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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 1922, 2日七十月二戌壬大歲年一十國民津中
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MONTAGU'S INFAMY.
CURZON BOILS OVER.'
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FEIVATE LETTLE'S CONTENTS.
Laspas, Hasch, 14
The House of Lords was crowded, the galleries thronged with peerenses and commoners, when Lart Curzon, in a voice shaking with indignation said he Ead thought that he as Foreign Secretary about to discuss the Eastern question in Paris was the chief sufferer of Mt Montagu's as'omabing sct, but he was astounded to learn from Mr. Montagu's aptch that be (Land Curzon) had connived at this injury to public interests. Mr. Montsen, he said, had endeavoured to establisha'n amazing propose tion by public reference to private conversations and correspondence. unparalleled in the history of Cabinet proceedings.
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SOUTH AFRICA'S FIGHTING,
REBELS FACING COMPLETE ROUT.
GOVERNMENT ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT,
JOHANNESBURG, March 14. "The lull in operations is believed to denote that Goeral Smuts is aiming at unconditional surrender of the strike commandos before overwhelming their forces and thus avoid blood bed.
The Government forces have captured Brakpan and bave issued an ultimata to the Fordsburg com- mandos threatening bombardment unless they evacuate their positions.
"
SNIPING IN JOBURY.
JOHANNESBURG, March 14. Aeroplanes opened the operations at Fordsburg in Lord Carros proceeded that Cabinet ministers on the westera district of Johannesburg, dropping notices" March 4 received the Indian Government's telegram ordering evacuation by eleven o'clock in the morning. asking permission for publication, and he did not detar The night was the most disturbed hitherto experienced, it possible that Mr. Montary would give sanction without and there was even sniping in the heart of the city, also reference to the Cabinet. At the meeting on March 6 heavy firing in the eastern suburb Jeppestown. All the he was so dumbfounded when Mr. Montagu in the other reef sectors, however, have been cleared up. The course of a few seconds of private conversation said te aforementioned firing was probably the final burst of bad authorised publication that he closed the converval revolutionary activity.. tion and returned to his seat.
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LAMENTABLE INDISCRETION."
AMPLE RESERVES.
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Lord Curzon continued that if Mr. Montago had is indicated by a communique showing that up to last given the slightest hint that there was time to prevent night troops. had occupied the extensive East Rand publication of the message he would have brought the proprietary mines and had captured 158 revolutionaries, matter before the Cabinet, but he assumed that publica- An encircling movement is now complete in all the tion had already ocentred in India. Feeling profoundly affected areas except the outlying portions of Johannes. disturbed and dismayed at Mr. Montagu's action he burg. Recruiting has been stopped and ample reseTTES wrote to him a letter marked private, deploring his action and protesting against any repetition. The letter was equally confidential as cores of letters Mr. Montagu had written to him, the character of which he would not follow Mr. Montagu's action by attempting publicg to describe:- Mr. Montagu had not fronted him whA LA NEW DUTCH EAST IYDLES reply. Instead he had before his constituents vilified a colleague whose sävice he had constantly solicit d'and received in unstinted messure, endeavoring to thift some responsibility for his lamentable indiscretion to his (Lord Cuszon's) shoulders.
LORD CURZON'S LETTER.
Lord Curzon, after referring to the intolerable and unprecedented action of a Cabinet Minister in publicly quoting and distorting the letter written under the seal of confidence, read the letter, a copy of which he had receiv- ed from Mr. Montagu, as follows:-
"Dear Montagu,
"I much deplore that you should have
Natives report that many revolutionaries weze killed in Sunday's bombing maid. "Eighty-six captured policemen have been released.
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OCCUPATION EXPENSES.
AMERICA'S DEMAND..
PARIS, March 14..
The allied finance ministers replying to the United - thought it right to authorise publication of the telegram States demand for payment of occupation expenses even na amended. Had I when viceroy ventured to make refer to the clause in the inter-allied agreement of the a public pronouncement in India about the foreign policy same date reserving the rights of the United States of the Government in Europe I should certainly have
ministers and Washington should determine the question been recalled. As it was I was once reoaked for making with the allied governments.
a casual reference in a speech. I confulted Chamberlain this morning in the absence of the Prime Minister. He entirely shared my view, but it was too late.”
**QUITE INTOLERABLE.".
HOME ENGINEERING LOSKJUL
TRADE UNION COUNCIL'S DECISION.
GOVERNMENT TO BE ASKED FOR AN ENQUIRY,
That I should be asked to go to a conference in Pariz while a subordinate branch of the British Govern- ment 6,000 miles away dicates to the British Govern- ment what lice he thinks I ought to pursue in Thrace In spite of resolations-passed by various district, seems to me quits intolerable, but the part India has meetings of engineers arging the Trade Union Congress sought to play, or has been allowed to play, in this series Council to take drastic action with a view to resting
the employers attempt to smash working class organisa of events passes my comprehension. Moreover, it is of tins the founcil meeting in London to-day decided to very dangerous import, for if the Government of Indis, ask the Government to establish court of enquiry into because it rules a large body of Moslems, is entitled to the causes of the lockout under the Industrial Dispat
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*Yours, ever,"
Canzon ASTONISHED AT HIS OWN MODERATION.
Lord Curzon pointed out that instead, "se Mr. Montagu alleged of requesting Mr. Montagu in futurs
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