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Show GRAVE PROBLEMS m jpis British Parliament Resumes Sessions With Momentous Momen-tous Issues Unsolved. Irish Question, Scapa Flow, Peace and Industrial Unrest Un-rest Up for Attention. BY HENRY HYDE. (Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) LONDON, June 2-1. I don't think one can get a real Idea of the English situation situ-ation by reading any single piece of news. That simply throws one incident' or another Into a false emphasis and is likely to lead a thoughtful reader quite astray. This is an attempt to survey the whole field to put into proper relation all sig nificant happenings so far as I know them. Germany Is ready for the formal signing sign-ing of peace, yet one London paper prints a list of twenty-three wars now in progress, not one of which probably will be affected by the treaty with Germany. Ger-many. Commons Ends Vacation. Tomorrow parliament meets again. During one of the most important fortnights fort-nights In history, parliament has taken a vacation. Carefully timed with the opening of parliament was the great meeting of radical trade unionists held on Sunday at Manchester. It was addressed by Robert Williams of the transport workers, work-ers, and Robert Smlllie of the coal miners min-ers two of the most influential leaders of the great alliance of labor, which includes in-cludes also the railroad men. Williams advocated the calling of a general strike and direct action to put an end to intervention In Russia and to cunscription. Smlllie was hailed as "the first president of the Republic of England." En-gland." The meeting broke up with a singing of "The Red Flag." Preach Bolshevism. Sunday also, in Hyde and Regent parks all In London, meetings were held at which speakers preached almost pure Bolshevism. It Is certainly true that free speech In Great Britain Is still permitted per-mitted to a greater extent than anywhere any-where else I know of. but I am inclined to think that the present situation is much more serious than any which has preceded It. rarliament at its meeting tomorrow will be confronted, first of all, with Its ratification of the peace treaty with , Germany. Questions will be asked as to the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow. Most important of all, perhaps, will be the report of the coal commission, commis-sion, presided over by Minister of Justice Sankey. Other Grave Problems. There will be three or four reports, but the majority agrees in urging that the coal mines should be taken over bv the government. That wi!) put the Lloyd George government hard up against the project of nationalization of all industry. There Is also the problem of Ireland, which. with the peace treatv once signed, must be finally disposed of within with-in the next few months. There remains the great question ot national extravagance, which is enrpha- (Conttnued on Page 2, Column 4.) GRAVE PROBLEEVSS mi coins (Continued from Preceding Page.) sized this morning by Sir Auckland Geddes. He predicts that the food prices next winter will reach heights never before be-fore dreamed of. He blames the wild I extravagance which now seems to per- I vndo every class of the British public. ! Ho comes near predicting national bank- ; ruptny, if reform is not achieved. Certainly Cer-tainly more money is spent for extrava- j gant luxuries in London in a day than New York in its wildest could equal in a week. |