Part 25 (1/2)

In Your Own Case, Lieut Paul Jones, In The Form Of His Last Letter And By The Testiacy Of Protest And Aspiration And Example Which I Ardently Trust And Believe Will Reinforce Powerfully The Spirit Of Regeneration, So Long Belated, That Is Already Beginning To Influence Materially The Britain Of Our Immediate Future Sealed By The Sacrifice Of His Life, The Note Of A Saner And Purer National Life Set In His Letter By Your Son Will, Ere Half The Century Is Past, Give Us, I Ahtier Britain

Froh Jones, Llanelly:

”Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?” That has been the ideal of these brave young souls Frolorious boy led you on He lived and moved with an intensity and a fullness beyond our slow drea in life worth reaching and learning in the given time The intoxication of life which possessed him will shi+ne for ever in your s of duty, and now his young voice still calls to us ”far up the heights”

My son's nurse, for who affection, married Mr W W Jones, of Llanelly, rote:

On behalf ofnurse Nan, and myself, we extend to you our reat catastrophe of your lives through the death in action of your dear son Paul, whilst fighting for the rights of justice, humanity and freedoreatly distressed and painfully grieved when she learnt of the cruel loss you have sustained Paul's name was a household word in our home She always spoke of hiood in spirit, great of heart It is hard that he should be taken, his life already so rich in achieveolden future By his death it is not only you, his parents, ill suffer; but Paul, being in hireat democrat--which in these days we can ill afford to lose--the deallant and noble gentlereat sorrow over the loss of that splendid boy of yours, there cae in _Macbeth_ where Ross tells old Siward:

”Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt; He only lived but till he was a man; The which no sooner had his prowess confirht, But like a man he died

SIWARD: Had he his hurts before?

ROSS: Ay, on the front

SIWARD: Why, then, God's soldier be he!”

From the editor of a London daily newspaper:

It is infinitely tragic to hear day by day of this waste of the life of brilliant young men ere the hope of the future And yet we must not say that it is waste If we say that, then there is no , but wepaid for a treasure the world cannot live without; and if that treasure is won, your sorroill at least be assuaged by the thought that it is not in vain, and that what you have lost the world has gained

Froue on the _Daily Chronicle_:

My wife idolised Paul for his lovableness and nobility The vision we had of hilorious sacrifice

Froreat qualities and the definite prorantly in your hearts and in those of your friends who had the happiness to know him

From an Irish editor:

I was impressed no less by his unaffected h character Many as have been the brilliant young lives lost in this war, there can have been but fehich carried such high promise as his

From a Scottish journalist:

The Greeks summed up human virtue in a phrase which can hardly be bettered--[Greek: kalos kai agathos] In the prorandeur of his death, your son was [Greek: kalos kai agathos]

Fro beyond this, that I feel certain Dulill not forget

From his uncle, Mr Brinley R Jones, Llanelly: