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Show I'WELSH EDITOR ; LOOKS FOR VICTORY Salt l,ake, July 7. Absolute confidence confi-dence in the ultimate triumph of the British army in the war is the attitude atti-tude of mind of all British people, according ac-cording to James M Wignall of Swansea, Swan-sea, South Wales, associate editor of the Cambria Daily Leader, who is in this country for a visit of three months, most of which time he will spend In and about Salt Lake. Concerning the situation, Mr. Wignall Wig-nall said: "No thought is entertained by any of us but that victory will finally rest with the British empire and her allies. al-lies. Preparations made by the government gov-ernment have been made with no other oth-er possibility m view. Also, we arc-convinced arc-convinced that the time for those preparations to show rosults is approaching ap-proaching In other words, we expect ex-pect victory within a year now. "Of course all newspaper men in the empire knew that tho big drive was programed, though we did not publish anything of it. It has been a matter of long preparation. Times in our country are especially good now. Everyone is busy aaid wages are high. Of course we will face a problem when the war is over and the soldiers begin to come home. Work that was done by them before the war began is now being done by women and girls. Naturally there will result a surplus of workers, but that is a problem that will wait Its own time of solution and cannot complicate com-plicate the present situation. Once we are victorious we can undertake the solution of lesser problems "Our chief difficulty in the empire just at present Is to get paper for publication pub-lication of newspapers. The government govern-ment Is regulating the amount of paper pa-per that may be used by each newspaper. news-paper. For instance, the paper with which I am connected has beeu cut down to four pages. Under the rules we can sometimes publish eight pages. We have trebled our advertising rates because of the limited space, but the times are so prosperous that it does not result in as great cutting down of advertising as might be anticipated. anticipat-ed. "Because of our lack of space we use but small heads on all stories. There Is no room for scare heads. Every inch of space must be used." Mr. Wignall addressed the members of the Lumbermen's association at the regular meeting of the association at the Commercial club yesterday afternoon. aft-ernoon. He talked along lines similar to those of this interview. As to Utah, Mr. Wignall said yesterday yester-day that it Is quite the most wonderful wonder-ful country that he has ever seen. He intends to spend the greater part of his three months' absence from his own country in this state, visiting friends and traveling to all points of Interest. oo |