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BETTING IN CHURCH.

Boys Gamble on Numbers of

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The gambling fever is causing some alarm in South Wales. It is not only on horses or an' their favourite football team that the workers are "having a flutter."

Select little parties have for Home time boon engaged in patting their money

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NOTICE.

FARM NEWS.

POULTRY

We are now in a position to supply our Own Farm on Fed Chickens and Capons at the undermentioned prices:--

the number of the next tram

car that shall come into view, Chickens

but now Mr. Evan Lougher, s Merthyr social worker, declares that practically every Sunday night sweepatakes take place- even among the boys in the eburches and chapels on the number of the first bgmn an- nounced by the preacher.

Should this belting habit spread much more and money remain as plentiful as it has been of late, the 3000 Welsh

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Wives of working men are so much in the grip of the fever) that money which should have been spent on food for the children has in numberless cases found its way to the bookmaker's) pocket Heavy unpati bills shown in many tradesmen's books are attributed to the wo- men using their housekeeping| money for backing their fancy.

On a fine Sunday afternoon gambling schools, composed of well-dressed, prosperous-looking young miners may be encountered in all parts of the Welsh mining valleys.

The games played range from pitch and toss to bridge and large. sums change bands. As a rule. the schools are well guarded by & safety chain of entries.

They also receive valuable assistance from the residents of neighbouring bouses, who set danger signals in their windows at the approach of the police.

JUTLAND MYSTERY

Sir Robert Arbuthnot's Sacrifice.

One of the many reasons why the official account or accounts

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The Banque Industrielle de Chins beg to inform the holders of the temporary bonds of the Credi: Three Chinamen and their National 1919, which have been English wives attended Bow subscribed through them, that County Court the other day. same must be exchanged in their A serious. Sira as Cairo bos/Paris Office for definite boods destroyed the well-known depart before March 1921. mental stores of Cicurel & Co. The damage is considerable, being estimated at £250,000.

NIGHT-TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME

Lord Inchcape's fund for King tion with the Seamen's Hospital to take Pinkettes, the gentle little George's sanatorium in counee-

fif Earl Beatty and Lord Jellicoe Society now amounts of £74.464. laxatives. Their good effects are continue to differ) of the Battle! A magnificent screen, a gift off experienced next morning, and

without griping or purging.

o Jutland should be promptly extreme beauty and obviously of with all existing great valus, from the Emperor

St. Andrew's Day was celebrated by ti e golf enthusiasts of the published, Services in a frien y mater at Fanling.

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dispel constipation, core bilious the memory of Rear-Admiral Aabassador. P.M. Sir Robert Arbuthnot, who died

Lord Forester, the new Governess. sick headaches, liverisbness. callantly in action.

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SCOTTISH VETO

CAMPAIGN FACTORS.

The Women's Vote, the Churches, and Labour..

The official despatches, issued receiving the most cordial recepor at 60 cents the vial, from The shortly after the battle, which tion in Sydney, and he created a have been so often and so severely favourable impression there and Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 96 1 criticized... deal thus with this

Szechuen Road. Shanghai. in Melbourne. tremendous episode in the great

The marriage arranged between drama: It is probable that Sir Foreign Offer, Delhi. and Doris directed to be changed to "P" Clarmbat Percival Skrine, I.C.S., Parliament. The letter Was Robert Arbuthnot, during his en-Forbes Whitelaw will take place Roman. gagement with the enemy's light. cruisers, and in his desire to com-1

in Bombay at the end of Novem- plete their destruction, was not

ber."

The Tailor and Cutter reports aware of the approach of the enemy's heavy ships owing to the that 5,000 men's suits are being mis: until be found himself in imported from Belgium each close proximity to the (German) month, and are being sold to the main fleet, and before he could wholesale clothing trade at 27s,

each. withdraw his ships they were caught under a heavy Sre and disabled."

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There is another possibility. He may have made this supreme- y daring more with a deliberate double

purpose to cover the deployment of the British Battle

The German Ambassador, Herr Sthamer, visited Buckingham tials to the King. Palace and presented his creden- Semi-state coaches, with liveried coachmen and attendants, from the Royal news, conveyed the Ambassadör to and from the Palace.

There

Should policewomen be given the power of arrest? So far, they have no such power in London, and people are wondering whether it would be well to give it them. Everybody admits that. the policewoman bas done! eloquence of her compelling eye. splendidly. All is done by the and it is doubtful whether she would do better if she were given authority to utter the dread formuls: "You come along o me."-"London Etening News." classes is close. The only Church Fleet, which was then coming up

The Admiralty was 108 years which was uncertain on the questo the north of him, and to use likely to be challenged. Nor-battle was won in 1805, and the in ascertaining and publishing The mocopoly of the kilt is the facts about Trafalgar. That tion, the Church of Scotland, has his torpedoes against the German wegians (says "Passar By" in Admiralty report on its tactics this year come into line and de- battleships. He probably expected The Bulletint are casting enrious did not appear till 1913. clared for "no licence.". The the British battleshipstodeplay to- great popular Church, the Unitedwards the enemy, and was anxious the advice which has been given lay with the truth about Jutland, glances on it as an outcome of can be no excuse for similar de- To the extent that Scotland organisation.

Free, is practically a temperance to prevent any Germany des- goon dry this autumn under the enthusiastic than the smaller were deploying. In that case, bis

It is only less troger attack on them while they Commision which has been at present Earl Beatty and Lord Local Veto Act three factors will Churches--the Methodist. Bap manoeuvre was a great ons and healthiest dress. They have unflicting accounts. Should it be deliberating on what is the Jellicoe are said to give con- abare the responsibility--the tists, women's vote, the Churches, and

Congregationalists worthy of an officer famous in that there is nothing to beat the are to be tested, this is easy animously come to the decision asked how divergent statements Labour. I have made inquiries neutral. but in some districts I

Roman Catholics are officially the fleet as a thruster." in all three directions (writes a

This plan cf using torpedoes was told that priests were spelling on the Germans he had often

enough if the Admiralty will dis- special corresponcent of the Dady neutrality dry and preaching discussed. If such was his inten-at a meeting of the Chequers Mail,"

The Prime Minister presided close all the documents.-" Daily; News, from Glasgow) and I am accordingly. inclined to put first the women's

tion his great sacrifice was in Trost, held at 10 Downing Street, As was to be expected (saya) vote.

The third, and to an English- the British Battle Fleet away of the Chequers as a gift to the unemployed

vaio. Lord Jellicoe deployed of Farebam regarding his offer Bolsheviks are exploiting the to hear a statement by Lord Lee the Daily Record, the Scottish A campaign of great intensity man the strangest, element in the from the Germans into has been brought to bear on the dry campaign is Scottish labour.jenormous inelastic line,

to further their women from the top of the social These

nation Lord Lee expressed the campaign of social upheaval. A -ladder to the bottom. Their extremists of the Clyde. They could take effect."--Daily Mail.

merely the minutes passed before its fire wish that the actual transfer of meeting of between 400 and 500 patriotiam, their motherhood, include large sections of the

the Chequers to the Prime unemployed was addressed by their pride have all been invoked.Lanarkshire miners. Every kind

Minister be made as from Jan- Mr. John Maclean and Mr. The women of the slums have of labour conference in Scotland

uary 1 next. The trustees grate-"Sandy" Ross at Jail Square, been ingeminated with a senge has reiterated its demand not!

fully and cordially accepted his Glasgow Green, yesterday.. Mr. of their power. The "drys" claim merely for "no licence" but for

offer.

Maclean said this was the initial that in Court after Court 19 out prohibition.

Naval Estimates amount to the pix or quality of gold and agitation in the city, which he Agreeably to annual practice, meeting of the unemployed of 20 women are for them.

There is no alliance between of 33 per cent. over last year, during the year 1919-20 was this demand of the unemployed must 1,091,000,000 france, an increase silver plate assayed and marked had decided to lead. The first The second "dry" factor is the has adopted its policy for its own The new programme will include the Incorporation of Goldsmiths must get food first, by constitu- Labour and the Churches. Labour chiefly due to increased costs. day tried by the Assay Master of be for food not work They churches, and their alliance with ends or because of its own con-cruisers, twelve destroyers, sabin presence of the Wardens, and tional the women at any rate of thevictions, and not because religious marines and various types of the same was found to be of the methods, and then they would rate of the middle and upper influence is strong in its ranks.

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