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Our Note Book. ?.M.A. and the Act— 'Die-Hards' j 'Die-Hards' I New Campaig n-fovement i Which is Foredoomed to Failure I Tory Press and the Doctors -An Unwarranted Suggestion  -Miss Sylvia Pankhurst at i Swansea The extremists of the British Medical ¡ "Association are predicting" great '?ings''a?arosultcf the new cam- ??:gu which they haH inaugurated fgainst the Insurance Act. But if they ??.gine seriously that the present Movement is likely to be attended with fireax- suceess from their point of view, they will find bitter disappointment Waiting them. Already fifty per cent. f the doctors throughout the kingdom ave either joined the panels or sigui- li.-c'(l their willingness to accept service I 't'lider the Act. It is true that certain j ilory journals, which ha to been en- Saged for months past in a campaign of j Misrepresentation with the deliberate Obic-et of rendering the National Insur- ance Scheme unworkable, are en- deavouring to make out that the doctors ^nm posing the panels consist of the blind, the halt and the naimed of the Profession." t: What does this mean ? The obvious' 2ntent-ion is to convey the impression i ,Ibat liiif the medical men in practice are incompetent. Ono need have no! hesitation in characterising this as a Si"<»ss slander—a grave libel upon those *'ho have decided to accept service and to, give the Act a fair and impartial tliaj And it remains to be seen whe- tber the National Insurance doctors ""a], to quote the words used by Mr. hainberiain in another connection, eon- ut to accept this stigma lying down. ourselves we shall bo very muchj S;irprised if they do not show bitter re- hutment, of a statement- which is as ] "Unwarranted as it is unjust. In Swan- fcfia doctors who bave agreed to serve On the panels are the cream of the local Profession. And what is true of Swan- is no less true of other centres. ? ? *= ? ?o one who has ever }ww Miss Sylvm o oiio. m- b o has ever d M*  s Svlv "ankhurst speak can have failed to ad- mire the force of her logic, and the kfcanty of her diction on the question of omen's suffrage. It is thus surprising that at the Theatre Royal, Swansea, on "Unday, she should have advanced such 4t deplorably weak argument in favour of I Illo militant methods adopted by a sec- I ^'■oii of her co-fighters. One is loth to £ s!iev<e that shy relied on any class hatred to make her point to the fcjwansea Socialists, but her argument that be- j cause the labour element had condoned Violence, and destruction of property by strikers and unemployed, the Stiffra- Settes were also justified in pursuing j ?he same methods was-, to say the l4ast, hardly Mattering to the mtelbgenee, at Ute, of her audience Ai "u ?kaw-ak- j b,,r deniM that the militants h?d set ?ck the granting of womanhood fra.n- ?his?. Rather the trend of her remarks ^•emed to imrtlv that it was only during the last few years that the cause was picking up." Fifty years of peaceful agitation made no difference, said the 'aker, who held out a veiled threat of ?Red Revolution" on the part of thc ?n'ragists. Well, it remains in right- tL,i. nking people to disp(?l this f?lflacy. linking people to dispel this ialIacJ. !j Lovers of sardines in oil, are lixetv boav to have some annoyance. Their ardincs will cost them more. That is ^ttJess some settlement is soon arrived 4t between the sardine fishers and the j e-ur-ing houses in Brittany. For yes- ) j^rday 116 curing and packing houses •ked out their employees. The j vshermen who have formed a union, ^'isi.st on reguating the catch, and so Insist on regulating the catch, and so hp firms who preserve them in oil and -Pack them in the familiar tins want to k(,p an open market. This has ) 4 OIA- culminated in a lockout, and "0.000 men are affected. Meanwhile sardines are swimming about freely. It's and ill wind," etc. To-day's GossiP I A wúman can't strike against her husband, even if he deserves it some- times," says Miss Sylvia Pankhurst. bhe can strike at him, tliough, and does, rnetimes t: Lord Robert Cecil approves of ?ot'.ng in ,CbÜ?r, but not in England. I ?as one of Mi&s Sylna Pankhurst s ?Uies in her speech to the Swansea I Socialists on Sunday. Dr. J. A. Rawlings believes in I bating strikes and lock-oiitt, illegal, I Qn.d tins law should app:y to doctors, so I be told the Skfttty Men's Brotherhood 01, Sunday afternoon. Pontardulais has not yet become ujte Saxonised. A local choir had the tare piuck last week to produce a can- 'tata in Welsh- -and, what is more, drew '*?e and enthusiasti-o audience. There was quite a demonstration Olt, High-street Station just after mid- ^ght. when th-ü yietoriom; Swans re- tllrned from North Wales. The Associa- tion code is indeed "catching on." At the conclusion of the programme at "Weslev Social Hour last evening, the Rev. S. M. Buttons, B.A. paid a tl..btit,e to Welsh music. He expre.sseo his pleasure at being present to l'isten to such a musical treat, and said he ?a? glad he had co:no to Wales. The <"n:y thing he was sorry for was that he had not come sooner. Br. J. A. Rawlings took on a big •ask at the meeting of the Sketty Brotherhood on Sunday, when he en- tered upon a resume of the great eVûnb of the last year. The hand of the clock was pointing to the hour of <1eparture before the doctor was half ">ay through his address. Go on!" Cried the audience, The clock is fast!" Clerk at the Police Court (to ^oman who had gone into the box to ^Pply -for a summons): What's the blatter now? Applicant: I want to koow what to Go with my husband. Clerk What did we do with him last t¡n1e? And that precedent having boon re- ddled, they went on to consider what tUhel' restraining influence they could  ?hng to bear on the rpcaJcitr.mt one. j

ANOTHER FIND -0 At the Royal Institu- tion. •. REMBRANDT SUGGESTION. Great Interest Aroused by "Leader" Discovery. The discovery of va luable works of a-rt in a. ccihw of tiie Royal Institution of South Wales, which were exclu- sively described in the "Leader" on Saturday, has elicited profound i.s' terest JJl local art circles. During the day a number of -Rx-ll-kuown Swansea. people have visited the Irtaf-itufeon with the intention of examining t-be pictures we referred to. Perhaps the first visitors to the Institution was a repor- ter on the staff of a local contemporary, who demanded of the curator wincli is the pictured" Uur representative waited on Mr. Port.siiiouth, M.S.A., tiie hon. art cui-atoj-, who congratulated the lÁ'a<i" on the exec lieuce of the te- production • of the picture, Siua d1 Soleuine." This, together with t.he otiier works, had not, he sa.id, Ihmui hung at an oarlier date on account of there being no wall space. Another Picture. Mr. PortsnKuitiii said he had a hign opinion of anOler picture in the col- lection—ono depicting a priest. It was, he sa/id, perhaps a Kembrandt. The picture to whicli 112 referre d is sugges- tive of the style of this great Dutch painter. Another critic, however, is couvinoed that the pieture was not executed by that master. The writ/er 1n.ude another careful examination of the picture, Sara di Solemne." zwid found written indis- tinctly on the back the followilig. Npta 20 June, 1649, Obit 23 Nov. 1G95. -11 Of Value. I Mr. tirant Jlurray, A.R.C.A., mtor- j rin?cd, .?aid he had not seen the works sinco they bad been restored by Mr. George Roberts. 'Then they were black j with age, but he thought it highly pro- ) bable that some of the works may be of val ue. Mr. Alex Moffatt said the work was of r?re beauty, the jewels boing exœl- lenth- depicted. Dr. Humphreys w?.s mtr'j'&?rl i;i artkle from an historic point of i view. He had swn the garment worn by Nelson and preserved by Major R ot-eh- wwntlv in Greenwich. "I was intensely interested in the story," he sard.

POOR MR. BONAR LAW 1" i 7- A House Divided Against Itself Shall not Stand We have said before, "Poor Mr. Bonar l,aii- "I sav it again. That, august oi-giai "The Times" says j that Mr. Law, "who lias led the party with conspicuous ability and force I during a difficult period," is doing his best to restore complete unity in its ranks. The Tory Press is amusingly contra-1 dietory. We have given the "Thun- derer's admission, the" Dailv Graphic." however, roundly declares! that there is no split at all in the Tory ranks 1 The Morning Post" begs the party to cling to the whole Tariff Relorm programme, whale the Observer," in a "speech that might ben by Mr. Greatheart. M.P., tnakes him ideclasfe that "Repudiation of a Unionist policy, so long held and so recently declared, is impossible without Unionist suicide." Whole-Hoggers. In face of the contention of the "Graphic" (quoted above) it is amusing to note that the same journal also publishes what pur- oorts to be an authentic list of the real, stalwart whole-hoggers—the men who are Food-taxers (Referendum or no Referendum, Imperial Conference or no Imperial Conference, win or lose). The list is furnished by the "Daily Graphic," after a "doubtful four" have been ruled out:- Mr A. Chamberlain Mr. J. W. Hills. II Mr. Wyndham. Sir Geo. Doughty. I Mr. Chaplin. Mr Rowland Hunt. Mr. Jesse Collings. Major Archer-Shee. t Mr. Hewins. Mr. E. Parkes. Mr. Amery, Mr. Goulding. Sir Gilbert Parker. Mr. Oliver Locker- Mr. Page Croft. Lampson. Mr Steel-Mailtland The "Daily Graphic goes on to say: j "It is not for a moment disputed that jtheso gentlemen, however mistaken the majority of their colleagues my think their policy, deserve great credit for their constancy in desiring to stick to the Chamberlain policy of food. taxes for the next election. The present position simply is that, in the opinion of the re- maining 266 Unionist M.P. 's, and in the opinion of the grea.ter part of the Union- istPress, it is of the greatest urgency that the party should not face the next 1 Genertahl e ?il?ltion with the food-tax ban- dicap." 

MILLIONAIRE MISSED. I Mr. Vincent Astor Receives his 66 Baptism of Fira." It is announced that young Mr. Vin- cent Astor, who recently came into his estate of £20,000,000, had a narrow es- cape from being shot near Ploughkeep- sie, New York. Mr. Astor was walking along the road shortly after dark on his way to hi,-w country house, which is near there. A farmer, named Robert Forbes, believ-1 ing him to be a burglar, shot at him three times with a revolver. l"ortu-I nately, none of the snots hit Mr. Astor, who, as soon as possible, made his; identity known, and received the P"? fuse apologies of tho tarmer. j

"SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND." I | SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND." i (" Lcader Cartocm,) j On Mother! Dear Mother come home to me now, (" Leader Cartoon. ) The clock in St. Mary's strikes one. You prei-nised, dear Mother, that you would come home As soon as the bargains were "done." The fire has gone out and the house is all dark |] And Father's been watching since tea, With pcor Brother Benny so mad in his arms, And the kitchen's a picture to see! • Come Home! Come HomeU Come Homalli 1 011 Mother, dear Mother, COME HOME! (With apologies.) j

THE SPELTERMEN. I .————— i —————— ) Many Men Said to Favour Taking a Ballot. TIRED OF THE STRIKE. Should the spelter workers of Swan- sea—who have now gone on strike for over eight weeks as the result of the refusal of the employers to concede the demand for the abolition of Sunday labour—bo ballotted? The suggestion of a ballot has already been made in the Leader," and while the voting at some of the sectional meetings lias been such as to load one to believe that the Morriston men are not particularly anxious in the matter, it is stated in other quarters that a con- siderable number ot the men are de- sirous of having a ballot to decisively settle their at utnde one way or the other. One of the spelter men went so far as to assure a Leader" representative that at least 75 per cent, of the men now out at certain works are desirous of resuming work, and added that no real test of the feeling of the men cs.T) be obtained except in this way. He suggested that the officials of the various unions whose members are in- volved in the dispute should consider the matter, and take such steps as they deemed desirable under the circum- stances. We give the foregoing statements for what they may be worth without ex- pressing any opinion on the master, which is rather one for the men them- selves. A 1 reader representative has made inquiries amongst a number of the spoitermen now out, and in most cases while they are reluctant to say openly whether they do or do no.want a bal- lot, they expressed themselves as being "heartily sick and tired of the strike." It is an undoubted fact that a con- siderable amount of distress, sarno of it of rather an acute type, exists. The London March. I As predicted in the Leader," the march to London," about which &o much has been heard, will not take place. A meeting of the Joint Com- mittee came to this decision to-day. Late Mr. Hall. I We are requested to state that the funeral of the late Mr. Hall will take place to-morrow afternoon, leaving 75, Foxhole-road at three o'clock, for Danygraig Cemetery. The Joint Com- mittee are anxious that all men con- cerned in the dispute should attend.

FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Ambassador to be Appointed German Secretary. Reuter's Foreign Agency informs us that the appointment of Herr von Ja- gow, German Ambassador in Rome, to the Secretary-ship for Foreign Affairs is now regarded as probable. After holding various civil posts, Herr von Jagow, who was born in 1863. entered the Diplomatic Service in lbi'6, when he was appointed Attache to the Embassy in Rome, and subsequently held other diplomatic posts. From 1906 to 1908 he was employed in the Foreign Office. In the latter year he went to Luxemburg as Minister Plnipotnti3ry, and in Ma.w 1909, re- ceil? his present appomtmcnt as Am- bassador to Italy.

MOTHER'S CONFESSION. [Strangled her Daughter to Put her I Out of Misery. TEliBIBEF STORY. I t.ook .a cord ai,,k] tied it round her neck to put her out of her misery." Behind these lie a terrible story of a mother's thirteen years' de- votion to t child that had suffered from a terrible atbiction from birth. j ",rbo mother. Mrs. balitli Wood (4o), of Widdenham-ruad. Jci olio way, was xe- manded at Cieikenweil on Satupday, charged on her oõrn coniession witii ] strangling her daughter, Ethel Harriot- (13). Detect ive-Inspector l said that after Mm." Wood called at the poljoe station he went to > iiie house and lound the girl lyli)-, on a bed with a mark round her nock and a bruise on her face. Whou lie charged Mrs. Wood j with murder six- s;1.id: Yes, I know 1 know what made me do it. She* had a fit. and was so bad I took a cord and tied it round her neck to put her out of her misery. I have been much worried about her lately." After Mrs. Wood h;td made her state ment to the poiioe a doctor went tQ the house. The girl's body was still warm, and for half an hour efforts were made to bring her round, but without .success. Mrs. Wood had. nursed the child with unceasing care, and a few months ago her own health began to give way uridea- the strain. "Patient and Devoted Mother." I "My wife," said the husband m an interview with "Lloyd's News," "has been ouo of the most patient and dü- voted of mothers to Ethel ever since the child's biith, and, I am sure, would have been the last in the world to harm her or, anyone else under ordinary cir- cumstances, "Wnen I left home this morning everything seemod as usual, and Ethel, who had been more poorly than was hei wont, was still in bed. From what I can gather slie had a fit about ten o'clock, and my wife went upstairs to her, as she usually did. to try and soothe her -,iiffe-rings. We ca.n do no nor:? than surmise the rest. Ethel always had a terrible timo during these attacks, and my wife, over- wrought in hen- deJicato state of health, and maddened by the sight of the child's sufferings, performed wliat she no doubt considered at the time a merciful act.

r THE PANAMA CANAL. ———— President Taft Now in Favour of Arbitration. President Taft is yielding. In very different language from that which he used on signing the Panama Canal Act hist August, he now declares himself in fay our of reforring to The Hague Tribunal Great Britain's contention tha.t the Act as now worded is an infrac- tion of British tre.aty rights. Great Britain protests against the clause exempting from tolls American vessels engaged in coastwise trade. This clause, it is contended, is opposed to the spirit of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1900 between Great Britain' and the United States, which in Article III.. Section 1, laid down that "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality.

I M. Itoehcrtte, the fugitive Paris I banker, became a naturalised Mexican during his recent stay in Mexico, de- clares the Echo de Paris."

A SLANDER. I Swansea Doctors Resent a I I Tory Imputation. I NO JUSTIFICATION. I I t Matters are proceeding satisfactorily at Swansea so far as the medical pro- fession and the Insurance Act are (,-oil- cerned. At a. further meeting of (in,- tors held at the hospital on Saturday eveuing, Dr. Knight and Dr. Urban 1 Marks wore elected to represent the local practitioners on the Insurance Committee, and other gentlemen's J names were chosen for submission to the Council and the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, who are entitled to ap- point one representative each. The question of providing medical at- I tendance for the wivos and families of insured and uninsured persons was also considered, a sub-committee being even- tually appointed to go into the details and report to an adjourned meeting on Saturday evening next, when the whole matter will be settled. An Unwarranted Stander." The suggestion which has been made in the Tory Press that the doctors who have accepted service consist of "the blind, the halt, and the naimed of the profession is bitterly resented by local practitioners as an unwarranted slander upon an honourable body of men. "Take the panel at Swan&ea," re- marked one well-known practitioner to a "Leader" representative. "It consists of practically the whole of the doctors of the town. No one can reasonably sug- gest that ?hey are the gest that they are the 'halt, the maimed and the blind.' On the contrary, they are all, without exception, good men, and no one who secures the services of any of them when the Act comes into operation on the 15th, need have the slightest fear that they will receive any- thing but the best and most careful at- tention which it is possible to get. To apply such an expression to a body of men simply because they happen to be- lieve that the course which they have taken is the right and proper one, and therefore in disagreement with the more extreme section of the B.M.A., is to cast an aspersion upon at least half the doctors of the country, for which there is not a scintilla of justification." Other local medical men who have heen spoken to expressed themselves in equally strong terms. I Cardiff Comes In. The Cardiff division of the B.M.A., after a sitting of nearly three hours at the City Hall yesterday, passed the following resolutions:— (1) "That in view of the fact that serious injury must result to loyal members of our profession from con- tinued resistance, this meeting agi-elb to allow its members to accept service i on the panel." (2) "That this meeting also places on record its strong feeling of resent- ment at the methods of compulsion exercised by the Government towards th-e profession." The agreement is largely attributed to the action of the Lord Mayor (Aid. Morgan Thomas), who acted as media- tor. I Over 10,806 Acceptances. We are officially informed that well over 10.000 doctors have now defi- nitely accepted service on the panel svst-em under the National Insurance Act. Continued on Page 5.)

 MYSTERY BOIL Boys' Discovery at Cwmbwrla. SEQUEL TO THEFT. — Will, Bank Book and Other: Valuables Restored. i — i S L I Yesterday two Swansea boys named Daniel Nash and Thomas Morgan, living at Brynmelyn-street, made an ex- traordinary in a reservoir in the Cwmbwrla divtrict. The reservoir in question is rai d-.cff Irom the punlic by means ol an iron railing about 8it,. high. the tw(, Through the rails, however, the two boys sa w a small (.)X floating m the water. Extraordinary Collection. ) By moans oi a ion^- hooked piece of i iron the box was seen l ed, and upon being opened was> Jound to contain amongst other tilings the, following re- I r -? aiik markable docunwnts :-A will, a bank book, a medal, a certificate ot birth, some chib papers, death policies, rent lxx)k", and all kinds of correspondence. The police to whom the box was given n.turally maintained the utmost ticenoe m the matter, the idea being that the discovery might have an im- portant bearing uj>on. investigations which were immediately undertaken. I Mystery Probed. T i i<,N- They were, however, not long probing the affair to the bottom, with the result that it was discovered tllat the box was I one which was stolen some weeks ago trom a house in the vicinity oi its dis- covery. j At the time it was stolen it contained 'I money, whicli of course, was abstracted by the thief or thieves. It aLso con- I tained the papers alluded to above J which were valuable to the owners but I-with the solitary exception of the medai--of no value to the marauders.

I APPENDICITIS. I Swansea Footballer Operated Upon Yesterday. The narrowness of the passage be- I tween health and serious illness has been emphasised once more, this tunc by the case of Mr. Reggie Ankers, son I 01 the land;ord of the White Hart HoteL Swansea. i Air. Ankers was in '?irh' good health on FndaY. On aturday morning he felt unwell, so he avenb down to the etch field to ask to be excused from playing in an Association gam*. Lat er in the day lie became seriously jii. Dr. Begg ordered his removal to the Nursing Home where an operation was! yesterday performed upon him by Dr. | Elsworth for appendicitis. Mrs. Ankers informed a "Leader" representative this morning that her st?p-son had .s?nt ? rairly comiortablc nignt. iers lias beve-ra l t;ii)e?, -v C4- Mr. Ankers has several times played in goal for the wansM Town Re- serves, and would, aH bcin? well, have done so on Saturday.

 CENTRAL OFFICES. Important Conference for the Benefit of Swansea. The Town Clerk of Swansea CHr, Lang Coath) has arranged a meeting at the House of Commons this afternoon between the Mayor (Councillor -[)aT "(I Williams), bir Alfred Mond, Hart, M.P. Sir David Brynmor Jones, K.C., M P Mr. Llewelyn Williams, K.C., M.P?. and Mr. John Williams. M.P., with a view of considering the takmg; ot stps to se- cure the establishment at Swansea of permanent central offices of the Labour Exchanges for Wales.

It is rumoured in Tokio that tiie .1 coronation of the Emperor vvil take place in November.

 a r m 9 5 o rI""O'1 oJV tU i 9 MOTHER ARRESTED. I Body o, seven months' old child has been discovered in Metal-street, < i'idiif. The mother lias been taken into custody. LROUGHTY FERRY HERDER. at Maidstone Oil November of '•aving been co.. • ct"d with the nn; 1 ( .,1 v<- M>.e at Kerrr. was released to-day en the iu- | .ructions of the Crown. THE DOCTORS. | The panels all over the country arc I being filled up rapidly. j TRAWLER'S PERILOUS VOYAGE. Swansea trawler Xerxes, which ar- rived at the port to-day. reports hav- i1;. encountered terrible weather, a i id-] wave striking the vessel, which narrowly scapcd foundering. C'apt. George Mills handled his boat with great skill. I t CONCILIATION BOARD. ( Second meeting of Coal Concilia- tion Board for federated districts of England and Wales was held at AN-ei- minster to-day to consider latest ap- plication of miners for five per cent, in wages. It was decided to advance wages in tiie Federated area by five per c«rr: Lack on 2* King Stork '),-5. Betting": 8 to 1 Lord Napier. Betting: 11 to 10 on Grey Coronet. ,iacl. Pot 1. Almansur 2. Mr Preeily 3.-6. I I I ■j i 1'1 j j 1 i 1 I

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