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THE
THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, “1918,
GERMAN GOVERNMENT AND
THE KAISER,
PEACE TREATY TO BE SIGNED IN APRIL
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN SWEDEN AND RUSSIA.
LATEST CABLES.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ANOTHER INTER-ALLIED
CONFERENCE-
FINAL PEACE TREATY TO BE
SIGNED IN APRIL,
PARIS. December 7th.
A Havas message saya :-
It is stated that the Inter-Allied Con ference on the peace preliminaries begins in the Paris Foreign Ministry on Decem- ber 17th, after the official reception to President Wilson.
The British representatives will be Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar. Law, Mr. A. J. Balfour, and Mr. G. N. Barnes.
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IN
BELGIAN MAJESTIES
PARIS
"A DAY OF GREAT PERSONAL
TRIUMPH."
PARIS, December 7th.
A Havas message says:-- The second day of the visit of the King and Queen of Belgium was, like Thurs. day, a day of great personal triumph.”
The Sovereigns have been as much occupied with visits of charity as of cere-
mony...
The King motored to a Belgian mili tary hospital, and the Queen visited the Church of St. Gervais, which was struck The Italian representatives will be on Good Friday by a German shell. Signor Orlando and Baron Sonnico.
France's representatives will be three members of the Government, to whom will
SURRENDER OF GERMAN AEROPLANES.
TWO THOUSAND HANDED OVER.
LONDON, December 8th.* The surrender of 2,000 German sero- planes is proceeding and it is expected that it will shortly be completed,
WAR PRISONERS. · REPATRIATION FROM GERMANY.
LONDON, December 8th. Two thousand one hundred and ten officers, 58,004 of other ranks and 3,752 civilians have been repatriated to Britain since the Armistice.
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HAIG THE SOLDIER. CHIEF OF THE ARMY WHO'
HELD ON
TIENTSIN TRAMS ATTACKED,
RESULT OF SHOUTING OF PASSENGER.
AN INCORRIGIBLE THIEF.
EIGHTEEN PREVIOUS
CONVICTIONS.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, ‚befɔra- Mr. J. R. Wood, a Chiness was charged with attempting to break into the domes- pic quarters of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.
fendant going up to his room, and he An office-boy stated that he saw des
sent a fads to shadow him. 'Defendant tampered with the lock of the door and was on the point of wrenching it open when the "joki interfered. Defendant, thereupon, ran off but was followed by witness, who arrested him in the street. Defendant stated that he ran beenys
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The virtues of the pantheon of little There were grave and most unfortunate gods, with Hindenburg at the head, wer happenings in the city yesterday, says the shipped by the German people has been and T. Times of November 9th, the advertised far and wide in Germany and trouble beginning with the shooting of a out, but little, remarks a contemporary. Chinese fireman by a foreign inspector has been heard of our own generals. Haig employed by the Tramway Company and as seen by American eyes, which are often culminating in demonstrations, by the ultra-critical of British men and man-dead man's colleagues and other Chinese ners, is an even greater personality than in the course of which some 80 tranica brief sketch of the leader of our armies damaged. many have recognized. The following were attacked and more or less seriously
in the feld from the New York Times is
The greatest reticence is being observed unusually interesting.
in authoritative quarters regarding the One of the ablest soldiers the war has origin of the affair, pending further produced does not speak for himself, or investigation, and the facts that we have BRITISH FLEET RETURNING about, himself. He praises others, and is gleaned are mostly from Chinese anoti slow to censure. Sometimes his Govern cial, though fairly reliable, sources, sayi
The Magistrate was informed that de- the Tientsin paper. It seems that be
fendant had eighteen previous convic ments when his need of them was sore sween 130 and 3 p.m. yesterday Car Notions against him for petty larcenies, Loynoy, December 8th.
but he has not complained. In more Three British cruisers and nine destroy-than four years of war he has always the Southwest Gate, was boarded by a
ot when about to Regotiate, the loop at and was discharged from gaol last July. Mr. Wood sentenced defendant to six ers have returned to Copenhagen from been at the front, engaged with rare Chinese fireman.. in uniform. The fire
months' hard, labour. the Baltic
SQUADRON ARRIVES AT
COPENHAGEN.
BRITISH SHIPPING.
GREAT WAR SERVICES.
LONDON, December 8th.
The Press Bureau states:—
The Shipping Controller, interviewed, said that sixty per cent. of the American troops had been carried and escorted by British ships. To do this, every pas-
ment has failed to send him. reinforce.
respite in what may be called intensive
man,
being
A
he saw a mun following him.
BELLICOSE SOLDIERS. BRIGADIER-GENERAL TO GIVE
At
EVIDENCE.
fighting, often of the most desperate man took a seat, and was requested to character. The wonder is that he has stand in order to make room for gone through the ordeal with a sound passenger who had paid his fare. the fire-
uniform, 12 brain and strength apparently unim.
presumably travelling free. The Chitese scerned dis paired
There have been three com inclined to get up, and the inspector," a manders of the French, armies since mid Rumanian by nationality named Buzla Chinese soldier, attached to the Yunuen
the Magistracy yesterday, December, 1913, but only one commander took him by the coat and tried to compel of the British. Has any other soldier
history been exposed to a greater strain him to stand up? (It is understood that
Army,
charged with assaulting another soldier of the same corps. upon bis faculties than Sir Douglas Haig when Chinese Police are availing them- has endured and triumphed over in the last three years less three months
Yet selves of the courtesy of free rides, theyed to his boarding house at West Point, and by most of his countrymen, for that
WAS
It was stated that complainant return-
In the afternoon they held a reception senger steamer was removed from South all that is know of him by Americans, have to stand if necessary to give sitting and was met by defendant, who tied at the Hotel de Ville.
Africa with which the trade was prac matter, is that his name figures a good room for other passengers). The fireman, him up and took him before the Chinese
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Amid an extraordinary burst of cheertically killed. All fast passenger steam be added a fourth negotiator from outing they left Paris on Friday night. side the Cabinet.
ers were removed from India and from Australia. Our consequent loss of essential importe exceeded a million tons. The Dominions bore the hardships-uf isolation uncomplainingly.
The work of the Inter-Aflied Confer- ence will be finished about January 15th and the peace preliminaries proper will then begin with the German plenipoten- Liaries.
The final treaty will be signed at the end of April or beginning of May.
EARLIER CABLES:
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Lyoss, December 6th. The Echo de Paris states that the Inter- Allied Conference for framing the pre- liminaries of peace opens at Paris on December 12th, after the official recep- tions of President Wilson and the Fing of Italy.
The French Council of Minister, has not yet decided upon a choice of French Plenipotentiaries, but there is reason
THE FUGITIVE EX-KAISER HOLLAND INFORMED OF
GERMANY'S DECISION
Lyoss, December 7th. The German Government has decided not to oppose the demand of the Entenit that the ex-Kaiser and the ex-Crow
Prince shall be brought before an Inter Allied Court to answer the accusations formulated against them.
Germany has already notified Holland accordingly.-French Wireless.
SWEDEN AND
It is probable that the work of the Inter-Allied Government Conference will be finished on December 15th, after which the preliminaries, properly speaking, with the addition of the German Pleni-rature from Russia. potentiaries, will commence.
French Wireles
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THE ALLIED OCCUPATION.
PRESIDENT POINCARE'S VISIT
TO METZ.
PARIA, December 7th.
THE GENERAL ELECTION, MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, December 8th.
and nervousness of the Government at the end of 1918,
someone clic
dissociate him from the British Army bigger than the foreigner, is said to have kong. A charge was made against him, deal in headlines. It is impossible to who was 'a well-built man, considerably.
Brigadier-General resident in Hong- On September 10th Field Marshal Haig in an order of the day thanked it for track the latter. A struggle ensued, and its valour and devotion:
the fireman was shot and killed
The capture of 75.000 prisoners and 750 guns in the course of four weeks fighting speaks for the magnitude of your efforts and the magnificences of your achievement.
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of the quarrel, one of which is to the There are other versious us to the origin effect that the inspector asked the fireman for a ticket, that the Chinese pointed dut For once D. Haig, so he signs his name, ardored off the car he refused to go and he had none, and that when the latter was showed more emotion than WEN ever struck the inspector. wrung from him before by success of The passengers in the ear took fright. failure. We have passed through many
he said in the address to his at the cecurrence and ran out as quickly as possible The Inspector, it is said, troops Please God, these never will took charge and run the car along
One
quently arrested by the Chinese Police.
but was not proved, and he was set free Subsequently defendant and seven other men assaulted him.
Mr. Wood remanded the case for the evidence of the Brigadier-General..
ILTIS MONUMENT IN SHÅNG-
HAI OVERTHROWN.
Shortly before 1 am, yesterday, saya the W.-U. Daily News of December 3rd,
which on The Bund a considerable con-
monument was torn from its
done and the burt to the monument dental to its removal appears to have been appears to be quite slight The mont
Mr. Lloyd George, 'in a speech devoted turn." This great soldier, for such he to the tram sheas near by. He was subsethe Iltis Monument, over the presence of
is, goes to a little Presbyterian church to the defence of a two years' adminis-behind the lines every Sunday morning,
SIXTY CARS DAMAGED. and when he speaks the name of. God,
Meanwhile the Chinese firemen in tration, referred to the hesitation, delay which is seldom, lest his piety seem city had become acquainted the troversy has raged these past few day
ostentatious, it is with reverence. of those dark days was April 12th of ed.
incident, and they became greatly in was, pulled down by a large party of the present year, when the British Army hammers, bamboo-peles, and any object witnesses that contrary to the story that Arming themselves with a not known, though it is stated by reliable foreigners whose individual identity is was fighting for its life in the Ypres He said that there was no scramble for sector, where it had bled so much buteful for the carrying out of their pur- was no krst circulated, no Britons took
always indomitably. Sir
pose, they stopped every car travelling in the chici, place when the Government the editably a Deagles in the city, compelled the pages to part is the demonstration.
Tacate their sets, and then
sushed the fell; all were axions to pass it on to order of the day, in which he said with windows and broke up the woodwork of and no damage except that inci-
simplicity with something of the sub- the cars. The streets were crowded with lime in it:
Car Many:
among us now are tired. To people, yesterday being the day set apart I would say that victory will by the Chinese Government, in agreement ment, which takes the form of a broken topse belong to the
with the Diplomatic Corps, for the official mast in bronze, with a flag and wreath side which holds meing celebration of the conclusion of hostilities of laurels was, it will be remembered. longest. The French Army is moving and many of the people caught the infec erected on a slab on each of the four s rapidly and in great force to our suption and joined the ziotens firemen in of which are bas-reliefs and an inscrip
There is no other course open wreaking their wrath on the cars. port. to us but to fight it out.
The Every post City Police showed their excellent
tion also of bronze This was all situated tion must be held to the Inst man.
of granite act What has Sir Douglas, Haig: not done ing the firemen but in doing all they of the grass, plet nearest to the Public There
cipline by not only refraining from join on the top of three must be no retirement."
on ground slightly above the rest that an accomplished and intrepid soldier nearly 4 pm before all was quiet again, square cast-iron mailing. The monument in his four years and more in France could to stop the demonstrators. It was Gardens. The whole was surrounded by a should do?
however, and by that time some 60 cars. With Sir Horace Smith had been attacked and damaged. Practi- itself was of hollow bronze, with a sub Dorrien; his fellow corps commander, he more than once saved the British Army cally all the passengers in the cars were of the mast, through the topnost slab and stantial iron pipe which ran the length on its retreat from Mons. Its historian, Chinese, as usual, and only one instance into a hole in the highest step. It appar Major Ernest W. Hamilton, says that of a foreigner having been molested by ently was unfixed save for a little cement one hundred Victoria Crosses were earned the mob has been gleaned by us. A lady
He claimed that it was impossible for a business man's Government to be very successful.
He justified the side-shows in « the
given.
The
dis
AND RUBELAK SERIOUS TROUBLE BREWING.
STOCKHOLM, December 8th. The Swedish Government has recalled their Consular and Diplomatic Repre to believe that the names of the negotia-sentatives from Russia, except two tors will include the most prominent officials at the Legation, and have also Balkans, Palestine and Mesopotamia. members of the Government.
withdrawn the privilege of dispatching He declared that in the last two years and receiving couriers from M. Vorow there had been more fruitful and pro- sky, the Soviet Government's Representa-gressive legislation than in any two years tive at Stockholm, because he abused the during the last hall century.', privilege "by importing Bolshevist lite-
MR ASQUITH'S VIEWS.
LONDON, December 8th The Government have suggested that
Mr. Asquith, speaking at Rochdale, the glorious retirement for every one attached to one of the missions happened found the central pipe and seemed to M. Vorowsky and other Soviet members agreed with the Premier's recent declars army sleep, the long sleep in downtunately was enabled to escape without
One-third of the expeditionary to be on one of the curs and she was pelted here been kept in position by its own
with glass and other objects, but she for-
weight.
Shortly after 12.30 am, and following of the Legation 'should leave Sweden.
a function in another part of the city a tion on the subject of reparation. Smith Dorrien, whose health broke down
under the strain, and Haig, the man, of hoe jury more serious than & bevere party of men said to number between 30 The Swedes in Russia have been ad-
He emphasised the significance of
iron, vied with each other in fighting shock
By nightfall all the cars had been taken made their way to the monument, some and 40, provided with suitable ropes, vised to return home."
rearguard actions until fesh and blood President Wilson's visit as marking comnts of brigades bordered on the None, apparently, was disabled, though They are said to have put the rope round
could endure
The escape of into the Company's sheds for repair. walking and the others riding in ricahas new orientation in world politics. A miraculous. We shall have to hold on all were damaged.
An inquiry was conducted into the so that it would have fallen away from the mast and to have tried to pull it down practical beginning of the League of here for a while if we die for it," said
Haig on one desperate occasior.
affair at the Central Police Station, whi- the Public Gardens, but they were un Nations must be made before President British Army was always holderman Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, the Chinese constable on duty rear by is said ther the inspector was escorted. The successful in this attempt. Meanwhile a every extrication from Wilson returned.
envelopment was like a forlorn hope French Vice-Consul, and the Director of to have seen what was afoot and to hav Smith Dorrien, he of the eagle eye and the Tramway Company (M. Gaillard) massive jaw was never himself again. attended. We understand that M. Bazla started off for the Central Police Station
to make a who did not take life so tragically, was subsequently banded over to the by a foreigner who spoke Chinese lived through many dark days with charge of the French authorities.
when he was accosted report
The gleams of glory.
constable announced his intention to the foreigner who, however, told the man that, he had better wait to see what happened yo a business as anything experienced
the retreat from Mons. The 7th Divi- front of Cambrai, he pressed his advant before reporting
strong when it left England, surprise attack, and in March of this cluded the monument was down 8200, 12.000
By the time this conversation was c ago. Then came a loss of ground in s lost 238 officers out of 400, and 9,864 men. year began the German offensive which party had changed their mode of pro- On the darkest day, when all seemed lost,
There were more cedure and had pulled from the direction down the Menin road galloped Bit was to end the war. Douglas Haig and his smart escort of by numbers. The Back to the Wallricha coolies, the mounment rose on one dark days for a Britab Army overwhelmed of the water, with the assistance of the the 17th Lancers,
shells falling, thick about them, to encourage the
order beld its ranks, inviolable.
angle of the base, and fell, towards the troops for no other reason, the General This Scotch gentleman, son of John river, breaking down the railings on
on that Haig of Bamornie, in Fife, who can side and making a considerable hole in ace his bab heheel near her mande 2,000,000 British and Colonial the turf, the softness of which seemed to day it was at Gheluvelt-he stood
on troops, is in the road
consultation
wab Sir John lithe, well knit, consumatall, have prevented any serious damage to the French, who had given an order for the man, fair of complexion, blue of eye in was that the bronze was pierced in one a consummate horse monument itself. The only harm dons BIG EXPLOSION AT GHENT army to fall back, when a curier rode
manner gracious, reserved but kindly or two places by the broken railings and GERMANS FIEŃDS "TO THE LAST. Bir Charles Fitzelarence, an Irish
have rarely seen a masculine face so there whole party then disappearof and
granite slab was chipped.ja had thrown a Norfolk battalion into a who tried to interview him. He shuns by the time the police arrived no one wa A telegram from Zurich states that the
GHETT, December 8th. breach in the enemy's line and turned the publicity. An inglustrious student of the to be seen. Shortly afterwards a party
tide of battle. Bo critical was all the Bolshevist coup d'etat in Berlin, pinned Sparks from an engine caused a fire
profession of Ypres fighting, so suddenly did shafts
"arms, Tit is said that he of about six men arrived to inspect the by Herr Liebknecht and the Spartaens which exploded a bomb hidden by of success pierce the pall of defeat never commanded a larger body of men damage from the direction of Peking
than a Group, failed pitifully.
Haig was Sir John French's rig
identified regiment in battle before the great Road none of these right arm, The Government troops used their Germane. Ten were killed and several and when the veteran retired, the Govern of Cambridge secured him a commission Chinese
war. influence of the genial Duke being concerned in the flair Our infantry reached a line from weapons, especially machine-guns, ruta injured. Considerable damagosupreme cam the Scotsmin
PRESİDENT OF CZECH
REPUBLIC..
LTONA, December 7th. The President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, M. Thomas G. Masaryk, has arrived in Paris-French Wireless.
A Havis message says:- The President of the Republic to morrow, Sunday, pays his first official Visit to Metz, and on Monday will visit Birnasbourg. A large number of Depu TROUBLOUS GERMANY. Lies, Senators and members of the Gov-TWO MOVEMENTS AGAINST THE
Ernment will be present. A military
review will be held in both towns.
PA18, December 7th.
A Havas message says:- ¿ An official Note issued in Paris laet night confirms the arrival of President
Wilson in Paris next Baturday. He is tanding in Brest on Friday.
BARLIER CABLES.
BELGIANS REACH NEUSS..
LONDON, December 8th. A Belgian communiqué states:-
Our cavalry division reached the Rhine and occupied Neuse and Crefald.
“Wassenberg to Bail and Jackorath,
LANDON, December 8th, Bir Donelas Hair reports that our advanced troops entered Cologne on the night of the 6th inst.
TROUBLE AT MAYENCE.
Lyra, December 7th.
A despatch from Zurich states that trouble has broken out at Mayence
Military stores have been losted candi several casualties have occurred-French Wireless.
"
GRAVE DISORDERS AT COLOGNE
LYONS, December 7th. There have been grave diorders at
-French Wireless.
GOVERNMENT.
The best security against the dangers besetting the Fence Conference was the maintenance of the Anglo-American understanding. TRAIN DISASTER IN FRANCE
·HEAVY · CASUALTY LIST.
PARIS, December Sixty-eight were killed and 151 were firstly, a Spartacus attempt to seize injured in a collision between a leave power, secondly, the Soldiers against train and another train at the station of the Socialist Extremists.
LONDON, December 8th
The situation in Berlin is not clear,
but apparently there are two movements,
SPARTACUS COUP FAILS. PITIFULLY.
PARIS, December 8th."
Lothiens.
lessly, Herr, Liebknecht's forces, who were also armed with machine-guns and caused. bombs, were utterly routed, and fed in disorder, abandoning a great number of
killed and wounded men. The losse# “among the Government troops "; were,
Blight.
Herr Liebknecht has stated that he intends to rally his forces, so it is pos sible that fighting will be resumed.
DEMONSTRATION AT MUNICH
DE COPENHAGEN, December 8th. A telegram from Berlin states that returned troops, headed by officers, with Imperial flags, demonstrated at Munich, darkanding the convocation of the National Assembly;
';
The first Ypres fight was as touch-and-
ja
up to say that the Germans were reher, handsome and yet so strong?
ment, in
·SAYS: QUO
for
reflected the hope
of the
he had been rejected for defective
eyesight.
The
in number of the Council's siter
Yesterdstable. the
Upon the battle.
Sir John French saved him workmen raised the bronze monument be army. Somme, which
he fought himself with from drowning in the Modder Biver in means of small derrick and transported
the Boer War Lucky predicted the tried and th green Groops,
"Haig he has it to the stone depot on Soochow Road Sir Douglas always been called THE SILVER MARKET, Haig's fame will
While considerable indignation is felt. LE WAR war with Germany in a letter to Field in authoritative quarters of the alleged the
Hardest LONDON, December 5th.
and the longest battle over Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood years ago. He nationality, concerned, and investigations récorded. The enemy had to
be pried out has refused a peerage, but is Knight of are being made to discover those respon Messre, Montague & Co's, report states of one Gibraltar after another and driver the prized Order of the Thistles He has sible, relief is expressed that apparently
from one Plevna after another, but ever that there was no change in the tone of the British Army, under the tireless and ved much to his aristocratic connections, ao men in uniform such as returnct the market which shows no animation, Hal moved relentlessly forward. but infinitely more to virtues of his race soldiers and the like have been returne
British losses were 500,000, the Ger and to inherent soldierly qualities. He At the same time it is pointed out that. man losses much greater.
If the co
visibly angry Born in the purple and mente in the appropriato cemetery and the tremendous strain nobody has made fails at Court and in Mayfair, he that the Iltis menament would receive mention of the fact
saldiers soldier. Modest and more protection by the sacredness of The whole year of indifferent to fame, he will be reckoned similar spot him the conduct of the 1017, up the November, when Haig was in among the great commanders of the nation hy whom it was erected seeing to
(Continued at frot of next column)
justily
nor is expected to do so, until the licenses manding General ever showed com has a keen sense of humour. He is never other nationals have such funeral mon
for export are freely granted. Burk
The Shanghai exchange has slightly hardened.
LONDON, December 5th/ The silver market in quiet.
a trace of
greatest war in history,