON'S DEATH. I The death took plare on Thursday of I Mr. William Lewis, Bridge House, Caer- "Atelia, Landore, after two months' ill- aess. Seventy-one years of age, Mr. Lewis clad been for upwards of 34 years a ileacou, and for a lapg. period treasurer if the Caersalem Baptist Chapel. He was mc of the founders of the Treboeth Co- operative Society, and he took a great in- terest in friendly society work. He leaves a widow and an adopted laughter, the wife of the Rev. D. Hughes, Pontypridd. Only a fortnight ago a irother (Mr. Rhys Lewis, a deacon at Morriston) was buried, and the only ur- riviug brother is now ex-Alder mail Howell Lewis, of Morristoa.

SWANSEA EXPANSION. I PDHTARDAWE WAICHIHG THE II FLANKING! I MOVEMENT." CLERGYMAN AND CINEMA.  The fortnightly meting of tbe Pentad' dawe Council T*a? ])dd on Thursday,; lr. Morgan Davies presiding. An application was made by Mr. D. E. Thomas, of the Gaiety Cinema, CwrJl, gorse, for permission to give a few sacred; concerts on Sunday nights in aid üf, Lord Rothschild's Fand. Mr. J. O. Harrie said the council had; I. refused these applications on previous occasions. d lio failed trA The R?v. Eran Davios said he failed to. 6'?' vhy tb<?T ehonid be pr?ndic< 'i' against concerts ag long as they were foci philanthropy. They should not stuV I to th.e same old rule as they were prdu grossing. II Only a Farce." Mr. J. G. Harries moored that the re. quest be granted for one Sunday. The proposal found no seconder, and the Rev. Evan Davies thereupon moved that the request bo granted for three. Sundays for the sak e, ot the. object. One me liber said that the ccmeertsi were only a faro, whilst Mr. cj. G., Harries said the only idea was moneyi making. The Bev. Evan Davies objected lot such remark?, because the concerts would be above board. Mr Thomas was willing; for the Council to immipate two mem- bers or others to check the takings. They were only quibbling over the. matter* What was the difference between ai artist singing at St. Peter's Church ril one of the Chapels, and then gOlIJg to one of the halls to sing for charity? The rev. gentleman's proposition waf carried. Keeping an Eye on Swansea. The Clerk (Mr. Wyndham. Lewis) attention to the inquiry being h~ld in Swansea in regard to the borough ex-, tension, and lie would like to know" whether the council would like to as is the Chairman or himself to attend the purpose of keeping a watchful eye on their neighbour. As it was known ill moist otf them, the Corporation proposed joining the Pnntardawe Council bourn dary at Glais, and lie (the Clerk) was oj opinion that it was only a flanking movement oil the part of Swansea, to eni velop the important township of C'lydaclj some day. Mr. j. M. Davies moved fhat tliq Chairman, the Clerk, and the Surveyoj should attend alternately at the inquiry, Mr. H. J. Powell seconded, and th4 resolution was carried. Much Sickness About. Dr. W. J. Lewie-, the medical officer oj health, reported that during Decembei nothing of interest from a public healtlj point of view occurred. The fiicknesi rate and death rate which had been verj low since early summer, ha.d, as was he expected, iD4?reaspd coapK?raMy, bu? not abnormally. Influenza was very prevalent in Ih. latter half ox the month. Scarlet fcTpq measles, mumps, and ?o?pdng '?m? were very prevalent. A number of rig fants' schools were closed until after th4 Christmas holidays, and in some i:* stances exteniorus had been made. Scan let fever seemed to be definitely declining now. Gwaun-cae-Gurwen Owellin". borne time was taken up in considering the report of Mr. A. E. Edmunds (sanJ tary inspector) concerning a. number a houses in the Cae-Gurwen district whic were -unfit for habitation on ajccotuat 4 dampness and dilapidations. Several own^s appeared before the Council ii regard to their propreties, and asked ty Council what w as required by way oi repairs. ?'??r consideraMe dtscussion? c1.osi order.5,vere. made in soma oasos where tiA premises were too bad. whilst in othej cases f he, owners were given a few month time to place their premises in a pTcp4 state of repair.

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3Tear Sddnik in tho Valley of the Labutch River, and in the direction of i TTjak TO have advanced, and took 200 prisoners, and ten mitrailleuses. in thB Foukholka and Beskid passes during the last few days our troops have  offered a stout resistance, and accepted about, ten bayoi?t S?hts. which they I suppiemeiued with counter attacks. I On 1 ebruary 3rd, we decided to with- draw our troops from these passes to positions previously prepared. The attack- I ing forces of the ene-my operating here are very strong. f Attempts by the enemy to advance in [ the Vishkoff Pass, in the vicinity of Taietaroff have been repelled with heavy I losses to him. I AUSTRIAN. I AMSTERDAM, Thursday. The battles in the Carpathians continue with undiminished violence. In the i western front section hostile attacks were I repulsed. Our troops are progressing in the middle of the wooded mountains. They succeeded i also yesterday in gaining some ,,i-ound and in capturing soma hundreds of j! prisoners.-Reut-or. t