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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH XEUTER'S 4QANCE.]
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
BRITAIN MOST KEEP HER
POWDER DRY."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER
HOOURTS-MARTI AIL
“COMMITTEE.
IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS.
LONDON, November 20th.
The Committee appointed to inquire into the procedure of military Courts Martial recommends the abolition of be Regimental Courta-Martial
CAIRO ARRESTS-
EFFECT OF STRONG MEASURES.
CAIRO, November 26th. The situation has much improved as result of the stronger measures adopted, and the tone of the native Press has, also, considerably improved.
The Minority Report further recomcluding that of the nephew of meads the abolition of District Courts Nationalist leader..
EXCHANGE OF
PRISONERS.
MR. O'GRADY'S MISSION.
MELBOURNE, November 9th. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, Minis-Martial. tar for the Navy, in a speech, said that be whole-heartedly supported the League of Nations, but Britain should keep ber powder dry because she could not close ber eyes to the preparations which Japan and America were making in furtherance of their policy in the Pacific.
THE PEACE TREATY.
SUPREME COUNCIL SENDS A NOTE
TO GERMANY.
PARIS, November 25th.
A Havas message says:—. The Big Five met yesterday, and a Nate was sent to the German Government on account of the sudden departure of the German delegates, thus impeding the ratification of the Peace Treaty. French circles assume that behind this manoeuvre are military and reactionary influences seeking to hold up the Treaty, thus pre- venting Germany's disarmament and the -consolidation of a Democratic regime.
ALSACE-LORRAINE.
NEW DECLARATION BEING PREPARED.
PABIS, November 25th.
A. Havas message says:—
The twenty-four newly elected Deputies in Alsace Lorraine will meet at Stras bourg to-day, and write down & solemn declaration to be proclaimed at the first meeting of the new Chamber of Deputies on December 8th.
AVIATION,
SIGNED.
FRANC SWISS AIR CONVENTION
AR18, November 25th. A Havas pesenge says":- Freach delegates have concluded an Air Convention with Switzerland.
THE FIUME IMPASSE,
ZARA RAID STRONGLY CON DEMNED.
Paris, November 25th.
COPENHAGEN, «November 18th, « The Degotiations between Mr. O'Grady and M. Litvinoff regarding the exchange of prisoners have begun.
*** SHOT AT DAWN.
VILLA'S CHIEF LIEUTENANT.
El Paso, November 28th.
General Felipe Angeles, who was Villa's chief lieutenant, was sentenced to death by the Carranza Government at a court-martial in the evening and was executed the following morning at dawn.
AMERICAN COAL MINERS
STUBBORN STRIKERS PUT IN
PRISON.
NEW YORK, November 26th. A message from Sheridan (Wyoming) states that the coalminers at Carneyville, who refused to return to work, have been rounded up by the United States soldiers and put in gaol,
IMPERFECT CABLES
INCREASED ERRORS IN TRANSMISSION.
LONDON, November 28th
リ
In the House of Commons, Sir W. H. Cowan affirmed that cable from Aus tralia were
rarely transmitted without mutilation, thus necessitating repetition.
now
The Rt. Hon. A. H. Illingworth,. replying, pointed out that the pressure, on cables which existed in wartime bad not yet ceased, consequently the risk of error in tranmission exceeded that in normal times, but there was no reason to think that the percentage of errors hed greatly increased. The cable autho- ritles concerned had assured him that every effort was being made to improve the service both as regarde accuracy and rapidity.
SINN FEINERS UNDER BAN.
PROCLAIMED "THROUGHOUT
IRELAND.
A Havas message says:** (0) French circles and the Italian Press are exceeduigly severe on. d'Annunzio's latest
LONDON, November 28th. exploit the Zara raid. This is being condemned in the 'strongest terms. It is A Dublin Gazette Proclamation abso- generally hoped that the Adriatic quer lutely prohibite and suppresses the Sinu tion may take quick progress towards Fein and kindred Nationalist organisa- tions throughout Ireland. Such bodies
solution.
1.
FRENCH NEWSPAPER STRIKE had previously ben proclaimed as
A SETTLEMENT ALMOST ARRIVED dangerous,
AT.
PARIS, November 25th.
A Eavas mesange says
The French newspaper printers' strike bas practically arrived at an end.
EARLIER CABLES.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
TEMPERANCE" PROBLEM AT
#
HOME
DURHAM BY-ELECTION.
POSITION OF LABOUR VOTE.
LONDON, November 26th.
In the by-election at Cheater Le Street, the results were :--
a
д
WOMEN IN RONGKONG.
CANTON NEWS-
The women in Hongkong have had a ruE STUDENTS' AGITATION. very gay week-end, in spite of really
1
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December 1st.
The students have brought an action in
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JUMPING JACKS OF PORT SAID TALE OF ABYSSINIAN WARRIORS.
upon the scene are finding life 'utterly intolerable in that fragrant town.
such be the case it is clear that the place
tive Director to the Military Government.dent, to the mysterious horde of jet-black
Shum Chun-huen, the Chief Administrabas lost its last interesting feature.
I allude, writes a Times correspon= who went to see General Luk Wing-ting n Kwangsi has returned to Canton by the gunbosi Kong Kungs RAILWAY AFFAIRS.
The Director of the Canton Kowloon Railway Company (Chinese section) Has given orders that the No. 6 express train should stop. for five minutes at the Tong Mi station as a trial measure for three the average aumber of Passengers does not exceed ten per day, the scheme will be cancelled.
aborigines known to the British soldiers
s the Jumping Jacks, or the Indiatub ber Gentlemen (though gentlemen is- not exactly the word, used), and to the civil population by various pithy cogno- mens which, perhaps fortunately, have no satisfactory equivalent in English. To dally no further with their identity, they are the Abyssinian levies raised by Italy for some purpose which has not yet been stated.
To judge by letters received lately from appalling weather conditions. One might the Civil Court against the Sincere Com-
Port Said, it would seem that certain. have believed oneself back in the fos pany in connection with the recent distar-old comrades who still lag undemobilized, tive mornings, a damp veil of mist and The case has been remanded. and rain season, when, for three consecubance in front of the Company's premises. rain was all that met the waking and
SHUM CHUN-HUEN'S MOVEMENTS. Three further arresta were made, in expectant eye. However, the reveller scored in ignoring the weather. Everyone appears to have had a real good time...
The Caledonian Ball is one of those cheery occasions when all and sundry meet on a common level. Scottish ancestors unto the third and fourth generation are claimed as an excuse for a "deoch and doris," Haggis is swallowed with amiling face, and the pipes are endured with a suficient display of enthusiasm St. Andrew's Day is a red-letter day in Hongkong, and the Ball this year was particularly brilliant and enjoyable, coming as it did after some years of E more serious form of recognition of the Saint's rights to remembrance The scheme of decorations was work artistic, the supper excellent, and people were in good form for dancing and merry-making. The modern darees have exercised such a spell upon most people that the old squares and foursomes have been relegated to a back seat. But, na Fevery one has been busy trying to achieve a certain measure of proficiency at weekly practices during the last month, the performance was quite harmonious
Mr. Lawson, Labour. 17,832 votes. Mr. Gilmour, National
Democrat...
5,313
Labour Majority....19,325 votes: [The total number of electors in the con- stituency is 35,198. At the last election, a Labour member was returned unopposed
ITALIAN LUAN
TAX ON WAR FORTUNES.
Roux, November 28th.. 4 National 3 per cent, Loan is being issued at the price of lire 87.30,
Legislation will shortly be "introduced imposing a progressive tax of 10 to per cent, on fortunes made during the
WAY.
ITALY'S CAPITAL LEVY.
the great night. The younger genera tion of girls and men were, of course, profoundly amused and interested in this antediluvian form of dancing for they
months.
The Director of the Canton-Hankow Railway Company has secured a loan of out, 850,000 to pay off its debts. It is decrease in the trafic receipts, the Direc stated that, owing to the considerable
tor proposes to obtain a further loan.. THE POOCHOW TROCELÉS.
to the
to
In conséquence of the troubles in Foo chow, the Provincial Assembly and the Education Department have telegraphed President in Peking ask- ing him
take up the mattor seriously with the Japanese Govern Canton have passed a resolution support. ment. The Fukienese
ing the demands of the members of the Provincial Assembly in Fukien in regard to the matter. A Peking message states
residents
**
They dawned upon the town one sticky" morning about a year ago, camped along side the white Italian troops in one of Rue Eugénie. They appeared as a very scarlet torbush, with chin-strap; a white dressy crowd, wearing a particularly tall calico garment resembling $ curtailed smock, secured round their slim waista
a broad sash of vivid hues argges with tive of pattees. A few wore sandals; most went of corsets; white calico bags, and barefoot.
the little enclosed sand-deserts of the
The N.C.O.'s carried scimitars and sported little crinkly goatee beards. Fort Said was charmed with them at Grst, for they had money and seemed simple folk; and fer their part they were
cosy, pungent Arab town, its busy streets, greatly taken with Port Said and its inminiature aky-scrapers, its bars," its and, presumably, the contrast it afforded plateaux to the south-east. with their native Villages in the torrid
But this incipient entente cordiale was doomed to perish untimely. The visitors
According to a correspondent, an au consider even a waltz almost pre-bistorio that the Japanese Minister has not yet showed that they cherished some unplea
the
thoritative outline published in Rome gives the following details of Fiscal Provisiona the foremost of which is the Obligatory Loan. This carries 1 per cent. interest. It levies
nothing on capital under £800 and ad-
vances as follows:-
Over £800 to £2,000.
M
£2,000 to 24,000 IT £4,000 to £8,000. £8,000 to £20,000 £90,000 to £40,000
£10,000 to £80,000
£50,000 to £200,000
£200,000 to £400,000
£400,000 to £500,000
£800,000 to £9,000,000...
5 per cent.
1
and deadly dull.
The modern dances, though much easier to learn, are very much more severe on an ungraceful performer than the stately
movements of the waltz and lancers, but, personally, I am with the younger genera- tion in their preference for the rythm and maddening lilt of the spacopated melodies which have set the world dancing mad. Lafortunately, we have not yet acquired
really good jazz-band in the Colony, and very few of the new times have reach- ed us, and, as a rule, the time is very: Bad and the harmony of the players leaves ciudad, both fixed and liquid, but facili-
Practically every sort of capital is much to be desired. Every ale is hoping
£9,000,000
;
decided to withdraw the Japanese marines from Foochow, but the city is quiet.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,
is progressing. The members of Parlia
The Constitutional Convention scheme
intend to have the Convention in Military Government has promised to pay working order within three months. The
all the expenses in connection with the working of the Convention.
PALACE HOTEL BILLIARD HANDICAP
competition as commenced last night The Palace Hotel Billiard bandicay
E. D. Goulding (400) beat T. Lennon (-15), 250-143. Winner's highest break was.31.
results being follows:-
ties are given for payment by mstarinelor a speedy improvement, and it does The declared object of the Load the act do to be too critical. extinction of the floating debt of the Treasury and the reduction of the paper It really was very sporting of everyone cirqulation. The date of the opening af to turn up at the Gymkhana on Saturday. B. Beatwell (200) beat E. Carr the Loan is December 31st, 1919, and it is redeemable in 70 years beginning from 1930.
The second part of the Fiscal Frovisions is a levy, at the same rates as the above, of a Loan on increased expital, due to tion than the existing War Profile TX war profits. It is of far wider applica embracing all commerce and industry and while sparing purely professional work it includes profits made by dires tors, administrators, and agents of indus
trial concerns.
4
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OBITUARY.
EX-GOVERNOR OF CEYLON.
(scr.), 250-180
Tonight R. O. Parrott (~)plays A. eCarthy (scr.).
One of the
sant customs such as the indulgence at night, more especially at the full of the moon, in interminable concerts of tom- tom, fute, and vocal atrocities which could have been heard half-way down the Casal.
Bot
the estranging circumstance was
that those who still bad money discovered
amali fry of the town, masters of armour
tendency to be a little exacting with it. So their popularity soon waned, and piercing epithet, began to pursue them with thiscourteous gestures and deritory
But they knew not what an warrior will do when his blood is up.
The
upon
́gallant, blacks, turned - the small boys and rent them. The feud was begun, for the Egyptian's Lender point is his small boy, no matter blacks to their camp. With over de ball. how full his quiver of them Early one exasperated fathers hounded the of ignominy Arriving more or less in salety they held A soirée musicale of of which they were tarangued by their great length and animation, in the course. leading D'Annunzios into a state of war- like frenzy.
Hastily arming themselves with stave, acimiturs, and any other weapon that was handy, they eluded or brushed aside their
Irishmen, Italien guarde and sallied forth into the, town, capering and yelling like stage to spoil some Egyptians Outside
cafe they
bat ilan
afternoon, though rain does not really interfere with the comfort of people who have nice boxes to sit in where they can mest, their friends and have tea, all the Governer was there, Sir William Rees police stations is in close vicinity to the without risking a wetting. His Excellency from public auisances. Davies, all the members of the Committee, Peak tram-station and yet the noises and and the organizer of the Hongkong Fund ghts that are allowed to go on from Italian officer who strove to restrain for the Devastated Regions of France, talk of all dwellers on the Peak
early morning till late at night are the them; but during this skirmish they had the misfortune to come into efliet with Mr. Basil Taylour, who is to be co kong noticed the account of the Briting the Dominion style of fighting, they suf
I wonder how many women in Hong some Australians, and, being unused to gratulated upon the enthusiasm she has Women's Work in Shanghai that appear-fered a reverse. Nevertheless two women, aroused in the Colony. It is splendid ed in these columns on Tuesday, Novem- two boys, a venerable Arab, and several
ber 27th. the way all concerned are working for looks as if the women there know how to before they could be hustled back to their It is interesting reading and windows were damaged by their staven
the success of the Fund, and Saturday work. I take it the proposal to collect camp vind of thing went on for thre
LONDON; November (28th... The death is announce of Col. Sides of Chance was on the side of Charity Henry McCallum, &C... pwa for once, for Mrs. Taylour was one of the at one time, Governor of Ceylon.
(Sir Henry McCallum, R.E., G.C.M.G.,
her
A comfortable home and this though when the blacks fared abroad:
Governor of the Straits Settlements, from tables, the fare offered must have been of the meeting was the resolution, aitary, panting to the campus!
1875 to 1877 and in the latter, your was good, appointed Superintendent of Admiralty
Monday night was a gay one for the Werks, Hongkong. In 1886, he returned to girls of Hongkong. Mr Garner, the Singapore as Colonial Engineer and Bar
afternoon's contribution promises to be funds for the building of a residential This
Ulab for wage earning women in Shang- successive nights, a truce being tacitly very big one. It looked as
as we have in the Helena May Institute that they might the God- bai will result in the same sort of thing that boy might stall, ate their la communities one has out East, whers haunted the vicinity & their It is a very real necessity in the sort of purchrack on the Bou, make their little part winners in a big sweep, and
camp. Then gave her
solitary females come up against many open hostilities ceased by common con was a well known figure in the East After contribution to the Fund. The tea pro horrible experiences and not a little
temptation.
sought the security of numbers. a briliant caress of he was a Companionship go a to help to one glorious moonlit night the raze pointed, in 1974, Superintendent of Tele-proved, a most lucrative addition and, keep girls and even fully-fedged women peace of
Eugénie was shattered MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S REPLY TO Eraphy, Southern District E was Private judging by the crowded state of the in the straight and narrow path.
frat by the dull humping of the tom tom Becretary to Sir William Jervoise,, : then
Another point of interest in the account And shortly afterwards by a hullabaloos CHURCH DEPUTATION.
brought every policeman, civil and ported by
Major Hilton Johnson, Mahomedans of the detachment, wearying the Association provide certain facilities for those who have served in the war with of the quiet life, had faller upon these the forces of the Crown or the Mercantile Christian brothers-in-arms, and
in the of illness, a free bed for women in case.
camp lay prone... on board the Tamar for the Middies of of illness, and some means by which holi vaguely in the fray, though in
provided-
Major Johnson sapacity he had broken into the cam the H.M.B. Hankins, and at the City days may be
alla distinguished company listened to went on to speak of those Shanghai men whether friend of one party or the who had given up every thing nve years other, as peacemaker or as agent-provo Miss Van der Flier's interesting lecture agu, of the dangers and hardships they rateur he never really explained and saw her collection of moving pictures. had endured, and of their return to And so they have they must
have Bhanghai, where they were hardly ever gene, taking with them, it is to be fear en wrag newspaper reports of the lecture delivered They were quite apremarkable, and seldom ped them. No one had ever wenthem to a local lady by & polion inspector, spoke of their exploits Their mantle of an say front, none knew what high hopes
heroism, 2: While fully sympathising with the point
if they ever had
honour their ultimata destination was hidden who allow their mantles
from all It would be in the highert The death is announced of the Bey, John raised that no one hee & right to chatruct from them and co. out. We-dos-beller intentions, had brought them thither
of Campbell Gibson, the Swatow zhision. policeman or any official paid by the heroism cesses to be a virtue when it is not do their bit in the Great
heroism to
drop from them; degree anime to suggest that they community to keep order or administrate exploited and used as a ser in the ladder the wurst, for nearly a year the affairs of the town, there were, srely at fortune bat, it does not excuse those to sause and enliven a whole bo
from the Churches, the Premier anveyor General and in course of time be wife of: Commodore Gurner, gave a dans Marine, viz., 'a fred bed for met in case Australian bad figured, prcaninently
LONDON,
November 28th, Replying to a Temperance deputation
nounced that & Bill would shortly be in INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA LODGE troduced continuing the powers of the
PROTESTS.
Liquor Control Board and establishing Commissions with real powers of control,
*CONFERENCE.
WASHINGTON, November 18th."
cafe a member of the Executive and lative Colncil. After holding appointments as Governor of Lagos; of Newfoundland of Natal, he was appemed Governo Ceylon in 1907 and retired from that polf in 1918. He was awarded the GCM.. for
War. He was 67 years, old at the time
The International Labour Conference which would keep local bodies up to the services in South Africa in the poobed Boat I have been much interested in the recognized they passed in the streetsed; they three-fold mystery whi
bas agreed as to the membership of the governing body of the International Labour Office; a permanent body which will be established at the seat of the League of Nations to discuss international labour problems.
Twelve Governments are to be officially represented, namely, Belgium, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, Germany, Switzer- land, Spain, the Argentine, Canada, Foland, Denmark, the last name pending the appointment of a representative, and the United States.
THE BEV. J. C. GIBBON.
LONDON, November 27th,
mark and watch experiments in other his death]: countries. The example of prohibition in America and its effects differed from the methods of dealing with the drink question at Home,
PRUSSIAN SPIRIT. GENERAL LUDENDORFF
UNREPENTANT,
BERLIN November 9631. Fax German demonstrations were newed at Potsdam. Crowila kas General von Ladendorff's re cheered von Ludendora, the e Militaria,"
General vou Ludendorff
The representative for India contended that no decision could legally be made because the Council of the League of extolled the Promian spirit.
Nations had not yet come into existence and entered a protest
ganisation of the list,
Mr. Crawford
South Africa amethod of selection
the OT-
ary.
GENOA DA. PORT FOR
SWITZERLAND A The Under the beading " Cenon, "Port" the Information, pubi
to report that the delegates of the con
for the port of Genomichovellaighi
obber ways of bringing the matter
to the lady. It would have bee
non her for obstructing
13434mn2 gris: her'a chṣace to
at Berne, Zurich, and Bale, a COLLYEL 200
dwhich Genoa will have the privilige
and then, if she was 1 trata could have imposed.
Swise export and import. This will be have got its lesson
niser and is serings blow to Hamburg, Botterdam effectively, and would not
and Antwerp, which, before the war, tained by the ap
#plyings || monopolized all' Swiss trade, by counter.
THE PRINCE OF WAZÁSU
DEPARTURE FROM HALIFAX
HALMAX November 8th. Prince of Wales has left here and expected at Portemonth on December
balancing with heavy transportation a police inspects bates the difference in distance in favour open Court, in of Gencar Bat-lately at Berns, pubile £5, tra đến opinion became aware of the necessity for Switserland to have a commercial feet, member of with the result, that overtares wem made
While on to the Genos consortium, and after would like liberal concemions by Italy, the one law in Hon tion was signed making Grenow &witzer land's port
Contine
[smerk
who were forbidden
den by circum
or disposition from being herdes doing our duty to the mer who have her, and to the dependente of the
Will BOOK
to be
for
JAMAICAN SEAMEN 8 KIOT.
Besmen...wers, responsible outbreak of disorder at Kingston would like to suggest that, in adamaica on October 8th. Some men et tes streetmeal menorial, a movement other Colonies who had been dumped there sheld be warted to found a few scholars daily allowance made them by the Govern
with the Jamaïcania, dissatisfied with the Lips for the boys and girls of fallenfor next for their maintenance, gathered at Pakiet oldiers if possible people con-
od with the East to enable the win the Immigration Department during the
The three days previously in shool education.
support of their depand
perj
sumy required
On October?
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