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EGYPTIAN REBELLION.
BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS.
LONDON, March 18 In the House of Commons, reply- ing to Sir H. Nield, Colonel Amery, TRIPLE ALLIANCE WORKS FOR VILLAGES FLY TURKISH FLAG.
stated that Lord Milner had co information regarding legislation INDUSTRIAL PEACE.
excluding or regulating the admis LONDON, March 21.
sion and repatriating of alien enemies LONDON, March 21. Reuter learns that the Egyptian Dominions. He pointed out that the having been passed in any of the A conference of the triple alliance situation has worsened andis distinctly Canadian government were taking comprising representatives of the grave. Generál Allaby la returning action under the Canadian War miners federation, the national from Paris as quickly as possible and union of railwaymen, and the tran-is expected to reach Cairo on March Measures Act to remove from Canada sport workers, met and reviewed the 25. Besides the large number of troops any interned enemy aliens considered whole labour situation, including the already in the country, reinforce undesirable. Also arrangements were being made so far as shipping from the Dominions of alien enernies facilities permitted for repatriation desiring to be repatriated.
threatened strike of railwaymen The conference unanimously resolved to approach the Government with a view to removing the deadlock be tween the railwaymen's union and the railway executive committee, meanwhile requesting the railway men to remain at work during the negotiations and peading the further decision of the triple alliance.
MEN UNYIELDING-OFFICIALS FIRM.
The
ments are being sent. A number have arrived. Bedouins west of Babart province have entered-that province and are looting. Turkish flag is flying in some vil
VOICE OF THE DOMINIONS. lages. No news comes of military! casualties, but some prominent native Amery said any permanent scheme of Replying to Major O'Neill, Colonel officials and several Egyptian police securing to the Dominionis a larger are believed to have been killed. participation in the government of The position is not regarded as pre- the empire must be the outcome of a senting any military danger. It is common agreement between the believed it will soon be well in hand. Governments concerned and could SITUATION DISTINCTLY BETTER not be set up simply on the initiative
LONDON, March-22.
of his Majesty's Government. He Reuter learns that the situation of a resolution of the War Con referred to the first paragraph
LONDON, March 23. A series of conferences between the railwaymen and Government officials began at Downing Street i yesterday morning and continued at Egypt is distinctly better. Order, has the Board of Trade in the afternoon been restored in several townsference in 1917 favouring the call and late evening. They failed to Cairo and Alexandria are quite tran- ing of a special imperial conference reach any agreement, and adjourned quit. The only disturbing factor is as soon as possible after the war in till Sunday afternoon.
that the Bedouins are reported to be The delegates of 130 London cis-gathering in considerable numbers in trict branches of the Railway men's the hope of loot. Union met yesterday evening and resolved upon insisting on the accept: ance of the full demands of their national programme: The resolution! is to be submitted to a mass meeting of members on Sunday."
DEFINING TERMS.
LONDON, March 24.
POLES BEAT UERAI TANS.
it
RELIEVE BESIEGED LEMBERG.
LONDON, March 21:
order to deal with inter-imperial and constitutional relationships. and pointed out that under the imperial war cabinet system as developed in. the last two years and carried on in the deliberations of the British Empire the delegations at Paris of the Dominions and India have actual. ly enjoyed the most effective par- ticipation both in the control of the conduct of the war and in framing the peace terms.
The Press Bureau states that repre A message from Warsaw says that sentatives of the Government and of after five days of desperate fighting. the railway executive committee and Polish forces have pierced the lines railway unions to-day reviewed the of the Ukrainians who have been GERMANS STILL P ́ONÁCIÓUS whole of the concessions offered by Poles and entered the town. The besieging Lemberg which is held by the Government and reached an Ukrainians were vigorously pursued, agréement as to interpretations thereof. If the railwaymen's unions The Poles captured many prisoners, ratify these terms, negotiations on guns, machine guns, and much booty. the remaining items of the program- mes will be continued immediately. The Government is undertaking that tam and speedy settlement...
TYPICAL QUIBBLE BY BONAR
LAW.
LONDON, March 22.
A communique from Paris says the Supreme War Council discussed the amination in connection with sub sequent boundary determinations affecting Germany. LONDON, March, 23.
LONDON, March 21. At yesterday's conférence
A communique from Paris says the Downing Street of the "triple al- fance", the railwaymen's union and Supreme War Council this afternoon the Government, the official reply considered the different aspects of shows that Mr. Thomas replied the Polish question and the transport affirmatively to Mr. Bonar Law's of General Haller's troops to Poland enquiry whether all three members
at
of the alliance would strike" in the
LONDON, March 22. Press foreshadows military resistance Copenhagen learns that the Berlin
Danzig be attempted, Alternatively if the landing of Polish troops at they threaten not to attend the three steamers ready for handing over have not departed owing to the
crews' refusal to sail.
LONDON, March 22. Copenhagen learns from Berlin that the Germans have informed the Allied Commissioners that the Ger- man government will in no case. permit the landing of Poles at Danzig. It also refuses to permit
unrestrictedly in the territories east of the Vistula. The note is regarded as a categorical rejection of all the Allied proposals regarding Danzig.
event of even an unjustified strike GUARDS TRIUMPHAL FARADE Allied and Polish officers to travel.
by one member. Replying to Mr.
Thomas, Mr. Bonar Law emphasised
that the Government intended that
Fracc.com
GAY DAY FOR "LONDON. .....
LONDON, March 22.
extra pay should be given" for real" night work by railwaymen.. Led by Earl Cavan, ex-divisional With regard to the 100,000 railway commander, and the Prince of Wales, shopmen who mostly belong to en- the Guards Division, about 10,000 SPARTACIST ACTIVITIES. gineers' societies and not to the railwaymen's union, Mr. Bonar Law stated that the Government could not negotiate with Mr. Thomas on their affairs unless the railway unions could come to some arrangement whereby Mr. Thomas should repre- sent all the shopmen.
STILL ARGUING.
LONDON, March 23. Discussions are being continued to-day between. Sir Albert Stanley and the railway executive committee and the committees of both railway unions. There is to be a further meeting to-morrow.
A MORE HOPEFUL REPORT. LONDON, March 23.
strong, "to-day marched through London 'amidst the most enthusiastic
LONDON, March 19, » cheers of enormous crowds lining the Berlin reports that the National lavishly beflagged route. It was cold Zeitung asserts.. that despite the but bright weather. A special covered success of the Spartacists in continu- stand was erected at Buckinghaming the agitation, they are endeavour- Palace, "from"which the Royalties ing to restore contact with the viewed the procession. Lorries con-Russian soviel, whose troops they veying the officers and men unable are trying to persuade speedily to to walk followed the procession. All, advance to Germany. Recent Bol- the demobilised guardsmen partici.shevist defeats however, retard the pated in it. After the march, each advance. A deputation of Berlin soldier was handed a message from Spartacist propagandists has arrived the King, with a facsimile autograph, at Petrograd. It is believed in Vienna expressing bis high appreciation of that the Spartacists are preparing a their war records and gratitude for coup de main and disturbances in the honourable deeds achieved by other towns. The Essen paper re- ports that the central soviet "at Moscow has decreed an annual pen-
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SPLENDID ACTION OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT.
COAL MINERS.
NO STRIKE DURING NEGOTIATIONS.
LONDON, March 23, The Foreign Office in publishing | GOVERNMENT'S UTMOST OFFER.
the terms of the Franco-British treaty LONDON, March 23.
relative to war graves explains that At the conference in Downing the French Government recognises
LONDON, March 21. Street Mr. Bonar Law stated that the the Imperial War Graves Commission A conférence of the miners dele. Government had undertaken that the as the only official British organisa gates discussed the Coal Commission's wages of railwaymen would not be tion entrusted with the preservation reports and adjourned until March reduced until the end of the year of British soldiers' graves in France. 30, after advising the miners to when the question could be re-opened. The French Government has present continue work pending negotiations He emphasised that the country's inancial position was serious. Theed the land for these cemeteries to with the Government for modifications railways at present were casting the the British authorities in perpetuity.of the proposals in the Sankey report. taxpayer over half of the national expenditure of pre-war times. The offer the Government was now going to make was the utmost it could do. THOMAS WARNS HOT-HEADS:
LONDON, March 24,
LEAGUE OF NATIONS...
NEUTRAL"! VIEWS,
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ITALY'S ULTIMATUM TO
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LONDON, March 21. situation appears to be that of per: A communique from Paris says, suading the main body of the men's there was a meeting of the League
LONDON, March 22." delegates to accept compromises, of Nations Commission Committee
Paris reports that the Italian The present breakaway is by a hot this afternoon at which neutrals gave headed section. Mr. Thomas warned further views of the draft covenant. delegates unanimously decided to the mass meeting of London railway The remaining articles of it were withdraw from the Peace Conference men yesterday evening against those examined The Peace Conference unless Fiumie were assigned to Italy who talked of nothing but a strike: hoped that all states there represented simultaneously with the conclusion.
of peace. He declared they were not friends would become original members of but enemies.
the League
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