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Show British News. London, 9. The coal masters of South Wales have agreed to the lockout lock-out for a week and throw open the pits to miners with a reduction of 10 per cent. Then if wcrk is not resumed a further reduction will be demanded. demand-ed. The North Wales masters also insist on the 10 per cent, reduction. They give their men a week to consider con-sider the qui slion. It the terms are rejected 15,000 men will be. out on a strike. Cardinal Manning opened the Catholic collego at Kensington yesterday, yes-terday, with an address in which he said he regarded himself as intrusted with a commission of warfare, for he beheved the church was Hpproachiug a crisis the most fiery for 300 years. |