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Mr. Lloyd George is always sure of a warm wolenius from the inhabitant of
1919.
LOSS OF THE SENSE OF TOUCH.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
Nothing more serious than mumps was the cause of a Canadian soldier being discovered who is claimed to be the most remarkable man in the world. This is
anquestionable eurelusion, to be drawn frous a description of the extraordinary warrier gen in the London Lancet.
The man was originally a Bretón saitor. and casted in the Canadian army, Ee pinigrated to Canada eigh; years ago, Eater he developed mumps and was sent to a military hospital where his remark. nike calities were discovered.
hi naive -town. but the peoplesal Criccieth have never betare hall such a chance as a duly 6th, of showing thar admiration for whe is at once their neighbone and friend, the Prime Minis tey and the spokesman of there vivrario country at the trust momentous word council history has ever seen. They rug In the occnsight in a style peculiarly" their | coin, auid seene, which haar never been approached, in the little town even in the most fervent political excitement of past play. the Prime Master's wishy for a few days of complete, rest and quter wasf known to the residents, but it is was felt that some sull recognition of his work at the Pence Conteriner was due from them at his first appearance among them since leaving Paris. Mr. Lloyd Kivorge consented to a short informal recrption, and after a tumultus hour of unges prained rejoicing everyone in the districting him hold a Burning match against the personally saw him home to his house on the Breezy Hill (Brynawelon), and eft him there for the much-needed holi
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It was observed that the patient was well developed, powerful-looking man, of
very cheerful, even, tompornnent, good natared and far remer "from"
retuer d
the neuros tie or hysterical type. But he was found
alt entirely devoid of ensation. El is insensitive.to
to pain and has dorgune rustis sperations without any anaesthetic
bod is plentifully strewn with the sears of wound and burns
Wis that he has inflicted on himself for bots. ar to astonish the chokers. The ther
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ski of his arm and then pick of the char
red fibre. He has never suffered from headache, wothache or pain of any other description.
Th patient posscenes no sense of touch.- Me cannot feel the ground with his frut and has to control his movements by sight. has consequent dificulty in walking
The Prime Minister's sulum as the rear of the train from Euston was the centre of admiring owds, at every stopping at night There 13 complete inability place, but there was nothing in the when his eyes are shit.
to recognize abjects placed in his hand “of a reception at any of them till he left
the train at Rhyl for bus customary drive cold whether ire the temperature of food Elennant distinguish between heat or through the mountains, His progerss was or of the weather, and fever and chills known throughout the district by messages cause him to perspire or shiver, but with pased on from village to village, and out any sensation of cold or heat all the countryfolk nm their children
No Sens
niuscular turned out to cheer their distinguished present and the mat says that he cannot position seris countryman she passed. The Priar tell whether his arms or legs are moving Minister appeared to be revivified by the or not. He has no sense of fatigue and familiar selfry of his beautiful country.
the only
failing was that he is made aware of Tent effort is by his FL is unable to
strengti lized and vio
to the ground. his nose withoirt
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and his car went slowly so thay he might take his fl of the wonderful mountain air, and its sequence, be arrived guiding his hands by sight and if he Criccieth an hour later than was expect be moved about when his eyes are closed ed. Thousands of people crowded the he is ignorant of the fact. Tittle town. English visitors are spending the summer in the righbourhood in fargfuming nitric acid
All notion of smell is absent. numbers, and many came from as far strongly
was ineffective when inbated abellas Carnarvon and Barmouth. They, with the tager townsfolk, waited patiently above thin below the average of intelli mis mentally sound and rather in the shade of a large arch urgence. As a child he appears to have bad greens erected across the roadway oppodije
slight
of touch, and he dates its the mues, or grew in the centre of the complete disappearance from the time town, with, framed in leaves on either when he had an attack of yellow fever. side the words, Croesaw Gartref Sangal at the age of 17.
His sight (Welcome Home) and Congratulations to our Prime Minister. The roadway! was kept by a large force of demobilised soldiers, many wearing ribbons on their tanics or their mufti. Red Cross au PAGR in uniform were in the foremost rank of the waiting crowd, with the schoolchilik" ren, with their fugs, and the luent Volun teers and a banil,
TRIUMNEAL PROCESSION."
and hearing, however, seem to be normal.
ILL-DRESSED STATESMEN.
4 BALD MEN WHO SETTLED THE FATE OF EUROPE.
An unconventional description of the Pence Conference delegates by Mr. Wm. G. Shephard, the American correspondent, on the lines of the tailors" criticism of the Royal Academy, says that 40 members were more or lewe bald, at with mous taches, and 3 with whiskers. winged collar is she statesmen's favou The high rite" bus the palm was carried off by Count Brockdorff, Hartzair, who
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Medicine Day wore a collar at least three inches high decorated in front with tiny wings.
Shortly after seven felock Mr. Lloyd George's car can dun the Jong, white bill to the eastward of the town, and wa brought to standstill at the beginning of the main street. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Lloyd George were prevailed upo alight and enter a wagonette gaily bedecked with tags, which was drawn by the cheering crowd to the centre of the town, where, under the green arch, The English inade it the fashion to be a halt was called, and the crowd pressed careless in dre around for bandshakes..
-was some of the Mr. Lloyd British who first appear in what hither George, though pale and careworn, was co has been considered an impossible com alist his usual buoyant wolf nu hebination Derby hat and a cut-away changed smiles with familiar faces. The frock coat Others followed suit, and crowd sang Land of our Fathers, and one warm spring day Secretary Lansing thes the deputy-chairman of the Erban appeared on the Rue Rivoli wearing his District Council, Mr. Harlech Jones bowler and a very neatly cut-away frock. climbed into the vehicle and spoke a brief) The English and the Americans were welcome. The Premier. after, theking in dear neighbours," in a few portanto, The French delegates never after those who seemed most glad of the op into the short-coated sentences in Welsh, went on
barsiness suits.
"I am sorry that it is only with disappeared in short ecats, culty that I can speak. I am suffering a
American suits. us viewed it the Pence Little from my throat, and the doctor has Conference, seemed to be made to fit their Forbidden me to speak in the open or in particular wearers. The sound old British side for the next fortnight. I thank you it was made to drape and hang. also, my English friends, for your great reps one warm and covered, and it is kindness in coming to welcome nie to my wide-necked, so that a man, if he will, may old bone. I have come from a very diffraw his head down into it like a turtle ruit and anxious task. All beould do was going into its shell.
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to do my best for my native land. The The French busines suit in od in deluge of war over, and the beautiful on certain way, with racy lines and a rainbow of peace is adorning the sky tight waist It is unchangeable. It dur Let us all thank God that it is a peace not ft you. You must fit it. with victory for var nätive land.""
It would appear that every year in
The short ceremony over. The wagonette the United States the silk, hat takes a moved on. Mr. Lloyd George cheerily throughout the decades in Europe. Pre- ew form, while it remains unchanged waving to Dr. Uladstone Jones, the chuir sident Wilson, Colonet House, Mr. White, man of the council, who was confined to Mr. Lansing all seemed unaware o his bed, and other aged friends who greet this fact. Their hats were not alike. ed him from the windowa. Such he were of variods models, ranging scriptions, as Old Schoolmates Greet through suur ten years of changes. Whe You and Mandirsten Friends Greet they were set grouped together in their You were banging prominently in the ilk hats the effect was not so alarming. strerts, and the Prime Minister was Any one of them looked different on! visibly touched by the warm memories of from the European statesmen about him. old asciutions as his eyes lit upon them but when they collected together thus at- Just before Brynowelon was reached there tired and looked different from each other was another arch bearing the words.
Home Sweet Home"and"
it was a matter for comment. Peace." and "On the whole, the Paris Peace Con- with this final promise of the rest for ference was not a great tailoring sucOPY.” whief he had com Mr. Lloyd George entered his home. The crowd made ite way back to the town, where frework`dis- -playa çontinued till a late hour,
A NEW TYPE OF CRIMINAL
Sir Nevil Macready, Chief Commis sioner of the Metropolitan Police, is of "REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING,ision that the war is responsible for increasing the amount of crime in Great Britain and for changing the type al Execu-criminal.
At a meeting of the National tive of the Labour Party, the following resolution was carried:-
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Interviewed by a representative of the Press Association, Sir Nevil and that "That the Labour Party once,
freedom from the restraint of ordinary calls attention to the Government' fail in battle lowered man's respect for ure to prevent merciless exploitation of and fear of that institution, with the re- the public, and especially of low-paid sult that an increase of crime invariably workers, under the present system
of followed war In the present instance Capitalist profiteering, which throughout there was a big rise in the number of roh the war has grown atill more ruthless, beries, and the robber of to-day, grown and is now taking advantage of trade calluas after four years experience of shortage in the supplies of killing, was indifferent alike to the taking FRENCH LESSONS Rome
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Exactions, In pre-war days, said the Chief Com and the Labour Party demands from the Government a definite pledge that it will stairs by a householder in his pyjamas bis missioner,, "if a burglar was met on the either
reduce the cost of living or resiga, first thought was to escape, but 20-day, and give some other Government an op under similar circumstances, the thin portunity of organising the supply and
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