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tion to the Prime Minister when the negotiations were so preci pitately broken off.. 'That dis- closure has created quite a stir in political circles and there is bound to be an urgent demand for popular, curiosity as to the nature of the formula to be satisfied.
GROPING ITS WAY.
(Continued from page 1.
PROVINCIAL DISORDERS,
Serious Attacks on Trams unde Вивен.
80.
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1926.
Coventry is flooded with orders for bicycles from London, which it Falunuble to fula??
Buses Stoned. 2.
Fost offices, where the side street was closed by the Police
The operations were watched by amal working-class crowd who
Publication Sanctioned..
It appears in regard to the dis-ccasionally. Joared.. orders in Newcastle that the crowd stoned the motor buasa at Wallsend- After some hours the Police sane- on-Tyna yesterday svoning". Twotioned the printing of the “Britiah workmen were medically treated. Worker, which consists of eight The omnibuses drove, on knockingshouts of the size of Funch, down two or three strikera
Plus Fours!
London electrics traine are being An unusual feature is that the driven by men attire in plus fours and.golf cups. 간
It contains special message to "According to unofficial reports
the workers from the "Trades: Union from the provinces the most dis- orderly place so far is glasgow,
an industrial dispute and urging. Congress emphasising, that this is where mounted police were called
exemplary conduct. It specially out in the Parkhead distriat to
aska pickets to avoid obstruction. repel attacks on tramears and
"Land of Hope and Glory."
Protection Assured. motor buses.
One tramway, inspecter wasped in Eccleston Square.
A humorous incident occur An official notice has been issued hauled of a car and assaulted
Anto the printing, trade bespeaking badly that he had to be taken to Ex-Service Men's Association Band the intention of the Government to hospitak
entered the north side playing: insist on the inclusion in any ceeded to the west side, where are Trade Unions victimising any man Land of Hope and Glory. It pro-settlement of a clause preventing the headquarters of the Trade remaining at work or resuming Unione Congress and struck up work during the dispute, and add- "The Red Flag" being greeted withing that mon doing their duty to showera of coppers
from the the country in the present crisis windows.
will not be left unprotected from subsequent reprisals.
The windows of another car were smashed, but the passengers cecap fed injury.
Omnibusea in the Renfrewshire district had to be withdrawn after In number were, forced to speed up and escaped from their pursuing assaflants.".
2.
Cars Overturned. Reports of care being overturned have been received from Renfrow Land Nottingham, whilst in Dundee the Manager of the tramways tried! to run a 'car but the strikers block- ed the line and the car
was abandoned
In Nottingham the strikers seized the carburettors and poured out the petrol ef omnibuses worked by volunteers,
There are conflicting reports of Poplar, some minimising and others yesterday evening's disorders in intensifying the gravity of the happenings..
A Baton Charge..
On the other hand the Govern- ment, through the Earl of Birken- head, in the House of Lords, has firmly ruled that there can be possible question of resuming the negotiations so long as the threat of the general strike holds. the field. In this decision the Govern-Trent to-day stoned an omnibus, A crowd of 6,000 at Stoke-on- ment will assuredly be most which the police were protecting, strongly supported by the mass of breaking the windows. The police public opinion: That threat of a charged with their butons, injuring number.. There were avear- generul strike was a deplorable)
resta. error of judgment on the part of the Labourites at the most eriti call moment of the negotiations which at one stage promised so well As Mr. Lloyd George said in effect in the House of Commons yesterday that the general strike
It is estimated that 100 tramcars and omnibuses are operating in Edinburgh, being worked mostly by students,
GLASGOW CARS.
A Decided Improvement Reported!
Glasgow to-day in the tramway There is an improvement in
situation. It is announced that 114 tramcars are running. There is also a alight improvement in the railway services.
An amergency news sheet appear ed. In Ghsgow as the result of the morning and evening newspapers joining editorial forces.
running in Liverpool...'
Half the railway services ure
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A NEW INTERÈST:
Profiteering News Boys..
Listless groups of strikers and street corner loafers in London get 4 new interest in life with the appearance of news boys, who have found a lucrative substitute for newspapers by selling single-sheet racing and cricket results, for which a profiteering chadge of
-
Fifty per cent of the tramway threepence is made. employees in Portsmouth resumed.. when they were threatened with sale in the West-and to-night, the
The "Evening Standard" was on:" dismissal
propriators devoting the receipta
AUGUTT. On April 27, ut Seremban, Hospital to Mr.
Extra Police were drafted into to charity.. und Mrs. W. Augutt, of Tirol, nas obscured the merits of the Newcastle and soon quelled attacks)
Eminers case. He might have gone on the motor buses..
Destroyers huve arrived at New- castle and Middlesbrough.
Negri Sembilan, al som HALL HALL-On April 16. at further and declared that the the Fraser Memorial Home, miners' case has been swamped at Colombo to Mr. and Mrs together so far as pubie interest C. A. Hal Hall, a daughter. SAMUELS-On April 18, at the both within and without the Unit-arrived on the Clyde.
Nursing ed Kingdom, is concerned.
Fraser Memorial
a son:
WATERFALL-On
DEATHS.
The
The battleship Hood and the cruisers Warapite and Comus have
The Comus is proceeding upriver
Baton Efficacious. A few sporadie cases of rioting have so far occurred bus have been speedily handled by ther administration of batons, which the Police evidently bonsider more efficacious thum a pro- secution for the type of individual involved.
SEDITIONS!
Jall for Company Director.
A prosecution the first under the London Hospital's Light.
Emergency Powera Act--was held Owing to the Stepney Borough in Manchester, William Stoker, Trade Council calling out the day described as a company director, employees of the Municipal electric being sentenced to two montha Im- works the. London Hospital was deprisonment, in che second division prived of light and power yester for an "act galeulated to cause dis- day. The X-ray work and electrical affection amongst the Forces and
Home, Colombo, to Pearl Trade Unionists have ranged from Greenock.e wife of G. E. Samuels themselves against the whole Reports from the mining area of
In the Mining Area. Ceylon Government Railway.
ination, and they cannot complain South Wales depict that life is nor April 18, if by so doing they have jeopard-mal
The miners are working in 1926, at Park Estate, Kanda-ised the miners' case and alferated their gardens or playing "football, pola, Ceylon, to Mr. and Mrs. the sympathies of thousands. Ne cricket, and quoits. A. R. Waterfall, a son
great heed may be paid to the re- ports of disturbances in various parts of the country. It was only On April 14, at to be expected that in the first Kandy, James Dawson Leslie, stage of a general strike many of of Pitakande Group: Matale the unruly elements would be let #ged 32... ROLFE-At Catfield, Norfolk, loose and imagine that, by lawless after a long lness.. Charles acts against tramcars and omni- John Rolfe, M.A.. Oxon, third buses they have made of them son of the late Robert Rolfe, selves veritable heroes. They will of Coggeshall Hall, Essex,
LESLIE
2
and father of Mrs. N. Moon find that respect for the law Ingram and Miss Cecil Rolfe, is essential in their own interests,
treatment were consequently sus perdedo
the evening, the ban apparently The power facilities were restored applying to the day shift only.
"LOOKING TO BALDWIN.”
ני
"VERY REASSURING.”
Pusition: Summed Up Last Night.:
reassuring and that the railway The official view to-night. la very
service is much better than the second day of any previous strike affecting the railways, whilst a general improvement is being made, for instance, at Liverpool where 1,000; young. men are organised · into squads to assist in any way they may be required!
The opinion is expressed that ample: Ferces are available to main tain law and order,
Supplies of fuel and food are rogarded as sufficient to sustain Bfe."though not prosperity, for several weeks..
tude and good temper shown by the A pleasing feature is the forti-
bulk of the population
IRISH ACTION,:
Powers to the Governor.
Belfast, May 5,
ment has passed a Government Bill, The Northern Ireland Parlia
empowering the Governor, if an emergency arises, to proclaim a state of emergency and regulate the supply and distribution of the necessities of life.
IN THE COMMONS.
Debate on the Emergency Powers
London, May G. In the House of Commons; Sh W. Joynson Hicks. Secretary of State for Home
Affairs, moving the cormation of the" Emergency Powera Regulations, quoted the declarations made by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 în support of these, which, were a very fair statement of the present Government's position.
He explained that the regulations against incitement to mutiny, and disaffection. enabled summary eivilians
action to be taken instead of a long It was stated that Stoker's trial. The Police were authorised
side the Socialist Hall at Openshaw. high-powered car was standing out to arrest without a warrant..
ready to convey to Glasgow 1,600 | copies of the Workers' dully, which, the prosecution alleged, Stoker knew contained seditious matter. Notice of an appeal was given;"
MORE DEMONSTRATIONS
The "Daily Mail" appeared in the Splendid Work by the Police. afternoon in the shape of a penny Summed up, it may safely be de-photographed typewritten news The latest disturbances occurred clared that although nothing sheet printed on both sides. It In-in Albert Square, Manchester, tangible is reported in the dires- cludes Monday's leading article: where the Police dispersed a large "For King and Country, the re- demonstration of unemployed; also tion of a truce, the position is not fusal of the workers to print which in West London and South-East Sfr W. Joynson-Hicks stated that yet irretrievable"
led to the non-publication of Mon- London, where attempts were made services regarded us of vital neces day's "Daily Mail
A column editorial to-day la headed"Looking to Baldwin to net. It says that the lawful Government must act strongly and its opponents will collapse vory quickly. It refers to Italy as an example of a Virilo Western Govern
of Colombo. For many years for the forces of the Crown are
Norfolk.
Articlo
Rector of Burlingham, more than sufficient to cope with Daily Mail Repeats Leading HENDRIE — At Singapore all the hotheads and intimidatora, Hospital, on April 25, Edithe as was proved last year even in Hendrie. beloved wife of the small Colony of Hongkong. D G. Hendric, Rompin . Penari Estate, Bahau..
Hongkong, Thursday; May. 6, 1926.
NO ADVANCE..
From the voluminous reports of the events of the second day of the general strike lat Home, it will be seen that no advance has been made toward a resumption of the nego- tiations which so unhappily broke down at the last moment.
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Another regulation enabled a search, to be made of any building suspected of printing or issuing, a document calculated to cause mutiny or dieaffection among the Crown Forces, Police, or civilians, or to impede or restrict measures. for water, fuel light, and other public, necessities.
This "regulation gave him great power, but he said quite definitely that in the interests of the life of the nation, these powers were at present necessary.
Vital Services,"
to prevent buses running. The Fity were under one regulation Police restored order. They have which empowered the Govern the situation well in hand every mant to call on the Crown Forces where, though heavy calls are made y on their alertness to prevent the crowds who were dispersed forming again elsewhere.
Unions' Claims
The Trades Union Congress,in one of their Tow communiques, say
WORKERS PAPER"
As indicated in the Mail" some time ago, the "Waliis the appearance of a flood of little giver to the Unions they emphasised A new feature in London that in the course of instruction The Yut Po," or "Chinese job-printed handbill newspapers, as essential the industrial nature The only verdict possible on the Diamond Jubilee, offered up to threepence each The news is The congress claim that resolu
Mall," in connection with its which are selling, like hot cakes at of the dispute whole miserable business is that $500 for early copies of the paper mostly stale, being a ropetition of tions have been received from the volunteered by an American news for file purposes, the paper being the broadcast bulletins and the French, Dutch, American, Canadian paper, which describes it as a one of the oldest to China and tragedy. That it undoubtedly is. sore of the early issues being The postal authorities announce do their utmost to bring the matter
Chester racing regulte.
and Irish movements promising to The only ray of hope comes from A family at Macac has obtained are so congested that the calls on
missing, die den
that the telephones and telegraphs to a successful issue. the House of Commons, where all a reward with a copy dated June the wires must be reduced to a Parties in the debate on the 4, 1878, kept by them as it con-minimum. emergency regulations appeared tained a notice concerning pro- "Midnight at Noon! Publication Excites Great Interest most anxious to assist in the perty cass in which they were
Blr W. Joynson-Hicks. search for a formula on the basis Interested. An extraordinary pall of dark can plant hig
HAWA WAGness like midnight.spread over Lon-In anticipation of the appearance to assist to carry them on.. of which the negotiations could be
don at noon, intensifying the traffic of the British Worker hundreds of included electricity, the main resumed. Even a typical Labour-|-,
bour. Amongst the passengers who congestion. Fortunately it soon working-class men gathered and, ance of electrical and mech ite emphasised the need for re were Mrs. A. H. Compton and My Irish Communications. round the Daily Herald's office London transport, motor spirit, and
left by the President Jefferson lifted.
completely blocked the streets plant, and machinery the Port sumption, lest the action of some A H. Rowe hot-heads might precipitate catastrophe. Moreover, some light on the situation was thrown by the Labour member for Derby, had lost from a drawer Mr. J. H Thomas, who was one room bank not
Mrs. Gollin, of No 8, Mody Road, Kowloon, reported to the Water Police yeste
of the Negotiating Committee of $400 Bhe
the Trades Unte Congress, who revealed that the Labourites had! formula pr for presenta
took place on fuesday noon morning,
sterds
Mulle between the Irish Free State and Great Britain are sun. pended
Sallings between Holyhead and
to-night the continuance of the railway ser- The Police eventually moved on vicas. He had already made or the crowd, who lottered in neigh, déra in respect of these bouring strepta
He proceeded to say the motor vehicles,
dition" of thoħrallwa
Transport
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London, desti