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IHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 18ra, 1919.
SUCCESSFUL BRITISH OPERA-
TION IN AFGHANISTAN.
PEASANT REVOLTS AGAINST BOLSHEVIK AUTHORITY.
BRITAIN'S SPLENDID WORK AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
LATEST CABLES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ·
THE AFGHAN
OPERATIONS
BRITISH TROOPS PUSHING FORWARD.
SLA, May 10th
The Afghan position on Friday, fol- lowed the crest of the ridge dividing Landikotal from the plains of Afghanis tan. The
shemy had small detachments at Ashikhel and Pirukhel-small villages within British limits near Landikotal.
LATEST CABLES.
THE PEACE CONGRESS.
BRITAIN'S SHARE IN THE TREATY.
PARIS, April 30th.
A prominent authority has mentioned the fact that, although it is not generally realised, Britain's part in the work of the Peace Conference has been almost preponderating.
He instances the League of Nations and the Labour Convention, pointing out! The main Afghan strength is concen- that the latter was practically wholly a trated on Bags and the spurs command British achievement, whereas Britain ing it. Bags is important owing to the claims at least an equal share with Presi--- proximity of the springs supplying waterdent Wilson in the preparation of the to Landikotal.
Our advance troops... under Oen!. Crocker, pashed forward on May 9th and ejected the Afghans from Ashikhel.
An advance was made down the pass The operation was west of Landikotal. successful, our casualties being light, and our first objectives were secured
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The troops at Landikotal are now en- abled to cover the concentration troop, operating in the Khyber area. Aeroplanes co-operated effectively, using bombs and Lewis guns with excellent results.
"FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM. GROWING DISFAVOUR IN RUSSIA.
JoyDos, April 30th,
Delayed
Reuter learns authoritatively that the Russian peasants are increasingly revolt- ing against the Bolshevist Government, especially in the districts near the Volga and in Central Russia.
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League, as the discussions of the League of Nations' Commission have been based on General Smuts' draft, and it was, doubtless, the recognition of Britain's part that a British official has been ap pointed the first Secretary of the League
ping
The raval terms and air clauses of the
Peace Treaty were substantially as draft-
ed by the British authorities.
Moreover, the proposal to abolish Ger- man conscription, one of the most im portant clauses, emanated from Britain, while the British view that the ex-Kaiser should be tried and those responsible for the atrocities punished ultimately pre-
valled.
The authority adds that Britain, in other matters, like compensation for sub- marinism, has more than pulled her
weight.
WHAT GERMANY LOSES.
THE BUDGET. BRITISH'S ASSETS AND LIABILITIES.
LONDON, April 30th.'
In the House of Commons, the Budget was introduced by Mr. Chamberlain, who emphasised the difficulty of the task, owing to the people now refusing to save or lend money as readily as during
the war.
On March 31st the national debt was £7,435,000,000 compared with last year's estimate, of £7,000,000 and, at the out- break of war, of £640,000,000.
The Exchequer issues daring last year" were £3,000,000 below the Estimates.
The catimated daily expenditure was £8,143,000, and the actual expenditure was £7,087,000.
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Taking the period before and since the armistice, from April 1st to November ath, the daily expenditure had been £7.443,000- and from November 9th. it had been, £6,175,000.
The reduction would have been greater but for the expenditure in connection. for £32,000,000 with demobilisation, gratuities and £13,000,000 for unemploy
ment.
The estimated revenue was £842,000,000 and the actual revenue £899,000,000,
The receipts exceeded the estimates by 247,000,000.
The inlaod revenue had increased ander every beading." The Customs and Excise bowed a surplus over the esti
mates of £14,530,000, Di accounted for £2,000,000.
KEEPING OUT ALIENS COLONIES TO BE ASKED TO
LEGISLATE.
Laspon, April 30th.
In the House of Commons, 'at quez- tion-time, Mr. Bonar Law stated that the principles of the Aliens Restriction Bill had already been embodied in the Indian Legislation, and the Colonies and Protectorates would be invited to adopt the general principles of any legislation adopted at Home, as far their circumstances
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HUNGARY "AT WAR RUMANIAN SUCCESSES.
BERNA, April 30th. Delayed.
THE SITUATION IN INDIA. ENGLISH EDITOR SENT HOME." BOMBAY CHRONICLE SUSPENDS
· PUBLICATIÓN,
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A Rumanian communiqué, dated April
BOMBAY, April 96th. The Governor of Bombay, with the 25th, announces the capture, an "April soth, of eight Hungarian towns, includ-sanction of the Viceroy, yesterday ing Grasswardeein. Hundreds of prison ordered Mr. B. G. Horniman, editor
Chronicle ers and several railways have been taken of the Bombay
once... The The population everywhere has been very embark for England ät
Government is satisfied that Mr. Horni friendly.
man is in a 5 condition to travel and has ordered his passage immediately, Mr. Horniman was immediately taken to steamer.
BELGIUM.
An order was also served on the
to
submit all matter to the Government before publication.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN SORE NEED OF MONEY FORtors of the Chronicle requiring them to RECONSTRUCTION. CENTRAL ABERDEEN
PARIS, April 29th. Delayed.
The
BY-ELECTION.
Losbex, April 30th." Delayed.
Central Aberdeen by-election,
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It is stated in Belgian circles that unless Belgium immediately obtains a
caused by the death of the Coalition credit of at least £100,000,000 it will be impossible to save the country from Finionist, Lieat. Col. A. T. Gordon, re-
irretrievable disaster. It was the suited as follows:--
seriousness of the position that brought the Premier, M. Delacroix, and other Ministers to Paris.
4.950
Major,Wood (Liberal)
Mr. L. Davidson (Coalition
+ U.)
....... 4,764 Mr. J. F. Duncan (Labour)..... 3,192,
RACING AT HOME.
THE CITY AND SUBURBAN,
The City and Suburban, run at Epsom. résuited as follows:--
Royal Backs Arion
Dansellon
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Thirteen ran. Won by a length and a half, four lengths dividing second and
which tea third.
It was estimated that the expenditure for the current year was approximately £1,435,000.00), and the estimated revenue was $1,160,000,000, without the new taxes, or £270,000,000 above last year's receipts. (Cheers.)
Mr. Chamberlain said that 34.7 of the total expenditure at the closing of the fiscal year had been provided from the revenue, and the balance. was borrowed. In this respect the past five years bad As regards what Germany, loses by the been unequalled by any other belligerent. war, apart from human life, the follow-National, War Bonds had provided inge is noteworthy Germany loses 70 £988,000,000 and War Savings Carti- per cent of her iron ore, 33 per cent. ficates £59,000,000.
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has The Soviet Government claimed martial law in 22 districts. large number of Soviet agents have been killed in Saratoff and Smolensk,"
of her coal, 20 per cent. of her potash, between 7,00,000 and 8,000,000 of her form-
The national debt comprised £6,085,000,000 internal debt
The Soviet Government at Moscow is seriously alarmed and is frantically er inhabitants, a large proportion of £1,350,000,000, ́external debt. appealing to the proletariat to resist General Koitchak's advance -
Strikes in Petrograd during March were very acute. They were suppressed in the most brutal fashion, in one case boiling water being turned on the con gregated Workrnen.
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EARLIER CARLES
whom are non-German; also her Colonies realised Britain's part in the work of and shi
EARLIER.QABLES
·SOCIALIST UNEASINESS.
AMSTERDAM, April 28th.
Delayed.
and
On the assets side there were the obligations of the Allies and the Domin- ions which amounted, on March 31st, to £1,730,000,000, of which £171,000,000 was owed by the Dominions, and £1,568,000,000 by the Allies.
Russia owed £388,000,000,
France,
The International Socialist Conference £434,000,000; Italy, £419,500,000, Bel-
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The betting was as follows:-6 to 1, Royal Bucks; 100 to 7 Arion 5 to 2, Dansellon.
WAR HISTORY. * LORD FRENCH'S DISCLOSURES,
LONDON, April 30th.
Delayed.
He
A further instalment of Lord French's book describes his visit to President Poincaré on August 15th, 1914. found the President in the most hopeful mood about the victorious advance of "the Allies.
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President Poincaré discoursed play- fully on the possibility of the British fighting another battle of Waterloo.
Lord French says that history will rank Marshal Joffre as one of our supremely great leaders, He says he asked "Marshal Joffre, on August 16th, as the British Army was posted on the left or exposed flank, to place a French Cavalry Division and two reserve Divi sious under hin (Lord French's) orders.
It is stated that the Belgian delegates emphasised to the Council of Three, to- day, that unless this credit was granted, it would be impossible for the Belgians to sign the Pence Treaty.
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THE AMERICAN NAVY.
SUPER-DREADNOUGHTTEN.
NESSEE"
LAUNCHED.
NEW YORE, April 30th. Delayed.
The super-dreadnought Tennessee (14,000 tons) was launched to day. Her total cost is estimated at $15,000,000. She carries twelve 14-in, guns and burns oil, exclusively. She has a speed of 21
knots.
THE SILVER MARKET.
A meeting of the Directors was held and it was subsequently decided to suspend publication, as submission to the sensor. ship was considered humiliating and pre renting the free expression of
of public opinion.
Mr Gandhi has issued a statement
the Government's action, describing Mr. expressing equal sorrow and pleasure at Horniman as a brave and generous Eng lishman who fearlessly exposed wrong whenever he saw it. He was an ornament
to
His race.. Mr. Gandhi exhorts his followers to remain perfectly calm and to refrain from all demonstrations, pro tests and violence.
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THE DURBAR AT KABUL, A DRAMATIC CEREMONY.
Information regarding the importantTM Durbar at Kabul on April 13th is now filtering through. The Air, dressed in khaki, explained the object of the Darlar-saring that be wished to present. to the assembly enquiries he had made and the tentative conclusions he had formed regarding his father's murder and to ask the Durbar's opinion and guidance in deciding all important mat- Papers and files were then pro duced and the complicity of Nurullah Khan was discussed. Some advocated The Amir recom- the death sentence. mended imprisonment for life. which was finally decided. Colonel Shah Ali Ramii was convicted of the actual assassination and sentenced to death. He was execut ed immediately after the Durbar
ters.
Before the Durbar closed the Amir delivered a stirring speech under stress and great emotion. The following pass- age created a great impression :-" The object which has occupied my mind ever since the death of my lamented father, and which by the grace of God through the sincere help and loyalty bath of the civil and military, has now been achiev ed," in vengeance for my Father's murder. Ever sincr bis death 1 havë “worn.khaki, and on hearing of his death I drew my LABOUR BEGINS A NEW ERA Sword and have kept it drawn until now, when I sheathe it once more in triumph at my success
Silver is quated at 38d., with forward buyers at 474 The market is firm.
his
SHARE IN THE PROFITS OF PRODUCTION.
RECENT ARRIVALS FROM
AFGHANISTAN..
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The Pioneer of March 23rd, says three Mr. John W. Dennis, M.P. insisted on the necessity of a complete under Europeans have recently returned from standing between capital and Labour Afghanistan, namely, Mr. Oram, Irriga when
explaining
at a meeting at Kirton, tion Engineer, Public Works Department Lincolnshire, recently, a scheme of co whose services wore lent to the late Amir Hai- operative farming which he and the direc. by the Government of India: Mr. tors of
of Messrs. W. Dennis and Bons, day, who was formerly with Mears Burn. Limited, propose to adopt for the whole
y of i Calcutta, and
M Engineer. All three of their farming and trade enterprises in the Boston and Spalding districts.
courteous treatment The following are the main points of Afghanistan, both before and after the death of the late Amir, and they no distinction," said Mr were
accorded due hospitality Dennis, between the worker in the face their journey back to India. "We under Marshal Joffre was unable to do this.
tory and he who gives of his brain and stand," says the paper, "the new Amir Lord French says he was not surprised. brawn in the greatest of all industries has announced it will be part of his policy capital supplies the to o avoid unnecessary expenditure on agriculture. when General Lanrezac turned out to money and Labour furnishes the physical public works, and buildings. Meanwhile
the Afghan
in India has received. as well give the best results; consequently.
reproductions College pedant whose superior edu.it is simr intention to invite such workers of the letters of
to a large share in the product of both Inayatulla Khan Expressing their sub- cation "had given him but little ident their labour and brains.
mission to the new Amir, qa, well, as Minnalla Khan's proclamation to the PAIRERT DIVISION
Afghan Army and the nation? of how to conduct a war
envoy
GERMANS OVERTHROW LETTISH resolved to oppose any peace conflicting/gium, £86,000,000; and Serbia, £18,000,000 be the completest example of a Staff force, those who work with intelligence from Kabul photographic Thank and
GOVERNMENT. ““
LONDON, April 27th. Delayed
with President Wilson's Fourteen Points, THE FUTURE OF BRITISH
INDUSTRY. and recommended the sending of a Com-
MEN.
mittee comprising M. Branting, M. EMPLOYMENT OF DEMOBILISED Haymans, MrArthur Headerson and others to remala in Paris until the peace preliminaries were signed, owing to the
The Baltic German troops, who were -operating against the Bolsheviks; and who were brought back to Libau esten- gibly for rest, have overthrown the uneasines caused by the decisions of the Lottish Provisional Governmeal
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The coup d'état was carried out with the connivance of General VoD Der
Goltz.
Replying to the protest of the Allies' zepresentatives at Libau, General Yon Der Goltz denied any responsibility, but he has not taken steps to liberate the members of the Lettish Cabinet,
Paris Conference. The committee was
charged to demand an interview with the
'Big Four."
THE BRITISH ARMY.
MORE MEN REQUIRED.
Lospor, April 29th... Delayed
In the House of Commons, at ques
It is pointed out that the necessity has tion-time, Mr. Winston Churchill stated.
now arisen for the enforcement of Clause Twelve of the Armistice Treaty.
NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED.. Lisnon, April 99th. Delayed.
that the Cabinet had decided to recall to the Army those soldiers working on the land..
Only the men most urgently required for special military duties in France," on A new Government has been formed. the Rhine, and elsewhere would be called It is composed of six Letts, and four up, after very careful consideration. Germans, with the Rer. Mr. Needra as They were ineligible for demobilisation Premier. The Jews and the workmen at present, and every effort would be made to meet any consequent inconveni- are not represented.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
WILL JAPAN JOINT
Toxo, April 24th
A mass meeting, held here to-day, passed
resolution, that. Japan should not join the League of Nations if verkeial equality were not included in the
Comenzurt
ence.
Ireland, Egypt, India, the Army on the Rhine, the Imperial War Graves' Commission and, the Department", of
LONDON, April 20th. In the House of Commous, the Labour Minister, defending the payment of the unemployment donation, pointed out that the 1,000,000 recipients included 350,000 members of the forces, 188,000 ex-munition workers, and 100,000 cotton operatives who were unemployed owing to the blockade. Abuses were inevitable, .but he was confident that balf the com
plaints were without foundation. Any frauds discovered would be prosecuted
rulentlessly.
Lord French discloses that he asked that General Plumer succeed General Grierson in command of the Second Corps, and says that General Smith Dorrien was sent out without reference
to 'Lord French..
FRANCO-ITALIAN AMITY, PRESIDENT POINCARE'S
MESSAGE.
PARIS, April 30th.
Delayed. President "Poincaré sent a message to
Franco-Italian unity in war time would Italy, in which he emphasised that
Since the Armistice, 3,000,000 out remain during peace. Nothing would of the 4,000,000 demobilised soldiers and civilians had been absorbed into in separate them. Any cooling in their dustry. That was a remarkable achieve friendship would be a catastrophe for ment, because it had taken years, to change from war work to peace work
The Central Empires and Russia, which used to take a quarter of our exports, wore closed, and China, Japan. and New Zealand, which used to take another quarter, were practically cut off by shipping difficulties. -
Therefore, there was no used to despair regarding the future
civilisation.
GERMANY.
ALLIED DEMAND REGARDING .LIBAU.
-BERLIN, April 20th. Delayed.
"Britain has demanded the restoration HOMEntain has demanded the?
AGRICULTURE AT
APPOINTMENT OF A ROYAL COMMISSION.
LONDON, April 30th
Delayed..
of the position at Laban as it rezisted. befors: the Group flat. The German Government, replying to the Allied pro- test has declared that the revolution was
THE “ V.C.* F.,CTORY.
EXPLOSION:
The story is now told in the English pipers of the terrible explosion on July 1st last at the Chilwell Manition Works. Nottingham-the factory which, it was suggested in the House of Commons. * should receive the VIC for the heroisms, displayed by the workers.
The idea underlying the old feudal system of tenure was one-third to the landlord, one-third to the tenant, and one-third to the labourer. We have come to the conclusion, after careful economie WORKERS HEROISM AT GREAT Bnalysis, that this fa- the fairest division that can
сал arrived at, and we propose. to adopt it
Under this scheme the ultimate division will be The landowner, 6 per cent on capital
and 43 1-3 of the net profits Occapier per cent, on capital and 33
1-3 of the net profits. Labour, wages at current rates and 33
1-3 of the net profita.
No one present, says the Nottingham Mr. Dennis explained that a man work- Daily Journal, will ever forget the events ing for a whole
will participate
Othat awful night. All roads leading ander the scheme to the extent of the to the works were one constant proces profita from about five acres of land. The sion of motor-cars and improvised am- profita, if any, will be divided once a over against the results of succeeding serious cases to the surrounding bes
The years. new co-partners are to be pitals. year, while losses if any, will be carried bulances of all kinds rushing the more
in the Basist
All night long the work of recovering the management of the company's affairs by nominating membodies from the tangled mass of iron Bers to various committees of a board work went on. In one case food and which is to be set up to deal with wages, stimulants had to be handed through hours of work, and kindred matters crevices until the wreckage could ba Women, co-partners will be eligible to sit cleared. For nearly a week the search on these committees when questions affect for bodies continued. ing women are being considered.
invited to
น
year
Many of the victims were buried in one A WARNINOV
common grave beneath the grey walls are the partnership' terms terms which we believe to be fair and of Attenborough Church, and no truer equitable..which we offer our workers," word could be spoken of the men and said Mr. Dennis. Today it is the cry women whose names were inscribed on the terrible death-roll than that they of the coal miner, the transport worker to-morrow, unless honest schemes of pro- died as much for England as any, wh fit-sharing are put forward in agricul fell on the battlefield on the land to strike created identity of all out of ten thousand men, women, and ture, it may be the turn of the labourer All told there were 380 casualties, in- glasluding 134 killed, and yet, in spits of 0 Identity of interest purpose. Under the scheme every one be girls only 14 failed to turn up for work comes in effect a tenant owner. He is as usual next morning: For this reason, immediately concerned in he profits of and because of the heroism displayed im. the land, and what is more, is invited mediately after the explosion in rescuing.
part in the machinery the injured, when any moment a second
Ments the work of the natives to tako s prough the committees Weland till more. terrible. explosion might Agriculture were all clamouring for It was stated in the House of The Zwocifuhr Biatt, however, retre of production.
up. The worker has the pro-
men
Commons that the Government has ap sents it as pan Gerthän. Posetionary_in
Ela of g
without the cares mail holding He was confronted with extreme dif-pointed a Royal: Commission to enquire trigue and very strang condemns the and risks of actual ownership, and than Factory came to be known throughout
Germany he is directly concerned not only in giving ficulties in meeting the manifold needs into the economic position of agricul. coup
proof that the beat of his labour, but is seeing that of the public service at present, but ture and ascertain how best to En needs peace yet
conrage agriculture and enable the pay German, policy.
still being his fellow workers contribute their fair share to the general result.” ment of reasonable wages to labourers.
certain vital needs. must be met,
have occurred, Chilwell belllling all England as the V.0 Factory
Altogether there were is explosions at Chilwell, 15 of which occurred while shells were being "pressed.”