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ABERYSTWYTH MAJOR L. J MATHKAS, J.P. Included in a series of articles pub- lished in the Western Mail" on Organ- isers of Victory," was the following:—The rolls of honour furnished by the populous centres of Wales have made it impossible ever again to doubt the loyalty of those districts. There have been complaints that the inhabitants of the agricultural district have not risen to the occasion with the same readiness. If this were true of Cardiganshire it would not be Major Mathias's fault. The fact that it is far from true of that county is a matter upon which he i9 entitled to a large measure of credit. When war broke out and Lord Kitchener embarked upon the task of improvising an army which has reached a figure and a degree of efficiency such as few dreamed of a year ago, the work of securing recruits in Cardiganshire was entrusted to Sir Edward John AVebley Parry-Pryse, Bart., of Gogerddan. In December he gave up uhat work in order to undertake other duties, and is now servino; with the forces somewhere in France." A new recruiting officer was required, and Major L J. Mathias, of Aberystwyth, was immediately chosen. The appointment was in many respects the obvious one to make. Born at Aberystwyth, the son of the late Mr. John Mathias, of that -taown, and brother of Sir Richard Mathias, St. Mellon's, Major' Mathias is well-known not only in the town, but in a large part of the county. What is equally impor- tant in a recruiting officer-the town and the county and their characteristics are well-known to him. He had also acquired a large amount of experience which was bound to be of great assistance 140 him in his work during the many years when he was commanding; officer of the) Cardiganshire Battery of the 2nd Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. From this position he retired in 1912; but, though he gave up the position, he did not give up his interest in the bat- tery and has consistently supported and encouraged its work by the presentation of a silver-mounted shield and in many other ways. His business interests and experience as a member of the firm of J. Mathias and Sons, shipowners, of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, as well as his personal qualities were further qualifications for the post. That he has filled the post in a highly successful manner is universally admitted. The county is not an easy one to work; but Major Matthias entered upon his duties with enthusiasm, and has kept it up all along. Day by day, from morning to night, he has been at work until there are few parts of the county into which his motor car has not penetrated. It would be interesting to compare the aver- age distance covered each day by the car since he has. been engaged in the present work with the day's average when he was displaying the same energy and enthus- iasm as Parliamentary candidate for the borough of Cheltenham in succession to Sir Richard Mathias in 1910. Every fortnight the local papers have published an honourable list of new recruits who have been encouraged by his courteous and good-humoured, but earn- est, appeal in their desire to place their services at the disposal of their country. From the small village of Llanbadarn—■ in which is situated Bronpa-darn, the beautiful residence which Major Mathias has recently acquired—with a population of 800, over 100 young man are now serving with the forces, and if this is a higher standard than has been reached by the other villages of the county, yet every part of the county has its represen- tatives on the list of recruits whom Major Mathias has succeeded in enrolling — a list of which he is justly proud, and one which shows that his work has been such as to earn for him a place amongst the "Organisers of Vittory."

Professor Levi on the War. Professor Levi delivered an address on the war at the Coliseum on Sunday even- ing on the occasion of a concert in aid of war funds. He said he had recently at- tended the great war meeting at the Lon- don Opera House. The meeting began with nothing but music. First they had the march of the of Harlech; and the Welshmen who were present simply rose to it. Then they had St. Patrick's Day; and the Irishmen cheered to the echo. Then they had the Blue Bells of Scotland; and the Scotchmen stood on their feet and waved. Then they had Rule Britannia; and the English threw their hats into the air. Finally, the Chairman announced that they would have the anthem of the British Empire, and they all stood up to sing God Save tne King. He had often heard it sung; but never like that. That was what they ought to have—singing, more singing, and still more singing; more national airs, more national songs. (Cheers). There was no stimulant like music in war time. Why should they not sing? They were fighting for a good cause. (Cheers). Thev were not fighting for themselves. Even if they were fight- ing for themselves he did not think any- body could have blamed them. Two men in the sea were clinging to a plank not strong enough to save them both. Could one of them push the other off? No, he could not; but if the other tried to push him off he could defend himself. But the British were not fighting for themselves. They were not fighting for power or land or money or possessions. They were fight- ing for justice; for fair play for the small nations; fair plav and no bullying. (Cheers). They did not object to Ger- many or to Austria or to any other power making progress; but they did object to any one shouting world power or down- fall." The world was not made for Ger- many the world was not made for France; the world was not made for England. It was made for men and women of all nations; and it did not matter where a man came from—from the palace or the mansion, from the slum or the cottage, from a large empire or a small nation, from England or France or xv-ussia, from Belgium or Servia or Poland—a man was a man for all that and no one could take his rights away. (Cheers). lIat is what the British were fighting for. Iney were fighting for those who were not strong enough or not rich enough to fight for themselves. (Cheers). They were fight- ing for the happiness of generations" to come. He was in Brighton the other day and saw a soldier at the Station going back to the trenches. lh-e soldier was saying good-bye to his relatives, his old father and mother, his sorrowing wife, and, last of all, he took his little child in his arms and held it up long and tenderly as much as to say It is for you I am fight- ing; for you, that you might live in safety and enjoy your freedom without the shadow of a fear of any outrage from German or Prussian or any one else who dare to say that God only made the poor people to be crushed under the foot of a tyrant. (Cheers). Who would not fight for a cause like that." Who would not sing in a cause like that? Was it any wonder they were in good spirits ? Why, their brave, soldiers were singing while I Jr i werc. racing death. Many a brave lad nad died on the battlefield with no one near him, no one to cheer him, no one to soothe his brow or assuage his pain; noth- ing to help him but a line or two of the songs winch he learnt to sing at home. A htt.e v ooden cross would mark the place w nei e his hody lay. Very soon that cross would be gone too and nobody would fenow where he fell; but let them do what they liked with him, he had no doubt that his brave spirit was undefeated and was still singing on. (Cheers). xnat was why they were going to win. They were going to win because they were right and Ivecause Germany was wrong. (Cheers). All the world knew that. They were gomg on ^ith the war. ihsre was to be no turning back now. They would never yield an Inch. no matter what the war cost them. They must go on with it for it was not their cau?e. It was the cause of right and justice. (Cheers). jIt was the cry of the poor and the oppressed and the down- trodden. It was the cry of nations who longed for freedom. "England, come and help us." "France, come and help us." Lovers of liberty, come and help us come and fight the battle of the free against the tyrant." Should not all who were able to do so willingly respond to that appeal? Should they not all of them do their utmost to play their part in this, the greatest fight in the world's history? Should they not stand together and say "now is our chance to strike a- blow-not for England, not for France, but for humanity for righteousness, for everything that was dear to them?" That was the challenge and he knew they would respond worthily to it. (Loud applause).

Bankruptcy Examination., The examination in bankruptcy was I resumed on Tuesday afternoon before Mr. Mr. Joseph Davies by Mr. H. W. Thomas, official receiver, of Richard Richards, ot the Fort, Ystumtuen, whose main liability was a sum of £ 78 9s. 3d. awarded against him in a libel action, which debtor alleged he had no means to defend. Mr. W. P. Owen appeared for Mr. Evan Richards, Penuwchfawr, the principal creditor, and Mr Emrys Williams for debtor. Replying to the Official Receiver, debtor said he had not a good memory and could not; say what furniture he actually did buy when he married. Reminded that the furniture was looking him Ü" the face' sincc the previous examination and asked if he had not made inquiries, he replied xjhat he had not and had no information on that sub- ject. Told that at the first examination he had said he had no money at the L. C. and M. Bank, debtor said he thought he had about £ 3. The Registrar—No, you did not say that. You must be more careful in your answers this time. You were very loose in your answers last time. You then said you thought you were about square at the bank The Official Receiver You now know there is £ 16 18s. 7d. at the bank. Asked if he still said the shop busines3 was his wife's business, debtor said he took it to be so. She managed all in the shop. The business did not belong to him, but to. his wife. Debtor was handed a bundle of cheques i for 1912-13 paid by him on account of the I business. Nevertheless, he still said the business was his wife's. Observing that the piano which was obtained on the instalment principle was also his wife's, the Official Receiver pointed out that the instalments were paid by debtor's cheques, instalments to the sum of Cl6 10s. having been paid. The piano company took out a fidelity bond and the premium was paid by debtors cheques. Debtor, however, denied that it was his own money and on being asked how lie made tthat out, said his wife kept the shop. Mr. Edward Jones was the landlord. The Registrar reminded debtor that the shop was taken in his name and debtor's cheques were produced for rents, the Registrar adding that debtor must be insane to answer as he did. Everything proved that the house was in his name and the piano in his name. He drew cheques and paid for everything. Debtor musft remember that he was on his oath. The Official Receiver said that at the previous examination debtor said he had no shares in the mine. Was that true or untrue? Debtor—Well you know more about it than I do The Registrar—Thatt won't do. You know very well whether you had shares in the mine. Debtor—They are for you if you like. The Official Receiver It is Hobson's choice. Asked about the take-note, debtor said he had not. found it. He had a copy but never the original in his hand. He believed he had the scrip for the shares and had tried to find it but could not. (The Official Receiver said he had received certain copies). His life was not insured. His sister-in-law, Miss Owen, was not present, she being very ill. The Registrar said he should not think of closing the examination that day in view of the unsatisfactory nature of the information given. The examination would be adjourned generally and debtor would be notified of the date of the next sitting. The examination of Mrs ,Jünes would also stand adjourned. The Official Receiver warned debtor that if he was not very careful he would find himself in very serious trouble.

The Scraping of Water Mains. Though in laying water mains allowance is always made for a reduction in the cap- acity of the pipe, as well as for a future increase in the consumption of water, it not infrequently happens that some unforeseen circumstance, such as the rapid corrosion and incrustation of the main renders it in- le s capable of supplying requirements. Pipes conveying unfiltered water, especially if the water is soft and slightly acid, are especi- ally liable to incrustation which usually takes the form of nodular growths. The nodules appear to originate at some minute defect in the interior coating of the pipe which leads to a corrosion of the metal and a deposition of organic material from the water, the growth continuing at a more or less uniform rate as long as the nodules are distinct. Eventually, however, adjacent nodules may unite and the rate of corrosion then diminishes and ceases altogether when a certain thickness of incrustation is reached. Undoubtedly a perfect coating, properly applied, would prevent the action, and little trouble is likely to be experienced with pipes twice dipped in Dr. Angus Smith's solution before laying u the dipping is properly carried out. Many pipes in ex- istence, however, have either never been coated at all or the coating has been un- suitable or badly applied, so that corrosion and incrustation occur and the delivery falls off at a surprisingly rapid rate, owing to the increased friction and decreased diameter. At Torquay, for instance, the capacity of an uncoated pipe, fourteen miles long laid in 1858, was diminished bv forty-nine per cent. in eight years. In this case the incrustations were removed and the original capacity restored by means of a scraper propelled by the pressure of the water in the pipe-a method which, we be lieve, had not been previously employed? The apparatus, which was" devised' by Appold, and afterwards improved bv Box and Froude, consisted of a number of steel scrapers kept in contact with the internal surface of the pipe by means of springs and pushed along by a Dair of pistons. Two pistons were, of course, necessary to carry the appliance past branch openings in the main, and the whole was made sufficiently flexible to pass round moderate curves. The same principles are employed in modern scrapers of this type; but considerable im- provement has, of course, been made in detail as a result of experience gained in working. On important objection urged against scraping water mains is that the operation must be repeated at frequent intervals after the first scraping, since corrosion and incrustation then proceed at a' more rapid rate and the life of the main is reduced. The first scraping is always more difficult and costly than subsequent ones, since hatch-boxes for the insertion and removal of the scrapers have usually to be provided at intervals in the pipe line, additional yalves for controlling the water have to be inserted, and the scrapers themselves have to be purchased. Even so. the cost is slight compared with that of laying a new main, f.nd the subsequent operations can be carried out with an almost negligible amoujit of trouble and expense. Pressure scraping is, however, quite unsuitable for cleaning small, thickly-encrusted pipes, and is rarely used for pipes of less than six- inch diameter, unless a considerable pres- sure is available. Such pipes can best be dealt with by mechanically-operated scrapers.—"Engineering."

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The Perfidy of Germany. By MR. GRIFFITH JONES, Barrister-at-Law. The German Chancellor has recently endeavoured to explain away the damaging IL effect of lr. Asquith's speech at Cardiff in the autumn, in which the Premier showed that Germany, not content with Britain's friendly declaration that she would observe benevolent neutrality, asked for an under- friendly declaration that she would observe benevolent neutrality, asked for an under- taking that Britain would remain abso- lutely neutral in the event of Germany being involved in war. The German Chan- cellor gives a different version of the despatcnes and speaks of falsehood and slander. In order to judge between Mr. Asquith and the German Chancellor, it is necessary to bear in mind the morality propagated and practised now and for upwards of a century by Germany in the conduct of in- ternational affairs. The people of Great Britain do not even now fully realise the diabolical principles which actuate the German nation. We hear a great deal of Xietzche, Treitschke, Delbruck, and Bernardi; but long before they existed the principles advocated by them were held by the German nation and inculcated in each succeeding generation. Frederick the Great of Prussia, who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury, laid down theories as to national treaties wholly at variance with those ot civilised nations." He drew a sharp distinc- tion between the duty imposed on an in- dividual and that of a sovereign in the .same circumstances. That sophistry unblushing enunciated by Kredev: jk in the | following passage transmitted by 1m for the guidance of succeeding rulers of his country, and right well has his present successor learnt the lesson :— If the ruler is obliged to sacrifice his own person for the welfare of his subjects, he is all the more obliged to sacrifice engagements the continuation of which would be harmful to his country. Examples of broken treaties are frequent. It is clear to me that a private person must scrupu- lously keep his word, even if he has given it rashly. If he fails to do so the law will be set 1n motion and, after all, only an individual suffers. But to what tribunal can a sovereign appeal if another ruler breaks his engagements ? The word of a private man involves but an individual. That of a sovereign involves and may mean misery for whole nations. Therefore the problem may be summed up thus—Is it better that a nation should perish or that a sovereign should break his treaty r Who would be so imbecile as to hesitate how to decide ?" Casuistical babble of that kind should not be tolerated even in Germany. The juggling perversion of the Golden Rule, Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you," hides a dark soul and a foul mind. Gladstone's sentence puts the subject well when he said, What is morally wrong cannot be politicall right." Bismarck said The world is governed only by skill and trickery." This dictum is not even baited with reason. It was, however, the prin- ciple he put in practice in his negotiations with Russia, Austria, Poland, and Turkey. On September 3rd, 1770, Frederick the Great put this question to the Austrian Prime Minister under pretence of friendly ends: Could you not persuade France to make a declaration to you that if you were to break with Russia France would send 100,000 men to help j~ou. xou would con- fide the news to me—I would make use of it." Austria did not intend to participate in the division of Poland; but Frederick spent years in persuading Austria against her wish to join in the partition. The motive has since been made apparent in the following letter of February, 1772, to Sohn:—"If Austria gets no part of Poland all the hatred of the Poles will be against us,(Russia and Prussia). ihey would then regard the Austrians as their" sole protec- tors and the latter would gain so much prestige and influence with them that they would have thousands of opportunities for intrigues of all kinds in that country." The cynical foresight of tne scheme thus stands revealed. Rather than take a moiety of Poland with R.ussia, Frederick preferred to take a third with Austria, Austria being thereby discredited and Prussia's share made more secure. Austria fell into the Prussian trap and was weakened by obtaining a disaffected province. Friction also was created between Austria and Russia, for Russia coveted the parts of Poland obtained by Austria. These, then, were the models on which Bismarck fashioned his policy. In 1864 Bismarck induced Austria to enter into an alliance with Prussia in a campaign against Denmark, whereby the Prussians obtained S^hleswig-Holstein with the harbour of Keil, now so invaluable to the Germans, as well as upwards of a million of additional population. Two years afterward, having used Austria as all ally in German aggran- disement. Bismarck attacked and defeated Austria. In ]886 Bismarck induced Xapoleon III by well-placed words to propose in writing to take Belgium for France and to entrust Bismarck with the proposal. No sooner was that proposal in writing obtained than the document was sent to Russia to con- vince the Tzar that it was France who was the disturber of the peace and so secured Russia's support in Germany's subsequent war with France. The unscrupulous altera- tion of the Emm's telegram, which led to war with France, is too well known to need repetition.. Bismarck next pushed Russia into war with Turkey in 1877 in order to cripple Russia When Russia was victorious she relied on Bismarck at the Berlin Congress in 1878 to secure for her the fruits of her victory over Turkey, Russia was left without reward. The same kind of intrigues successfully estranged Italy and France by securing Tunis for France, though Italy had the strongest claims to that country, and Bosnia and Herzegovinia for Austria. By that manoeuvre Austria and Russia and France and Italy were set against one another. For their own safety Austria and Italy had to seek Germany's support, and this led to the formation of the Triple Alliance. It is not, then, surprising that the pre- cepts and practices of Frederick the Great and of Bismarck should develop ultimately into the following conception of the state by Treitschke, as set forth in his book :t Politik" —" It will always redound to the glory of Maehiavelli that he has placed the State on a solid foundation and that he has freed the State and its morality from the moral principles taught by the Church, but especially because he has been the first to teach that the State is Power." The meaning of that sentence of Treitschke is clear—that the State is not a moral agent, but power. On that theory he grafts the conclusion that every state reserves to itself the right of judging as to the extent of its treaty obligations. The Morocco incident of 1911 is a recent instance of the base immorality governing the German military mind. Germany, wanting to seize a portion of Morocco, sent the Panther" to Agadir on the pretence of protecting the lives of Germans, though not a single German was at Agadir, and of German trade in Morocco, though that trade was insignificant. The real object was to seize the best harbour on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. IBy its geographical position, Morocco occupies an exceedingly favourable position for commerce and for war. It lies in the centre of the world's traffic and in addition the country has vast agricultural and mineral wealth. Agadir would have been of inestimable value to Germany, as with Agadir in its possession Germany could strike at France, Great Britain, and even at the United States. Thanks to Great Britain, German designs on Morocco were frustrated. On the theories of Frcdedick tile Great and of BismarcK. Germany's brutal conduct towards Belgium is' at once understand- able. however diabolical it may be. We in Great Britain, however, can never approve of the obliteration of right and morality in international affairs any more than in matters affecting the individual. The Machiavelian policy of Germany pursued toward Great Britain and other neighbouring nations since Heligoland was unfortunately given over to her by Great Britain shows that Germany all the time intended war and was preparing for war in the hope of crushing Russia, x ranee, and Britain in her calculated march toward world dominion. As shown last week by Sir Edward Grey. Great Britain had no desire for war and had not been preparing for war. Germany has for so long a period been accustomed to devious paths and suc- cess in her manoeuvres that she cannot even now understand why it is not nossible to get the allies to betray one another at her sinister scheming. The Kaiser cannot be.

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CRICCIETH. Nurse Lloyd Ceorge.-Nurse Olwen Lloj d George, eldest daughter of the Min- ister of Munitions, arrived at Criccieth on Thursday for a few days rest after spend- ing about three months in nursing British wounded soldiers at the Base Hospital in Boulogne. The Criccieth Detachment of the iBritish Red Cross Society has received a letter from the hospital authorities praising Miss Olwen for her skill and tenderness in nursing the wounded. Persona'.—Mr. Lloyd George, who had arranged to spend the week-end at Cric- cieth and to preside on Saturday night at the annual concert at Llanystumdwy Institute, was unable to leave London. Mrs. Lloyd George and his two daughters, Miss Olwen and Miss Megan, who were I already at Criccieth, returned to London on Saturday.

-MA18 MACHYNLLETH Promotion.—Mr. J. B. Jones, who fcr the past ten years has been assistant superintendent of the Prudential Assur- ance Company in Machynlleth district, has been promoted to tho post of superin- tendent at Pembroke Dock in succession to Mr. T. H. Edwards. During Mr Jones's stay at Machynlleth he has done his best for the welfare of the town, especially in connection with the P.S.E. movement, which was a success. He did more than his share of the work; but nowhere perhaps will his loss be so keenly felt as m the English Presbyterian Chapel, where he was precentor. His friends at Machynlleth wish him every success in his new sphere New Magistrates.—The Clerk of the Peace for Montgomeryshire h.as been notified by the Lord Chan,cellor of the following additions to the justices of the peace for the county:—Messrs. Francis Maule Campbell (C.), farmer, Brynllwydyn, Machynlleth; Maurice Evans (L.), tiae- llewelyn, Llanfair; Morris Evans (I.), Wernllwyd, Welshpool, farmer; Edward Hughes (L.), farmer, Mathafarn, Mach- ynlleth Oadwallader W. Humphreys (L.), Tyissa, Llanfaircaeretinion, farmer; William Humphreys (C.), Egremont, Welshpool, retired grocer; T. Simpson Jones (C.), Westwood, Welshpool; and T. Pughe Evans (C.), The Mount, laan- fechain. Of the new magistrates four are Conservatives, three Liberals, and one Independent. Fusiliers in Action.—The headquarters 7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, at Newtown, have been besieged with enquiries from anxious friends and rela- tives of the men in the first line of the battalion. Major Harmood Banner, officer in charge of the depot, is keenly sympathetic with all who are anxiously awaiting tidings, but regrets that he is unable to supply further information than has already been given. The relatives of those who have been killed will receive official information no latter than such imformation is conveyed to headquarters. When the official list of casualties comes to hand, Major Harmood Banner will do the utmost in his power to. give informal tion and satisfaction to all relatives of soldiers in the 7th.

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lieve that the agreement among the Allies not to conclude a separate peace is any- thing more than a scrap of paper, for he himself, following the example of his prototype Frederick the Great, would have no difficulty in sacrificing engage- ments the continuance of which would be ) harmful to his country." The awful extent to which Germany has degenerated and departed from the paths of international rectitude can only be real- ised by a review of the teaching of men such as Hegel and the old German writers, for Hegel wrote—"The binding cord is not force, but the deep-seated feeling of order that is possessed by us all." "War," he elsewhere wrote, is not the sequel: it is the failure of politics." It is some consolation in these trouble- some times to realise the abiding truth that good comes out of evil. As the poet puts it- Teachers of good, through evil by wrong Making truth lovely. Again— Wild, wasting ills! yet each th' immediate source source Of Mightier good. From avarice thus from luxury and war Sprang heavenly science and from science freedom.