“JOHN BULL AND COMPANY, UNLIMITED.” SPEECH BY EARL MILNER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 5

“JOHN BULL AND COMPANY, UNLIMITED.”

SPEECH BY EARL MILNER.

COMPILATION OF REGISTER OF RESOURCES, PROPOSAL MEETS WITH HIS MAJESTY'S APPROVAL. mm anxious about Britain’s new army. ' QMGE THEY ATTACK NO HOLDING BACK l AWKWAKD -COLLIERY LABOR DIFFICULTY. (London Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (United Press Association —Copyrig'lit.) LONDON, duly 15. Lord Lansdoxviie, in the House of Lords, in reply'to a question. said the extension of the Registration Bill to the overseas Dominions obviously must be locally decided. If they thought fit to follow the lead the Government would be very pleased. (Received July 10. 7.30 p.m.) The Government has postponed the national conference on the mining industry called for the 21st. The National Registration Hill has received the Royal assent. (Received July 17, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 10. An appeal for unity and. urging the country to support the Government, to enable the war to be energetically pursued has been issued by Sir Oliver Lodge and Professor Leith, of Birmingham University, and has been signed by many clerics, business men. educationists and literateurs.

KITGHEMIEfU'S NEW ARMY,, LARGE PORTION NOW IN FRANCE. A RUDE SHOCK AWAITING THE ENEMY. (London Times and Svdnev Sun Services.) LONDON, July 15. The ‘‘Daily Mail’s” correspondent at British headquarters pays a tribute to the splendid qualities of Kitchener’s new army in France He says: There is a rude shock waiting Prince Ruppleeht, who I- so anxious as to the whereabouts of tlie new army. Its ■ ole desire is to get at the Bodies with the bayonet. Since their arrival at t-lie front the levies have initiated trench warfare. The general commanding the division is enthusiastic, and does not believe they have a nerve in their bodies. They are magnificent men in spirit and physique, and once they start the attack there will be no holding back. He has never seen the territorial system to better acivnnmge. COLLIERY LABOR TURMOIL, UPWARDS OF 120,000 MEN IDLE. STORMY SCENES AT MEN’S CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 15. The cessation of work in South W ales is general. Upwards of 120.000 men are idle. The enforcement of the Munitions .Act has stiffened the men’s resistance. 7 Mr Runciman meets the miners’ leaders in London tomorrow. ■ , ■ Mr Aston, secretary to the British Miners Federation, stated that the Government alone could settle the dispute. He believed that work would be fully resumed on Monday. Yt a conference of mining' delegates at Cardiff to-dai. a show of hands decided by 180 to 113 not to accept a recommendation of the Council to return to work. A card vote was demanded. ■ Rumor states that stormy scenes occurred at the conference. The executive of the South Wales Federation at a meeting were practically unanimous during the negotiations, but a minority created something like pandemonium. The opponents shouted down Standon when he said. ‘*l am u Britisher all the time, and won’t advocate stoppage. ’ . c , A portion of the miners of the western district of South Whiles resume work to-morrow. CENTRE OF THE (COLLIERY AGITATION. AYHY THE MEN HAVE STRUCK. WE ARE GOING TO EIGHT THE LAW AND THE NATION. (Received July 10. 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 10. Tonypasbv is the centre of the colliery agitation. . The men apparently believed that if the price of coals were not fixed immediately the proprietors of the collieries would make such profits that they would be able to close down their pits for. an indefinite period after the war and make tlieir own terms with rim men. The owners are keeping up steam in the collieries in expectation of an early resumption. Ben Davies, a mem tier of the South Wales Executive interviewed. said: “We are going to fight the law and the nation and (he definite resolutions of our own executive. We shall have tbe whole world against us except Germany, Austria and Turkey." Personally he regretted Mhe decision to strike as the miners did not realise the full facts.. Mr Pritchard Morgan, addressing a meeting at Merfhyi, advocated the miners taking possession of the mines and working them for the nation. . Mr Lloyd George lias appointed Robert \\ allace, chairman, (t Liliths Thomas representative of the employers, and Tom Griffiths representative of the workers, as assessors upon the general munitions tribunal for Wales and Monmouth.

FURTHER CALL ON AUSTRALIA DOUBLE BE INF r MB'EM ENTS ACCEPTED. NEW FEDERAL WAR LOAN .MELBOURNE. July 16. .Mr Fislier stated that tlie Imperial authorities had accepted tiie Commonwealth’s offer to double the October and November reinforcements, making 10,526 men a month instead of 5263, also lo send one infantry brigade with a brigade signal section, brigade train, and field ambulance, leaving in November. .Mr Fislier introduced the War Loan Bill of twenty millions which would be applied only to the expenses of the war and borrowing. WOOLWICH ’ ARSENAL. ABE THE WORKS FULLY EMPLOYED P Mr .Forster, in reply to Mr Barlow's statement that Woolwich was not fully employed, said; generally speaking, it was untrue and misleading. Woolwich could employ a greater number of highly skilled men than had hitheto beenobtainable.. A PROCESSION OF 50,000 WOMEN. WANT TO HELP MAKE MUNITIONS. • (Received-July 16, 1.1.15 p.m.) ' LONDON. July 16. A procession of fifty thousand women, including many -society ladies, will go through London on Saturday demanding •tlie right to serve the State and make munitions. Mr Lloyd JJeoro-e-addresses the : demonstration.at the Embankment.. i'Re Viv- d July 16. 9.35 p,.m.) _ , : LONDON, July 16. The gaols and conviM establishments throughout the count try were before a ; vast factory for wasters. The prisoners have 'doubled the output' as compared with their peace tasks.

WAR WILL BRING RADICAL CHANGES'. (Received July 17, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 16At tlie Empire Club and Imperial Pioneers dinner Earl Milner, presiding - , said tlie war would bring' vast and racial changes within the Empire. Mr Borden’s presence in the Cabinet was one. With the expansion of our political ideals we should have an Imperial Cabinet whereto the Dominions Premiers would be invitee! not as guests but as of right. Until this were clone and the different parts' of the Empire’s formed into a single State we would never have the real .strength of position in the world to which we are entitled. The “Daily Telegraph" says Mr Borden’s attendance in Cabinet has revolutionised theory and practice whereby the country has been governed Jor'more than a'century.