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pril 5, 1918, Temperature 64.
April 5, 1919, Temperature 64.
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號五月四年九十睿百九千奎英
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What might easily have been a serious fire was happily put out in Even before the war the immora-! its early stages yesterday evering.lity of Hamburg was notorious on Hearing police whistles blowing a the Continent. How much worse China Wait man ran ̋down to where have the conditions become since. P. C. Little was on point duty" and and particularly during the period of drew his attention to the fact. It the armistice is disclosed in an Mr. Harold Begbie, continuing his narrative of his visit to the ex-Kaiser at was found that the whistles were article in the Morning Post by an Amerogen, says than the ex-Kaiser is sounding in Wyndham Street. Smoke officer who went with the Allied entirely impenitent. He is convinced I was coming out of the windows of the Naval Commission to Northern Ger- that be strove harder than anybody to second floor of No. 26, Going up-many, "The attitude," he says, "that avert was, and that he is "answerable stairs our representative found that German girls and women have to God alone,"
The Kaiser said that all the rulers bed was well alight The flames adopted towards Allied, and especial were against war, which wa
were then about to envelop a British prisoners is made by the diplomats. Germany became involved Wardrobe. Fortunately there was plen pleasant thing to write of, and I in the war because she had to defend } ty of water at hand and soon there coofine myself to a single observation Austria against the aggression of Russia. were pails and basins of water being which a sergeant major of the old! The ex-Kaiser declared that he sent petired on the bedding. This reduced Contemptibles' made on the subject.] Kruger the famous telegram with grave the flames and the bedding was He had been telling me in a humor misgivings, and under pleure from, his advisers.
He also regretted the sinking thrown out on tothe verandah. More ous sort of way of raspberry lead of the Lurituale, which was o
great-
water was used and soon there was tea. paper sheets,ersalz coffee of blunder which he would never cease to only smouldering bedding. All various kinds, and numerous other regret."
danger of further fre was soon substitutes, and then, switched off to removed. P. C. Little organised the the subject by a question regarding a The few helpers in effective, fashion, statement a German officer had been
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Among those who rendered good heard to make, he spoke of the ways assistance was Mr. Hashim Khan of of the girls of Hamburg since the the G.P.O:
armistice. There is no doubt," he It might easily have caused the said, 'that the young of both sexes burning down of the whole terrace have been getting more and more had not prompt and effective mea shameless in their morals ever since Sures been taken. The bed which the beginning of the war, but it is was alight was enclosed by match only since we were practically set free boarding which had begun to fight by the armistice that the state of when "Mr. Hashim Khan pulled the things has come home to prisoners.
utes excitement ended with matters
all clear,"
The shooting of Nurse Cavell was ordered by a drunken General. Kaiser thereafter ordered that no woman should be shot without his personal, sanction.
SPANISH SITUATION.
MADRID, March 27th, The situation throughout Spain is in proving. It is expected that the trouble will soon be cleared up.
A
BAVARIA GROWS INDEPENDENT..burning part down. About 20 min-I don't think there are very many
BERLIN, March 31st.
A bevach has occurred between the Bararina and the Imperial Governments.
as the result of Bavaria's bid for military CONSULAR independence. Bavaria has prohibit
ed all recruiting for the Volunteer Army.. The Mittags Zeitung expresses the opinion that the estrangement develop
DANZIG NEGOTIATIONS...
will
COPENHAGEN, March 31st. The Berlin Government has invited the National Assembly Party lenders to I participate in a conference on April 2nd, in view of Marshal Foch's request for fresh negotiations regarding Dantzig.
APRIL 30 IS A GOOD DAY.
LONDON, April Sad. The Press Bareau states:- Valess an emergency arises. the official Press Bureau cingas on April 30th. The censorship and all its other functions will
rease from that date.
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...
ONE UP: MORE TO PLAY."
QзSK, March 27th.
British prisoners certainly no man that I know personally-who have had anything to do with these young Thussies, but that is not the fault of JURISDICTION us only less in our camp than upon the women, for they have pestered
ARREST OF KOREANS IN PEXING.
the streets. It's principally because we have a little money now, and "sometimes a bit of food that isn't ersatz. I don't think I am exaggerat. ing very much, sir, when i say that Peking, March 29-By arresting 50 per cent, of the girls of the lower and handing over to Japanese Police classes in Hamburg would sell them- Feh Yuan-hsi, Wu Ken-yung and selves for a cake of toilet soap or a another Korean, whose name is sixpenny package of biscuits. Ersatz unknown, on the 27thult, the Chinese food and ersatz women !” [Ersatz police re-opered the question of means "substitute."-EX. C.M.] Consular jurisdiction in Peking,
which China has never recognized. 64,800 MISSING SOLDIERS.
Chinese police, assisted by Japan.
ese, made the arrests, after which! the prisoners were immediately There are still 64,800 British pri handed over to the Japanese and sonera whese fate remains to be taken to the Japanese lock-up, and determined. transferred to Tientsin next day for
Mr. Churchill, in a Parliamentary answer, says that the present netj Cases are os record where the total number of officers and men Chinese bave refused to hand over reported missing, including prisoners British subjects arrested in Peking, of war, for all theatres and all ser- Admiral Koltchak has recaptured the the Chinese themselves transferring vices, is approximately 359,300, Of [ town of Ula.
the prisoners to Tientsin and handing this total it is estimated that about them over to the British authorities 198,000 have been prisoners, and, in there.
the absence of any indication for a long period that they were alive,} death has been presumed, in the case of 97,000 men. An
ANARCHY IN PETROGRAD.
It will be interesting to learn whether this is a precedent, or merely a political application of the doctrine enunciated by the Shun. tien Shih-tao," which speaks frequent
STOCKHOLM, March 31st. A telegram from Helsingfors states that the recent disturbances in Petrograd have assumed a very threatening character against the Soviet Government M.ly of both China and Japan as our Lenia's authority is considerably reduced.country." M. Trotsky is at present in Moscow, close ly guarded by sharpshooters.
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PROGRESS OF BOLSHEYISM.
LONDON, March 31st. The Rumanian Press Bureau reports that Budapest is seriously threatened with anarchy. The Communists are los ing control which is passing into the hands of the Bolshevists, who are daily arriving from Russia.
The Hungarian Army, is reorganising in feverish baste, aided by German ulcers of General Mackensen's former Army.
WEEKLY SHARE REPORT.
"Meers. W. Logan & Co. refors on April 4: Since the date of our last direuler our market has con- tinued fairly active and a fair amount of business has been put through! The Shanghai market bas eased of a little, less enquiries for slaires corning through.
Banks-Hongkong cud Shangbai Banks are quiet with sellers at $710 and buyers $7905.
Marine Insurances-Cantons are firm with buyera at $1-15 after sales from $425/$150, North Chinas are wanted at $130 and Unions as $1,080. T
Fire Insurances---Hongkong Fires ure enquired for at $880. China First aro weak with sellers at $170.
Shipping Indo-Chinas have in- proved and are strong with buyers at $160 und for June delivery $134. Douglases are quiet with sollers at $92. Shell Transports are wanted at 160/
Refineries-China Sugers have further improved and have buyers at $121 cush, June $127). "Malibons are quiet with sellers at $33,
Docks and Wharves. Kowloon Wharves are still enquired for at $124 Kovicon Docks have selers at $150 Shanghat Docks are also sellers at $100, 2*3,
Miscellaneous Cements, remmin quiet with buyen only offering $7.70: Hongkong Eletrica after sales at $78 are stil wanted at 8773; Peak Tramos Lavo bureni ab 571; Hongkong Trims: at $7.85; Waterbonts at $1817 and Watsone, no.567;
The Japanese state that these Koreans stole $150 from Japanese.
TROUBLE ON SAILING
SHIP.
CAPTAIN AND MATE FINED.
FOR ASSAULTING COOK.
J
A sailing ship with a heterogeneous
As a preliminary step to recover from Germany all who might still be detained there owing to illness or other causes, medical units were sent into every army corps district in the country, with orders to search every camp, prison, mine, asylum and hospital. The German authorities, also, called for a complete roll of all Allied prisoners still in the country.
A list of those who are known to have been prisoners of war and have not yet been repatriated officially, will be presented to the German Government, with the demand, that they account for every one of them.
FIRST ACROSS ATLANTIC.”
A Swedish airman, Captain Hugo Sunstedt, joins the ranks of those who intend to fly the Atlantic.
But while the other attempts are to be made during the summer, Cap- tain Sundstedt asserts that he means to make his fight at once,
"His programme is
Route, from Newark Bay, New York State, va St. John's, New foundland.
crew drawn from various national- ities offers just the sort of atmosphere in which squabbles would be ex pected, and the stories of mutiny on broad such a ship form quite an old theme. Just now (says the Singa pore Times of March 27) there is in harbour a sailing ship named the Cumberland and for the second time on Tuesday last, the captain ard chief
mate, were placed before the District Judge, Mr. Langhath Carter, charged with having assaulted the ship's cook, a Japan. ese, on January 28 last. The cook in his evidence said he made the re mark that water was coming through that his new flying boat, which re- the deck into the cook-house and ceived its first trial on Sunday, that the ship leaked like a bucket, weights five tons, has two motors The chief mate told him to come out, with a combined horse-power of 440, Witness was cutting up meat at the and there is storage capacity for two time. The mate said "put down that tons of petrol. It will accommodate knife" and threw a piece of iron at three passengers beside the pilot. him. The master then came up and
The public in America is sceptical kicked him.
““
Destination, London:
Time, 22 hours...
He has told the New York Sun
NAVAL GRATUITY.
The master, Captain Daniel Rafuse, said he saw the mate holding the cook by the back of the neck. Wit ness never kicked nor touched Kogo,
The Admiralty have decided to The mate told him later at breakfast award temporary officers entered for about the knife that Kogo had in his the period of the war a gratuity of hand. After hearing all the evidence 100 days pay for the first year of their His Honger said there
were service and 50 days pay for every differences between the story of subsequent year or part of a year. thy cook and his witnesses, tut This is considered to be a generous he did not think they were and very satisfactory award for such as to make him regard the officers of R.N.R. and R.N.V.R. who story as untrue. The most untrue entered for the period of hostilities. story put before that Court was fre The only temporary officers in the quently the one which hung most Royal Navy are in the medical branch. perfectly together. The story of the but in the two Reserves they belong defence could not, he thought, be to all branches. Taking the case of true. He fired the Captain and Mate an officer whose pay is 16s. per day $20 and $40, respectively, with costs: his gratuity will amount to £240 if Mr. Dudley Parsons appeared for he has served from the commence the Captain and Mr. W. ANment of the war. Battenberg for the cook.
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