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LONDON, Feb. 24. Silver is quoted 474. The market. is quiet
SINGAPORE, Feb. 24. Montagu's report says the tone of the market is unchanged. The price has fallen 1/8 in order to adjust parity to the American quotation in view of the reduction in freights, etc. The trade demand is still fairly active. Shanghai exchange is 4/9tzel.
BOMBAY'S GOVERNOR,
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WHY WASTE THEM?
BECAUSE VICTORS CANNOT AGREE HOW TO DIVIDE.
LONDON, February 2nd. The papers state that the British Ad- miralty will urgo on the Peace Center ence that the surrendered German fleet sunt, and that the Atlantic and labour at the expense of the German Heligoland forts be aged by Garm Government
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THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND."
February 25, 1918, Temperature 531 未已入國民華中
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SITUATION. IN GERMANY,
BAVARIA A REPUBLIC.
COPENHAGEN, February 2nd. A message from Berlin, dated Febru and, states that the Fessische Zeit says that Bavaria was yesterday vening, proclaimed a Soviet Republic by the revolutionary Munish riots which is all-powerfal
SHOOTING IN THE DIET
COPENHAGEN, February 22ad--
martial law has been proclaimed in A message from Berlin states that Munich. A Committee of Action-bas heen formed, including representatives of the Communists and the Soviet,
war has
BERLIN, February 2nd, Sensational happenings in the Diet are reported. The man who shot Herr Auer, the Secretary for Home Afairs, subse A SMASHING VICTORY.
quently sprang among the Deputies and repeatedly rod at the Ministers' bench. LONDON, February 2nd Other shots than rang out from the A detailed account of the Battle of Jut-strangers gallery, in the course of which, land, compiled frum British officisi re- the Minister of Justice, Herr Timm, was cords, finally disycees of the German hit. Neither Herr Auer nor Herr Tiram assertions regarding the number of Gerare expected to survive." man ships that escaped British gun-fre. MUSICH UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
that twelve battleships, five It
BERLIN, February 2nd. The appointment of Captain George battle-cruisers, and tun light-craiseral. Complete confusion prevails in Manich Lloyd. M.P., at the age pf 39, to be were hit, while the barrighip Ostfries where the military Command admits ita Governor of Bombay may have sur and was mined. Five destroyers are helplessness to cope with the situation. prised 'some members of the Old known to have bear sank. The battle. Sanguinary incidents are expected. Gangs, but it came as no surprise to cruiser Luetion sustained at least forty those who have known him and direct hite and was torpedoed twice. She watched his work for years.
war abandoned and finally sunk by two Yet, 1. think, says a friend, the greatest: Luetzow were 4,000.
German
torpedoes. The casualties of the service he could ever render to the The account vividly describes the ter Empire, and therefore to the Allied rible battering given to the battleship
SPARTACISTS: START CIVIL WAR, cause, was done on the eve of war. Koenig and the battle-cruises Seydlite A later message states toat
COPENHAGES, February 22nd. He was one of the very few younger The former was struck fifteen times, broken out. At a given signal (by the men among us who saw clearly and Four of her forward compartments were ringing of the church bells) a procession with unerring instinct exactly what ficoded as the result of direct bits" The of 10,000 workmen, from the suburbs, was coming. With Lloyd to see was ship settled by her bead and litted to marched towards the city.
Violent fring to act. The full story may not be port and the starboard compartments undreds of
and shops W
were plundered. told for years, but Mr. Leo Maxse has had to be re-footed to right bar.
fed bat lifted a corner of the veil and M. crew, in the forward torpedo tube, were Spartacists occupied the terminus and Jules Carbon, the French Ambassa-imprisoned and only extricated on June prevented further departures. The Spar the Koenig was dry docked at tacista, whose adherents include well- dor, may tell much more if he ever Hamburg. They were kept alive by food known Anarchists, rushed through the writes his memoirs. And having being supplied through the voice pipe arrested the War Minister, Herr Ross
strests in armoured motor-cars. They done these things, Lloyd modestly Rear Admiral Pehacke, standing on the haupter; whe stated that he was wounded mobilised with the Warwickshire fore-bridge, was wounded in the head by in the Diet affray: Yeomanry as the junior second a splinter. Lieutenant. 2.
The Seydlite was hit by twenty-three I have a long acquaintance with shells and ons torpedo and was beached Bombay and with its Governors, and in a sinking condition. She was, sabse believe that Lloyd is the right man quently, re-floated and docked, for Western India. in this critical time. He is fearless in decision, but does not act hastily, and has a dash of that good Quaker blood which implies hath prudence and sympathy. He knows the Empire from end to end but the East best of all Essen tially a just man, he has learned by long experience how to acquire and retain the confidence of Eastern races. He came back from India not long ago imbued with the con- viction that reforms were imperative.
citizens.
Lieutenant AB, February 2nd.
Valley (the assassin of the Bavarian Premier) is a member af a prominent and ancient Bavarian family. It is believed that the crime was due to the reactionary motive of the Minister for Social Affairs, Herr Unter Leitner. who was accompanying Herr von Bimer, and who was also wounded
Basst.
COPENHAGEN February 22nd.
Of twenty-two German battleships engaged, only ten, including the flagship, escaped damage from shell-fire of tod pedoes. A few were soon repaired, Others were laid up for months. All the Ava battle-cruisers bagaged suffered message from Munich, dated Febru
ary Sist, states that all business places heavily
The following is a complete record of ging The Red Fing was flown at half- are closed. Tramways have stopped run- the forces engaged :-'.
BRITISH-Twenty-four Dreadboughts,
GENERAL STRIKE. “ attached cruisers, eight battle. cruisers, twelve light cruisers, eight
COPENHAGEN, February 22nd. At mid-day everywhere, vessels of the first and second cruiser strike was proclaimed.
A general squadrons, six vereis of the light
COPENHAGEN, February 22nd. stroyers... cruiser squadron and. seventy-eight de. A message: from Essen" states that an Agreement has been reached between the GELMAN-Twenty-two battle-ships, six- Government representatives and the ly needed there and his appointment teen cruisers and seventy-seven de. Easen Soviet. The general strike, called on February 18th, has,, consequently, been called off.
is a certain proof that in Bombay they will be handled in a liberal spirit..
"
ten
stroyers.
It is clearly established that, of the vessela actually in action, preponderance of force lay with the enemy.
AMERICAN REACTIONARIES.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, February 2rd.
لایر
COPENHAGEN, February 22nd. Serious disturbances occurred at Angs- barg on Friday, Cavalry and asilors Few young Britons have lived a
repeatedly cleared the streets, pouring volleys into the crowds. more active and varied life. Lloyd
UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING. learned diplomacy in the Constan
In the Senate, the Republican, Mr.
LONDON, February 22nd. tinople Embassy, and practical bu
Sherman, introduced a resolution calling of Relief has published a most interest
The Supreme Council for the Supply siness affairs in the great bank which President Wilson to preserve, an aning report compiled from observations of
biassed mind until he discussed the bears the name of his family. He League of Nations acheme with the & number of British officers, who have fought two of the hardest elections
been investigating the existing conditions They
visited Berlin. of our times, and with unfailing good the League as the most radical departure Dresden, Magdeburg and Cussel.
The Republican, Mr. Borab, attacked in Germany.
Munich, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, humour won his seat in spite of the entanglement. He said that Article to
from the American policy of Avoiding doleful predictions of all the experts. of the League's constitution makes the He made his mark in the House. United States one of the guarantors of His report on British trade in Asiatic pire declared that the League was the territorial integrity. The British Em. Turkey and Mesopotamia, the best greatest triumph of British diplomacy by 5,000 daily. bit of work of the kind I know, was was taken, almost bodily from the con- for three centuries, and that the scheme the fruit of long study and travel stitution proposed by General Smuts, His reward was that the Board of while the League's recognition of the voting power of the British Dominions Trade made it "confidential," and no gave America's greatest commercial rival one heard of it until ten years after Ave votes to one of the United States. wards, when he received a belated decoration.
"ARMENIAN · CLAIMS.
the
the firm attitude of Herr Noske, Defence Labour unrest is diminishing, owing to Minister, whose position has been much against the Spartacists Strengthened recently i
Unemployment in Berlin is increasing The total number of unemployed thore amounts to 100,000; in Hamburg, En Leipzig, to 22,000. This is due to the ,000 in Munich, to 32,000; and i demobilisation of the army and people employed in munition works, and to the inability to re-start peace industries, owing to the scarity of raw materials. Unemployment is the most dangerous ele- ment in the present situation. His D.S.O. is to complimentary
PARIS, February 21st.
STAGNATION OF INDUSTRIES. honour, for he wear ashore with the national spokesman, states that Armenia's and hunger would dispose of any chance Bogho Nubar Pasha, the Armenian The disappears of unemployment first Anzacs at Gallipoli, and the claims, which the Peace Conference is to of Bolshevis gaining footing in Gazette" made the proud state. hear shortly, are that the belt of terri- Germany. Throughout Germany; the
tory across Asia Minor, from Mersina to industrica
And sto stagnant ment that for months he risked his the Georgian frontier comprising the completely shutting down, owing to lack life again and again. He had seen Cilicia and Armenia Vilayets, and the of coal, while over a million tons of Sighting, before with the Serbs in the Erzerum, Bilje, Van Diathekiz and Bit-mouth for araaspora llition. Balkan Wars. He was with Allenby
Kharput should be formed
facilities. an Armenian national state,
Throughout Germany, railway transport under the in Sinai and Palestine; with Maude guarantee of the League of Nations, with quantities of rolling stock lost 2 since hbs been crippled owing to the enormous -in" Mespot"; with the troops of the great Power as Mandatory
King of the Hedjaz in Arabia; and bizand and part of the Vilayet of Tzebi normally
The Armenians also ask for Port Tre has been reduced to 21 per cent of the November 18th, while passenger traffic
with the Russians in Galicia after zond. The existing Armenian republic going on a special mission to the of the new State,
of the Caucamas, naturally, forms part Czar. Yet to get a word out of him about his experiences is like bombing a German out of a dugout
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SHORTAGE OF FOODSTUFFS. The shortage of staple foodstuffs in compelling the population to live upón rations insufficient to nourish the body. Mothers and children, affected, Malnutrition has increased the are particularly mortality, diminished the birth rate, and Lloyd knows.Courts and camps,
enused now diseases. It is believed food- the Chancelleries of Europe, Parlia
Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at a Bread stuffe in April; potatoes in May; stocks, will be exhausted as follows:-- banquet of the English-Speaking Union, fats on March is while the meat ment, society, the wild places of the held in London, in celebration of George racion cad be continued indefinitely i earth and the peoples of the East immense, responsibilities of the Latinsail the milchcoval and breeding stock were
Washington's birthday, dwelt on the but he is equally at home in industrial and Anglo-Saxons, as confoquenos of
slaughtered England, by hereditary connection,
nection. the situation in Germany and Russia certain aroza, estimated that the He was confident that the Bolshevik exhaustion will occur earlier. Moreover, and in the old party, day his name plague in Russia would pass even with gives normal weather, the coming harvest be careful not to allow the brotherhood opinion that the re-victualling of Ger- for working class audiences. His of adversity to unite Germany and Russia many is urgent. The country is living on natural bent, however, is executive in a common hatred of Britain and the the capital as regards food supplies, and nistrative, and in the epitetion and punishment for crimes tion, we ate or bolone the port orvosh and
that, after either famine Bolshevism, probably Governorship of: Bombay he has had been exacted from Germany, way of if outside help is not forthcoming. There found the right place at last. Younger life would be found for her which would is no iduediate danger of the revival of reconcile her to her changed situation Germany's military power. Thirty thou men are needed in India, and in the world. He also hoped that similar and tons of bacon and five thousand tons
way would be found for Russia which Lloyd we have got one of the best of would leave her a friend of Great Britain of condensed milk have been sold ta, Gal-
and the United States Ingland and so far by the British Government America, united with their gallant ally France, were unassailable.
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