Abstract

The Week

This article presents news briefs, related to socio-political conditions of various nations. The U.S. Government is maintaining rigidly its attitude of secrecy concerning the negotiations of the United States, Japan, and the Entente Powers in regard to intervention in Russia, and there was no intimation to-day as to when an official announcement would be made. The strike of British labor, which for a few days threatened to become serious, appears at this writing to have been settled by the strikers returning to work. In the U.S., as well as in Great Britain labor unrest continues to fill a large place in the news. For weeks, there have been almost daily reports of strikes, many of them in industries directly related to the effective prosecution of the World War I.