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THE
GERMANY SHOWING AN
AGGRESSIVE SPIRIT.
ORGANISED LABOUR CAMPAIGN IN GREAT BRITAIN.
MILITARY INTERVENTION IN BELFAST.
FIRST CROSS CHANNEL FLIGHT BY AERO-BUS.
LATEST CABLES.
HERR ERZBERGER'S THREAT.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.!
LONDON, February 15th.
THE RENEWED ARMISTICE.
MORE RIGOROUS TERMS ADVOCATED.
PARIS, February 8th
A Havas uessige slabes: A ureting of the Supreme War Conneil was held in Paris yesterday. It, un- doubtedly, was an extremely important one to concert means for checking the hringant German spirit again arising. Members of the Supreme Council attend. ed: also the military and financial ad
and visers. including Marshal Foch Admiral Wemyss.
The Council noted especially the delay
in handing over merchantships as
n
A telegram from Paris states that, interviewed by Le Petit Parisien's correspondent at Weimar, Herr Erzber ger declared that if the pourparters for the extension of the Armistice broke
down there would be a new war.
ARMISTICE MAY BE DENOUNCED.
Pauts, February 16th. Marshal Foch, to-day, communicates to the German delegates at Treves the
additional terms for the extension of the
Armistice, which expires on February
17th.
pasning a
These prohibit German troops from
Jine which follows approxi- utely the frontier of the Province of Posen, and, in the event of non-com.
warning that very strong terms will be lines, the Armistice may be denounced.
nevessary when the Armistice has to be renewed on February 17th.
A suggestion was wonde that the Allies:
abould occupy Essen
The impressiuli
Germany that boodwink the Pov The Germans ar
in French circles is tried deliberately
GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S
AMAZING SPEECH.
BALE, February 10th.
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18ru. 1919.
HIGH COST OF LIVING IN FRANCE.
PREMIER PROMISES AID.
PARIS, February 8th.
A Havas message states:- Representatives of the city of Paris interviewed M. Cletontean urging the necessity for drastic steps to reduce the cost of living. He promised the creation of a large number of stalls in Paris where provisions would be sold at bed rock prices.
THE PARIS BOURSE.
PARIE, February 8th.
A Havas message klutes:--- There are big demands on the Bour: for Russian slocks. French reptes are quiet.
Pauls, February 9th.
A Havna mucssuge states: On the Bourse, Ottoman Petroleum markets am brisk. The tone throughout is steady for French rentes for which
there is a demand
OBITUARY.
FRENCH AUTHORITY ON TROPI CAL DISEASES,
Paris. February 0th.
A Havas message states ---- · M. Blanchard, the leading Fronch authority on parasites and tropical die- eases died in Paris, aged 62.
EARLIER CABLES.
ORGANISED LABOUR CAM-
PAIGN.
SOME OF THE DEMANDS.
LONDON, February 10th. Following last week's unofficial strikce, organised labour this week begins » constitutional campaign for far-reaching claims, which, if secured, are likely to increase considerably the cost of produc- tion.
A telegram from Weimar states that the release of the German prisoners was demanded by the Foreign Minister, Count Brockendorff von Rantzau, and s be to ber resources. not so short of food, other speakers, at the National Assembly.
Concl von Rantzau denied the right) The miners, railwaymen, and trana They are, therefore, n they pretend. reluctant to hand over the merchantships of the victors to claim indemnity or port workers, totalling about 1,500,000, for convexing provisions from America. territory.
Be said that if Germany re- are the classes immediately concerned, The highest French military circles built the devastated regions, it would be The miners' claims, whieb a deputation suggest that the peace treaty should for by free labour, ever prohibit the Germans trum main-
He protested against the enslavement taining troops, orme and fortifications on of prisoners and declared that the the left bank of the Rhine, and that the Entente's victory wag economic and not existing fortresses should be dismantled.military; therefore, final peace must be
largely economic.
POSSIBILITY OF HOSTILITIES,
PARIS, February 9th.
A Havaa message states: -- Marshal Foch, in the course of a re port to the Supreme War Council, issued n warning regarding the possibility of the renewal of the aggressive spirit by Germany.
of the Miners' Federation is submitting to the representatives of the Government to-day, include a six-hour working day, 30 per cent. increase on wages, and full wages to demobilised miners during un-
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
MILITARY AND NAVAL PROGRAMMES.
Lonpos, February 14th, The following in a detached portion. of the telegram containing the draft of the League of Nations' Covenant :—
The high contracting parties under
THE PEACE CONFERENCE-
EXAMINATION OF RUSSIAN QUESTION
LONDON, February 15th.
A communiqué from Paris, dated February 15th, states that the repre- sentatives of the Powers beard the delegates of the Administrative Council ake in no way to conceal from each of Lebanon, and began the examination other the conditions of such of their of the Russian Question, industrice are capable of being|THE REPARATION COMMISSION. adapted to warlike purposes, and agroe
LONDON, February 15th, A emmature ne from Paris, dated February 16th, states that the Reparation
Inverd the delegat Belgium, Serbia and France.
that there shall be fall and frank inter-
change of information regarding their military and naval programmNICA.
A Permanent Commission ball constituted to advise the League on the Execution vi the foregoing provisions and on military and naval questions general.
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY.
Commission
THE ALLIES AND RUSSIA.
PRINKIPO INVITATION
WITHDRAWN.
FAR EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHINA AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
PENING, February 17th. The Speakers of the Senate and tho House of Representatives have telegraph. ed to Congress at Washington, informing the members that under Parliamentary regts, a League of Nations' Association has been formed This Association is endeavouring to form brunebes through- out, China, with the object of hastening/ the accomplishment of the great uf
worlly end
MAY
BE
PAULE, February 15th.
And.
JAPAN'S FINANCIAL. AID.
The Cabinet has agreed to the accept- ance of the Japanese offer of seventeen million yen under the War Participation Bureau but as the consideration desired
Aa nosic of the Russian Governments) by Japan has disappeared it finds it have accepted the Allies' primary condi- † diskull anderstand why payment tion to conclude an internal Armistice. I should be made.
In Article Ten, the high contracting parties undertake
respect and preserve, against external aggression, existing territorial integrity and thes political independence of all members of there is reason to believe that the Allied the Lengue. The Executive Council sbali Government, may be compelled to with- advise how this obligation shall be drew the invitation to Prinkape, fulfilled where aggression is carried out or threatened.
TABLED FOR GENERAL EXAMINATION.
PARIS, February 16th. After the speeches on the draft of the League of Nations Covenant, the Chair- map, M. Clemenceau, announced that the Covenant was now tabled for examina- tion by all the Powere concerned
A debate on the Covenant, at which amendments may possibly be submitted, will be held as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the representatives of the Eve great Powers will first take the matter in hand.
THE COVENANT WELL RECEIVED. The League Covenant is hailed by the newspapers F8 a historie document, drafted in an atmosphere of good faith, postulating complete honesty of dealing hetween the signatories and foreshadow- ing, belter and wiser Government throughout the world.
PRESIDENT WILBON'S PERSONAL TRIUMPH
تم
POLAND
ALLIED MISSION REACHES WARSAW.
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TROTON RACK'S AGEMY, '
NO SECRET SINO JAPANESE TREATIES,
PARIS, February 11th. Viscount Chinda has authorised the statement that the reports that Japan attempted to influence the Chinese repre- PARIS, February 15th. The Allied Polish Mission reached senatives in Paris are eutirely unfound- Warsaw un February 12th
lat were ed. No weret Bino Japanese Trealy was Paderewski, General ever concluded or proposed. There had revived by M. Pileudski and other promineat Poles, been no exchange of Notes granting with whom they discussed the Polish Japan any territory in Shantung or else-
where in China, problem.
PORTUGAL
COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF CLAIMS AGAINST ARNHOLD,
ROYALIST MOVEMENT.
LONDON, February 17th.
The Portugueso Legation anaounces that the Royalist movement bae complete- y collapsed. The Monarchist leader, Schor Paiva Couceiro, has been taken prisoner.
WILSON.
PRESIDENT
DEPARTURE FROM BREST.
BEEST, February 15th. The George Washington, with Presid Though President Wilson's personal ent Wilson aboard, left at 11.16 this triumph is acknowledged, it is pointed morning. out that the modified form of the Coven ant indicates that he learned a great deal since he came to Europe, and pride
A SPEECH AT BOSTON.
NEW YORK, February 15th. President Wilson's Secretary, Mr.
KARBERG & CO.
THREE ACTIONS BY FORMER PARTNERS.
In the Mixed 'ourt, before Mr. Grant Jones, British Assessor, and Magistrate Kuan, three cases were beard on Febru- ary 11th arising out of the affairs of Arnhold, Karberg & Co. In the first action Mer, H. E and C. H. Arahold saed the defendante for a declaration, to the effect that the plaintiffs were entitled to parehase all or any of the assets of Ale defendant firm at a valuation and set were entitled to
off against the ascertained by such valuation the atroant
ut of Tls. 759,917. paid by them on account of debts duo from the defendant firm and such other sums as they may hereafter have paid in including debts of debta
of the defendant
employment.
is expressed that so much of the work Tumulty, has received a cablegram from ansets of the defendant firm such amounta of Englishmen is visible in the League, President Wilson to the effect that the Germany would reject differential com. The National Union of Railway and that the mandatory principle is
President intends to land at Boston, mercial treatment even if such treatment men's demande, regarding which the based on the relations between Great where he will deliver an address on were temporary. He insisted on adher- Union will
open negotiations with Britain, India and the Dominions. arrival. He is expected about February to President Wilson's Fourteen the Board of Trade and the Railway | NOT THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT 25th. nee
Freedom of the Executive Committee on February 12th, Paiute, especially Beas."
include double pay for overtime and He said that Germany could not enter Sunday work; night work to be paid at
creases of pay to be made permanent;
FEATURE.
The recognition of the Dominions as nations is welcomed as not the least
.l
GERMANY.
NEW PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY.
The Council discussed the new Armistico the, League of Nations without ber the rate of time and a half; war in significant feature of the Covenant. terms, and suggested that they should Colonies. include the handing over of the whole of the German artillery, the occupation by the Allies of the Rubr district, in- cluding Essen, the compulsory reduction of the German army to 25 divisions, with machine guns, for the interual policy of the Empire. Important debates took place on these proposals.
He approved international control of and equal representation of the Union the tropical Colonies, if the other in the management of all railways, Powers submitted to the scheme, and The Transport Workers' Federation is Germany received her proper share of demanding a 44-hour week and per Colonial products.
cent increase of the wages of piece workers.
He demanded a plebiscite in Alsace Lorraine and denounced French im perialistic designs on the Saar Basin and
A further suggestion was made that the the Bavarian Palatinate,
Allies should revert to the initial demanda for handing over the transport, which
He claimed Germany's right to incor.
were modified on account of Germany's prata German-Austria and advocated
plea of "impossibility."
The Supreme Council adjourned till Monday.
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EARLIER CABLES.
GERMANS MUST CEASE OFFEN- SIVE AGAINST POLES,
BALE, February 16th.
the incorporation of labour legislation in the Peace terms, as well as the estab lishment of international- arbitration.
LATEST CABLES.
AERIAL DEVELOPMENT.
FIRST AERO-BUS TO CROSS CHANNEL.
PARIS, February 5th.
A Havas message states:-
GOVERNMENT ACTION IN
BELFAST. LONDON, February 15th. Troops marched into the Belfast Gas
Works and Electric Power Station early on Saturday morning.
The Lord Mayor has issued a pro- clamation stating that, having finally received the assurance of military sup port, he will be glad to receive the names of volunteer workers to carry on muni- cipal service.
"ALL IS QUIET.”
IMTEL.
The Belfast gas and electric supplice, which had been cut off for three weeks,
BALE, February 17th. telegram from Weimar states that has the Centrist, Herr Fehrenbach, been elected President of the National Assembly.
THE NEW
GOVERNMENT'S
POLICY.
BALE, February 14th.
PRESIDENT WILSON TO EXPLAIN THE LEAGUE TO CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON; February 16th. President Wilson Eas cabled bere, re questing the Foreign Relations' Com- mittees of Congress to defer the debate or the Constitution of the League of Nations until he has an opportunity to explain each article.
SECOND IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.
due to the estate of the late Jacob Arn- held and to Mrs. Emily Lemke, and ara entitled to be reimbursed out of the
debts of the defendant firm in excess of as they may have paid in respect of the their liability under the partnership agreement of November 12th, 1018,
A declaration was also asked for that, subject to the rights of the creditors of the firm and to the performance of the terms of the partnership agreement, the plaintiffs are entitled to the property and assets of the defendant firm and that other parties in the partnership agreement have no right or interest therein.
Mr. D.
McNeill appeared for the plaintiffs, the defendants being repre- sented by Mr. Lieb.
Mr. H. E, Arnhold gave evidence in support of the claim and said that there were four active partners in the defenda ant firm, his brother, two Germana and himself, The firm was registered at the German Consulate. It had been started in the early sixties by Germans and Danes at Canton and the registration which had been effected then had been continued.
The Assessor pointed out that under British law there was no registration for
partnership. Witness--As far as I know every part-
IN CANADA NEXT YEAR.
LONDON, February 14th. In connection with the second Imperial Press Conference, which is to be beld in Canada, in 1920 (the precise date is not fixed), Sir Harry Brittain, who or A telegram from Weimar states that, ganised the first Imperial Press Confer- at the Assembly, the Premier, Herrence, has been asked by the Empire Presener is under the jurisdiction of his own Union to act as a link between tho The Assessor-If creditors were to ́stę Scheidemann, declaring the Govern- members of the British Press and the firm in the German Courts you would ment's policy, said that the task in the Canadian Press in making the arrange also be liable? immediate future could be summed up under the following heads-
Firstly, the maintenance of the unity of the State by means of a strong central authority;
Secondly, the immediate conclusion of peace;
Thirdly, adherence to President Wil- son's programme;
Fourthly, the rejection of any pence of vioinnce; colonial territories;
mcnte.
Invitations will be issued to the Press of the Dominions, the Colonics, and India, in due course.
Consulate,
Witness Yes, certainly. The Court reserved its decision. Judgment was also reserved in the other two cases in which the defendant CHINESE MURDER IN NEWfirm was sued on behalf of the catate of
YORK.
ARREST OF TWO CHINESE STUDENTS.
WASHINGTON, February 10th. Tiang Sun Wang and Ti-van, two brothers, Batives of Shanghai, studying
the late Jacob Arahold, a British sub- ject, for the sum of Tle. 950,558.75 and by Mrs. Emily Lomke, alap a British sub- jeet. to recover the sum of Tls. 184.610.20 for both of which debts the plaintiffs had made themselves personally responsible as guarantors for the firm.
Mr. Lieb admitted most of the para- no objection to the declaration asked for.
M. Farman's aoro-bus, No. 60, ebria have been restored under military pro-Fifthly, the restoration of Germinny's in New York, have been arrested in conraphs in the three petitions and offered
A telegram Irom Treven states that the Armistice has been extended indefinitely. The additional terms require the Ger- mane to cease their offensive against the toned "Goliath," made the first success Poles; thoir troops must not pass the line ful trip across the Channel yesterday, starting on the Russian frontier west of starting from Veranillos and landing at Luisenfeld, passing west of Cloons and Croydon, in spite of a keen wind blowing. Neudorf, south of Brzoza, Borth of It carried 14 passengers. Behubin, north of Exin, south of Bamot- chin south of Schodzicson, north of Czarnikai, west of Minka, Birnbaum, Hentschele, Vollstein, and Lissa, and north of Fiennchov, as far BA tho Bilesina-asian frontinr.
Three days' notice of denunciation must passengers to Chiro and Calcutta. The
by given.
The previous forms of the Armistice must be carried out till sompleted.
LINKING INDIA BY AIR.
Pants, February 9th.
A Haves message statos: ---
An air route to India is expected to be opened next summer, with a regular weekly serviso carrying mails and
tection, volunteer workers, susisting the ordinary employés.
•
Machine-guns command the entrance
to the Gas Works.
Sixthly, the immediate repatriation of Germany into the League of Nations, with equal rights;
Eighthly, general and reciprocal dis- Armament;
A Lewis gun has been mounted on the Ninthly, the constitution of general Power Station,
Most of the strikers have reanmeji, work. All is quiet.
GOVERNMENT TO SUMMON LABOUR CONGRESS.
macy.
rbitration courta; and,
Tonthly, the abolition of secret diplo (The seventh is omitted). BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. FIRM ATTITUDE OF DUTCH GOVERNMENT,
LONDOR, February 16th. The Observer understands that the
The Havos, February 10th view in industrial circles, is that the Government line decided to summon In the Btates General, the Foreign trunk air line to India in the future shertly an unprecedented assembly of Minister, replying to an interpellation will be-Croydon, Brussels, Cologne, representatives of capital and Inbour, regarding Belgium's territorial olsime, Moscow, the Unapina Ben, Herat, Kando Industrial Peace Congress, to deal with emphatically refused to code any, terri- which will be practically a National declared that the Dutch Government
all industrial questions at isausė.
tory..
bar and Multan,
nection with the murder of Wong, the head of the Chinese Educational Mission. hero, and Hisi and Wu, Chinese students at the George Washington University.
It is alleged that one of the arrested men attempted to each a disque. for $5,000 signed by Wong.
ANOTHER AUSTRO-GERMAN
CANARD
NO REVOLUTION IN RUMANIA.
PARIS, February 18th. The Rumanian. Press Bureau donion tho trath of the reports of this revolution in Rumanin. The reports are attributed to Austro-Gorman, sourock, 41:
THE SILVÉR MARKET:
LONDON, February 11th, Bilver la quoted at 47. The market Inwtondy.
!
WORKMEN'S INCOME TAX.
In the case of a Belgian workman sum." moned no Hempstead for non-payment of income-tax, the defendant did. nok appear, and, it was stated that he had been summoned previously, and had
The given, a good deal of trouble. araount owing was £33, the defendant.. haring earned £870 in nine months. A large number of similar ensos, it was fur ther stated, had been before the Hamp stead Court previously.
The Bench made su order for the pay- meat of flie amount, and expressed their willingnose to grint a committee order if the amount was not paid within wook. The chairman said it was di graceful the trouble they were, having with these well-to-da Belgian workmen. They earned £600 a year and made all sorts of excuses for not paying their Income-tax,