Modern and Powerful Cruisers weight of debt are essential. to be Sent to China Station After the conference, Mr. Bell, Secretary of the Unitel Textile Factory Workers Association, state that they had given the employers to understand that in no circumstances could they agree to consider the recommendation for inervased hours and decreased wages, but that they were prepared to ce-operate in any effort to improve trade. They had asked the employers seriously to consider elimination of the proposals in regan! to hours and wages and Jointly to request the Government to establish a statutory committes, with full powers to enquire into all factors of cost of production.
The conference adjourned until February 3.—Reuter.
London, Jan, 14, Commanded by Captain Wolfe-Murray, H.MS. Kent has been selected' to relieve H.M.S, Hawkins as flagship of the China Station, The Kent is a new 10,000-te. cruiser armed with eight 8-inch guns and four 4-inch guns. It has speed of 82 knots, The cruisers Berwick, Cumberland, Cornwall and Suffolk, sister-ships of the Kent, are in the process of outfitting and are destined for the China Station, Hence by the middle of the year, Fifth Craicer Squadron wit!
of a homogeneous group of modern and powerful
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