hurled
to an:d
from.
Shouts
of** traiter’’
and
other
similar
epithets
were
heard
by
reporters
outsid:
the
hall,
where
the meeting
was
held.
Replyng
to the
communication
from
Mr.
Cramp
and
Mr. Thomas,
notifying him that the rail-
waymen
and
transport
workers
had
withdra vn
their support
from the
min-
ers,
Mr.
CLloyd
George
wrote:
‘‘l am
grateful
to learn
your
Unions do not pro-
pose
to resort
to an
insensate
method
to
compel
the
handing
down
of
judgment
in the
wage
question,
by paralyzing the
country’s
industries
and bringing suffer-
ing to mil'ions of innocent
people;
while
the Govt.
was urging
a saner
method
of
negotiations’’.
Characteristic
of editori-
al comment
on
the situation.
an
editorial
published
in the
‘‘Morning Post’
says:
‘““The bluff
was
called,
and
it
failed.
These
po'verful
trade
unions
must
be
taught
that
it is
not
their
business
to
govern
the country’’.
In the
meantime,
the
stoppage
of
coal
mining
econtinues,
and
it
is
pointed
out
in
various
quar-
ters that
the
situation
is
still
serious.
Announcement
is
made
on
behalf of the
Govt.
that efforts
to reach
a solution
will
not
be relaxed.
Reports
from provision-
al
centres
mentions
the
bewilderment
and
bitter disappointment
in
the extrem-
ist
sections
of
the
miners,
railwaymen
and
transport
workers
at
the
failure
of
the Triple Alliance strike.
London,
April
16th.—According
to
Australian
cables,
a defeat
sustained
by
the Hughes
Govt.
in the
Commonwealth
Govt.
yesterday
was
pureiy
accidental,
and
does
not
necessarily
mean
that
the
Govt. is under
obligetion
to resign.
The
Premier
at once
moved
the adjournment
of the House,
as
the
means
of
testing
the
opinion
of
the
House
on
the
ac-
cident,
and
as
the House
aceepted
his
au-
thority in
this
matter
without
dissent,
it
is
expected
that
the
matter
will
straighten
out.
In
a formal
statement
Mr. Hughes
declaved
that
it wßll
be
im-
possibe
for him
to
attend
the conference
of the
empire premiers
in
London
ur-
ing
June,
unless
ithe
House
makes
it
clear
that
the
accidental
defeat
of his
Govt.
in
no
way
constitutes
a
vote
of
censure.
But
this
is
merely
a
reitera-
tion of the position
taken by Mr. Hughes
some
weeks
ago
when
he
declared
he would
not
attend
the
Imperiai
Con-
ference
unless
the
statement
he
intend
ed
to
make
anent
the matters
to
be
discussed
at
the
conference
met
with
the
aporoval
of
the
House
and
un-
less
he
was also given
a
guarantee
that
his Government
would
not
be
defeated
during his
absence.
London, April 16th.—Major Guest
has
been
returned
to the
House
5f Commons
by
the
coalition
liberals
of East
Dorset
without
opposition.
His re-election
was
made
necessary
by
his
appointment
as
Air Minister.
'
Littierock, Ark., April 16th. —A rapid
ly mounting
dezth
[ist
that
may
ex-
ceed
fifty dozen
persons
injured
and
sd.
LU RUDLI X
A V]IE
property
damage
s
yei
unestimated
are results
of a
tornado
that
cut
a wide
path
across
part
of Miller
and
Hamp-
stead
counties,
Arkansas,
and
Cash
Coupty,
Texas,
last
night.
Reports
coming
into
this
city
from the
storm
area augmented,
rather
than
diminished
the extent of the
damage,
and
because
of paralyzed
wire communication
officials
vrereoi
the
opinion
that
several
days
might
elapse
before
the extent of
the
destruction
is definitely known.
London,
Aprll, 17th.—The
raw
sugar
market
seemed
to be
a little steadier
to-
day,
although
prices
were
unchanged
@
4% cts.
for Cuba’s,
cost
and
freight,
equal
to 5.77 for centrifuzal with
uncon-
trolled
sugars
quoted
@ 5.64 for
centri-
fugal.
No
sales
were reported.
In
re-
fined there seemed
to
be le:s pressure
in
second-hand
sugars,
which
17>
believed
to
be pretty
weil
cleaned
up
2!
around
7.40
to 7.50 for fine
granulated.
Uther-
sWise
no
changes
occurred,
with
prices
from 7.65
to 8.00
for fine granulated
and
only a moderate
enquiry noted.
Trading
in
futures
was ot fair
proportions,
but
orders
were
pret'y
well
divided
and
price changes
were
narro v,
with closing
bids
unchanged
to
1 point
not
higher.
Mny
closed
at 4.50,
July 460
and
Sep-
tember
4.60 all bids.
Berlin,
April
17th.
- The
question
of
reparations
evidently is giving the
Ger-
man
Cabinet
great
trouble.
No official
statement
aas
been
issued
concerning
the matter,
but two
proposals
are
being
favoured.
The
first
propoasal
contem-
plates
the assumption
of Germany’s
debt
to
the Allies
in the
United
States,
and
the
second
that
the
Allies
should
be
given
one
third
share
in a number
of the
principal
German
industries.
Memphis,
T
un., April
17th.
—lncom-
plete
reports
from
the
six States
swept
late
Friday
and
Saturday
by
storms,
showed
tonight
a death
list of 83,
with
20 seriously injured
and
nearly 30 suffer-
ing from lesser
injuries.
Property
dam-
age,
it
was estim=ted,
wil run into
mil-
lions, and when relief parties
report
from
isolated
sections,
it
is
feared
ihat
the
death
roll will amount
still
higher.
As
compiled
toaizhi,
the
list
was
Texas
9,
Arkansas
52,
Mississippi
8, Alabama
14.
In Arkansas
the injured list
had reached
71
tonight.
There
‘vere
po
deaths
re-
ported
in Georgia
and Tennessee.
'Lor-
re .tial
rains
which
foilowed
the
wind,
have delayed
relief
work, but in
Arkan-
sas
the Red
Cross
has
begun
work
in
counties
where
hundreds
of
families
were
rendered
homeiless.
Texas
has
been
supplied
by
the
National
Guard
and food supplies
are being sent
in.
London,
April 17th.—Sunday
brought
additi
nal discomfort
from the coal strike
to
the
people
of
Great Britain,
as
the
nezd
for
already
closely held
fuel
was
increased
by the
appearance
of wintry
weather
throughout
the
United
King:
dom,
with
a
considerable
snowfall
in
some
sections.
London, April ißth.
-I'he
German
Gov-
ernment,
said
Mr. Lloyd
(George
in
the
House
of Commons
today,
is still in
de-
fault with regard
t®reparations,
the trial
of persons
accused
of offenses against
the
laws
of
war,
and
disarmament.
The
Germans,
continued the speaker,
have not
thus
far
shown
any
inclination
to
ad-
vance
practical
proposals
for the
carry-
ing
out
of
tha ,Treaty
of
Versailles
in
thase
‘respects.
lherefore
it
was
im-
perative forth?
Allies
to
confer
with
regard
to the further
steps
which
might
be necessary
to enforce compliance
with
the
Treaty.
Mr. Lloyd George’s
state-
ment
was
in_answer
to
a
question
by
Commander
Kent
Worthy,
Independent
Liberal Member
from Hull, as
to
whoath-
er the Premier’s
attention
had been
call-
ed
to
the
pronouncement
of
M. Briand,
that France,
as
the questioner
construed
it,
intended
to
use
force
against
Ger-
many
after May
first, and
whether
the
British
troops
would
be
involved
in
a
new
demonstration.
Doorn,
Holland,
April 18th.—The
fu-
neral
train bearing the remains
of the late
former Empress
Augusta
Vietoria of Ger-
many
to Pottsdam
left the little station
of
Maarn,
three
miles from here at 7.45 a.m.
Former
Emperor
William
did
not
go
to
Maarn
tc
see
the
train
depart,
but
re-
mained
at the
House of Doorn
in
com-
pany
with his brother,
Prince
Henry
of
Pless.
Princess
Louise,
daughter
of the
Empress,
and
General
von Gontard,
chief
of
the
household,
were
the
only
ones
present
"o see
the fuceral
car !cave.
London,
April 18th.—Racing
by
Gov-
ernment
orders
have
been
abandoned
until
further
rotice.
This decision
has
been
reached
on
account
of the
labour
trouble.
London,
April 18th.
A report
issued
by the
Labour
Department
of the
Board
of Trade
shows
that
the
cos.
of living in
Great
Britain
declined
8 points
during
the month of March.
New
York,
Aprii
18th.—Mr.
Sam
GGompers,
President
of
the
American
Contederation
of Labour,
and
Mrs. 2
trude
Neuschaler,
whose
engagement
was
aunounced
on
Friday
nig
t,
were
married
here
yesterday
in
a hotel.
The
ceremony
was
parformed
by
Supreme
Court Justice
Mr.
Robert
Wagner.
Mr.
&
Mrs.
Gompers
left
immediately
for
Toronto,
where
the
labour
leaderis
to
deliver adresses
next Tuesday.
Londun,
April 18th.
-A despatch
from
Java
reporrs
that
24 have
been
killed and
60
are
missing,
asa result
of a
cloud
burst
and
a land
slide according
tc the
Rotterdam
correspondent
of the **“Pimes’’.
Berlin,
April
18th
—The
repacations
commission
has
verbally
notified
the
president
of
the
German
war
burden
cominittee
that the
gold
reserves
of tna
Reichstags
Bank and
o her
German is:u-
ing bank
must
be deposited
before
May
Ist either
in Cologne
or
Coblenz
as
a
se-
curity for reparations,
it
was
s2mi
of-
cially announced
today.