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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9789, 12 October 1917, Page 8

Olwen, the name conferred on th» 1 daughter of Lloyd George, if not tho most beautiful of Christian names, 1» a name for, the conferring of which the frost beautiful reasons ever evolved, oyen from Celtic imagination, hav* been given. Of the Olwen of the Mahinogion we read that “her akin was whiter than tho foam of the wav©, and fairer were her hands and her fingers than the blossoms of the wood anemone amidst the spray of the meadow fountain. . . . 'Whoso beheld her was filled with her tbve. Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod. And therefore was she called Olwen.” An observant man, just hack after * long spell at the front, is indignant with our military critics. “They represent Fritz as so enormously clever in his methods, infallible in his ruses,” he grumbles. The simple fact is, says our man, who covers much ground at the front and sees and hears a imiltitude of things, tho simple fact is that we are far ahead of Fritz in initiative, ingenuity and daring. ‘Of course, our papers cannot and dare not talk about our schemes, but it does anger us to see the German represented a« SO astute, and ourselves as the victims of his wiles ! Absolute nonsense! *■ * and he knows.