MAILS SUSPENDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 9

MAILS SUSPENDED.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ACTION BY POST OFFICE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 12.-0 a.m.) LONDON, May i. The British Post Office has suspended the foreign and colonial mail services. NEWS FROM PROVINCES. DISAPPROVAL OF STRIKE. ADVICE TO CIVIL SERVANTS. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association, (liccd. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON. May 5. Reports from the provinces showed that the services there were practically nonexistent. The principal stations at Manchester were picketed, but only one or two trains managed to leave the London termini. Hundreds of railway clerks and employees in the supervisory grades resumed their ordinary duties at Hull yesterday after telegraphing to their executive saying they disapproved of the strike action. The Staff Committee of the National Whitley Council has passed a resolution advising all civil servants not to volunteer to perform duties outside their normal tasks. It recommends the men to obey orders from competent authorities, but to report any attempt to induce <hem to perform unusual duties. DELIGHT AT RESULTS. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. EXPECTATIONS SURPASSED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Kecd. 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 4. The Trades Union Congress has issued a statement which says:—"Reports from all parts of tho country, from John o' Groats to Land's End, have surpassed all our expectations. Not only the railwaymen und transport workers, but other trades came out in a manner which we did not quite expect immediately. "The difficulty has been to keep men in employment and so form a second line of defence t-o that extent. We arc naturally most gratified." WARFARE AT HOME. PEER LAMENTS THE FACT. DANGER OF REVOLUTION. (Received 9.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, May 4, In the course of a debate on the strike in the House of Lords the Ear 1 , of Oxford and Asquitli said it was a blow to the very vitals of the community. It was a sinister and lamentable fact that at the time they were propagating the doctrine of disarmament they should have at home one of tho cruellest and most undiscriminating of all forms of warfare—one which affected tho innocent masses.

The earl said he could not see how any Government could refrain from taking up the challenge. Mr. Baldwin's Government would have unanimous support in its effort to assert the nation's interests which were paramount above this of all classes. Haldane said ho blamed the Government for not continuing the negotiations even in the face of the general strike threat. The situation was ominous, but he did not despair of the parties being brought together again. The Earl of Balfour said that if Parliament handed over the responsibility to the trades unions of settling a frauc dispute in their own particular fashion the most tragic revolution in history would be accomplished. The trades unions did not seem to understand that they were upsetting the slow labour of centuries bv means of which the people had built up their liberties.

KING SEES MR. BALDWIN. COMMONS TO DEBATE STRIKE. A. and N.Z. LONDON, May 4. A debate will take place on the strike in the House of Commons to-morrow. It will offer an opportunity of again attempting to approach a basis for fresh negotiations with the unions. The King to-day gave an audience to the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin. The Trades Union Congress held a meeting with closed doors;