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ST.
CROIX STATIQN.
i.ondon,
April
12.h.—Both
sides
in
the
controversy
between
the
Mine-own-
ers
and
sthe
Miners,
whnich
brought
about
the
stmke
oif
Miners
last
week,
were received
by Mr, Lloyd George
today.
The
Mine-owners
conferred
with
the
Premier
at
11
o’zlock
and
the
miners
were
rea ly to
talk with him
i:nmediate-
ly
efrer
thz
eonclusion
of
his
conver-
sation
with
the
owners.
Represents-
tives oi
the
miners
will report
to
the
Triple
Alliance
oI
Labour
iater
in
the
day,
as
to
whether
the prospects
ofa
settlement
are
sufficiently
favourable
to justiry the
posiponement
of the strike
of
the
National
Union
of Railwaymen
.nd
thc
National
Federation
es
Trans-
port
Workers,
members,
of
which
are
prepared
to
walkout
at twelvk
o’clock
tonight.
It
was
declared
here
today
that
there
would
be
no strike
of these
two organizations
uniess
the negotiations
to
be
carried
out
today
broke
dowr,
Prospecis
were
g¢enerally
held
not
to
be
uwfavourable
aithough
a
member
of
the
Miners
Kxecutive
Committee
said last
nignt "We
have
not
come"
to
grip
as yet on ccunter
proposals’’.
Yes-
terday’s
proceeding
bareiv
passed
the
preliminary
stage
of
the
statement
of
the
respective
cases
of
those
directly
involved in the
miners
strike,
and
says
the
'‘Times’’, ‘‘nothing ermerged
from
them but
a
presentation
of the Problem
in
all
its
naked
difficulty’’. It
was
in
various quarters
today
that
the
Miners
were
prepared
to accepta
wage
reduc-
tion
by
the
establishment
of
a
sliding
scate
based
or
the
cost
of living.
It
was pointed
dut that
in
even
the
most
unfavoarable
circumstances
the
trans-
pori
strike
cannot
begin
unfil§Friday
as
seamen
and railwaymen.?jégvif&_e
uni-
on affiliated with the
transporf
workers
federation,
insisted
on
a ballot
walking
out.
This
vote
began
today
and
will
take
four days
to
be
cast.
Operations
to ensure
the
safety
of
the
mines
from
flooding are
proceeding
without
hinder-
ance
n
most
of
the
collieries
in
the
United
Kingdom.
The
only
exception
is
found
in Fifeshire,
where only two of
sixtyfour pits are
being pumped.
Paris,
April 12th.—Premier
Briand
in
the course
of the debate
in
the Chamber
of
Deputies
today
on
German
repara
tions declared,
‘'The
time
for words has
passed.
We must
now
revert
to acts.”’
“‘We descern,’’
said
the
Premier,
‘'That
the
penalities
infcrced
have
not
pro-
duced
the
expected resuits.
We
note
that
there
still
exists
in
Germany
a
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No
9,
issu2d
24
January,
1920, requiring
that bay
rum shall
be
soid only on delivary of a parmit
issuad
by the
Police
Department.
is
so far modified
-
taal
gay
rum may
be
sold lozaliy without perm:t
from
Police Department,
provided
that bay
rum
so sold withoat
parmit shall
contain
one of
the modifying agents
enumer-
ated
boiow; and
provilad
furcher
that the
lab>l
on each
bottle
so sold
without
permit
shall
be
so pn_nted
or stamped
in red
ink
in as
to indicate plainly the modifying agent
and
number
of grains
per
ounce
used.
The alrernative
modifying agents
are:
Sallcym
Acid
5 erains
per fluid ounce.
Quinine Sulphate
S llms
-
-
Chinchouvidine
Sulphate
2 grains
**
-
5
Resorcin
Sfrans
-
-
Bay
rum
which.-has
not been
modified by ine
use of on= of the agents
indicated
above
shalt
be
sold locally only under
permit issued
by the Police Department
as
hereto-
fore required,
Tie penalties
provided
by Ordinance
approved
9 July,
1918, shall apply in cases
of
violations
otthis Order.
:
:
Witness
my Hand
and
the
Seal of the Government
of
the United States,
this
11th
day of April, 1921.
J.
W. OMAN,
Governor.
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disposition
to evade
payment.
I repeat
here,
with all
‘the
strength
at
my
eom-
mand,
that
we
creditors
hold
1
perfect.
ly legal
deed.
A
process
server
has
been
despaiched
to Germany,
and
if our
debtor
persists
in
a
refusal
to
pay.
the
rext
time
a
policeman
will
accompAany
him.
This
process
is a legal
procedure,
as
between
individuals
in every day life,
and it is
the same
in
relations
between
nations.
In
full
agreement
with
our
allies,
we
have
a
rendezvous
with
Gery-
many
on
May
Ist.
France
shall
lot
fail that rendezvous.