Another crisis has arisen in the South Wales coal field, 'The Executive Council of the South Wales Miners' Federation at Cardiff to-day decided to recommend to the delegates to. the Coalfields' Conference at Cardiff to-morrow to tender fourteen days' notice to ter= minate contracts with a view to en-foreing a settlement of the dispute in the Taft Merthyr colliery. Here 1,200 men nave now been on strike for a month as a protest against the existence of the Miners' Industrial Union im opposition to the South [Wales Miners' Federation, To-morrow's conference will be journed to enable delegates consult their lodges and, if the recommendation is accepted, fourteen @ays' notice to terminate' contracts will be handed in throughout the coalfields on November 14—Reuter, 'The village of Oeschelbronn in Baden, which, a year ago, was completely destroyed during gigantic fire, has been entirely rebuilt through the' generous help of the German London, Nov. 12.
With reference to reliable informa tion, the "Daily Telegraph" announces that the British Army' will be considerably enlarged and endowed with Perfected equipment. 'The military budget will be increased, according to the paper, by £5,000,000 for ereat= ing an expeditionary corps. similar tov that of 1914 but' organized" on. modern lines—Havaa,
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