. Review of reviews and world's work . hthours of the pinch of hunger, and the price ofprovisions had arisen in the other towns ofEngland and Scotland to unheard of soon as the great railway systems of Eng-land and Scotland were threatened with apractical tie up, and the disorder in Man-chester and Liverpool had reached a pointsuch as has not been witnessed in a Europeancity since the days of the Commune in Paris,the government stepped in. Several confer-ences were held between the managers of therailway, Mr. Sydney Buxton, the Presidentof the Board of Trade, the executive com-mittee
. Review of reviews and world's work . hthours of the pinch of hunger, and the price ofprovisions had arisen in the other towns ofEngland and Scotland to unheard of soon as the great railway systems of Eng-land and Scotland were threatened with apractical tie up, and the disorder in Man-chester and Liverpool had reached a pointsuch as has not been witnessed in a Europeancity since the days of the Commune in Paris,the government stepped in. Several confer-ences were held between the managers of therailway, Mr. Sydney Buxton, the Presidentof the Board of Trade, the executive com-mittee of the Amalgamated Society of Rail-way Servants, and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald,the chairman of the Parliamentary Laborcommittee. The Cabinet also held specialsessions to consider the situation. Mean-while the disorder had increased and Churchill, Home Secretary, hadcalled out the regular troops to assist thepolice. At one time more than 50,000 ofthe military were on strike duty in Londonalone. 284 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. A VIEW OF AGADIK FROM THL. SKA WITH ITS CITADEL ON THE HILL descended to thebargain counterstage. It is now eW-dent that the bar-gain has been made,but the terms there-of are not known tothe general , if wemay judge from theguarded announce-ments issued by theGerman, French,and British foreignoffices, it will besome time before thedetails are madeknown to the the first halfof July the news de-spatches were full ofguesses as to thecharacter of theFranco-German dip-lomatic conversa-The companies in general refused tions over Morocco. Baron Alfred vonthe demands of the men and in- Kiderlen-Waechter, the German Foreign Min-sisted upon a strict ad-herence to the terms of the con-ciliation agreement of 1907. Thestrike leaders, for their part, de-clared that they would fight to thebitter end. Then, on August 19,chiefly through the efforts of Chan-cellor Lloyd-George, a settlementwas effected. A joint committee offive, consi
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