IN EVENT OF STRIKE." ADMIRALTY'S COAL ORDERS.
GERMAN COLLIERS WILL ACT INI (Received January 12, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Uth January. • Admiralty orders will monopolise th« Cardiff shipping tonnage for month*. A hundred thousand tons of coftThHv*" been requisitioned. ' " The Daily Chronicle states that in the event of a British , strike the Germanf ' colliers will strike simultaneously. RAILWAYS WOULD STOP IN A FORTNIGHT. DREADNOUGHTsTsORAP-mON IN SIX WEEKS. (Received. January li; 9,50 a.m.) • • LONDON, 10th January. ' Mr. Smillie, president of the Scottish Miners Federation, at a mass meeting in Lanarkshire, stated that he told Mr. Churchill, at a conference, thdt if there was a colliery" strike the railways would " stop in a fortnight, and Dreadnoughts would be scran'iron in six weeks. Mr. Churchill replied that the Government would pass a BUI tb prevent this. Mr. Smillie said that a general stopBage8 age would foroe the 'people to believe mt the industry wa* Coo important lot private ownership.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 7
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155IN EVENT OF STRIKE." ADMIRALTY'S COAL ORDERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 7
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