BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

SOUTH WALES STRIKE*. SOME MINERS 'RESUME. London, August 26. Three South Wales Collieries stopped work to-day owing to disaffection arising from Mr, Runciman's award. Over 2000 men arc out at Llanhilleth, near Newport. The miners in South Wales are resuming work. Messrs Runciman, Lloyd George and Henderson are considering tho differences. STRIKE IN MONMOUTH. 7000 MINERS COMING OUT. Received August 27, 7.55 p.m. London, August 27. Seven thousand Monmouthshire miners have decided to strike. OUTLOOK UNPROMISING. Received August 27, 5.5 p.m. London, August 20. Messrs Runciman, Lloyd George, and Henderson have written to the South Wales coalminers, declining to receive another deputation, and pointing out that both parties must accept the award as final. The miners' leaders have summoned a meeting for Friday. The outlook is grave, EVERYTHING BEING DONE. SIR R. BORDEN'S FAREWELL STATEMENT. Received August 27, 8.40 p.m, London, August 27. Sir R. Borden, on leaving England, in a farewell message, Baid that discussion with Cabinet members had convinced him that all possible Bteps were being taken to ensure the armies' triumph. They had advanced in twelve months from an utter lack of preparation to an organisation that was training and equipping unprecedented forces. ORDNANCE FACTORIES, Received August 27, 5.5 p.m. London, August 20. Arrangements have been completed to transfer all the Royal ordnanee factories to the Ministry of Munitions. THE LABOUR LEADER London, August 20. The Stipendiary Magistrate at Salford ordered the restoration of seized copies of the Labour Leader, whose owners agreed to omit the advertisement dealing with conscription. Tho magistrate ordered the destruction of a number of pamphlets, NOT CONSCRIPTION, Received August 27, 8.40 p.m. London, August 27. Lord Kitchener, replying to a Labor query, said there was no ground for the allegation that the national register ; would be used indirectly to introduce conscription. ADVICE TO AGRICULTURISTS. London, August 20. Lord Selborne, addressing representatives of agricultural societies at Westminister, said the situation demanded from every class greater and greater sacrifice. The financial strain would bo very great. Many more men must enlist, he did not care whether voluntarily or compulsorily, from agriculture or other industries. The agricultural laborer had done his narfc in the war nobly, but the response had been very unequal over the country, therefore his forecast was that in 1916 men would be taken from those farming districts whence hitherto they had not gone. His aim, to which Lord Kitchener hadVen sympathetic, was to leave tho farmer I his foreman, stockman, carters and shepherds, hut the rest of the work must be done by women or men hitherto unengaged in agricultural operations. Tho operations in the Dardanelles liave been of valuable service to Russia in reducing the number of Turks who would otherwise be in the Caucasus. The German successes were due to military organisation, not to the success of the German soldier over tho Russian, who was absolutely sublime under the most trying circumstances. .Russia's setback had imposed a greater burden on England, France, and Italy than six mouths ago. YELLOW PRESS CONTROVERSY. London, August 28. Lord Hugh Cecil, in a letter to the press, appeals for a discontinuance of' the national service controversy. It is incredible folly to destroy the existing unity by a new division on the question whether national service is necessary. It can well be left to Lord Kitchener and his colleagues.