Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder

RAIL WAY MEN'S THREAT j DRASTIC RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT SWANSEA AND ELSEWHERE. Drastic resolutions were passed on Sun- day at a large special meeting of the Swansea -No. 1 Branch of the rational "Union of Railwaymen, held to consider methods of meeting the increased cost oi living. The resolution passed demanded that the general secretary shall immediately sum- mon a special executive meeting to press the national programme, with the follow- ing alterations: (1) An immediate advance ot 10s. per week, exclusive of the present war bonus; (2) each day shall stand by itself; (3) five nights' work shall count as a week and (1) night duty shall be from € p.m. to 8 a.m. The meeting decided to point out that they had previously called for a move in these directions, and they warned the officials and E.C. t-hat it their wishes were not met they would be compelled to take drastic action. A reply by September 6th was demanded. In this connection the following speech by Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., at Brighton on Sunday is si,-niiicaiil. Mr. Thomas sa id: We have in the rail- way world reached a very dangerous stage, Never within the experience of our society I was there such a united and determined demand for an improvement in the men's conditions as now. I am giving no secret j away when-1 say that when our executive committee meet next week they will be. j faced with such a demand that they never had before, hilt there is a right way and a wrong way of doing things. (Hear, hear.) While practically every branch, prac-1 tically every member out of our 300,1)00, is, not only feeling the pressure, and is not only discontented and anxious for some- thing to be done, but vthere is inside our movement, and, in- deed, cleverly engineered, an- other movement to take the law into their own hands. Shortly, the demand is that unless the executive committee do a certain thing at a certain time. the law will be taken into the men's own hands, and they will do all manner of things themselves. (Hear, hear.) Very well, if that is the view of anyone here, I say they had no right to be inside the organisation. Your admission into Trade Unions means that you subordinate your individual ends to the common good. If you introduce anarchy, disaster must inevitably follow. Your executive com- liiitt-o iiiu,t control, and it is because I believe that that committee can pilot the ship that I beg you to give them a chance of dealing with the situation." While all his sympathy, he went on, was with the men, whose claim he believed to be irresistible, the power of the strike was one that must be used and not abused; it must not be prostituted even in normal times, and to talk lightly and glibly of using it at this mom"nt of the nation's history would not only be folly, but mad- ness, and the part of whoever uttered such a threat. (Cheers.) A resolution was passed declaring that the amount of the war bonus granted did not compensate the men for the import- 'II(,O of their labours, and urging the. executive of the National Union of Hail- way men to again press the railway com-1 pa iiil-s for the 5s. a week asked for in the! original demand. -ø

SWANSEA'S UNPAID RATES. Reasons Given by 119 Defaulters. A procession came before the Swansea Bench on Friday, when 119 names of per- c.Ds, summoned for failing to pay their rates, were called. A variety of excuses were giveu by the defendants. One woman met the demand as to why t?he had i-ot paid with the naive remark: I've never paid any rates, sir." Theie were a number of excuses. con- eluding with. With the colours, sir." One woman announced that her husband and three Bons Were in the Army, and she Qiilv alLnuaco fro iu the My main supports are in the Army, eir. and I have eleven ehildren and a delicate husband at home." was another woman's reason tor non-payment. Several widows were amongst the per- sons tl at came before the Bench who j pleaded that rheir boys had gone, Another woman said she was British borr, but her husband, an Austrian, had been interned. "So I can't pay, sir," she added. The Chairman (Mr. H. If. Chapman) told them all that they had to make orders, and that if they went to Mr. Griffiths the collector, he would! emely make it easy for them to pay by instalments. But," he said. don't take advantage of the fact that your men are away. Some of you, I know, are as well off as eyer ever. -J

WATER FETCHER'S PERILS. Sergt.-Major Paish, of the 4th Welsh, i J a letter to his wife, dated August 12th, states: "Before you get this you will! have seen the casualty list of the regi-j ment, and a pretty bad one it lB. but they have done very well. Captain Howard is killed. They started shelling us as soon as we landed, but did not hit any of the regiment. We went straight up there, right into the thick of it. and have been i-t it ever since. I trust we shall be back to-day for rest, as the regiment has had quite enough at a time. France is not to be compared with this. Sometimes it; is pimply hell let loose. The worst thing is the snipers in the trees. They pick men off when they least expect it, and especially when they go to the well to fetch water. t wonder what the Pembroke people think of the regiment when they hear the account of their doings. It will come as a surprise to those people who used to run us down." Writing again on August 14th, he states: "We have had a good few casua lties since I write before. Captain Lowless is all right. He is in command of the lwttalion, the Colonel having gone to the base for a rest, being regularly ex- hausted."

PRETTY SWANSEA WEDDING. At Ebenezer Chapel, Swansea, on Tues- day morning the marriage was quietly solemnised of Mr. Tlioe. Mills, of the firlIl of Bowen and Evans, Swansea, eldest eon of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mills, Manselton, and Miss Margaret Devonald, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11. II. Devonald, Mansel- ton. The officiating ministers were the Revs. Penar Griffiths and A. W. Wardle. The bride, who was charmingly attired in a travelling costume of saxe blue with hat en suite, was given away by her father, and was attended by Miss Jessie Phillips, of Liverpool, as bridesmaid. Gunner J. H. Mills, R.F.A. carried out the duties of best man. The happy couple, who were the re- cipients of a large number of beautiful presents, left for North Wales after the ceremony amid the felicitations of numerous friends.

SPANIARD'S PAINFUL MISHAP. A Spaniard named Lagajos was the vic- tim of a curious accident on Thursday on Neath-road, Swansea. It appears that Lagajos, in company with another man, was driving along Neath-road in a trap drawn by a pony. Suddenly the wheel caught in tho tram- line, and Lagajos was pitched out of the trap. In falling his hand was caught between the spokes of the wheel, and his finger was torn off. He was at once conveyed to the Swanks" Hospital, and detaiik(ta Utffe. j,

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TINPLATES FOR EUROPE. Agreement come to with United States. I am in a position to state, on excellent authority (writes our London correspon- dent) that an agreement has been come to between the British and United States Governments in regard to the export of tinplates to neutral countries, and that a proclamation to this effect will be issued in the next few days. It is understood that this will set forth the terms of the arrangement and the methods by which the regulations for | licenses lo export will be relaxed. It was in regard to this matter that a deputation from the trade unions con- cerned and the Welsh Tinplate Em- ployers' Association waited upon the Board of Trade a few day? ago..

SOLDIER HONOURED BY FELLOW WORKMEN. A large number of the members of the Worcester Branch of the British Steel Smelters' Association met at the.! Parish Hal!, Morriston, to honour on: of thei- members. Private W. j Reed. Caemawr, who recently returned wounded from the front. Mr. Benjamin Rees presided. | Pte. W. Reed, who is only IP p'ar8 of age, answered the call in August, joining the 2nd Welsh, and left for the front in November. He was badly wounded at Richbourg on May 18th whilst bomb- throwing. receiving injuries to his left I arm, side and leg, and losing his left eye. He returned to Morriston a month ago, and has since been at Cardiff. Of the 18 members of the Worcester mills. who had left to serve with the Colours, Pte. W. Reed is the ?rct to re- l turn. and in recognition of the services which he -has rendered to his country, he was presented by his co-members with a beautiful watch, Bmtabty inscribed. The presentation was made by Mr. Thos. Evans, one of the oldest work- men, who spoke in eulogistic, terms of the high patriotic spirit displayed by the recipient. Similar references were made by Messrs. John Philips (Treforfab), Dd. j Davies, Enoch Thomas, Jones (mechanic), Tom Isaac, W. R. Williams, and Tom Morgans. The recipient suitably re- sponded. During the evening a most enjoyable musical programme was gone through, io which the following contributed :—Piano- forte solo. Miss Doris Evans; violin solo, Mr. Ivor Shadrach; recitation, Mr. John Shadrach; songs. Messrs. Dan Thomas and Joseph Jones. Miss Annie Watts ably accompanied. The secretarial duties were carried out by Mr. Enoch Evans.

GRETNA TRAIN DISASTER. The pleading diet in the trial of the three lailwaymen against whom a charge is preferred in connection with the rail- way disaster at Gretna on May 22nd, took place on Saturday at Dumfries. The accused men are George Illsley Latham Meaken, signalman, Manwellj Arms Hotel, Springfield; George Wood Hutchinson, fireman, Carlisle; and James Tinsley, signalman, Gretna. The charge against them is that, by breaches of duty they caused the collision, and did thus kill Henry Herbert Ford, engineer, Cam- buslang; Samue l Stephen Dyer, railway saloon attendant, Lorne-road, London; James Caw ford Bonnar, lieutenant, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Carnsmore, Helensburgh; Francis Wm. Scott, engine driver, Etterby-road, Car- lisle, and others. Sheriff Campion, who presided, asked the accused to pled, and Mr. J. M. Hain- ing, solicitor, Dumfries, who represented the men, intimated that they tendered a plea of not guilty. It was stated that the trial will take place at the High Court at Edinburgh on Tuesday, the lltli instant. The accused then left the court, heing continued on bail. There are 32 witnesses for the pro- secution, and it is expected that the trial will last two days.

GRIEVANCE AT TREBOETH. A great deal of dissatisfaction seems to be prevalent amongst a section of the Treboeth inhabitants over their water supply, which has been denied them, so they allege, without any warning, by order of the Swansea Rural Council. It appears, so far as our representative has been able to glean from some of the parties concerned, that although the main runs through the district, yet there are about 15 or 18 houses that have not been connected, and these houses, up to this week, have been drawing their supply of water from the tap in Llangyfelach-road which they say has been the means of serving the district for upwards of 40 years. The inhabitants of the district went to the expense of making a small reservoir higher up in one of the fields, from which this water is derived.

IS IT A DOG? Doubts as to whether an animal was a canine or belonged to the feline race, were raised in an amusing incident at Swansea Police Court on Friday. A lady was summoned for keeping a dog without a license, and tho following dia- logue took place: Defendant: I did not think it was neces- eary to take out a license as the dog is no bigger tin: II a cat. Mr. Jenkin Jones: Can lie bite?—No. he can't. Neither can he run. I have to (a?t'v him when he goes out. Mr. Joircs :A?re'you sure he'fsn?t S-'PntH —Qh, heja a doj^all risht. (!-uer.t -J

LINER TORPEDOED. f HESPERIAN SUNK: MANY LIVES I LOST. The Allan liner Hesperian, which was torpedoed on Saturday night, off the Irish coast, sank early on Monday morn- ing after keeping afloat for about 33 hours. Loss of life has to lie recorded. On Monday night the following statement was issued by the Allan Line at Livei-pool: We regret that the latest returns leave us with six second cabin and six third class passengers and 13 of the crew Ull- accounted for. The company are at! present refraining from uublishing any j names owing to the possibility of a mis- take. In addition the body of a woman, a cabin passenger, has been landed at Qveenstown. This makes the death roll 26, American comment is subdued. Citizens of the United States are somewhat stupe- fied by the sudden breaking of the Berlin promise of last week that no passenger liner would be sunk without warning, but there is evidence of a strong feeling that 1 the limit of patience has been reached. How the Liner Sank. I The Hesperian was outward bound from Liverpool for Montreal and was torpedoed by a German submarine on Saturday night about 8.30 o'clock. Captain Maine, with great skill and coolness, had tho 314 passengers and the great majority of the crew of 200 hastily put into the boats. Rockets were sent up and "S.O.S." signals sent out. The passengers and crew were in th", open boats for a couple of hours, and were then picked up and landed at Queenstown by tho rescuing' boats 011 Sunday morning. The captain, some officers, and crew re- mained aboard the Hesperian. An attempt was made to tow her, into harbour, and a number of firemen were sent out to work the fires. It failed, how- ever. A sailing ship was also torpedoed about the same time as the Hesperian, so that any doubt as to the agents of destruction is removed The German Government, it may be re- called. gav" an undertaking to America that passenger liners would be warned. and those on board safely removed before being d est roared. That decision, according to Count Bernstorff. was arrived at bv Germanv previous to the loss of the Arabic three weeks ago. An extraordinary incident is related by a soldier who was a passenger on the liner, and who was blind. Ho was thrown into the water and struck out manfully to save himself, when suddenly, after he had been swimming for some time. he found that his sight had been completely restored. The man was so astonished and overjoyed that while still in the water he kept shouting out to those near him that he had regained his sight. He swam for I about 500 yards be fore hr. was picked up and brought sa fcIv to Queenstown.

NO WARNING GIVEN. I Passengers Rescued from Sea after an I Hour and a Quarter. It was a fine starlight night at the time of the attack. Immediately- after the boat- swain had detected the submarine on the starboard how and called to the officer a torpedo struck the ship forward of the engine-room. Two ships came to the rescue and the passengers were quickly trans- ferred. Many when landed at Queenstown were almost without, clothing. The people in the ship numbered 600:— Passengers 350 I Crew 250 Mr. A. W. Hamilton, a first-class pas- senger, said that no warning whatever was given by the submarine. I was on the saloon deck at 8.30 p.m.! on Saturday nig.h t when the boat was tor- pedoed, said Nr. H. T. Jowett, of Chel- I tenhamr It ?a'a calm night, dark but starlight. Suddenly the boatswain cried, Submarine on the starboard bow.' Simul- taneously the ship was torpedoed..1 got in a boat with about fifty others. The boat took the water safely, but it seemed to make a lot of water. Why I could not say, and two of the ship's crew began bailing it out. The women behaved very well. We rescued three people from the water-two men and a woman, Miss Ueirl, who was swimming for fifteen minutes with no life- belt on and hampered with a big coat. We were about two hours in the boat before we were rescued. There was no appreci- able panic on hoard the Hesperian when she was struck." Mr. T. H. Brockington, of Birmingham. and Yeral other passengers, had a narrow escape. The blocks of the boat fouled as it was being lowered into the water," said Mr. Brockington. I freed my side, but the man at the other side lost his hold and the boat slid down at one end throwing all into the water. I was swimming for an hour and a quarter before I was picked up. There was about thirty in the boat, Ibut all were saved. Mr. Ronald Whiteway, of London, who was going to Canada with his wife, who is a native of New York, said: Without any warning something vstruck the ship with immense force and was followed by a oolumn of water being thrown into the air. We clung to the ship's rail to prevent ourselves being washed away. We put on lifebelts and had no difficulty in getting into a boat with about forty-five others, and rowed away from the ship. There was no scream- ing and very little sign of panic. We were excellently treated on the rescuing ship which brought us to Queens- town." One ot the most pathetic figures among the rescued was little Ivy Turner, aged about two year- She was naked when .'picked up and had to be supplied with a complete outfit of clothes. A Canadian ■soldier acted as temporary guardian of the child until her mother was found. Liverpool.—Mr. W. J. Dott, manager of the Allan Line, said on Sunday:— I do not think there were any Ameri- cans on board. Our passenger clerk, whom I specially summoned, told me this afternoon, that so far as he was aware there were no American citizens on board." The Hesperian left Liverpool last Fri- day afternoon. Among the passengers, it is stated, were an unusually large number of children. The commander, Captain W. S. Main, is one of the best known in Liverpool. He has been with the Allan Line for many years.

IMPORTANT INSURANCE POINT. j The National Health Insurance Com- mission (Wales) call attention to the fact that the period of grace for the redemp- tion of arrears of contributions for the year to July, 1915, ends on the 3Jd of October, 1915, and insured persons desir- ing to avoid penalties for such arrears should stamp arrears cards before that date. The number of penalty arrears outstanding against an insured person should be shown in his insurance books and any insured person whoso insurance book shows him to be in arrears should receive information from his approved society as to the manner of redeeming the arrears. Insured persons who have not received such notice or whose insurance books have not been return by their j society should at once write to the society on the subject.

j ILLNESS. MftS. Jones, of Clydach, has received a War Office communication stating that her husband, Dr. John Jones, is lying ill in France. t)t-?y(?r-? f? ??!t?t\Ttqr 1A France ,?im:Q May last. — j f'I f

IN FRANCE TO-DAY. I WHAT THE WAR MEANS TO I CIVILIANS. Just in front. of the farm there ran a wooden fence. This fence had been loopholed and banked with earth, and was now held by a platoon of infantry. Trenches ran to the right and left in con- tinuation of the fence, and were manned by the remaining platoons of the com- pany. For two days now the enemy had attacked the farm, and all through the past night bullets had come smack-smack against the walls, live heavy hailstones. It was a fair-sized farm built round a yard, three sides grain lofts and cattle sheds and the remaining side a dwelling- place. The company commander, the com- pany sergeant-major, the stretcher-bearers, and others who were attached to Com- pany Headquarters were standing about in the yard. One or two of the men had their coats off and were shaving and wash- ing in buckets of water. As there had been no firing since dawn, and the enemy had evidently withdrawn after their un- successful attack during the night, Evans and I left our platoons and came into the farm. Never shall I forget the sight as I opened the front door and looked into the kitchen. The small stone-flagged room was filled with civilians. These were evi- dently peasants from outlying cottages who had left their homes when the fight- ing began and flocked to the farm as a central place of refuge. At a wooden table sat a party of four women, two. with children. One woman was weep- ing bitterly. The others were trying to console here. All were drinking trom bowls of soup. The farmer's wife was stirring a fresh pot of soup over the stove. She was a fine-looking woman, with proud, sad eyes. Seeing Evans and me standing at the door, she beckoned to us to come (in, and gave us each a cup of soup. Be- side the stove sat an old, old man, his head resting against his hand, staring fixedly before him. Sometimes he moaned gently. He sat like this all the day, refusing to talk to anybody, .or to eat anything, or to be com- forted. The farmer's wife told us that the day before a shell had hit his cottage and killed his horse. He was the village carrier. The horse was perhaps as old as himself—as horse's years are measured —still it had been his companion and means of livelihood, and now it was taken from him. He could not understand it all-why the shell had come to wreck his home and kill his horse. He just sat there moaning and staring before him. We turned away. Neither we nor the farmer's wife could do anything. But with the weeping woman at the table it might be different. The f lr,r g wife thought we. being British, omcers, could do something. She brought the woman up to us and she told us her tale. Her husband, it seemed, had been hit by a bullet while working in his field. He now lay out there wounded. She could not say she was sure if he was dead, but could we go and get him in. They had fired at her when she tried to go out to him. It was terrible to feel he was still lying there. We asked where the field was and then looked at each other helplessly. It lav in no man's land, between ours and the German line:4- Perhaps at night, but for the rest of the day, no—we could do nothing. While we were drinking our soup two more refugees came in: a broken- looking middle-aged peasant, with red- rimmed eyes and thin shambling legs, and bis wife. He was clinging round his wife's neck, tears pouring from the red-rimmed eyes. He, too, like the old peasant by the stove, was speechless, but his wife told us that the Germans had taken him and made him march in front of them for three days. She repeated the words trois jours," her voice shaking with passion. The farmer's wife set the couple at the table and gave them soup from the pot. I won- Visred that she too did not join in the general weeping; but she went quietly and sadly about her work, saying little, giving food and drink to the afflicted people who had come to her kitchen, tending her pots and pans and fire. She asked no questions about the enemy, where they were or when we should drive them from the farm. She showed no signs of the night of terror she must have passed as the fight raged about her house. It was as though she stood for the spirit of France, proud to suffer for her country, confident in the prowess of her men, and patient and undoubting that they would succeed. Outside the farm I found a party of men burying one of the company who had been killed in the night. They had wrapped him in his coat, and were digging a rough grave by the roadside. One of the men was at work on a wooden cross made of two bits of board from the lid of a ration tin. He had scrawled R.I.P. and the date in large letters, and was labor- iously tracing out the dead man's name and number. The village where I was to get the provisions lay about half a mile away along an open, desolate road. All along the road men lay entrenched. The word had gone round that the enemy had withdrawn, and most of the men were sleeping beside their rifles. Some of the inhabitants of the village were coming back after the attack, and I found a tiny store open where I could get the things the farmer's wife required. On my way back I passed a wine shop, which was crowded with peasants, all talking and drinking coffee and little glasses of rum. I wondered what they thought of it all, and imagined they were too bewildered to have any opinions. On all their faces were evident signs of satisfaction at being able to return to the village. They thought that the boches" were by now probably running hard back to Germany, and all would be over in a few days. As I stood in the doorway, three civilian -yoliths approached, two of them support- ing a third between them. The lad in the middle looked white and scarcely able to stand. I went up to see if I could do any- thing. The two with him told me they had found the boy lying in a field; he had been hit in five places by shrapnel. They thought he must have been lying there unattended for three days. The boy him- self watched me with dumb, pain-ridden eyes. Very weakly and slowly he raised his hand to his mouth and pointed to his tongue, which was black and swollen. Soif," he whispered. Of course, he had had no water all the time. I made my way back to the farm with o t all the fighting sickness in my heart. Not all the fighting nor the strain of war had affected me as the sight of those suffering, helpless people whose ground we were using for our battle- field. That night we said good-bye to the farmer's wife and pushed on beyond the farm We were all happy to feel we were leaving her behind the security of our lines. As she stood at the door and watched us go there was still the sam? look in her eyes as when we came—a look of sad- ness, resignation, and infinite courage.— Platoon Commander in the West minster Gazette." L

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A SWANSEA MAN I CHARGED. ♦ FALSE PRETENCES CASE AT NEATH II FAILS. I Harry Shearman, 5, Brunswick-place, Swansea, trading as the Porget-Me-Not Photographic Company," was at in-eatli on Monday charged with attempting to obtaiii money by false pretences. Mrs. Catherine llowells spoke to ac- cused calling at her house, and offering to enlarge a photo free of charge. She accepted the offer, and later gave him the order for a frame at 15s. 6d. When the framed photo was brought she was lioc satisfied with the frame, alleging that it was not as represented in the sample. Accused wanted a cash payment, and olie would not purchase it, but was willing to take it on an instalment system. Acv.ised took the photo away, and did not i-t!t,iL-ii the original uutil a few days later. In reply to Mr. Nash, witness i-a -i she I came to the conclusion that accused vas trying to obtain money by false pry^nices after she had seen the police constable The frame was nothing like th, l'aLJple from which she made the eelecti >n. I Annie Thomas and Gwendoline Wil- liams, both of Llantwit-road, and Posina Chick, a tvidow, of Leonard-stre-t, "YC evidence of transactions wi.- ii The picture, framed, was produced in court, and Frank Michael Hugj^s, picture framer, valued the finished article at 2s. 6d. For a properly made frame of a similar class he would charge 7s. 6d. Giving evidence. Chief Constable Big. gins said the cost of an enlargement to the accused was 5d., and the retail price Is. The Bench dismissed the case.

MUMBLES SOLDIER'S ESCAPE. I Private George Saunders, of the 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment, who re- cently visited his home at William-street. Mumbles, when he had a very hearty re- ception, told a Cambria Daily LeadpT" correspondent that prior to joining that unit, he was a private in the 41st Welsh Regiment, and out in India for seven years during the Boer War. He went out to France on November 22nd last, and had been in three engagements. He was one of a party of 15 out one day doing special work, when a shell burs" over Them. Twelve of the party were killed, and he. along with two others, were buried in the debris. He fortunately received no injuries, but a slight shock. Ho was kept in the hospital for one month. In reply to a question about ammunition, etc.. Private Saunders stated that. they had nothing to complain about now. There was plenty of everything. Although not wounded himself, he saw terrible slaughter. The German soldiers are a smart lot of men, especially the Prussian Guards, the last being specially engaged against the British troops. He was of the opinion that the war would be over by next Christmas.

SWANSEA SCHOLARSHIPS. I The following students of the Swansea Evening Continuation Schools have been awarded free scholarships tenable at the College evening classes :— Brynhyfryd: Brinlev G. Davies, Wm. O.Davies, Edgar Harris. Dyfatty: C. Parkes, W. D. Richards, C. S. Price. Dynevor Place: W. Goodison, C. White, L. Crayford, H. Beese, W. E. Abraham, Trevor Lloyd. J. H. Davies, C. Hayward, F. Nichols, II. Taylor, W. C. Knapman, Ivor Jones, J. O. Morgans, J. H. Sanders, D. C. Price, Haydn Davies. Danygraig: Alfred Davies, J. Gooding. Hafod: Thos. R. Hughes, Alfred Mas- den, Sidney Mayne, Benj. Phillips, Chas. R. Stone. Municipal Secondary School: G. H. Evans, S. G. Evans, W. T. John, E. A. Merchant, J. Prater, B. Richards, G. Thomas, T. Williams. Pentrepoetli: Stanley Clatworthy, Geo. H. Davies, Thomas Griffiths,' John J. Knoyle, Stanley Merriiield, Dd. W. Thomas. Trinity Place: Ceridwen Jenkins, Mar- garet Longden, Emily Pickering, Ireue Thomas, Eleanor Williams. Day Scholarships. Scholarships tenable in the day classeq of the College have been awarded as fol- lows :— Senior scholarships.—John Stanley Davies, Harold Jones, Clifford Hopkins, all of Municipal Secondary School (boys). Junior scholarships.—Carl Olsson, Ivor Davies. Malcolm Lynn, Trevor M. R. Williams, Abe Gabe, all of Municipal Secondary School (boys). Thomas L. Simms, college evening classes. Borough Engineer scholarship.—Charles Hamlyn Harden, Swansea Grammar School.

MILITARY HORSES BOLT. I An exciting scene was witnessed iu Pembroke Dock on Monday, when three horses attached to an A.S.C. wagon rushed through the streets without a driver. A man in charge had a narrow escape, being knocked down, the wagon passing over him without the wheels touching him. Tho heavy load of rolls of wire rope, wood. etc., was sent flying into the street, and the animals dashed along Busli-street at a rare pace. They turned the corner into Charlton-place without mishap, and were eventually brought to a standstill at the bottom of Tregennis Hill.

CALL" ACCEPTED. I The Rev. D. Eurof Walters, M.A. B.D., late representative of the British and Foreign Bible Society in South Wales, has accepted the iinaniinoiis "call" ex- tended to him by the Henrietta-street Welsh Congregational Church. Swansea. ,and cOlllmelfls on his ministry this it

COMEDIAN'S LOVE TRAGEDY. Jilted by Actress, He Commits Suicider It was explained at the inquest held on Monday with respect to the death 01 John Hamilton, the Scottish comedian, who committed suicide by shooting him- self on Eelbrook Common, Fulham, that he had been jilted by an actress with whom he had been living. The following letter to a friend in Glasgow was foun4 in Hamilton's clothes:— You have probably heard of the mis- fortune that has happened to me. Miss Lindsay has left me and married an American. As you know, we have lived together as man and wife for ten years now. When I first met her I was earn- ing ,,£10 a week, and had built a house for £ 1,500. All this I threw up fcr her. In another unposted letter, Hamilton, who had recently been touring with his own company in a musical sketch entitled Washing House Key/' had written" I, have loved to distraction. Why has sktl gone and linked herself up with a man she knew nothing about?" Mrs. Jeannie Hamilton said she had been separated from her husband. Sho knew the actress with whom he had been living had left him, and when he returned to her about ten days ago he was very; depressed. The jury returned a verdict of "SuicidN whilst, temporarily insane."

IN THE UNDERWORLD OF SWANSEA. Mr. J. W. Jones, who presided over the Swansea Bench on Tuesday, gave a grave warning to the lower class habituea of the Strand with regard to their general cond uct. The case before the court was that in which Rose Young (28), described as an unfortunate, was charged with being riotous in her conduct on the Strand on the previous night. P.C. (93) Reynolds said that, after eleven o'clock on Monday night, be saw: Young surrounded by a crowd of men. She was using disgusting language. Supt. Roberts said the woman had beeoi before the court four times; twice thic year for riotous cond uct. The Chief Con-, stable had received several complaint* from the more respectable inhabitants of the Strand with regard to the behaviour of tin? woman and her friends. These complaints had been of a very seriona nature, and Captain Thomas would be glad if the Bench would take the noce. sary steps to put it down. Mr. J. W. Jones, addressing Young, said her offence was of too serious rA nature to be overlooked. OSaaew of thfe kind could not on any account be put up with. As a warning to herself and to the other women of her class, she would be sent to prison for a month.

PANTYFFYN ON SOLDIER HONOURED. Private W. Burgess. attached to the No. 1 Ambulance Train of the British Expeditionary Force, on his arrival home at Pantyffynon, after thirteen montlis" service, was given » cordial welcome on Saturday night, when a concert in his honour was held at the Dvnevor Arms Hotel, Pantyffynon. Mr. J. Harries, J.P. (Irlwyn), presided. On behalf of his friends, Mr. W. Williams, Pantyffynon, presented the hero of the evening with a silver cigarette case, a silver match-box, and a purse of money. In the course of a well-phrased speech in reply. Private Burgess alluded to some of his exciting experiences. He had on one occasion a very narrow escape, a "Jack Johnson** falling within a few yards of where he and six comrades stood. Out of the seven he was the only one picked up alive, and h-j was in hospital for nine weeks. With that exception, however, ho had coma through unscathed. Songs were rendered by Messrs Jamet Hollow, Ben Morgan, Thos. John, Ben Jones, Jack John, and Ben Reed, and speeches were delivered by Messrs. J. B. Davies and J. Williams.

ALL CREEDS UNITED. Speaking at chairman at a lecture :it the Congregational Church, Llandrindod Wells, on Monday night, M. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., said 11(\ had never wavered in his opinion that they would conquer the enemy in the end. Fine stal wart young fellows were rushing to the flag of their own free will in spirit of self-sacrifice, and that was a spirit which could never be defeated. (Cheers). Although he was in a place of worship belonging to a different communion than his own, he felt no restraint. If the war had done nothing else, it had at least united men of all creeds. Narrow sec- tarianism was one of the greatest enemies Christianity had, and if there ever was a time when it should disappear from their midst it was now when there was this great conflict between Christian ideals on the one side and brutal material paganism on the other. Mr. O'Connor went on to pay a high tribute to their French and Rfissiiin Allies, and added that he had never spent a pleasanter holiday than that which he had spent in his present de- lightful surroundings. (Cheers).

NEW 'PHONES WILL COST MORE. According to a prominent London Poat Qfficc official. it has been decided, in ac- cordance with the economy policy, that during the war no new subscribers can be accepted for Post Office telephones unless they are prepared to pay a proportion (which will vary) cf the cost of installa- tion. The alteration has not yet come into operation in Swansea, the district man- ager having had no instructions on the matter. In London and the large towns where linking up a new subscriber involves no great addition to existing lines, the initial charge, it-is stated, will be £ 1 as a mini- mnm. It may go up to £ 50 or more. Thia does not involve any increase in tbq annual demand to the subscriber. i