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WHAT IS THE UKRAINE ?
Milk, was - recently announced that the Russian Government had agreed, ta gire autonomy to the Ukrans. What
is the i Ukraino. In 'is a vasi, fertile, and at tractive country which really does not exist, since it is a geographical expres sim. The people exist, but not the country, writes Mr. George. Dolmur in | tha ** World. **
W gentleman to sign per fecuration 3
E have authorized the following
For our Corapany ---
The Deming "is part in Austria and million Ukrainians. saatis cufted in Russia, the latter conutry having
Little Russians extending over 850,000 J. S. 8. CoorEK Shanghai quare kilometres. In Austria-Hungry J. A. MOLLER, Shanghai there are 3,600,000 in Galica, 500,000 in W. HIRENSPRECER, Hankow,” A. J; COOPER Hankow,
Thakovina, auf 300,000 in the rpathian F. N. BELL.
Cantons
district in Hungary. Settlemçar of this ARNHOLD BROTHERS & people are to be found in various other
COMPANY, LIMITED.parts of Russia.
Hongkong, Oct. 1, 1917.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
9131
POLAND
REGENCY COUNCIL.
"London" September 19th-An Austro Germad decrse announces the forth- contay inaugurationof a Regency Council
INDIAN SILVER.
SITE EXPORT PEQHIPITMO,
Sims, September 3rd view, fact that at the present.
the
still going.
in Poland, buy the real power will remainier it be a profital) in the hands of the Austriana and Cler, expart rupes and silver.
Government of India have decided mans, and the Cloverpor feners?,
prohibit the export from India of all'
GERMANY'S FAILURE IN POLAND.silver coin and bullion, and a notification
A HOSTILE PEOPLE.
to this effect is to inue to-day. It may be explained that this prohibition will not apply to the export of silver to Native States and will not be entered in the rease of a snall amount of silver carried
Amsterdam, August 1st.-lp to our months ago the German. Press as co- tinually boasting of the great reforming and civilising work which the Fatherland passengers, or reasonable-quantities
however, doubts begair, to be expressed purpose as the payment of their crews. was carrying on in Poland. Recently taken by masters of vessels, for such
by some more candid writers as to the It in at present propose that the lirait In Bussix the purely traine districtiveness of the German policy. Now in the former case should be Rs. 100 and are Fodelia, Volbinia, Kief, and Kholm the state of affairs has become such that, in fattor 1,000
on the right bank of the Duieper and on serious alarm has taken the place, even the left bank of this river Tchernikoff. |
The Government have also decided, in
and
♫IBE Undarsigned have reçoived instman Ebave appointed Mr. SIMON TSE Poltava, Kharko. part of Kilreastionury cimales of the, former song case of the import of silver coin
Hounds sell by Fable Auction,
(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERTED),
SATURDAY,
the 8th October, 1917, at 10:45 am.,
at their Salos Rooms, No. 8. Du Vaux Road, Corner of
Ice Hons Street, (- MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
*
Comprising:- Lady's Silk Sweaters, Silk Stockings, Silk Opora Conts, & variety of Dress Materials including a few pieces of Prints, Holland, White Linen, Drill, Flannel, Flannelette, &c., & Counter- panes, White Blankets, Handkerchiefs, Towels, Toilet Soap, l'erfursery, White Lace Curtains, Ec.,
And
YAN as Tse Ka Fo," toʻnot as COMPRADORE of this Company's Branch Office in Hongkong, from the 1st October, 1917.
E. MORI,
Hongkong. Det. 1, 1917.
Manager.
THE “GLEN" LINE LTD.
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Voronesh, ant the region of the Don Cossacks us far as the Son of Aust. In the Ukraine district are also she steppe district comprising Katerynoslo, Kher- 213, and the eastern parts of Bessarabia
E hare This Day-been appointed WE
ACENTA of the "Glen Line Ltd. All enquiries abould benceforth be addresser to the undersigned...
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Agerits, Glen" Lane Lid. Hongkong, Oct. ₺ 1917
2153
WANTED.
and Tauris.
sutisiaction.
bullion to discontinae the arrangement opened to the condition of Poland by the Ordinance No. 5 of 1917 to acquire Germany's eyes have evidently been under which they took powers under rest of General Pilsudas, the Follsh imported sifrer at a rate 5 per cent leader and former commander of the below the
quotation on the dates It has been brought to
Part as of the North Polsh Legion. It is alleged that he was Fot acound com
Cavensus, compromising Kuban, is in
the Ukraine district.
offerent. In consequence of this arrest af the officers of the Legion resigned, and have been imprisoned.;;
isin
organising the Polish Army for use their noties that this notification, which against the Central Fowers sehen occasion
effect, a firm offer to purchase all stiver imported into India
& per cent. "less than the price in London on the date of acquisition, may in the present circumstances tend to speculatre purchases in London. with th object of forcing up the London price. While, therefore, silver shipped on or after the 11th July, the
The people are gifted, and are certainly among the most intellectus in Russia Stav, by origin, they belong to the north eastern group of the Slav. They talk a different dinlect, they have good deal of special folklore and their alphabet popular government or great regard for differs in a number of respects from the the will of the people. Yet that journal
J
No one can accuse, the Calogue Volks zeitung of any thoroughgoing love for
Russian. Nowhere is the standard of cum. printa prominently a long article in which
Suit Cases Gent's Boots and Shoes, OFFICE ASSISTANT, Portuguese, fort in Itusis as high is in the Ukraine, the complete failure of, Giernian, tethods
Ac.. &c.
Tri-Cash
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneer's. Hongkong, Oct. 2, 1917
·PUBLIC, AUCTION.
2162
TRE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction,
(FOR LCCOUNT OF TEL QONCEEDED),
TUESDAY,
the 9th October, 1917, commenting at 443 pm, at their Bales Rocme, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street,
A LARGE CONSIGNMENT OF
VALUABLE POSTAGE STAMPS,
"including many rare varietie
Catalogum will be msued.
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On view from Monday the 9th Cetober
Terma :-Vag
BUCHES & HOUGH,
Auctionests. Blongkong, Sept. 18, 1917,
with good knowledge of Englist. Apply in own bundwriting.
_____Box No. 199 C/o *CHINA MAIL' Üce. Hongkong, Sept. 18, 1917.
WANTED...
9136
with experience
La Austria the Ukrainians are called) Ruthesiase, and fir every respect they Fare identical with their kinsmen in
Russia.
date of the previous Ordinance shore ia Polund is admitted and condemned:
A system of ball-measures and indecis referred to, and not later than the date son, it stated, has in Germany a domestic of the pressat orders, will be dealt with affairs, wrought" tremendous harm, and under the Ordinasie, the power conferred now it has completely broken down," "It
by Has Ordinance will not be The Ukraine has always been patriotic, has been fatal in Poland, and must not
be continued. The blame for this does exercised in the case of subsequent ship- always waiting its opportunity for inde-
not lie entirely with the Poles. We ments not the Ordinance will be allowed pendence, It is perfectly well-known share it." When a kingdom is created its Y TYPIST and STENOGRAPHEE that their leaders have for a long time frontiers shonid at least be Exts, and it to expire, as the end of six months, for required by bhipping Firm State watched the vicissitudes of international king appointed. We promised the Polish, which time is is in force. It ony slip.
independence." That mcoot meris relations either to secure completa prope
surely, that at the bead of the Adminis independence of the restoration of their old rights. They even go as far as desire ing an autonomous Church, though most off their belong to the Greek Church, save in Austrin.where some of them are Cathalies, and called Urians,
Differences huve always existed between the Ukrainians and the Mus. covites, and these differences go, back, a
previous experience and salary required.
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consigned to India on tration there should be placed as soon as though Bill of Lading before the 11th possible people who could at least speak July, are still at se, these will be Polish, peop whom the inhabitants of admitted as at present, subject to these the country could trust to hear and exceptions, and except is the case of understand popular wishes. A few!
A
decorative personages, no matter how small quantities of silver, such as are capabia, are not good enough. One carry by passengers, The Notification person should buve been kept away from dated the 11th July, prohibiting the Polacid ander ail circumstances. That
person is, the Prussian Government import of silver into ladis, except in the long way to the time of the prosperity resor, whom we know so well in case of (a) current silver coin of the of the Sief State in the eighth to enthis, with his monocle and other Government of India, (b) silver coin cr
ornamentative gadgets.... centuries. The Ukrainians would have
The article, then goes on to say that bullion imported on Government account, become a Reparate kingdom but for the Polish politicians should have been called and (el silver coin or bullion imported Tartar invasion, which devasted the count the herd of affairs instead of sending under license will be strictly enforced try, so much so that in time the Ukrainate Warsaw officials who neither speak fand itself under the domination of aor understand a single syllable of Polish, The Government of India recognise that Lithuania. Then followed constant-war versation in French with the Archbishop imposition of simultaneous probibitions on and who cannot even carry on a con- there is an apparent paradex in the with the Poles until the seventeenth cen and Church officials. The Polish State tury the Ukraine was a Republic with a Hetu-Headman-as its elected Press dent. The Czar Alexismikhaylovich first took over the Ukraine as part of Eussis, but he left the country its independence. whom it could take the oath. A Press be open to serious objection owing to the At his death, and even before, there was Baresu was act up with a man at the head drain which it might cause on the rupes constant trouble between the awo coun- who was neither p Catholic nor friendly stocks of the county ether directly by to the Fole. When he failed, the editor: tries, and the end, of the Ukraine come of the Munich Neueste Nachrichten export of rupees or indirectif by a reduc
Council, it declares, was created far too the import and exports of silver. Taese late, and when established was composed are, however, in fact, complementary. not trust. A Polish any was formed.ubstantial sale at the present time would of the very persons whom the Poles can. The export of silver from India on a but there was no head of the State to
early in the eighteenth century. Joining was appointed to the position a man tion of the stock of bullion at present held with the King of Sweden, the Ukraine who was well-known for his anti-Polish in India, and the subsequent effect on the challenged the strength of Peter the opinions. The Press, which has great Indian price of silver. On the other infurnce in the enuntry, was thus turned Great, with a disastrous result, for at to no account, third, the poject of the prohibition of the battle of Poltava, i met with defeat,
We Germans are always bragging too imports is to check competition with the and its independence vanished. Then much before the world about car adibi Secretary of State's purchases on behalf Rusia commenced asinilate the stration, the article says.We boast of DAIRY FARM NEWS.ane, and from that day to this has its integrity and wisdom as pr ideal for of the Government of India, and thus
carried on the task with little or rels the whole world. Even before the war to increase the smacnt avail
there was a general complains that we coinage into rupees. tively little success. There has been a Germans made ourselves disliked abroad, od deal of trouble in the past on chiefly because we wished to force our ucuz of the tren roent meted out to alleged letter methods on others, whe the Tuhabflanty, but now presumably thether they wanted them or not.” The Ukraine will east in its lot with GreaterPole will not be dealt with by Govern- ment assessors as bre Germans, Badly Bussia,
paid German policemen were not the The grant of autocomy raises a very proper people to handle him carious international question. Hitherto The artiole concludes by saying that Austria has treated the Ukrainians better verity has been used where it was than Russia-It has recognised their should Tave been in evidency,
Unasceuary." „Justice is lacking when it.
rights to their name, and given them u friendliness has turned, the whole: University in Lemberg It was a con- against the Germati In short the session, but it was not wough, and now system is leading to disaster, and any
immediate change. the Bussion Government has
CORNED PORK.
PUT UP TN KEGS AND BAREZİS
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EXPORT OR STEAMERS USE
SILIMPOPON (REBATTIK)
COAL
better. As the Ukraine to
BE Undangnet having been appolated
Adsats for the 00WIN HARBOUR ARtodomy, after the war. It in inevitub.e SJAL.CO.,LTD., are prepared to gnota
price for best quality. PURUN that the Ukrainisas ir Austria must be CUAL trimmed ipso Bunker at SEBAT
E or HANDAKAN (Bridah Boribond to them. It is always posible
KILIM POPOR, CUAL compare favour
ably with the butter graden of Japans Coal and given kood, - zapálimonin moderate cuprumption."
Steamer calling at DEBATTIKS ANDAKAN zaetusively for BILIMPS FUN CUAL (ather, argu of Bankers
from payment of all sharger
At Senstlik Stakmers-pré
mpany's whirl where there is
of 27 to 28 Iost at low
eader Spring
rust the movernent may bott autonomy It may proceed for-independence, The U always, claired to have thüly.c their own literature longus and culture. Much Curda
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