It is almost impossible to follow the details of the
coal- strike and its many ramifications, the newspapers publishing the most confused accounts. In the Ebbw Yale—the only district in South Wales in which the men remain at work—there was on Thursday a considerable amount of rioting. A 'body of strikers, who invaded the valley in order to induce the men to come out, were attacked and seriously mauled. All through Wednesday night the miners and steelworkers and other inhabitants of the vale waited for the enemy,—watchers being posted and mounted men being sent out to scout for intelligence. Thus, when the invaders appeared they were not unexpected. The strikers held a meeting on the hill-side, and threatened to return and take vengeance on the Ebbw men, This exasperated the latter, and they rushed on the enemy with the cry, "We'll give them Home-rule I "—a phrase which, in the county, appears to have suddenly and significantly taken the place of the old " Give 'em IT,eU l"—and drove the invaders before them for several milea. Many of the strikers while being paw. sued fell n tiatir knees and begged for mercy,
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