Helping tors, Friday. The Soviet Government have taken strong measures to remedy the strike situation in Russia. They have issued a decree warning all strikers that unless they return to work immediately they will be imprisoned for terms varyimr from one to five years, and their

POLICE MAKE 49 ARRESTS AFTER BEING STONED. Bombay, January 12 (rec. to-day). serious disturbance took place to-day at the Koh-i-Noor Mill here. The men demanded their pay with bonus in view of Thursday being a holiday. The manager endeavoured to explain the impossibility of any

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inves^.ligation into Hie interior working the telephone system of the Post Office, should held, and tih* Lord Mayor was requested to call public meeting the Guildhall to protest against the telepiluoainj charges. PREMIER SEEKS OPINIONS. The new telephone charges, The Globe under

"The GloHe” learns that no decision has been arrived at yet rebpectiiig the rearrangement the Cabinet, and no official statement may *>e expected until after the Premier’s return from Paris.

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All thinking men are deeply concerned with the problem which is presented to us the relation of wages to prices, and we ve that from many, quarters and many different angles it is sixnal- approacued that may aiiuouaceiueuii>. a nilgai fan iu due living, into openatiun agiceuiems

The first witness called ,to-day was Mr. Walter Henry Jones, of Kenilworth-aveoMie. Wimbledon, who said entered the service of Farrow’s as clerk ia 1801, and'for the last few years had been acting as joint manager with Mr. Keogh. Mr. Jones said his duty was to pay the salaries o

EXCUSE ME.” “To'the Chief the Police, —Please excuse liii you, but I have longer courage enough *o live. I would lie c'ctrcmely obliged to you if you would send all 1 possess to my brother, M. Alphonse llrunin, ’it. line Chiffant, Murcq-en-Bareul, Prtuice. was !'<■>»■ r year* Ugl

SCOTTISH MAKERS CUT DOWN PRICES DRASTICALLY. Scottish steel makers to-day'made bold plunge with view to saving some of the heavy order-; for steel passing into German, Belgian, and American hands. Drastic cuts in prices, ranging from £1 to iOs. per ton, have been made, this bein