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THE WAR.
THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1018.
EARLIER CABLES.
WHY THE ALLIES HELPED RUSSIA.
ALLIED ATTITUDE TOWARDS RUSSIA: TROOPS NOT TO BE WITHDRAWN LORD MILNER'S STRONG VIEWS.
AT PRESENT.
PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS ON JAN. 15TH
LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT.]
THE ARMISTICE.
DEMOBILISATION OF THE GERMAN ARMY.
PAS. December 18th.
A Hava message says: In the Chamber of Deputies, yesterday, replying to an interpellation as to the absence of any Armistice stipulation re- garding the demobilisation of the Gerinan for War the Under Secretary Arm aaswored that the guarantees provided by the rmistice were considered adequate by the High Command.
The question 1ጊ። affecting all the Allies.
LONDON, December 18th.
CORRESPONDENCE
THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM SCHEME.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE '' HONGKONG
#. DAILY PIEDS."']
+
18-1 3our leading article of this
CHINESE TELEGRAMS. LOSS OF THE "LEINSTER.”
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHUNG NGOI
BAN FO."]
CHINESE DIPLOMATS.
PEACE CONFERENCE.
Tong Shiu-si has agreed to represent the South in poacs negotiation, with the North.
A LADY'S GALLANTRY.
[FROM THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH'S "'
CORRESPONDENT.]
DUBLIN
The figures given by Viscount French in his message to the King still stand, and the death-roll from the Dublin muil boat Leinster, torpedoed under circum-
stances
of typical German barbarity, must be put at 687 men, women, and little
THE NEW GERMAN CON- FEDERATION.
AUSTRIAN INFLUENCE MAY TURN THE SCALE.
[BY A DIPLOMAT. ]
It is destitued that German-Austris, de- serted by all the rationalities which were anco her subjects will sooner or later enter the conlederation of Gorman States
an Empire. which since 1870 have made up the Gør- Even Dr. Adler and the Austrian Socialists now favour this step which has always been the dream of the powerful party known in Austria as the Christian Socialiste.
If this happens, the Germany of the future will be a predominamly Roman At present Bavaria,
the Roma
children. No incident within living memory has no touched and stirred the hearts of Irishmen. Regret and sorrow for the victims in accompanied Catholic State,
provinces of Prussia are
PERINO, December 20th, The Poking Government has appointed The Press Bureau states that Lord morning you have affirmed a theory with Wong Wing po and Ngai Sau-cho as Milner, replying to currespondent, reference to racial distinctions which it Ministers to Switzerland and Belgium states that the Allied Forces, of which would have been well were that same respectively the British form only a small proportion, thoory more generally applied in practice. were peut to Russia because the Bolsheviks If your line of argument opposing the suggestion that one of the proposed new) were nosisting our enemies in every pos-
members of the Legislative Council shall sible way. The Bolsheviks' action released be a British subject of Portuguese extrac-
Tong has demanded that the with indignation at this latest German Baden, Alsace-Lorraine, and the Rhine hundreds of thousands of Germang for tion were to be carried to its logical con- Fence Conference be opened in Shanghai,outrage, and the people quietly, but the Western front and caused Roumania clusion, there cannot be any justification but the President replied that the con- to fall into German hands. They handed for the retention of the two nominated
ference must be held in Nanking. unofficial Chinese members. over the Black Sea Fleet to the Germans
ridiculous to suppose that it and treacherously attacked the Czecho-seriously contended that the Chinese sents Slovaks, who endeavoured to leave Russia should be eliminated in favour of un- to fight for their own country's freedom, official members other than Chinem, and, Furthermore it was necessary to proteel conversely, were the election to be left the vast quantity of the Allies' military entirely in the hands of the ratepayers,
then we may have Chinese members for' stores at Archangel and Vladivostock.
the whole body of unofficials.
INTERVENTION IN GOOD TIME.
The re
It is 100 can be
SPEAKER'S RESIGNATION
REFUSED.
The President has refused to accept the resignation of Leung Shih-ri, the Speaker of the Upper House.
ENEMY ALIEN SOLDIEK. LOYALTY OF A GERMAN MOTHER
AND HER SON.
Catholic portion of the German Empira and, taking the empire as a whole, the Rothau Catholics roughly represent 36 per cent, of the population and the Pre- testanta 04 per cent
therefore with the greater meaning, call fur vengeance on a foe who, while pro fessing peace, in cold blood commits mur-
With Austria in the Gortnan Confedera ders for which no military purpose can tion use this term because the empiro be pleaded. Fragments of wreckage and Catholics will represent 64 per cent of may disappear with the war the Roman of luggage have been washed up in sad the population and the Protestants 46 cent. Unless therefore. Austria abundance. But of tidings of the missing per cu
becomes predominently
Socialist, the there are none. Baid one who landed Roman Catholic party. which has for years turned the sales in the German during Thursday afternoon from an teichstag, will be all-powerful, and the incoming steamer, 1 sailed through world way
alim leader, muitos of dead." A clergyman epitomised
Erzber the first President of a the situation when he declared, with
German
For many years Austria was the prin- something of the force and picturesque cipal hindrance to the Prussianisation of ness of Scriptural allusion, I have
was Austria that took the Germany. It was passed through the Dead Sea. “
initiative in forming the Germanic Con- Such federation in 1816. This confederation was the aspect of the wreck-strewn, body-existed in a more or less
or less amorphous con- laden waters off the Irish coast, The dition for fifty years.
It was intended
antion after the Najjalcuno wars.
Herr
Yet see its
You see no reason for "dictating "the The intervention proved succesful, and choice of the voters as regards a proposed the Czecho-Slovake were snyod,
British Portuguese member, yet, curionaly sourous of Biberia and South Eastern enough, the editorial column of the
The story of a young man of enemy purela military, Russin were denied the enemy, and the Daily Press is subtly utilised to influene)
Northern Ports of European Russia were
the opinion of the proletariat against a birth, now lying crippled for life, whose Portuguese member. On the accepted determination to fight for Britain led
marine hasre, from where our North Sca without representation, I have no hesita- told by Mr. Justice Younger at a sitting at large, have spoken emphatically. One was killed by Prussia, and the war of barrage could have been turned. These tion in asserting that the members of my of the Aliens Advisory Committee reactive, seeks to minimise the German sia to establish herself as cock of the voice alone is silent now, or else, when 1880 against Austria was planned by Pros
Cowalk important achievements contributed numerous community have a claim to a cently.
crime. It is that of Sion Fein, Ger.German wall many's unnatural Irish ally-that same Hohenzollern tendship has been based materially to Germany's defeat.
In Feat
voice which claims the right of being on population as well as arrogance. Tho the course of the Allied intervention
heard for Ireland the peace conference. Prussians have represented 80 per cent.
MFB.
Dudgeon, wife of Lieutenant
the German people. If Austria in
Letaster.
The adjournment of the interpellation prevented from becoming "Germán and principle that there can be no taxation him to enlist in an assumed name, was Church, the politicians, and community to be the means of rebuilding the German
was voted by 310 to 176.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
TO BEGIN ON NEW YEAR'S DAY.
PARIS, December 18th.
A Haves incssage says:--
A semi-official Note issuct
P'arie,
מן
wall undoubtedly begin on January 1st.
A FORTNIGHT'S POSTPONEMENT.
Hassels, December 17th.
It is anticipated that the Peace Con- ference will not basemble before January
15th.
The l'ermanent Commissione, in
will sit here.
PRESIDENT WILSON IN
EUROPE.
A VISIT FROM MARSHAL FOCH.
PARIS, December 18th.
A Havar message ways: ---
our
Borved.
PRESENT.
LATER
"One of the case, with which the com- In contrast with your opposition 1mittee had to deal recently," said Mr.
Singapore Free Press of the 24th October,
woman who had been in this country
pori.
It
ment.
life.
was travelling on the
44
it
empire
thousands of Russians fought on the side would quote from a leading article in the Jlstice Younger, "was that of a German Dudgeon, who is at present in France, counted in the Prussians will fall to about of the Allies. It would be an abominable | 1917, wherein occurs the following passage more than twenty years before the war. escaped from her cabin with a litsin found it hard to suffer the Prussian glad, She per cent. The Bouth Germans have yesterday, states that the Fence Conference betrayal to leave them to the tender in reference to a proposed increase of She said nothing in her statement about clothing, and succeeded, with another even when numbers were on his side. When that superiority is lost old-time mercies of their and our enemies because Chinese representation:-"It would prob. a son, but the police knew ber story lady, in jumping into a boat. Mrs. Dud-***
sores will certainly be rem mbered. own immediate purposes had been ably be of considerable advantage to have She had a son, who was her main sup- Oarswoman, handled the boat with great will be towards the sruth instead of to-
geon, who appears to have been an expert In the new Germany the
orientation another non-European representative on At the outbreak of war he enlisted under when the second torpedo struck the from East Prussia will automatically skill. The craft was very nearly pulled wards the north. The ruthlees Junker TROOPS MUST REMAIN FOR THE Council, but it would be better that at once, but was rejected on the ground Leinster. The lifeboat was heavily laden, cease to count, and the Bavarian and the
the second person should not necessarily of his enemy birth. He went to another and
with difficulty Mrs. Dudgeon
Austring will set the note of "Kultur." bon Chinese member. That is not because district, and enlisted in an assumed Eng-succeeded in getting some of the passen-
If the confederation remains an would seem probable that the imperial The Government does not desire to leave we do not recognise the very large part bish name, although he know that because to keep the boat's head to the waves. connection with the Peace Conference, British troops in Russia a day longer are gentlemen of other races (the italics separation allowance for his mother nor resc
She received great assistance from the the Chinese play in this Colony, but there
crown will gasa from the Hohenzollerns of that misstatement there could be no steward, Lewin, who Fils on board. to the Wittelsbachs, the royal family of
After
about
two hours the first of the Bavaria. The world has no reason to than necessary to discharge the moral ale mint) who might conceivably serve pension for himself in case of disable the boat, but owing to tet a connection Wilhelm Wilhelm, but his family has a rescue steamers reached the vicinity of admire Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, who obligations which he also believed to be with equal distinction and ability.
it has in
in this war endeavoured to out- was almost impossible to
get a the guiding principle of all the Allies must be recognised that in reality the
between the steamer and the boat portais reputation for bumanity--leaven Personally, he thought the time was not Council is not a body which is supposed gent to the front, where he was Ultimately Mrs. Dudgeon jumped into ed, it is true, by insanity. For centuries
seriously injured, and is now lying the sea, and, carrying a rope, awum to-
there was a feud between the Wittelsbacha necessarily distant when the withdrawal to represent certain acts of voters--for,
and the Hapsburgs, but the Hapsburga. His mother said wards the steamer, when a connection have ceased to count for all time within. would be possible without disastrous indeed, no one here has the vote. It is a nothing about him, because she was ready rescued.
crippled for
was established and the people were
the German circle and without it. body which brings to the assistance of If the Allies srambled out Marshal Foch called on President conSEQUEBLES.
to risk deportation rather than that her Wilson yesterday afternoon. President of Russia immediately, barbarism, which
son's misstatement on enlistment should
The police, bow Wilson expressed the hope that Marshal at present reigns only in a part of the Accepting the latter statement as a baxin get him into trouble. Foch would be able to visit the United country, would almost certainly spread principle, so one is better able to repreever, knew the facts, and had them
through the whole of it. The ultimate sent the Portuguese community on the brought to the notice of the committee, consequences of such a disaster could not Council than a British subject of that who were thus enabled to recommend that bo foreseen, but it would assuredly involve community. Your Bouthern contemporary there should be no separation of such a
argues soundly when it states that "the son from such a mother." a far greater strain on the British Em-scale has to be held by the Governor and In view of euch possibilities as this, pire's resources than the present commit a nice balance has to be maintained, not added Mr. Justice Younger, the com- between parties, but between the success mittee had felt it to be their duty to go BRITISH SHIPPING REQUIRE.r otherwise of the unofficial body as a into each repatriation case with great
MENTS.
consultative and necessary part of the care. government of the Colony," and it is the formation of such a body that, I take it is now sought in Hongkong and which, I trust, will be conceded to the Colony by the Secretary of State.-Yours faith- fully,
J. P. BRAGA. Hongkong, 20th December, 1918.
States.
BIG RECEPTION IN PARIS.
PARIB, December 18th.
A Havas message says:-- After a dinner in honour of President Wilson at the American Embussy, there was a reception of 400 guests representa- and tive of political, military, naval, intellectual Paris, Foreign Ambassadors, the Archbishop of Paris, Admiral Trum bitch, a Jugo-Blay leader, and a number of American professors.
TROUBLOUS GERMANY. MEETING OF IMPERIAL SOVIET CONGRESS.
COPENHAGEN, December 17th, There were stormy scenes at the Im- perial Congress of the Sovicta,
mente.
NO EMIGRATION BEFORE NEXT
AUTUMN
LONDO, December 19th.
A statement issued by the Press Bureau saya that in view of the general ship- ping situation and the urgent require ments for the repatriation of the various expeditionary forecs and their depend ents, little or no shipping will be avail- able for emigrant traffic before next autumn at the earliest.
Government the best unofficial advice and expericace which
can be obtained."
An effort was made to lower the
FACTS FOR THE TIMES. THINGS TO REMEMBER ABOUT
THE GERMANS,
SECOND ENGINEER'S NARRATIVE Robert Michael, the second engineer of the Leinster, said': We left Kingstown at the usual hour, about R.50, with full complement of passengers and mails We had got clear of the east side of the Kish when the ship was struck by the first torpedo on the port side forward. The Germans began their great offen A couple of minutes later the second sive on March 24 with 220 divisions, or torpedo hit the Lexter dead amidship, at a rough estimate nearly 3,000,000 men. German casualties during the first five a list to port. There were ten boate in estimated at a million, half of which are but this was difficult, as the vessel took months of this year's campaign are all, and a large number of rafts in addi. either dead, permanently disabled, or tion; lifebelts had been handed round captured, soon after leaving, in accordance with Five weeks of the Allied offensive, the usual practice. When we were at begun on July 18th, cos the Germans tacked was in my room, and the force 100,000 prisoners, 3,000 held guns, besiden of the second explosion was so great that great quantities of stores and equip- it blew everything up funnels, and I was ment. koocked senseless. How long I remained During the first three years of war Editors of daily newspapers in the in this condition I cannot any, but it was the Central Empires spent about the icy cold water that eventually roused £7,500,000,000, while the Allies spent Colony and their staff;
me. With great difficulty I succeeded in £13,370,000,000, or £6,770,000,000 more getting up and disentangling myself than the Central Powete. This does not from the heap and got into one of the Roumania, Greece, Japan, or the United of wreckage which was sur include the war expenditure of Serbia,
Chemists and druggiata actually carry ing on business as such;
Clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic prieste, ministers of any congregation of Protestant dissenters or of Jewe functioning in the Colony;
Master of any school other than a vernacular school in the Colons, pro-
States.
Ara
rounding me, boats how I do not know. The boat in which I found myself was full, and there -Germany's stulen, war profits THE PROPOSED ELECTORATE
were several women in it, and I must stimated by a French statistician at say they behaved really splendidly under 212,000 square miles of territory, the the trying ordeal. It was not until well value of which at a conservative estimate In view of the fact that under the Con-
over two hours that we were picked up is £8,400,000,000,
Since the German invasion of Belgium stitutional Reform Association's scheme
by a destroyer, which took us to Kings- town. Whilst we were in the boat wo43,198 houses have been destroyed and the three popularly elected members of fessors, lecturers, and other academic passed a raft to which two mon were about 350,000 persons deprived of their the Legislative Council will be chosen by ooers of the University of Hongkong. clinging, and they were as happy as the homes,
At least 20,000 Belgian houses were Officers employed on full pay in the day is long, as the saying is. They did naval or military service of His Majesty; not seem to realise the danger they were deliberately destroyed by fire to terrorise
in, and though they were not actually the population. and
singing 1 could almost imagine their In 764 French communes invaded by Masters of steamer, and local pilots.
doing so, they were so unconcerned. It the Germans over 48,000 buildings were was a fine but cold morning, and a very damaged, of which nearly 17,000 were Officers and non-commissioned officers of heavy sea was running."
completely destroyed. The first boat to reach the scene of the The ruined churchos in the 754 French
Herr Liebknecht declared that Germany was at present a capitalistic republic. He urged the extension of the band of BRITAIN TO INDIA BY AIR. the Sanitary Board electorate, composed
brotherhood to the "Russian Bolshevik Brethren."
There were cheers and protests, follow-
ed by an uproar.
The Chairman was shouted down and members shouted abuse and threats to cach
other.
FRENCH WAR SOUVENIR
AN INSCRIBED HELMET.
PARIS, December 18th.
A Havas message anys:--
M. Clemenceau has issued a decree pro!
GENERAL MACEWAN REACHES
PISA.
LONDON, December 18th. The Press Bureau issues the statement
of jurymen and parsons qualified for but exempt from jury service, the following extract from the Jurors' Ordinance will be of interest:-
Governor-in-Council.
The Registrar shall, on or before a small craft, and was en route to af millions of pounds.
#
Every male person between the ages of the Hongkong Defence Corps and such atter to the Dublin mail Zeinster, tor-communes numbered 331. that the Handley Page machine, which 21 and 60 years, being of sound mind and
other efficient members of the Hongkong pedoed by a German submarine, with a If France chtains full indemnification General MacEwan was flying from Lon- not afflicted with deafness, blindness, or Defence Corps as may be allowed by the form of over 500 lives, is now lying in the for the damage to her buildings, agricul
Alexandra Basin at Kingstown. She is and indbetry it will run into hun- don to India, has reached Pisa. It was other such infirmity, who is a good and sufficient poreon ronident within the somewhat delayed by bad weather.
port on the Bouth-East coast of Ireland, In the towng of Northern France alone bad weather, when she the Germans stole £22,000,000 worth of MAJOR-GENERAL SALMOND
Celony, and is not ignorant of the February in each year, make an alphabe experiencing vinter's 8.0.6. signal.wool. | English language, shall be qualified and tical list of all persons ascertained by Risking overy rivet in her structure,
up the
In September, and October 1917 the REACHES CALCUTTA, linblo to serve as a juror, subject to the him to be liable to serve us jurors, set skipper promptly put about, and raced Germans seized at one stroke the deposits ting forth the name and surname of cach back over thirty miles, partly over, part of Allied subjects in Belgian banks exceptions hereinafter provided,
The following persone shall not be at full length, together with his profery under water to give assistance. The amounting to £24,000,000
navigation bridge was smashed by the During the present year over
2,750,000 sion, businces, or occupation and place of heavy seas which swept over dor, med ton of shipping, uni by many and
har decks. More speed shore neste liable to serve as jurors:
abode, and skall cause a copy of such
her along" was the orders of
LONDON, December 18th. The Press Bureau sanounces that the
viding that overy officer and soldier inHandley Pago machine, flying from the combatant units of the French Army Ipswich-to Karachi, with Major-General shall be given a hajuht as a souvenir of Salmond, has landed at Calcutta,
his services, inscribed with the man's name and rank.
FRENCH SUGAR RATION. AN IMPENDING INCREASE.
વર્ષ
Unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council;
list to be posted for the term of one fort. These on deck held on to anything
All persons holding any cifice or situs tion of expolument under the Orown** LORD HALDANE' ON THE WAR. Bahnried functionaries of Foreign
Governments not carrying on business; Viscount Haldane, speaking at New castlo recully, said that at long last
Barristers-at-law and solicitors in wo had got in the British Army that actual practice, and their clerks; · military science which our French Allies Persons entitled to practise medicine possesed in such high degree. Nobody and surgery under the Medical Regis A Havas mesange Kaya |~~
know that Gurmany intended to make war in 1914. Gurmany did not know it tration Ordinance, 1884, and persons The sugar allowance in France will be borself. It was not till 1013 that the entitled Ito practius dentistry under the shortly increased to une and a half pounds we were not prepared for a war of
Emperor went over to the war side. Dentista Ordinance, 1914.
that monthly.
magnitude, neither wag Germany.
(Vontinued at fros of next 'column:)
PARIS, December 19th.
akipp
Pan-Germans estimated that in 1950, night at the chief ontrance to the Court. With water tumbling all over ber and if they had won the war, the German birsing spray off her blistering tunnels, Empire would have had a population of Any person may apply by notion in the host tore hand until she came. writing: to the Registrar requiring that with the survivors in the waters We Corono, And would have in corporm of
Garianny, Austria-Hungary, a portion unid the muster, "got | Russia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, the name or the name of some other lowered our
a crow aboard, and were as busy ne Balkan States, rudlarga alice of terri- person may be respectively either added could be in a minute picking up people tory extending Through Mosopotamia to to or struck off from the list, upon cause saving come wirty-three lives. Our best The total world losses of shipping
We
speconded after several tripe the Persian Gulf. duly assigned in such notion; and the was almost swamped most of the time, excluding German-from the beginning Registrar, immediately after the expirs and when we had done with her she was of the war up to March of this year were tion of the times for posting the list, shall about done wel us, and want adrift full 12,827,000 forward the same and such potions those we picked up, and transferred them mand Gil July 16th, 1986. His presence
of water. We did the best we could for The Kaiser took his first semy o
· Outil
may be so served ́on him to the Clerk of to oüber rescuing boats bigger than gum, on a battlefield was inas raportól. „bem. When we got Ible port we ware about, General Gourand dialbard and patinecīnas the Connells.
nied up."
- arsky on the Champagne