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TREATY NOT TO BE OPERATIVE
FOR A MONTH:
BLOCKADE OF GERMANY TO CONTINUE,
AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY TO BE
READY THIS WEEK. ·
REIGN OF TERROR IN HUNGARY.
ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE AT
SOUTHPORT:
WANTS CESSATION OF ALLIED OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA
- EABLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
THE PEACE TREATY.
NECESSITY FOR CONTINUED
UNITY.
PARIS, June th Fresident Poincaré gave a banquët in honour of President and Mrs.Wilson, and the plenipotentiaries and delegates at the Conference. President Poincaré, toasting President Wilson, paid a tribute to the. high spirit of justier in which peace was drafted.
Henceforth, unbreakable bonds would unite the nations which cooperated in the drafting of the charter of right.
He emphasised the necessity for the enn, tinuance of unity in order promptly to conclude negotiations with Austria. Tur key and Bulgaria, and control the execu- tion of the Treating because the delegates had not been meeting for so many months merely to obtain possession of a "scrap of Paper.
The scuttling of the warship, the burn- ing of the French flags, and the strange re- ports from Poland, were scarcely signs of repentance or improvement,
»
· A „real peace was only attainable by -""continuous creative "work" pn, the part
of the Allies collectively,
PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY: Replying to President Poincaré, Pre sident Wilson said that one portion of their work had been finished, but the other part was only begun. They bad not established a formula for peace, but had drafted a plan for evoperation which would extend and the strengthened in the future..
SOUTHPORT LABOUR
Litt
CONFERENCE.
WANTS ALLIED OPERATIONS IN RUSSIA TO CEASE,
LONDON, June 7th
The Labour Conference nt Southport, by 1,504,000 votes against 183,000, passed a resolution urging the Trade Unioh Con dustrial action in order to compel the gress to take steps to prepare for in- Government to sunac operations in Rus
win.
ABOLITION OF CONSCRIPTION RECOMMENDED,
Loxos. June 7th.
The Labour Conference has passed a resolution recommending the Trade Union Congress and the Triple Alliance. to take immediate industrial action to abolish ponscription in the United King- dom.
THE TURKISH CASE CONTINUATION OF THE ALLIES'. REPLY.
PARIS, June 27th.
The Allied reply to the Note presented by Damad Ferid to the Council of Ten, after stating that the Council of Ten does not doubt that the present Government
pridecessors, and, further, that the Coun- of Turkey disapproves, the policy of its
cil cannot admit that the excellent quali- ties of the. Turkish people include the capacity to rule alien peoples, proceeds to examine the Grand Vizier's reference to supposed religions rivalries.
The reply states that the whole course of the war, in which Protestant Germany, Catholic Austria, Orthodox Bulgaria and Moslem Turkey wete handed together to plunder their neighbours, exposed, the They would remain friends and co-hollowness of this plen. operate in common tasks, which would The only flavour of deliberate fanatic- awaken command idens regarding theism was the duties and rights of every race and na- tionality. If they realised this aim they would attain a great result.
massacre of Christian
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, FRIDAY, JULY
THE EX-OROWN PRINCE. NO CONFIRMATION OF ESCAPE.
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LONDOR, June 7th. Up to the present there has been no ohain confirmation of the fight of the ex-Crown Prince from Holland,-* ̈ "DUTCH GOVERNMENT WARNED.
Pais, Jane 27th. L'Eccelsior states" that the Council off Four has decided to divet the attention. of the Netherlands Government to the possible important consequences of the escape of the ex-Crown Prince, if true, and to request the Government to keep
elewer watch over the ex-Kaiser.
STIL AT WIERINGEN.
THE HAGUE, June 27th. It is officially stated that the ex-Crown Priner is still at Wieringen.
GERMANY. GOVERNMENT TROOPS (NTROL, HAMBURG....
L'OPENHAGEN, June 7th. telegram from Hamburg, dated June 27th states that, Government troops are occupying the city undisturbed. in the recent street fighting. --
There were 42 killed and 16 wounded RIOTING AT FRANKEÖRT-ON-ODER A telegram from Berlin states that were killed and 22 wounded in the rioting At Frankfurt-on-Oder. Martial law bas been, proclaimed, and order restored. . RECURRENCE OF BERLIN».
DISTURBANCES. The disturbances in Northern Berlit have been revived. Four were killed and A number wounded. GOVERNMENT REFUSES RAILWAY MEN'S DEMANDS.
LETTLAND. GERMAN TROOPS LEAVE LIBAU,
L'OPENHAGES. June 28th.
A selegram from: Libay, tated June 27th, states that, on receiving orders from General Gough, the German troops left Liba
The former Ulmanis Ministry has been reinstated.•
The Local authorities on June 4th arranged for a silemn ceremony, for the razing of the monument to William the Second created in 1sts, on the occasion. of the capture of Liban.
1918.
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS,
iFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. HAVE THE CHINESE DELEGATES SIGNED?
Uncertainty
THE NEXT FRENCH MINISTR】 PROSPECT OF A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP,
02
wil be thesolved soon, after the termina- Awsuming thas the Clemenceau Ministry tion of the pence deliberations, a military party designed to support the aims of Marshal Foch has made its appearancs
the French political stage
on
Paxina, July 2nd. fixed with anxious ap
The immediate parpose of the organisers prehension, exists in Feking, und, indeed. Tiger
of the new movement is to supplant "tho in Chinn as to whether the Chinese dele-doctrines. They ses in Andre Tardies
with some statesman more amen- gates have actually signed the Pentsilent exponent of their ideas and a politi- able nationalistic and expansionistio
Treaty or not.
cian who, if raised to the Premiership. would work in closer accord with Marshal Fish than Premier Clemenean has dona
late.
1
A wireless message from Lyons reports that the Chinese delegates absented them. General Gongh was prosent. Twentyseves from the signature eoreminy, but thousand people demonstrated in the nust otherwis, no intelligence is reneh joyful manner, chearing the Anglo-Peking. French-American Mission.
SIGN.
11
of
an
Tardie, the former High Commissioner While it is too early to say whither M..
had a Cabinet consecrated to the polioy to the 'nited States, would undertake to. of
annexation and military boundaries alvoented by Marshal Foch, there is n doubt of the sympathetic relations existe
STRONGLY SUPPORTED "FOCA.
Previously the Government had iming between the two men. THE NEW TRIPLE ALLIANCE ¡struered the delegates to sign, at the sarde. PRESIDENT WILSON WILLING TO time leaving them free to exercig their
discretion, but on
Thursday lase in true tions were suit to them, not to sign unless
Prior to this,listruction so many tele with a reservation in regard to Tsingtaa,
graphic appeal reached the President
PARIS, June 27th,
shal's proposals before the Conseil of M. Tardien warmly supported the Mar Ministers, and it is understood, shares military Marshal Foch belief in the Rhine as a hand, has rejected several planks in.
frontier for France. Premier Clemenceau, on the other
Bolsheviks, Marshal Foch's platform, notably his proposed military campaign against the
When
the Foch urged
readiness to sign a Treaty carrying out President Wilson has intinanted his
the arrangement by which the British and Americans will go to the assist" that he felt it a matter of national unaitieneralissimo he be authorized to issue a
aace bf Franes in the event of a German his panture before his departure will merace. If the Treaty is not ready" for autorise Mr. Robert Lansing to sign on his beh
FAMOUS PORTRAIT
PAINTER
་.
inte
mity, and that if the Treaty were signed oral order daveting all the forces on
Cabinet to insist that as the
would be created which wind constituer letzenean shock his head and re- by the Chinese Delegates a "situation the event of the German delegates' refusal
the Rhine to
fato fiermany in to sign the preliminary pene treaty, Pres marked, crisply that that was a tentter. for the Allied and Associated overn M: Tardion's championship, the Cabinet ments to pass upon, Therefore, despite
led against the Marshal.
a constant source of irritation.
TSINGTAU
The Chinese Government, in declining to sign, only makes a reservation with regard in Tsingtau; it neerpts everything ulse
AS AN OPEN WOUND,
but
CLEMENCKAU LOSES GROUND,
:
Thus far the military party, of which and a prolific writer in the militaristic Maurice Barres, "an ardent Nationalist and anti-Wilson Echo de Paris, is one of the leaders, has made little headway in the Few exceptions, are discounting the volun Chamber of Deputies. The Deputies, with
NATURALISATION CERTIFICATE NOT TO BE REVOKED.
LONDON, June 27th! The Judicial Committee has found
*China desires to inake full reparation 2othing to justify the revocation of the to Japan" by the repayment of marietary or coforced retirement of the present naturalisation certificate granted to the advanced under secret contracts.
Government in the ueur future. A bomb exploded outside the buildingahous portruit painter, Laszlo, whose China does not feel justified in definitive. where negotiations between the railway temporary internment during the warly signing away her rights in Shantung men and the Governments were proceed-created a sensation. Lord Selborne and which, by the operation of International ing. The building was damaged but Mr. Austen "Chamberlain" gave evidence Law, have nccrued to Chinn since Angust. there were no casualties. ment refused to accede to the men's de-H.R.BA, R.S.P.P., was ennobled in 1812
"The Governin favour of Laszlo.
mands.
1917 China feels that it would not be Alexiux filazio de Lambafe internationally, but especially in by the ex-Emperor of Austria and King respect to Japan, that a situation should of Hungary,
He was born in Budapest in 1868, and married in 1900. Lugz Mnces arise over Shantung which would, keep lain, sixth daughter of the late Mr. Han open wound like that of Alsace- Guinness. He has painted the portraits of. numerous European Royalties and is the Lorraine to the case of France. holder of honours from most of the Bure HOW CHINA WILL QUALIFY FOR Tardieu be willing. pean Courta.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE NEW ORGANISATION FOR PROPAGANDA.
EUNGARY. HUNDREDS OF CASUALTIES IN BUDAPEST.
COPENHAGEN, June 25th.
A telegram from Vienna states that hun- dreds, mostly passers-by, were killed or injured in the fighting at Budapest.
There were numerous collisions in the streets" between Soviet troops and the White Guard. Fighting was still pro
ceeding yesterday evening.
BELA KUN APPOINTED TO RED ARMY.
A telegram from Budapest states that the "Commander-in-Chief, General Boehm, Armenians by the order of the Turkish. Bela Kun, Deputy Commander-
has appointed the Foreign Commissary, Government.
Chief of the Bed Army.
'Damad Ferid's statement, as regards
THE LEAGUE
The Chinese delegates will sign the treaty with Austria to which the League of Nations is attached, thereby becoming a member of the League.
China is not animated by hostility to Japan, but by the necessity of kreping her
LONDON, June 27th. In the House of Commons, at question time. Sir Arthur Steal-Maitland said that valuable assistance had been redder-territory intact. ed to the German Government by commer cial and other information from German residents in foreign countries.
inquiring in regard to the possibility of British Diplomatic representatives were
encouraging similar institutions amongst
instructions reached Paris in time.
At present it is not known whether the
"
ARMS FOR THE SUPPRESSION
OF PIRACY,
Foreign Minister Pichon and Func
The Premier's principal collaborators,
mentary support. Even the Tiger him-- The Socialistic Left. augmented by the. Minister Klotz. are sadly bereft of Parlia
dissatisfied Moderate elements, oppose self has lost much ground politically.
Clerical and Conservative Right, staunch him with consistent bitterness, while, the supporters of Marshal Foch's theorics, ciently insistent in voicing France's de feel that Clemenceau bas been insufi-
There is no evidence, however, that the
at the pence table. Chamber of Deputies is prepared to accept M. Tardieu, standing on a platform built by the followers of Marshal Eb, as Fremier Clemenceau's successor-eten if
QUESTION OF VISITING AMERICA Nor is there any definite indication of military party's scheme. President Poin- President Poincare's attitude towards the care is on the friendliest terms with Mar have sounded members of the American shal Foch. Men close
to the Elysée Palace
President of the Republic on the visit to mission as to whether it would be advis able for the Marshal to accompany the the United States which President Poin care means to make on the earliest possible bccasion after President Wilson's return
Washington.
to
Realizing that many of Marshal Foch's iefs are irreconcilable with the Wil- sonian principles, French officialdom is anturally a bit doubtful as to whether the great soldier would be altogether welcome to the present Administration in America. Viewed from any angle, Marshal Foch
. A contract has been signed with the is to-day the subject of more controversy
Nations had formerly signed tempor Turkish slaughter of the Moslems, only REIGN OF TERROR PROCLAIMED British residents in foreign countries, and itsui Corapany by the Chinese Ministryst how far he means to go in the dire
ry contracts. To-day the contracts were
in the form of a permanent association.
Nations must league themselves toge
tions.
A of China.
served to show that there was little evi-
COPENHAGEN, June 28tb.
a "Committee had been established in for the Navy for the supply of arms for dence of sectarianism and animosity by
A telegram from Budapest states that
order to examine this and kindred ques-the suppression of pirney in various parts any Government.
There is no evidence the counter-revolution has been complete-It was certainly the policy of the Over-
suppressed. A "reign of terror" has
The Government has requested" the see Trade department adeguately to sup Powers to rescind the arms embarge, but it is not likely that the Powers will The whole question of the better utilisa-ngree.
ther in order to make it impossible for whatever as far as the Entrate Power been proclaimed, involving the hanging port the Chainbers of Commerce abroad.
any nation to unchain such a calamity as the recent war.
are concerned.'
ihan any other in France. Nobody knows tion he has mapped out the safeguard- ing of France and of French interests by the power of the sword, rather than by the moral influence of the League of na tions but a good many fear he will go too far.
OPINION DAVIDED OF ABILITY: of the traditional
The thought of a military dictatorship.
man ou is never absent from the minds of French Liberals. So, while all classes apprecinto supreme
Nothing had since occurred to modify of counter-revolutionaries, and the shoot-
Every man'a conscienceing at sight of counter-revolutionaries tion of all forms of organisation amors IS IT A MILITARY MANŒUVRE and applaud the Marshal's
NOT TO BE OPERATIVE FOR this judgment.
MONTH.
霉
LONDON, June 27th. Reuter learns that the Peace Treaty will not be operative for about a month, As it must be ratified by the Parliaments
of the respective countries concerned.
had been" respected. Places sacred to memory had been carefully guarded: States and peoples who were Mobam- medan before the war were Mohammedan still.
British citizens abroad was one of the subjects furred to the Committee.
caught with arms.
COUNTER-REVOLUTION AT KALOEBA
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A counter-revolution broke out recently
ät Kalocsa. Ex-officers formed a White- Nothing touching religion had been Guard among the rural population and
CRICKET AT HOME
LONDON, June 28th. Kent beat Lancashire by ten wickets.
Popular opinion believes that these
arins are required for Hsu Shu-chen's the soldier who is in the
ed as
expedition to Mongolia, which is regard. miliuiry manoeuvre in the interests of the National Defence Army
genius as a commander of armies, there is a wide divergence of opinion as to his in the domain of statecraft and And it is Foch the statesman foreground nowadays. and not
inclined to sty at a Ministry too clearly The bulk of the Deputies, therefore, are. identified with the Nationalist Toryian" represented by those in shose eyes Mar- Wrong
The present war measures, including altered except the security with which disarmed the Red Guards. They arrested. Surrey beat Oxford by in innings and us not required by the circumstances shal Foch, in any capacity, can do no
the blockade, will continue during the
interin.
A CERTIFICATE FROM M. CLEMENCEAU.
it may be practised, and this, wherever Allied control existed, had ocrtainly been altered for the better.
the leaders of the Workers Councils and shot the President of the local Party organisation.
"If it be replied that the diminution The People's Commissary suppressed of territories of the historic Moslem State the revolt after three days hard fight must injure the Mosiem leads, we respectfully suggest that in our at Dunapataj, "where the White Guarda
cause in all ing.
Resistance was particularly bitter opinion this is an error. To thinking had two guns and fve machine-guns.
They were only overcome after two! hours hard fighting. They left 300 dead on the field.
+ The leaders of the White Guard have
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VERSAILLES, June 27th. M. Dutasta, the Secretary of the Peace Conference, this evening, handed to the German Delegation a letter from M. Moslems throughout the world, the Clemenceau, certifying that the Treaty modern history of the Government en to be signed is identical with the text throned in Constantinople can be no delivered on June 16th "The delegates source of pleasure and pride.” yesterday demanded an opportunity to compare the two texts before signing the Turk, in happier circumstances, -with
The reply concludes by suggesting that fled to Berbin This would have required several days. less: complicated and less difficult condi M. Clemencony's certificate meets this tions, with evil tradition, corruption and objection.
intrigue severed, perhaps forgotten, should add lustre to his country and his religion by other qualities than the cour age and the discipline he has always so conspicuously displayed.
THE AUSTRIAN TREATY.
TO BE READY THIS WEEK.
PARIS, June 7th.
The Austrian Treaty has been nearly completed.
The clauses will be ready
If Damad Ferid is able to initiate the intensive, economic, and intellectual cul- ture to which he referred, he will deserve certainly to receive all the assistance the Allies are able to give,
THE IRIS QUESTION,
IN THE HANDS OF M.
CLEMENCEAU. ⠀ 14:
"PARIS, June 27th.
and 47 runs.
Cambridge beat Sussex by an innings and 24 runs.
Notts beat Yorkshire by six wickets. The Australians beat Northants by 196
runs,
in Mongolia, which is quiet and not threatened by Bolshevika.
THE EMPIRE REVUE CO. The Hampshire Gloucester match was fair house greeted the presentation of
In spite of the threatening weather,
drawn.
THE SILVER MARKET
LONDON, June 28th. The silver market in quiet, Silver is quoted at 631d buyers and 532d, buyers with American selling.
"Oh, Baby" by the Epize Revue Co. at the Theatre Royal, last night, and
laughed itself into a state of exhaustion: If the Company get thein deserts, there Baby" will be repeated. will be a full house tonight, when Oh,
The trend in the corridors of the Cham ber is toward former Premier Aristide Briand. The suppleness of his mental processes and his record, Briand's ous adherents aver, would be a valuable numer- asset to a French Government in this troubled period of reconstruction. gether abandoning the older precedents Briand, they say, could assimilate the M. new ideas in world politics without alto dermed essential to
France's safety and
Taur
well
Parliament and reunito al partion in
beuld revive the sacred
radical Left without unduly offending the liberalism that would appeal to the conservative Right.
EVEN CONSIDER THOMAS,
improba omaa formerly Minin
The songs rendered by the Misses Edyth possibility that the Chamber of Deputies Failing M. Briand, there is a remote Hyland, Alma. Waite and Dorothy Sutton as Premier a Moderate Socialist of the might swing further to the Left and elect In commenting on the Peace Terms, the were very popular numbers, and the Albert Saturday Beviri says:It is impossible audience seemed to want more and more tar of Munitions, would be sure of the but this is extremely not to pay our tribute of admiration and of these artistes. The latest recruits to antipathy of the Nationalists and by no
M gratitude to the statesmanship of Mr.
idealism of President Wilson the expan. The former is a clever instrumentalist Premier Clemences are continged, almost anxiety of M. Clemenceau, the academie' appeared for the second time resterday. far more advanced doctrings than his own Lloyd George Between the natural the Company, Manelli and Fanny, majority of his comrades have espensed means sure of Socialist support, for the Peace Conference is concerned, the Irish
nive views of Bignor Orlando, and the question is left in the hands of M. Minister had a very dificult courso to on the stage were not greatly appreciated.
the fatin's attacks upon Clemenceau. Mr. Frank E. Walsh and atte honourably into terhely The latter sings Spanish and Italian songs hate himself up deprives him not merel
insistent plaints of Belgium, the Prime and imitator, but some of his mannerisms daily: Demanding They will be replaced by another Irish took as his diplomatic maxim a saying of again took the lion's share of the work information and argument. It obligen Mr. E. P. Dunne sail on Saturday and into port. Perhaps be in a very tairing manner. George Rob of the support of public opinion hut of
cestorship, the Matin observes) ji
the abolition of the The solitudo in which the Frater American delegate. Mr. Murphy, well- Disraeli, "I seldom argue; but, I sotme, and justified his title of the "one-man him to think of everything himself and known in New York.
timés forget."
condemns him to infallibility.
made a statement that, as far as the The Irish-American Delegation has
'music hall. "