YORKSHIRE MINES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1919, Page 5

YORKSHIRE MINES.

LEFT TO BE RUINED. i 200,00q MEN GO ON STRIKE. By Telegraph.—Press Asm Copyright. Received July 22, 8 pin. London, July 21. Two hundred thousand miners in Yorkshire are on strike, including fifty thousand pumpers who left the mines to be flooded and ruined, contrary to the invariable practice hitherto of keeping maintenance parties at work.—Aus.-N.SJ. Cable Assn. Mr. Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, emphasising the grave development of the Yorkshire dispute, said that three of the mines were already flooded, and twelve were likely to be flooded in a day or two. A very dangerout situation had arisen, as some of the mines would be ruined in a few days, and others shut down for a long period. The Yorkshire output is the second largest in the Kingdom. Men from the Fleet are to be sent to assist in pumping. The Ministry of Labor has inquired what means the mines have to protect the helpless. Sir Eric Gcddes has gone to Yorkshire to co-ordinate the community's endeavours to overcome the serious menace of the destruction of the mines, —Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assh.

MINERS URGED TO SAVE THE MINES. Received July 22, fi.s p.m. London, Julv 21. There was a prolonged meeting of Cabinet on \he coal situation. Mr. Brace; in a speech at Abertillery, urged the miners to double the output and thus avert national bankruptcy.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.