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THE PEACE CONFERENCE ITALY INVITED TO RESUME HER
PLACE.
PARIS, May 4th.
The Couwil of Threx today, invited Italy to resume her plass at the Peace Conference.
The nature of the invitation is much that it is believed Italy wili accept, and that relations will, be restared before the Treaty is delivered to the Germans,
STEPS TO SAFE-GUARD TREATY
OF PEACE.
Pius, May 7th.
Echo de Pazic states that M. Clemenceau, Mr. Lloyd George and President. Wilson bad a meeting this morning to give the final form to the
THE BONAKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 18TH 1919.
THE SILVER MARKET.
MAXIMUM PRICE OF BULLION
SILTER REMOVED.
+
He believed m, other restrictions exist ed, but gaw no reason for maintaining then
CONTROL REMOVED, “
LONDON, May 8th. The silver market is steady. Contral has been removed.
THE TEA TRADE,
SALE OF JAVA TEA” RESUMED.
-LONDON, May 9th...
The public auctions of Java tea were additional reaty between France. Great resumed yesterday, the prints being from
Britain and the United States, involving additional guarantees for, the security of Frane, and for the safeguarding of the Treaty of Peace,
THE FUTURE OF FLYING,
PRODUCTION OF HELIUM IN CANADA.
Losbox, May 5th. Professor McLennan, of Toronto--Uni versity, who was invited by the British Admiralty, in 1915, to investigate tha possibility of production, in a farge scale, of helium, has, found large quantities of belivni in antural gas in Ontario, Western Canada, produreable at the est of a shilling per eubie foot,
a penny to two pence lower. AUSTRALIAN EMBARGO REMOVED.
LosDos, May 8th.
The embargo on the importation of
...
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
(THROTGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY:]" COTTON COMMISSION FOR THE
FAR EAST,&
LONDON, May 9th.
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DISINTEGRATION OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. ITS EFFECT ON EUROPE..
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kans, engaged in" endless wars, and en- PROFESSION AND BUSINESS. during all the evils which follow in their
JOURNALIST'S SUCCESSFUL AP- train.
PEAL AGAINST EXCESS PROFITS DUTY.
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JUGOSLAVIA AND HUNGARY. The boundaries of Jugo-Slavia rest on. a firmer ethnological foundation than do those of Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary. The problyzing which confront the exist ence of Jugo-dlavia in the future ar concerned more with the Italiana over the pussession of Trieste, and its inters
th
In the Court of Appeal 'March before the Master of the nila. Lords Justiges. Warrington and Scrutton, I reserved judgment was delivered in this appeal by Mr. Leopold James Maxse, pra.. "plietor, editor, and publisher of the Va- Judice Sankey holding that he was liable Fran Beriem, Against a decision of Mr.
en an assessment df £1,000 far excess pro 1913, in respect of his journal, fts.platy for the year ending May ist, This judgment was given on an appeal by the Crown Trom a decision of the General community,come-tax Commissioners" for the divi- sion of St. Paul, Covent garden, who had hold that Mr. Maxse as exempt from -Kes
hearts daty, and had discharged
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LONDON, May 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Sir Charles Henry, Mr. Chamberlain
If an institutiam has "existed for a great length of time, even in the face stated that an order was being issued.
of the most adverse "criticism, the good" The Manchester Chamber of Commerce which it did--which, although net under. Inmediately, remoring the maximum has decided to request the Government stque at the time. was probably the cause price of silver bullion sold in the United to appoint a Lancashies Textile Com- of its prolonged existence is only recog, more or les cummieally independent
land, and with Serbia, Jugo-Slavin is Kingdom.
mercials Mission to visit the Far East to mixed when it has goally passed away onarcay, although they are not conc its fornier half-sisters of the Habsburg study the position and extension of the and its place has been filled by otherically cotton trade,
institutions nad new ideas. Thus the The position at Hungary causes the independent of Jugoslavia. Halsburg Manarchy found but few de fenders in the last years of its chequer of Europe. Hungary, formerly a self- REPRESENTATIVE MEETING SUPed history. The last of the Emperors.
ravest misgivings for the future pour
supporting. homogearons omitting Karl, who can hardly be said has now been forcibly partitioned, not by PORTS SCHEME.
to have reigned at all-Francis Joseph, the Conference of Paris; but by form Lobos, May 5th: was a mysterious figure. Almost unknown ambitious, neighbours, so that she is no to the present generation, who seemed longer economically independent, and is Representatives of all the cotton en to have cose down from the epoch of faced. like Germain-Austrin, with the
The facts were that in 1803 Mr. Maxso ployers, and of operatives' organisations, Napoleon and Metternich for the express possibility of complete faming. Her purchased the National Berier for 1.500, and also seven Chambers of Commerce in and of putting up a final nggle for the as I have already said, by the Carcho-derived from
purposes of holding demograes in check northern territories have been occupied it in the had hen sole proprietor, dad pablisher. The revenue was the cotton area, at a meeting in In the latter years of his reign you sion of the Rumanians, who have pene journal which has for the most part
Divine Right of Kings.
Slovaks; Transylvanin is in the poses the sale of reprints of articles from the advertisement, and chester, yesterday, unanimously passed alnost invariably heard this remark trated over twenty-five miles beyond the been written by Mr. Maxse himself. resolution, urging the Government to mentioned: It is only he who holds purary, frontier until the Conferrace
when the Emperor Francis Joseph was limits fixed by the armistier as the true outgoings included payment in a few appoint a Commission to visit India, the tin Austro-Hungarian Empire together, of Paris has given its final decisions odvertising, rent, and offer
vegtributors. cost of
cost of paper and printing, Dutch Indies, Straits Settlements, China, and when he dies it is bound to break all these points. Thus, almost the whol
expenses. My Masse contended that the profits up into a number of siall States Theof the Hungarian coal fields are now in Japan, the United States, or such of these we shall be faced with all the troubles of the hands of the Rumanians stopping personal, qualifications that the capital were earned by him by reason of his countries as may be advisable to inquies greater Balkans." Old Francis Joseph, the industries of the country, and com- expended on the journal was insignicant into the export trade of cotton textiles sed away and his "heterogeneous and preventing the Hungarians from
having outstayed his welcome, at length plicating the question of transportations compared with the personal
qualifca tions required to earn the proots; and, from the United Kingdom to the Far Empire only held together for a fewfording their main centres of population duty by virtue of paragraph (t) uf Sec- that he was exempt from excess prosts months longer. Whether it would have ur exporting their steplus productstion 39 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1916, East, and to recommend steps for its broken up under normal conditions the their neighbours. preservation and extension.
propbets were never given the opport unity of proving, because the Habsburg of the old Eaipire, German-Austria Ends Rut of all the four unhappy daughtere Mr. E. F. Crowe, the British Commer- Empire breathed its final breath in the hemelt in the worst, position under the cial Counsellor at Tokio, explained the world war, in the Enni triumph of deine austria has no fead sources of her midst of the prolonged thunders of the new ethnological grouping of the States, position as regards the Japanese manu- cracy over the monarchist principle.wn. in former times she was capable Hardly a tear as shed over the corpse of producing about 50 per cent, of er facture of, and competition in," cotton textiles.
But now, within a year of the passing or requirements in corn, and her other of the old order, the heterogeneous races food supplies, came from her neighbours which formed the old Empire having no She is dependent on Galicia and Bohemia ethnologien connection with one #1- other, are beginning unwillingly to re- now has four out of 100 Factories left for potatoes: for sugar on Bohemia (she cognise that the Monarchy had its ass, within her boundaries); for meat on and played a role in the life of each of Hungary; for pork en 'Serbia; for beans the new Republies, for which, up to the on Croatia and Dalmatia: for wheat on present, it has been impossible to End Rungary and for caal on Lohemia and a suitable substitute. four races enjoyed some theasure of peace the dissolution of the Monarchy and the Under its sway Poland. Thus, it will be sen that with and prosperity through centuries of farmansion of four independent Repub-1 warfare and internal disputes. Those lics, all either openly hostile or at frast ment, said. in his opinion, Mr. Marse The Master of the Rolls, giving judg- four races were the German-Austrians unsympathetic towards one another, was carrying on the profession of journal the Bohemians. or, as they are now
Austria ands herself entirely cut off
ist or man of letters by writing articles more generally, known. the Czecho from her sources of supply for everyd Slovaks, the Magyars (Hungarians), necessity of life and, having no coat of was able to edit the review, from which which were published monthly, and be These peop did not make up the entire enne to a standstill, as well as her rail but that did not prevent him carrying and the go-Slavs (Southern Slavs), her own, her industries have practically
he derived
profit He also carried on the Lusiness of publisher of the review," population of the Austro-Hungarianwars. Austrin. would, in fact, starve but on the profession of, journalist. Empire a it existed before the great for the assistance she is receiving from thought the appeal should be allowed, and He war. Within its boundaries, and under the Allies, assistance which just enables that a declaration should be made thas the sway of the Habsburgs, were found the mass of her population to struggle the profits of
along on the border line between absolute ought to be separately hishing business and semi-starvation.
a proper sum for Mr. Maxse's per- ing My object is to give & general idea sonal contributions and for his work as of the state in which the disintegrated
editor. component parts of the old Austro
The Lords Justices concurred, and the
non-British tea has been removed.
BRITISH TRADE
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FÜR
APRIL
LONDON, May 7th. The decrease in imports is £7,870,293, and the increase iu
exports, £18,410,783, compared with April last year.
RACING AT HOME.
"The United States has also co-operated THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
and has given large orders for machinery and plant. "Thus, the possibility of secur ing large supplies of helium is assured. Simultaneously, practical details, in the production of airships inflated with, helium, have been developed by the British Nay Progress has been made. which warrants the opinion that, in another year, large quantities of helium will be produced in Canada at a low price, and helium-filled airships will be
in service!
IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.. LABOURITE AMENDMENT
REJECTED.
LONDON, May 7th.
In the House of Commons, in the couran of the Budges debate, a Labour amend menti opposing imperial preference, especially with respect to tea, was rejected
by 262 votes 10 63.
·LATER.'
LONDON, May 7th. The result of the Two Thousand Guineas is as follow:-
THE PANTHER BECHAN
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Twelve ran. "The Panther" won by a neck from Buchan." Three-quarters of a length separated the second and third.
Betting: 10 to 1 The Panther," 100 108 "Buchan," and 100 to 6 "Dominion."
GERMAN
EARLIER CABLES.
EAST AFRICANA A.CAMPAIGN.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "CHINA MAIL."'] EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER. ·
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SINGAPORE, May 8tb.. An exciting incident occurred aboard the American steamer Santa Cruz while coolies were unloading cargo. A grenade exploded, wounding several coolies.
It appears that the grenade was one of 1 cargo which the vessel had carried to Vladivostock and which in some way had slipped amongst the return cargo.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, a leper was finer $10 for stealing, in earthenware pot
from a junk.
son
At Christ Church, Yekubama, on April 8th Mr. Oswald Vittor Lansing, of Mr. and Mrs. George Lanning, Shanghai, was
married to Miss Enid
INTERVIEWED.
E. A. Janion, of London.
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LONDON. May th
Major, George C. Wheeler. V.C.. son
of
von Lettow Vorinck, Commander of the German Colonial troops in East Africa, During the budges debate, moving the in an interview, said that his army anti-preference amendment. Mr. Tom at the outbreak of war, consisted of 200 Shaw-declared that the India and Cylon whites and 2,000 Askaris, but the num ten industry required no help, and pre-Hers increased to 2,000 Europeans and ference would injure China which could 1000 natives, retaliate and injuro Lancashire far more then we could possibly benefit India.
Mr. Chamberlain, replying, contended that preference would result in improving the quality or reducing the price of tea in Britain and developing the ten indus
try in India and Ceylon. We were only
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Poles. Rumanians, Italians, Alban. iap and other tribes, possessing little racial understanding or sympathy to wards one another.
which
follows: this part of this Act applies are all The trades and businesses, to which trades or businesses (whether continuous- married on in the United Kingdom. or carried on or not) of any description owned or carried on in any other place,
persons ordinarily United Kingdom except
resident in the (c) any fession the profits of which are dependent mainly on the personal qualifications penditure is required, or only capital the person by whom the profession is carried op. and in which no capital-ex-
amount." expenditure of a comparatively small
from publishing a magazine was derived The Crown submitted that the income
and was liable to the duty. primarily from the sale of a commodity,
Д
At the Armistice, the force was reduced coveted his friend's bed, and after kick the Conference of Paris the final adjust Illogical. unjust, and reactionary as theplex and delicate organisation that exista
to 250 whites and 1200 Askaris by losses. The force covered nearly 42,000 miles in the course of fighting, and for many months running, no European news reached thein.
The news of the Armistice was obtain-
But
however
Three of the four main component Parts of the Austro-Hangarian Empire Hungarian Empire now find themselves. appeal was allowed, and the declaration Jugo-Slavs were constantly agitating and freedom, of which each has dreamt the appeal.
amely, Hungary, Bohemia, and the when the millennium of independence made. Mr. Maxse was given the costs of offor their freedom from the German so often in the past, has at length spine Austrian rule of Vienna. But for years to be realised. But it is only fair to say GENERAL VON LETTOW VORBECK Maud Janien, daughter of Mr. and Mrsamelioration of their lot. The arbitray that the dream has been realised at the the past. What the world believed to be they struggled in vain, with little or no
end of the most terrible upheaval the merely a dynastie autoeracy and what annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina world has ever known, and that there that Monarchy foolishly did its best to was a retrograde move, which seemed to fore, the supply, economic, and financial offer their dreams less possibility of problems are vastly more difficult and prove itself to be--was in reality an A Paris message states that General Dr. and Mrs, Edwin Wheeler, of Yoko, realisation than even in the future. The complex than the original organisers a rily, vitally essential to the life and economie, financial, and, central autho world-war was required to realise the liberty had ever imagined. hamn, was the guest at a reception held fuller ambitions of the Hungarians, in his honour on April 3rd at the Czech-Slavaks, and Jugo-Slavs, who crisis that thinking men are beginning thority under any other name would Thus it is only in the midst of this development of each of the racial group. Unicty, Yokohama. Major Wheeler was separate Stats ench with, or without, Monarchy stand for in the past and to than the Habsburgs, but it would seem ings of the old Empire. Any other ar now for the first time find themselves to understand what the presented with a handsome gold cigaretten form of Government of its own choos: appreciate the logical role it played in that modern democracies are only pre- Habsburg have done just as yell-ur even better-- case from friends in the community.
ing, or undergoing the unpleasant pro the life of the different races which compared to accept a Royni Flouse as their cess of endeavouring to select one, and posed the old Empire. That Monarchy Two Chinese friends used to incet to carry with dignity its divided share of problem is to find a substitute, with some plete freedom, owing to commercial and se clothe it with sufficient authority to has gone probably for ever, and now the supreme governing authority where they are unable to exercise their own com- gether at Yaumati and make ibeir, beda he former sceptre of the Habsburgs. form of recognised and constituted in the street the-day-one of the men
A FORMIDABLE, PROBLEM.
&nancial limitations, “ Of all the formidable problems facing void created by its sudden termination. authority, which can fill the immense
On a modern battleship, the most com- ing him out, stabbed him twien. The ment of boundaries between the various old regime seems under the searchlight a separate entity, the entire control assailant way arrested and taken before ethnological groupings within the old of modern democracy, the old Habsburg situated somewhere in the bowels of the in action is exercised from a small room Mr. R. O. Hutchison, at the Magistracy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Monarchy ret played a role for which ship safe from the enemy's fire; which,
uleans of fading a moins vivendi, or, yesterday, and was sentenced him to six rather, economic existence, for each
not even the most far-sceing of men wave I believe, is known as the "distributing it predit during its existence. Looked wecks' hard lateur,
people, is likely to prove the most difat from the purely ethnological Monartion. This little chamber mus ficult." Only two of these newly-formed ehy in Great Britain. it had little or no af telephone and highly sensitive instru- The Hoo, Mr. H.E. Pollock, K.C., the Republics Austria and Hungary--are justification for its continuance.
ments-collects and coordinates the in- President of the local branch of the quietly waiting for the Conference of it is only under the stress of present- doing what foreign nations had done for ed from a motor-eyclist who started from Society of St. George, informs us that Paris to settle their final frontiers and day necessities, when alternatives which the vessel during the course of an formation received from every part of Fears without complaint. In foreign the frontier to carry orders to the the "accounts" in connection with the Jagb-Slavic, acting on the principle millenniuh have been tried-and failed. with the distributing station the ship political futures. Czecho-Slovakia and were formerly thought to ensure the engagement.. If anything goes amis #nation chose to raise the issue, the whole British, but took the wrong route and
Empire would-be ready to meet it,
entertainment given by members of the that possession is nine-tenths of the law, that constituted authorities,
Tosis at least 90 per cent. of her con- was taken prisoner on November 13 Society to the Warrant Officers, N.C.O's, which they deem they have a legitimate are being appreciated
are occupying every yard of territory to bad they may have seemed at the time. Honarchy played inuch the same role bined efficiency. Now, the Habeburg Captain Wedgwood Bean contended The motor-cyclist's despatches contained and men of the local, Natal and Mili ethnological claim, or of which they merite.
at their true that preference infringed the Most the order to suspend hostilities.
anongst the various race of the old tary Forces on Inst St. George's Day have a strategical or economic need, so favoured-nation" Treaty with China.
have been made up and show a balance as to be able to show some kind of a thought in regard to the world settle of a modern battleship.
There would seem to be two schools of Empire as does the distributing chamber Although it in hand of $355.19. It is proposed to fuit necumpli when presenting their ment of the nations. There is the eth-was never appreciated at the time, it was hand this amount over to the Rev. Mr. case at the Peace Tribunal.
Bological standpoint-the first favourite only the Monarchy which made the econo 800 MILES AN HOUR.
Hastings, R.N., and the Rev. Mr. Thus, the Czecho-Slavaks have the most of President Wilson--and there is, the mic and financial life of the various Captain Bean contended that prefer-
GENERAL SEELY'S DREAM OF
tion with further entertainments to the to be members of the Eutente, to have to loom larger and larger in the eresection of peoples Vienna stands about Bundle C.F., to be expended in connec ambitious programme, because they claim economic standpoint, yhich is beginning i States possible, and Vienna, was the clearing-house of its heterogeneous col- ence would endanger London as an entre
Warrant Officers, N.C.O's, and men of fought by their, side in the war, and of thinking men. AERIAL TRAVEL"
The reality is bound pot of trade in China, tea.
H.M. Naval and Military Forces now have, therefore, a right to claim favour to be a combination of the two. For twenty kilometres away from the fron- Mr. Chamberlain declared that pre-
Istationed in the Colony. Major-General Seely, the chief British
ed treatment over the Hungarians and many years it has been the settled printiers of Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary. ference would not interfere with the representative on the Imperial Air Com
German-Austrians, the former of whom ciple of European diplomacy that small The capital contains 2,200,000 inhabit entrepot trade.
Licut-Col. G. A. Derrick, C.BE.,only recanted at the last minute by with Slates constitute a danger to the peace outs. It was ideally situated as the mission, who flew to Paris in record LATER, The Labour amendment to reduce the discovery has resulted in obtaining an Singapore, April 30th In retiring Anglo-French-Italian offensive,
time, states that a remarkable chance beer Corps, states, in orders, dated front, thus ensuring the success of the port this contention is to be found in the sent of the Government and the centre of V.D., Commandant, Singapore Volun drawing forty divisions from the Piave of the world, and ample evidence to sup capital of the old Empire, and as the tea duty to three-pence was rejected by increased speed for aeroplanes.
whilst history of the Balkan States since the trade and commerce. But now that the 285 to 63.
from the command of the S.V.C. Ithe latter remained in arms to the end. Treaty of Berlin,
old Empire han disintegrated into four It was decided to cover in the passen- desire to express my sincere thanks to In pursuance of this policy, they have COLONIAL CIVIL SERVANTS. comfort and convenience of important corps for the loyal support and co-opera shows a higher percentage of Magyars of small States, thus increasing, instead fed and clothed, finds itself in the same
gers' seat on a D. H. 4 aeroplane, for the all Officers, N/CO's and men of the occupied territory
Yet one result of the world war seems component parts, each with its own whose population likely to be the creation of a number: capital and self-chosen Government, Vienna, with its huge population to bo AN ANOMALOUS" REGULATION.
personages travelling by air between tion they have so consistently accorded than Czecho-Slovaks, and have, absorbed of diminishing, the evil. To counteract London and Paris, and it was found me throughout my period of office, and within their boundaries three and a half this undesirable consummation of the position as Othello, with his "occupa LONDON, May th
that the cabin decreased the resistance particularly in the carrying out of the million German Austrians, who are natural desire for freedom, it is proposed In the House of Commons, Mr. Gideon offered to the air, with a consequent induties which the corps has been called entirely cut off from, their ethnological to form a species of international police busy thinking of some means of filing The people of the old capital are too Marray referred to the hardship accruing crease of speed of about ten miles per upon to perform during the period of brothers in Austrin proper, and who, in of the Greater Powers, which "will re to Colonial Civil Servants owing to the hour, an increase which would other the war.
their stomachs to bother much abgát. regulation which provides that any wise only have been attained by adding again take up peace
Although you are about to consequence, were unable to secure repregulate the mutual relations of those who their future. But the future prospecte official, promoted or transferred from one about ninety, horse-power to the engine impress upon all ranks the necessity been held throughout the country. Thus, guard their own interests in the future of the city are not bright. Its import
duties I would sentation at the elections which have just are too puny and insignificant to safe. Colong to another to a post of, or exceed ing, £600
capacity annually, must pay his own
which still exists for keeping up the President Wilson's principle,
Ence, and former prosperity already seen that In other words, the Great Powers Proto belong to the realm of history: The General Seely who was the guest standard of training, so that the corps every people has the right to choose its pose to find n substitute for the central former caprial is now a city with passage and
Mr. Murray. expenses. od for
recently at a dmner given at the Ritz may at any time be ready take its own Government, the Eng it shall live authorities based on Monarchist prin-industries at a standstill and the majo which, frequently compelled higher paid Hotel by: Bir. George hidel on the funt heat in any unforeseen emergency, an dei, called out how than angady gone the world ratadigan
Riddell to full part under, or Selbstbestimmungsrecht." ciples which have disappeared during rity of its population out of work. for officials to decline transfers and Tired by air experts that there was no good bye mctions for which they w
were
and good luck let me by the board, and, unless the principle of fitted.
eminently
reason why aeroplanes should not travel draw your attention to the corps" motto equity and fair play can be rigidly en Colonel Amery, replying, said he did at 800 miles an hour before long, which Let it be your constant aims to maintain forced by the League of Nations, we shall not believe such cases were frequent, but would enable one to breakfast in London the corps in all respects:-In Orient merely see the old Austro-Hungarias undertook further to consider the matter. and lunch in New York.
Empire converted into a greater Bal
Mr. Chamberlain emphatically denied tbis.
Primus.
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JM ROLE OF THE MONARCHY: A
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tion gone.***
Austria is now reduced to some 500,000
are able to appreciate the peculiar rale The trade has disappeared, and Vienna. Thus it is that for the first time inhabitants whose trade can never supe part a capital containing over 2 000,000, played by the Habsburg Monarchy in bas ceased to be the centre of government
(Continued at foot of next column.) of a vast Empire.-Daily Telegraph,