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THE 'MOYING PROLETARIAT.
BELGIUM'S DECISION,
February 7, 1918, Temperature 57.
未已次歲年入國民學中
SIR RICHARD DANE'S WORK IN CHINA.
The Shanghai correspondent of The Times telegraphs to that journal a very interesting description of the services rendered by Sir Biraars, February 3rd.
Richard Dans in China" in connection M. Van der Velde has resigned the with the organising of the Salt Presidency of the International Socialist Gabelle, prefacing it with the remark Bureau, owing to the irrevocable decision that Sir Fichard has, without exag of the Belgian Labour Party not to parti-geration, performed some of the most
Pants, February. 5th, A Havas message states:- The third plenary meeting of the Peace Conference will be held next Saturday.
A report from high French diplomatipate in the Berne Conference. the source states that the Conference hopes to have the terms ready for submission to the different national Governments for ratification between the middle and
and of March.
The German delegates will be summon ed to Paris early in April for the con- clusion of peace.
MEETING OF ALLIED MINISTERS
A Havas message statce:
While regretting that the Belgian brilliant and valuable work ever Labour Party is not sharing in the con- nocomplished in that country, ticution of low International he It is years s'ace be arrived to says that the resentment caused by the four years sufferings which Belgium underwent was irresistible.
RAILWAY TROUBLE NOT SETTLED
Chf
undertake the organising of the Sult Gabelle under the terms of the Re- organisator Laun,of April 28, 1915.
and phe success of the system which LONDON, February 5th. In spite of the railway clerks settle he constructed has not only sutisfied ment, the trouble on the railways is every need of the can, but bas pro not yet ended.
duced an annual surplus which mpid- The Ministers of the five Great Powers The Secretary the Locomotively became the mainstay of the meet this morning to continue discussions Engineers Society announced last even Government. Before Sir Richard on territorial adjustments, the abolitioning that the Society was calling out the of conscription, and the economic re steam drivers on the railways, which had Dane took a hand the revenue de construction of Germany. The matters been partially electrified, in support of rived from wult by Peking was not have been referred to a Commission, the London tube-men, and if this does exactly known. The best estimate, not avail, they will resort to national that Ol Stir Alexander Hosie BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT NOT RECOGNISED.
stoppage.
wus About
Tls 28,000,000-835, The Assistant Secretary of the same
$33,000,000. For the third com. Society, interviewed at Leeds, said that 45,000 drivers and firemen, members of pleted year of Sir Richard Done's ad- the Society, would come cut if the Lon-ministration it yielded $72,000,000, don trouble were not settled early. He of which, after the service of the declared that the railway-men in the foin, a surplus of $32,000,000 res Provinces were dissatisfied and half-mained to the Government. Bitt hearted at the application for an eight-
PARIS, February 5th.
A Havas message states:- 1. Fieben stated to the Journalists that the Conference did not recognise the Bolshevik Government.
THE SYRIAN QUESTION.
PARIS, February 5th.
A Havn message states:- With regard to the Syrian question, it is reported that the Freach plans and Arabian nspirations can be arranged in mutual agreement.
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THE FINANCIAL COMMISSION. LONDON, February 5th. A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb- ruary 4th Financial commission, the that at the first meet- ing of the Italian ex-Premier, Bignor Salandra was nominated President.
soction
Mr. E. S. Montagu has been appointed to examine the project for the financial of the League of Nations,, drawn up by M. Klote, the French Minister of SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.
Finance.
LONDON, February 8th.
A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb- ruary 4th, states that the League of Na- tions Commission is making satisfactory
progress.
The International Labour Legislation Commission has agreed to adopt, as 4 basis of discusion, the British proposals for the establishment of a permanent organisation for dealing with labour matters internationally. "
THE COMMITTEE ON REPARA- TION
Losos, February 5th.
A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb rnary 4th, states that a meeting of the Inter-Allied Committee on Reparation decided to establish three sub-Committees for the consideration of the following questions: The valuation of the dam- sges; the study of the Enancial capacity of the enemy, States, and their means of payment and reparation; and the men sures, of control and guarantees.
Two Czecho-Slovak representatives have been added to the Commission.
PRESIDENT WILSON SUGGESTS INTERNATIONALISATION:
PARIS, February 4th
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hour day which was due to the slowness for civil strife and the sequestration of the release of railway-men from the of the salt revenues by the South- Army.
Western Provinces they would On the contrary, the National Union probably have produced by now" of Railway men deprecates the strike as $100,000,000; and in the estimation unauthorised and hampering negotiof some good judges the amount would have been considerably higher.
tions.
THE AIM OF THE BOLSHEVIKS.
PARIS, February 5th:
A Havas message states:- The Press and the public continue to discuss, almost exclusively, the Russian
situation.
The Bolsheviks desire to entangle the Allies in discussions. Further debates among the five Great Powers may be necessary.
A GREAT COMMUNIST CONFER-
ENGD CONVOKED.
51OCKHOLM, February 5th. A telegram from Retrograd states that the newspapers publish an exhortation from M. Lenin to all, Bolsheviks in Ger- many, Austria Poland, the Baltic Pro vinoes and Finland, in which
convokes "great Communist Conference. CHINESE BOLSHEVIST LEADER MURDERED. The bead of the Chiness Bolsheviks in Petrograd, who exercised dictatorship over the Chinese 12 Rumia, and was guilty of many cruel acts, has been mur.
dered.
EXT ORDINARY INCIDENT.
THREE SINN FEINERS ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
LONDON, February 5th The Sinn Feiners, De Valera, and McGarry escaped. from Lincoln
The merit of this achievement is enhanced by the enormous difficul ties which, Sir Richard Dane had to ctercoma. At the outset the machi- nery of Peking for the control and collection of reverne was hopelessly inadequate. In Sir Richard Dane's own words, he had hardly ink to
·Sir write with or paper to write on. Richard Dane travelled from one end of the country to the other, and, despite ancient vested intereste, gradually succeeded in breaking down the menopolies, co-ordinating all the systems, instituting a single tas at the place or origin, and there- It is not the least remarkable feature after permitting salt, to travel free. of the Gabelle that it employs but 48 foreigners, and many districts are wholly in the hands of Chinese' with- out the faintest detriment, thus com-! pletely upsetting all traditional be- liefs as to the impossibility of expect. ing the honest adpinistration of public funds from the Chinese un-“ controlled.
Sir Richard Dane is very emphatic Prison on Monday; it is not known how. on the ability of the Chinese to man-
They were all right when the warders,
visited them in the afternoon, but were age their own affairs subject to little missing five hours later, They had to advice. The success which he attain- scale & 20-foot wall and penetrate wired was largely due to the confidence barriers on the grounds.
PORTUGAL
CONFLICTING REPORTS.
A
It is supposed that confederates in aand sympathy which he at all times motor-car belped them to escape.
evinced towards the Chinese. Jeading, Chinese official said recently) that there were only three foreigners who ever really impressed the Chi- | nese-Sir Robert Hart, General Gor, doo, and. Sir Richard Dane, and it
held in higher esteem by them than is safe to add that none was ever)
Sir Richard Dane.
A Havas message states:- President Wilson made a proposal for internationalising the territory captured from Germany. The British Imperial War Cabinet has decided to support. Pre-
LONDON, February 5th: sident Wilson's theory. The Dominion
The Portuguese news vid Vigo. and representatives made an energetic pro Madrid Kave hitherto dwelt on the Royal test.
The French Press says that the deci-ist successes, sion involves the admission that the and at Vigo, telegraphing on February Now Reuter'e porrespondent at Madrid treaties made with Japan, agreeing to her retention of the North Pacific IA-4th, says that Count: Azavedo, the ands, with the Arabs, regarding Syria, Royalist Minister for Commerce, ar- and the understanding with the French rived at Vigo from Oporto en route to His beration from official duties regarding the Cameroons must be Madrid. arbitrarily modified, if not torn up.
The Japanese Delegates declare their unalterable determination to claim the islands they were promised.
A question regarding internationalian tion is whether the principle will govern, not only the fat German colonies, but also the European territory taken from the enemy.
The French Italian, and British Domin- ion representatives are of opinion that any system of international control always proved a failure in the past. The enly right of interference a Society of Nations should assume would be the right to call to account any Power whose Government is injurious to the interests of the inhabitants.
INTERNATIONAL OWNERSHIP
INEVITABLE.
PARIS, February 4th... President Wilson's theory of Interna tional ownership na applied to the Ger- man colonies can now be regarded as an inevitable decision of the Peace Confer
ence.
ance.
Japan has added her, formal accept South Africa, it is understood, will no longer be upposing. The result
Beveral Royalist personages, including at this precise moment has given rise the. Mayor of Oporto, have also reached to a strong feeling that he should be Vigo. All are very reticent rog
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the position of the Royalist trocut sent to the Peace Conference as the state that the Oporto Bahing boats re- chief British representative when main in the Harbour, for fear of moet- Far Eastern affairs are" under discus- ing the Republican Warshipe at sea
AVIATIONE
sion. That some such appointment indispensable cannot be too strong- ly urged. During the past four years, waile the attention of the A Havas message says - l
Powers has necessarily been district Two French airmen started at two ed, many things have been happer o'clock Bunday morning from Miramar aerodrome, near Marseilles, ing equally to the detriment of West- to fly across the Mediterranean.
en interests and Chinese. These
MARSEILLES TO ALGIERS IN FIVE “HOURS,
The aeroplane landed near Algiers at seven in the morning. The return fight must be revised on broad and gener began at one in the afternoon. The air ous lines it in the future expansion. Then have not arrived yet, although twelve hours have elapsed,
MOTOR-CARS IN PLACE OF MUNITIONS.
PARIS, February 5th, A Havas message states:
of Italy's attitude has been the decision The well-known Citroen firm, in Paris, that the mandatory system shall pot is transforming its munition works to the be applied to
mangfacture of motor-ears. The ottimat European territories: Thus, the fat Adriatic coast, the Baled daily output, by April, will be 100 kans, the Austrian lands, the French cara; prices will range from £200 to £330
claims
against Germany in for each car, the Saar Valley, remain for m
consideration.
It
is hoped that, in actual practice,
the authority of the League may be con fined to the right of interference only in
cuocs in which International morality has been outraged.
M. Tardieu, in receiving "foreign
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of Chinese trade and the develop: ment of China's vast resources the door is to be kept open in the spirit] as well as in the letter. Left to themasives the Chinese delegates are not only incapable of presenting their case properly, but will be wholly sub- ject to outside diétution.
It is indispensable that there should be some one at the Confer- ense who, speaking with fimt-hand knowledge, can put matters before the Conference Locurately and dis passionately. There is reason to be.
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