No better statement of the position could be made than
that which the Prime Minister telegraphed last week to the United States Press. His message in answer to a request for information explains concisely the part that H.M.'s Government have taken and are ready to take. He also dealt with the statements about the desti- tution of miners' families and explained the forms of relief available by statute in this country. There is, of course, no doubt whatever about the honesty of the message or: that every word is true. Yet we rather doubt the wisdom and the dignity of-Mr. -Baldwin entering thus into a controversy which will certainly be intensified by his - action. Delegates from the Miners' Federation arrived in 'the United States the next day to raise money for the :miners' fainilies. - If there is -A---ehafree of their misrepresenting the pres-ent conditiOns and as Mr. Baldwin was 'asked for a' statement; he: could hardly do -otherwise than he did, :but we-regret the necessity.
