There was an enthusiastic recruiting meeting at the Ivorites Hall, Ammanford, on Tuesday night, when the speakers were: Mr. J. Lewis, J. P., Brynrhug; Rev. J. W. Jones, B. A. (Vicar); Mr. A. E. DuBuisson, Glynhir, and Mr. E. B. Fisher, Wansbeck.
And the impassioned appeals made were listened to with wrapt attention by a fairly large audience consisting in the main of young men – Several ministers wrote letters regretting inability to attend.
Ald. W. N. Jones, J. P., Dyffryn, presided, and during the course of his very effective remarks he asked the young men to realize that their comrades were fighting in the trenches, upholding the honour and dignity of England, and anxiously waiting for men to help them in their struggles against odds.
Mr. John Lewis gave a most striking speech, which brought home to the audience the causes of the war and its wonders in clear, unmistakeable terms. He dealt in very interesting way with who appeared to him to be the seven wonders of the war, namely, the wonder of the Serbs, of the Russian Cossack, of France itself, or the splendid British army, of the German big gun, and of Belgium and of Calais.
The Vicar (Rev. J. W, Jones) followed with a reasoned address. He said they could not justify war by the standard of the brotherhood of men which they fully hoped some day to attain. However, they had not yet attained that stage. They could say without a scruple they could justify their position to the very last degree in the present war. For ourselves it was a war of defence.
Mr. A. E, Du Buisson observed that Lord Haldane gave some very strong remarks in the House of Lords of the possibility of conscription. At the same time he (the speaker) hoped that the voluntary system would stand the present test, as volunteers made better soldiers after all than conscripts.
Mr. E. R. Fisher said they should pursue the war to its logical conclusion and make another war of the kind impossible. That German bauble had got to be pricked – by a bayonet with a Welshman, he hoped, at the end of the rifle.
The Chairman at the end presented the claims of the Carmarthenshire battalion upon the young men.
