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March 27; 1919, Temperature 17.
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號七十月三年九十百九千蠻菜
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(Reuter's Service to the China Mai,)
HUNGARIAN THREAT.
TO FLOUT PEACE CONFERENCE. ANDALLY WITH RUSSIA.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Beuter's Service to the China Mail)
LABOUR OUTLOOK.
NOTTINGHAM MINERS STRIKE.
LONDON, March 19th. Mr. JH. Thomas, before starting for Paris described the outlook as black,
This is the view taken by the Labour correspondents to day.
March 27, 1918, Temperature G
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS,
'(Reutor's Servise to the China Mail.)
GERMAN SITUATION.
COPENHAGEN, March 19th. The Munich Socialist, Harr Hoffman, has been elected Premier
COPENHAGAN, March 19th.
A message from Berlin states that delegates from. German-Austria, for the first time, participated in the delibera- tions of the constitution of the Committee of the National Assembly as Weimar.
FOOD FOR GERMANY,
LONDON, March 18th.
LONDON, March 23. Hungary's adoption of Bokhaviam is regarded most seriously by the They atter warnings against optimism, Anglo-French Press, chiefly as en-
based on the idea that the Opal Commis dangering the Entente's efforts to ion disclosures are bound to result in the build up Rumanian, Polish, and Czechpointing out that any compromise which stuffs to Germany from Brent Bratsin satisfaction of the miner demsad, The initial consignment of Allied food- slovak states as bulwarks against the Government may be expected to offer includes 30,000 tons of bacon, 10,000 tona German domination of central Europe. is unlikely include nationalisation of condensed milk, 20.000 tons of veget All three states are menaced by the which the miners now denised, Reports able oils, 2,000 tons of margarine, 2,000 advancing Bolshevik armies. The of weekend District meetings of railway neutral zone decided upon by the & disinclination to abate any demands, meal, 10,000 tons of barley, rye and flour,
men received from headquarters indicate
toas of dripping, 35,000 tons of rica, 50,000 - tons Rangoon beans, 13,000 tons of oat while the transport-workera express dis satisfaction at the conditions attached to the forty-four-hour week offered then.
Peace conference was intended to
make the Hungarians desist from attacking the Rumanians and communicating with the Russians, 'while it closed the gap between
LONDON, March 18th.
tous of palm kerpelą.
France's contribution includes 30,000
America supplies 10,000 tons of whent.
BERLIN, March 15th. An Anglo German agreement has been German pocash, the proceeds of which supplies. will be devoted to payment for lood
Rumania and Poland... According to i to-day 10. confer with. Mr. Lyd George aigned for the delivery al 30.000 toris, of
Mr. J. EL. Thomas, M.P., few so Paris
regarding the railway situation.
ANTICIPATIONS!
The Coil Commission held its last pub licension yesterday.
Vienna despatches the Entante's note which precipitated the crisis was dated Belgrade March 19. It defined that neutral zone as a belt 140 miles It is forecasted that the Commission's long and forty wide, virtually shut tion of mine, an eight-hour day, and a
report will reconngend the nationalisa ting Hungary behind the rivers ten per cent increase in wagen. Theiss. Szamos., and Maros, and, Yesterday's meeting was chiefly note, including the towns of Grosswarduin, worthy for the striking figures produced Debreczin, and the whole Bihar by the financial writer, Mr. Emil Davies,
showing the abnormal profits wars in: country.
many large collieries.
The proclamation further declares that the State Council will organise a proletarian army against the Hun- garian landowners and capitalists,
the Renanian boyards and Czech bourgeois. It invites the workers and peasants of Bohemia, Rumania, Serbia and Crotia to conclude an armed alliance to co-operate there against the workers of Germany and German Austria, and to follow the example of Hungary by severing.re- lations with the peace conference and forming an alliance with Moscow.
PARIS CONFERENCE.
LONDON, March 19.
A communique from Paris says the Supreme Allied Council this afternoon discussed the military situation in Galicia and agree on the terms of an injunction to the two armies facing each other in front of Lembry, and requesting the suspension of hostili- ties on certain conditions.
The Council also dealt with the western frontier of Poland and heard the report of the commission on Polish affairs.
PREMIER STAYS IN PARIS,
...LONDON, March 19, Reuter is officially informed that Mr. Lloyd George has decided to comply with the request of President Wilson, M. Clemenceau, and Signor Orlando to remain in Paris until the peace preliminaries are settled.
The War Cabinet met to-day and came to a similar decision.
BIG FIRE.
CHINESE YOUTH MISSING.
Last night the four-storied building at No. 12 Gough Street was burned to the ground. Smoke first appeared coming from the shop below. Passers- by gave the alarm. The Fire Brigade arrived promptly. A large crowd gathered.
The strike, which has broken ... out throughout Nottinghamshire, and which affects 10,000 miners, arose from a focal wage dispute, apart from the national Programme.
The latest reports show little pros and of an early settlement--the owners men's attitude upon essential points being entirely irreconcilabl
RUSSIAN SITUATION."
HELSINGFORS, March 18th, It is stated that the Bolshevika are concentrating large forces," including a lot of heavy artillery, on the Narra Front,
A Lithuanian communiqué etates that a general offensive on the Lithuania Courland front has begun.
The Bolshevists have been decisively defeated in Northern Lithuanix Mita is threatened by them,
The Ten, Paris correspondent nader
LONDON, March 16ch stands that the Allied forces in Odessa, which are mainly French, are evacuating the city.
The Bolshevist troops are stated to be within fifteen miles north-east of Odessa, The situation of the Allies has been critical since the recent capture of Eher son and Nicoisieff by the Bolshevists.
GREEK VICTORY.
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SALONIKA, March 18th. The Greek general staff nanounces that the second Greck Division in Rusia gained, at Kherson, a brilliant victory over four times their number of Bol shevisis, who were well organised and completely equipped with artillery and machine-guns.
GERMAN SHIPS TO BE USED, The Ysiache Zeitung's Hamburg vor respondent ways the eight German ateam ers sail this week to being food-atus for be not removed from the ships during the Germany. The crews demand that they entire voyage.
PUQILIAM.
SCRANTOS (Outo March 19th. Lewis in "the ninth round, thus wirring Jack Britton knocked out Ted ("id") the welteg-weight Championship of the
World.
Briton held the weltar-weight cham- pionship of the world in 1916 til he was defortel Lewis, who had a succession of contests at through 3917 and 1919 to maintain the honour. Brition fought Lewis twice last year, for the honour. He was defeated in the tenth round on March 7th in Atalanta Cisy. When aext thin contest was drawn. pair met, at Serautón. on May 2nd, the Britton met Lewis in
20th, in aid of war charities, when the a fuer-round content at Now York on Juno-
rferes decided for a draw.)
EGYPTIAN REBELLION.
Caino, March 19th. Three thousand demonstrators' at Tantub attempted to rush the railway Police restured order. station. The Military and Egyptian
Furces in Egypt issued a warning that On March the the Commander of the
anyone who attempted to interfere with the railways, telegraphs, or telephones was liable to be shot under martial law,
Six demonstrators were killed and 31 wounded. at Cairo; and 11 killed and 31, wounded at Tantah.
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DOCK PROPRIETORS DISLIKE GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE.
LONDON, March 18th. In the House of Commons, Sir Eric Geddes, concluding his speech when mov The Bolshevist troops were commanded Communications Bill urged the House to ing the second reading of the Ways and. by German officers, many of whom parti- rice above petty jealousy. He refused to cipated in the battle.
The Greeks advanced twenty kilometres, from the scope of the Bill. The Doc
entertain the suggestion to omit the docks and took many prisoners and mich boyards were approaching
In connection with the above, the Bol with a view to requesting permission to the Government shevists claim to have stormed Kherson advance rates. The Minister of Trade- on March 8th,
Fort, must have power to insist on neces- sary improvements in docks, otherwise the transport system would not escape calamity.
LONDON, March 19th: The House of Commons, unanimously passed the second reading of the Trans- port Bill
PARIS CONFERENCE.
PARIS' March 17th. President Wilson, M. Clemenceau and a joint letter to Mr. Lloyd George Professor Vittorio Orlando have written urging him to postpone bis departare to England, in view of the urgency of the problems, with which the Conference is dealing the importanee of which, the wribers are of opinion, outweighs even the Labour disputes in Great Britain,
The joint lester says that it Mr. Lloyd
The inmates of the second and can remain in Paris another forte
QUEEN GOES SLUMMING.
LONDON Aarch 18th. H.M. the Queen visited the poorest slums in Beshnal Green.
Her Majesty received an ovation.
third floors were rescued, and numer Gus fire-hoses played on the flames, chief questious connected with peace can" the signatories believe that the which now spread fiercely, helped by be settled. the wind. Soon it was apparent that Mr. Lloyd George awaits the decision of the fire could not be extinguished, so of the London Cabinet in this connection. water was played on neighbouring
PARIS, March 18th. buildings to save them. The firemain in Paris, fer pome time longer, in Mr. Lloyd George has decided to re- burned itself out in about two hours. order to participate in the important dis A. Chinese youth is reported miss-eussions at present proceeding in regard ing, and the fear is that he was to the peace terms and the League of burned to death, but so far no trace Nations. can be found.
No official statement as to damage done is yet available.
MORE OF MARJORY,
Miss Marjory Stewart will, eñact the part of "Pinkie" at the final per formance en Wednesday, 2nd April at 4.30 p.m...
This must perforce be the very last performance as one or two members of the cast are leaving the Colony on the following day, Book ing, for this matinee opens on Satur day morning at Moutrie's..
A FAMILY NECESSITY.
Pan19, March 18th, sentative of Router, that the British De Lord Robert Cecil informed a-repre- legation strongly favoured the incorpora tion of the League of Nations' covenant in the Preliminary Peace Treaty.
COLONIAL TROOPS BEND-OFF..
LONDON, March 19th. statement that, Oversese troops will be It is learnt authoritatively that the permitted to depart homewards without
an official farewell is incorrect.
Every individual, on embarkation, will· receive a personal autographed message from their Majestics; also one from the Imperial Government.
printed on royal note-paper and dated from Buckingham Palace, reads:
The King message, which is to be
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LONDON, March 18th. The British Red Cross has taken charge 50,000 Russian prisoners in Germany.
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
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SHANGHAI, March 26. Northern delegates are claiming that fighting in Shensi has ceased, and are trying to get the Conference re-opened. Southern delegates re- quire official assurances from their. leaders Shensi first.
To keep Tuan Chisui from med. ding in politics, he has been made Director of National Defence and sent to the frontier.
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