Resigns as rector of Ch of the Nativity, Bklyn

BRITAIN TO AID FIGHT ON LIQUOR SMUGGLING FROM THE BAHAMAS; Concedes in Note to Kellogg the Right of Cutters to Enter Waters for a Year.

All British Sports Hard Hit By Lack of Transportation

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Soviet Embassy at Berlin calls strike "mere curtain raiser"; Red Labor Internatl (Moscow) calls on all workers to aid British strikers

'It's a Mere Curtain-Raiser,' Soviet View of British Strike

REICH MINERS COOL ON AIDING BRITISH; They Feel That Their Help Would Not Assist Strikers to Win Their Battle. UNIONS TO VOTE ON ATTITUDE British Tie-Up Is Not Expected to Aid German Coal Exports Materially Abroad.

Anxiety felt over effect of general strike in Eng

HOUGHTON REPORTS BRITISH PUBLIC FIRM; Ambassador Says Parleys May Be Renewed in Three Days or a Long Conflict Is Coming. COOLIDGE WATCHES CRISIS He Sees No Analogy to Labor Conditions Here and Doubts Serious Effect on Our Trade. HOUGHTON REPORTS BRITISH PUBLIC FIRM

Govt issues The British Gazette; London Times and Daily Express appear in miniature; Paris printers balk attempt by Daily Mail to print in Paris

GOVERNMENT ISSUES A DAILY IN LONDON; Put Out From Morning Post Office, It Mingles 'Zoo Notes' With Strike News. LONDON TIMES A LEAFLET Carried in Automobiles Throughout Provinces -- Daily Express Also Appears in Miniature. GOVERNMENT ISSUES A DAILY IN LONDON

Reports to King George on situation; backed by French press

BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM; No Signs of Peace and Plans Are Being Made for a Long Fight. UNION LEADERS JUBILANT They Assert the Walkout Exceeds Expectations and Is Steadily Spreading. BALDWIN CALLS ON THE KING Public Opinion Tends Toward the Government in Its Efforts to Maintain Law and Order.

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LIVELY SCENES IN LONDON; Every Conceivable Kind of Vehicle Pressed Into Transportation Service. STREET CROWDING TERRIFIC Impatient Suburbanites Abandon Conveyances and Hurry Afoot to Work. CROWDS IN GOOD HUMOR Most Theatres Open at Night, but Are Little Patronized -- Suburbs Are Quiet. LONDON BLOCKED IN TRAFFIC JAM

Volunteers flocking to Govt recruiting stations

VOLUNTEERS RALLY TO AID; Thousands in All Parts of the Country Flock to Recruiting Stations. FEW TRAINS ARE RUNNING Grimsby Clerks Refuse to Quit -- Private Concern Lends Its Employes to Railways. CHEMICAL WORKERS BACK Nottingham Transport Strikers Volunteer to Work and Get Back Old Jobs.

LONDON STOCKS ARE EASIER.; Financial Section Carries on Business With Skeleton Staffs.

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BERLIN, May 4 (AP). -- The General Federation of Trade Unions has summoned its Executive Board to assemble tomorrow to decide on the course to be followed with regard to the British strike.  

Meeting of Federation Called.; REICH MINERS COOL ON AIDING BRITISH

G F Peabody adopts as daughter Mrs M K Waite, his aid in charity enterprises

GEORGE F. PEABODY ADOPTS A DAUGHTER; Banker Gives His Name to Mrs. Marjorie Waite, His Aid in Charity Enterprises. PRAISES HER HELP TO HIM Intimates She Eventually May Be Head of Philanthropies in His Wife's Memory. GEORGE F. PEABODY ADOPTS A DAUGHTER

Prince of Wales Races Back to London in an Airplane, Cutting Short Vacation at French Seaside Resort

LONDON, May 4. -- Fairly satisfactory conditions in spite of the strike prevail in the provinces.  

TIE-UP IN PROVINCES FAR FROM COMPLETE; Traffic, Though Crippled, Is Carried On, and the Country Generally Is Quiet.

Strikers cable greetings to British workers on general strike

TAXI TOUR OF SUBURBS SHOWS LITTLE TROUBLE; This Is Confined to Mobbing of Few Autos -- East End Crowds Peaceable.

COAL LORDS DENY MINERS' LOCKOUT; Declare in Parliament That Notices at Collieries Concerned Wages. LABOR FACILITATES BUDGET Commons Gives Private Time for Government Business on the Premier's Motion.

PARIS PRESS BACKS BALDWIN'S STAND; All but Red Paper Join in Hope That Strike Will Fail and Criticize British Labor.

Pay of British Miners Varied as to Regions; Owners Would Cut Scale of $15 a Week to $11.

Seven theatres close on account of general strike

VAGARIES OF THE STRIKE.; Hyde Park Like a Junk Yard -- Many Walk to Work and Back.

German miners cool on aiding British; French unions back strikers; Canadian Trades and Labor Cong pledges funds; T Kennedy says United Mine Workers of Amer will take no immediate action

French Unions Back British Strike.

PARIS, May 4. -- Communications between Paris and London have taken on an aspect remindful of the early days of the war. On request of the British railroads, the French train service has been pared to the bone.  

May 5, 1926

Headlines from May 5, 1926

BRITAIN TO AID FIGHT ON LIQUOR SMUGGLING FROM THE BAHAMAS; Concedes in Note to Kellogg the Right of Cutters to Enter Waters for a Year.

All British Sports Hard Hit By Lack of Transportation

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'It's a Mere Curtain-Raiser,' Soviet View of British Strike

REICH MINERS COOL ON AIDING BRITISH; They Feel That Their Help Would Not Assist Strikers to Win Their Battle. UNIONS TO VOTE ON ATTITUDE British Tie-Up Is Not Expected to Aid German Coal Exports Materially Abroad.