Sir Herbert Samuel's Memorandum to be Considered London, May 13.
The first step towards resumption of the coal negotiations was taken this evening when Mr. Baldwin, accompanied' by Earl Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, Sir 'Arthur Steel-Maitland, the Minister of Labour, and Lt.-Col. Lane-Fox, nder-Secretary of State for Mi conferred with the Miners' Executi at Downing Street for three-quarters hour, Afterwards it was officially stated that the meeting had adjourned after a general diveussion of the present position.
It is learned that the Premier will meet the coal-owners to-morrow and that he will also probably meet the Miners' Executive again in the It is understood that the Intter to-morrow morning: ver sive elements throughout Europe.
had a set-back.—The paper ly eulogizes the Premier, Mr.
Bre Nouvelle" says that tke British Government acted not -breaker but as the destroyer of civil war. It adds that if the social order in Britain had not been able to cope with the danger the, whole cause of Inw and order which it germs of a basis for the solution of the problem, With regard to the railway position, a conference of railway managers and representatives of the three railway unions met this evening but did not arrive at an agr ment. Deliberations, how will he resumed to-morrow.—Reuter. throughout Europe trould have been
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