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THE. HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 25TR, 1919.
PRIME MINISTER AND THE ITALIAN REVOLTS AGAINST
HIGH COST OF LIVING.
MAXY SHOPS LOOTED:
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FROM A., BRAUMONT. ]
Mr. Lloyd George made his promised
MILAN, July 3rd speech on the Treaty of Peace in the Popular insurrection against the high House of Commons on July 3rd. as ver cost of living have taken place in the ported in our cable column at the timi Roiangha, and the shops in certain towną „TJILATJAP and introduced two billa, one embodyips are in a state of siege Tumultus TIKINI ... in effect a ratifeation of the treaty, and scenes murkąd the outhwak of the prople's the other to give Parliamentary sanction fury in Forli, where the show shops and TJIMANOEK to the Convention entered into between | depots 'were looted and gonds carried his Majesty and the President of the away to be sold at half-prier unbe thè Repable of France. The following are{people's supervision. «Exciting series some of the principal points in speech, which was listened to with rap attention, and received with the greatest enthusiasm by a crowded House:
The terms are in urany respects tar rible Terrible were the dords that re quired them
ie 1914 the German Empire possessed the greatest any, probably, that the world has ever seen. Where is that arms Aoutlo
There is no doubt the terms are severa Are they just i
Take all these forritorial adjustments. 1 will ask men to point to any w ritorial change in respect of Charmane in Europe which is the fenat unjust judged by any principle of fairness.
If the whole costs of the war had been have thrown upon Germany it would been in accordaner with every principle of civilised jurisprudence
There was but one limit to the justice and to the wisdom of the reparation laimed, and that was the limit of "Gur many's power to pay.
1
Is there any injustice having regard to the use Germany has made of her army in eattering that army?
Take the colonies, In some there is overwhelming evidence that fermany
ruelly ill-treated the natives.
The South African colonies they used as a means of stirring up seditions and rebellion against tir South Africa Colonies.
in those seas.
~
had taken place, for several days pré- viously at the market place of Forli, and reached their eliminating point on Sur- day The public insisted that the frit and vegetable vendors should sell their goods at half-pries, and finally extended this demand go all the shops and all kinds wi As Cowds gathered in. many street, and the shopkurs rised.
were terrO-
The proprietor of a certain boot-shop closed his door in the fare of a muncing mob, and when it began smashing his windows he fired some shotu, This was the signal for a fucious attack on kis shop.which was broken into and looted and carabinieri had to take charge of the proprister to prevent him from being enched. The mob thereupon wint from shop to shop threatening to break into' all. and partly carried out this threat. The
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shopkeepers had to suimit to the pupular will. In the course of the day nearly every shop in the town was empted by popular gangs, who organised themselve and carried all goods to
th. pauper. institute and the public orphan akan. where the citizens were informed the stuff
Tr would be wild at half-price were called to keep me semblance of order tavaly and carabinieri patrolled the streets while the popular. Work
ptying the shops was carried out.
DEMAND FOR HALF PRICES,
of
Since Sunday all shops have been closed, only the pharmacies remaining open. The mayor of the town eventually
The other colony she used as a base for suceeded in getting a hearing and limit- preying on the commerce of all countriesing the destruction of goods, which at one moment was threatened. He has issued an announcement to the population stat It would bolly to give renewed op. ine that all the shopkeepers and trades- and portunity Germany for possible future. have handed him their keys
minde over their stocks to the city authori. mischief by restoring those colonies.
ties, who are to distrilate the goods at meanwhile presents
The Allied' countries have decided, quito half price. The exctically every shop
A
been
broken into, and many windows Atu smashed. In the frst hours of their
large
of thou-
tits of goods. Many (furthe populace
i. destroyer saffer
unanimously, that the tribunal. which strange sight.
has will be an inter-Allied ane, shall sit in Landon for the trial of the person supremely responsible for the war.
There is a longer category of offences losses amoenting to hundreds against the laws of war than the Housands of lire. One tannery has lost
A imagines.
Some of them are incredible worth several millions. The atticers responsible must be tried" Srocery was nearly burnt out the mohl
having set fire to a tank of benzine Goods The
a fair trial-ca absolute will Ket
such as susp, coffee, candles, oil, tinned ly fair trial.
Germany ont merely provoked, but provisions, sugar, and cloth to the value. planned the cost devastating war the of about eight million lire (£300,000) have world has ever seen. I cannot think of been accumulated by the public in the courtyards and buildings of the town.
a worse crime.
+
The world is reeling under the blowhall, to be sold hereafter at half-price blow that failed. If it had succeeded under Communal supervision. The poli liberty in Europe would have finished tical parties, Socialists, Catholics, and You would have had a military tyranny Republicans, have joined together to a sert of Communism for the institute throughout the world.
sale and purchase of goods.
The agitation has spread to other failed Go, sin, no more. To places, and somewhat similar scenes took You that would have been to put a place at Imola, Faurita, Forlimpopoli,
There are three ways of dealing with the crime. One is to say. You tried..
have
premium on militarism.
nang s
Another method would have been to go to the other extreme, to destroy Ger
national existence, tear her pieces, fing one piece to one conqueror, That would have another to another. be wrong, an injustice, & folly..
glad I am
have not soiled beads with Prussian methods in dealing with Prussia.
We
our
The third method was to compel Ger- many, is so far as is in her power. to restore, to repair, to redress; to take every possible precaution against the re currence of such a thing.
conuland Bertinom. Everywhere a
demand has
been made to sell all articles at half-price, or the shaps would
Everywhere the he smashed
tradesinen bave had to subunit. In some places they yielded with good gras, grocers and but- chers fixing, notices en their shops that they had reduced their prices by one-half. made at A similar demand has been Ancona by the crowd. Reggio Neill Emilia has meanwhile been the scene of Socialist Assembly which has approved all these popular demonstrations.
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Feeling over the high cost of living has At been rising high in all italian towns. That is not vengeance-it is discourage Milan and Rome, by the Prefects' orders, ment. The world cannot take these risks the prices, for meals in hotels and
That is the line we, proceeded restaurants have
limited, and again. upon.
theoretically one ought to be able to get should have been glad had it been meals prices, ranging from three
but possible to say that this was a war that eightire, subterfuges
are easily and been entered into against the will of found by hotel and restaurant proprie Germany, but it not.
tors. The high cost of living. ne compare What are the guarantees for the exeed qilion of the treaty 1
prices, seems to The first is the reached its maximum in Italy out of all disarmament of Germany.
the Allied countries Compared with the Another is the guarantee of the United scale of wages before the war the differ States and Great Britain in the case of ence is enormous, amounting to fire and A wanton and unprovoked attack on times the cost of living before the war. been the
France.
with
pre-war
The League of Nations is only-render-The chief cause seems to have
excessive restrictions on the freedom of
ed possible by the war and the treaty that commerce and the
ends the waT.
1 beg this country to try it seriously and earnestly.
rest of transporta
tion. Business
owing to the extreme
uncertainty of
of dealings, figure invariably on commissions of 100 er even Is would be a mistake in my view for 200 per cent. Transport could only,
be Germany to come in immediately. The had by Government quiescence, which, date when Germany comes in depends on after being promised, was often denied, herif
and there is a general outers for the Under the mandates for the colonies abolition of all restrictions imposed dur the responsibilities of the British Empireing the war as the only means of reducing have been enormously increased. Some the price of goods and cost of living to. thing like 800,000 square miles have been reasonable proportions-Daily Telegraph. added to the already gigantic chargo
which rests pon Empire.
the shoulders of the
I hope by the machinery set up by the Labour Conference it will be possible to devise some permanent means by which you can raise the level of Labour through out the world.
PEACEFUL SOUTH WALES. -
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Mr. John Littlejohns, of Fontypridd, described as a famous Welsh orator," speaking on July 7th at the weekly meet- The number of men raised by the Bri ing on Tower-hill, organised by the In- tish Empire for its Army and Navy industrial Reconstruction Council, Baid ther, were some revolutionaries South this war is 10, 100,000....
The amount we raised by loans and Wales, but they represented only a very revenue was £9,500,000,000.
small minority. The great bulk of the. The total casualties of the Empire have minors led quiet peaceable lives, and paid no beed to the meetings organised by the been over 2,000,000.
Let us think together, act together, extreme Socialists. It was altogether an- together. I beg that we do not de true, he declared, that South Wales was work mobilise the spirit of patriotism in this hotbed of social revolution, and he country.
1 Vi assured his hearers that the general feel-j That spirit alone won us the war Ing was one of loyalty quite opposed to That spirit alone can bring us to a real hale by unconstitutional or Bolshevik and glorious triumph.
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