PARIS POSTAL STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 49, 23 March 1909, Page 3

PARIS POSTAL STRIKE.

DRASTIC GOVERNMENT METHODS. Pariß, March 21. The French Chamber of Deputies supports the Government suppressing the postal and telegraphic strike. M. Barthou, Minister of Works, announced that lie gave the strikers 24 hours' time to ■consider their position. If at the end of •that time they had not returned to Work, the whole 8000 of them would be dismissed.

No despatches have reached King Edward since Tuesday. Biarritz has now or a courier service between Paris aV'd Brussels.. This will enable it to'keep in' touch with officials throughnut the world. . . . . , Soldiers are re™ mn S 15 ° provincial wires, which were c.' lt ibe neighbourhood of Paris. SIGNS OF COLLIEReceived March 22, 9.55 P- m> Paris, Ma « tt «- 11. Clemenceau informed a strn. iers . putation that the demand for ti. 1 * dis " missal of M. Simyan, Under-Secreta, f oi State, was inadmissible, and that it \ s a question solely for Parliament. 1. * strongly appealed to the strikers to' resume work in their own interest and the general interest of the country. He promised m the event of their resuming, to consider their grwvancs.

A large meeting of strikers afterwards unanimously rejected the committee's proposal to resume work, but there are signs of the collapse of the strike. The telegraphists arc gradually resuming, and the telephone and the pneumatic postal services in Paris are already working.