CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PAISLEY BY ELECTION.
MR. ASQUITH RETURNED BY LARGE MAJORITY.
LONDON, February 25th The following was the result in the Paisley by-election:---
Mr. HH. Ásquita (Liberal)... 14,738 Mr. J. M. Biocis (Labour)...... 11,909 Mr. MACKAY (Coalition Union-
ist)
3,705
Liberal majority over Labour 2,834 [Liberal majority over Co-
Unionist
The figures at the General
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28cm.#1920.
GREAT FRENCH INVENTION. X-RAYS AND KINEMA COMBINED IN A SINGLE APPARATUS.
Paxis, February 23rd..
A Havai message sayı in
The French medical men, Mormon and M. Commandon have just perfected a combined X-ray and kinema apparatus which permits the filming of the interior of animals and showing on the sermon all the movements of the various orgaza.
FRENCH FOREIGN AFFAIRS M. MILLERAND RETURNS TO
LONDON.
PARIS, February 23rd.
A Havas message says:-- M Millerand left Paris yesterday for London. M. Berthelot, Director of the French Foreign Office, who has been carry Electioning on negotiations in London during
Millerand's absense, met the Premier at Folkestone.
10,941
Were: ----
Bir John McCallum (1-) ....
7,542
J.M. Biggar (Co-op:)....
7,438
Joba Taylor (Co. N.D.P.)
7,201
1. majority over Co-op. ...: 106 341 L, majority over Co. N.D.P..... The Lato Sir John McCallum was " important, an affectionate and a sympathetin friend" of Mr. Asquith. It may be added that according to the latest mail news from Home, if Mr. Asquith was selected by the Paisley Liberals, there were good grounds for believing that an official Coalition candidate would not be put forward. The Coalition sscod aside from the contest in East Fife when the right hon. gentleman was defeated
The Daily Mail says that the return of M. Millarand is likely to hayo, early results. His absence delayed decisions which may now be made."
At the meeting, on Saturday, of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Commission, M. Millerand gave a full explanation of the recent negotiations.
M. Briand declared himself in favour
FAR EASTERN INEWS.
[ASIATIC NEWB SOENCY.J
POSITION IN PEKING.
PEKING, February 14th
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN
JAPAN.
ATTITUDE OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES,
of which 1,422,118 have the right to vote
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
or rejected, bug keeping himself in cons fidential communication with the leaders BREAKERS AHEAD.
of the Sanate while his plans are in To revisit Amerion after an interval course, when their advice will be of sar of more than six years, and six such years, vice to him, and his information of the mental bewilderment, greatest service to them, in order, that' The male population of Japan, exclu-involves much According to reliable information, Mr. Lu, the Foreign Minister, does not serie of Chosen and Taiwan is, according writes Mr. Moreton Frewen in the Daily there may be veritable counsel and a real ously oppose direct negotiation with to the latest official returns, 20,964,586, out Telegraph. The writer be known the accommodation of views, instead of
United States. "very intimately for over final challege and contest, The policy Japan, But he is reported to be advocad in the election for the 381 members of the forty years, and during all the pre-war which has made rivals of the President ing that, in case of necessity, direct neg House of Representatives. The remain-period the keynote for a community that and Senate has shown itself in the Presi tiations may be opened between Japan ing 23,342,368 bare do legal voice in the bad increased in thirty-five years from dant as often as in the Senate, and it and China under such conditions that national government, and it is on their forty millions to 100 millions was in its the Constitution did intend that the China may be free to place the issue be behalf,says an article in the Japan Times, unreasoning, unquestioning confidence in Senate should, in such matters, be an for the League of the Nations for adjust that the so-called Universal Suffrage Bills itself, in its institutions, ad especially in executive council, it is not only the pri ment, if the negotiation fans to materia have been placed before the Dict.
its Constitution-in all the things which, vilege of the President to treat it as liza The Militarists are advocating in-
Three Bills providing for the immediate with no little of vainglorious fag-wag such; it is also his heat policy and his enfranchisement of male subjects of the ging, Americans were wont to declare plain duty." Empire have been introduced in the Diet their "manifest destiny. But some by three different parties, the Kenseikai, fifteen years ago President Roosevelt the Kokuminto, and the non-partisan staked all his popularity and lost the group.
great stake, by vehement predictions and nearly sinister warnings us to the social breakers be saw ahead. In this way he forfeited the-affection, and almost the respect, of many old friends, and of such friends 1 may claim to bave been one of the oldest. We unregenerates regarded It is reliably reported to-day that ulti-the Bills is strong enough to carry its my policies" of the big stick" order ng a menace, calculated to engender class matuin-nave been served on both Atamen Bill, single-banded, in the face of the
animosities, and thus imperil securities, Kamlikoff and Atamen Semenott at Caita probable opposition of the Seiyukai. nay, but even security.
And yet now and Haburousic, by the new rulers of which is reported to be averse to granting few years only have elapsed, and look. tion of Roosevelt and the Roots and Chostes and Lodges had burned to fever Siberia, urging them to leave Niborin.
ing backward we see that the Republican that ever such utterance, and over the There is no news from Chita about the an unqualified vote to all malca at pre-
parts has become reunited in an enthu
s of admiration for what Roosevelt Hydeiam next flows over once more in demand for their "neutrality in thought." movements of semenout, but it is believed sent. in well-antormed, circles that the inst Last year, the Seiyukai passed andit, and in reconciled even to those very this message to Congress, a message sent destination of semenct will be Japan, amendment to the national election law.
shirtsleeve" ways in which he did it.
full seven months after the murder of tha because the Chinese authorities have-noti-
When George W., Smalley was dying nec in that they will not receive him reducing the direct national tax, payment in Down-street, I was in the habit of sit-usitania, in which message the Pres
proserve China's neutrality. gard to the movement of the Japanese troops, it is doubtful whether they will assist Bemeroff as they are maintaining neutrality.
mediate direct negotiation is desired by Japan without any reserve so as to show Caina's perioos suucerity to the world.
The Chinese political situation is fur ther complicated by the failure of Prumser Cain in dismissing Yang eten from the and Fu Yu-fen from the ministry of commissionership of the Tientsin police Education. Financial stringency is also cal tension. playing its part in increasing the paliti
ULTIMÄTUMS TO ATAMENS.
HARBIN, February 13th.
The numerical strength of the parties in the Lower House is-Seiyuki, 16; Kenseikai, 118; Kokuminto, 31; Seiko Club 33 Bbinssiksi, 26; Jansei-Koku- minto, 6; non-partisan, 4; total 381. None of the parties that have introduced
...
a
There is always in President Wilson's make-up some incorrigible Mr. Hyde in conflict with admirable and benevolent Dr. Jekyll. It is this fatal ambidex- terity which is continuing rapidly to There was the Washington speech in May, 1916, recruit the anti-Wilson forces. in which the President said, With the causes and objects of the war we are not And again, n Shadow Lawn, on the very eve of the election, in 1918, he said. ** The certain prospect. the success of the Repablican Party beat over such utteranrollments of the and over the another into the European war.
Concerned"
of
in
But when the indigna
-at the General Election and the victor; of allowing-the-Turks to retain Constan- and his immediate entourage in order w of which gives the right to vote, from ting with him for half-hours each after dent, after denouncing Hua cutrages and
Colonel Sir Alexander Sprot, was returned
an independent Unionist. The course adopted in December, 1918, with the approval of the leaders of the Coalition, was, accord- ing to the views expressed in well-informed quarters, likely again to bo followed in the Gront of Mr. Asquith going to Paisley, Therefore, Mr. MacKean might have been standing without official backing.
Paisley, a town of groat factories, has long
enjoyed politically the reputation of a stronghold of Radicaliam, but Labour has: made big strides here, and at its head, quarters in London the result of the coming by-election, was spoken of as a moral cei tainty." Labour meant to make a strong bid for Paisley, and was in no wise daunted by the fact that ite chief opponent was a statesman of the eminent of Mr. Asquith.]
·
BRITISH TRADE OUTLOOK.
· GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
LONDON, February 26th.
inople.
M. CLEMENCEAU,
TOUR IN THE SOUDAN,
PARIS, February 3rd:
A Havas message says:-
M. Clemenceau, who is travelling up the Nile, visited Luxor and Karnak He dined with Field-Marshal Lord Allenby. M. Clemenceau is proceeding to Khar
touin,
"AMERICAN... HALLROAD BILL
COMPROMISE ACCEPTED. "
With re
·THE SEVEN MILLION LOAN.
PELING, February 4th the superfluous troops in the South- With reference to the disbandment of Western Provinces of China in connection with the raising of the five million pounds sterling loan from the old banking group, the Peking Government, in reply to the enquiry of the Allied Legations, says that Mr. Wang i-tang, Chief Northern Dele gate to the Shanghai Peace Conference, has been instructed to confer with Tang Shaoyi, Chief Southern Delegate, and that, in order to facilitate the dis bandment, the Central Government will
.10 to Y.3. At that time the Seiyukai declared that while universal aufrage must come eventually, the party was op posed to any radical changes Genuine interest in national politics among the people can "be aroused only by the slow process of practical axperience, they said, and the lowering of the tax limitation was a step in that direction
Various organizations in Tokyo are try- ing to bring united pressure to bear on the three parties to compromise on minor details, such as the age limit, and carry
The
the Hiil through the house. Should such compromise be made, it would mean a stiff nght for the Seiyukai, but it is doubt ful whether it would be successful. parties stand about as follows: for uni- versal suffrage, Kenseikai, 118; Koku
Club, 13; Shinseikai, 8; non-partisan, 5: minto, 31 Junsei-Kokuminto, 6; Seiko
tises!
Men
noon-this in 1916. Smalley had for some gues in the Udited States, stigma- scars been really vindictive in his critic
amongst us calling themselves Americans who have so far forgotten iam of Roosevelt, but had recanted and bright and confident anticipation a great
themselves and their honour as citizens occupied his last hours building with
as to put their paramount sympathy with future for his country in the control of
one or the other side in the great Euro a purged and vivified Republican 'Ad-
pean conflict above their regard for the ministration. Smalley was a cultivated
peace of the United States. They also but dogmatic American, dominated by his preach and practise disloyalty. No laws historic sense and by the widest experi can reach corruption of the mind and ence garnered in other countries than his heart, but I should not speak of others own. I had no particular, confidence in without also speaking of these, and ex- his judgente, whether of men or things pressing the even deeper humiliation and but his death-bed repentance in this mat soon which every self-possessed and ter of President Roosevelt, will be accepted thoughtfully patriotic American must feel as an incident very widely representative when he thinks of them and of the dis Roosevelt's warnings were taken to
This was the mirror held up to auch and just in time, both by the quick and credit they are daily bringing upon us the dead, and have, through great tribula-
Americans as Roosevelt and Cheats tion, sowed the seeds of better Democratic Murray Butler, who were finding it and practice. If, as seems probable, the elec. creasingly difficult to play the role of
ons next year may restore the Republi- onlookers can party to a fresh and a long lease of
heart
The House of Representatives has put aside a certain portion of the loan' total, 100st the proposal: Seiyu- power, it will be owing, chiefly. to the this latest pronouncement equally puzl
WABEINGTON, "February 22nd-
approved the new compromise on the Rail road Bill after a debate lasting four
hours.
specially for this purpose. With regard to the aupervision of the disbursement of the loan,, including the disbandment of superfluous troops in the varioua pra vinces, the Government says that, in order EAILROAD BROTHERHOODS'
to prevent mistakes, they are willing to VIEWS.
have adequate supervision. It is report WASHINGTON, February 21sted that the Allied Legations and their bankers have expressed their concurrents Representatives of the Railroad Bro with and satisfaction over the reply of the therhoods, who recently conferred with Chinese Government so that the sum of the White seven milion dollars as desired by China President Wilson, called at
will be paid to the Peking Government House and presented a petition to Preai- before the Chinese New Year. case of providing an opportunity to the dent Wilson, protesting against
Sir Auckland Geddes, in speech at the British Industries Fair which was yesterday visited by their Majestics the King and Queen, urged that the fair since its inauguration in 1915 bad entirely shanged in character, It was no longer
the
kat, 16;;
One-
stod to be opposed to the Bill at this time, and the remaining half, by reason of their political affiliations, are bound to side with the Seiyukai.
Should the unexpected happen, and all parties except the Seiyukai unite to pass
And, finally, we have had this suminer ing to the President's friends and enemies. Addressing the Foreign Rela tions Committee of the Senate (August 19th, 1918), the President, when replying to Senator McCumber, offers this strange. moral survey of the United States and the War
Club, 19; Shinseikai, 18, psychology of one accidentally its Presi« total 901. The attitude of the Rokuminto dent when this crisis was gathering. and Shinseikai has not been such as 'to The position to day in America is give the impression that they will suppervaded by the psychology of yet another part the proposal at all hazards.
President, even more accidentally elevat sail of the Seiko Club members are under- ed to the White House than Roosevelt was, and who, like the Roosevelt of 1906, has focussed, and to a far greater degree. Senator McCumber: Would our moral the antipathies of the great majority of conviction of the unrighteousness of the writers and speakers here, that one is German war have brought us into tina tempted to sak whether Mr. Wilson too war if Germany had not committed any may be destined to parge the Democratic acts against us without the League of a universal suffrage-Bill, it is believed party, and in its next generation make Nations, and we had at Leaze u No that the Government party will bring its of that party an adequate governing tions at that time! heavy artillery to bear, and dissolve the this political analogy, if indeed it exists
machine am not interested to pursue The President: I hope it would even- Diet. A national election nearly always
Senator McCumber: Do you think that. turns out to the advantage of the party but such a note is ringing on the Alantic tually, Senator, as things developed. enthusiastic enough to lead ti opposition and like Lloyd George, has the dominant
or no act of injustice against our citizens nature necessary to the evolution of poli. that we would have gotten into this war in the face of a possible dissolution is problematical. If the Kenseikai wavers, tical philosophy, and that such matures
The President: I do think so.. the prospects for the suffrage proposal are complacent view; who knows but it may would have gotten in anyway!
build better than they know, It is a Senator MeCumber: You think we gloomy.
even prove a true view!
The President: I do. day, 1 fint all things in business and politics coloured by an event still more than a year ahead, the next Presidential election It is going to be an election of unexampled and ugly virulence, start
Ceroin Blind cough to remembit the Cleveland-Elaine contest of 1882. 1 is to be hoped that English readers will cultivate short memories for the events of the year ahend, becauso sven our good
buyer to fill up agap, but of presenting an Passage of the Railroad Bill stating that THE CHINESE FASTERN RAILWAY in power. Whether the Kenseikai will be seaboard-that Wilson, like Roosevelt, if Germany had committed no act of war
opportunity to buyers from all parts of the world to secure goode of any class they desired. The Government was con- templating further development, namely, .showrooms on the Continent and ele
where,
the Jabour provisions in the Bill were wholly unacceptable to railroad workers.. UNITED STATES IMMIGRANTS
OUGHT TO LEARN ENGLISH BEFORE VOTING.
HARBIN, February 11th. It is understood that General Horvath and General Pao, the Military Governor of Kirin, have come to some arrangement about the administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway so as to protect both Bus- sing and Chinese interese. The Chinese authorities have received explicit orders from Peking that as the Chinese Eastern Railway has been built on Chinese terri-
MACAO, February 23rd. tory, it is the duty of China to protect it,
The Chinese New Year has passed with- regardless of the political situation in out any untoward incident. The calu- Eastern Russia, and that neither the colp (three dice game) was in full swing Bolsheviks nor the Cossacks will be during the holidays Visitors from your
· MACAO, NOTES. --
But here, to
the balances of history, may undoubtedly Sach a mentality as. this, weighed, in attain to greatness of a certain kind, but it is not surprising that Mr."Wilson is in the last degree unintelligible to Lincoln's plain people and that tho pacifist Republican vote which gave him his bare handful of a majority, ve 1918 but that the efforts of their Chief Ma believes not only that it was betrayed, years had beest
NEW YORK, February 2nd- Sir Auckland Geddes laid stress on the
Speaking at the dinner at the Sulgrave fact that the only way to win back the Institution given in connection with the pre-war commercial prosperity was by the celebration of the Tercentenary of the development of the export-trade. At pre- sent the home market was almost toaarshal, the Vice-President, declared that the same time, the Chinese have notified the Cross patronised the tables generous-]untru, things of Great Britain in the directed to switch his own party ont upon attractive; profits were easily made and immigrants ought to be required to learn in 'Siberia that China will be responsible DEATH OF ME. J. G. DOB REMEDIOL
English before becoming electors..
NO LABOUR PARTY.
MR. GOMPERS ADVICE.
buyers wore clamouring for goods, but there was an overseas market on which British trade must rely. for the continue tion of its prosperity. He suggested the
WASHINGTON, February 22nd. Mr. Samuel Gompers has written to advisability of businessmen setting aside
considerable rart of their goods for sale Mr. William Mitchell, the Labour leader overseas, and Concluded by announcing in Indianapolis, that the formation of a
£100,000 to guarantee the fund of the tal to the interests of Labour. British Empire Exhibition woich will be
SENATE AND
that the Government was contributing political Labour Party will be detrimen- stration in the streets has been bèld by | place yesterday afternoon, and was largely President in a recent speech at Pueblo such a community as this is sale for
held in London from May to October in FAR EASTERN CABLE students have been brought to submission
1921
IMPERIAL STATISTICS.
OLONEL AMERY'S ESTIMATE OF.
THEIR VALUE.
LONDON, February 25th. At a farewell dinner to the Overres delegates of the Imperial Statistical Con- ference a letter from Colonel Amery was read emphasising the necessity of the full est possible statistica as regards, trade, agricultura, mining, finance, population, -cont of living, labour and migration, in order to develop and utilise the resources of the Empire to the fullest extent. le was sure that the deliberations of me Conference had greatly contributed to wards the attainment of that end which he
NEWS.
THROUGH.REUTKE'S AGENCY.)
NEW DRY DOCK IN VANCOUVER.
OTTAWA, February 2nd. The Government has decided to subsidiso the construction of a new dry dock at Vancouver; which will be 700 feet long and will accommodate the largest vessels run- ning between Canada and the Orient. GERMAN PRISONERS IN SIBERIA.
HONGKONG DEFENCE CORPS.
ODRERS POR CADET COMPANY BY LIEUE.,
A. O. BRAW KU
the Bolsheviks and social revolutionaries ly. Fantan, however, was neglected. hope that their libels may avail to detach
a perverted plane of thought, and reason votes from. Mr. Wilson.
It is sad but and had in this way made a really solid true that modern democracy is incom public opinion in America impossible. for the safety and administration of the railway in North Manchuria. General Mr. J. G. dos Remedios, of your port patible with those cardinal virtues-truth We must never forget that a large, pro- Pao says that, in spite of the existing and clerk at Mears. Jardine, Matheson and honesty to that the decalogue goes portion of this electorate, foreign burn, situation in Russia, China still recognises & Co., had an attack of heart failure on
into abeyance during the few months in and foreign to the very language of the the position and power of General the voyage from Hongkong to Macao on which the proles are being educated as country of its adoption-a mass which Horvath in regard to the railway.
board the sa Sui Tai on Saturday, Dr. to where they should write their cross on
generally votes the Democratic Ticket B. de Souza, who was also on board, was
& ballot paper CONSTITUTION.
gives a blank cheque to its Chief Magi- NO STUDENTS DEMONSTRATION. called in On the arrival of the steamer II Mr. Wilson were to be nominated or two from the White House contains strate on alection day. A mere phrase. at Macao at 8 pm. Mr. Remedios was for a third term, the real ise of the about all the direction and education removed in an ambulance to the Civil elections next year would be the status which ever penetrates the ignorant in- PEKING, February 14th. Since February 5th, no serions demon- Hospital where he died. The funeral took of the Senate in the Constitution. The difference of these newcomers
To make Chicese students and their sympathisers, attended by friends of the deceased whe categorically challenges the time-honoured demourary so that, superficially the anti-Japanese had come over from Hongkong to take view that the Senate is partnered in the qualities of requires of its President boycott movement has been suppressed by part in the procession of the Cross,
even more than quali- But the elder ties of head. No one disputes Mr. treaty-making power. force of arms. This is wrong impres
statemen, men such as Lodge and Enox Wilson's cleverness, but, is be not perhaja sion Bowever, because, although the
and Root, are utterly determined to main that fatal thing-too clever! tain this view of their illustrious Cham ber, and they say that to permit the Chief Magistrate to continue, as he has done since the war, to ignore the Senate, would U.S. be on their part a treason to the Con stitution. In our electoral controversies. over the Parliament Bill we were much AN PARADER All, Sections; Band and Instructors at being strained or tampered with, so at Daily Telegraph learns that there is every agitated because our Constitution was The Washington Correspondent of The Headquarters on Monday, March least many thought, Bat the feeling is prospect of a strict Congressional inquiry
infinitely strenger bero, that the Senate N.C.Os and Instructor at Headquarters has been tricked and gagged in order regarding the attitude of Mr. Joseph
Willard, on Thursday, March 4th, at 5-15 that entangling alliance" foreign" to
the spirit of the Constitution should be Madrid, at a orition stage of the war. Church Parade at St. Andrew's Church, bound up in the same cover with a treaty. In a letter to Mr. Secretary Daniele de- Kowloon, on Sunday, March 7th of peace. It is remarkable that a Preclining the award to him of the Navy Uniform-caps and belts, band with dent so intelligent should, in treating the Orong as wholly inadequate, Rear-Admiral instrumenta Fall in by Kowloon Benate, have followed course so pro- Decker virtually charged Willard with Railway Station at 10.40 m vocative, the more so that Mr. Wilson having opposed the steps Admiral Decker bas pot on record his view of the relation and his associates took to stop the no oỂ G. E. STEWART, Capt between Senate and President. In chap Spanish ports by German submarines, anal Adjutant, H.K.V.Cter & of his Constitutional Government to the Admiral action to keep Braim Hongkong, February 27th, 1920.
of United States," Mr. W
Wilson writes from Joining the Central Powers against But there is another course which the the United States and the Allies an President may follow, and which one or March, 1918. At that time Admiral Presidents of unusual political saga Decker was Naval Attaché at Madrid. city have followed with the satisfactory For his important diplomatic corrice results that were to have been expected.
temporarily by the Militarists who have been forced to adopt drastic measures by foreign pressure, the leaders of the move ment have been in secret conferene în places out of the control of the Chiness officiala Special delegates have been sent to all the provinces urging a general strike of all classes.
PASSENGER HOSTEL.
FOR BOMBAY TRAVELLERS,
It was notified in Bombay Brigadó orders recently that "Owing to the pre- sent congestion of accommodation, it is notified that the Government has lent a
PARIS, February 22nd The Ambassadors Conference has decid ed on the repatriation of German prison ers in Biberia on condition that the re- portion of the Institute of Science, Bom- patriation of the Czecho-Slovake, Yago-bay for use as a passenger hostel. It Blave and Poles has priority.
[BY COURTESY OF !',TER OHINA MAIL."] DEATH OF SHANGHAI'S OLDEST
RESIDENT. S
SHANGHAI, February 7th.
The death is announced of Mr. Jenner would do everything in bis power to Hogg, Shanghai's oldest resident, at the nge of 8. He arrived in China in 1857 and was a director of many companies.
further.
will be under the management of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Bon who anticipate that the hostel will be in running order by the
end of January 1920, be
Accommodation will
available for 400 persons and may be used by all travellers passing through Bambay
1st at 5.15 p.
„BILLIARDS.
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY,
AMBASSADOR TO SPAIN.
PROBABLE INQUIRY.
American Ambassador
He inay himself be lees stiff and affish, Admiral Bime recommended Admirat may bimself at in the true spirit of the Decker to roocive the highest sword, the Mossing will not be provided at present In the Open Billiard Championship constitution, and establish inhianate rele Distinguished Service Medal, but the but it is hoped to provide chotabstri and light refreshments. The Bostel is close game last night at the Victoria Becreations of confidence with the Senate on Secretary of the Navy (Mr Daniela) to all the large botels and restaurants of tion Club, 8. K. Kwok beat Ng Sze his own initiative, not carrying his plans onposed this, on the ground that Admiral Bombay and it is intended that residente Kwong the scores being 500 and 418 to completion, and then laying them in Decker was not enwaged in combatang but will arrange with same for their meala.”
ively de
final form before the Senate to be accepted armchair duty zabore.