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TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's 'Service to the China' Moft)

DOMINIONS AND ENEMIES..

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Kail.)

EGYPTIAN REBELLION.

BRITISH LABOUR ORISTS.

TRIPLE ALLIANCE WORKS FOR VILLAGES FLY TURKISH FLAG.

- INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

LONDON, March 21.

LONDON, March 18. In the House of Commons, reply- ing to Sir H. Nield, Colonel Amery stated that Lord Milner had co information regarding legislation excluding or regulating, the admis. LONDON, March 21.

sian and repatriating of allen enemies Reuter learns that the Egyptian Dominions. He pointed out that the baving been passed in any of the A conference of the triple alliance situation has worsened and is distinctly Canadian government were taking comprising representatives of the grave. General by la returning action under the Canadian War miners federation, the national from Paris as quickly as possible and Measures Act to remove from Canada union of railwaymen, and the tran-is expected to reach Cairo on March any interned enemy aliens considered sport workers, met and reviewed the 25. Besides the large number of troops whole labour situation, including the already in the country, reinforce were being made so far as shipping undesirable. Also arrangements threatened strike of railwaymen ments are being sent. A number facilities permitted for repatriation The conference unanimously resolved have arrived. Bedouins west of from the Dominions of alien enemies to approach the Government with Babari province have entered that desiring to be repatriated. view to removing the deadlock be province and are looting, The tween the railwaymen's union and Turkish flag is flying in some vil the railway executive committee, lages. No news comes of military meanwhile requesting the railway-casualties, but some prominent native men to remain at work during the officials and several Egyptian police negotiations and pending the further are believed to have been killed. decision of the triple alliance.

The position is not regarded as pre- MEN NYIELDING-OFFICIALS

senting any military danger. It is FIRM.

believed it will soon be well in hand. SITUATION DISTINCTLY BETTER.

LONDON, March 23.

A series of conferences between the railwaymen and Government officials began at Downing Street yesterday morning and continued at the Board of Trade in the afternoon and late evening. They failed to reach any agreement, and adjourned till Sunday afternoon,

The delegates of 130 London dis trict branches of the Railway-men's Union met yesterday evening and resolved upon insisting on the accept ance of the full demands of their national programme. The resolution

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LONDON, March.22.

Reuter learns that the situation in

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Egypt is distinctly better. Order has Cairo and Alexandria are quite tran been restored In several towns. quil. The only disturbing factor is that the Bedouins are reported to be gathering in considerable numbers in the hope of loot.

POLES BEAT DERAISIANS.

VOICE OF THE DOMINIONS. Replying to Major O'Neill, Colonel Amery said any permanent scheme of securing to the Dominions a larger participation in the government of the empire must be the outcome of a common agreement between the Governments concerned and could not be set up simply on the initiative of his Majesty's Government. He referred to the first paragraph.

of a resolution of the War Con-

ference in 1917 favouring the call-

ing of a special imperial conference

as soon as possible after the war in 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-

ticipation both in the control of the conduct of the war and in framing the peace terms.

is to be submitted to a mass meeting RELIEVE BESIEGED LEMBERG. ly enjoyed the most effective par

of members on Sunday."

DEFINING TERMS.

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LONDON, March 21.

A message from Warsaw says that after five days of desperate fighting, Polish forces have plefced the lines besieging Lemberg which is held by Poles and entered the town. The Ukrainians were vigorously pursued. The Poles captured many prisoners guns, machine-guns, and much booty.

LONDON, March 24. The Press Bureau states that repre sentatives of the Government and of the railway executive committee and of the Ukrainians who have beer GERMANS STILL P. 'GÑA CIÓUS railway unions to-day reviewed the whole of the concessions offered by the Government and reached an agreement as to interpretations thereof. If the railwaymen's unions ratify these terms, negotiations on the remaining items of the program. mes will be continued immediately.

The Government is undertaking that tair and speedy servement:

TYPICAL QUIBBLE BY BONAR LAW.

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LONDON, March, 23. yesterday's conference at Downing Street of the "triple al

LONDON, March 22. Copenhagen learns that the Berlin Press foreshadows military resistance LONDON, March 22 if the landing of Polish troops at A communique from Paris say the Danzig be attempted. Alternatively Supreme War Council discussed the they threaten not to attend the amination in connection with sub-three steamers ready for handing" sequent boundary determinations over have not departed owing to the affecting Germany.

crews' refusal to sail,

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LONDON, March 21. A communique from Paris says the

LONDON, March 22.

Supreme War Council this afternoon Copenhagen learns from Berlin liance", the railwaymen's union and considered the different aspects of that the Germars have informed the the Government, the official reply the Polish question and the transport Allied Commissioners that the Ger shows that Mr. Thomas replied of General Haller's troops to Poland. man government will in no case affirmatively to Mr. Bonar Law's

enquiry whether all three members

of the alliance would strike in the

permit the landing of Poles at

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Danzig. it also refuses to permit

event of even an unjustified strike GUARDS TRIUMPHAL PARADE. Allied and Polish officers to travel

unrestrictedly in the territories east of the Vistula. The note is regarded as a categorical rejection of all the Allied proposals regarding Danzig,

by one member. Replying to Mr. Thomas, Mr. Benar Law emphasised GAY DAY FOR LONDON. that the Government intended, that extra pay should be given for real

LONDON, March 22. 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 gineers' societies and "not to the strong to-day marched through. railwaymen's union, Mr. Bonar Law London amidst the most enthusiastic 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.

SPARTACĪST ACTIVITIES.

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 ill but bright weather. A special covered success of the Spartacista in continu stand was erected at Buckinghaming the agitation, they are endeavour. Palace, from whith the Royalties ing to restore contact with the viewed the procession. Lorries con Russian sovies, 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 his 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 them.

ports that the central soviet át Moscow has decreed an annual pen

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hood of a settament being achieved. Mr. Bromly, the secretary of the

PROPERTY FOR EVER.

engine-drivers' and firemens' society. SPLENDID ACTION OF FRENCH

GOVERNMENT."

COAL MINERS.

NO STRIKE DURING NEGOTIATIONS.

said the proceedings were most amicable. The Government seemed most desirous of satisfying the

LONDON, March 23. men's demands.

The Foreign Office in publishing GOVERNMENTS 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 conference of the miners' dele- Government had undertaken that the as the only official British orgacisa 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. He emphasised that the country's The French Government has present continue work pending negotiations financial position was serious. The ed the land for these cemeteries to with the Government for modifications railways at present were costing the the British authorities in perpetuity.of the proposals in the Sankey report. taxpayer over half of the nationala, 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 KATIONS.

"NEUTRAL" VIEWS.

LONDON, March 21,

The chiefficult the railway

A communique from Paris' says situation appears to be that of per suading the rain body of the men's there was a meeting of the League delegates to accept compromises. of Nations Commission Committee

PLUCKING QUILLY FROM THE WINGS OF PEACE.

ITALY'S ULTIMATUM TO, HER ALLIES.

LONDON, March 22 Paris. reports that the Italian The present, breakaway is by a hot this afternoon at which neutrals zav delegates unanimously decided to headed section. Mr. Thomas warned further views of the draft covenant.

the mass raeeting of London railway. The remaining articles of it were withdraw from the Peace Conference men yesterday evening against those examined. The Peace Conference unless Fiume were assigned to Italy who talked of nothing but a strike. hoped that all states there represented simultaneously with the conclusion He declared they were not friends would become original members of of peace, but enemies.

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