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ALLIES STERN
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY GOLOBER 16TR. INLY.
After referring to the attack on Riga THE AUSTRALIAN COMMON-" FEEBLE LABOUR MEMBERS. WARNING TO
GERMANY:
PRINCIPLE OF GERMANY'S RESPON- SIBILITY WILL BE UPHELD:
ALLIED WARSHIPS CARRYING LETTISH
ALLIES'
TROOPS.
CONCILIATORY NOTE TO
RUMANIA:
M. LENIN IMPRISONED BY HIS COLLEAGUES.
STARTLING RECORD OF SINN FEIN
OUTRAGES.
LATEST CABLES.
PAROCGH BETER'S AGENCY.]
THE BALKANS.
FRANCO-ITALIAN-RUMANIAN
ALLIANCE URGED.
PARIS. October 12th. Le Temps correspondent at Bucharest states that the Rumanian Press is urging a Franco-Italian-Rumanian Alliance in view of guaranteeing peace in the Balkans and forcing Hungary to gravitate to the Alliance with the consequent influence ny, regards Germany.
DISTURBED IRELAND. "SINN-FEIN RECORD FOR 40
MONTHS..
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LONDON, October 12th. The official return for the period from
May 16, to September, 1919, shows that 1203 Sinn Fein outrages occurred in
Ireland, including:-
LATEST CABLES.
FIGHTING ‘IN THE BALTIC STATES.
RUSSIANS CAPTURE YAMBURG,
·STOCKHOLM, October 12th.
An Esthonian communiqué states : --" We captured Yurbino and Lutski. A detachroent of Russians captured Yara burg.
NORTH-WEST RUSSIAN MOVE- MENTS.
LONDON, October 18th.
A North-West Russian commaanqué says:-
Tanks enabled the troops to cross the Luga River in the vicinity of Yamburg.
RIGA CONSIDERABLY, DAMAGED.
HELSINGFORS, October 12th..
A telegram. From Reval states that the situation in Riga has not changed since Friday evening. The town is consider
and the formation of the German-Rus- sian Government in Courland, the Allies. reply declares that the Allies will aphold the principle of the German Gavernment's entire responsibility in regard to the carrying out of the evacuation, and intend
:
WEALTH. INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW
.BUDGET.
MELBOURNE, October 8th.
5
WHY HUROPE
DOMINATES
THE WORLD..
WASTED OPPORTUNITIES, Half of the industrial troubles from PHYSICAL ADVANTAGES OF THE which England, is suffering to-day trays |
CONTINENT. the Daily Mail), are due to the feeble-"
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WASHINGTON, In the Federal House of Representa-ness of the Labour Party in the Hous Did you ever ask yourself why is Europe important inquires a bulletin
to maintain entirely all the coercive meative Mr. Poynton, introducing the of Commons. sures already mentioned no long as the budget, said that the revenue in 1918-19 evacuation has not been finally under was £49.750,000 and the expenditure taken and carried out with all desirable £45,000,000. speed.
The £1,800,000,
An Allied Commission, headed by n General, will be sent to control the execu tion of the measures for the evacuation. The suspension of coercive measures can- not be considered until this General has informed the Supreme Council that the evacuation is proceeding normally.
Toe German Government is requested to reply as soon as possible. The Allies will hold it responsible for any act of hostility on the part of German troops against Allied representatives in the Baltic Provinces.
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EARLIER CABLES.
LETTS DETERMINED TO HOLD RIGA,
COPENHAGEN. October 1stb.
The Lett Press. Butenu publishes message from Riga dated October 10th saying that under strong pressure by superior Germart forces. Lett, troops abandoned the left bank of the Dyina.
The enemy is now in the suburbs, but the Letts held the right bank of the Dvina,
Exthonian armoured trains arrived at night to assist the Letts, who are deter- mined to do their utmost to hold Riga until the arrival of reinforcements.
ALLIES MAY SEIZE BALTIC SHIPPING.
:
BERLIN, October 11th According to the Stettin Abend Post, a
WAT
expenditure
totalled
At the last general election the, Labour from the National Geographical Society. political party. Outside the Coalition.pations elsewhere may tapple, China, with members were returned as the largest
South America may have revolutions,
Theirs was the duty of forming an Op-her-400,000,000, may overturn a prehistorie position. Though small in numbers they Business undisturbed
monarchy, and the world goes about its had great forces behind them, and if He estimated a deficit in 1919-20 of another general élection took place £3:500,000
today their voting strength would prob- The public debt of the Commonwealth ably be doubled. and the States was £708,000,000;
"
There was no new taxation, but the old-age and the invalid pensions had been increased from 19s, 6d. to 158, weekly,
The Government's shipping programme provided for 20% steamers of 6,000 tons each, of which three have been launched. four venue of 2,000 tons each, all of which are being built, and five steamer (05-19,000 tons each, to be constructed
England.
"Let a crack-brained nobody shoot at a European prince and every continent rocks with the Armageddon that ensues"
The bulletin quotes from a commaai- sation of Dr. Edwin H. Grosvenor, who tells why the smallest but one, of the six' monopoly of aniversal leadership.** continents produced such prtical
IN MUROPE A CONTINENT "Of about the same size as Canada u merely territorial extent, whether Europe Brazil, one might question, regarding should be called a continent at all." Dr. Grosvenor writes
Never had a party a greater opportu nity to justify its existence and earn political fame. What have the Labqur members done! The answer is only tou clearly nothing. As a party they have show no parliamentary ability, and as Very few newspaper renders indeedmillion square miles. On the map of a individuals they are mostly unknown.
"Siberia exceeds it by more than a could aume off-hand eres six of the Eastern Hemisphere it appears insigni- Mr. Adamson has been thrust into preponderous bulk of Africa, while Asia, members who form the Labour Party. Scant It is dwarfed on the south by the inminence as a compromise chairman to which it, clings, thrusts it disdainfully
the party. He is a genial hut utterlyaway toward the northwest. unimaginative soul, whose kindness t Errope 'does not equal one-fourneath The net earnings of the Commonwealth heart is but a poor political substitute of the land surface and is less than une-"
for hardness of head. Mr. Brice is still fiftieth of the entire surface of the globe, weighed down by the official tal-has be fart upon it dwell añ50,000,000 buman beings, were when be was Under-Secretary at the more than a fourth of all mankind. Home Office. Mr. W Thorna setma to have lost interest. Only Mr. lyns They and their children have occupied
all Europeans found in Eroj preserves any vitality.
and populated the whole Western Hemis phere. of which they were the discoverers. They have partitioned and subdued to themselves nearly the whole of Africa. With the exception of China and Japan they control all Asia and all the islanda of all the seas. During the last twenty- have radiated the art and science and five centuries from them a from a focus thought of the world.
fing were £2,300,000,
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GERMAN-AUSTRIA,
FAILURE OF FOOD SUPPLY
IMMIMENT
VIENNA, October 19th-
In the National Assembly, the Food Minister declared that the danger of the collapse of the food supply was imminent
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THE PRINCE OF WALES
CONCLUSION OF THE WESTERN
CANADIAN TOUR
WINNIPEG, October 19th. The Prince of Wales was entertained to
are
Nor
possesses' are revealed the causes which In the physical advantage Europe have given to Europeans and the descend- ants of Europeans their unquestioned superiority.
ed in the northern hall of the north tem Almost the whole of Europe is sitünt perate zone. Its extreme northern point," Pole, Tarifa, its extreme southern point, the North Cape, is 19 degrees from the
ably damaged by the bombardment Parts.telegram from London has reached the luncheon by the leading citizens and also ment for that parpose-ited np their is 30 degrees from the Equator,
German Government, having been re-representatives from Edmonton. Saska
MEST LABOR TO SURVIVA.
An eremy attempt to cross a bridge was transmitted by the Baltic Port authori-toor, Calgary, Vancouver and other cities attention, and, more important than body and mind. Nowhere does excessiva
Murders
IG
Firing at
people
NG.
are in ruins.
Firing into houses
30
Fondiarism
55
Asaults
Raids for Arms
478
PUNISHING THR GUILTY.
COUNT BISMARCK TO BE ARRAIGNED,
PARIS, October 10th,
A Fiavus message says:- Warrants for the arrest of German otherrs, and soldiers guilty of crimes, during the occupation,have been issued by a Court-Martin) sitting in Lille.
One of these warrants is made cut in the name of Count Bismarck, grandson of the "Iron Chancellor, who is accused
of murder and incendiarism. His ex- tradition will be demanded from the Ger- mar, Government
THE PEACE TREATY. FRENCH RATIFICATÍON.
PARIS. October 18th.
repulsed. Many civilian casualties have occurred owing to hostile aircraft drop- ping bomba.
Lettish troops remain on the right bank of the Dwina, having decided to await Colonel Bermondt's forces are advancing
Assistance.
on a broad front between the Dwing and, the Gulf of Riga,
ALLIED WARSHIPS CARRYING LETTISH TROOPS.
COPENHAGES, October 19th.
A telegrain from Helsingfors states that an Allied squadron, accompanied by any Esthonian ships, left Reval on October 10th. for the Gulf of Riga, pre- sumably taking Esthonian troops to assist the Letts.
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A telegram from Berlin atates that 30,000 Lettish troops are landing in Libau with the help of British Warships. It is expected that they will be employed for
It is expected that the decree proa flank attack on Colonel Bermandt's mulgating the ratification of the Peace Army.
ties, stating that owing" to the attack he has visited during his tour. on Riga, free, passage permits to German "A speech was made by the Prince who ships in the Baltic are provisionally with-announced, amid vocifereus cheers, that drawn: All ships now in the Baltic must he was arranging to purchase a
small be recalled and no other ships will be ranch is, Alberta, with a view to having permitted to put to sea. All vessels en bome of his own in the West. countered in the Baltic are liable to sei-hoped, incidentally, to help a few ex-Ser-
vite men by employing them thereon.
zure.
GERMAN MINE-SWEEPERS
RECALLED,
COPENHAGEN, October 12th.
He
The atmosphere of Western Canada Appealed to him intensely and he would return to the old country realizing that A message from Berlin semi-officially the Western provinces were going to play confirms the Stettin Abend Posz telegram.a most important part in the future of It appears that the telegram from London the British Empire. was sent by the Inter-Allied Naval Com- mission, which also ordered the recall of the German mine-sweepers.
GERMANS BOMBARDING RIGA
STOCKHOLM, October 11th. An Esthanian communiqué reports that the Lettish Government has left Riga and gone to Röden pols.
Lettish troops re- tired across the Dvina and blew up the bridges, taking up their position at the" bridgebends.
Artillery and machine-gun fire is now
Treaty will be zazetted on October 13th. VON DER GOLTZ WILL EVACUATE going on between the Lett and German thus completing the ratification hy three great Powers and officially ending the state of war.
When this event occurs, the pre-war social life of Paris will probably be restored, permitting the night life cafer and restaurants to be resumed.
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, October 11th.
The silver market in quiet.
EARLIER CABLES..
RUMANIĄ AND HUNGARY,
ALLIED NOTE TO RUMANIA.
PARIS, October 11th... The Allied Note to Rumania is mode- rate and conciliatory. It reviews the "points on which Rumania disagrees with the Entente, and explains the reasons for the inbertion in the Treaty of clauses relating to minorities.
It provides that the Special Commis- sion which was appointed to-day shall examine the Rumanian requisitions in Hungary and declares that the Allies do aut consider that the Friedrich Govern- ment represents the will of the Hungarian nation.
... It also emphasises the inconveniences arising owing to the Rumanians not sign. ing the Austrian Treaty. RUMANIANS EVACUATE HUNGARY
PARIE, October 19th.
Le Temps correspondent at Berlin states that. General von Der Golte has undertaken that his troops shall evgouste the Baltic States, including Major Bis- chof's detachment which has joined the army attacking Rign.
ALLIES STERN REPLY TO. GERMANY.
PARIS, October 12th. The Alliest reply to the German Note in regard to the evacuation of, the Baltic, Provinces says that it is difficult not to believe that the German Government's delay in ordering the evacuation was not deliberately arranged in order to make the execution of the order practically im possible.
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It is apparently really impossible to explain otherwise, its refusal to recall von Der Geltz. It suggests that von Der Goltz was sent back to the Baltic States to complete the organisation which now enables the German Government to plead that the German troops in the Baltic Btates do not recognise its authority.
If von Der Colts acted contrary to his instructions, be ought to have been punished. Failing satisfactory explana tions in this connection, the Allies are BUDAPEST, October 12th. The Ruranian military authorities unable to admit the German Govern announce that the Rumanian troops havement's contention that it has done at in evacuated Hungary, west of the Danube, without disorder.
s power to withdraw the troops.
troops. The latter are bombarding Riga with artillery and aeroplanes.
: LETTISH TROOPS JOIN-
BERMONDT.
BERLIN, October 19th.
→
The line the development of Western Canadians
tock would influence the future destinies of the British Coramen wealth enormously..
The luncheon completes the official por tion of the Western Canadian tour, where, ay the Lieut.-Governor
said to-day, "bonny Prince Edward has won all hearts."
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His Highness now proceeds.to the great elay belt to visit the silver mines at
manufacturing districts of Ontario. Cobalt. After this he is returning to the
ADMIRAL JELLICOE'S TUCK
WELCOME AT SUVA,
SUVA, October 8th. Admiral Jellicoe has arrived. He was
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The Labour Party had two possible ways of making itself effective. In the first place, it might have produced sene definite plans for dealing with the labour problems of to-day. I hay pro- duced none. In the second place it might have thundered in the House of Commons a warning to the Government and the country of some of the dangers ahead. It might have forced the Gay- ernment into an early attempt to deal with the profiteers; it might have seared the Psy footers who for so long de prived the working man of his beer, it might have checked extravagance in public departments. Bet it bas done none of these things, and the conse queces are what we see them to-day,
Had the men who were sent to Parlia voices in emphatic protest concerning the grievances of the masses, they would have compelled the Government to pay boreal limits, does excessive cold stunt Nowhere, except in the furthest all, they would have kept the country quiet.
and continued heat sap energy and ener them to-day a
The history of the Irish Party has fority of nature removes the necessity of vate the will. No spontaneous prodiga singular significance. For twenty
years the Nationaliste, exertion and induces aloth, the Labour Party to-day, kept Ireland numerically about the same strength as
Here, where the air invigorates, man must labor if he would survive. The re- quiet in proportion to the vehemence of wards of labor are reasonably sure, but Commons. After every one of the Irish satisfy one day's needs. their own outbursts in the House of something more is necessary than to The periodic the Irish village politicians succession, "the rhythmic swing of the felt that something was being done in the cause of freedom and there was,
seasons: where winter Invariably follows summer, compels him to take thought and therefore no need to kill the local policemiske some prevision of food, shelter and Irish Party, whose tactics, well under slight labor and little forethought, neither Then came the war, and the clothing for the days to come Even stood at Westminster, might have been of which can he escaped, force him toward consequence, they have been annihilated animal state toward higher existence. misinterpreted abroad were silent.
emergence from the primitive and purely at the polls, and, lacking representatio becoming ever more desperate in their at Westminster, the Irish people are efforts at political expression. but the process is the same Despair Great Britain is not so emotional, ing of any effective action by the Labour favour of Direct Action" No Labour Party the Triple Alliance declate in M.P. threatens food profiteers with the from the sea is interposed, the prevailing As no formidable barrier to breezes guillotine, so local riots begin. Labour winds of Europe, loaded with ocean in the House of Common, is still contentmoisture, read hundreds of miles in- to wait and see" what the Govern land, relieving the excesses of the seasons ment are going to do ahout nationali and fertilizing the soil tation, so the strikes are spreading in the coal mines.
"Bones
man.
In
Wise men may well hope that at the more vigour may be returned to Parlia- next general election Lahour members of ment. Let us have, it need be. bold men with strong views, and let us have them vigorously stated in the. House of Com- mons. That is the right place for their expression, and the more frankly they are uttered there the few will be the clamour of local agitators and the fewer strikes.
"The climate of western Europe is mightiest, most rapid and most beneicent determined by the Gulf Stream, the of ocean currents. Its heated mass. de foundland, reaches the shores of Europe, flected eastward by the bank of New- creating on its way the exhaustless fishe ries of the North Sea.
HAS LONGEST COAST LINE,
able for its length and it availability.. The coastline of Europe, is remark.
times as large, and yet, although Europe South America is twice and Africa three is landlocked on its castern or Asiatic side, it has a longer coast line than that of those two continents combined. North America has double the area of Europe. But, except for what stretches along the inhospitable Arctic, the sea front of the two is nearly the same.
"Europe is intersected by amerous vast, narrow, half-inland gulf, and seas which endlessly break. ita contour and
The Fukat anzeiger's "correspondent at Mitau says many Lettish troops have comed by native chiefa.
met by a fleet of sailing ennoes and wel AN INJUSTICE TO SCOTLAND. multiply its length. joined Colonel Bermondt
A telegram from Koenigaberg says that strong Esthoaian columns are marching from Segewald to Riga.
BRITISH FLEET LEAVES RICA.
British Flert has departed from Riga.
The Lokal Suzeijer learns that the
BERMONDT DECLARED A
TRAITOR. "**
STOCKHOLM, October 12th. General Judenitch, in an Order of the Day, has declared. Colonel Bermondt traitor and has expelled him from the Army...-
RUSSIA.
LENIN'S ASSASSINATION DENIED
HELSINGFORS, October 18th...
that M. Lenin has been assassinated is A message from Reval says the report denied, but it is stated that he has lost all influence and has been imprisoned by his colleagues lest he try to flee from the country.
BOLSHEVIKS ARREST JEWS IN);
PETROGRAD.
LONDON, October 12th, Reuter is informed that the Zionist Executive Committee in Fetrograd and arrested by the Bolsheviks on account of other prominent Zionista were recently Entente sympathies.
"In a speech, he suggested that Suva would probably be the Pacific naval base.
AVIATION.
THE U.S., AERIAL DEBBY..
New York, October 11th... In the Trans-Continental Aerial Derby, Lieutenant Maynard was the first to arrive at San Francisco from Mineola It is unofficially estimated that the actual flying time was 2,701 miles in 1,402
minutes and 35 seconds.
Major Spatz and Lieutenant Kiel have arrived at Mineols from: Ban Francisco, being the first eastbound fliers to com- plete the fight.
THE PARIS TO MELBOURNE FLIGHT.
ISKY LES MOULINEAUX, October 12th. The aviator, M. Poulet, started at 8.15 this morning, for Genera, on the first stage of the Paris to Melbourne flight.
LATER
M. Poulet bag returned owing to fng, after covering 50 kilometres
APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE.
"No other body of water rivals the iammparable sea which forms. the authern boundary of Europe--the Medi- terranean,
The dwellers on the peninsular shores Greece and Asia Minor were impelled by the circumstances of their lot to ven- ture upon, gradually to understand, and finally to master the sea. And the sea gave back something greater than mere material returne.
Egypt, Assyria. Persia, India, submerged "Inevitably the old land kingdoms, the individual in the mass. As inevit ably, in the men who singly or in groups
In a telegram to Senator Lodge, George: 3 Bruce, s a representative of the Scottish National Committee "composed, of native Scots who want the right of self-determination, asked the committe to hear him in urging the Scottish York, alluded to a memorial prepared cause. Mr. Bruce, who is staying in New by Bootchmen which he said had been Thored by the Peace Conference at Paris, The telegram was ne follows:--
"Hon, H. C. Lodge, Foreign Relations came the sea, the sense of personal indo- of twos or threas wrestled with and over- Committee, Washington, D.C.;
"The Scottish National Committee, achievement and revelation. It was the pendence" was roused, This was both consisting of the leaders of organizations impelling motive at Marathon, and in all representing a majority of the constitu memorial and protest against Scotland ente of Scotland, prepared a national
the struggles for freedom since, down to the present day." being excluded from the Peace and League of Nations Conference. This was presented to M. Clemenceau and members of the conference and was extensively and favourably noticed by the European Prees. The memorial having been ignar-
COMMISSION'S REPORT ON THE DECIMAL SYSTEM,
The Royal Commission which has been ed at Paris, we respectfully ask your inquiring into the decimal system of committee to hear our plea for Scotland's coinage bas completed the taking of evi- right to self-determination. the signers of the memorial and a mem
I, one of dence, and in considering its report. It is understood that the report arrived at ber of the Scottish National Committee, and that no legislation is likely to result. the Commissioner is non-committal by baring your commitee is this behalf. The Commission, we appointed with in
arrived here, appear.
the Upper House some time ago, under bill introduced by Lord Boathwark in the auspices of the Decimal Asociation
Grozar J. BRUCE " The Foreign Relations Committee took no action on Mr. Bruce's telegram.
to