, 1912-03-16

ANAA
binary clothing being sufficient.
A Christiania telegram says a popular
subscription is being raised to repay seventy
thousand k, oner Captain Amundsen borrow
I'd for the expedition. This is additional to
a separate subscription for a testimonial.
The Spanish Cabinet has resigned, being
+he fourth time within fourteen months.
King Alfonso has given Senior Canaleias a
free hand for arrangements.
France regards the action of the United
States Senate as equivalent to the rejection
"a arbitration. japan regrets her friendly
Frt;lo assent to a modification of the Anglo
Ionanese alliance for the sake of promotion
of a mutilated treaty.
london. March 14th-On Tuesday Mr..
Asouith. Sir Edward Grey, Mr.. Buxton, Sir
George Askwith and Representatives of the
miners and owners, including Welsh and
Scotch. held q roundtable conference, the
session lasting nearly four hours, and adj
iourned in the evening until Wednesday.
Roth sides were impressed by the general
distress, and there are better prospects of
an agreement by English parties, but the
walah and Scotch are still unsubmissive.
Tha wage loss is three million pounds, the
general losses are incalculable. The Brlgh-
ton and South coast railway has cancelled five
hundred trains and the great Northern thlr-
teen hundred and sixty nine. Even the House
of Commons itself is economising in cleo
tricitv, The Cardiff Police report seven
hundred families are starving. The White
Star liners Oceanic, Majestic and Teutonlc
have cancelled their sailin2s. Nineteen thou
sand tons of American coal have been
bought, and the Baltic Exchange asserts
that such foreign purchases indicate a per
manent loss of its trade.
Yesterdays Daily News reports that the
conference appointed a joint subcommittee
to consider the minimum wage schedules
with their revision, and the FederatiOn's ex-
ecutive committee recommended the adOp-
ton of Mr.. Asquith's plan of joint confer
ences in the respective districts for settle
ment OF the minimum wage proposal,
with the understanding that none is to
become effective until all are arranged.
Progress along these lines should put cumu-
lative pressure upon the Scotch and Welsh
dissentients.
If necessary it is expected that to-day Mr.
Asuuith will submit II resolution to the
House of Commons, that whereas Il majority
are agreed upon the principle of II minimum
wage therefore the public interest requires
that all owners should accept it, but adoption
by agreement would be preferable, since par
liamentary action would create a precedent
of too general an application to other indus
tries.
The Associated Chambers Of Commerce
have resolved that the situation requires
Parliamentary action regardless of party.
In the Prussian Senate Herr Puttkamer
declared the miners strike was revolutionary,
and urged the Monarchists to destroy the
red peril by the sternest measures against
those preventing working by those eager
to do so if protected, he demanded an an
nouncement that whatever protection was
demanded should be guaranteed, to check
the Socialists, who proclaim their desire for
n republic.
The Socialists angrily retorte'l, asserting
their right to demand a living wage.
The Clericals have announced a similar
Interpolation of Herr Won Bethmunn HolI-
veg IL the Re!chstag.
Several collisions between strikers and
Police have occurred at Essen, Duisburg,
Bochum and Recklinghausen.
The Belgian miners demand al increase
of wages corresponding with the increased
price If coal, and a strike Of forty five thou
sand is likely.
A Berlin telegram confirms the report that
an agreement upon the Sugar question has
been reached between Russia and Germany,
o~1 A. l.