, 1913-12-06
MS
ST. CRO1X STATION.

tional Bill, rs proposed by the Right Party,
ard the Bill will ROW be sent to q Joint
committee of both Chambers.
The deaths are announced of author listed
Moller and former Member of the Folketing
Guldbrandsen
TIE "Bintang" arrived al London yoGtcr
day ana leaves Tomorrow. The "Leander"
arrived at Stettin on the third.
london, Dec. 5th-Seven hundred men,
mostly engine drivers and hremen, On the
Great Western Railway, have struck in
various parts of South Wales against hand
ling Dublin business. The Railway Work
ers' Union does not approve of their action
and will not allow them strike pay, neverthe-
less the strike threatens to spread. The
railway accepts freight only at sender's risk.
Two collieries have stopped because the
miners refuse to travel in the trains run by
blacklegs.
Advices from Dublin state hat the strike
conditions there are not likely to alter before
the Trades Congress meeting, tosbe held in
London on the 9th instant. The Dublin
Employers Federation, in a manifesto, denies
the attributed intention to smash Unionism
and says the employers would welcome
peace with honour, but will fight to a finish
for the right to manage their own business
anu VIII HI OblJ WILL u4OOO WIZ ASOP
their engagements.
Dispatches from Bombay state that the
conditions are quieter and prices steadier,
upon cooperation for the prevention OF sac
ritice in the Specie Bank liquidation.
The international Conference regarding
safety at sea is considering al joul ming for a
month on December 18th, but the American,
Canadian and Australian members oppose
Alo cno~acf;Dn oo1 Yrno industry Thara
is general opposition to the Radical propo-
sails by the United States.
Sir Edward Carson, in the course Of a
speech at Manchester, declared that the
Governments alleged intention to exclude
arms from Ireland will bring matters near q
crisis.
The Chimes" approves the rejection by
the Wholesale Sugar Dealers Association of
the Austro- German Re6ners' proposal of %
bonus scheme, and thinks it melancholy that
q great department of British trade is thus
menaced by its total dependence upon the
foreign supply, enabling foreign combina-
tlons to raise prices against England. 1t
points out that, of 625, 900, 900 hundred
weights of unrefned beet sugar imported,
none came from the Empire, and thinks that
cultivation should be promoted both by the
United Kingdom and the Dominions.
1t is stated that Russia has given Messrs.
Wicker Sons and Maxim a concession for the
erection of gunworks, necessitating a capital
OF ], 800, 900 pounds, and that orders aggre-
eating /, 100000 pounds have already been
received. This is regarded as an important
factor in Anglo Russian commercial relations.
Dispatches from the Near East state that
the Powers have agreed upon Prince Will
linn of WED as King of Albania.
Advices from Berlin state that in the
Reichstag the Imperial Minister of War,
General Won Falkenhayn, in answering an
Interpolation regarding the Zabern incident
reported yesterday, was constantly interrupt
ed by expressions of disapproval from all
except the Conservatives DR.. Won Beth
rnann-Hollweg followed and ended his re-
marks amid Kisses. The session was the
cost d;snrdarlv since the colonial debate OF