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INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY. OPPOSE DIRECT ACTION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, Dec, 4. The Independent Labour Party is sending a memorandum to the forthcoming International Socialist Congress, declaring that a revolution would rot strengthen the Socialist movement. It asserts that the Parliamentary system is preferable to a. Soviet form of Government for industrial democracy. The Party rejects •‘direct action,’’ although the working classes may be compelled to resort to it as a means to the end of restoring,_representative Government.—Reuter service. THE EX-KAISER’S TRIAL. LONDON, Dec. 4. Speaking at Pontypridd, the At-torney-General declared that no dissensions or wavering existed regarding the proposed trial of the ex-Kaiser. The law officers were continuing most careful and extensive .preparations. I Over 50,000 written statements regarding the prosecution of war criminals had been examined.—Reuter Service.