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THE COAL INDUSTRY DEBATE
MR. LLOYD GEORGE POINTS OUT DANGERS.
London, February 24.
In the House of Commons, 'during his speech introducing a Bill
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1919.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
TIGHTENING THE ROPE ON GERMANY.
THE TERMS OF THE ALLIES TO BE IMPOSED..
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London, February 25.
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for setting up a Commission to enquire into conditions in the coal in-Germany will include the fixing of the German Army at a maximum while ütwilling to anticipate, the report of the. Peace Conference,
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untry, Mr. Lloyd George said the Government were informed that of 300,000, of which not more than five per cent.: should be officers. if the demands were granted, the cost of steel would be increased by The Army will have to be a purely defensive one, and the General ten per cent, and the price of coal would rise eight or ten shillings a Staff must be disbanded. The quantity of arms and ammunition ton and the coal trade itself be seriously damaged. The Fremier will be definitely limited. the importation of war material to be drew attention to the large proportion of the miners of South Wales forbidden and its manufacture permitted in a few places sanctioned who opposed a strike, showing that the South Wales coalfield by the Allies, while the manufacture of poison gas is to realised how largely it depended on its export trade. We exported prohibited. 74,000,000 tons of coal in a normal year, excluding bunker coal. The Premier emphasised that coal paid the outgoing charges of our foodships; and if we destroyed our export trade in coal. an increase in food prices would be inevitable.
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THE TIMES EDITORSHIP:
MR. GEOFFREY DAWSON RESIGNS.
London February 25.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE DISSATISFIED..
London, February 15.
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‘OUR PICTURE PAGE. TO-MORROW'S FEATURES.
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF AMERICA.
Boston, February 25. President Wilson, replying to the welcome home, said that could say the task of the Conference was one of great complexit which every nation, great or small, was affected. He had been variona nationalities had presented their national, claims. The struck by the moderation with Net the representatives of the had always come first to the United States representative because
This being Raca Week, to no nation in Europe suspected American motives. The United Staten had on the enviable distinction of being a friend tomorrow's Pictorial Supplement, mankind. When soldiers were required anywhere, they asked for presented gratis with the issue of American soldiers, and it had been an infinite pleasure to see the the Telegraph, will appropriately
number gallant Amerkans who had convinced Europe that the United contain quite a States had put all her means at the disposal of those fighting for the illustrations of the Meeting. cause of human right and justice, not for national claims, but for These will be as follows - claims held in common by mankind. Europe had risen from despair! 1. The new stands erected in to the full hope of a settled peace, believing we were at the eve of a place of the matsheds formerly in new age when the nations will support one another to see that right nse.
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The Premier, referring to the miners' contention that the figures given, if accurate, did not answer the legitimate claim for improving
Mr. Geoffrey Dawson has resigned the editorship of the Times the miners' status, pointed out that the miners were not receiving a starvation wage, and the ideal we were all seeking to obtain ought and is being succeeded by Mr. Henry Wickham Steed.
[Mr. Geoffrey Dawson has edited the Times since 1912. He shall prevail. Ameries was now the hope of the world, and if she 2. Arrival of Ft. E. the Officer to be sought in such a way as not to precipitate disaster on other; industries, which ought to have time to adjust themselves to such formerly a clerk in the Colonial Office, from 1901 to 1903 was Private did not justify shat hope, the results would be unthinkable. Nations demand. The Premier doubted whether economies in mines could Secretary to Lord Milner in South Africa, and from 1995 to 1910 would be hostile camps again, and the men of the Conference would Administering the Government was editor of the Johannesburg Star. Later he joined the editorial go home again without hope, knowing that they had failed. America on the opening day of the Races. wipe out the increase in the cost of coal owing to the demands.
3. The finish of the Derby, The Premier stated that the Commission, of which Mr. Justice department of the Times, becoming a Director of the Company would then have to keep her great powers for narrow, provincial
all 1912 Mr. Wickham Steed has been foreign editor of the Times and selfish purposes.
showing Mountain King winning. President. would
into would be Sankey
President Wilson asked:"Do you realise how many new 4. M.-G. B. Pótta leading in questions raised by the
nationalisa since 1914, prior to which he was correspondent for that journal in miners, including tion
industry. of the
of the Berlin, Rome and Vienna).
nations are going to be sat up in the presence of old and powerful the Derby winner. coal
and also the effect
nations in Europe, and left there, if left by us, without a disinterest- 5. Hongkong's new motor Jemands on other industries. There would be the fullest publicity.
eed friend? Do you believe in the Polish cause as I do? Are you ambulance stational inside the The commission would be instructed to report on hours and wages
going to set up Poland, immature, inexperienced, as yet unorganisentrance to the Racecourse su- by March 31. The miners insisted on a reply by March 15, but ho
Mr. Geoffrey Dawson, in a letter to Mr. John Walter, Chaired, and leave her with a circle of armies around her? Do you believe closure. did not believe the miners, in view of the appointment of the Com- mission, would throw the whole industries of the country into dis-man of the Times Company, says he has been awaiting his arrival in the aspirations of the Czecho-Slovaks, and Jugo Slavs as I do?
In addition, there will bɔ & aster for the sake of sixteen days-(Cheers). If the minars meeting from Spain in order to tender has resignation, which he had been Do you know how many Powers would be quick to pounce on them on February 26 declined to participate in the Commission, then the considering for some weeks-erer since it became clear that Land if there were not the guarantees of the world behind their liberty? recent protrait of M. Clemencesu, Northcliffe was constantly dissatisfied with the policy of the Times Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out the French Premier, on whose mine-owners and miners only could be called as witnesses.
because it differed from his own expressions of opinion in other money to help succour the Armenians after they suffered; now at life an attempt was recostly made
up your strength so that they shall never suffer again. The arrange- by an anarchist. ments of present peace cannot stand for a generation unless guarant-ft will thus be seen that this Feed by the united forces of the civilised world".
week's pictorial page is of more The President concluded that he had no doubt about the American than ordinary interest, and there verdict, and he did not believe that progress was going to fall short will no doubt be a large damsud of the goal Peoples, not Governments, were in the saddle, and they for to-morrow's imme. would see that if the present Governments did not do their will, others should.
AN AMENDMENT REJECTED.
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London, February 25. On the second reading of the Miners Commission Bill in the House of Commons, Mr. Richards moved for the rejection of the Bill. Mr. J. H. Thomas stated that the Miners' Federation had received amandate to order a general cessation of work on March 15-unless the demands were conceded. No amount of talking could alter that fact.
Sir R. Thomas stated that the North Welsh miners Favoured the proposals of the Government.
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JOTTINGS FROM GERMANY.
SENSATIONAL MURDER IN THE MUSICH DIET.
Berlin, February 25,
The Voraerts learns from Munich that Herr Auers' sasamin is common butcher named Lindner, a member of the Revolutionary Mr. Lloyd George declared that the question of hours and wages Workers' Council. He openly boasts of his deed. None think of was one for inquiry, not for immediate decision. Nationalisation must arresting him. Apparently he entered the Dist by the Deputies" be considered purely as a business proposition. No Government entrance, through collusion with the Guards and Herr Hagemeister, had the right to commit the State to nationalisation without the the President of the Workers Council. After the shots were fired, fullest investigation, even to avert a strike. He appealed to the he shouted from the tribune "That is the proletariats ratenge:" Labour Party not to destroy the great world position which the country had won simply because they could not wait a few days for
a decision (Cheers). The Government had simply indicated March 31 as the latest date, while the miners refused to submit the dispute to any arbitrament.
MUNICH WORKERS SUPPLIED WITH AMMUNITION,
London, February 25.
DAY BY DAY.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
From the class room to the Magistracy is a big jump. It
Was Tez Yat Po Bervice)?“ was taken by two Chinese schont
--- Shanghai, Fibe$7,-! boys. After Lillin linggo Wednesda Conference, Tang Bhaos day LWD Bhool mates, who had yee read an express letter from
A public meeting will be held quarrel, decided to settle it. Yo-Yau-7am. Southern com
at the Helena May Institute on A good Samaritan, a boy 14 mander in Shensi reporting that
It is reported from "Zurich that the strike at Munich has ended. Tuesday, March 11, at 5.30, at years old, beseeched them not the Northeners attacked on the Mr. Richards' amendment was negatived by 257 votes to 13. The/but every workman to-day is supplied with a rifle and-20 cartridges-which Dr. N. Bradley will gire to fight. But one of them stab-16th, and took Chowtse city, con-
Bill was read a second time and the House adjourned.
APPEAL TO THE MINERS.
London, February 25.
Mr. Brace. President of the Welsh Miners' Federation, in a letter to a newspaper, urges the miners to accept the Government's offer of a Commission of Inquiry. says rejection would be an irretreivable blunder.
THE PARIS CONFERENCES.
A GERMAN GERMANY.
IDEA OF EMPIRE DEEP-ROOTED.
Berlin, February 25.
The Minister of the Interior, in the National Assembly, explaining the draft of the Constitution, said the document did not mention the German Republic, because the word and idea of Empire had a deep-rooted sentimental value for the German people. The object of the Constitution was to organise a German Germany, free from Austrian or Prussian hegemony.
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an account of work amongst bed the boy who intervened with sequently the Southerners retreat
his pocket kaile, inflicting aed to Meishien. Tang therefore slight wound on his arm. He refused to discuss other matters." refused to go to the hospital, and before the removal of Chan Shi The Botal output of the when he called round to see Mr. fan (Tuchun of Shensi), and insisted that Chu Kai-kius. Kailan Mining Administration's Wood this morning was telegraph, Fering to this effect, nines for the week ending Feb-looking bale and hearty with Cha replied that he telegraphat ruary 15, amounted to 47,620 only a slight mark on his arm to Peking fully yesterday, and tons and the sales during the The arabber said the stabbed and had no reply as yet. He pro
another boy threw some plantains posed that they first discuss other period, to 49,011 tons.
at him and they encouraged him matters while waiting Peking's The to fight. When they came out reply regarding Shenst of the class room the boy who was Southerners refused and the cons A Chinese employed by a stabbed, pushed the other boy atference adjourned.
Chu Kui-kim has wired to Pe pork-stall keeper in the Central him and compelled him to fighting saying that since the joint Market has been playing ducks The boy who was stabbed took appointment of Chan Sul-ki as and drakes with his master's out a knife from his pocket and eliminator in Shensi the South. An official message states that the Foles and Ukrainians have finances. He embezzled $250, he tried to ward off the blowerners have demanded his guar 1in the absence of agreement among the former Austro-Hungarian reached an agreement at Lemberg to cease hostilities. The arrange which he recevied from other in self-defence the defendant antee to courtmartial any officials States.
The Ministers examined the question of the tran-ment is subject to twelve hours' denunciation.
The chief of the American Food Mission to Poland has tele-park-stall holders and which he took out his knife and struck him, refusing obeyance after delimit. sport to Poland of the Polish Divisions formed in France and Italy
IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED.
London, February 23.
The Fress Bureau announces that a communique from Paris says the Ministers of the Great Powers approved measures to avoid the non-payment of the Austro-Hungarian coupons due on March
FIGHTING IN POLAND.
GERMANS OPEN FIRE ALL ALONG FRONT.
Warsaw, February 25,
and also heard France's demands in the direction of the suppression phoned from Posen that the Germans are continuing an active of the pact of Algeciras and the imposition on Germany of bombardment all along the front. necessary guarantees to prevent her resuming in Morocco the hostile action she bad taken against France during the last ten
years,
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR LEGISLATION.
London, February 26.
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OTHER QUESTIONS.
ANOTHER BANKING FUSION.
TO FINANCE BRITISH TRADE OVERSEAS.
London, February 25.
EQUAL BENEFITS FOR IRELAND.
SCHEME OF RECONSTRUCTION TO BE EXTENDED.
The latter has handed him over donald): "Any marks on the accordingly, and gave Chan Sul-ki failed to hand over to his master. Mr. Wood (to Inspector Macation. He had signed a guarantee to the Police, and the Police in defendant?"There is a mark, one copy.
Chun Shee-fan has wired Fek- fles-bite." Mr. tara have transferred him to the It may be a care of Mr. R. E. Lindsell. He Wood, addressing the youths, said, ing that he has received a report from Chung Sik-yuen (Northern was remanded to-day on a bail of" I want you both to understand Commander in Shensi) stating that if there is any more fighting that all attacks have stopped, but $250.
I will send you to gaol. You another reliable souton has understand that. You can both received Chung's direct telegrauz
"-not to gaol, but home.
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of the 19th, saying he wOD E victory on the 17th and advanced to Shiang bridge.
The Civil Governor and gentry in Shangtung petitioned Feking requesting a cancellation of the Japanese pacts,
The first, second and third, War Participation Army has been formed. Tuan Chi-juj personally-s the formation of presided st ceremony.
Although Japan will suspend the payment of the balance of the Pardeipation Loan, she is mill supplying munitions under the sarmament agreement,
The following banks, the Anglo-South American, Messrs. Glyn, The Press Bureau announces that a communique from Paris says the Labour Legislation Commission has considered the Mill and Carrie, the Northern Banking Company, the Union Bank position of the self-Governning Dominions, Protectorates and of Scotland and Williams and Deacon's Bank are combining to. The administering of oaths a: Colonies regarding International Labour legislation.
furnish capital for a new banking institution, to be called the British the Magistracy is a very difficult Overseas Bank, the special object of which will be to facilitate and job. The Chinese witness, when
MORE HOWLERS. finance foreign trade.
be steps into the box, feels non-f London, February 26.*
plussed when the Chinese inter- Schoolboy mistakes always The Press Bureau announces that a communique from Paris
preter begins to sing. A lot of make good reading, and the states that the Great Powers discussed the question of allotting to
time is wasted in making the following, collected this month. Commissions the consideration of frontier questions affecting the
witnesses understand that what by the University Correspondent, onemy States and laid down the conditions under which the Belgian
the Chinese interpreter is chaat are well up to the average: London, February 25. claims would be considered.
Chicago is a large town at the The Conference adopted the Supreme War Council's conclusions A message from Dublin states that the Irish Chief Secretary, ing is not the refrain of a Chinese regarding the establishment of an intermediate zone in Transylvania Mr. J. I. Macpherson, in receiving a deputation from the Irish song but oath which is required bottom of Lake Michigan.
The Menai Straits are crossed between the Rumanian and Hungarian troops, and heard the Municipalities, dealt with the questions of reconstruction, housing of a witness that what he states
will be the truth" and "nothing by a tubercular bridge. Armenian claims.
and health.
He said the Government had given an interim grant of £250,000 bat the truth. He or she must Shakespeare ran away to to provide for reconstructive, not relief, work for demobiled Service not conces] anything from London and worked outside men and war, workers, but that the scheme was merely provisional the Court and no part of the picture palace,
He assured the deputation that any national scheme of recon evidence must he false. One The Armada was met by the Ministers called on the Foreign Department to enquire regarding struction for Great Britain would be applied to Ireland, whose special
bodily English in the Channel and by the continual payment of the needs would be considered. The proposals for Ireland's housing boat woman, whose scheme were already far advanced with the Treasury, which might appearance was globular, thought the time they got to the Straits of Japanese Loan. Chan Huk, the pay the difference between economic rents and reasonable rents, it was a huge joke and laughed Dover it was nearly demobilized: Vice Minister, replied that if no The mascaline of heroine is payment is made, the Peking which the Local Government Board would fix for the people to pay. Jout. The Chinese in Court
troops may revolt. The Ministers The Government was considering how to utilise the now British took it up and there was a load kipper. Ministry of Health Bill for the benefit of Ireland.
ripple. Now, no noise behind," Q-On what grounds did were dissatisfied. - As regant and settlement, it was intended to trest Ireland ordered Mr. Wood. The oath had Henry VILL divorce Katharine of Ken Wan-pang and Chu Shu- equally with the rest of the United Kingdom, on the questions of to be re-administered. There Aragon ? A. On the Field of tang have proposed, the borrowe
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PRESIDENT WILSON AT BOSTON.
Boston, February 25,
President Wilson landed here, and was accorded a great racep A committee of women received Mrs. Wilson. Twenty suffragists, demonstrating outside the State House, were arrested,
and charged with obstruction.
ADMIRAL BEATTY.
MAY BECOME FIRST SEA LORD.
London, February 25, The Daily Telegraph says it is understood that Admiral Sir Rosalyn Wemy Will shortly be appointed Governor of Malta and that Admiral Sir David Beatty will succeed him as First Sea Lord.
It was important to secure local administration of these utilities and the Government had decided to ordend the principles of propor
so that the opinion of the tional representation to Ell local cha localities might be secun
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