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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES.
· (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-] DISTURBED · EGYPT."
FIGHTING IN THE VICINITY OF
Y
TONDE
LONDON December 27th.
The Times correspondent at Cairo -states that, in view of the restlessness dis, played by various tribe in the Sudan, which had attacked, British posts near Tombe, killing twelve, Major White, commanding an equatorial battalion, re connaitred from Tombe.*
He was attacked on December 13th by a large force of the Alias tribe, who wera repelled after severe hand to hand fight. ing and heavy ensay loasts. Our Josses
were killed and 9 wounded.
Major White was joined by Major Stigand, Governor Di Mongalla Province, with balt a company, and bas proceeded
THE
HONGKONG
GAY FARBE,
CHECK.
ENFORCING THE TREATY. CONFERENCES IN: VERSAILLES NEXT WEEK.
PARIS, December 29th.
Milied and Conferences between the German delegates with a view to the adoption of preparatory, administrative measures for enforcing the Treaty of Versailles will commence at the beginning of next v esi, --
General Lerond presides over the Allied delegation and Herr Simson over the German delegation.
PRICES SOARING WITHOUT.
PARIS, December 28th.
A`Havns message says - Päris in revelling to its heart's content and prices are soaring very high without a check on the merry-makers all over Paris.
PROFITEERING IN FRANCE. SUGAR RATION MAY BE REDUCED,
FAR EASTERN
NEWS
ABLE
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDIDIT.)
AMERICAN PROTEST AGAINST VICKERS" CONTRACT.
the Vickata seroplane contractTM pro
WOMEN IN HONGEONG.
Christmas festivities are over, and we have a few days for rest and, ocntempla- tion before another wild rask of farewell to the old and welcome to the New Year, Events in connection with these cele brations. loom alarmingly and I tremble to think of the general state of temper and livers next Monday.
PEXING,December 98th. The Acerican Legation has lodged a
Wo badly need a little breathing space Protest with the Foreign Office regarding It really has been amusing to observe the alter-effects on one's large circle of vision of which gives the company pre-equaintances. There has been a lot of PAR15, December 28th.ference in such supplies for ten years awning and surreptitious shut-eye, in The British and Italian delegates ara The Food Controller issues a warning being contrary to the principle of the Peak Tram.
“equal opportunity."? expected in Paris on Monday,
that the temporary reduction of the sugar GERMANY MUST FIRST SIGN THE ration will be necessary at an early date"
PROTOCOL
in order to defeat what appears to be concerted action on the part of producers to take advantage of the general position by raising the prices for early deliverin no less than six or seven times the pre-war level.
PARIS, December 26th.
The Allies have replied to the German Note, insisting upon the signature of the protocol in its present form and re- affirming Allied readiness to reduce the amount of floating material to form the Scapa Flow indemnity if it is shown thas
the vital economic interests justify such
to clear up the country.
The details are unknown but a mutilata reduction.
Nevertheless, the reply pointa out, that ed telegram dated December 13th has.j boon received, reporting that 1,000 of the the Allies bavo learned that floating chemy, on December 8th, attacked the addocks; cranes and tugs have been recently Fierce sold, and gives notice, in view of the vanced guard of the column.
economic position of Germany as stated hand to hand fighting ensued.
by the German delegate, that the Allies will not recognise such sales.
Major White and Major Stigand, 22 rankers and four carriers, were killed. The enemy was driven off.
The Note rojects the German proposal The column returned to Tombe with to substitute for the five small cruisers. the wounded and the baggage.
INDIAN FRONTIER FIGHTING.
BUBDUING OF THE WAZIRIS. LONDON, December 28th.
It is now confirmed that the enemy losses on December fit, were over 200 Mahands and 30 Wars killed"
Some sections of the Tochi Wazirii bava failed to comply with the terms ir posed by the date fixed.
According to anconarmed reports, the Wana Wariris are returning home owing to shortage of rations
Gangsrof Kharadi 300 strong, looted Braband on December 21st. Same of the vraiders-were killed
PETROLEUM. AGREEMENT BETWEEN FRENCH
AND. BRITISH PREMIERS. ·
PARIS, December 20th.
A Hava mesange says *—*** A Notn issued in Paris says that various arrangements with a view to corr tinuous Franco-British co-operation re- garding petroleum were made by the French Liquid Fuel Controller, subject
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mentioned in the protocol five others under construction.
| ́It states that directly the protocol is signed all the German officers and men interned as a remilt of the Scapa Flow affair will be liberated except those charged with war crimes.
AMERICA AND THE PEAOF TREATY.
HOPES, OF A COMPROMISE:
PARIA, December 28th.
A Havas message says:- Paris circles hope that the United
States compromise, making the gutifica tion of the Teraty of Versailles possible, will be accepted on. The compromise is based on the programme of Reserva tions called the Lodge Programme which will be accepted by the Democrats, THE SCAPA FLOW SINKINGS. GERMAN WARSHIPS TO BE BLOWN UP.
LONDON, December 25th. The National News states that it has been decided that the German warships scuttled in the Scapa Flow shall be blown
FLOODS IN ALBACE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE REPORTED
PARIS, December 29th. The foods in Alsace are sasuming alarming dimensions. The low-lying country near Strasbourg is nothing but an enormous lake. Extensive damage in reported. Many villages are completely inundated Iron bridges have been swept away. Railway traffic is interrupted in
almost the whole of the Vosges Valley; Several people have been drowned.
BIG FIRE AT "MARSEILLES. RAILWAY STATION. DESTROYED
MARIEILLES, December 28th. The railway station has been destroyed by a fire. The damage is estimated it several million francs."
MARRIAGE EPIDEMIC IN
FRANCE
RECORDS BROKEN AT LILLE.
PARIS, December 20th.
FRENCH PROTEST AGAINST AMERICAN LOAN.
PREING, December 99th. The French Legation has protested to the Foreign, Ofice against the American Loans which is secured on the surplus of the Vine and Tobacco revenue, as an infringement of the rights of the Banque Industrielle de Chine which were obtain- ed during Yuan Shih-kai's presidency.
NEW CHINESE-ITALIAN BANK.
PAZING, December 29th.
A Bino-Italian Bank will be opered Peking in the former German Hospital
ANOTHER, LOAN NEEDED BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
PEKING, Debember 9th.
A Presidential mandate promulgates the Budget for the eighth year of the Republic passed by Parliament, dito a special Budget for the Railway Telegraph, Postal and Navigation Departments for the eighth year.
The President states that, as the receipts are not sufficient to cover the expenditure, another Bill has been recently submitted
was nice," after a rest. papery to get then again. at the Prix but what a bừa the morning that your tes comes out the morning paper.
I wonder if you all noticed the good news on Monday 29th; it really is rather thrilling für women to read that the Bex Disqualification Removal Act has immediately resulted in the appoint ment of Wamen Magistraten One is particularly glad to see that the chief. work to begin with will be in the Child ren's Courts. There, more than anywhere.
should a woman's knowledge and parti- Quite a number of men went to their cular talanta : boprof- extreme" benefit. officer on Saturday morning. The environ- Women polico are already an institution ment seemed in contemplation to promise in many countries and their work among more rest than orisket and other clube or women children, vagrants and criminals over the home atmosphere with energetic have proved of great value- wives and families bent on pleasure. Their hopes were blighted; a heavy mail.
Many men profem to fear the encroach- came in and the peaceful interval turned ment of women into Courts They into a strenuous couple of hours' hard think our powers of logical argument work...
and unbiased thought are, ron-existent or poorly developed. We, however, do not share their fears; we have a sublime con- fidance in our ability and are sure that the world will be a better pl what we have a finger in the political-juð pie. The comfort we offer to bur pes- Gemistic male friends is that there was
Festivities started quite a while ago with the Maked Ball and Cabaret for France: The organization, thinks to a few Fearnest workers, was excellent. Consider able surprise was expressed at the absence of most of the members of the cam mitter of the patrons, for it these good people had only played the game and made ap partics, as Mrs. Basil Taylour and Mh. Hay did the attendance would have been bigger and more general public sup port assured. It would have been quite easy to make it fashionable to be seen at the Masked Ball and Cabaret, for everyone knows that when Mrs. No. 1 leads Mrs, No, 2 follows.
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People do not seem to understand that being on a committee entails something more than just having the honour of publishing one's name in support of a
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time, not very long Agy when they too had to fight for freedom and the right to
† make the laws which favour them. The
ruling classes of those days were terribly upset at the thought of the ignorant mases dabbling in affair of State You were supposed to have been born in purple before you were credited with brains or reasoning powers and there are even in these enlightened days men who believa that to have been born female instead of male excludes you from the possession of these faculties
Lady Astor's election
speech repro-
to Parliament requesting that the good cause; or that it is up to them to duced in the Daily Preas of December Government be allowed to raise an addi-justify the position they are supposed to 25th in another land-mark, in the pro tional loan of six million (dollars) in he filling. They might as well go out greas of women. It was a credit to our order to relieve the financial difficulty. for all they are worth, for the credit or sex and showed that women were genuine
concluding, arges the blame for failure or success is shared hy when they professed to be, fig.
all who give their names as responsible advancement - and chiefs to eliminate paper
Commitice Members.
conditions of they naked for
A Havas meuage shya — People are getting married everywhere depar in' France.
fiona expert
DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT FENG.
The President Feng Kanchang died yesterday:
In pre-war times the marriage average
is increased to 4,000. af Lille was 2,300 annually; this year it
EARL GREY.
DEPARTURE FROM NEW
LONDON Earl Grey sails from New. January 3rd-
BOLSHEVISM. ODESSA BEING EVACUATED. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 2716. Owing to the rapid advance of the
beginning to evacuate Odens.
[DE COURTESY CEL TIG
On Monday there was a monster Christ | whole pri mas Tree at the Peak Hotel, when 160 children, their parente, aantay cousins, governesses and amas, assembled to eat, | my ser CHINA-MAIL:"T
drink and be merry. It was a delightful
RVICE
entertainment dancing in the Lounge till" tea time and later a perfectly gorgeous Tree ember 25th gally decked with gleaming silver-gold who is now engaged and bright-coloured balloons, while the neroplanes branches bent under the weight of beauti to the Chinese Government, has arrived atful gifts, which were handed to the
feld for children by Banta Claus. Shapeba to select necimal routes. fi progresiig for passenger and postal air lines to Pek in Hongkong and other cities. An
Colonel Smail
The movements of this benefactor of infant humanity will always remain as a mystery to intelligent children;
to ratiñestion by the Premiers of Frane up early next year in the presence of an Bolsheviks, the civilian population is extensive commercial service is being he seems to be able to get about the world!
and Great Britain.
THE MESOPOTAMIAN OIL WELLE.)
PARIS, December 19th.
A Havas messages saya 1- M. Bertholet, Director of the French Foreign Office, has concluded his conver Ations on Turkey with the British Minis ters, one of the main objects of his visit being to discuss the agreement between the respective Governments as to the disposal of the Mesopotamiin oil well,
The French Government would be glad. to be given possession of part of the oil propertács
Allied Naval Commission,
PUNISHMENT OF WAR"
CRIMINALS." GERMAN STEEL MAGNATE IMPRISONED
Auras, December 37th The German steel magnate, Roechling, A chargs of was court-martialled on destroying great fronworks in Eastern France, and sentenced to ten years 10 prisonment and a line of £400,000.
DOCKEÈS. "WAGES,AU DEMAND FOR 165. DAY: 44-HOUR WEEK
FOR PEACE CHINA
for of, the
media
lisey for a better end- cleaner place grery, Of course, you see thit by men the race. Every word the spoke was rane and sensible and fulk honest endeavour to stand or fall by her principles. - She would not hind herself to follow blindly the lead of hen party.
my head and to the wisest hands and shal be guided by both head and here and instinet.
want & party ha don't electio" Lady Astor has the ever ofi the Briino Empire upon her di
Great Britain 11 she lives up to woman to be a membọt of Parliament
principles and her speech
so quickly.
Mystery or no, mystery, he was there. Those who doubted the magic surround- SHANGRAY, December staing his presence were afterwards intre It is believed Abah the Chinese Peace duced to ferther magic and further Conference will be rezumed during the
arly part of the new year General Lu mysteries when a couple of clever co have hoped for in out women Fung-ting has decided to join hands with furore, appeared before them on a tem will be realized!" "We have tang Shao-yi for the sake of immediate porary stage erected in the Lounge. It then if we were giv
was delightful to watch the awe and sense, out hearts and our ins peace & deputy has been despatched to Shanghai to open negociations Peking pleasure expressed on all the childish make for greater is striving hard for peace.
fores, and the, spontaneous enthusiasm, great loyalty with which they responded to the call for common fin, cheers for Father Xmas, and Mrs. Blair, We believe proposed by Captain Fast! Taylour and human Mr. Dick Hancock.
...
An application for a general revision of dockers" wages, with a view to establish- ing & national minimum standard, was forwarded by the National Transport Workers Federation to all employer of dock and water-aids labour in Greas Britain on October 18th With it was 17
AIR (THROTUN ALÙIEH'S LOZNOT.15.
application for various alterations, in JOINT ACTION IN SIBERIAN REPARATION AND INDEMNITY | Working conditions and an invitation to
NEW YORK, December 27th. GERMANY CAN AND WILL PAY "the employers to attend a national con- CPS Veference to discuss the proposals. It in
A telegram from Vladivostock, dated New Ton, Decumber 27thuggested by the Transport Worker December 14th, says that the Japanese List the National Negotiatingllos icity Barest antebees that "The German Finance Minister interCommittes which drafted the 44-hour
aited Biates and Japan hang reacheck, Conference.
Papan to common ground on which joint action in It is semi-officially stated that the viewed by an American journalist, de agreement should act as conveders of 186
The demands include a minimum fiberia will be based day workers and piece workers of 16 per day on the basis of the national ingredinol ters mant for the #4-hour week The
saren App OVER
BALDUTCH BORNEO, NOT TO BE CEDED TO BRITAIN“
THE HAGUE, December 17th.
pers that Holland is about to bede Dutch Borneo to Great Britain in entirely with was foundation.
AVIATION
APTAIN HOWELL'S BODY
BECOVERED
LONDON, December 27th, The body of the airman, Captain Howell, was recovered and buried at Corin. The mechanic's body has not yet
been found.
CAPTAIN ROSS SMITH ABANDONS
FLIGHT, A
SYDNEY, December $7th, Captain Rour Smith abandoned the Trans-Australind fight at Charleville, Queensland, owing to a crank-arm break- Eng..
DRY AMERICA.
TALITIES THROUGH DRINKING,
WOOD ALCOHOL.
New York, Describer 28th, The latest figura show that at least 237.- have died and. 140 are blind and in danger of dying as a result of drinking wood alcobel since the introduction of Prohibi
clared that Germany can and will pay within a year twenty, billion marks as reparation and indemnity.
EX-GERMANSHIPS BETURNED BY DIRECTION OF PREBIDENT *
WILSON
WASHINGTON, December 28th.
By the direction of President Wilson, the seven ex-German ships loaned to the United States after the Armistice, namely, the Graf Wälders, the Zeppelin, the Pretoria, the Cope Finisterre, the Mobile, the Prids Friedrich: Wülim sad the Aquerin Augate Fictoria, have been Down
returned to Britain./
AMERICAN RAILWAYS.
TO BE RETURNED TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
ASHINGTON, December 26th President Wilson has announced that
sou to pazrate.
tion also aska for a payment of the CHINESE MINISTER'S HOLIDAY:
And
“Nice, December 25th.
tic that to fool
I understand that all the children on being the Peak are to be asked to give prgients ind
the children of the men of the Wilt wa shire regiment, who are to base a Christ mag Tree, the first that has been posible for them for sorse years,
The Garrison Artillery bids Christusa Tree for their children. Bome of the officers' wives worked hard to make it
red;
which
develoj mání
kich
cipanseen rus Here is born anath to the Ezst women elected should. mother, and we must all re circumstances which anim of this election were at
The Chinese Minister to Britain, hoa success and the results justiked the work a woman so eminently Féttirned to London 7.
SIBERIA AND FURB
and effort
half for overtime, with a miniride of Lour
working, after hours, and aidat 2.30
9 pm, shall be
full night Other provisions in the application in elade: Where men work on regular shift work, not less than time and a ball to be paid for the second shift, and in
The P.W.D. Christmas Tree appears to the case of piece workers, rats and a half;
WASH91970, December 25th.
have been a great show, and several pri- Saturday afternoons and Sundays.up to starting, time on Mondays to be paid for
The State Department has been asked vate parties were made up for those at not less than double time, at day or the reductive af overtime to reasonable Japanese Government and General organised efforts
by American fur importers to urge the children who overtime rates? steps to be taken to SICUTO
were outside lengths, and systematic overtime to be abolished. Where men work or tire paid Semenoff to permit purchased fays to have dived and chased and golf for two shifts in successim, they shall not leave Siberis instesti of confacsting thexa ed and cricketed throug he permitted to recommence work for 24 tor hours, or two shifts, from the time of cessing: permanent men shall have their
ing the wages adjusted in order that they shall he in the "zama relation to enaaalias Axinted prior to, tile establishment of ind 44-hour working week or, the signing of the new national agreement where oner time conditions, as outlined in the present
vary with local.
pound impracticable, districts to be given power to vary the proposals, provided-tast total amount-paid for overtime, shall pos be less than bersin
After local negotions, sad
litary, mikpozes sud resell-
Grown
people.
bali-
fancy
the responsibility of
{days; some dinners" starte
costume and sume ended in it This DEMAND FOR BILVERounds involved, but it is not; modern croft
crackerg and maske donned on the spur of the the moment can create no end of fun, ; «geous
fancy costumes, - disigned when the
ber 29th
and and Shang-
| spirit morts—I hear a voice suurmering, ment
What Kind of spirit tears often in- for this finitely funnier than those on which and
advance
Anglo
lew thought has been expended.
LER.