The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-16
 UNDER 
 LOAD
Has the M o S t Tremendous Problems Confronting Him = Civil War in Ireland, Coal Strike and Violence Follow ing M a c s W i II e y's Death.

London, Sept. 16-Never in the long and crowded history of the Brit ish Empire has a prime minister the helmsman of the British ship of mountaino ous cares and responsibili- ties as rest today upon the shoulders of David Lloyd George.
 Three immediate crises confront the Welsh statesman:
 1. Widespread turbulence and as- sassinations throughout the United Kingdom if Terence MacSwiney, the hunger striking Lord Mayor of Cork, Sim Fein hunger strikers die in the Cork jail.
 2. The increasing menace of ac- tua1 civil war in Ireland, now that the negotiations between the Sim Fein military and civil authorities and the Irish moderates for a Do- minion Home Rule scheme have broken down.
 5. The national coal strike on Sep- tember 25 which threatens to plunge the industry of the nation into chaos and may possibly spread into actual ind uStriaI war.
 In addition to the tremendous do- nestle problems there are interna- t1onal questions of worldwide mag nitude demanding the immediate at tention of the premier. MT. Lloyd George acted as the intermediary be- tween Soviet Russia and the Allies LII 1llS IIPG IeSOlidLlOIlS II1aC were III progress while the Russians were ad- vancing through Poland and took the lead in the movement to prevent the Allies from being drawn into a new war. These negotiations have been halted, but the premier is still work Ing to effect a commercial agreement between Russia and the Allies. The Premier is expected to go to Paris within the next week to confer with Premier Millerand on the Russo-PoIish situation.
 The Premier desires to be relieved 1 of sole responsibility for negotiations l between Russia and Allied Europe I and wants the Entente to enter with l that the Allies can show the Soviet | a. single front Lloyd-George and Italy were re- | sponsible for the movement in favor of moderate policy toward Germany l which would give the German gov 1 ernment concessions in the execution 1 of the treaty. but this and differences | over Russia came perilously neal 1 bringing Great Britain and France to | an open break. These differences l have now been patched up and a new | ambassador is going to Paris to ce- | ment the Entente, but there are still 1 possibilities of further trouble over 1 the execution of the Treaty of Yer | sailles.
 The critical situation in the Neal l East where the Bo1sheviki are threat ening India and British interests ir
 Persia is actually matter for the foreign office, but the hand of Lloyd George is seen in all decisions that are l taken in that direction.
 The British government Is hard pressed for money. Taxes have mounted to unprecedented heights
 and gigantic expenditures are neces
 sary daily to maintain the military es
 ta tablishments in Ireland, Egypt, Ana
 tolia, Mesopotamia and India.
 It is the bad financial plight of tht
 treasury which increases the fear:
 over the labor situation. A coal strik,
 and resultant paralysis of industr!
 would add heavily to the financia
 burdens of the government. Ever
 some of the labor leaders are anxious
 on this account.
 1 Arthur Henderson Laborits mem
 Der of Parliament, wants tn,
 premier to intervene personally il
 an effort to avert the coal strike.
 ''UnleSS a peaceful solution i
 found by means of negotiations tn
 country will find itself in the throe
 of one of the graveSt industria
 struggles in it's history said Hend CT son.
 'sSe long as there is the slightes
 chance of a peaceful solution bein. reached, nothing could be nor, harmful than for the press to re , sort to an offensive campaign agains
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