28 AUGUST 1926
The verbatim report of the conference between Ministers and miners’ leaders at Downing Street makes it clear that the Government have rejected overtures for further financial assistance to the coal industry.
The men having refused Lord Vernon’s terms for a resumption of work at Poynton Colliery, in Cheshire, the ponies have been brought to bank as the first step in the closing down of the colliery foreshadowed by the owner.
Austrian Trade Unionists have levied themselves in support of the British miners.
The Ambassadors’ Conference have sent a Note to the German Government insisting on the fulfilment without delay of the demands of the Inter-Allied Military Mission in regard to Germany’s disarmament. Official circles in Berlin regard the Note as coming at an inopportune moment in view of Germany’s impending entry into the League of Nations.
A Paris telegram states that French diplomacy has been taken by surprise both by the manner and the matter of the Spanish Note on the Tangier question.
Elections are to be held in Greece on October 24.
Further details have been received of the advance of the Cantonese “Red” Army in Central China. The “Reds” have taken a large number of prisoners. The important treaty port of Hankow is their immediate objective.
Chinese pirates, who were disguised as passengers, have looted the Norwegian steamer Sandviken near Hong-Kong, getting away with booty valued at 20,000 dollars.