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GENERAL-RAILWAY STRIKE.
PARIS, Feb. 28.
The national federation of railwaymen has ordered & general strike.
PARIS, Feb. 25.
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The government is taking steps fer victualling Pari The country is instructed that perishables, lying in goods yards must be sold quickly. unbought surpluses being distributed gratis.
LONDON, Feb. 28. The Times correspondent at Paris says the French railway companies are acting with equal determination to that shown by the government. Already over 300 strikers are dismissed, including a number of Syndicalist leaders.
PARIS, February 28.
EARLIER TELET RAMS,
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HAVAS. REVIEW.
PARIS, February 27th,
A Havas message süyaz- The Chamber of Deputies has adopted al Bill authorising the French Government to calf up the whole of the 1993 class for military service."
In the course of the debato M. Briand said it was absolutely hecessary that France shown that she intended to main- tain ber military strength Both France's former enemies and ber friends should be given to understand that she intended to too proud to ask her friends for -leading part in diplomsey. She play charity. It was her duty to say that she must have her rights.
M. Millerand came back from London and bad conferences with the delegates of the National Federation of Bailroad- men
M. Milleraad said to the journalists: I should like nothing better than to aid those responsible. I know that they
ey must the Government will do its duty. stand by one another, but they know, that
The general strike order has not been
asking for arbitation. The strike had little effect upon
the Paris Bourse. There was, however, a falling of in orders. Quota- tions were 6m.
In the Chamber of Deputies M. Millerand announced the decision to mobilise sections of P.L.M. railwaymen. He indicated that firm measures would be adhered to, and opined that the French would be equally as keenisaged. Many delegates are thinking of and resourceful in breaking down the strike as the British were last Octo her. The government would sumimon an arbitration committee jointly composed of management and staff representatives when work was resum ed: The government's proposals were adopted by 511 votes to 270,
Reports to-night show the situation practically unchanged, although the mobilisation order will probably have a strong effect. Postal communi- Ications are not much affected. The Liberts states that the authorities have discovered the existence of a revolutionary organisation believed to be fomenting the strike.
FARIS, February 28.
In ordering an immediate and complete stoppage of all railway work the executive of the federation of railwaymen admonishes the strikers to maintain the utmost calm and refrain from all provocative acts. Mean- while the companies are receiving numerous offers of help from civilian volunteers, and the
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energetically preparing guards. It systematic
is noteworth that M. Millerand denounced the strike as part of a revolutionary plot.
There are grave apprehensions as regards the fate of Paris owing to the scarcity of coal and foodstuffs. It is declared that if the strike lasts a week, Paris will be in darkness. It is stated there is grave danger of other big unions, including the transport workers and miners, striking in sympathy.
FOOD MINISTRY TO CARRY ON.
LONDON, February 28.. The Daily Chronicle says the government has decided to continue ike Food Ministry for five years, also to maintain the bread subsidy at the original figure of fify millions, placing the 'excess subsidy on the price of the loaf.
FLYING STUNTS.
CAIRO, Feb. 27.
The Silver Queen arrived at Mwanza yesterday and departed for: Tabora to-day. The service Vickers-Vimy is reported down, eighty miles to the northward of Wady Halfa. The DH 9 left Heluan for Australia and subsequently made Ramles in Palestine, whence she attempted a daring fight to Baghdad across the desert for 620 miles..
LONDON, February 28.
The Times says the Vickers-Vimy fying to the Cape arrived at Tabora at 12.30 on Thursday afternoon but when continuing the journey from Tabora on Friday, the starboard engine cat out" when the machine reached flying speed. It was impossible, to save the machine which crashed beyond repair The pilots and passengers are safe.
PLAYING WITH IRELAND..
LONDON, February-28.
The text of the new Home Rule bill confirms in the main Lloyd George's forecast of Dec. 22, also the forecast of a clean cut with reference to the Protestant counties. The northern parliament is described as con. sisting of the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down; Fer managh, Londonderry, and Tyrone, with the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry. It is anticipated that the second reading will be taken before Easter. The Labourities have already given notice of an
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LONDON February 28. The Dublin Gazette announces the "proclamation" of the counties of Dublin, Longford, Louth, Sligo, Waterford, Westmeath, and Wicklow.
MORE ARMENIAN MASSACRES,
LONDON, Feb. 28. The Armenian patriarchate at Constantinople telegraphs that the French evacuated Marash Gilicia on Feb. 9. The following day 3,000 Amenicans were massacred. 1,500 other's succeeded in reaching Islabia but a great number were frozen. Out of 20,000 Armenians remaining in Marash, 16,000 were massacred. The Times correspondent at Constantinople supplements this, atating that the nationalists, bave revived the policy of deportation and massacred numerous convoys of deportees with the usual horrors,?
FROHIBITION STILL AN ISSUE.
AUGUSTA, February 28,
The governor of Maine has announced that, 26 states are in co-opera tion to oppose in court the action initiated by Rhode Island state seeking
to bave prohibition declared unconstitutional,
'RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOURS.
COPENHAGEN, February 28, Rigs reports that the foreign minister of Poland, Lithuania, Latavi Esthonia, Finland, and Roumania, are meeting shortly at Warsaw discuss peace with Soviet Russia,
securities, and bills rose again on the bourse in some casts considerably, particularly British dominions securities, South Africans were specially favoured. The market weakened at the close owing to profit realisations.
The death is reported of General, Roques, formerly French War Minister and explorer, who died at Dieulaft yester day.
AMERICAN RAILROAD BILL.
WASHINGTON, March 1st. Representatives of the Railway Brother- boods have deposited a petition at White House requesting President Wilson to veto the compromise on the Railroad Bill.
NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
ALBANY, March 192. The New York Democratic State Con- vention has declared for the immediate ratification of the Peace Treaty without destructive reservations, the adjustment
relations between Capital and Labour in order to end strikes and lock-oute, and
a speedy repeal of Federal Prohibition.
NEW SECRETARY OF STATE.
NEW YORK, March 1st. Mr. Bainbridge Colby, in an interview, anid that he was thoroughly in accord with the League of Nations and all the other views of President Wilson.
TH RUSSIAN SOVIETS.
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If the Russian people like the saviet government it is within their right to keep it. If they do not like it it is their business to get rid of it.. In the light of history it is to be expected that the Russian "people themselves will stand. Lenin, Trotzky and the other commissioners up before a wall and shoot them, but that is their business and not ours. For outsiders to interfere is certain, if anything will do it, to unite the Russian people in the defence of their oppressors and greatly prolong their official and natural lives. We do not believe that Lenin could insure his life in any solvent company for a premiom less than the face of the policy.
It is as certain as anything cản be that the surest cure for Bolshevism is Bolshevism, and the world will make most progress by not interfer ing with the operation of the me dicine in Russia.—American Ex.
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