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MINERS COMMISSION...

London, Feb. 25. When the miners commission bill came up for second reading in the House of Commons, Mr. Richards moved for its rejection.

Mr. J. H. Thomas stated that the miners federation had received a mandate to order a general cessation of work on March 15 unless the "demands were conceded, and amount of talking could alter that no fact.

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LONDON, Feb. 25.

A message from Boston says that President Wilson, replying to his welcome home, said that while be, was unwilling to anticipate the report South American, Glyn Mills Corrie

LONDON, Feb. 25. The following banks, the Anglo of great complexity, by which every of the Peace Conference, he could say the task of the conference was one Union Bank of Scotland, and William moderation which the representatives the Northern Banking Company, the affected. He had been struck by the Deacons Bank, are combining to of various nationalities had pre- nation great or small must be furnish the capital for a new banking sented their national claims. They institution to be called the British had always come first to the United object will be to facilitate and finance no nation in Europe suspected Ameri Overseas Bank, of which the special States foreign trade.

representatives because. can motives. The United States had won the enviable' distinction of being the friend to mankind. When soldiers were required anywhere, they asked for American soldiers; had convinced Europe that the Uni and it had been an infinite pleasure ted States had put all her means at see the gallant Americans who the disposal of those fighting for the cause of human right and justice. cot for national claims but fer claims held in common by mankind. Europe had risen from despair LONDON, Feb. 25.

to a full hope of settled peace, military terms to be imposed on Ger- another to see that right shall prevail, The "Daily Express" says the final age, when nations will support one many include the fixing of the Ger America was now the hope of the believing we are at the eve of a new

man army maximum at 300,000, of world, and if she did not justify that whom not more than five per cent. hope, the results would be unthink- may be officers. The army must be able. The nations would be hostile a purely defensive ore. The General camps again, and the men of the Staff must be disbanded. The quaat-conference would go home again ity of arms and ammunition is to be without hope, knowing they had definitely limited; the importation of falled. America would have to keep

understood that Admiral Wemyss The Daily Telegraph" says it is will shortly be appointed Governor of Malta, and that Admiral Beatty will succeed him as First Sea Lord.

PEACE TERMS.

Sir R. Thomas stated that the North Wales. miners favoured the proposals of the Government. Mr. Lloyd George declared that the question of hours and wages was one for inquiry, not for immediate decision. Nationalisation must be considered purely as a business pro- position. No government had a right to commit the state to nationalisation without the fullest investigation, even to avert a strike. He appealed to the labour party nor to destroy the great world position which the country had won simply because they could not wait à 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. The government were informed that if the demands were granted, the cost of steel would be increased by ten per cent. and the price of coal would rise eight or ten shillings per ton. The coat trade itself would be ser-war material is to be forbidden, and her great powers, but not for narrow, iously damaged, "The Premier drew attention to few places to be sanctioned by the you realise how many new nations

its manufacture permitted in only a provincial, selfick purposes. the large proportion of miners Allies. The manufacture of poison are going to set up in the presence "Do in south Wales who were opposed gas is prohibited. to the strike, showing that the south Wales coalfield realised how. largely it depended upon its export trade. We exported 74,000,000 tons of coal in a normal year, excluding bunker coat The Premier emphasis "destroyeur ons van

POLAND,

LONDOD

Warsaw reports that

an increase of food prices would be hours denuncia inevitable.

Referring to the miners' contention that these figures, even if accurate, did not answer their legitimate claim for improving the miners' status, he pointed out that the miners were not receiving a starvation wage. The ideal we were all seeking to, obtain ought 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 a de- mand. The Premier doubted whether economies in the mines could wipe out the increase in the cost of coal I owing to the demands.

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The chief of the American food mission to Poland telephoned from Fosen that the Gennans we can tinuing an active bombardment all along the front.

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of the old and powerful nations in Europe, and left there if left) by us without a disinterested friend 2 Do you believe in the Polish cause as I do? Are you going to set up Poland, immature, inexperienced, as vet unorganised and large would be quick to pounce on thith there were not the guarantees of the world behind, their liberty? Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out money to help and succour the Armenians after they had suffered. Now "set up your strerigth so that they shall sever suffer again. The arrange- ments of the present peace cannot stand a generation unless guaranteed by the forces of the civilised world."

LONDON, Feb. 25. The Vorwaerts" learns from The President concluded that he Munich that Herr Auer's assassin was had no doubt about the American common [sic] butcher named Lin- verdict, and did not believe that pro- duer, a member of the revolutionary gress was going to fall short of the The proposed commission, a worker's council. He openly boasts goal. Peoples, not governments, which Mr. Justice Sankey, would be of the deed, and none think of arrest were in the saddle, and they would president, would enquire into all the ing him. Apparently he entered the see that if the present governments questions raised by the miners, includ Diet by the deputies' entrance through did not do their will, others should. ing the nationalisation of the coal the collusion of the guards. Herr industry; also concerning the effect Hagemeister, the president of the of the demands on other industries, workers' council, after the shots were There would be the fullest publicity. fired, shouted from the tribune,

"that is the proletariat's revenge." The 'commission would be instructed i

to report on hours and wages by LIKE THE WORD "EMPIRE.” March 31. The miners had insisted

Berlin reports that the Minister o

PARIS CONFERENCE.

LONDON, Feb. 26. The Press Bureau issues a com munique received from Paris saying that the representatives of the great

on a reply by March 15, but he did the Interior explaining in the NationaPowers discussed the question of not believe the miners, in view of the Assembly the draft constitution, said allotting to commissions the consider appointment of the commission, the document did not mention the ation of frontier questions affecting would throw the whole industries of German republic because the word enemy states, and laid down the the country into disaster for the sake and idea of empire had a deep-rooted conditions under which the Belgian of sixteen days. (Cheers) If the miners' meeting on Feb. 26. declined sentimental value for the German claims are to be considered.

to participate in the commission, people. The object of the constitu. The conference adopted the Sup- then mine-owners and miners only tion was organise a German Germany reme War Council's conclusions free from Austrian or Prussian intermediate zone in Transylvania regarding the establishment of an hegemony..

would be called as witnesses.

Mr. Richards' amendment was negatived by 257 to 43. The miners commission, bill was read a second time, and the House adjourned.

"THE THUNDERER."

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LONDON, Feb. 25.

ARMED STRIKERS.

LONDON, Feb. 25.

It is reported from Zurich that the strike at Munich has ended, but that every workman was to-day supplied with a rifle and twenty cartridges.

WELSH- MINERS.

between the Roumanian and Hun garian troops; and it also heard the Armenian claims.

FRENCH DEMANDS.

LONDON, Feb. 25. "Another communique says, the ministers of the great Powers approv éd measures to avoid the nonpayment of the Austro-Hungarian coupons due on March 1 in the absence of LONDON, Feb. 25 agreement, among the former Mr. Brace, the President of the Austro-Hungarian states. The minis [MY, Steed has been Foreign Editor Welsh Miners' Federation, in a letter ters exammed the question of the of "The Times" since January 1914. to the

transport to Poland of the Polish urges the miners divisions formed in France and Italy. Before thathe was their correspondent

Mr. Geoffray Dawson has resigned the editorship of "The Times," and is succeeded by Mr. Henry Wickham ¡Steed.

newspapers,

at Vienna, Rome, and Berlin. He has to accept the government's offer of They also heard France's demands written on Socialism as well as a commission of inquiry, He saya in the direction of the suppression foreign politics.]

refusal would be an irretrievable of the Act of Algeciras, and the Mr. Dawson, the retiring editor, in blunder.

a letter to Mr. John Walter, the chair-

imposition on Germany of the neces sary guarantees to prevent her | resuming. In Morocco the, hostile

man of the Times" company, says HOME COMING OF PRESIDENT action she had taken against France

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WILSON.

LONDON, Feb, 25/

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for some weeks ever since it became Boston reports that President clear that Lord Northcliffe was con- Wilson landed and was accorded aAnother communique from Paris stantly dissatisfied with the policy of great reception. A committee of says the Labour Legislation Com cardioid mission considered the position of the "The Times." He could not wait women received Mrs. Wilson. Twentyself government dominions, protež longer, because it deferred his own suffragists demonstrating outside torates, and colonies regarding inter expressions of opinion in other news the State House, were arrested and national labour legislation.E

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