THE RETURN OF THE "MAYFLOWER"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 5

THE RETURN OF THE "MAYFLOWER"

Silvery spars o'er the.combers, gleam of your W on the wave, < Mystic onfl fuiry and speeding, tiled with.. . ' the souls of your brave, .■■;■■,. Laughing to scorn the war-sea, running- v . the "V" blockade, . "■..'■.; In a ship that was made m England-a barque of a dead decade: The roughened stones of Bristol Town are busy with unseen feet, . ' Spirit? that pass unnoticed, and, passing,, . their news repeat— "Tho 'Mayflower's' sailing homewards, she's Bristol bound they say; \ Those tears of ours adown the ycara are changed to joy this day." Yes, the "Mayflower's" sailing westward ■- just as she sailed away, To make a stand for Freedom in the Anglo-Saxon way. Spread wide the news, my brothers, sound loud yo belfries, sound, The message to Democracy—tho "Mayflower's" homeward bound. . . ■ ■' —Draycot- M. Dell, in the "Wcstminter Uazette."

(The cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in, that jpnrcal, but only where expressly; stated is such nows the editorial opinion! of "The Times.")

Discussing overcrowding in Welsh col- : licry districts, a delegate at a Pontypool Trades Council meeting said,he knew of one household where, two boys slept in, cupboards. Another said that near Pontnewydd, Monmouthshire, a six-room-ed house was occupied by thirty-six people. A. father, mother, and three chil-. dren slept in one bed, five children sleeping under the bed.