WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1918.
THE CHINA MAIL
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[COPTRIUST'] THE UCAL MINES BILL
INTRODUCTION IN PARLIA- MENT.
Important Speech by Premier. (Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, March 19.
In the House of Commons to-night, Mr Asquith announced that Friday
Mines Bill.
..
Would be alloosted to the Coal Bill and the promoters of the Conciliation of `Women's "Enfranchisement Bill would be given an early date instead of Friday, He hoped that the House of Lorde would sit on Saturday as it was argent that the Bill should be passed this week. He added that the Budget
ould be taken on April 2nd. NECESSITY FOR LEGISLATION Mr Asquith then introdued the Con! Ho said it was with great and unaffected. reluctance that be introduced it, but its introduction and its passing by Parliament. promptly was absoletely imperative the best intorests of the country. The Government, he said, had resorted to legialation only when all hopes of settlement by agreement had disappeared and when the neons ity of putting a speedy end to the stoppage of the ccal industry had be come matter of paramount urgency. Long before these matters had reached an acute stage the Government thought It their duty to consider all alternative
plans of legislation and the more they surveyed the ground the more clearly they realised the difficulties and hazards to which the best conceived plan of legislation must be exposed, and they -porsevered as long as possible hoping for a way of escape along a better and more expedient patb.
THE GOVESNMEKTS DUTY.
What, asked the Premier, was the F
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TE COAL ORISIS.
ATTITUDE OF LABOURITES
"AND OPPOSITION, VA
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, March 19,
It is announced that the Labour Party will not oppose the Minimum Wage Bill at present, bat will shape their attitude daring the codimittee stage in consultation with the miners' executive:
Speaking at Cambridge, Mr Walter Long warned the Government that the Opposition would jealously safeguard the interests of the employers.
MORE THREATS.
Later..
PROMINENT: SOOTAL IST ARRESTED.
(Router's Service to the Chia Mail)
LONDON, March 20 Tom Mann, the President of the Syndicalist Education League, hos been arrested in connection with the prosecution of the newspaper Syndical- ist on a charge of insiting the troops. not to fire on strikers.
AMERICAN BOILER
EXPLOSION,
25 MEN KILLED.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mail:)
LONDON, March 19.
[CORTEME]
POLITICAL UNITY
(Router's Service to the China Mail)
LONDON, March 20.
parties
Drugs
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Negotiations are in progress for and a practical umalgamating the haudqusrtain of the
of their properties, are the Liberal Unionist and Conservative
two chief essentials in the
business of the
MODERN
THE KAISER. :
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& UP-TO-DATE
London, March 20. CHEMYST &
The Kaiser's visit to Vienna has been postponed. The change in plans-is believed to be connected with thei Ministerial changes.
DRUGGIST.
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Reuters New York correspondent THE NAVAL DEBATE Drugs obtainable, and bave an experience of many years.
wires that at least 25 men have been
A number of miners' leaders delivered speeches last night, several being, of n threatening tone, declaring that if the Minimum Wego Bill be unsatisfactory they would not hesitate to bring the country lower to its knees. The most hopeful speech indicated that it would Antonio, while many more were injured. (Reuter's Servies to the China Mail, be at least a fortnight before the re-The majority of the victims were strike sumption of work was possible. A breakers. ballot of miners wil probably be
killed as the result of the explosion of LORD CHARLES BERESFORD'S
CRITICISM, a locomotive boiler in an engine house of the Southern Pacific Railway at San
necessary.
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THE CĂSUALTIES.
LONDON, March 20.
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It is stated that the Miners Minimam ... Thirty-three were killed and Wage Bill will not enforce, arbitrat- ion and will not contain compulsory wounded in the San Antonio explosion,
powers nor penalties,
SYMPATHETIC STRIKES.
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The strike is stagnant in Westphalia, but many minors have struck in Saxony, Hanover aul Saar, and a strike is threatened of the colliers in Silesia.
The Miners Federation in Anzin, în a manifesto, call on all French miners to rise in syrup by with their British
comrades.
LIVERPOOL RACES.
It has been officially ponounced that
-Government's dity? The stoppage of the Liverpool Races will take place."
to coal industry for a fortnight (was producing and had produced an ever- growing daily weight of inconvenience And auffering. In these circumstances the Government came, without hesitat fon, to the conclusion that Parliament must be asked to intervene, and, se the parties were unable to agree, that the State must provide a 'settlement. legialation. They are driven to Therefore they held that the only kind of legislation which they were justified in proposing was legislation diracted to a particular purpose and not going beyond it.
THE PROPOSALS.
CHINESE AFFAIRS.
TO PLACATE THE SOUTHERNERS.
(Wah Te Fat Fo Service.)
PEKING, March 18
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In order to placate the Southern
ops, Wong Hing bas resolved to
The use of dynamite is suspected.
TURKEY AND PERSIA. RUSSIA SATISFIED WITH
EXPLANATIONS.
Lokpas, Marab. 19.
During the debate in the House of Commons on the Naval Estimates, Lord Charles Beresford criticised the omia-
sion to defend the trele routes. It was'
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mistake to use provocative language WE WANT and it care and towards Germany. We were always
niggling at Germany instead of attending
to Imperial defence.
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Sir C. Kinloch Cooke. Unionist will have Your Confidence. member for Devonpart, moved for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the pay and pensions of the men in the dockyards of the Navy.
Mr. Macnamara defended the treat-
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mail)ment of the men. The amendment was CHEMYSTS &
dafented by 202 votes to 156.
LONDON; March 19.
iho Russian military movements in the Caucasus, which excited some alarm in Europe, have been suspended, Turkey having given satisfactory assurances concerning, the movements of her troops towards Persia.
LATER..
Reuter Iras elicited in diplomatic quarters in London that there were no grounds whatever ascertainable for the disquieting reports concerning the peace of Europe.
COMMENTS ON
MR CHURCHILL'S SPEECH
The comments on Mr. Churchill'a speech agree us to the gravity of the statement bat differ as to the wisdom of the referenced to Gerning.
The Times it is the best er- position since 1889-sad-will-do-much-to- mine Me. Churchill in the esteem countrymen.
of his
The Daily Telegraph says the speech was" brimful of courage and resource
WRECK OF THE OCEANA, and must convince the Empire that it
THE MAILS. LOST..
vacate the post of chief of the War, (Reuter's Service to the China Mail.) Department, but he is willing to remain
in Peking as adviser to the government.
new
is confronted with a grave crisis E The Daily Mail states that Mr. Winston Churchill may be assured of the enthusiastic support of the nation.
The Morning Post doubts the wisdom LONDON, March 19.of the appeal to Germany, which may The bodies washed up at Hastings be stimulated thereby to increase her are believed to be that of the Rev. Mr pace, Oceana who accompanied the Naval Brigade 10 Peking during the Boxer
The conclusion to which the (fevern- mont had coms, and with which 65 per THE SHANGHAI KIDNAPPING. Leishman and a passenger ca the
ment. of the coalowners agreed, was that, having regard to the unique con- ditions of the mining industry, there ought to be a minimum and rossenable
SHANGHAI, March, 19. The soldiers have released Sheng
wege on the one hard, and, on the Kung-pao's grandson, whom they re other, adequate safeguards to protect cently kidnapped, finding that they owners against slackness and deficiency of output. They must have machinery, made a mistake in doing so. intelligent, competant and impartial, to settle both the amount of the 'mini.
mum and the extent of the safeguards, The Bill was a temporary measure
TOUCHY FINANCIERS.
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The representatives of the financial
which would continue in force for syndicates lending money to China have! three years. The minimum wage would refused to hand over funds on the be retrospective and if and when the ground that Tang Shao-y; has been men returned to work they would be paid from the day of their rotura at a entering into financial negotiations withi rate to be subsequently fixed by the Belgian financiers without consulting
them. District Boards.
The District Boards would draw up
A SUBSIDIZED' PRESS. .. regulations and conditions for regu Jarity and efficiency of work, and the workman who failed to comply there Sun Yat-sen having been informed with would not be entitled to a mini- that most of the Shanghai native papers mum wage. The Boards would settle the were in the pay of Yuan Shil-kai, the extent of the general minimum wage papers in question have demanded from and general district rales, namely, the Sun Yat-sen proof of the statement. aduditions for efficiency and regularity.
The Bill contained no penal provisions apon one side or the other.
Continning, Mr Asquith said the employer would be liable to pay the underground workman a wage not lesa than the wage fixed by the District Boards, but the mineowner would not be compelled to open his coal mido, nor did the Bill compel a workman to daspand into the pit.
THE SHANGHAI TROUBLE.
SHANGHAI, March 20. Two hundred soldiers from Tuichow dissatisfied on account of the delay in receiving their pay, kicked up a row. They were overawed by cavalry, and five of their number and end ricksha coolie were killed.
DISSATISFACTION.S
It might be said, added the Premier, that this Bill would prove nugatory, but he hoped and believed it would not be so, After Parliament bad taken action the portion would be no longer what it was before. There would be no longer any doubt as to the principle of minimum wage and no longer any the Ranking provisional dificulty, with good sense and fair fare talking of resigning..
in settling the various grades. That was all they could do,
PROPOSED LABOURS
WAMENDMENTARE
Mr Ramsay Mücdonald advised fon in such legislation bazauto.
Being dissatisfied with the recent Cabinet appointments, the members of
Rebellion.
The Post Offics announces that the
The Standard remarke that Mr.
Churchill is overdoing the role of the patriotic Englishman. The statement is almost a threat,
The Daily News asks if the grave
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MILLIONAIRE'S PHI-
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LONDON, March 19,
Loscow, March 19.
The death is announced of Mr Aiken. barrister, and a former member of the Legislative Council at Singapore.
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LONDON, March 19.
The late Lord Wandsworth has left 14 millions sterling, of which he bequeathed 14 millions for the satab lishment of an Orphanage.
NEW GUN FOR AEROPLANES.
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