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TUESDAY, MAROF 5 1913
BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH BY TELEGRAPH
(COPYEMET.]
NORTH CHINA DEBACLE,
JAPANESE TROOPS FOR TIENTSIN.
THE COAL STRIKE-
APPEAL BY THE "TIMlang
(Benter's Service to the China Mail)
Losbow, March 4.
the Government was not fait trongly that the fixing a reasonable mini
the various dietstote was by Ku The Tisse in an article on the coal
es-reen the parties and thersdii; strike, unges everyone to pat aside poli-thai that might be done.“
daty to the Government felt it the Beuter's Service to the China Mail. } } theal difflemmons, and to strengthen the
bands of the Government. LONDON March 4,
undertake, were the undertaking amination of the careful, rigorous figures which had been presented by one side and the other. He could not say more at the moment, but he thought the House would agron I that that was their Hounden daty The stoppage had begun, and the
Beater's Peking correspondent reports that five thousand Japanese soldiers have been ordered to proceed from Port Arthur to Tientsin.
ALE QUIET.
(Wah Tru Fat Po· Servica)
PEKIG, March 4, Fire again maged in the city estar day, but all is again quiet so-day.
RAILWAY INTERRUPTED.
The Peking-Tientsin Railway service only runa sa far as Yang Chen.
TIGHTING.
"On the night of the 3rd inst the End Division of the gray fought the 20th Division until daybreak. 1
There were many casualties, on both idea.
非
TENTSIN TROUBLES.
The mutidoers from the 3rd Division Aed to Tientsin and with the late Vicary's troops indulged in looting and incendiariem.
Japanese troops have entered the Ch pese quarter at Tientsin."
& SUGGESTION.
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SHANGILAT, Harok 5. The representatives from Nanking in Peking have wired to the Nanking --Gorgenment that as Yuna Shib-kai cannot now go south, it is beltoftbar he should take up the post of President at Paking and at once establish the seat of Government there.
Sun Yat-sen has decred his intention of taking a strong military force to the North in order to assist Yuan Shik-kai, And to request that Geul. Li Yuan-bang be reting President.
MISSIONARY CHURCH BURNT. A missionary church at Pacting has been destroyed by fire, but all the missionaries are safe.
PALMYRA ISLAND.
BRITISH PROTECTORATE
ABANDONED. fouters Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, March 5. During question time in the House of Commons Bir Achad stated that the British Protectorate over Falínysa jand, In the Pacific, which America has annexed, has been abandoned, a more anitable island being found cable purpose
far
THE TRIPOLITAN WAR.
-ITALIANS. FIERCELY"
ATTACKED.
Beuter's Service to the China Mail,)
LONDOS, March 5.
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DIRK EFFECTS. Though the coal crisis has reached a deadleck, the papass contain codurinn of denis regarding the rise in prices and the stoppage af induatzes,
Onder the going to Germany, the United Balen and elsewhere!
Drastic train service reductions are consequences which it was entailing na coming in forse to-day
HOW LONG? Prognostications as to the duration of the strike range from a few days to six weeks. In South Wales, however, where both sides are determined to fight to a finish, preparations are being. made for prolonged struggle, but opinion among the mining leaders tends to put the duration at a fortnight
"TOOLHARDINESS.
The grave elszent of the week has been that a weesion of the miners in the Tyne district, contrary to the undertak- ing of the Misc Federation, has decid ed not to allow the men ta descend into the pivot boding This mowny rendering the pate for sver useless, and thus the men will be deprived of all prospecs of work.
PREMIER'S IMPORTANTA
SPRICE.
LeNDON, March 4.
the country on prosperity and ever on the daily life of the community were at least us formidable as anybody could have foreseen; and as the strike devel- oped they would increase daily in intensity and volume. In these circam- tancar he ventured to my to the House that if they thought, as he hoped they would, that the Government had shown and was showing an adequadas sense of the magnitude of the imposed upon them, then, althoug it might be necessary to debate whole question— (cheers)—he they would not do so that (Cheers).
The Premier added that be spoke advisedly and with a full sense of his re possibility. He had laid before the House an absolutely full and candid account of what had happened.- (Cheers). He deplored the fact that the efforts had bean so far unavailing
OPPOSITIONS PATRIOTIC
ATTITUDE.
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Serce to the China fash
A suffragette last night aited a pile of shavings matured with petroleum in the doorway of the General Post Office. The woman was arrested. The datinge. was of the slightest.
The Daily Mail cafe that of the subtragettes in Holl ed in the ger Pankhurst, and
ben remot ed all the
number
GERMAN DOCTOR RILAN
The doctor who was killed at Tientsin was a German hamed Scherer He was assisting his compatriots to escape when he was shot by a policeman.
TRUELY IN MÄNCHURIA
A merenge from Beuter's St. Peters
respass dent states that fighting sunt fus thestrent Teitsihar, between the Regulars and tionary force, and was con- the streets, was resumed
There is a panic in the city, and it la feared that the Revolutionaries will seise the opportunity to create disorder.
BRITISH TROOPS EITE TIVE.
A message from Tientsin states that the activity of the Somerset Battalion at Fengtai and the opportune arrival of the Inniskillings, overard 1,500 Chine trpa who had threatened to block the Peking Railway
MORE WINDOW SMASHING.
The Suffragettes to-day indulged in farther window smbing the pre- mises of the "principal drapery firms in the West End,
A number of arrests were made.
A BENSIBLE SUGGESTION,
In the flotte of Commons, a member asked, in view of the window-smashing, if the Government would speadily pass Bill making Sofragette organisations responsible for the damage.
averting a national catastrophe, but he did say this and be asked the The House of Commons was crowded naiversal 8386nt of every man in every when the Premior (Mr Asquith) made quarter, of the House to it-that the an important statement on the coal responsibility of those, whether the He reviewed the whole course Gorament or either of the parties to crisis. of the negotiations, mentioning that the the dispute, or those advising them, Government had been closely watching who having it in their power to in from the beginning the various stages any way minimise the terrible national of the controversy, and paid a tribute calamity and who did not use that bo both sides for the ability and skill power to the fall, would be a responsi and the calin and cool temper with bility which history would not fail to with threy had presented their case measura (Load Chears). Referring to his speech at the Foreign Office, the Premior stated that it was an impromptu spesch and the report which had been published was correct. and exhaustive. He emphasised the point that he said nothing in that speech which either in subatance or effect went in advance of the published Benar Lawaid he had not dreamed report. He was not in the habit of of criticising the Government and he engaging in firtations with Socialism did not desire to discuss the question tion would do nothing to make the task and then trying to conceal from the He assured the Premier that the Opposi public the manner in which he had been of the Government any more difficult, employing his time. In his argumenta tö
and be thanked Mr Asquith for his cleat the miners' representatives he carefully and frank statement (Cheers), abstained from expressing any opinion Mr Markham, Liberal M.P. for Mans as to which side was right or wrong field, then asked for an early debate on bat the point be put to the men we the question. the point be was now patting to the Mr Asquith regretted such a request The Sufis whole somery. He was not adopting and praised Mr Bonar Law's patriotic
Mr Asquish throughout spoža with extreme gravity, and the House followed
sentence intently.
« contentions attitude; his whole object attitude (Cheers).
was peace-(Cheers).
He affirmed that the Government's
acceptance of the principle of a reason-
able minimum wage was subject to two
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Mr Asquith in reply, said the dis graceful proceedings (cheera) ought to be brought home not merely to the wretched individuals, but also to those who were responsible for their actions. but denied to consult the Attorney He entirely agreed with the member, General before making & further
statement.
DEAR COAL
other
LONDON, March 16:
conditions firstly, that the wage murt The price of coal, has risen in the the
A message from Renter's correspond-rary district by district; secondly North by 300 per
ent at Rome states that the Turks and
that must be accompanied by
Amb yesterday fiercels attacked the aards protecting the employers. Tillans engaged in erecting orka at Derna.
They made repeated bayonet charges, and on Italian-reinforcements arriving hot engagement ensued till night when the Turks retired, with case the extent of which is unknown. –
The Italian casualties were 150,
HOME DEFENCE.
EFFECT OF 8. AFRICAN DEFENCE BILIA
EDFATH
againes #bose, and providing gatnats CANADIAN POLIT diminution of output which in the long run would be disastrous to all con cerned and to the industry itself.
(Reuter's Service to the Chin
Ho ted out that the men to commised best onl ma but they A. Lelegrams declared that thehedule:
*Mizers Vedeation
the
beyoud the age of negotiation or ravision
Mr Asquith then detailed the objec
tion of the ownets to the schedule and asked was it possible for Governme When it had
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