NATIONAL COALMINING CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 3 September 1915, Page 7

NATIONAL COALMINING CONFERENCE.

THE RUSSIAN ARMIES. STILL CAPABLE OF ASSUMING OFFENSIVE. MORE,GERMANS RECALLED TO COLORS. THOUGH PREVIOUSLY REJECTED AS UNFIT. (Received Sep. 3. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, Sep. 2." U:e national conference of the coalmining industry met at the Home Of■ture. Masters and men agreed that the necessity had not vet arisen to suspend the Eight Hours'' Act and its suspension would not materially increase production. Efforts should be made to restrict absenteeism and abolish inequalities of labor in various districts. PARIS. Sep. 2. A communique hails the Russian success at Strypa, and adds: This victory shows that the Russian armies are masters of the conditions of their retreat, and continue capable of assuming the offensive whenever circumstances are favorable. A particularly heavy artillery struggle in Artois, the Argonne and the \osges continues.. French batteries silenced the enemy's. BERNE, Sen. 2. Jwelve thousand Germans in Switzerland who had previously been rejected for physical reasons have been recalled to Germany for service Relatives are anxious' for the faite of «arher recruits, as no casualties among Germans from Switzerland have been published since November.