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PARIS CONFERENCE.
LONDON, Feb. 8.
AT SPA
A member of the Kaiser's closest entourage has communicated the following "to the ⠀⠀⠀ Politischer Tagesdienst
are
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·未己去年入國芪華中
OUR BADLY-PAID NAVAL MEN.
(
ing less silent than it used to be. It The great, silent Navy" is grow. has learned by bitter experience. especially within the last four or have The Kaiser said on November 3, grievances considered and its in- years, that the only way to get its A communique from Paris says the require of every officer that he reing a fuss about them; and even then "I am not thinking of abdicating. Ijustices remedied is to keep on mak- Supreme War Council this afternoon main faithfully at his post. As naval officers are so few in numbers! appointed General Gordon (Great Supreme War Lord I must stick to that if they wanted to they could Britain) General Treat (U.S.A), and General viem breaking over Germany if I go a Government.
General Savy (France) my post, for I see the worst Bolshe hardly make enough rcise to disturb Segre (Italy) to form the Laibach away. A hang, band is necessary commission.:
M. Tardieu presented the report of disaster. Other strong men, as the once. We are told that all sorts of to preserve Germany from this has got to be taken in hand, and at The question of naval officers" pay the Belgian commission and its con- circumstances of the day show, are good things for the lower deck are: clusions, which favoured revision of not standing firm in this difficult coming along early this year and the treaty of 1839. It was adopted, time; therefore I aball remain. no one deserves them more. As a The decision regarding the repreMoreover, I should willingly work matter of fact, the Admiralty have sentation of the smaller Powers on with the new order and the new done a good deal more for the lower the financial and economic commis Government. Various gentlemen in deck during the war than is generally sions will be taken on Monday.
it whom I have met The Council. discussed the inter-sympathetic to me to work with."
very realised-more than the men them- ruption of the negotiations at Spa.
On the morning of November 9
selves admit." there were long discussions. Hinde been overlonked not at all! Take, Nor, indeed, has the naval officer i ARMY ESTABLISHMENTS.
nburg was one of the first to nounce himself, at Fraineuse, the practically all our ships, from light an for instance, captains, who cofamand country seat occupied by the Kaiser cruisers upwards. At the outbreak at Spa. Hindenburg, after his first of war their rate of pay was 339. a report to the Kaiser, had a through day for the first 80 on the list, 278. the various armies, each of whom for the remainder. Last year the discussion with 50 head officers of 6d, for the second 80, and 22s. 6d. was instructed to send five or six Admiralty took these, rates under representatives in all haste to Main revision; and as Headquarters. Each of these officers solemnly announced that it had been expressed his view in writing con decided to increase the pay of "the a result they cerning the fidelity of his troops to remainder" (only), by a shilling a had a discussion all together Hin By the way, a letter is going round the Kaiser, and they subsequently day-a shade over 4 per cent.! denburg in his second report, trans the Press in which it is stated that denburg about 1 o'clock to the the gay of the captain of a super- Villa Fraineuse, gave it as the opinion Dreadnought "is literally as many of the head officers, which was fairly hundreds a year as common sense unanimous, that the troops could be on commercial lines would decree relied on to fight against the enemy, thousands to be necessary for." The against their comrades. Meanwhile may will altogether agree with him. but that they would never fight writer means well, but I doubt if the Kaiser's abdication was constantly Most Dreadnought captains are being arged by telephone from Ber- senior men on 33s. a day, but when in lin. It was repeatedly asked if he charge of a battleship they receive had not yet done it. Consequently in addition 189, a day "command The question of the western Gerto Berlin after the discussion over £900 a year-
a precisely worded answer was sent money, giving them a total of well
LONDON, Mar, 1. The establishment in Mesopotamia and North Persia will be 1,750 off cers and 28,950 men (British) and 4,600 officers and 59,000 men (In dian). The Home and Colonial es tablishments, including the troops in Russia, will have 15,000 officers and 225,000 men. course of demobilisation are British. The numbers in 1,150,0004 Indian, 73,000; Dominions, 325,000.
A BILATED "HAVAS.”
LONDON, Feb. 23. The fortnight beginning on Feb. 24 will be the most fruitful two weeks of the Paris Conference. At their expiration the world will know on what basis the Allies will have made peace with the Germans,
reached by the middle of the coming as GTA
undqubtedly be namely, that the Kaiser abdicated. The job may not be worth as many
The Greek C
been settled. The Dodecanese islands telephonic answer came are the man who deport as and Rhodes probably will be allowed we have already published his safety and battle efficiency of a ship to Greece, but there is no disposition abdication" *
costing perhaps two-and-a-half mil- to give her Smyrna.
'The Crown Prince' arrived at Spa lions sterling, with a crew of from about mid-day, and left again about, 900 to 1,200 men.
The general feeling in Conference circles is that peace will be signed by June 1; possibly earlier.
13 in the afternoon for his army, As Again, take the lower ranks. he left, the Kaiser said to him, "Tell There are numbers of destroyers in The military, naval, and aerial abdicated King of Prussia-I have of under four years' seniority. Their the soldiers it is untrue that I have HM.Navy commanded by lieutenants terms wil be ready for approval not abdicated as King. of Prussia." pay is 129. a day and because they when M Lloyd George returns on Later
Hindenburg arrived with have so trained and fitted themselves Feb. 28. The political and economic General Grouer and Admiral von that, while yet in the middle twenties, terms will be fixed by Hintre, and shortly the Commissions before the return Admiral von Scheer came. It was command of a destroyer; they are afterwards they can safely be entrusted with the of President. Wilson, which is pro then put into the Kaiser's mouth to deemed to be worthy of another 3s visionally arranged for March 17. abdicate as King of Prussia also. 9d a day. The Reparation Commission has
The ship has cost from £100,000 to When he subsequently left the audience; decided that reparation includes chamber of the villa, be said to Count $150,000, she is manned by 70 or 80 indemnities. Messrs. Lloyd George Dohna-Schlodin, his aide-de-camp, men, and her business is at all times and Clemenceau are pledged "You no longer have any Supreme the most dangerous entrusted to any to demand from Germany the full War Lord." He then went up to his type of ship. For accomplishing his cost of the war. No evasion of that pledge will be tolerated by France or England.
N
EARLIER TELEGRAMS..
BERLIN DISTURBANCES,
work in all weathers and under ali
study.
The same evening the gentlemen conditions to the satisfaction of My of his most intimate entourage urged Lords of the Admiralty, her com- him with insistence to go to Hollandmanding officer draws the magnificent The Kaiser was unwilling. He said: salary of £5. 10s. 3d. a week. For They want to force me to flee. Years past thousands of men and I will not." He said he would be in youths have been paid more than this the Court tram about dinner time, for watching automatic machines. On the way to the train the Kaiser
When is justice coming the way of the naval officer? said to his aide-de-camp-"I am so awfully ashamed; I cannot find it. in
my heart to do this I cannot go JAPAN AND FREE SPEECH. BERLIN, Mar. 1.,
away. If there be only one faithful
+
As a result of the recent disturb battalion still here I shall remain at
་་་་ anees by mobs, the authorities are Spa." In the Court train one Job's must be harder to bear than our The regular Press Laws of Japan taking precautions in Berlin and tidings followed another among Censorate elsewhere.
"
FIRE ON A STEAMER.
others, that the
was. On Feb. 19, the Bolshevists were in Herbesthal (about 15 miles Japanese,police 'suspended" the distant. The retreating troops Japan Chronicle. The article which of the nes of communication
excited, the apprehension of the
were also
Home Office was an editorial entitled pressing од Spa. "Nervousness about Korea." It con- Still the Kaiser was unwilling to demned the attitude taken by the leave, but he approved of a" pospolice towards the agitation of the sible departure being prepared. To Korean students for self-determinat The Statesman publishes a report. those around him he said: Ation, and deprecated the harsh sent of an unfortunate occurrerice from other times I have always known ences imposed, but strongly reprobat- Chittagong General Borden and myself" Expressing his opinion at ed any attempts at violence. These Captain Ross Smyth started out from the Kaiser's wish, one of his aides counsels would do far more to pre- Calcutta some time ago to survey de-camp sald"If I had to decide serve peace than the action taken by the coast line for suitable places for troops are unwilling to fight for your recognise the problem of Korea, and for myself I should remain, for if the desire was to urge the Japanese to the authorities. Our contemporary's aerodromes and landing places in Majesty we will form a protecting connection with the air service which detachment of officers. We can to adopt the policy that has proved so successful in South Africa by will ultimately be established between occupy all posts to this end, and act
encouraging those aspirations of the Calcutta and Rangoon. They left as a service for your safety."
Koreans that were legitimate. At 10 o'clock von Hintze and a
what to do, but now I cannot save
2
d'Etat,
in a boat called the Sphynx and duly representative of the Foreign Office reached Chittagong, having made again urged his departure, saying: plans and notes on the journey.Your Majesty, it may be too late would be that I wanted to acquire a Later, having completed their work at in an hour's fire." It was desired new party to help me to make a coup Chittagong they were leaving for to preserve the Kaiser. from personal
ill-treatment, which was feared be It was also thought that from the Altyab when there was an explosion; cause of the reports arriving from moment when the Kaiser was no how it was caused has not transpired various towns, The Kaiser then longer Supreme War Lord he had and the boat caught fire. She was decided on flight. The Castle of no longer any command... He would Bruhl, nea: Cologne, had been first then be a mere private person. ¡AS run aground on a sandbank and thought of as a place of sojourn for the Army would not fight for the burnt down to the water's edge. Six him, but the roads thither were no Kaker against their comrades who men were injured and had to be taken to longer free. Reports also said that were arriving, he had the feeling hospital. Neither General Borden access to the Crown Prince's army that the Army had left him in the lurch, by which any possible reproach nor Captain Ross Smyth was hurt; but was unsafe. The Kaiser must have that he had left the Army would be
reflected that the Entente had DONNELLY & WHYTE, they only escaped with what they peatedly hammered on the point that refuted. Moreovers the Katser felt
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