Mr. Lloyd George on Saturday received a deputation -of the
strikers, who had refused on the previous day to meet General Smuts. The Prime Minister, according to Sir George. Cave, received. the strikers as policemen and not as members of a union. He offered them an increase in pay of 13s. a week, apart from the war bonus of 12s. and the war allowance of 2s. 6d. for each child, He also announced that policemen's widows, including the widows of those killed on active service, would receive a pension of 10a. a week, in accordance with a scheme which Sir Edward Henry had been drafting before the strike. The Prime Minister also agreed that the dismissed -policeman should be reinstated, on condition that the men returned at once to their duties. The strikers accepted these terms and resumed work on Saturday night. It was announced the same day that Sir Edward Henry had resigned and had received a baronetcy for his distinguished services as Commissioner of Police for fifteen years, and that Sir Nevil Macready, the Adjutant-General, had succeeded to the post.
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