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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Remer's Service to the China Mail)
(Continued from Page 8.)
· PARLIAMENT.
MR. CHURCHNA'S ARMY ESTIMATES.
LONDON, March 3rd.
The House of Commons, this week, Markles the heavy war expenditure
the to-day. It is believed that the budget will iotal
£1,300,000,000,
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LONDON, March 3rd. In the House of Coumous, Mr. Chur- chill. introducing the Army Estimates, amounting to 287,000,000. esiphasised the difiesities of araming Estimates this year, because every factor was uncertain and etuating, as we were half-way be We were unable tween peace and war.
We to n the rate of demobilisation. teither knew what arrangements affect ing nemanots would be embodied in the Peace treaty, nor how many men we must keep the Middle East and on the Rhine, or for how long. We did not know whether the fermans would accept vur esuditions or reuse them, and throw responsibility for the future upon anu simply degenerate.
Mr. Churchill emphasized "that vast Breas of Europe and the East were in, a state of anarchy, and the Allies, on whom Tasted the responsibility of enabling she world to get te werk nga, were them Bolves very seriously exhausted. To all the diffuities must be added the enormous fort of winding up the war. The presents estimates represented the He hoped is would be maximum. postalo to revise them in a downward direction. He mentioned that the Allies were still discussing the exact amount of -pontributions from tiermany towards the
pkeep of the Armies of the Rhine.
Mr. Churchill, dealing with debilis tion, maintained that the plan by which three out of foar men were being released and the fourth man being paid doubla to finish the job was ass onjectionable, of entailed fewer hardships, than any Piber course. All evidence showed that the plan had been well received, owing to its fairness. It had been followed by the recovery of discipline and moral in the Anar. He hoped, ia a few months, that we mould possess strong compact Armies, which would enable us to guard the interests and surety of the country, and secure the fruits we had won through the
DEMOBILISATION.
war.
PARIS CONFERENCE.
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S RETURN,
Pakis, March 2uit.
It has been provisionally arranged that President Wilson will land at Brest hout
Pri March 13th, and proceed ditent to
The great Powers will then consider the preliminary Pones Treaty till, about March 2nd. It is anticipated that such progress will be made as to enable the assembling of the Peace Congress, with the Germans present, between April 1st and 10th.
THE TERMS TO BE IMPOSED. The Treaty to be presented to the Con- gress will include the military, naval, inancial, and economie terms, to be im posed.
REPARATION COMMITTEE'S
DECISION.
The Reparation Committee's report will be considered at an early date by the The Committee has Supreme Crungil, arrived at the conclusion that the enemy countries should be required to pay the
millich sterling-paying a portion now regate amount twenty-four thousand and the balance being spread over, a period of 23 to 5 years.
HOW GERMANY SHOULD PAY. The French delegation is of the opinion that the enemy powers should immediate- ly pay a thousand million sterling. part. ly in merchandise, material and tonnage, partly in foreign securities, and partly in gold. GERMAN'S TIMBER REPARATION,
The estimate of the timber Germany should supply to the Allies as reparation is valued as approximately £80,000,000.
PARIS March end."
The military terms of peace presented to the Council of Ten by Marshal Foch yesterday provide for the disarmament of Germany down to 20 Divisions of 10,000 men, including fifteen infantry and five cavalry Divisions.
The terms also impose severe restric- tions on the manufacture of all classes of war material and the limitation of military and commercial use of ero places to a minimuzi
TERMINATION OF SUBMARINE WARFARE.
Marshal Foch's naval terms, row before the Council, provide not only for the complete suppression of Germany's sub- marine equipment but the termination of all submarine warfare
DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN WARSHIPS.
The
proposal for the destruction of the large German warships is approved by the British and America experts, but the French still make reservations against the scheme
MR. BALFOUR TALES.
PARIS, March 2nd.
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Chung Ah Yul, a former Employee of the Sanitary Board, was charged this afternoon with accepting 2 bribe from the owner of a Chinese
INWARD MAILS, Restaurant. The prosecution was in charge of Inspector Ward, and Mr-
WEDNESDAY, March 12. P. W. Goldring represented the
accused. Mr. Gibson was the first | Straits-Per NELLORE. Chib Handicap Singles "B" Class-witness called and testiñed to the
FRIDAY, March 21. W.W. Mackenzie (recs. 4/6) beat
Canada-EMPRESS OF ASIA.
Club Handicap Singles "A" Class. L. Forster (recs 1,6) beat V. Dessau (tecs 15-3), 6-1, 6-0.
R. M. Henderson (owes 3/6), 10-8, 6 duties the accused had to perform As will be seen from the above! The case was.(proceeding when this results the first two matches were
very poor, the Japanese pair being paper went to press. far from expectations. Some very good tennis was seen in the match between W. W. Mackenzie and R.M. Henderson.
Already, nearly 1.800,000 officers and" nien had been demobilised, and the pro- cess was continuing at the rate of over 2.000 daily. In addition, about 100,000 Canadians and Australians had been sent home and it had been arranged that every Dominion soldier who had come over
The following matches are to be should have a chance of one visit to the
Mr. A. J. Balfour, interviewed by played this afternoon:-Club Handi- Mother Country, before returning to his own Dominion (Cheers). about half-a-million men in theatres such Bruter's representative, replying to cri-cap Doubles.-L. Forster and E. as Ladia and North Africa from which ticism that the Conference had accor- Wilkin trecs. 4/6) v. R. Wingfield it was impossible, physically, to release plished nothing, emphasised the complex and J. K. McConnell (recs. 153):1
Open Championship Singles.-R. Clasugh they did not belong to the ty and difficulty of the preliminary, work |
in the greatest task ever undertaken by Townsend z.. V. Yvanovich. in the Army..
Open Doubles Championship A. A. Claxton and A. H. Crook . M. K. Lo and M. W. Lo.
mca,
There were
mankind.
ARMIES IN THE YEAR EAST. Continuing, Mr. Churchill said that in Klasopotamia, Palestine, the Caucasus, and Turkey, the process of release was apeded by difficulties of transportation, at the aumber affected was not very darge, "Bud was constantly diminishing would
A
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A CHINESE PEPYS.
The North-China Daily News has been luck enough to receive this ex-
quisite letter: SIR,I beg to inform you that this morning, while jumping up a tram car which was ploughing its way along Sinza Road, I met a typical "Kiangpenese" (probably a disbanded soldier, of the deposed notorious general of China, Chang
He propused that all men eligible should | zak pence great stride towards univer- (recs. 15.1); N. E. Kent (owes 15). Hsun) wearing a pig-tail. :)
It was the policy, of the Conference to press for the fastest possible preliminary race with Germany. He hoped that be. fore the end of March we should be in sight of such a preliminary peace, which
to
ou the most important questions The share which the United States was going to take in the world's future was one of immense responsibility. At present this share rested on the American public. Only half of America's war task would be accomplished if she took no share in the even greater labours of peace.
be helios, but, any, unavoidably re- of the war. Kained after May 1st, should receive increased pay until discharged. A Fazane affort would be made to give a Larger proportion of leave 10 the Armies of Cucupation. Man who had not seen their homes for years would get lease, or be brought home for
BELIEFSONS.
He expressed the opinion that what was Referring to the rapid formation of a going on in America now was no im voluntary army for Homs and Overseas portant for the success of the Conference antics, Mr Churchill said that enlist as what was going on in Paris, and the at least as great was well maintained. There were already
a part in future 45,000 trained man, besides 5,000 new
Handicap Singles, "A" Class B. Raworth (recs. 1/6) . Capt. Gray, Capt. H. E. Marray (recs. 36)
Handicap Singles, "B" Class.-G. H. Piercy (recs. 15) v. E. A. Mac donald (recs. 2/6).
PRESUMABLY.
Being the only person on the car possessing such a fine relic of the defunct Manchu Dynasty, I told him to cut off his "Bien Tza." Whereupon he immediately rolled up his queue around his quixotic pate..
ment, at the rate of a thousand daily, New World sous FRY asal organisa- a crisis. It is alleged that, owing to sitated him to occupy too much of
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"The Parcel Mail will be closed I knew pretty well that in so doing,
to-day at 5 p.m. If a Hongkong dispatch to the he was trying to save himself from Swatow, Amoy and Foocho-Per
HAITAN, 1 p.2. North Shanghai and Mainichi is to be credited many wild becoming an object of ridicule and rumours hostile to Japan are current laughter of his fellow passengers.
Rumours represent. Sino- Later on owing to the congested SINKIANG, 3 p.m. t Japanese relations as if they were at condition of the car which neces-Japan vis Yokohama Per-TILLATJAE,
3 P.. tions as the old historie countries of the strained diplomatic relations be my room. I ordered him with the Straits and Bangkok-Per TUYO MARU,
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tween the two countries, all contacts epithet of "Bien Tze" to give room.
In great exasperation he answered: Straits, chase of rice, etc, have been cancelled. How the dickens you have by Japan, that Japanese steamers accosted me in this upgentlemanly have refused to accept Chinese cargo, manner? Do you think the fact that ed, and we would be able to see a comand that these Japanese vestels will I have worn a queue shows that I plete solution of the great task
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rumours presumably are prevalent ally translated, it means a crooked among the Chinese.
queae or a big fool)?"
young recruits. The task of building up Europedations had been well dag so far concluded regarding the pur
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A Chinese, was this morning sentenced to six weeks hard labour, by Magistrate Lindsell for picking the pocket of one of his countrymen
As a result of this funny accident and the logical expressions he had made, all of the passengers on "the car, broke out into a loud laughter and applause.
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this force was a very considerable ope because the units for re-constitution luded 514 Artillery units, 153 Royal Engineer units, and 158 Infantry batta lots. The men would proceed, sa soon as suits had been formed, to the relief of
verses garrisons.
IMPERIAL DE
DEFENCE.
PARIS, March 2nd Mr. Churchill sketched the plans for
the As regards the work of the territorial relieving the Rhine Army in ease
Armies.
Occupation had to be main. Commissions of the Peace Conference, the of tained during the whole or part of 1990."Commission on Greek Affairs yesterday He then raised problems regarding the lengthily debated the new situation to be
2.position of a permanent post- created in Asia Minor, Fat pray, its strategic distribution as The general plan adopted, for the dis
new forms of warfare and solution of the Ottoman Empire, is the it raphical considerations, total elimination of that Empire, the pociály part the Army of India internationalisation of Constantinople walay the general system of and the Straits, the creation of a Turkish Imperial detence; also how the relation- State in the centre of Asia Minor, and ship should be strengthened between the the liberation of all nationalities from Navy, Army, and Air Bervices.
He pointed out the necessity to develop the Forte.
As regarda Asia Minor, the Commis new tyre of officers who would make siod, in principle, has decided that the All class of war their province, and be Coast strip between Avali and Cos, in- drawn from every part of the Empire.
For continuation see To-day's Telegrams.]cluding Smyrna and Ephesus, shall be in his pocket. He was immediately laughing to such, an extent, so that Fort Boyard, NH and Haiphong "PINKIE AND THE FAIRIES
assigned to Greece as the full owner or as an international mandatory.
DOMINION GUARDS.
PROPOSED NEW REGIMENT.
LONDON. March 3rd. Endorsing the widely-held opinion re garding the formation of a regiment of Dominions Guards, the Daily Graphic says:Would it not be appropriate to signalise the high fighting qualities of our Overseas soldiers by creating a regi-
of Dominions Guarda). The
SPAIN.
ZADRID, March 2nd.
"The city is quiet. The machine gunt have been withdrawn from the streets. The carnival is proceeding normally.
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HYDE PARK REVIEW,
NEW ARMY OF OCCUPATION.
Lospon, March 1st.
the Porte.
One of the gentlemen told him to on Saturday last whilst watching. quit his pigtail at his earliest possible juggling performance. The com- plainant stated that he was carrying moment, so as to save his life: where a child on his arm and only had as another called him by the name of twenty cents in his jacket pocket, Han Kian la traitor to the sons of A detective saw the prisoner edge up to the complainant and put his hand As to myself, I could not help arrested, and the sum in question found in his possession.
A FAMILY NECESSITY.
Han):
I was obliged to hold my sides and dropped to the nearest seat to sup port myself.
In token of this unprecedented en- connter with this quixotic bumpkin VERY family should be provided of the Markhu Dynasty of yore and with Chamberlain's Tain Baim at with a view to offering your readers all times. Spraing may ki cured in much
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and nt Byde Park this afternoon. H.M. King (on horseback) and the Queen the (a carriage), attended by Prince Arthur of Connaught, Generals Bobart son, incanugh, and Birdwood, and the Maharaja of Bikanir, reviewed fourteen battalions of young soldiers prior to their aparture for the Rhino. Huge crowds witressed the review in the bright ann
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February 27th.
Evilege which would ensure for, that innova- tion: universal approval, as well as the appreciation of Overseas people, and such regiment would round off in the happi- est manner the establishment of House hold troops, giving them a unit thorough ly typical of the Empire as a whole. It may be hazarded that, if the King were toane a Royal Warrant, auoient ren to farm the first Dominions' Guards would be at once forthcoming from the.
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