THE CHINA MAIL EXTRA.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920.
TO DAY'S CABLES.
(Reader's Service to the China Mail.)
SITUATION EXTREMELY GRAVE.
PEACE OR WAR?
LONDON, August 8...
Mr. Lloyd George, Lord Curzon, Field Marshal Wilson, and other British experts have arrived at Hythe. An optimistic feeling prevails regarding the nature of the Russian reply which is expected in the course of Sunday, but a sense of uncertainty remains until its receipt. The Observer's diplomatic. correspondent exactly defines the position when he says that "by evening we shall know whether it will be peace or war.”
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The Poles continue to issue voluminous communiques from which it is gathered that the Poles are busily engaged in repulsing Balshevist attacks on various sectors, frequently making counter-attacks. The Sunday Express understands that the Government has proposed to Moscow a 10-day truce with Poland
A STARTLING SPEECH
"ETERNAL TRIANGLE:" -
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN.:/
DESPERATE LOVER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
·Before Magistrate Hutchison this morning, a Chinese was charged' with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour from the Praya
The defendant denied that he had
said that be, was walking along the attempted to take his own life. He
Praya yesterday, when his interest was attracted by the beauty of a shop window. He looked at it as he walk- ed, and unknowingly strayed to the was aware of his danger, he had fallen edge of the Praye wall. Before he
into the harbour.-
The Police said that defendant's action was due to a girl whom a friend had brought with him from Camron. girl and she with him. He prevailed The defendant fell in love with the
upon her to run away from her master: and live with him. The friend traced LONDON, August 7.
the lovers, and there was a quarrel Germany, is watching the Polish crisis as eagerly as the Entente. The as a result of which the men came to keynote of her policy was struck by a brief but startling speech by the Both men appeared before the Foreign Minister, Herr Simons in the Reichstag, declaring that he would use Secretary for Chinese Affairs, who his utmost powers to prevent any infringement of German neutrality by placed the girl in the care of the Po the transport of Entente troops to Poland and hinting almost in a threateng Kuk. "Mutual grief begot ing tone at Franco-German, tension. The newspapers express entire their difference. They lived in the sympathy, and the men made up
approval of this policy.
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GERMAN SATISFACTION..
blows.
same house, and did their best to con- sole each other over the loss of the beauty.
The excitement produced in Germany by the speech was somewhat
Yesterday they had a talk about the. lessened by the belief that the Allies, realizing that any endeavour to transgirl with whom they were both very port arms or munitions will evoke: wholesale sabotage and obstruction, to much in love. Suddenly, the defen- say nothing of armed 'resistance, will abstain from such an attempt. Still, the German papers do not conceal their satisfaction at the prospect of a break-down of the Polish buffer between Germany and Russia and the collapse of one of the main pillars of the Versailles Treaty.
GERMANY, AND RUSSIA.
BERLIN, Aug. 8. The Foreign Minister, Herr von Simons, in a newspaper interview, said that Germany was prepared to resume diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia Immediately satisfaction was given for the murder of Count Mirbach, German ambassador to Russia in 1918. He added that Germany had given permission to the Soviet economic representatives to enter Ger- many. Herr Chicherin poured "cold water on the intentions of German kqmigrants to enter Russia.
IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERÉNOL."
BONDS OF EMPIRE.
OTTAWA, August & At the Press Conference, Mr. Gilbert Parker declared that the Imperial partnership had been long founded upon consent. If Canada desired to withdraw from it no gun would be fired to prevent her, but granting respon. sible government to the Dominions had strengthened their determination to remain members of the British commonwealth.
dant got up, and without saying a word Suspecting that he was going to do. put on his coat and left the house. something desperate, the friend fot- lowed him and saw him jump into the harbour. He the friend) jumped in after the defendant and rescued hima
fendant with a caution.
The Magistrate discharged the de-
GIRTON'S BLACK
PROSPECT.
LOOMING TERROR OF CAP
AND GOWN.
The girls of Newnham and Girton are possibly enjoying their last frilly
and bejumpered May week, writes a Cambridge correspondent.
Plans for the founding of a separate University for Cambridge women students, run on parallel lines to the
Sir G. Toulmin expressed confidence in the unwritten constitution of the men's, may materialise, and they whole Empire being gradually evolved.
PAPER SUPPLIES
An interesting discussion ensued on the question of paper supplies end. ing in the adoption of a resolution calling the appointment of a standing com- mittee to take steps to ensure adequate supplies of paper throughout the Empire. Representative of paper manufacturers promised to consider the suggestion of a larger allotment of paper to Africa.
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IS IT SLAVERY?
RATTAN FURNITURE TRADE CUSTOMS.
EMPLOYEE SUED FOR NOTICE.
will have to wear their stiffazademic caps and gowns instead of silken
University affairs; just like their men jumpers and crisp muslins at all.
colleagues. Even if the girls should be admitted at last as members of the University proper they would still have to forfeit all their pretty feminine fripperies at the Varsity sports and
races.
This devastating change may. here that the old order is bound to occur next year, as everybody agree
collapse soon.
The complainant in the witness box denied that he had had a quarrel with the defendant, or that be bad said any thing to him which could be taken as a dismissal. The defendant left him
There is also the terrifying prospect without notice. He made enquiries of women "proctors” in full regalia. and found that the defendant was accompanied by regulation women working for a rattan shop in Wanchai," bulldogs," high-hatted and all com.. Before Magistrate Hutchison at the and took out a summons against him. plete. The inen say they simply Magistracy this morning, "a"ration The defendant, in the witness box, could not stand being kept in order worker was charged with leaving his repeated his previous statement about by women proctors, and that is one of master's employ without giving notice. being dismissed by his master. He the chief obstacles put forward by The defendant denied the charge said that a man named Lai Tsun dis- the men students against conferring and said he was dismissed by his covered from the firm's books that on the girls the privileges of full master after a quarrel. He was told he was owing the firm some money University life. ....... that his services would be dispensed and refused to let him leave. The with. He took his master at his word. dispute was taken before the Secre As soon as be found another job in tary for Chinese Alfairs and the latter Wanchai, he left, telling his master | dismissed the case.
over me..
ROMANCE.
the gitis, of Newnham and Girton Although the University men and
treat each other, collectively with he was going. Had his master want- By Mr. Nash: Lai Tsun made some extreme hauteur and disdain, there ed notice from him, he could have entries in his books and alleged that are many, warm and even romantic demanded it then, but he kept quiet, I had taken loans from the firm. While friendships among individuals. The thus giving him (defendant) the im- I refuse to verify that allegation, I can girls are the guests of the men during pression that he had no objection to not dispute it. He has an advantage May Week, and the dainty "frocks his leaving
procured from London for the Mr. F. E. Nash, who appeared for Mr. Nash: Is it not a practice in dances and river festivities - bear the prosecution, said that the defen- your trade to make advance to em-witness to the fact that the collega
dant left owing his master: $42.92ployees when they join the service? girl of today is a very real giri, kad which he had overdrawn - from his Yes if they ask for such an advance. Several inter collegiate engagements, I did not ask for any advance, and did one quite recently between an - His Worship said he did not under- nor take any amount from the firm Emanuel man and a Girton girl, have stand how the defendant could have beyond my wages.
been announced, and this May Week been allowed to overdraw to that After a witness had given evidence is expected to be productive of many
to the effect that he saw the defendant more Counsel explained that it was the and the complainant quarrel, and though admittedly brainy, sex are Some of the students of the weaker, custom among rattan furniture rat heard the later tell him to find another of a pacifist turn of mind, and have v facturers to give their employees in job, Mr. Nachsobmated to the Magis made a few attempts to patch up advance on their wages. When a man trate that was inconceivable that his the ancient feeling of sex enmity. wanted to leave the employ of his client would, a view of the fact that A woman's rowing eight which had master, he had either to read the the defendant was owing him such been practising the other day for a The large sum of money, dismiss him from race with a London woman's college defendant had failed to do esther, and his employ withour first either asking tried to make peaceful overtures to that was why his client was
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