THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY
1920.
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SERIOUS RAILWAY
BRITISH MOULDERS STRIKE FAR EASTERN CABLE
TEMPORARY SETTLEMENT
REACHED.
CRISIS
LONDON, Januer, 3rd, A provisional settlement
bean reached in the moulders' strike, The terms are subject to the men's ballot.
LATER.
MEN TO CONSIDER GOVERN MENT'S OFFER.
LONDON, January 5th. Peace in the railway world depends "upon' the happenings of the next few days, The Trade Union lenders are divided as regards the outcome of the task of Mr. J. H. Thomas and his associaten to per- aade the delegates, who are meeting on Vanuary, th, to accept the Government's per. They will exert the utmost pres-
The employers agree to a weekly in erease of bs. Work is being resumed before January 19th. All strikers will be taken back without victimisation on either de "AMERICAN BOLSHEVISTS.
́GREATEST ROUND-UP IN HISTORY OF U.8.A.
NEW YORK, January 3rd.
NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE "' CHIKA MALL."
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BHANGHAI MURDER SENSATION.
SHANGHAI, JOUary 7th. It is reported that the municipal police are working on a clue in connection with the murder last degust of Mr. Weiss, the Canadian Pacific agent, whose body was found in the Yangtsepo district. arrost may follow at any moment
cil.
CHINESE AGITATION FOR REPRESENTATION.
CANTON NEWS.
FIRES IN CANTON.
January 7th.
Another big fire occurred in Honim, yesterday morning and more than 10 shops and houses were destroyed. Accord ing to reports the grout fire which occur red in Saikwan on Mnuary 4th, destroyed 1 shops. Three of the folie of the fire tracker shop in which the fire originated were killed and six others were wounded Aby the explosion. The Superintendent of Police has ent officers to investigate the origin of the fires as incendiarism is tuspected,
STUDENTS" AGITATIONS.
HINDENBURG AT GERMAN
“WAR" INQUIRY. SCENES IN THE COMMITTEE.
· Hindenburg has spoken, yet Berlin still stands very much where it did (wrote the special correspondent of the Daily Tele graph at Berlin on November 18th), After this morning's warlike prepara- tions one is almost surprised that it is su
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LIGHT ON THE BEND
CAMBRIDGE OPINION, Cambridge, which can claim to be the chief centre of scientific thought and re- search in Great Britain, is naturally keants interested in the discussion in the Morning Post of the results of the astro noraical expeditions to Brazil and Prin sipe to check one of the consequences of the Einstein theory, the effect of vitation on light. There is, too, &
ment of it
Professor
Bure to secure a favourable vordiet, and in the history of the country took place consulate and on the Chinese special the ringleaders. The other students are with anxious care. Perhaps these alarm astronomer, is, I believe, one aut of
be a last resort, try to get a postpone ment of the final decision. T
ference may last three days. Anyhow, n Yezy great tussle between the Extremists and the Moderates is,anticipated.
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In the event of another crisis the Execu bive may resort to a ballot, although, in the case of the National Union of Rait- waymen, this is not customary:
Public opinion is freely expressed that
American-born; but the majority of them ars foreigners, including numerous Rus
sitas..
SIR HORACE PLUNKETT'S
"DEATH." HOW THE MISTAKE OCCURRED.
LONDON, January 3rd.
The Times correspondent in New York the men will be unwise to reject the offer.ays-that. Sir Horace Plunkett was highly Meanwhile, the Extremista standpoint amused at the anxiety of the reporters to Is that they won the last strike, and they know if be' was dead. think that they can win another. The Opposition to the offer is based on a
The London Agency, which issued the original statement, explains that the cor-
(THRUCOH RIUTER'S 'AQZECY. 1 JAPAN AS THE PROTECTOR.
LONDON, January 3rd.
West Provinces to celebrate the event- PEACE PROPOSALS REJECTID,
colleague
general desire to press for the original respondent, giving the day when Bir bood of man, but the hatred of class forment bus recently appointed a General, his hold over the people may be astound-one, but stil useful for lantration, may
Bemand, namely, that 33. na bonas Shall
Horace Plunkett departed for Battle be added to the highest rate of pay of Creek, contracted
Wednesday," into pach grade and the total be made a per-Wod," which was. misread in New York manent standard rate, on the grund that as "died!" this has already been conceded to drivers.
and firemen.
BARLIER GABLES,
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›
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS,-
AMERICA'S PUSITION DISCUSSED.
LONDON, January 2nd. The Daily Telegraph, correspondent in New York states that Senator. Hitchcock, the Government Senate leader, discussed with Viscount Grey the proposed resores tion limiting the voting power of the British Empire in the League of Nations -The latter pointed out the seriousness
AUSTRIA,
UNPRECEDENTEDLY CRITICAL COAL SITUATION.
LowDos, January 3rd. The coal situation in Austria is un- entedly criticalAll passenger
day, and there is a likelihood of the early total comation of electric light and tramways in Vienna,
..
SOUTHERN RUSSIA. SUPREME COUNCIL HELPING THREATENED POPULATION.
civilisation which such a penetration would bring in its train. Because of the
iron resistance which her large well-dis ciplined forces would offer to the Bol shevist hordes, Lenin is not likely to rim his head against such an antagonist. The real danger—and a grave danger- is that he may divert his attack to a new quarter and attempt to threatet India by arming and inciting to war the predatory tribes of the North-West Fron-
the Shinhing troops and late Defence Commissioner of Shishing, it is stated that Ku succumbed to the effects of the
wounds, No arrest has been made.
hardly be brought down to earth again thought that
interest for Cambridge in this All the streets round the Reichstag of Cambridge Observatory, is because to Professor 8. Eds building were swarming with security dus the credit of having given to the police," who, to the uninitiated eyes are Relativity Theory of Gravity," an ex- British public in a pamphlet on the indistinguishable from soldiers. Machine planation of all that was implied in the guns were in rondiness everywhere. "No first astounding discovery of Mitcheleon one was allowed to approach the Reich along and across the ether stream
and Morley regarding the passage of light Ten of the students of the Government stag unless he could produce an author?
But SHANORAL, January 7th.
Cambridge scientists-whether Law School who went on strike owing to sution to do The agitation has been revived for Chi the change of headmaster have been order building the guards had been doubled the matter: they state that they or santo- physicists or astronomers-are not pre- Even inside the hared to give ez enthedrú statements on The greatest round-up of the Radicals representation on the municipal coured by the Civil Governor to be expelled
Deputations have called at the British from the school as they were said to be trebled, and the cards of admission as studying it and awaiting a clearer state-
well as their holders were scrutinised
Eddington," quid. several thonsande were envoy. The round is willing to allow ordered to return to school immediately ing precautions have saved us from a stand the Einstein Theory He under yesterday.
three men in England who really under- rested in all parts of the country. It ia The delegates will be given" every expected that they will be deported in two Chinese in an advisory capasity to or else they will also be dismissed A catastrophe: Who knows! But at any took to give an explanation of it to a message from Nanning states that the rate nothing serious happened. A crowd scientific colleagds the other dng, and that" opportunity to discuss details. The con. large batches. Some of those arrested are consult an Chinese affairs, but the agita stúdents there are in conflict with the of a few hundred persons which had been in an absolute fas
afterwards professed to be still tors wish to revise the land regulations local authorities as the students have not allowed to assemble outside the military Tho attitude of the shopkeepers is 'thas been allowed to prevent the importation cordon opposite the door by which thetant to my anything about a subject on
THX FOURTH DIMENSION, The man of science is naturally relue there should be no taxation without re of foreign goods.
uational bero was to enter the building which he is not sure, But some little fur- presentation. The council is adopting & GENERAL LOX'S DEATH RIPORTED
cheered him as he arrived. A loyalist ther light was gleaned. It is in regned. firm attitude of opposition
A message has been received in Shameen but at once desisted on receiving a police Fourth Dimension" that public in
officer feebly attempted to make a speech, to its bearing on the speculation of the stating that General: Luk Wing-ting died warning. Cries were raised for the Re terest, chiefly excited over there dis on January 3rd.
public and against the Committee of coveries. One physicist said: "I think CONSTITUTIONAL CONVÊNION.
Inquiry. Then the crowd got tired of that can be made a little clearer than it It is stated that the MPs in Canton standing in the falling, snow, and the stands at present in the explanation in machine guns were also sent home. your paper. The position is this: that propose to bring the Constitutional Con-Whatever may have been leared or ex we are face to face now with certain as- The Daily Mail, in the course of a vention to an end on February 18th, and pected was the result of Hindenburg'a certained facts which cannot be made to lender, aurs "As long as a Bolshevists ceremony is to be held in the South-sence here, and the Committee of In-menaurements of space. Thesefore these State exists with its present doctrine
quiry have evidently some reasons on principles must be incomplete. their side if, as is reported, they wish to need to be supplemented by something They there will be "no respite for the world
hurry through his evidence and get else. That something else, according to This doctrine is that, not the brother It is reported that the Pekiaz Gover defeated general should have retained are relative. An analogy, Rot a perfect bim out of the city again. That this Einstein's theory, is that Space and Time
class is the rule of human life. No settle the affairs of the Two Kwangs be placed in every political equation in The discovery of radioactivity made it whose surname is Chen, to prepare to ing, but his & Exct, and one which must be taken from the since of chemistry can we overlook the recent Bolshevik vic (Kwangtung and Kraigsi) by force of he has long been nothing more than & state the complete truth about matter. Germany. To well-informed opinion here certain that the atomic theary did not tories which have brought the world, in arms, as the Peking Government proposes picturesque figurehead, behind which The discoveries of Mitchelaon F the event of the collapse of Admiral to reject the peace proposals of the South Ludendorf supplied both the ideas and Morley, of Einstein, and others show that Koltchak, sa their consequence, the deci unless the Southern leaders surrender, rers. Some critics go further and affirm truth about space"
the driving force of General Headquar our present geometry has not the complete sion of Japan to hold Eastern Siberia General Chan bas established his head that the battle of Tannenberg, which THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY. Japan thus attains a new position as aquarters in Macao and has sert delegates made the fame of the Duumvirate, was Another scientist added something to world:Power such as the Fail of Port to investigate the military situation in really the work of General Hoffmann, who After the Mitchelson and Molen o the history of the Einstein theory. was afterward, as Chief of Staff to Léo- Arthur did not give her. She remains the two provinces.
bold of Bavaria, the virtual commander rate across and along the nether streamI
covery, that light, travelled at the same in-chief on the Eastern front, where he said some physicists were in doubt the only force capable of preventing Bol ATTEMPT ON LEADER'A LÌTL.
Referring to the attempt made on the alone the Central Empires obtained sub- about accepting it as a fact. It was felt shevism from penetrating into China
stantial victories. But to the masset that it involved such startling changes trains have been stopped for the past ten with all the disastrous results to human life of Ko Yat-kwong, the er leader of Hindenburg is still "the Saviour of the in thought that it should not
Fatherland although he did not save
be taken it. He is a monarch who could and can of a negative experiment paly. Mitchel
as certain, seeing that it was the result Minister who heres the responsibility difference in the speed of light across and do no prong, while Ludendorff is the son and Morley had tried to find the So far Tu Hindenburg exalted above along the mother stream, and had found the clouds during the war that he will there was no difference. Many physicista there might still BOHEMIA SUGAR.
His figure will become legendary and bo discovered s
Now tha futaro gmerations will probably believe astronomical
Brazil of a conse GREAT SCANDAL REVEALED. that he was really as big as his colossal quence of Einstein's theory, which fal- wooden statue, which a few weeks axo Morley's results, has destroyed that
lowed and
"developed Mitchelson And A despatch from Prague to the Corriere was removed from the head of the seoul doubt. But some physicists, had accepted della Sera contains details of a big sugar
Mitchelson and Morley's conclusions from STERN AND RUGUZE. scandal which has been revealed by the The chief committee-room of the Reich-
the outset Einstein was not the only energetic action of the Minister, Dr.atag was crowded beyond precedent when one working on the problem, though his
Hindenburg entered, with his host, Dr. Work was the more complete Bones, by whose order the chief of the Helffarich, and his old Chief of Staf formulated what we called the "Contrac and thorough.
FitzGerald of Dublin, bad" inancial department, Jirak, was arrested All present at once ross from their satt tion Theory, and Cunningham had writ after he had made an attempt to trans but whether the dominating motive was ten of the Theory of Relativity." To cheque of $20,000,000 STOWES deference or curiosity it would be difficult explain in popular terms what the whole (nominally about £800,000) as a bribe to to say After formal alutations and in thing sapnata to is not easy. the Minister himself. Since the stop troductions, the Field Marshal took his effect it is this that the length of the The newspapers give prominence to the page of the Ukrainian sugar supptres had placed a" couple of wreaths of and when it is at right angles to
seat at the witness table, on which deve name line varies when it is parallel with Bohemia has been the only country in serious position of Admiral Kalichak Europe which has had a surplus of sugar white Bowers, adorned with ribands is aether stream. A poker eft. long under the and General Denikin, and to the import for export This surplus is estimated the old Imperial colours When one has one condition is oft. long under the other.
about
three million quintals (about seen the Field Marbal it is not difficult Of course, in the terms of ordinary human ance of (Japan's 1) resolve to check. Bol 135,000 tons) & consum of French to understand his fascination for the thought it is incomprehensible that the and Dutch bankers were conspiring to German people. Someone said of Daniel same thing can be at once aft. long and sherrian in Eastern Siberia,
obtain the concession for the entire ex Webster that he looked much wiser than 6ft. long. The solution suggested is that A high authority, interviewed by the porty and offered an advance of 300,000,000 ang man could be. It might be said of human-thought must reach forward and Daily Mail, said that the presence of the French france to the Government of the Hindenburg that he looks minch sterner grasp another dimension-tight of Time--
Czecho-Slovak Republic, the advance to
and more rugged than any man could be and find that Time, and Japanese in Eastern Biberia would prove consist chiefly in the supply of material. His head reminds one of a boulder in and can act on one PEEP are related to be the salvation of Biberis, and even Further sins were to be advanced brits massireness and its rough moulding, June 1920, amounting to the respectable Even in a black frock cost he is impres Manchuria, from Bolshevist.control.
total of one milliard crowns (nominally sively monumental. Whatever his attire He did not think the Japanese would agar the million to the would look "somebody in particular" in changed & regards this globe, nor.
£40,000,000). Out of three millica
indeed, as regards, the solar system. make territorial claims in East Siberia sold in France. As no other countries Ladder, on the other hand, though un- Within the limits of the solar system, all His experience taught him that they had in Europe had a surplus of sugar this doubtedly the finer brain of the two, our old mathematical calculations stand
meant the creation of a real engar trust, looks a comparatively commonplace masse they were: the straight line is s an innate dislike of cold climates. A and the consortium, besides, taking nine In his civilian attire he might be a bank straight line to all practical intenta, and per cent, interest on the money advanced, cashier or second-class Government the yard length is still yard length. also charged a heavy commission for the official. Hindenburg's voice is as forcible The discovery affects speculative thought material to be supplied
and rugged as his features He speaks profoundly, but it does not affect the The French Government wind of slowly and with some hesitation. Most workaday world." the matter, and besides the fact that the of the talking is left to Ludendorff, whose material to be supplied consisted chiefly rapid, mappy sentences are rather like of wool, cotton, and hides, which would machine gun fira His voice is harsh, have to be purchased at a high rate of and, in his moments of excitement, which exchange in America, it also anticipated are frequent, rises to stridacy, tou อ bage profiteering schame to the detri- hibited the French banks from having ment of the French consumers. It pro say mom to do with the scheme, and obtained a promise of one million qaintals to be
The conspirators to the traits of the inquiry. They were the discussion moved to the question of however, persisted in their scheme, and the hackneyed phrases of Ave years ago. the attitude of the General Headquarters Dutch beaks made efforts to secure the The German people did not want war; to American mediation that tempere remaining two million quintals. Ther approached members of the Crecho-los least of all the General Staff. The had reported a remark of Ludendorff thes nor the Kaiser, nor the Government, and really became critics. Count Bernstort A PRINCE OF WALES STORY. Administration one being Tirok, a cojustice of our cause," the will to the later did not want American media
personal friend of the Minister, Dr. Captain W. D. Joyat, of the Benes, wth whom he had been a follow victory" the vast superiority of our tion, as the war would be finished by the Australian Forces, who visited sheep student at college. The Dutch bankers enemies in men and material, were submarines within three months. farm near Ipswich with a party of Aus were represented by & trusted agent in there. All these worn-out sliches culmi-flung Ladendorff into a passion. Thump trains coldier farmers, told a new story Vienna, who had unlimited money at his nated in the charge that the treachery of ing on the table with his fat, he shrieked of the Prince of Wales, One day be disposal. He apparently instructed the Independent Socialists alone robbed out that the ex-Ambassador had beamirch the objects to be proclaimed to the world said, the Prince disappeared from Head Jirak to offer Dr. Henes personally the Germany of victory. Some snonymous ed his honour and that the humirch by the Internationale at a general strike quarters, and, as was his great delight, sum of 50,000,000 crowns. Jirak dd English general was quoted as proof that projected for July 21st, last. The Bri- he went into the lines with us meu. He and after the first moment Bah and Belgians refused their adherence was hunted for everywhere, and at last Dr. Bench pretend to be of surprise the German Army lost because it was quite cahn, pointed out that he had done
stabbed in the however, and so in France, where it had he was found with some ALF's playing consider the scheme, and naked when the Herr Gothain, the Democrat, who has Staff certain views with regard to the no more than impate to the Chief of the been engineered by the General Con- a certain harmless gamo of The Stall was fixed but the evening before Jirak the resignation of Dr. Warmuth, did not also intervened with the suggestion that
would be forthcoming. A data taken over the chair in consequence of federation of Labour, it came to nothing which he lost twelve pennies
continuation of the war. Herr Gothein. either. So far there is so indication of officers searching for him arrived, and telephoned to Benes that the cheque was allow the former dictators to my all Bernstorf's evidenes his charged nothing how soon this new movement is to be act when the Prince tarned to go there were not yet ready but that he would come they wanted to. He pulled them up re on foot. The support of the Russiad re- cries o
of a dishonourable nature. This seemed Prince anyhow the appointed hour. He did peatedly for straying from the question to infuriate Ludendorf still more, and he volution was one of the main planks in replied,
sport bob Til so, and was received by Dr. Benes in teruptions of speeches at non-Bocialist captain, he lost another shilling and then where he explained in detail how the sun Independenta, who are also represented, however, he not to be intimidated, an the Socialist electoral platform, and in- stop and But, added the the Large Royal room of the Ministry, at issue and courteously reproved the shouted that he was quite capable of locke violence of their language against the ing after his own honour, Herr Gothein. meetings very frequently took the form he went Captain Joynt said he could was going to be paid. When be had
Long live Lenin Long, live not describe the affectio Lustralian finished, Dr. Benen called the pollos, six in the National Assembly and oh this retorted the it was he duties, an Trotsk
had for the Prince, and, they * wäre just of whom entered, and, at the Minister's committee."
bones that the honour of the other i wanting hin. ** in Australia, et olen met order, arrested Jirskų
(Costinuca at foot of next.column.), Kenweg was not tampered with.
by the adoption of such a reservation.
Canada and Australia would immediately.
Hope
of the results which would be entailed TARA PARIS, January 3rd
The Supreme Council hat decided on for the evacuation of the popula- protest, and, be indicated, they had notion of Bouthern Russia threatened by impressed their view upon the London Gov.
A Bolshevik invasion, ernment that it would be compelled, to
GENERAL DENIKIN DISPLACED. back them up. In his opinion, the dis
LONDON, January 3rd ruption of the League would result,
ELECTION.
LONDON, January ard. The result of the pen Valley by-elec- tion is as follows:
Votes. Mr. Myers (Labourite) 11,062 Bir John Simon (Liberal) ...... 10,244 Col. Fairfax (Coalition Lib.).... 8,134
A Bolshevik wireless mesange stater Viscount Grey said, in conversation with Senators and other oficials, that stowing to his defcate, a coup d'etat has occurred in General Denikin's Head- those who insisted upon this reservation quieters: A new Government has been Were unduly alarmed over the possibili-established with General Romanoffsky ties of separate votes for the British replacing General Denikin, Dominiona. Bat they were conjuring up THE HOUSE OF COMMONS chimerical dangers, he said, while the HESULT OF THE SPEN VALLEY BY- United States would treaté a very ready danger. to the League's existence if it insisted upon equalising the voting power of the United States and the British Empire in the League Assembly.
Benator Bitchcock asked whether the Johnson Reservation which the Senate rejected, and which aimed at the equalisation of voting strength, giving the United States as many votes as the combined votes of Great Britain and the Dominions, namely six-would be ceptable to the British Colonies.
20stat Grey thought it would, pointed out that France, Italy and the other Powers, having but one vote would protest that they were unfairly dis Criminated against, and that they, too, should have sir vötes.
tiez."
JAPAN'S RULE IN EASTERN SIBERIA
LONDON, January 3rd.
FRANCE AND HUSSIA..
Japanese population would not desire to "DIRECT ACTION" THREAT.
colonise Eastern Siberia. Their colonial made to use the organisation of the Gen-
Another attempt is apparently to be aspirations lay farther south What the Ceral Confederation of Labour for the Japanese would ask for, and probably purpose of imposing & Socialist foreign would be granted, were certain trading policy on the French Government. As the result of a conference held on Noven- and mining concessions.
but
Senator Hitchcock made no secret of the fact that he feared the question would prove one of the hardest to adjust
AVIATION,
A FRENCH FLIGHT TO SAIGON.
PARIS, January, 3rd
A French - neropisine in leaving Paris
on March 8rd for Saigon vid Athens, Antioch, Karachi, Allahabad, Rangood, and Bangkok
DANISH STEAMER MINED.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
Goriksgurá, January 3rd...
Danish
Stoner Temliand has
rock a mine off the north cost of Jut land. Five percont have been killed.
bar 4 between the administrative co-
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mit
chral Avenue of Victory:
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But in
the
NOTHING".CHANGED DE- THIS WORLD. important thing is to stress, that nothing
Yet another sientist held that
ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE. Beveral incidents showed that the at aphere was charged with clectricity and that a storm might break at say The two generals commenced with the moment. But the chairman kept a firm themselves under legal compulsion to give emphatic warning that the hall would be formal reservation that they did not feel hand on the proceedings, and uttered an evidence, but added that they were never cleared if any signs of approbation or the thelees willing do so. They then read contrary were. heard from the seats of the
The Press gives prominence to the De French Gove Purchased direct by the written statements. These added little Fress or the public. It was only when
mittee of the federation and representa JAPAN'S FREE HAND IN SIBERIA tives of the Paris trade unions, a great campaign of
lavour of
* Paris, Jarilary 3rd. the Russian revolution is o
be under- taken throughout France. The object is from Washington that America given to create anch a current el foeling in the Japan a free band in Siberia country that the French Government will be forced to make peace with Busais. At the close of the campaign, and after the trade unions have been consulted as to its results; &
decision will be taken as to the attitude to be adopted by the French werkman in face of the coalition which threatens the Russian revolution.””
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