prospects of a Welsh championship in Great Britain are exceptionally bright, if the countrymen of the Ast' Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers decide to remain satisfied with their lowering of the Scottish colours at Dublin.
In congratulating the Welsh on [their national day it is fitting this year to express special gratitude for a generous gesture made recently by a Welsh landowner in the name of Caernarvonshire to the benefit of the British people. Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis has lately given the National Trust 300 acres of land in the Gwynant Valley, near Snowdon, as a nucleus for the first British National Park, as a "present from 'd|Caernarvonshire to the rest of Wales and to the rest of the world." This Snowdonia Park, it is hoped, with the help of other Yandowners, will become an accomplished fact during the present year. The aim is to create a Snowdonia Trust of 10,000 acres so as to preserve from the de-secretion of the builder, some of the finest scenery and rural splendour in the British Isles. Mr. Williams-Ellis was, as he said, goaded to this generosity by the Intelligence that "unregulated exploitation" threatened the lovely valley along the shores of the lake between Capel Curlg and Beddeglert and near Snowdon. This -"superd tract of wild upland" he had known and loved since his childhood and pious affection thus incited him to his noble act, from which, now, Wales and her junior fellow-nations will joyfully "benefit. The property which will become part of the National Park includes a farm house known as Hafod Lwytog and is said to be a splendid example of seventeenth century architecture. It has been saved from the vandals for the beneficient role assigned to it by the patriotism of a Welshman, Professor Lascelles Abercrombie, ar.
English poet with academic asso-dations in Wales, has appropriate ly given his leadership to the movement for consolidating the plan of the Snowdonia Park and last month at Caernarvon he gave a splendid start to the campaign by extolling Mr, Williams-Ellis' gift and claiming support for the scheme as providing "an essential of our national life, and a neces sary correction to the mechaniza~ tion of modern existence". So, even if Mr. Lloyd George's New Deal does not attract favour, there is. yet another Welsh project which may be relied upon to keep Welsh splendour duly in mind.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.