To-day the message rate comes into force for Shanghai's telephones. This. should give appropriate encouragement to the use of the Welsh language which, on St. David's Day of all days, can be expressive, resourceful and over= whelming. If the coffers of the Shanghat Telephone Company do not receive an auspicious send off on this day, then that organization should at once send for Brigadier: William Darby who knows how make financial barometers rise, The reason why Welshmen are bilingual is known to students of the ancient prophecy:
Their Lord they shall praise Their Tongue they shall keep Their Land they shall lose Except Wild Wale In those lines is summed up the history of the oldest Inhabitants of Great Britain, The need for Welsh engineers and captains at sea, the danger of Welsh singers on the touch-line to harmless English ffteen and the wizard of Welsh statesmen are also therein explained. maintains that the coming of the English into the peaceful haunts of Welshmen brought strife into a land which had till then been undisturbed except by the plashing of nature's must down the waterfalls and the uplifting of Welsh voices acclaiming the land of their fathers. Mr. Lloyd George knows his own history best, but he will permit the Englishman who knows the quality of Welsh rugger to have doubts.
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