AMMANFORD SOLDIER'S DEATH
Confirmation of the sad news of the death in action of their son, Corporal Jack Williams, referred to in a letter from the Front elsewhere, has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Williams, of Fairview Stores, Walter Road, Ammanford, in a letter from the deceased's chum, who writes from France : —
Oct. 1 st , 1915
“Dear Mrs. Williams, – it is my painful duty to acquaint you of the death of your son Jack. He was killed in action last Saturday, September 25 th .
You have the satisfaction of knowing that he died a hero's death. We (the Welsh) made an attack on the German trenches last Saturday morning, and in the charge Jack, who was my chum, got shot and died soon after. But I am very glad to say that the attack had its desired effect.
I can't write more now, only that I hope that you will accept my deepest sympathy in your bereavement. I myself have lost a good chum, and I can sympathise with you. –
Believe me, yours very sincerely. “FRED H. NICHOLAS.”

On the back of this letter is a note signed by Lieut. A. J. Williams, as follows : —
“Dear Madam, - I should like to add a line to this letter offering you my deepest sympathy at the death of your brave son. He went with the rest of us in a gallant charge. . . . We all liked him for a genial friend, a good soldier, and a highly efficient N.C.O.
I offer you my sincerest condolence at this heavy loss.”

A brother, Private Wyndham Williams, has only just arrived home after sustaining wounds in the face and arm on August 25th ; while another brother, Gunner W. R. Williams, of the Machine gun Section attached to the 4th Welsh, lies wounded in Malta.

Photo : — Corpl. Jack Williams, Welsh Regiment, killed in a bayonet charge on September 25 th , was the son of Mr. John Williams, Walter Road , Ammanford.

AMMANFORD SOLDIER'S DEATH. P5
As briefly recorded in last week's Chronicle, news of the death of Private Arthur Williams, of 33, Heol Las, Ammanford, has been received by his mother, Mrs. Williams. Deceased was in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and the last letter received from him by his mother and sister was dated September 20 th , in which he said he was in the best of health, and asked to be told whether a helmet and scarf had been sent him, as he had not received them. He adds: “I had a letter from Rich. (his brother) to-day. I don't know where hi is but he is not very far. Hope I shall see him when we get back from the trenches. He sent to ask me to send one or two of those postcards which I sent to you. He must think there are shops in these trenches. We have not been out of them for three weeks. You mustn't worry, mother, about him; he will be all right, and tell mother that I am as happy as a lark, and to be proud that she has got two sons fighting for our country. Trusting that God will spare us to come home again after doing our duty. remember me to all I know.
On the 29 th September a letter was received from a nurse of No. 2 Stationary Hospital, B. E. F., stating : — “Dear Mrs. Williams, – I am sorry to tell you that your son, Private A. Williams, died last night of wounds received in action. He was admitted at 8 p.m., and was unconscious, and died very peaceably at 11. He was suffering from abdominal wounds, and the surgeon had no hope from the first. I wish I had more to tell you. It is terribly hard for you to only get bare facts, but unfortunately it is all I can do.”

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Private Stephen Prout, R. W. F., of Ammanford, who was wounded in the same charge and is now in hospital at Rouen, wrote: — “Arthur was the first in the lot to go over the parapet.
I know you will be glad to know he was not bruised with wounds, as it was not shrapnel but a bullet that caused his death. Poor Arthur, after he got wounded, a chap helped him to take his pack off and to creep all the way back to our trenches.
The boys were telling me he was wonderful.”

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FETCHING IN THE WOUNDED. P5
Writing from “Somewhere in France ,” on September 30 th , Corpl. Ben Davies, formerly in the employ of Mr. H. S. Jones; Dental Surgery, College Street, says:
“I am pleased to inform you that I am quite fit and well. I had a letter this morning from David” (his son) “dated September 14 th from Malta. Pleased to say he is also quite well. He is by now in the Dardanelles, as he said that he was leaving Malta for the Dardanelles on the Sunday after he was writing.
I received the Amman Valley Chronicle safe. It was very nice to have some local news from the old locality. You were asking if I would like to have it sent regularly. Well, I do not want to trouble you so much, but I will be very thankful to have any paper when there is something exciting in the dear old homeland.
As regards your offer to send me some weed, well as you know, I am an inveterate smoker, and I may say it's about the only comfort out here; I am pleased to say we are having plenty of tobacco of a sort, but it's very bad stuff, though it burns all right under existing circumstances. It's nothing like the old favourite shag or warlock. I think, after the subject of tobacco, the worst of all is to get a pipe to smoke it in. You were asking about my experiences since I enlisted. Well, it's not much worth repeating; but anyway, after a week in Aldershot in February, three months in Lincoln, a week in York, two months in Ripon, then to France, and here I am.
I am not in what is commonly called a hospital, although we do plenty of hospital work. As you are aware, it's a clearing station. Our work is to take in wounded from the field ambulances, dress their wounds, and send them to the base.
Last Sunday I was sent out to the firing line to fetch in wounded on the old buses which used to run in London before the days of the electric car. There are hundreds in use here. Well, fourteen of us went to the firing line, and the sight we saw I never will forget. We brought back 560 wounded, and after having dressed and fed, sent them back to base. We have not been out since, but the wounded are still coming in in hundreds. According to the patients, the fighting is not so fierce now as it was on Saturday and Sunday, when the British tried to force the German line, the result of which you know better than we do here.”

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REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF CRUCIFIX. P5
Corporal H. Williams, D Company, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, writing to his mother, Mrs. Williams, College Street (formerly of the Amman Valley Café, Wind Street), on September 12 th , says: —
“I received the newspapers quite all right. Pleased to have the Amman Valley Chronicle . It is like being at home again by reading the paper, and I hope you will be so kind as to send it every week. We are still in the trenches, and we are all getting used to it by now. It is quite all right if it keeps fine, but very uncomfortable if it's wet. We have had a blanket given to each of us now, so it will make things a lot warmer, as the winter is not so far off. We all do our own cooking, and I will make a capital cook by the way I am getting along. If these whiz-bangs would not interrupt, everything is going along nicely.
I received a letter from Walter last week, and he is still in the hospital and getting much better. I am very sorry to hear that one of his chums, Joe Carruthers, has been wounded. Well, let us hope it will soon be over and drive these Germans back. They have done a lot of damage to this part of the country. When we look over our trenches we can see for miles. Once a beautiful country is now nothing but a wilderness – houses, trees, all destroyed.
I was in charge of a party of men the other evening to fetch water from a village about a mile from our firing line, and it was something shameful to see the place. All the houses blown practically to the ground, and the poor people must have fled in a great hurry, because we could see all their furniture about the place. As we went along we came across a church with hardly a wall standing; all the lovely tombstones smashed to atoms. The most remarkable thing was the Crucifix, standing about 14 feet high in front of the Church, without a mark on it. We could not remain there very long as we were expecting a shell any moment. The Germans keep on shelling the place. They are nothing but a destructive lot of monkeys; but they will get some iron pills, as we call them, before very long.
We have got some fine guns behind us ready and waiting to give them something to go on with. We go out at night as a working party in front of the German lines, and it is amusing to hear them calling over to us. They are very inquisitive; they wish to know all about us. They speak English very good. We have got to keep well down, as their snipers are hidden all over the place. They are only watching a chance to have a shot at us. I have drawn a little sketch of a part of the village, so you can see for yourself how the place looks like here.”

FIRST NEWS OF AMMANFORD BOY'S DEATH.
In a subsequent letter, dated September 27 th , Corporal Williams writes: —
“Just a line to let you know that I am quite well, and thanks for the parcel, which I appreciated very much. We have been in action the other morning, and I have come out of it without a scratch. I am one of the lucky ones. Jack Williams, of High Street, who used to be in Higgs, the barber, at Quay Street, has died of wounds. We were in the same engagement. I am very sorry for his people, because on of his brothers was wounded the other day.
We are still in the trenches, and hope to be out for a little rest before long. Some of the men need it very much. I received the newspapers quite all right, and it is a treat to read the news about Ammanford. There are a good many boys from Ammanford and Glanamman, and they are all very anxious to see the paper. The next time you send a parcel, please don't put any fruit in it, because there are trees loaded with fruit out here; and we are getting tired of them.”

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LOCAL MEETING. P7
Mr. D. Jones said some of their Ammanford boys had been unfortunately wounded, and would very likely soon be coming home, and he thought the Council should take the matter in hand to see whether they could not welcome them. The Chairman said they had been dealing with this matter in certain of the collieries, committees being elected here and there when any of their friends came home. The thing was done a few days before they went back, but some men who had few friends were neglected. It was only right and fair they as members of the Council, representing the people of Ammanford, should do the same with everyone, whoever he was. He suggested the Council should be a reception committee to give the men a hearty welcome, as some of them had had. It was not very much for them to get up a concert with a few speakers and reciters and singers. He had been to several smoking concerts in the town, and was in favour of establishing a reception committee to deal with all the men in the Ammanford area.
Mr. D. G. Davies said he was very pleased this matter had been brought forward, as the question had come rather forcibly upon him within the last few days. Unfortunately, his family had got one of their boys seriously injured, and he (Mr. Davies) had occasion to visit one of the largest hospitals in London – St. George's, Waterloo.
After seeing his brother-in-law, he asked permission to go round the hospital, and the beds were occupied with young men under all sorts of conditions. That some of these young men who were sacrificing their lives should come to the town without recognition was unthinkable. He thought if anyone deserved a welcome when they returned to their home, it was these young fellows. The town ought to be alive with bunting to show that the inhabitants appreciated the deeds they had done. Kitchener's Army had done well, and they should show the men they thought so. (Hear, hear).
Mr. W. N. Jones said they could not do too much to show their appreciation of these young fellows going out and fighting for them and defending their country.
He proposed a special committee be appointed that night, to be called a Reception Committee, and that they should take any action they liked, and be backed up by the Council in everything they did.
Mr. B. R. Evans seconded, remarking that the men went with their lives in their hands, and did not know whether they would come back. When they did, the town should do all they could to receive them well. The Clerk wished to associate himself with the obvious sense of the Council, and if the Reception Committee could make any use of him, he would be most pleased and most glad to render any assistance he could.
The motion was agreed to unanimously, and the whole Council and officials were elected a Reception Committee, with power to add to their number from outside, it being understood that every district should be represented.

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LETTERS FROM THE FRONT. P5
The following are interesting extracts from letters to his wife by Brigade Quartermaster-Sergt. W. E. Morgan, of Tanybryn, Tycroes, who enlisted in the Army early in September, 1914. He joined the R.F.A. as a gunner, rising to his present rank after several promotions. As many of our readers know, he served in South Africa in French's Scouts, in which corps he also reached the rank of Quartermaster-Sergt. His letters are from the Dardanelles : —
CHARMED LIVES.
August 24th
“I am very sorry I have not been able to write to you sooner; first, because of the scarcity of paper and envelopes (I have found some now); second, because we have been working day and night.
Since we landed, our Brigade has not been out of action, all the boys working at the guns day and night. I generally get my little rest in the daytime, as I have to draw rations, &c., from early evening until midnight, and in the early morning, as it is too dangerous to do so in the daytime, being that we are under heavy shell fire from the Turks all day. I have had a few narrow escapes, but luck has been on my side so far; trusting that it will last.
We are not having any luxuries here, such as the troops in France get – bull beef and biscuits being our standby so far; but no doubt we shall have things improved when we get in better working order. We are very lucky as to casualties in the Brigade – only one sergeant killed (accidentally, with his own rifle) and about 18 wounded, and only one wounded in the column – an officer wounded in the hand by shrapnel the first day he was in action.
The boys in the column seem to bear charmed lives; they seem to take no more notice of a large shell bursting amongst them than if a cracker had just gone off.
Our shoeing smith had his towel taken out of his hand last Monday by a shell, which burst, killing some of our horses by his side; another shell took our cookhouse away, not more than six yards from where I sleep, no one being injured.
Myself and a sergeant are dug well in under a large stone, and we are pretty comfortable in our dug-out. It is surrounded by shell boxes filled with earth, with a wagon cover on top to keep the sun off, and covered over by bushes. A large shell has just gone past and burst among a lot of engineers, but no damage done.
Jonah Joshus did not leave England on the same boat as we did. He arrived in Egypt a week after we did, and arrived here at the Dardanelles after us. He is now in his dug-out about 30 yards form me. I saw him last night, when he came across to see if he could get something to smoke. I was lucky to have a few fags, so gave him some. We have had an ounce of tobacco issued out to us as a comfort since we have landed here, so when you find time send men a few packets of zig-zag paper.
We have been camped in the same place for nine days. Some of the boys of Ammanford who were in Ireland , are out here. They came to know that Jonah and I were here, so they came up to see us. More of them are expected in a few days. I have also a man who used to be shunting with the Rhos engine. He is here with the Territorials. My table on which I am writing this is my mirror.”
MEETING AMMANFORD FRIENDS.
September 2nd .
“Just a few lines to let you know that I am still uninjured and happy under the circumstances.
We are having plenty of shelling every day; but our good luck still lasts. They gave my Brigade a terrific bombardment yesterday, but we were very fortunate, only tow officers and tow men being wounded. One of the officers had both his legs broken, and is not expected to live.
The Welsh Territorials are camped half a mile from here – chaps from Ammanford, Llandilo, and Llanelly. I took a walk down under shell fire to see if I knew any of them, and met two or three that I knew from Ammanford; also some from Capel Hendre.
One man from Ammanford used to live at Penybank – Sergt. Dai Thomas. I also met the Thomas who used to drive out for Rees Jones cabinet maker. He was intending to come up to see me the next night, but was never seen after a fight they had during the day; so he is reported missing, poor chap. Dai Hughes, Tan-y-bryn, I have seen twice, and he looks well, nearly too fat to move. I was so pleased to see him, and he to see me. He had heard that Twm was out here, but had not seen him.”
SHRAPNEL IN THE BACK.
September 8th .
“I received your letter of August 13th safe yesterday; also the papers, tobacco, and envelopes. I know for certain that some of my letters and papers have been blown to atoms, as I saw our Division mail bags shelled by the Turks, thirteen men being killed at the same time. I was one of the group, being on the landing stage where this happened, at the time. I have a memento of a shrapnel which struck me in the back last week; but it had burst too far away to hurt me. our Major was with me at the time. We are under heavy gunfire day and night, and our good luck holds still. May it continue. Corpl. McGraith, who was my deputy, was wounded in three places; also a gunner seriously wounded, with a piece of the casing of the shell inside him. They were both lying in their dug-out at the time.
The Lieutenant who was injured last week died on the hospital ship the same night. Jonah has not received letters nor papers since he landed here, and thinks he has been forgotten. I have not been well lately, not being able to eat, and you would not know me now, as my clothes hang on me like a sack. Am taking four days rest, by Captain's orders, so shall try to write some letters.”
FATE OF TWM HUGHES.
September 15th .
“We are still in the same place, well dug in, as the winter has set in. Got up yesterday morning at 5 a.m., soaked to the skin; only went to bed at three. Evidently it had been raining, as there were pools of water under me; but I have experienced it before, so as a soldier did not worry.
All day yesterday, midst shot and shell, I tried to make a good roof to keep the rain out of my palace, so think I shall be able to keep most of the rain outside.
Would you like to have a new breed of flies? We can't sleep during the night nor eat food in the day for flies; they are the worst things here. We have been through hell here; I don't want to go through another like it. Was up all night last night, soaked to the skin; can't sleep to-day for flies.
I expect you know by now that Tom Hughes is dead. About a week ago I went up to the first line of trenches, and coming back, someone called ‘Mr. Morgan' after me, so I stopped, and after shaking hands and a few words (I did not know to whom I was speaking)
I found I was talking to a son of Morris, Old Cross Hotel, Ammanford, and he told me that poor Twm and thirteen others were killed by the same shell. I arrived back in camp about 10.30 p.m.; but in spite of my weariness (I was so cut up at the news), I walked half a mile to break the sad news to his brother Dai. I found that he had gone up to the trenches, so found the means to let him know by one of his corporals.
Give his mother my deepest sympathy. I have lost a true friend, but he died a brave man; and here's hats off to his memory. Can't write more now.

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“RARE SPORT” AT THE DARDANELLES.
Sergeant R. Higgs, Welsh Regiment, at the Dardanelles, writing to Mr. David Bowen, Bettws, Ammanford, says: —
“You ought to see us all go heads down and heels up as the shells burst over us. It was rare sport, very exciting, and to me the more the excitement the more the enjoyment. One day a steel piece of a ‘Jack Johnson' dropped only a few yards from me while I was drying on the beach. It was quite hot when I picked it up.
We have been in the trenches for nineteen consecutive days, two and a half days actually fighting in the firing line. Out of the part of the line I advanced with I am the sole survivor. Another line came up, and I was the only one able to rise and go on with them. I saw ghastly sights that I will never forget.
The casualties were very heavy.”

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PROGRESS OF THE WAR P?
RELENTLESS PRESSURE ON RUSSIA
The news form Russian on Saturday was not so reassuring. The position on General Ruszky's front had grown somewhat worse, despite a magnificent Russian resistance.
Hindengurg's relentless pressure was widening the wedge between Dvinsk and Vilna, and the Germans had advanced twenty miles east of the railway connection the two towns by capturing Widsy after house-to-house fighting.
Petrograde admits a rather serious development northeast of Vilna in the crossing of the River Vilia. Some smaller streams are still to be forced, but the Vilia was the main obstacle. By the arrival of reinforcements the situation in the south was more equal, but the enemy was holding on with difficulty to the River Strypa position, very desperate battles being fought
Russian torpedo-boats have achieved another success. Near Sinope, a Turkish port in the Black Sea, they have sunk a fleet of Turkish sailing ships laden with munitions. The crews were taken prisoners.
CASUALTIES IN AIR RAIDS.
The Press Bureau on Friday night issued a description of the recent Zeppelin raid on London, the casualties in which have now been increased to 38 killed or died of wounds and 124 injured.
The absolute futility and folly of the raid is demonstrated by an account of the places damaged. A public house was blown to pieces, a bomb dropped through the roof of a workman's dwelling, killing two children in their bed, a stable was destroyed by a third, and a fourth killed some women and children in a three-storey flat, burying several little ones underneath the debris. A fifth dropped in a street, killing nine persons in a passing motor bus and injuring eleven others.
TIRELESS ITALIANS.
Fighting among the Alpine peaks, the Italian mountain detachments give little rest to the Austrians. Last week they reached the enemy's trenches after crossing glaciers, partly destroyed them, and returned to their positions without in any way being disturbed.
In addition to the usual chemicals in use by the Austrian troops, examination has revealed the presence of large quantities of prussic acid in the bombs used on the Carsic front.
RUSSIAN ARMY UNTRAPPED
The Wilna army has extricated itself safely from its greatest perils; Hindeburg's trap has caught nothing; and the Russian retreat now continues on orderly lines. There are, of course, considerable difficulties still to be surmounted. But it is now reasonably clear that, though strong rearguards are still fighting in a salient near Oshmiana, the main Wilna army group has escaped Hindenburg's claws.
It is very significant that the Berlin communiqué should again be unable to report the capture of any body of prisoners or booty.
The news from the Dwinsk region is also a little better. At two points – Widsy and near Illukst – the Russians have recovered lost ground. Meanwhile there is a recurrence of violent fighting in the district south of Riga.
FRENCH ADVANCE
The sustained artillery combat of the last few weeks on the French front, which, as Sire John French showed on Wednesday, is now spreading to the British lines, appears at last to be developing more interesting events in the West.
An advance across the Aisne-Marne canal, runs from Berry-au-Bac southwards through Rheims, is reported by the French communiqué; and Berlin admits that the Germans have been obliged to retreat from the fortified sluice-houses on the canal at Sapigneul – a withdrawal which makes easier further step forward by our Allies.
SURPRISE FOR TURKS.
A communication from Constantinople states that on the Dardanelles front on September 18 th Turkish artillery dispersed enemy troops who had constructed fortifications before our right wing in the neighbourhood of Anafarta.
The artillery of our left wing destroyed by its fire a large portion of trenches and of a position in which bomb-throwers had established themselves near Ariburnu. Troops who were entrenching themselves near Seddulbahr were compelled by heavy artillery fire to abandon their work.
The enemy, with a great concentration of artillery, opened an unexpected fire on our left wing, but were unable to inflict losses upon us.

OUR CARTOONIST. P7

We are starting a series of cartoons by a local artist, Mr. T. C. Morgan, of Talbot Road, Ammanford, and feel sure their cleverness will appeal to our readers.
That Mr. Morgan is no novice with his pen is shewn by a recent incident. He applied in all sincerity to a School of Drawing for an advanced course, submitting some of his sketches. The Principle wrote back to say he could not teach him anything, but appreciated the joke of his application for tuition. Again Mr. Morgan was on his holidays at Llandudno, and in the same compartment of the train was the manager of a music hall. In conversation it transpired that one of the “turns” at the hall engaged by the latter was a “Lightning Artist,” who was indisposed, and before parting Mr. Morgan had been offered and accepted an engagement for a fortnight at the Egyptian Hall, Llandudno. His success was so complete that he was immediately offered a three months' engagement under the same management. His work gained great praise from the local newspapers. Two of Mr. Morgan's drawings appear in this issue of the Chronicle , and we may point out that to appreciate the “odour” of the bad egg, the newspaper should be held at arm's length.

Hold newspaper at arm's length to appreciate the “odour” of this “Bad Egg.”
A couple of years ago, we may add, Mr. Morgan, who is a keen student of mysticism and legerdemain, contributed a series of articles to the “News of the World” which created a flutter in the dovecotes of the “Spiritualists,” and caused the dispersion of many of the fraudulent persons who were duping the credulous public with table turning, spirit rapping, &c.

WOUNDED P5
Private David Anderson, 4 th Welsh of Rock House, Capel Hendre, near Ammanford, was wounded in the severe fighting in Sulva Bay, and is now in Alexandria Hospital, suffering from bayonet wounds.

In a letter to his parents, who reside in Malvern House, Margaret Street, Ammanford, Private James P. Mortimer, who at 17 years of age is in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, states he is on board a hospital ship in the Mediterranean, with shrapnel wounds. Latterly he has been with Private Jas. James, also of Ammanford, attached to the machine-gun section of the Australian Light Horse, and has seen nearly three months fighting.

Private W. Hopkins, of Tycroes, is in a London hospital, suffering from wounds received in the Dardanelles while serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Private James Merriman, of Gethin Terrace, Penybank, who is a married man, had a warm welcome on coming home after being wounded in the war, and a house-to-house collection in the neighbourhood was made for him on Saturday last, a nice sum being realised. He belongs to the 1 st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, attached to the 173 rd Company of Royal Engineers.
He went out to France on November 1 st last year, and came through the battle of Neuve Chapelle unscathed, and whilst engaged in sinking a pit with the Royal Engineers on the 25 th of May, he was caught by shrapnel, and narrowly escaped with his life, receiving an ugly wound above the right eye. He was removed to hospital, and later brought over to Albany Road Hospital , Cardiff . About three weeks ago he was sent to a Red Cross Hospital at Sketty. He has also had a great reception by the residents of Nantymoel, where he has been living.

DEFENCE OF THE REALM ACT.Back Page
Ammanford Man Charged.
Robert John Pope, of Walter Road, was charged at a special sitting of the Ammanford Police Court of Thursday, before Mr. Henry Herbert and Mr. John Lewis, with being an alien enemy who had failed to register. He was also charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with uttering words likely to cause disaffection among His Majesty's subjects.
Alfred Bradbrook, a private in 4 th Yorks. Regiment, said that on Monday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, he was at the Cross Inn Hotel, and saw the prisoner there. The conversation turned upon the war, and the prisoner said they were very slow in allowing Germans to act as censors passing letters to the prisoners interned in England; that his father was a German, and was a censor in the North Hants. encampment, where he was interned. He said also that he was a German himself.
Witness told him he would have to report him, and he then said he was not a German; there was no need to report him. He said witness knew nothing about signalling just because he was a soldier.
“What do you know about the Army,” he said. “Can you show me any signals?”
Witness told him he was not a signaller, and then prisoner made some signs with his hands, and said they represented German aeroplane signals.
Witness said he had better come to the police station, and he would report him there. He did not want to go at first, but witness and a man named James caught hold of him, and he then said he would walk with out trouble. He took them past the police station nearly to the recruiting office, and then James said they were going wrong. They went back to the police station, where he was handed over.
Witness, was a stranger in Ammanford, and prisoner gave him a piece of paper with his father's address on it in north Hants. He wanted to bet that he could show a letter from his father to prove he was acting as a German censor, but on a man offering to bet he said he could not lay his hands on the letter at once. He was sober, though he had had a few drinks, and knew what he was talking about.
Thos. Henry James, of 20, New Road, Ammanford, a collier corroborated.
Inspector Davies said that on Monday, about 6.30 p.m., the prisoner was brought by the last witness, and on their statement he charged prisoner with being a German subject and not registering himself.
He replied: “I don't think I am a German subject, although my step-father is a German subject, and is interned in North Hants. camp, and has been there since the commencement of the war.”
Witness also charged him with wilfully uttering words likely to cause disaffection among the civilian population, contrary to the Defence of the Realm Act.
In reply to the Clerk, the Inspector said he had made enquiries of the Newport police, and found prisoner's father was a German subject, and was interned as stated, but in London.
The prisoner was not a German subject according to the mother's marriage certificate and prisoner's birth certificate.
The police told him they had made enquiries at his mother's in Newport, and she had buried his father 31 years ago, and had been married to a German subject and had four children by him. He was satisfied prisoner was a British subject.
The Clerk said the onus was on the prisoner to prove he was not a German. Certificates did not speak for themselves, and someone had to prove the fact.
In reply to questions, the Inspector said he withdrew the first charge, but proceeded on the other.
Prisoner, on being asked if he had anything to say, stated that it was a misunderstanding that he was a German. He said his step-father was a German, and they took it for granted he said his father. He was a British subject, born in Cardiff.
Prisoner: my step-father is a letter sorter; that is his work in camp.
Mr. J. Lewis: Sorting is different to censoring; and prisoner said the British were slack in allowing German censors.
Mr. H. Herbert: How did you come to know aeroplane motions?
Prisoner: I don't know the motions at all.
The Chairman said he had been very foolish in talking like this in a public place. He would have to be very careful in future. As he had been living here some time, and had been locked up three days, he would have to pay 30s., including costs.

LOCAL WARRIORS. P6

JENKIN DAVIES.
Jenkin Davies, the Ammanford A. F. C. goalkeeper, has been in hospital at Alexandria, Egypt, suffering from sunstroke, sustained at the Dardanelles.
Davies was very popular in the town and had done good work for the team; he being considered to be the most capable goalie the club ever had. At the outbreak of the war he, being a Naval Reservist, was called up, but was transferred to the Royal Naval Division, and took part in the defence of Antwerp. Happily, he has now recovered.

Notes of the Week. P4
The recruiting rally was in many parts of the district distinctly disappointing to the authorities, and it would seem that the voluntary system, at least in the Amman Valley, is played out.
There seems to be a wholly unnecessary fear that men recruited now will have to spend the winter in the trenches, which is absurd, of course, as they will take at least six months to train, and can only during that period take the place of those men who have answered their country's call and are anxiously awaiting their turn to go abroad. It is to be feared that even now quite a large number of young men altogether fail to realise their country's peril, otherwise they would accept their responsibility and voluntarily do their share.
It is somewhat of a stigma on the character of Welshmen, especially those living in the country districts, that while all the English boys working on the farms took the first opportunity to join the Colours, they are content to remain behind and allow others to fight their battles for them.
But as Lord Kitchener has stated, he “knows the number of men he wants, where they live, and the number on their doors, and when he wants them, if they don't come, he will fetch them.”

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RECRUITING RALLY. Back Page
Disappointed Meetings.
Meetings were held throughout the county on Saturday, but it is to be feared their success was problematical in regard to attainment of the object in view.
At Ammanford there was a parade of the V. T. C., headed by the Ammanford Urban Silver Band, but although the streets were crowded with young men, there was a very sparse attendance at the meeting held in the Drill Hall. Mr. E. R. Fisher presided, and referred to the objects of the meeting.
Mr. John Lewis, J.P., lamented the fact that there were “thousands of young men wasting their lives in frivolous entertainment in these serious times.” He illustrated the situation in Russia by a large sketch map on the wall, and also showed the advance of the Allies in France in a similar manner. He touched on the Bulgarian crisis, and made an earnest appeal for recruits, urging that England and Wales were well worth fighting for.
The vicar of Ammanford made use of strong remarks regarding the young men who still held back. He was ashamed of the young men of the district, who spent their time in horse racing and billiard playing when they ought to be doing something very much better.
Ald. W. N. Jones said he had failed to get a meeting at both Cwmamman and Penygroes that afternoon, because most of the young men had gone to the races at Ammanford.
Captain Baker, who was to have addressed the meeting, thought it should be more profitable, perhaps, if he went down to the Square, and he did so, and there addressed a considerable gathering. The net result of the meeting was practically nil.
There was a crowded gathering at the Town Hall, Llandovery, presided over by the Mayor, Mr. J. C. V. Pryse-Rice. The speakers included Mr. C. P. Lewis, Mr. Mervyn Peel, the Rev. H. Ifor James, the Vicar (The Rev. D. Edmomdes-Owen), a soldier who had returned from the front, and Lieut. Skule, the recruiting officer for the district. It was stated that, so far as the town itself was concerned, recruiting results had been satisfactory. In the rural districts, however, the reverse was the case.
Llandilo also had a meeting, but at Llandebie the speakers failed to get an audience.
A well-attended recruiting meeting was held at the Ystradowen Council School, Cwmllynfell, on Monday evening, commencing at 6.30. County Councillor Gwilym Vaughan presided over the meeting.
Ald. W. J. Williams, Ammanfryn, Brynamman, gave a Welsh address, and pressed upon those present the urgency of the present situation, and appealed to the young men to recruit.
Mr. Jenkin Jones, C.M., Brynamman, then addressed the meeting in English, giving a fine descriptive view of the mode of education in Germany; how they teach their people t consider England of no value as compared with their Germany.
These gentlemen then left to address another meeting at Brynamman.
Ald. W. N. Jones, Tirydail, gave a very inspiring address, pressing upon the young people the urgency, of their joining the Colours at present, as this is a critical time.
The voluntary system is on its trial, and he hoped that the old system would be upheld to the utmost, as it had proved such a success in the past. He gave many instances of past incidents, both in English and Welsh, as usual.
The Chairman urged on young people t give their names to either Mr. Lemuel Powell, the schoolmaster, or to Mr. Thomas Griffiths, Ystradowen House, the local agent.
A vote of thanks to the various speakers and chairman was proposed by Mr. R. D. Powell, D.C., and seconded by Mr. T. Griffiths.
A good many mothers and young women attended, as this was the first meeting held at these schools, which were only recently opened.

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WAR OFFICE INSTRUCTIONS. P?
The recruiting authorities throughout the country on Monday received some important instructions from the War Office.
These instructions refer to an immediate recruiting canvass of men, eligible for military service, who have not been “starred.” There is nothing in the instructions to indicate the meaning of “starred,” but presumably the word refers to those men of recruiting age who, though their names appear on the “pink forms” as suitable subjects for enlistment, are yet held exempt because they are engaged in some one of the rather numerous trades scheduled as war trades.
In this category would be included not only munitions-making, but work on the railways and “Government work” generally. The text of the instructions is as follows :—
As it is evidently the duty of every man who has not been starred to at once join the Army, he being no longer required for necessary services in his country, you are to take whatever steps you consider most effective to induce such men to join the Army. In carrying out this you will doubtless be assisted by the local authorities.
You should see in your district that no un-starred man is able to complain any longer that he is not wanted in the Army as he has not been fetched.
You should report the number of non-starred men in your district who refuse to five their services to the country by enlisting in the Army, where they are so much needed.

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RECRUITED AT AMMANFORD IN JUNE. 1915.

David Wm. Davies		Grenig Bridge Glanamman	R.F.A.
Rhys Thomas		Grenig Villa Glanamman	R.F.A.
Edgar Rees Jones		Pleasant Terrace Garnant	R.A.M.C.
Johnny Evans		Woodlands Garnant	R.A.M.C.
James Stannard		2 Anthony Terrace Ceidrim Rd	Somerset L.I.
David Griffiths		Varteg Garnant	R.A.M.C.
Evan Barton		30 Harold Street Aford	12th Welsh Regt.
Arthur Wade		Mount Villa Fferws Hill	R.F.A.
John Watkins		7 Brynrhos Glanamman	Somerset L.I.
Wm. Jno. Williams		Grenign Bridge Glanamman	Somerset L.I.
John Davies		Bryngrenig Glanamman	Somerset L.I.
Thos. Wm. Rees		Brodawel Stepney Rd Garnant	Somerset L.I.
Benji Evans		1 Dyffryn Road Aford	15th Welsh Regt.
Wm. Henry Modley		3 Coronation Terrace Maesyquarre Rd	15th Welsh Regt.
Wm. Sullivan		37 Harold Street Aford	R.G.A.
Edmund Edwards		3 Pontamman Road Aford	A.S.C.
Fredk. Garland		Pontamman House Aford	A.S.C.
Henry Robertson		42 Quay Street Aford	A.S.C.
Ernest Saunders		Maldern House Aford	18th Bantams
Thos. Joseph John		Church Hill Hse. Church Street Aford	12th Welsh Regt.
Ezekiel Pennington		Walter Road Aford	R.F.A.
Thos. John Bowen		Rhosyfedwen Bettws	R.F.A.
Thos. Henry Watkins		13 Florence Road Aford	R.F.A.
Willie Edgar George		21 Pentwyn Road Aford	R.F.A.
Harry Thomas		18 Cathan Terrace Pantyffynnon	18th Welsh Regt.
Maraly Roberts		Llwynyrhaf Fach Aford	15th Welsh Regt.
Walter Williams		Tycanol Llandilo Rd Llandebie	Rifle Brigade
Evan Llewellyn Davies		Cwmplur Pantyffynnon	R.F.A.
Wm. Jenkins		Bryngoleu Twyn Garnant	R.A.M.C.
Lemuel Edwin Rees		Amman View Garnant	A.S.C.
Wm. John Jones		Saints Cottage Garnant	A.S.C.
Stanley Davies		Dynevor Road Garnant	A.S.C.
David Henry Jones		Brook Villa Garnant	A.S.C.
Richard Ed. Lang		Cawdor Cottage Glanamman	Welsh Guards
James Dunlop		Margaret Street Aford	R.F.A.
Dd. John Evans		Glancathan Garnswllt	A.S.C.
Joshua Lewis Rees		Troedyrhiw Garnswllt	A.S.C.
Llewelyn John Griffiths		Mount Pleasant Garnant	18th Bantams
Wilfred Lloyd		53 Harold Street Aford	Welsh Guards
Albert Edwd. Jolley		30 Bettws Road Aford	A.S.C.
Bevan Rees		Muriel Villa Penybank Aford	12th Batt. Welsh
Thos. Edward Brown		London Hse. Garnant	12th Batt. Welsh
Daniel Weedon		Pantyrodin Llandebie	12th Batt. Welsh
John Morris		Llandebie	12th Batt. Welsh
John Littler		9 Hopkinstown Aford	A.S.C.
George Leeming		Myrtle Villa Heolybrain Tycroes	A.S.C.
Ernest Edwins		Wind Street Aford	South Lancs Regt.
Thomas Clarke		12 Wernoleu Rd Hopkinstown	South Lancs Regt.
Wm. Dicks		Railway View Llandebie	K.R.R.
John Jenkins		49 Wind Street Aford	Seaforth H'landers
Arthur Roberts		Brynamlwg Garnant	R.F.A.
Walter Ambrose Frattini		6 Iscennen Road Aford	R.A.M.C.

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