LABOUR AND THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 5

LABOUR AND THE WAR

FRENCH OVERTURES FAIL

"OUR DUTY IS CLEAR"

(Reo. September 30, 1.20 a.m.) Paris, September 29. M. Jouhaux, the general secretary of the French Labour Confederation, narrates that he had an interview with Herr Ligieu, tlie secretary of the General German Syndical Association on July 25, in the presence of ■Mγ. Mortens, the representative of the-Belgian Syndicalists. ....-.- M. Jouhaux a.sked Herr Ligieu what the German comrade© intended to do to avoid the threatened war, and added that the French Syndicalists were willing to act in concert with the Germans. Herr Legieu did not reyly. M. Jouhaux concluded that the Germans were making no move, and hence" he writes: "Our duty is clear. Wβ were faced by a country seeking war, and we are bound then to accept the war forced on ue. •Wβ act with the certitude that we are fighting in the cause of civilisation and progress."

WAR NEWS IN GERMANY

BRITAIN IN A BAD WAY

Rome, September 28. German newspapers fitate that Admiral. Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Ohief of the British' Navy, is to be triod for incapacity, owing to the loss of the three cruisers Abouktr, 'Cressy, and Hoguo, and thab political ciroles are demanding Mr. Winston Churchill's resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty. ' London newspapers are represented as confessing that they have abandoned hope of retrieving the loss. ■