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OUR LONDON LETTER.
OUR LONDON LETTER. (From Our Special Correspondent,] London. Since Mr. Churchill made his two speeches OR the Army Estimates, there has been a sometfnat fierce wrangle in the newspapers and elsewhere as to whether the Government has kept or broken its pledge to abolish con- scription. It is quite clear that many writers and talkers understand neither the military position of to-day nor the true nature of the War Secretary's scheme. There was. of course, no promise to abandon con- scription before peace was signed, and cer- tainly not while lighting of an informal but very extensive kind continued over a large area of Europe. Nor is it natural that con- scripts should be disbanded wholesale until it is seen what duties and what length of service may fail upon the Armies of Occupa- tion. To meet the exigencies of the future Mr. Churchill proposes four different armies, which may be labelled as follows:—(1st), the great Army of the war, to disappear gradu- ally in the course of March and April; (2nd), the Army of Occupation; (3rd), a Voluntary Army on a short-term basis; (4th), a Voluntary Army on a permanent basis. VANISHING CONSCRIPTION. What is the most noticeable feature of this Churchill plan Surely it is the con- spicuous reduction of conscription towards vanishing' point. Numbers three and four consist of soldiers enlisting of their own free will. Number one will have no existence in May. There is only number two left. Here and here alone will any conscripts be found, and they will be the youngest men with the shortest service, taken from the number one army. They are not likely to remain long, but how long depends partly on the behaviour of the Germans and the Russians, and partly on the rate of enlistment in the new voluntary Armies. Some of the men in the latter forces will take the places of the Occupation men, although all cannot be thms used, as a portion of the recruits will go to India, Egypt, and other lands, to relieve overseas garrisons. Finally, it must be remembered that no recruits are now ob- tained by conscription. In other words, con- scription is already abolished, but conscripts are not. The method is finished, but the youngest men previously taken stay on until the peace terms, or the League of Nations, or the voluntarily enlisted men—or all three developments in combination—allow them to quit the Rhine and the other outposts of the Armies of Deliverance. INFLUENZA AND" THE JEWS. We have two very interesting contribu- tions to our knowledge of influenza. The first is the immunity from the disease which the Jews are reported to enjoy; the second is that the sheep m Westmorland are the latest victims of the sickness. The evidence con- cerning the immunity of Jews comes from places as far apart as Swansea and the East- End of London. In Swansea not a single Jew has died of the disease; in the East- End. where the cases have been ru-aty and virulent and the areas affected are densely populated, it has been very rare for fatal results to ensue. Their immunity is attri- buted bv the Jews themselves to the fact that they eat fresh, cr Kosher, meat, which is soaked in salt water for a couple of hours, and is, therefore, free from germs. It has long been a popular belief that the Jews owe their immunity from cancer to the circum- stance that they do not eat pig. In regard to the epidemic among the sheep of West- morland, it is reported that when first attacked the animal becomes dull and list- less, with a slight cough and a high tem- perature. Later the cough becomes worse, and breathing more difficult, until the victim collap.-es from heart failure. THE MEMBERS' FRIEND. Could anything be more admirable than the institution by Mr. Winston Churchill, as Secretary of State for War, of what is to be the Members' Friend, or, to describe him more accurately, the Soldiers' Friend? We have already seen the institution of the Officers' Friend. Briefly, the idea is this. Demobilisation, pay, pensions, and the various matters relating thereto, have raised a host of questions, and all sorts and condi- tions of-by-no-means unintelligent people find themselves beset by difficulties and doubts when they seek to understand the complexities of official language. What do they do in such circumstances? They write to their Member of Parliament. He may, indeed probably does, know no more of the subject than his correspondents. What, therefore, has Mr. Churchill done? In order to expedite the solution of these inquiries he has transformed his Parliamentary Secre- tary, Mr. MacCallum Scott, into the Mem- bers' Friend. Mr. Scott will, therefore, be in attendance twice a week in the War Secretary's private room at the House of Commons, attended by an officer from the War Office, specially iietailed for the pur- pose. Members of Parliament with letters from their constituents will lay their troubles and perplexities before these two gentlemen, whereby their path to the know- ledge they de-ire should be made easier, and the doubts of their correspondents more quickly solved. Altogether a very admir- .%le move on the part of Mr. Churchill Therefore, if perplexed, don't get vexed but write to your M.P. £ 7,000 PROFIT. It may not seem much-a profit of < £ 7,00C in these days. But that is what the Govern- ment netted in the sale of its first national munition factory. This cost tl33,000 tc build, and the Government, or rather the nation, has got £ 140,000 for it. Not a bad ooginning. Indeed, a rather hopeful one in vifew of the terrible tales we have read of Army stores going for next-to-nothing. If the Government can do a. little more pro- fiteering in this direction, I, for one, shall not complain, for it will be good evidence that these factoriet were erected on busi- ness-like lines at business-like figures. The Ministry of Munitions has blundered, of course, as everyone does in the great game of war, but on the whole its successes far I outweigh its failures. As Mr. F. G. Kella- way, the Deputy Minister for the Depart- ment, has pointed out, if the Ministry had not been set up the industries of the country would to-dav be in the hands of the Junkers of the German Empire-in other words, Germany would have defeated UB. The Department, through its elaborate system of costing alone, has saved the country the truly colossal sum of three hundred millions sterling on its contracts. To-day its surplus stores and plant are being disposed of on an ordered plan under the system originated by -Mr. Andrew Weir, of Glasgow, now Lord Inverforth. And, Lord Inverforth knows what he is about. THE MissrxG MEN. A general feeling of relief will be caused" by the announcement that there is RO reason to suppose that any of our men Who were prisoners in Germany are still beinc kept in durance vile in that country. Par- ticular care has been taken that there are no prisoners in the mines. On the other hand, some of the men who have been dis- covered want to remain in the country.- This is not so surprising as at first sight may appear. Before the armistice there had been cases of our prisoners who had. been employed on farms marrying the daughters of the house. Of a truth, the German woman is a curious stndy. Cu, lectively, she will kick, beat, and otherwise" maltreat a wounded and helpless enemy. Singly, she is not averse to marrying him if the general commanding the district does not  her way. not happen to be looking her wa y
I OTHER MEN'SMINÐS... 1 I…
I OTHER MEN'SMINÐS. I OTHER MEN S MINDS. There is still much to do to bring th conditions in which the majority of the people OfIthese islands work and live intc harmony with their own desires, and with genuinely improved standards of heitth, education and comfort and the necessary onportunities for wholesome recreation.— The King. S I THINGS WE CAN DO WITHOUT.  We must get rid of national touchiness I :md chauvinistic braggadocio.—Sir Arthui I Crosfield. I AN ANCIENT RACE.  In considering the origin of the Soot9 1 I feel it is nec<?sary to go back to palæolithic t days.-Prof. Keith. I THOSE BIJOU RESIDENCES. I I live in a house where, when you want to I put your trousers on in the morning you have to open the whitlow.—Mr. Jack Jones, M.P. I A HOLY CITY. II j [The League of Nations gives promise of a t new age and makes Paris one of the holy Icities.-Rev. Arthur T. Guttery. I THE GOOD OLD TIMES. I I I remember when as a piece-worker I was I paid 18s. for making by hand nine articles of a drawing-room suite.—Capt. James O'Grady, M.P. il I THE GREATEST PATRIOT. I The patriotism of the man who has no home worth fighting for is, to my mind, much greater than the patriotism of the man who has a decent home.—Mr. H. R. Aldridge. I ARE BISHOPS USEFUL. I I We have to consider whether the episco- I pacy can be defended on grounds of prac- tical utility.Canfn Masterman. I THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. I More and more thoughtful men begin to see that the League, of Nations is not a dreant of dreamers, but a serious endeavour of responsible representatives of the great democratic countries so to reconstruct the national fabric of the world as to prevent a recurrence of any such catastrophes as those under which we have been groaning.— Mr. Balfour. I IMPARTIALITY. 1 What we have to cultivate in our study of the Bible is that same attitude of impar- tiality as the man of science seeks to culti- vate when he is dealing with nature.—Dr. A. E. Garvie. I CONSCRIPTION. I I If France cannot guarantee the abolition I I of?conscrtption we must take care it "oes JI from England.—Dr. Clifford. < I THOSE LAND TAXES. I r People will not spend all their brains and I I money in building houses while those hor- rible land taxes are in existence.—Lord Desborough. I HAPPY PROSPECT. I In a few months we may fiiid .es I back to the small pre-war professional navy I and army, and possibly even smaller than 1 that.—Vice-Admiral Sir S. R. Fremantle. A QUESTION OF TIME. I There will be trouble wherever the Yugo- slavs are for a long time, for they have to be civilised and made into a nation.—Sir Gilbert Parker. ALMOST ENOUGH. I So far as we are concerned six hours in a I dark coal mine. seems to be almost I enough for one aay.-Rev. F. H. Gilling- ham. I BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. I While the Churches prepare people for mansions above, they are also anxious that people should have decent cottages here.— Rev. George Hooper. TRAVELLING BY SEAPLANE. I Vv nen one lOOKS ax a map or tne WOrIQ. and sees the navigable riveys, ionc, sees the immense possibilities of seaplane travelling in the future.—Major-General Seely. A CONSOLATION. I One of the greatest consolations for the losses of war is the way in which it has brought peoples together.—Lord Robert Cecil. DUTY OF THE CHURCHES. I Let the churches unite in promoting ] spirituality, to the lack of which I attribute I much of the unrest.—Mr. G. H. Roberts. I THE CATHOLIC PRINCIPLE. r We in England are great offenders in losing sight of the value of the catholic principle in Christianity, and the war has in that sense been a just punishment for our siiis.-Lord Hugh Cecil. WOMEN-S WORK. I If there is not enough work to go round, I I am afraid the women who have been accus- tomed to laundry work must go back to it, II and similarly in regard to domestic service. I —Sir R. Home. r BIGGEST GERMAN MISTAKE. j The submarine campaign was the most stupid thing the enemy ever did.—Admiral Sturdee. > TO PREVENT STRIKES. I The sudden strike mast stop and ma-, chinery be Set up for preventing such dis- I locations of industry.—Mr. Alexander Wilkie, M.P.. 'TWAS EVER THUS. I I You were not prepared for the' war: nor were we, and I don't believe we shall be prepared for the next.-Admhal Sims. I COMMONS IN REPLICA. I If you transferred the average sergeants* mess or officers' mess to the House of Com- mons you would have a very fair replica of the House of Commons. -Col onel Josiah Wedgwood, M.P. i ATTACK FROM THE AIR. There is not much risk of this. country being attacked at the present m^Eflent from the air, but he would be a rash, man who | said there was no risk of the country being j attacked in the f dlt-ti*rc.-Majbi-Getib-fAl Seely.
I THINGS THOUGHTFUL. I
I THINGS THOUGHTFUL. I There are, there always will be, puzzles ) that we cannot tol v(!. -Archdeacon Wilber- force. Strew human hfe with flowers! Search every hour for the sunshine! Exalt your i Kouls! Widen the sympathies of your hearts' Make joy real now to those you j love !— Richard Jeffuries. j We have employments assigned to us for j every circumstance in life. When we arc j alone, we have our thoughts t.o watch; in ] the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.—Hannah Moore. The conflict of patience is such that the vanquished is better than the vanqulsher.- Euripides. WITHIN BOUNDS. To go beyond the hounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the butn&n sou l is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. So far from greatness consisting in going beyoird its limits, it really consists in keeping within it.-Pac,cal. Krtowledge by suffering entereth. And life is perfected in death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. THE GOOD NEWS. Naturalists tell us that if a wasp dis- covers a deposit of honey or other food, he turns about.. flies swiftly to his colony, and imparts the news to his compamons. who immediately fly in haste to partake of tit feast discovered for them. Shall we whe have feasted upon the Golden Rule's honey be less humane than the wasp? Then; is joy unspeakable in practising the Golden Rule. The sore ne<-ds of humanity should prevent us from concealing such joy-coated honey. They who crawl in the dark think they travel faster than those who walk in the light. I HUMAN FRAILTY. I Weak and irresolute is man; The purpose of to-day. Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well hent and smart the spring. Vice seems already slain. But passion rudely snaps the hiring, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright iiiteut Finds out his weaker part. Virtue engages his assent. But pleasure wins his heart. 'Tis here the folly of the wise Through all his art we view. And while. his tongue the charge denies, His conscience owns it true. Bound on a voyage of awful length, And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his owro But oars alone can ne'er prevail I To reach the distant coast. The breath of heaven must swell the sail, } Or all the toil is lost. Cowper. j; He that would pass the latter part of his days with honour and decency must, when ho is young, consider that he shall one day be old, and remember, when he is old, that he once was you iig.- -Joliii,on. Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. I —Gay. THE CHOICE. At the gate of life stand two angels. One promises you success in life without exer- tion, the other offers you the prize if you work for it. You can take your choice. You may win a cheap, rapid. and easy success by lax methods and smart-mindedness; but if you desire the true prize, you will only find it in the way of labour.-W. Boyd- Carpenter. A good many sins would stay buried better if we worried less about their tomb- stones. Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us iu the evening.—W. E. Gladstone. I THE OUTSTANDING MAN. When the tempest was beating down furiously on a little ship in the Mediter- ranean, and the Roman soldiers felt their hearts failing them for fear, "Paul stood forth," and spoke words which were cheer- ing because well adapted for that occasion of peculiar peril. It is not always "blow- ing great' guns," and many of the social situations of life are quiet scenes of ordinary experience; yet al ways there is real need for the outstanding man of faith and courage, I. whose moral plane is higher than the aver- age, whose vision of truth is- clearer, whose judgment is better balanced, whose IIervs are steadier, and whose devotion and conse- cration to the cause of the Eternal God are more nearly absolute. Leadership is the perpetual need of church and community; nor are the best leaders men of brag or bluster, but sensible. if ardent, souls, who fear nothing in this world because their hold is so strong on the next world. Man without patience is the lamp with- out oil; pride in a rage is a bad counsellor. —A. de Musset. The mind is like a mill that cannot stop I working: give it something .to grind and it will grind that. If it has nothing to grind, [ it grinds 011 ct; but it is itself it grinds and wears away.—Martin Luther. I have lived to know that the secret of happinest3 is never to allow your energies to stagnate.—Adam Clarke. I FORMING HABITS. I I We should remember in forming habits that our minds and hearts are the meeting ground of strange conflicts; that good and bad in us are making opposite suggestions; that each is striving for the mastery; and that sometimes we arc so self-deluded that the bad may seem to be the good. At any hour the beginnings of a vicious habit, per- haps through the suggestion of someone else or by our own carelessness, indifference, or faults, may find their way into our hearts. The price we must pay for continu- ally proving and possessing the good is eternal vigilance. Often a sort of pig- headednegs in self-assertion, in self-manage- ment, sets up its ownership. That is one reason ■ \fchy discipline—submitting ourselves in^some ways to the will of others—is good for us all. big and little, young and old. It is the best and often the only means of I breaking down the wilfulness that is likely to enter any one of us at any moment. — Do not refuse the Employment which the hour brings you for one more ambitious.— Emerson.
- - I ' FUTURE OF HELIGOLAND.
I FUTURE OF HELIGOLAND. Mr. Mattfi&ster asked the First Lord of •"the Admiralty in the House of Commons whether Heligoland was still in possession of the German armed forces and protected J by unsurrendered portious of the German Navy, and whether steps were being taken J to ensure that the island will be retroceded to Great Britain, and the menace to our peaceful commerce in the North Sea re- inoved. I Dr Macnamara replied that the answer | J to the first part of the question was in the | affirmative. The future status of Heligo- land was under consideration at the Peace | Conference. Its possession by Germany II constitutes a valuable adjunct to the exer- [ cise of sea power by that country.
I STRENGTH OF THE R.A.F.
I STRENGTH OF THE R.A.F. A White Paper on the Air Estimates Vote gives the maximum number of men on the establishment of the Royal Air Force at home and abroad, exclusive of those serving in India, as 150,000. This number is in process of reduction to 79,570, which figure represents the total number of officers and other ranks to be re- tained during the period of occupation. tain(-, d diirin! The total of 150,000 is the maximum number of personnel of the R.A.F. esti- mated to be serving on any day during the year covered by the estimate, but the lesser number of 79.570 should, under the present scheme of demobilisation, be reached at an early date.
II I CHEAPER EGGS.
I CHEAPER EGGS. The Food Controller's order fixing the price of new-laid eggs at 5d. is suspended f from March 17. Fresh eggs are now being retailed I throughout the country at prices varying from 3d. tc, 4d. each," Mr. Roberts says, "and there is no reason why these prices should not be further reduced. Traders, both wholesale and retail, will be expected to charge proper prices, and so obviate the necessity for reimposing the Eggs (Prices) I Order with a schedule of greatly reduced maximum prices.
TOBACCO BY THE MILE.I
TOBACCO BY THE MILE. I Long ago, when "thin twist" tobacco could be bought for 3d. an ounce, it was the practice in some districts to gauge half an ounce of twist by seeing if it would nearly encircle the neck. Roughly, an ounce and a- half of thin twist measures a yard, and a man, smoking three ounces a week, will turn about a hundred yards into smoke in a year. Half a million smokers will burn sufficient quantity to encircle the globe, with more thsn three thousand miles to spare. The total length of all the cigarettes smoked by Britishers in the course of a year is almost, incomputable. A total of some 4,400,000,000 were supplied to the Army alone during the war, and these, if placed end to end, would have encircled the globe eight times. Their total weight would be close on 5,000 tons, and their value, at retail prices, would be, roughly, £ 6,000,000.
. RENT RESTRICTION BILL. I
RENT RESTRICTION BILL. I In Committee in the House of Commons, Mt Rowlands introduced an ameridement to raise the litnit to which the Bill applied in London from houses of £ 55 to houses of £ 75 ren'tal. After discussion, Mr. Mnnro, Secretary for Scotland, suggested £70 for London, k60 for Scotland, and C52 in the provinces. The Government's concession was embodied in the Bill. It was agreed that the operation of the Bill should be extended to Lady Day, 1921.
! STATE PEACE CELEBRATION.,
STATE PEACE CELEBRATION. The method of the celebration of the con- clusion of peace has been considere d by the Government, Mr. Bonar Lrnv informed the House of Commons, but an announcement on the subject now would be premature. I Local authorities will he given ample t;me to make adequate preparations.
IOUT-OF-WORK PAY.I
I OUT-OF-WORK PAY. I Mr. Wardle said in Parliament on Wed- nesday the approximate amount paid in un- employment donation for the week ending March 8 was £ 1,200,000, of which £ 620,000 was paid to men and boys and C580,000 to women and girls.
NO ALIEN SKIPPERS.I
NO ALIEN SKIPPERS. I Dr. Macnamara informs Brigadier General Croft in Parliamentary Tapers that the Admiralty have not authorised any alien captains to be employed in command of British ships, but it is possible tliilt some have been engaged by ship-owners. As con- fidential instructions are not now issued, there is no check on such employment, ex- cept that the employment of enemy auciis is not permitted. A regulation has, however, been prepared by the Board of Trade and the Admiralty which will forbid the employment (except I with the sanction of either of these depart- ments) of anyone as master of a British4 ship unless he is a natural-born British subjdet, and the son of parents who were at the time of his birth British subjects by birth I or naturalisation This regulation will be issued vie ryshortty under the Defence of tho I Realm Act. t
I FLYING CANDIDATES TEST.…
I FLYING CANDIDATES TEST. I One of the most remarkable things the Air Force doctors have discovered is that the best pilots are those who know what fear is, though they may not show it. Fear affects the blood pressure and circulation, two most important things in a pilot, who must have a ifrst-class circulation to with- stand the sudden changes of temperature and to be able to breathe at the great heights to which his aeroplane rises. The prospective pilot must be an extremely rapid thinker, and must be able to do the right thing almost in a flash. The R.A.F. medical board lias a special test to find out whether a man training for a pilot is suitable or not. He has in front of him an electric key and an electric lamp. The doctor switches on the light, and the flying candi- date must press the key in front of him as Jsoofl as he sees the light. A special appara- tus registers to a thousandth of a second the interval between the lighting of the lamn and the pressing of the key, showing how fast the prospective candidate can think and act.
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Wandsworth Guardians have expressed their sympathy with the relatives of a patient who died in their infirmary and was interred by their Undertaker. The two women relatives of the dead man had to travel to Morden in the hearse, their feet resting on the coffin. To remind the citizens of the cowardly character of German warfare, Westminst-er authorities intend to place identification tablets on the property that was damaged I in the city by enemy bombs. Hamilton Edward Pawley, solicitor, was r found guilty at the Old Bailey on the J charge of bigamy, and sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour.
"T : . -2 j EPITOME OF M?VS.
"T  -2 j EPITOME OF M?VS. Olmly nine electors voted at Easteote- Middlesex, County Council election. Losses equal to a rate of nearly 61rl. in the X have been incurred on East Ham tramways. Since the armistice 52,579' officers and 1,947,879 men have been discharged and de- mobilised. 0 A dog suffering from rabies was found and destroyed at Cardiff, but it had fought with other dogs. When Belgian refugees left Sheffield for home Belgian wives of British soldiers gave a send-off to British wives of Belgians. Mrs. Sarah Ann Bartlctt has died at Grimsby at the age of 101. During the demolition of a wall at Biclc- irigton, Devon, a nest containing sixteen young rats was detroyed. Thanks to the falling in of leasehold pro- perties. Weymouth Town Council has been able to reduce the rates by Is. Id. Whilst being towed into Dover Harbour a German submarine foundered. Wearing apparel may soon be cheaper- From April 1 the issue price for wool. tops,, and noils are to be reduced on the average by 7l per cent. A Herne Hill advertisement for a ser- vant offers "jolly social evenings." A tramway wire fell at Dudley and elec- trocuted a horse which was drawing a load of coal. Lord Cadogan has accepted the master- ship of the Suffolk Hunt on a guarantee of .£800 a year. Arrangements are being made to provide Bournemouth with a pleasure service of sea- planes this summer. Mr. Pringle, Board of Trade inspector, recommends that all railway guards and brakesmen should receive instruction and training in the use of brakes 'from selcet(d instructors. Summer-time will be in force in the Isle of Man from March 30 to September 29. A demobilised lieutenant, giving evidence at the Old Bailey, said he had not been able to find work, and added: "I had more money when in the Army." Counsel: (also demobilised): "Oh, well; we all had! Permission having been given bv the military authorities, a number of Y.M.C.A. women workers have left for Cologne. The next meeting of the Trade Union Congress, which was recently postponed* will be held at Glasgow next September. For having sold whisky a bove the maxi- jnum price, William Frost, licensee of the White Hart, Grays, was fined t20. Local authorities will be empowered to incur expenditure on peace celebrations, ac- cording to an official statement made to the clerk to the Tottenham District Council. Per having sold lib. of Spanish onions at leI. above the maximum allowed, Thoms Archer, High-road. was fined £10 at Willes- don. < £ 2,500, representing loss and damage, with an indemnity of £935, have been paid in respect of the occupation by the mili- tary of the Royal Dublin Society's premises at BalLsbridge. West Coast trawlers arc being released from active service, and it is reported that a very considerable increase in the quantity and cheapening in the price of fish may1, be exrieoted this vear. Golborne. Lancashire, is presenting X6 to each prisoner of war who returns to thr- township. Cower (near Swansea) Guardians are about to consider the salary of their nredical Officer, who was engaged twenty-nine yean- -ago at a. salary of 1110, iiid has only re- ceived an advance of 15. While digging: in fcis garden a resident of Kathcriiie-road, Manor Park, found au. •urexploded shell. Kingston (Surrey) Advisory Committees propo-sed minimum wages for servants over I eighteen are: General and under-housemaid, cook, and housekeeper, all* £ 30; parlour- :naid. £2{j; house-parlourmaid and house- maid, £ 22. Thomas William Heathwood, a soldier, and William Reece, a fitter, were scntenceti to twelve months' imprisonment in the second division at the Old Bailey for steal- ing an Army motor-car. Fred WaMoat. a motor engineer, of Plumstead, charged wittt. receiving the car, was acquitted. Since the armiftice = £ 7,000,000 worth of timber has been purchased by the Govern- ment to ensure supplies for reconstruction. In memory of Lieut. Frederick Ilugb Geoffrey Trumble, R.N., who was killed in the attack on Zeebrngge, £ 2,050 has been given by his mother to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, toward the cost of a new house for the Whitby lifeboat, to be dedicated in his honour. Mr. E. C. Cunningham, C.B., is ap- pointed deputy to Sir Stephenson Kent,. Controller of Civil Demobilisation and Re- settlement. There are eight sick or wounded ex- prisoners of war still in hospital in Ger- many, and five others are attending thorn,. Mr. Churchill states. In a case at Westminster a man said that while strap-hanging in an over-crowded District train, a I)ilrsc, containing £ 46 in notes was stolen from him.
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I CLUB WINDOW.11
I CLUB WINDOW. 11 When Mr." Lloyd George waa Minister of Munitions, his -famous "beauty chorus" of young lady assistants attracted the favour- able attention of goung men clerks working opposite them in «Whitehall. These made various overtures by waving of handker- chiefs, and so forth, which were dis- regarded. Eventually some of them pro- duced pocket mirrors, with which they threw the sun's rays into the young ladies' faces, and on to their work. Formal com- plaint was thereupon made to Mr. Lloyd George, who addressed a minute to the head of the department where the offenders were employed, inquiring, "Who are these un- mannerly youths who have been casting re- flections on my young ladies?" Before the war Admiral Wemyse resided for some time at his villa at Cannes, and one day he was showing the beauties of the place to a man who had recently toured gypt-and couldn't forget about it. For everything shown him the man had some comparison to draw that included the Pyramids or the Nile. "But isn't this really a beautiful sunset?" demanded Wemvss at last. "Ugh! You should see the gun set in the East." "It would be interesting," commented Wemyss dryly. "It only sets in the west here." M. Clemenceau is a witty and brilliant conversationalist, and is never at a loss for an apt retort. At a social function one day one of the male guests began a remark with the words, "i bet she will," when Clemen- ceau laughingly interposed: "Sir, he said, "don't ever bet that she will do any- thing. You can never tell what a woman will do." "You interrupted me too soon, monsieur," replied the other. "I was going to say that I would bet that she would do the unexpected." "Don't do it," cautioned Clemenceau. "Even that is not a safe bet." w Mr. Bonar Law was a Glasgow iron merchant before taking up politics, and es- tablished his reputation at Westminster in a single speech. One of his most remark- able faculties is his gift for memorising. This applies particularly to figures, and he has confounded many an opponent by cor- recting him, from memory, on some vital point of statistics. He can store more fi-u-rer, up in his brain than the average man could Write in a notebook. The Duke of Westminster: has seen some hot fighting during the past few years. "He is the coolest man in action I have ever seen," said one of his officers. The Duke has a habit of dropping into tight corners. One day he was hydroplaning off Cowes. Suddenly his machine fell into the sea. Much encumbered by his waterproof overalls, he came to the surface,, waved his hand—in token of farewell, it seemed—and then disappeared. By a big stroke of luck someone managed to get out and grab him in tho nick of time; and by means of arti- ficial respiration he was saved for further bouts with death. Another narrow shave he experienced occurred in Germany. H-3 was out shooting wild boars. At a criti- cal moment he slipped, and an infuriated boar charged him. In some marvelous way the Duke contrived to recover his gun and to put a bullet into the beast before it put its tusks into him. One of the things he does better than most people is playing polar. He is one of the finest polo players living, and he would be better, according to one critic, "if he did not spend the day before a big match in a balloon and the text morning in reckless driving. The Lord Chancellor is technically "the I Keeper of the King's Conscience," advising his Majesty in regard to signing all State documents. The Lord Chancellor is also the custodian of the Great Seal which figures on these documents. The Seal is kept in an elaborate purse made of the finest purple velvet, heavily embroidered in ■, coloured silks with the Arms of England- the lion and the unicorn, surmounted by the In. perial crown. Below is worked in silk a motto in Latin, meaning. "For God and My Country." The Lord Chancellor takes pre- cedence of every temporal lord and anyone who is not a member of the Royal Family, and of all bishops, except the Archbishop of Canterbury. Sir Charles Parsons, the President of the British Association, is the inventor of the turbine propeller. He went from Cambridge in 1877 to the famous Armstrong firm. From the time he entered he was determined to construct a marine engine which would eclirse all previous efforts. with the old paddle propeller. The result of his unceas- ing pertinacity was the turbine propeller, which was evolved amid many discourage- ments. Its first application was to the Tur- binia. the little boat which created such a sensation by its speed at the Jubilee Naval Review in 1897 that the Admiralty commis- sioned the then Mr. Parsons to make a replica of it. The replica was the Viper destroyer, which came to a tragic end He replaced. her by another, the Cobra, which attained the speed of thirty-five knots, and firmly established the turbine as the pro- peller of. the future. w A good story is told concerning a wed- ding-gift by Mr. Carnegie to a trusted domestic who had been some years in his employ. Mr. Carnegie, wishing to show his appreciation of her services, asked her what she would like for a wedding present, add- ing that she could have anything in reason. After consulting with her prospective hus- band, the woman approachted Mr. Carnegie, and said she had decided what she wanted, but doubted whether she would get it. "Go ahead," said' the multi-millionaire; "I told you to ask for whatever you wished, in reason." "Well, then, Mr. Carnegie," came the unexpected request, "will you give me your income for one hour?" Report has it that it took two secretaries the better part of a day to figure it out, but that eventually the bride received for a wedding present the sum of 1-320. < Lord Halsbury is ninety-three, but he is as full of energy as many a man half his age. He is fond of telling an incident that occurred to him some years ago. He has still the face of a fighter, and in his younger days his sturdy figure led many to think that fighting was his profession. On one occasion he discovered a crowd round the door of the hotel in which he was staying during the hearing of a case in a Northern town, and great was his delight when he overheard^ one of the natives remark to a companioh: "Eh, but he's a fine man I'd like to sec him fecht!" His lordship had been taken for a well-known pugilist of the day. Sir Edward Poynter, the late President of the Royal Academy, always takes expert ad- vice on any technical construction contained in "his pictures, because of a bad mistake he made when painting his first success, "Israel in Egypt." An edgiflteer, who happened to see a rough sketch of the picture, proved to %im, on scientific prideiple-, that the number M slaveo represented as dragging a largo < mass of stone- cctuld not possibly move it.. "You must double the number of your slaves," lie said to thr6 artist.