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Ampossible 9 Hruesday in an atmosphere of poll-Parliament reassembles London, Oct. 25.
tical uncertainty. therefore total at least one hundred, In addition there are still 90 or 40 entombed who might be saved with however very slight hope that the rescue gangs will penetrate to that part before fire and gas have killed them, The Maybach mine where the disaster occurred belongs to the Saar coal basin and is under French management in accordance with the Versailles treaty. This second catastrophe coming on top of the gruesome explosion in the Alsdort mine. has shaken the German public as few events in recent years. It surmised that the Maybach expl sion was due to similar causes as those suspected in the Alsdorf namely the gathering of coal damp in pockets formed by too rapid ex. cavation and not filled up again The tariff controversy threatens rather the disruption of the Con Jservatives than the embarrassment fof the Government, but the latter fis credited with the intention of submitting an advanced! programme, including repeal of the Trade Di putes Act electoral reform, Which promises a stormy session Jand is certain to meet with determined opposition on the part of the House of Lords.
Then the Government's declare tion of policy as regards Palestine Jhas now provided a political sense tion of the first magnitude with Lloyd George, leader of the [Liberal Party, and General Smute, Premier of the Union of South /Africa, backing up the protest made ey Mr.
Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs; and Mr, L, 8, the (Conservative ex-Minister of Dominion Aft Berlin, Oct, Rescue work in the Maybach near Seabruecken in the Saar di trict where between 30 and 40 miners are still entombed, had unfortunately to be suspended follo ing further cosl-damp explosion The damage done by the latter has rot yet been ascertained but there is now hardly any hope to save the Though there has so far been but little criticism by Labour mem bers regarding the Government's statement of poli Palestine, there is undoubtedly a considerable ection of the Labour Party sympathetic with the Zionists, In cons sequence, talk of the possibility of Jan early' election has been revived, bhut how this is to be brought about, men who were cut off by the first lis another matter, since the Gover explosion—Trans-Ocean Kvo Min. ment can be defeated in the House
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