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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY liru. 1919.
FRANCE TO ENGLAND. PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AT THE
a
ELYSEE BANQUET.
UNITED TOH EVER"
At a banquet given at the Elysée, Pre- sident Poincaré replied as follows to the speech made by the King:-
RETURN TO GALLIPOLL BRITISH TROOPS LANDED MEMORABLE SCENES AECALLED.
·RIOTS IN INDÍA.
In the House of Lords, on November 14th, Lord Bydenham asked the Under- Bedretary for India for information as FROM H. OLLINSON OWEN]
to the rioting in Calcutta and Madrae in The final act to one of the greatest September. He said questions in regard dramas of the war was enacted yesterday to Indis were of supreme importance to (November 9th), when, in accordance the whole Empire, and if they continued with the terms of the armistice with to ignore them they would be faced with Turkey, British troops funded unopposed an unpleasant surprise. The disorder in
informed that about 300 persons to ocupy the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Calcatta lasted several days, and be was epilogue takes place in a fow days, when
killed. po
great Allied Fleet will gail up the Dardanelles to Constantinople, the great, oat and most significant of all the various demonstrations that have been imposed on the Tark in the course of his chequer ed relations with the various European
were...
"Siro-On April 21st, 1814, your Majesty, whom the people of Paris greet ed as they do today with prolonged acclamations, recalled to memory in this vory room the agreements concluded tea yours before between our two countries,
Lord Islington, in reply, said he do and, replying to the wishes which I gave
diined to enter into a discussion as to the posals recently made by the Secretary of expression to in the name of France, your
relationship of these riote with the pro
Majesty eloquently explained the pacific
State for Ifidia and the Viceroy, because when those proposals, were. Bariously con- character of the Entente, which, having
sidered questions of this character would Reports of the gradually gone beyond its original
have to be dealt, with riots in Calentia and Madras had appear ed in the Indian Press, to which he re- etipulations, was henceforth uniting the Powere.
The contrast between yesterday's landferred members who desired fullor in- two great free nations in their work of civilisation and progress. Three monthsing and that other famous and berbie ode formation than he was able to give as to of 1916 was as groat as can be imagined these untoward incidents. The noble lord Tater, the Central Empires, whose arro Our mon landed on a deserted peninsula, proceeded to give the main features of gant and aggressive policy had already peopled only by British dead and be the rioting and its extent. He thought atribule was due to the Governor (the menaced for a long time past the inde-great memories that will live so long Earl of Ronaldsisy) and his colleagues- pendence of small neighbouring States, gur race cudunes. They stepped ashore for the adurirable manner in which
the dignity of France, and the peace of Europe, abruptly stifled our words of peace in the tumult of war. Drunk with pride, they cast their insolent challenge in the Face of fate, and inflicted upon humanity the most frightful war which it has ever known.
"At the first breath of the hurricane, France, which foresaw its violence and extent, confidently turned towards Eng. land, and I myself, relying on letters ox bhanged in 1912 between our two
they
immediately bend
beneath the bows of the River Clyde, that gallant and battered tramp had handled what might have been a thanks of the Government had been ex- from out of whose sides our men streamed ery serious incident. (Hear, hear) The under a storm of machine-gun bullets.
Force, to police, the fire brigade But there was nothing to oppose this lani. Pred to the troops to the Indian Do On the contrary, at the and the Ambulance Corps, and well de ing! this time. summit of the steeply-rising beach, which served acknowledgments had been marte of we captured at such heavy cost, stood the conduct of the General Officer in little group of Turke, looking down Comhand at Calelitta and his Staff and quietly on British troops disembarking. the Commissioner of Police. In Madras,
and
sectarian They were Turkish artillerymen, welting the disturbances were purely economic in
in origin, no elenient being reported. to hand over the heavy guns of Cape character Hellea, which have for long been stand-
The report had now been presented to ing ready in anticipation of a renewed Parliament, and world be at once in their lordships' hands. He would impress upon the three that
ments, made an appeal to the British attack on the Dardanelles.
and wisdom of your Majesty in an to conjure the growing peril. Our efforts were in vain. During some of agitation and anxiety France, in close unity, did
We left Mudros At four in the morn
ing, to ste the landing, and arrived off had ouerged from the consideration of long days Cape Helles hout nine. Lanes of black the recent disturbances First in Bengal Ething to:
arid drifters and mine sweepers, including store was undoubtedly, an undercurrent Avoid war. But Germany was determis very efficient new type just out from of lawlessness and sedition which, unless Home Were cruising about on their carefully watched and checked by all
Janos ed to push her horrible design to ex Thazardous task of sweeping is through means in our, power, would be liable, tol
nothing
ing succeeded
Break out and involvo all classes of the tremes, and her from her purpose. Contemptuous of almost countless thousands of moines (118
Government of Bengal, in the fact of a self upon Belgium. The same indigna-work of gathering in this deadly barrier ordet critical and difficult position, had the most solemn treaties, she hurled her beth by ourselves and the enemy. The population in bloodshed. Secundly, the shown, and were showing foresight tion and the same revolt of conscience has boen mach greater than anticipated, burst forth on both sides of the Channel, and the tole reason for the delay in prompties, and firmness in dealing with which until the faste passage of the Allied Fleet to Con- the many manifestations of disorder and
in turning
and the 'sa at the negotiationsstantinople. The first outward sign thắt | disloyalty, while at the same time dia
moment had carried on between us in order to save were in such historie waters and applying scrupulous attention to the feel the peace and security of Europe, was at
munity; and thirdly, the Government once confirmed in the preparation for the Prosching such hallowed ground, was the ings of the various sections of the com
eight of a mast sticking up war imposed on us.
water off ithic rocky oogst of Imbros. This could not be deprived of the special pow
He did not say magnificent pages, Great Britain add Eaglan and the amdiler one sentence and dissection. "ASAHI BEER," CUTLER PALMER & COʻS "It was thon that, to a history so rich marked the apot where the big monitor ons bedsitry to deal effectively with vio ed an incomparable chapter, not only of own when sanding op hopelessly would be necessary to retain in their naval and military glory, but of moral against the Goeben and the Brestau strength
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the measures introduced under conditions, but it was imperative that Į anthorities should retain meane ade situation which
Gul army and the creation of enor marine F16, which ran ashore when presented unusual features, and which
at once that hostilities would be the time of their ill-stirred, sortie lat and would demand of the British year. Later in the day up towardquate to cope with pire the gradual formation of a Narrows we say the remsing
mous quantities of material. The enor tousness of the task did not trighten her at all. She called to the work all her Colonies, and from one the work all to the other a & cry
of love was the reply. I do not know a finer spectacle than of peoples scattered over the face of the earth rising at the same moment and with the same spirit, in order to fly to the Mother Country.
The subject then dropped. trying to ascend the straits and was the ordinary law was not framed to meet. gallantly torpedoed em'd though by our own med under heavy fire, and a further up the rusty bottom of the thre
His battleship Messudich, looking like limit of our hold on the southern end an immense turtle, marked one of out of the peninsula. Intelligence officers of abmarine accesses that caused much bosed, mape in hand, were marking down consternation to the enemy at the time. various points of information' and verify. The destroyer took us in close to Cape fng the position of batteries, Altogether, Helles, and everybody on board-gated on both sides of the Straits, there are bilently at the barren and repellent onset about Afty batteries, containing gun that has made such a tragic page in our ranging from 6in, to 14in., a considerable "What a noble recompense has the history. Some there were on board who portion of which are modern. All the We spirit of liberty which has always inspir-had been through most of those events way up the Straita our busy driftera ed the administration of the British End who felt strangely indeed in op were at work sweeping in pairs. pire received in this universal fidelity?proaching so calmly and easily this passed within Eveyards of an ugly Enlarged all these contingente, the corner of a foreign field that is for ever Turkish mine floating on the surface. As armica Great Britain have, during the
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and improved their tactics of warfare, at such a price, and have paved the way, by more and
We anchored just off "V" beach, where lous series of victories which have com- the River. Clyde was run shore, and more striking successes, for that marvel- pelled the enemy to solicit an armistice.immediately outside the breakwater foru
thank your Majesty for having
given xie the opportunity of visiting with youed by the stripped skeleton of an ancient og several occasions your gallant divi-French, battleship, the Massena, and an Messageries Maritime sions y admiration has not ceased to old bulk of a grow with the years. At the same time, steamer, which were grounded in this spot
the British Fleet, aided by the Allied late in the occupation of the th
squadrons, was maintaining the mastery in order to form a
harbour
the seas, was tightening the blockade winter storms. As the landing of
for
time being this nasty object, packed with high explosive, is serving the purposes of a buoy
CHANAK FORT.
An hour's run up the Straits and wo en into Chanak, just below the Narrowe. Here we wont ashore, and walked the Hamidieh battery, a mile and a bait length of the long main street out to which is the strongest on the Site. Here were Turks in plenty, both and otherwise, and everybody
of Germany, and was assuring the Afta- troops wit abt expected for some hours; appeared quite well fed and in robust
rican troops free passage across
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the
decided we should go ashore and, it
was visit the ground which is compact di so condition, although idquiries revealed the "Sire the heart of France is incap much British History. It was etrange ashal stories of very high prices for food. able place. We saw a number of build. able of forgetting.
It will always re indeed to set foot on that barren shore, Chanak is, quite a pleasmat and present member the great services of England to realiaing how much we had paid to take the common cause, The pre-war friend it, and find it new completely desertedings, but by oar aeroplane bombs a has been changed, on the battlefields, The Turkish troops occuring the penin-modest twe storeyed erection described as into an active alliance, which is about aula had been rumoved some days before, municipal offices we's hit and destroyed found, the fort almost deserted. find,
in the forthcoming negotiations, and for the time being not a single Tact ontvin few weeks ago. a new utility, and the beneficent
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of which will not disappear with the lust Helles, and so to W-Beach, is as unlovely Hamidi fort has played a big part in smoke of battle. Just as we have
and barren a strip of coast line as can the operations against the Dardanelles. side by side in the fatigues and perils be imagined. One wondered again how It has three 14-in. guns dating back of war, so we shall find ourselves again we had ever been able to land on it, and to the eighties, and six 9.2in, guns. Look-
down
mouth of the side by side in the works and pleasures how we had been able to live and rougis ing from one of the emplacements, ous
right of peace. A few days ago, when I was
probably Boldiers are visiting the liberated regions, I saw there Above us to our right were the could see being carried on British motor-lorrion remains of the old fort of Sedd-al-Bahr, Straits and beyond. At the moment, of old men, women, and children, who were which the fleet knocked to pioens in the
battory a
amali party of Turkiab returning, with their luggage to their first bombardment. devastated, homes, and they were smiling, We walked up the steep ground which noncoma. and men will be temporarily. order at the English motor-drivers who were had been held by mussed machingan left to keep the guns clean and in kindly giving them their friendly assist and Turkish riflemen, passed over, old and we shall hold the forts until such trenchse, both our own and the ohmy time as the Allies shall have decided what 'case exactly to happen to the Dardanelles "Elsewhere it
was your Majesty's and saw, new ones, constructed in
in_the futura. brave soldiers who were receiving, in re of the further attack which for months in turn, in the last intact houses of a ruin past the Turks had been expecting. By the time we returned ed village, the cordial hospitality of our walked to the top and beyond the first big transport and
an old-typ French peashnts. These are iungos of ridge, and looked down over the broad both lodded with British troops, were Yesterday which assume a Rymbolical
Will not sweep of a valley which dipped and theezing theras Chd actual:landing and significance for the morrow,
of the Arst forts was utterly prest of that boedpation
but it two peoples who have lived so long in again up to the round!
Lost quiet and devoid of this happy familiarity, and who have sinister hill, Argi Baht,
that anybody ought to hold
barge took flat-bottomed transporkis big
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for so many months alled and supported er officer remarked. Every Jard of was charred with ident, the WYKUPHOSPHITE OF "LIMEN
Impolled in the future to constant and the ground, but there were fo Un the Asiatic sida" And then a w
one another, naturally feel themselves fraternal dildoration in the human
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Together suffered together we have fought, entrou nod through the ruins of Bedd-alt to the pliers of Un perintis, ou TUBBORN COUGHO
unwieldy are united Dahr village, and just holow the front few hundred yards away. have donquerd We
we
French officer pointed out the craft draw slowly to they shore and put the over. It is with this fire home flat
the victor of her base to the pier just alongside I raiso my glass in honour of your Majesty, her Majesty the Qunett, of her was when visiting bow of tile River Clyde. Our then, troope Thoy,ween much hard worvice in Majesty Queen Alexandra, of their loyal a French hospital. Highnesses the Prince of Walt and We embarked again near the River Macedonia, Koppel dakorn with their kit. Prince Albert, and of the entire Royal Clyde, went on board a patrol launch. And ha family. Trinle to the frontness and to and proceeded up the Brill All the to thu this prosperity of the United K tugur way up we were within a few yard and of the British Empire,
all the locident there was
bgroup, he DY DI made vah? 6.
The King and his sons listened to M. Gallibil coast, and at Koroves Dove, there one aldrig wis how, goetine scuss three and a half miles from Cape funk, and our destroyer had to leave to Poincard's tout will great attention: Belles, passed the spot which marked the make sure eling through, the channel and frequently showed thoir approval
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