horities. Even this method of relieving their
sufferings, however, was rejected by a large number of young
soldiers, on the ground that they were teetotallers, but the
Belgian doctors had permitted its use amongst their men.

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SHOULD THE GERMANS COME.

FORETASTE OF HORRORS FURNISHED BY BELGIUM.

During the dinner-hour Miss Macnaughtan gave an address to workmen
at the Bute Docks. An improvised platform was arranged at the back
of the Seamen's Institute, and some hundreds of men gathered to
hear the story that Miss Macnaughtan had to give of the war.
Colonel C. S. Denniss presided, and amongst those present were
Messrs. T. Vivian Rees, John Andrews, W. Cocks, A. Hope, S. Fisher,
and Robinson Smith.

Colonel Denniss, in a few introductory remarks, referred to Miss
Macnaughtan's reputation as a writer, and stated that since the
outbreak of war she had devoted herself to the noble work of
helping the wounded soldiers in Belgium and France. She had come
to Cardiff to tell the working-men what she had seen, with the
object, if possible, of stimulating them to help forward the great
cause we were fighting for.

Miss Macnaughtan said she had been speaking in many parts of the
country, but she was especially proud to address a meeting of Welsh
working-men. Besides coming of a long line of Welsh ancestors, her
brother-in-law, Colonel Young, was in command of the 9th Welch
Battalion at the front, and she had also four nephews serving in
the Welch Regiment. Only the day before Colonel Young had written
to her: "The Welshman is the most intensely patriotic man that I
know, and it is always the same thing, 'Stick it, Welch.' His
patriotism is splendid, and I do not want to fight with a better
man." Miss Macnaughtan then explained that she was not asking for
funds, and was not speaking for employers or owners. She simply
wished to tell them her experiences of the war as she had seen it,
and to describe the heroism which was going on at the front. If
they looked at the war from the point of view of men going out to
kill each other they had a wrong conception of what was going on.
She had been asked to speak of the conditions which might prevail
should the Germans reach this country. She did not feel competent