THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1919.
SURRENDERED GERMAN FLEET:
FRANCE TO DEMAND MAJOR PORTION.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULT POSITION.
ZIONIST
CLAIMS TO PALESTINE
RECOGNISED.
PRESIDENT WILSON ON THE PEACE
DELEGATES:
**THE SERVANTS OF SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE."
LATEST CABLES.
(THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.)
THE GERMAN FLEET.
ITS DESTRUCTION OPPOSED BY
FRANCE
PARIS. February 26th.
A Havas Dewage says:- Considerable comment has been caused in France owing to British naval opinion favouring the destruction of the 74 Ger man warships which have been surrender. ed to the Allies.
This proposal is criticised as wasteful and it is suggested that die ships could be converted for commercial purposes.
In reply to that suggestion the British state that before being surrendered those
ships were deprived of highly complicated apparatus for the control of gunfire.
Certain essential machinery was sur reptitiously removed, and the steel was treated by a process of manufacture rendering it useless for any other pur
pose.
FRANCE WILL DEMAND MAJOR
PORTION.
PAR18, February 28th.
Bayan message EnYN: Franes will probably demand
the
major portion of the German Ficet for her own use, uct being now able to under- take a new naval building programme.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
DENMARK'S CLAIMS.
PARI, March 4th.
GERMANY'S TROUBLES.
THE GOVERNMENT'S DIFFICULT POSITION.
LONDON; March 4th. The newe from Germany indicates that the Government's position is at present It is threatened with very difficult. reaction on one side and proletarian dictatorship on the other.
The masses, who have lost all confidence in the Weimar Assembly and its moderate Coalition Ministry, are demanding ex- treme democratic measures such as social- isation of wealth and the supremacy of
the Soviets in the direction of public affairs.
The Government is taking measures to extend State control over the mines and
industrial syndicates, but, up to the pre- sent, have been resolute against tho Soviet system.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
AMERICAN DISAPPROVAL OF
SCHEME.
WASHINGTON, March 4th. Senator Lodge has prepared a resolu tion proposing that the Senate should
THE CUNARD LINE.
CHERBOURG A PORT OF CALL.
PARIS, February 20th,
PASSAGES AND PAUPERS. CIVIL SERVICE INTERESTS.
A LAMENT FROM INDIA.
A Havne message says:*****
In England nowadays it appears that The Cunard line in preparing to make Government in resolved that those who Cherbourg a port of call.
M. CLEMENCEAU'S ASSAILANT
COUNT-MARTIAL ON FRIDAY.
PARIS, March 4th. The court-martin for the trial of Cottin, M. Clemenceau's nesailant, has been fixed for March 14th.
EARLIER CABLES.
SUPREME WAR COUNCIL.
THE LAIBACH INCIDENT.
LONDON, March 5th. The Press Bureau states: --Á com. muniqué from Paris states that the Supreme War Council, this afternoon, appointed Generals Gordon (Great Bri- tain), Bavy (France), Treat (United States), and Segro (Italy) to form a Commission to inquire into the Laibach
incident.
BELGIUM AND THE 1839 TREATY.
M. Tardieu presented the report of the Its conclusiona, Belgian Commission. which favoured the revision of the Treaty of 1530, have been adopted.
REPRESENTATION OF SMALLER
POWERS.
The decision regarding the representa tion of the analler powers on the Fiaan cial and Economic Commissions will be
have laboured faithfully throughout the war shall not suffer during the period of reorganisation. It is true that during the last four years labour at home has received wages which, in spite of war prices, should have enabled it to lay by for the meagre days of peace; but a natural inclination towards furs, pianos and other such pleasant things baving in many cases prevented this, д bill is meditated Axing the wages of labour at their present high level for some six mopths, at the end of which time it is, courageously, anticipated that the prices
the highest authority that war is now for ever ended, the munition workers are to be kept on making munitions at the modest remuneration of £8 to £14 a week for some tirac longer. The sentiment which inspires, these measures is highly commendable, although some captious critics have expressed a hope that it may find a more practical and economical ex- pression.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
it.
Briefly stated the position is this. The women and children are here in India, and 6,000 miles of sen separate them from England and education.
The average savings during the last four years of the married Government servanl may be stated as--. The present price of pas- sages home is so clearly printed in the shipping lists that we may refrain from quoting
Retura tickets are, of course, not issued, and although this coing to Tousen reasonable hope that Government servants will not be expect" ed to return to India, no announcement to this effect has yet been made. The in- saluble problem, therefore, arises as to how the Government servant is to trans- port his family across those 6,000 miles of aca, discover a suitable school pre-
soluble.
COTTON CULTURE IN CHINA. EXPERIMENTAL FARMS IN
C
FORMATION.
Thanks to private Chinese enterprise, (says the X.-4. Dnity New) plans are taking shape for the establishment in the near future of at least six experimental · stations where colton plants most auit- able for particular sections will be deter- mines ou nad arrangements made for seed distribution to the farmers. An American expert is to be engaged, American reed will be imported and American cotton will be demonstrated,
Foreign millowners and others, mem- bers of the Millowners' Association of China and the Shanghai Cotton Anti- Adulteration Association, for some years have actively endeavoured to arouse of necessitical will have dropped. Forpared to take them at a figure which he popular interest in improving Chines the same reason, although we have it on can pay, live while at home in a manner
Colton, and the Peking Government calculated to recuperate his health, and being slow to respond, they themselves fully bring himself and his wife also were prepared to undertake experimental if he is so unreasonable to desire to work when the Chinese Cotton Mill- have her with him out to India again. owners' Association, a bed omposed of This is the problem which at this time Chinese faterested in spinning and wear- confronts the majority of Governmenting enterprises in Shanghai-Tientain, servants, and for those who depend upon Hankow and other cities, came to re the wages of exile only, it is, indeed, in-fore last week and told the foreigners To Government, however, all in effect that they need no longer things are possible.
trouble themselves, that the Chinese hud Not for a second do we venture to determined to go ahead on their own suggest that a man who has served Gov-account and were not in need of foreign
for four, six or eight years, assistance. ernment without furlough, has any right to expect to go home at last, spend his leave there comparatively free from money troubles, and return to this country not more then £100 or
Such an idea is so in debt. clearly preposterous. But turning from the unimportant matter of right to the of the Ewo mille, notified that at a moet possible that in this matter justice, nay one of expediency, it seems all-important
aying of delegates sent by mills in differ oven generosity (if one may mention an ent parts of China, it had been decided disuse) may pay Government better than selves one tael cent per picnl ou every old-fashioned word rapidly falling into that the Chinese mills aball tax them- the usual procedure.
That
& prolonged period of arduous work in India saps the picul of Chinese cotton consumed by vitality seems undoubted That private them, with the object of creating a fund debt has a tendency, to distract the mind to be used for the purpose of establish from oficial matters is, perhaps, equallying cotton experimental stations fore, whose vitality is low and whose yield about Tls. 15,000 annually. true. The Government servant, there China. This voluntary taxation should pri private affairs trouble him, is probably worth only half as much to Government as if he were in good health and easy circumstances The war has taught not a few lessons de to the increased biciency of workers whose hours were shortened
improved. It is manifestly to the advantage of Government, therefore, that a considerable proportion of servants should recuperate their energies at home
Since, therefore, it has been publicly declared that the labourer is worthy not only of his bire, but of special protective legislation besides, we hope that it is not unduly impertinent to speenlate upon what Government intends to do for those of its servants who with rising prices and in many cases (owing to the block in promotion) seriously reduced incomes, have foregone leave and laboured all THE INTERRUPTION OF NEGOTIA through the war, not in the pleasant land of England but in the dusty plains of India
DOMESTIC EXPENUES.
taken on Monday.
TIONS AT SPA.
The Council discussed the interrrup tion of the negotiations at Spa.
THE BRITISH ARMY.
MORE INTERESTING FIGURES.
LONDON, March 1st. The White Paper on the Army Estab fishne
gives the following figures of
We have all heard much of the magni- ficent part which India has played in the war. Has not the great Mr. Montagu himself declared that her efforts were only limited by certain conditions, which prevailed in the country? This raises the interesting question as to how, in spite of raise and ions, so freet ad army was those who
Credit for this action is largely due to Mr. C. C. Nich, vice president of tho Chinese Cotton Millers' Association, who in a letter to the James Kerfoot,
in
This Chinese association considered it a solemn duty to undertake and finunco the whole cotton improving movement, realizing the whole effort was for the koud of Chirs and the Chinese people. It is planned o experimental farms undetermined, the most probable locali- Nanking, Hankow, probably another ties are Ningpo, Tinrobów Shanghai, somewhere in the
declare that the League of Nations' draft the Armies to be maintained after de personal experience of the recruiting the conditions of their home life at six points, and while these are as yet
be not approved, and that the American Commissioners be urged to pruceed im- mediately with the work of concluding pence with Germany.
MARQUIS BAONIJI'S VIEWS.
PARIS, February 28th.
A Havas messages says:- Marquis Saoniji, landing at Marseilles, It is believed that the Commission appointed by the Peace Conference, is made a statement that Japan desired to examining Danish claims, recommends see the League of Nations ensure a freer the creation of a third zone in Schless.ig, civilization. It was the duty- of men of south of the zones already claimed by the every class, creed, and colour to help
Danes.
The Commission also recommends that the new zone shall be militarily occupied by the Allies.
THE SERVANTS OF SEVEN
HUNDERD MILLIONS."
WASHINGTON, March 4th.
Con- President Wilson, addressing ference of Governors and Mayors, said that it was perfectly understood in Paris that the Peace Conference was meeting as the masters of nobody, but sa the ver- vants of seven hundred millions.
we show that we want to serve any inter- ests but theirs, we become candidates for the most lasting discredit that could ever attach to men in history."
DAZZLING BUCCESS OF THE SMALLER NATIONS.
LONDON, March 4th. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the Welsh Banquet in London, said that he We returning to Paris to do his best to bring the Conference to a speedy conclu- sion because all the world was thirsting
for peace.
The little nations had won dazzling success at the Conference but the real danger lay in their emulating the faults of the big nations. He warned them of the futility of the idea that they would' strongthen their power merely by increas. ing their territory,
PALESTINE.
ZIONIST CLAIMS ACCEDED TO.
PARIS, February 28th.
A Havna metengo By:- Zionist claims presented no difficulty to the Peace Conference, the Conferenos being unanimous in giving Palestino a mandate from the Lengue of Nations, with Great Britain as the Mandatory Power.
mobilisation:-
Mesopotamia and North Persia.-1,760 officers and 28,950 men, British; and 4,000 officers and 59,000 men, Indian,
Home and Colonial Establishments, including the troops in Russia.-16,000 officers and 225,000 men.
campaign in a certain province which covered itself with bonour seem to have been impressed with the notion that the district oficer played a bot unimportant part in the matter, Some even go co far As to say that without the sun-dried the English officers who weeded them out, bureaucrat who found the recruits, and trained and led them, India's war efforts a million or might have been confined to so of eloquent speeches. Buch pre
preposter- Que statements are, very properly, as tion are:--British, 1,150,000; Indian, resolutely ignored as is the part played by the Sahib during the last four years. 73,000; Dominione, 325,000.
The air of India, which commonly har- bours only dust and mosquitoes, is now thick with promises of reward, but
The numbers in course of demobilisa-
build an indestructable barrier against FAR EASTERN CABLE Government servants realise that none of
the forces hindering the progress of the
world.
NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHINA MAIL"]
HIGHER EDUCATION IN SINGAPORE,
Hegarding China and Japan, he hoped that the world would realise how fully Japan was prepared to meet China half way in all future dealings, to bring con. fidence and co-operation in developing THE NUCLEUS OF A UNIVERSITY. both countries.
THE ALLIED OCCUPATION.
THE WEST BANK OF THE REINE.
PAK18, February 28th.
A Havas message says:- France and Belgium will never permit the west bank of the Rhine to become the base of a future German offensive,
POLAND.
EASTERN GUARANTOR OF PEACE.
PARIS, February 28th.
A Havas message says:- Regarding Poland, France's idea is to create Poland of peace just as France is the guarantor on the west
coatern guarantor
THE LYONS FAIR
A WONDERFUL DISPLAY.
PANIB, February 28th.
A Havas mesasgo saya:-. Four thousand firms have taken spaco for exhibition in the Lyons Fair build- ing. Never has a French city noen such a display of gooda,
A LONG-RANGE GUN. BENT TO PARIS AS A MEMENTO.
PARIS, February 28th. A Havas message says:~~
A big "Beriba," which shelled Paris from a great distance, has been seat to
Paris
SINGAPORE, March 11th.
The report of the Committee appointensideration for labour may, in the im-
as soon as possible, but it seems equally district, perhaps in m
AD
clear that without Government assistance with regard to passages home, and increase of furlough pay, your Govern- ment servant will be reluctant or unable to take leave Should this result in a number of officers breaking down, or dying, the inconvenience to Government might be considerable.
a moderate
WRIT SARCAST20,
+
practically settled.
"the land neces
sary will be arranged for without diffi- culty in time start next spring, and special seed has already been sent for from the Department of Agriculture, Washington, which may possibly arrive in tin
time for planting this season. The work will be under the direction of Mr. J. H. Reisner, professor of ture at Nanking University, who has
agricul already dont considerable experimental work in cotton in connexion with the school. MA
Diversity's vernment commissioner
expert cotton agriculturist to come to Shanghai immediately. There are many varieties of American cotton and several varieties will be required for the special soils and climatic conditions of differ.. ent sections in China, and to select pro- per plants the services of an American expert are essential. Mr. Swindle's advice
was eagerly sought and be waÐ culled into consultation with Prok. Heitner, with the result that telegraphio orders for seed were sent to Washington last month and Mr. Swindle sailed with authorization to select and engage the
expert
In certain Americas cotton planta tions in the south, in the good old days, it was believed it paid better to work your negrocs out, giving them a maxi- inum of work and a minimum of food, and when they were done for toy Swindle, others in their place. As a business pro from the Department of Agriculture, is likely to come their way. How. indeed, can anyone nowadays remain
position (from the Government point of
Washington, who passed through bera view this sounds attractive, but it de- last month, was instructed to engage an ignorant of the great democratic truth that the man who talks and strikes and
peaded upon certain conditions, and was even at the best not without its draw- makes things unpleasant for Government
backs, Where it became necessary
to deserves more consideration than ho who,
cultivate the potten in a more technical owing to some old-fashioned idea of duty
manner, or when the supply of slaves at and loyalty, sticks to his work in silence ?.
became limited, the atc price That the future is likely to give the
as it may be called Legree method, Government servant even
less praises,
proved uneconomie. In the case of tho power and pelf that he is at present sup- Indian Government
and its servants, posed to enjoy, seems undoubted; never- although the analogy may seem theless, be still nourishes the seemingly
there
are still further complications: modest but possibly presumptuous hope
Your broken down slave could always be that
some minute fraction of the general
sold for what he would fetch; your broken to advise as to a scheme for the advance mediate future be conceded to him also.
down Government official, on the con- trary, receives a pension, and even should ment of education, preparatory to the During the two things have been
this be cut down, as is customary, to the establishment of a University in Singa-in India and the price of passages home. increasing the size of English families
lowest possible figure, yet the payment The goal is the production of a finer
L number of sucks
pensions must prove and longer staple than that now grown pore, recommends the establishment of a At the present time the connection
to Government. Moreover in China, and therein lies the future of expense College for Higher Education, known as Children who in 1914 were infants in thought between the two is obvious.
the supply of English Government ser vants seems likely under the new regimo
grant industry, for it is conceded, with Raffles College.
to be a diminishing quantity. Men will
proper cultivation, that China might be This could be both a arms now require a half ticket on both undoubtedly be available, but they will
come a close second to the United States centenary memorial and the nucleus of train and ship. The increase of a family
be of a different class, perhaps of the class
grower of the white staple. from опе to two or three necessitates the
which has found striking may it so well; For the spinning of the finer yazną. the future university. The college should extra expense of a ticket for nurse or and even if striking proved too strenuous
China is now dependent on imported be affiliated to the London University. governess, and for so numerous a party a business in the Indian climate they cotton on which a duty of six mace por even the train fare from the Panjak to might find means of privately adding topicul must be paid, and there are pro Women should be admitted.
Bombay is considerable. Not for a their incomes, which might have its inspects that the duty will be increased to second would we be supposed to say any conveniences. Considering the aspects of eight mace when the now tariff takes- THE "NORE" AND " NOVARA"thing for those crimintis who have pre-
Cotton is duty free in Japan, so sumed during the last decade to give it may pay Government best to put itself INCIDENT.
to some inconvenience, may England se many as five or six budding
to local mills using
imported cotton. It is citizens. Let them, with heads bent low окреве so that it may obtain the maxi-believed that China can produce is fine.
the burden of debt, learn to mum of work for as long a period as a staple as any country, under proper Pestimate the guilt of their paternity, and possible from the men at present in its selection and cultivation, as had been
let us hope that they may later on impo
demonstrated with American seed in feel for Government in this matter. Bhensi, but the Shensi cotton had gradu SINGAPORE, March 11th, press upon their superfluous offspring Nothing-oan be more annoying than to
the sacred duty of The Secretary of State has sent a tele inch extreme cases we venture to think whose welfare has hitherto not given one
ally deteriorated through neglect and Yet even in be obliged to do something for a servant
failure to renew the stock. gram to H.E. the Governor that a vessel the
thet the natural disapproval of Govern a second's concern. But there are times ment might, at this time, be tempered when even custoto must give way to with merey.
Its views on the subject are expediency, and this seems to be one of
ANOTHER VESSEL TO BE SENT FROM HOME.
of
a sad
the situation we are driven to believe that cheese mills have an advantage over
even
would be sent to take the passeng well known to Es liable to, miscon-thom, The future interests of Govern-
booked by the Vore and Novara:
in April.
MINESWEEPERS' DEPENDANTS.
Bou
In the
HELPFUL ZEPPELIN BOMBE. It is understood the vessel will be herection. It has nothing to repreachment undoubtedly require that its slaves
Secrets which have been loyally kept with in the way of having softened slip of the pen, we mean of course ita
by more than 8,000 war - wkers wor the lot of the Government oficial and Government servants should have leave his family, during the last four years.
under conditions which will enable them rovesied, when, for the fir time sinc
August, 1014, portaita wore given. 20 No weakness has been shown in proof to harnow after the shortest possible skirts of Dorby. The story of an incide
to regain health and energy and return inspect the Rolls-Royce works on, the put- ing them against profitearing in (with the exception of Bimla-but Simla Government must be prepared either to
interval. To ensure this to fear that that occurred there two years ago. At the annual meeting of the Royal is of course, always an exception), of
pharter boats to take its sorvices home now be told. Provident Fund for Sea Fishermen, re mitigating the pecuniary disaster of fre-
In January, 1010, one of a number of cently, Mr. Charles Jeffs (Grimeby) daidquent transfer, or of providing them from the shipping companies, and that it and northern counties passed over this free, or to scoure special pre-war prices Zeppelins that roumed over the midland it was proposed to appeal to the country with suitable houses at a price which they must also face up to disbursing cousitor district, and released all its bombs on an for the benefit of the dependants of fabar Government has maintained the most con- lough allowances to cover the great cost works
like half a million storiing could afford to pay. In all such respecte nhle sums of money on increased fur- oval coment motor, track encircling the something men and minesweepers who bad lost their sistent attitude of complete indifference of living at home. lives during the war. Unfortunately the Without, however, abandoning the two
Thousands of men and women were at It will number was very great
In Gain, shportant unwillon axtong the pri- Governments, to do why of those things, worked the time, bus tuo bambie morele any work of excavating the solid bo feared that the alternative should rise to the occasion and give the women and children,it score just pos- lainet faire with regard to such matters orpintis pleft by the war. The country to welfare of our servants is nothing to but it la homes for the bereaved, so that the widows somewhat mildar polley might actually inconvenience and export-Ciri and money required to build and endowsible that, in the, prosent situation, may eventually run it into even greater and orphans should not suffer materially pay Government ketter
Military Quicite (Lahore).
for
alone they had over,000 widows and 1,600 and Government cannot consider of continuing its time-honoured polloy of poncrete of the track, which had been con
The workinen wore pleased max orging demned to make room for new buildings...
work had been done for them by German. to find that the hardest part of their
bombe.