THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRENS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER SER,
REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED IN NORTH-
WESTERN GERMANY.
SOVIETS ASSUME EXECUTIVE AUTHORÍTY
IN GERMANY
GERMAN ARMY NOT YET
DEMOBILISED.
ALLIES REFUSE MITIGATION OF ARMISTICE
TERMS.
EARLIER CABLES.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GERMAN TRA P SUSPECTED,
ALLIES MUST KEEP VIGILANT
PARIS, November 14th.
A Havas message says :—— A warning was given, in the Chamber of Deputies, by the Under Secretary of State for War, that Germany has not began to demobilise her armies, and it would be madness for the Associated Powers to relax the vigilance of their war efforts, the German being a treacher
ous enemy.
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General Hindenburg has acknowledged that Germany is powerless again tö open hostilities. This humiliating confession
Es most likely a trick to instil the idea!
...
into the Allies that everything is over except the signing of the Peace Treety. It would be dangerous to fall into that
P
The Germans display signs of an obafinato spiri: in not carrying out, loyally, the class of the Armistice, and are raising objections to all clauses daily
FRENCH WOMEN ADAMANT.
Paris, November. 24th-
A Havna message says --
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THE GENERAL BLEUTION.
·CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING.
Losnoy, November 25th.
The election campaign is now in full blast. The number of candidates is swelling hourly, even embarrassing the agenta Rival Coalitionists are standing in some constituencies.
THE SILVER MARKET”.
LONDON, November 24th. The silver mackat is quiet. Messrs. Montagu & Co.'s report states that the condition of the market is un altered. Trade demand is somewhat less active. The Shanghai exchange quotes bid. a tack
BAR SILVER FOR INDIA NEW YORK, November 20th.
(delayed).
1918
ROUMANIA'S FUTURE RELATIONS WITH THE ALLIES,
beneficent and civi
land and her.
Influence of Eng
the Allies will be increased in
From a political point of
(FROM A ROUMANIAN CORRESPONDENT TO THE view therefore, Roumania's interest is
DULY TED
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identical with that of the Allies. In Roumania is a liberal, constitutional order to be able better to appreciate the country, having is fundamental legisla wealth and productive power of Rou tare the Belgian constitution and the mania, it is sufficient to know that she Code Napoleon. Justice is administered is the only country in Europe which, by district courts of justice, five, court although importing all her necessities of appeal, and a aupreme court of ap from abroad, has always a surplus, not peal: the judges are almost all of them of imports, but of exports. In 1912, for doctors of law of universities in France, instance, the figures. Werkz Belgium, or Italy, whose ability and in-
Exports Imports
It is expected that there will be 200 unopposed returns. "So far as can be judged at present Glasgow is likely to prove the key of the elections.
Manchester provides the curious spectacle of not possessing an official ACCOMMODATING RELEASED wgrity can honourably bear comparison
Coalitionist The candidates are all
local men, and the Parties are, there-" fore, preparing a furious battle on old- fashioned lines,
The position of the Labourites in the Government is still somewhat obscure, but it is practically sure that only a minority of the eight Ministers will stick
to the Government.
It is noteworthy that the Cannock Labourites have decided to support Mr. J. Parker, Labour MP. for Halifax,
Two million dollars value of bar silver have been shipped to India to-day.
PRISONERS.
PARIS, November 24th. A Havns message says:→→ Accommodation is being provided at Cherbourg for 5000 French prisoners-of- war released, from camps in, Northern Germany. They will be conveyed by sea at the rate of 2,000 a day. QUIET, CHRISTMAS IN PARIS
PARIS, November 24th..
A Havns mesange, says. ; -- There will be no Christmas revelling Junior Lord of the Treasury, as a Coalior festivity in Paris this year. tionist..
DEMOCRATIC FINANCE
The Committee of the National Council of French Women has made a sterling rejoinder to the appeal by Gorman women for a mitigation of the Armistice terms, reminding the German women that dur- ing the tragic four years they have remained silent to the crimes of their Army and Navy... The women of Frence Mr. Lloyd George's Wolverhampton will not intercede to mitigate the condi- speech is generally approved by the newi.
LORD MILNER'S.'' NEW 'IDEA." tions, which are justified by the disloyal papers, except the Daily News, especial
The Prime Minister's appeal, in his manner in which Germany has wagedy the references to land questions. It
apointed out, bawever, that there can recent speech; at Manchester, that the be no question of Great Britain being new lands of national endeavour independent of Overseas supplies.
after the war should not be planted Replying to attacks against the Coali with barren fig trees," but that in Em- tion, the Daily Chronicle voices the pire development there must be "national general view when it says that the re-organization, national production, and form must be carried out. Neither the national assistance, strikes a note that Unionists nor the Liberals would be able has been heard with growing insistence to cope with them alone, hence a Coali of late, even in politiial circles other tion is the only way.
than those in which the Premier graduated.
War.
BELGIUM'S HONOUR.
IMPRESSIVE JUNCTION AT
BRUSSELS.
BRUSSELS, November 22nd. King: Albert, this afternoon, went to the Hotel-de-Ville, where Burgomaster Max delivered a loyal address in which he recalled that at the outbreak of war the King had said to him: Belgium is
entering the war in which she has no
Pence will be in sight only when Ger-material interest. It is to safeguard her many bae carried out, integrally, the honour that she is going to fight. There Armistice conditions.. :
TROUBLOUS» GERMANY.
SOVIETS TO EXERCISE COMPLETE AUTHORITY.
COPENHAGEN, November 24th. Berlin officially announces that the Soviet and the Government have agreed to the transference of the executive authority to the Soviets, who will sup- press any counter-revolution.
...
The Executive Council in Berlin will exércise control, pending the election of
new Executive Council by the Con gress of representatives of the Soviets which would be summoned as soon as pos
sible..
fore let honour guide all who may bo responsible for the country before the judgment of history."
The King replied paying a tribute to Burgomaster Max and the other Belgian dignitaries who preferred prison to sallying the honour of their country. (Prolonged cheers.)
MORE, SUBMARINES SURRENDERED.
A TOTAL OF EIGHTY SEVEN, SO
FAR.
LONDON, November 24th.
An additional 28 Boats were sur- rendered to-day in the presence of Sir Brie Geddes, including a number of the largest cruiser submarines, one of which
ECONOMIC BOYCOTT OF GERMANS.
SUPPORTED AT LONDON
DEMONSTRATION. “
LONDON, November 25th.
At a demonstration of 10,000 persons, in Hyde Park, under the suspices of the British Empire Union, & resolution was passed expressing horror and indigna tion at the German brutalities against British prisoners, especially after the Armistice, and, favouring an economic toycott of Germans for their foul deeds. COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN AUSTRIA.
RAPID PROGRESS BEING MADE.
ZURICH, November 25th.
|
Fr.616,524,872 ........ Fr.408,715,576
with that of judges in any civilized coun- try. The well-organised system of mort- gages is kept up to date and maintained by law (the courts of justice), as well as that their production exceeds their the registers of landed proprietors. Ron-sumption mania has 9,000,000 inhabitants, and cover a surface of 131,000 squa kilomètres, or 13,000,000 hectares, of which 8,000,000-hectares are under cultivation. Being situated between the Carpathians. the Danube, and the Black Sex. it fu cludes the most fertile plains of the Danube and the wooded regions of the Carpathians with their high peaks, table lands, woods, and splendid valleys, all running from corth to south and forming in the south-east ong of the most-beautiful regions in the world
Surplus of exports. Fr.206,799,098
In the whole world there are only four countries in such a flourishing condition
at
more
The country produces wheat, petroleum. forests, vines, fruit, cattle, etc., and has
commerce valued
than 1,000,000,000f. Roumania's commerce seeds by 20,000,000ims that of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece together. Romania is fifty-two hours' journey from London, forty-eight hours from Ostend Bucharest or Ostend-Bucharest. And Paris by the Orient express, Paris-
IMPORTS FROM ABROAD.
con-
(1)-The United States of America, which has, however, an area of 8,000,000 square kilomètres (thas is to say, an area sixty-one times. greater than that of Roumania), 95,000,000 inhabitants (about twelve times mare than Rou mania), and 420,000 kilomètres of rail- way (about 10 times more than Rou mania, which has only 3,500 kilomètres), (2)British India has a surplus of exports
of 250,000,000 but bas 316,000,000 inhabitants and an area of .5,000,000 square kilomètres.
(3.)-Brazil has a surplus of exports of $280,000,000, but has an етед of 8,300,000 quare kilomètres, 2,000,000 inhabitants, and 22,000,000 kilomètres of railway
if
one
ex-
(4)-Roumania has a surplus of ports to the value of Fr.206,795,996, but
take into account her small aren ker population, her means, and, above al!, the fact that, she has only had an independent existence for Afty years, Roumania can be placed at the head of the countries which import less than they export-that is to say, who con- sume less than they produce,
to democratic ideals. The formation of agri, remembering that not half themanian people are orderly, civilised, and
may
TheFrankfurter Zeitung's Vienna | GERMAN DESIGNS IN AFRICA to her real needs. particular, statistics known to the whole world the heroism
correspondent reports the rapid progress of the counter-revolutionary movement in Austria. Monarchists are resorting to
The Workmen's and Boldiers Councils have proclaimed Oldenburg, East. Frier is 350 feet long and carried a crew of numerous methods to excite the peasants as to cut off the North of Africa from tha maining 71.4 per cent of the commodities courage and
The Deutschland was also sur- reddered. One of the submarines was fitted with 50 inch guns, and w
land Bremen, Hamburg, and Schleswig | al. Holstein a Republic, with the capital at Hamburg..
The Grand Duke of Baden and Prince uzriously furnished and Stted with ico
Max have renounced the Throne.
JEWISH DEMANDS. “..
STOCKHOLM, November 25th
A meeting of the Jews in Berlin has demanded the abolition of the Jewish restrictions and the grant of autonomy in internal Jewish affairs.
GERMANY'S ARMISTICE.
NO MITIGATION OF TERMS POSSIBLE.
AMSTERDAM, November 24th, VA telegram from Berlin states that the German Armistics Commission has pro tated against the refusal of Marshal Foch to mitigate the terms of the Carmistice.
They assert that it is practically im possible to full the conditions
The Germans were, threatened with anarchy and famine.
Germany would do everything possible to conscientiously full the conditions,
machines.
The total surrendered is now 87, A further 14 are expected to ardive on Nov. 25th.
A leave sheet found on one submarine showed that recent cases of officers on shore leave was signed by members of the
crew.
against the Viennese authorities.
EXPORT OF AMERICAN COTTON RESTRICTIONS BEING REMOVED.
WASHINGTON, November 24th.
"After conferring with the War Trade Board, Senator Hake Smith declared that all restrictions on the shipment of cotton have been removed, except to enemics and North European neutrala
The relations to be created between with England in particular are interest-mania, has been exploited in the most Roumania, and the Allies in general and
It must, however, be stated that Rou- ing for to for mania, and perhaps still more inhuman fashion by Germany and Aus is a country with a large agricultural each year a large surplus, for, heavy as Thus, while Roumania tria-Hungary. Despite this she has had and petroleum production, she has no is her import trade, it has always been iron foundries
for engineering works, exceeded by her wealth, her productive nor the different machines and tools neces Power, and he exports This shows the mining industries, etc. sary for the agricultural, petroleum, or important part that Roumania may ac All are imported complish when her ideal is realised that from abroad in one single year (1912) is to say, when she has doubled her the imported 1,000,000 separate pieces. population and trebled her territory. The cultivation of what Mr. Lloyd That is enough to show the interest that
THE ROUMANIAN PEOPLE, George called an open; unprejudiced English industry, has in Roumanis, where mind" has, indeed, proceeded apace in it can find an immense market fullment of her ideal because the Rou
Boumanin deserves to be helped to the quarters not usually deemed favourable orth
land in Roumania is yet industrious the Empire Resources Development Com workings are still only beginning.
under cultivation, and the petroleum
A good and trustworthy character is, besides, always an attraction Ini mittee nearly two years ago is a case in addition to that, the needs and demands that which concerns relations in gen- point. At the inaugural meeting, comf
eral and commercial relations--particu posed of representatives of all political raapia are enormous-locomotives, larly economic
Proof of the civilised order to meet the financial obligations Allied industry will be able to supply in the present war for not only have parties, Lord Milner affirmed that in these are supplied from abroad!
and trustworthy character of the Rou- and commitments arising out of the war, then to
The manian people has been well established new idea; and expressed that idea is 3,500 kilomètres of railway, but needs but also, in spite of the anarchist prope democratic finance had got to and sons that Roumania has up to the present only although i
It is worth noticing also they remained faithful to their Allies
in a most unbrys the formula wabsegnently adopted by the 20,000 kilomètres,
condition,
State by the State for the State." Committee the development of the
It is then to Roumania's interest to gonda of the uraian army in Roumanis Another point the Premier touched land, besides ber interest in creating in and Austria-the Roumanian army, and form relations with England. But Eng Propaganda, which has contaminated even the peoples and armies of Germany upon, namely, the use of experienced Roumania markets for her industry, has business men in State industrial under a particular personal interest, if
people not, only remained untouched, but takings, is a cardinal principle in the patriotic interest, which is as follows: observe the laws.
thus express myself, a national and faithful to their duty, and continuing to they repelled provocation, remaining policy of the Committee, which attriEngland is eminently an importing coun- butes the failure of State undertakings try as regards foodstuffs and petroleum to the representative of the Associated In the course of an interview granted in the past very largely to the neglect of products, amongst others. It is true that Press, the Queens of Romania-who this precaution.
she finds important resources in her an English Frincess being the daughter Colonies, but important as these resources of the late Duke of Edinburgh-describes may be, they are absolutely inadequate
quate the Roumanian people in these words:
The defence of Roumania has made. An examination A publication, written by Emil Zimmer ions can only supply England with 28.6 that three-quarters of the disasters which shows that all her Colonies and Domin- of the Roumanian soldier, and proved mann, dealing with a German scheme to per cent, of her total imports, consequent, occured were dave, for the most which create a vast Central African Empire, to countries-especially to the United Sign Inck of equipment, to wait of Co-opera
foreign Arron from the of America to supply her will the re-0 at the right moment with the Allies, in fact, to the lack of everything except South, formed the subject of an applica which are absolutely indispensable to her.
That is, an important point to bring for Their contempt for suffering has never
of the chief
of sm is one tion that came before the Controller of ward for England commercial statistics been surpassed.
soldiers. Patents (Mr. H. Temple Franks) in the show that the United States send her dreadful wounds with a calm impassive They bear the most their products, but they ask for and hest. Patents Court, on September 17th. The accept next to nothing in exchange.
Pain does not terrify the Rou.. England, can find all that she needs are courage with which they fight for manian soldiers, they bear it with the applicants, Meas Longmans, Green, & ca; the publishers, asked for a license in Roumania, that is to say, in a country their country
much nearer than America, and which troops is as good as possible Each sol
The moral of the Zimmermann's book, The German Eclosest relations with England, a country the ideal for which be struggles, and of to issue an English translation
nothing better than to have the dier in our little army is conscious of pire of Central Africa.”
Appearing for the applicants, Mr. Bar which feeds also the industrial products the holiness of the cause for which he is tram said the book set forth the German of England.
called upon to sacrifice his life ad ex- Central Africa, so that the North and scheme of establishing a great empire in
He is not demoralised by ample, on the contrary, his courage and Eouth would be cut off. It shower or that Roumania, with Serbia and Mon- that his
very A glance at the map of Europe shows energy are.redoubled by it. He knows clearly what was the true
of policy The translators my
t is an exuple for the of great importance. These countries, given proof of their heroism in that they he showed that similar ideas had been which the present war has united for all have given their lives as a supreme ser Professor Hans Delbruck, Paul Rohrbach rapted territory from the Black Sea to Queen, I bless them a mother, I put forward by notable Germans, like time, form a compact mass of uninter- vice of devotion to their country As Hermann Ongbein, and Paul Lontwein, the Adriatic.
suffer and the idea that Zimmermann, bad ex enlarged by Helped, sustained, and with them. pride is greater than aurd her Allies, these my anguish, because my spirit has under- pressed in this book really represented the countries will form an important barrier stood what a marvellous spirit of self- prevalent policy of Germany. The book against Germany's tendency to expand sacrifice and faithfulness animates the had maps showing that the proposed Ger- towards the East. The berrier that these Roumanian army man African Empire would take in countries amalgamated can for British East Africa and Uganda, the pre the expansion of Germany towards the strengthen this character, for in so doing
tagafilth The Allies should encourage. sent German East Africa, Portugees Adriatic, is evident. It is obvious that future peace in the Balkans, that wasps. ess East, and the influences of Austria in the they will strengthen and guarantee the West Africa, the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial, Africa, and the old German that natural barrier is well-organised nest from which so many wars have colony of the Cameroons, so that from even if the Allies are not successful in sprung. the to the West Coast there would making Constantinople..and the Dardan yog
one vast German colony, which would selles free of access the Roumanian strengthen Germany economically by giv products, as well as the English goods ing them this viat territory, with its for Roumania, will not be obliged to pass THE WANING INFLUENCE OF THE products and rur materink and "als through Turkish waters, and can be ex serve to cut off the North and the South. changed by a much aborter route, The coastline would give posibilities for Adriatic
Another report has been received from submarine bases, so that in time of trouble portance it Constantinople and the Nar tes commenting on the Church's waning the establishment of naval stations and
Constanza will retain ita former im the Archbishop of Canterbury's commit Britain could not get at South Africa or rows are internationalised, and in any influence. It complains of the clergy's "India" without passing these! German case it would a base for the exporta intellectual aloth
naval bases. The acquisition of such an tion of Roumanian products to Egypt, capacity and. empire would also give Germany influence Greece, and the Far East. The political says, have not increased like the
eqizindecision.
tho report over the coast, scross the set to South and economic interest of the Allies in people's. Sermons are often without America and a northwards in regard treating a larrier against Germaniam substance and intellectual quality and to the Mobammedan populations, while demonstrates the interests that they have, fail to arouss the interest of the laity, it would enable her to drill 1
not only in forming the closest relations who lack enthusiasm and hang back from black
of splendid fighting men with Roumania, but also in helping her their share of the work."" The Controller said he thought the pub and also the other nationalities to the urges that laymen be authorised to leach The report lication would be one of considerable realisation of the national ides, which in the Church, and that Churchmen co uniting operate with Nonconformists and Catha able that the public of this country should all the countries inhabited have such a book before them, and the maniacs for the more powerful Ron of Christian principles also havi granting of the license would be recomania becomes the more the German policy & prompt and radical revision of the
will be reduced and destroyed, whilst the Catechism
Edwyn Bevad.
POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS,
It is expected that cotton will be ritten a long introduction, in whickenegro, occupies a geographical situation weak The soldiers of Roumania have
shipped more freely to the countries con ALLIED ADVANCE TO THE guous with (ermiany when the latter
RHINE,
has complied with all the terms of the Armistice. FRENCH BEACH LUXEMBURG
THE RUBBER INDUSTRY- SCHEME FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL ABANDONED.-
FRONTIER.
LONDON, November 25th.
A French communique states:--
Our advance continued in Belgium and Luxemburg.
Our cavalry reached, the eastern frontier of Luxemburg.
The French met with a great reception at. Wissembour, Reichshofen and other places,
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.
but an orderly and exact execution of it PRESIDENT WILSON 8 BEPLY TO
cannot be guaranteed.
PARIS, November 24th. The newspaper acclaim Marshal Foch's
Pa efusal to modify the terms of the Armis and emphasise that Germany is attempting to excite sympathy and thus
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divide the Allies and America.
APPEAL
WASHI
November 24th? President Wilson," replying to the pétition from Schleswig-Holstein regard. ing their oppressed kinsmen, declares that their appeal, for justice will not go med de wurdered when the nations begin righting the old wrongs.
LONDON, November 25th In view of the cessation of hostilities. the Rubber Growers' Association has resolved to abandon the scheme for Government control of the industry,
Consequently, it is nadentood that no farther immediate steps will be taken by the Government Committee which is drawing up scheme, WA
The Association is preparing a fresh
THE
scheme.
CITY OF LINCOLN”
LONDON November 24th. The City of Incoln has been re-floated,
E CHURCH-
Their
Bhe is apparently not damaged, but will public interest. It was eminently desir is to expand and strengthen Rouhes for the explanation and propagation
probably have her bottom examined Eefore proceeding
mended