Show WA VIAll M MOVES V I IT T MT MEET wS i Hope Still Entert Entertained ined That Some Solution n Will Be Found t to Avert Final Plunge a LONDON April 9 By the Associated Press Press Premier Premier Lloyd George according according accord accord- ing to both the Pall Mail Gazette and the Evening Eveni g Globe Glob today has made a anew anew new pe peace ce proposal to to the triple al al- al liance It is understood he asked that thata a proposal pr- pr p sal be submitted f to to the miners that where safety men were unavailable unavailable navail- navail able the government should be allowed without v interference to supply the thola- thola la labor bor necessary to safeguard the coal pi pits s sI against I permanent ruin I By ED L. L KEEN United Press Staff Correspondent T LONDON ONDON April With 9 With Great LONDON Britain on the verge verge of the greatest industrial war var in iii his his- history tory the government nt continued e its efforts toda today r to to to avert avert the plunge into int the abyss Premier r Lloyd George received a a. special deputation of the triple Al Alliance l- l t liance in secret conference The Tho meeting adjourned adjourn d s shortly on and nd while the labor leaders refused to discuss what had happened happened- all bore a a. a serious mien an and 1 indicated th that t no progress had been made madeI I toward h ing the general strike of I I railway anu n nl transport workers called for lt midnight it Tuesday in support of the miners miners' strike J Im Immediately edl after the conference conference o fer nce with the labor representatives Lloyd lo l lGeorge George called into co consultations consultation on the Marquis of Londonderry vice 4 president president dent of the air Ir c council and H. H HM M. M I Trenchard air marshal The l e. e country's country's coun coun- try's air forces were included the thc n the military mobilization s order at ani aro are expected to 10 b be ut utilized utilized for communication communication cation catlon districts and trans transportation t n of food RAY OF LIGHT The fact fact that the alliance triolet lo i l n leaders consented to meet the the premier after aCter yesterdays yesterday's s general str strike ke dc de tic decision which which would c call ll out nearly two million workers including the miners ml- ml ners now on strike was strike was accepted asa as asI asa a good omen om-en omen in official circles The meeting was ostensibly for the purpose pur- pur purpose purpose pur I pose of formally conveying the strike e decision to the the government but there was a feeling that it also represented represented- I a a. disposition on the part patt of the laborites laborites' labor labor- ites ites' to Negotiate If It they saw their way way- clear to do so v Refusal of the railway and transport transport rt workers of Liverpool and other centers centers centers cen cen- to accept the general strike de decision decision de- de cis Ion was pointed to in official quarters I as indicating the correctness of of 1 the governments government's statement that not more than 50 60 per cent of the men will respond to the strike order VOLUNTEERS RESPOND f Meantime there has been tt n. n abig big re response re- re to the kings king's call for volun volunteers halls for a defense force Drill were presenting scenes similar tb o those t In August 1914 at tho the outbreak of the World war Destruction of mines through cessation cessation cessa cessa- tion of pumping continued to grow Most of the mines in hi the Rhondda valley were said to have been flooded J JAll 1 All pumping had ceased in the Cardiff district 1 I Glasgow already alread was experiencing g a rI r. r estimated that coat coal famine It was fully persons were vere out but of y f i I work In Scotland and that this n num number nurn- nurn m- m ber her would increase to two million ifa if a the general strike o went through ugh j I I WINE BILL DEFEATED SACRA SACRAMENTO Cal Cat April 9 The Th The assembly of the state legislature de de- de I yesterday esterday a resolution resolution to memorialize congress to permit l light wines and beer |