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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THESDAY, APRIL
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SETTLEMENT OF RUHR
QUESTION:"
MR. LLOYD GEORGE HOPEFUL:
GERMANY ASKS FOR LARGER ARMY,
PRESIDENT WILSON TO RAISE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS ISSUE.
BRITAIN'S WARNING TO RUSSIA.
GOVERNMENT'S CHANGE OF POLICY IN
IRELAND."
LATEST CABLES.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]·
THE RUHR CRISIS.
GERMAN TROOPS IN NEUTRAL
ZONE.
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LATEST CABLES.
FUTURE OF THE TYROLESE LORD MILNER DEFENDS NEW
BOUNDARIES.
LONDON, April 23rd. In the House of Lords, the Austrian and Bulgarian Treaties Bill was read the third time.
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LATEST CABLES.
CAILLAUX, TRIAL. HIGH TREASON CHARGES REJECTED.
· Pants, April 22nd, The Senate, constituted as the High Court, has, by 913 votes to 29, rejected the charges ef high trenson against Caillaux and the Court is now deciding whether the other articles in the indictment bave hern proved,
LATER,
cla
tree.
The Court is deliberating on the sen
Winding up the second riding debate, Lord Milner declared sympathy with the sufferings of the people of Central Europe. Respecting the boundaries
A telegram from Paris says that Cail: Tyrol he pointed out that the Allied lans has been found guilty of corres- military authorities 'nnaniriously believed | Pendence with the enemy and is liable that this border was she best strategically,
.to four years imprisonment on Refuting the ecetention that because.
charge. Austria had only 6 to 7 millions of people the Tyrol boundaries were harsh. Lord M. MILLERAND'S VIEWS.
THREE YEARS' SENTENCE. Milner asked who knew that it would LONDON, April 2nd, always be
poor little Austria; Caillans, whose conviction last night,
Paris, April 23rd. M. Millerand, in an intervier as re-might on the southern end of Ger was carried by, 150 votes po.91, has been aps the enforcement of the Treaty, said many. That was permissible with the consentenced to three years' imprisonment. that there was no al Anglo-Frenchsent of the League of Nations Henta Caillaux will only serve one month as divergence. There was no doubt that an Italy was entitled to the strongest border it is certain that allowance will be made agreement would be reached. Anong against the whole Teutonic wave. because other points, France insisted on the Italy had suffered invasions more than disarinament of Germiny. The minor two thousand years ago. He emphasised and natural difficulties regarding the coal that the principle of Nationality was question had been" exiggerated. There observed as far as circumstances per might also be difficulties regarding finan-mitted."
BERLIN. April 22nd. The President of the German, Peace Delegation in Paris has presented a Site to the Entente painting, but that, as result of the withdrawals carried out, the number ut troops in the neutral zone dors longer exceed, the force allowed not ALAY by the Peace Treaty and only a number of military formations are "noy in excess Farther diminutions of the formations at present are not feasible, as the execution of police measures în the thickly populat-showed that Germany was determined in
ed districts can best be carried out by
mall mititary groups.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE ALLAYS FRANCE'S FEARS.
SAS REMO, April 3p. Conversing with journalists, Mr. Lloyd George ented that economic pressure against Germany was proposed, He de clared that if a breach of the Trenty were. committed, means fjoy enforcing the treaty must be used bra the extent "of such mea- sures would depend upon the nature of the beach. He disliked economic - pres-- sure, lavalving the stoppage of · fand. There was enough starvation in Germany Calready. Anyhow, the Treaty must
enforred. He did not believe any. All would net alone. The Allies must stand together. lectunthe sine might come| wheri Gerninny way again b formidable. but the idea that Germany reriously menact the security of the Allies at pre- sent was fantastic. The reports of British officers from all parts of Germany, indi anted that Germany was paralysed.
He"anticipated a satisfactory settlement of the Ruhr question. One difficulty present was the refusal of Bavaria to obey the orders of Berlin, but the serupa. tion of the Rubr Valley and part of Prussia was not the best method of pit sing pressure on Bavari
for the time he has been under arrest. He also pays the Court costs of the trial which are estimated at 25,00 francs.
RELEASE OVERDUE.
LATER,
It appears that "Caillaux's three years' cial obligations with Germany When THE SAN REMO CONFERENCE and 10 days, and, therefore, he ought to sentence is reducible by a quarter. He tiermany had proved good faith, France
has already been in prison for 27 months would meet fermany in a reasonable
have been released ten days ago. spirit. The report of the Air Commission
her attempt to evade the Trenty.
M: Millerand regarded Germany's re- quest for an erased artily as another attempt to eyade obligations.
"ALLIES TROOPS NOT LARGE ENOUGH IN SUMBER..
Pas, April 3rd.
The Petit Journal correspondent at San Remo says that Marshal Foch does
sufficient in number to enforce the Treaty, funt consider that the Allied troops are
and reconimenily an increast by 300.000. GENERAL MASTERMANS ADVICE.
PARIS, April 2nd,
Allied Commission on Air Control, in General Masterman, he Head of the
reporting to the Ambassadors' Conference, urged the necessity of immediate Allied nction to make Germany execute the clauses of the Treaty waling with the suppression of military aircraft.
PROBLEM OF GERMANY'S INDEMNITY.
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INVITATION TO THE PORTE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 22nd.
The High Commissioners have "com. municated to the Forte the favitation to
FURTHER SENTENCES, Caillaux has also been sentenced to five years of restricted fredons under which the authorities will assign his phee of
1920.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S CALL.
IN SUPPORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
DENIKIN'S DOWNFALL-
1 MAY RE BEATEN, BUT THE
STRUGGLE WILL GO ON " Captain John E Expres Specia: Curespondent, writed Hodgson, Daily
and worn when he rebred me at Tagan- from Novenssisk, Deniain looked pale rog In view of the importaner of the interview he invited General Holman to
present at our conversation.
hate the present retreat of your army
To what, I asked him, # do you attri
**To the overwhelming masses of trooper which the Bolsheviks have been able to fronts having ceased to operate, replied wet to this front owing to one other General Degikin,
• WinKita (Kansas), April 24th.. President Wilson, in a letter to Mr. Jouets House, the Kansas delegate to the National Convention, definitely reveals his expeeintion that the League of Nations will be the main issue of the Presidential campaign an issue which Janis mir duty to raise with the voters of. the country and involves nothing less than the honour of the United States in the redemption of the most solen obligation of the obligations towards its associates of the Great War and mankind
to which it!
My only terns are that the Soviet gare the most explicit pledge that the regime shall cease in its entirety, I will United States went to war not merely vile reign of holshevisni, which
hang all who have been inplicated in the win a victory in arms but also to follow robght Russia to her present condition. ha up the victory with the establishment of Successive disastrous Bolshevist experi such a concar; of nations as would gar-Bussin into a wething ning of nervous was ments in government have transformed
justice." antee the permanence of a peace based on rist. She is emphatically anti-Bolshevist
at heart."
WAL'S TRAGIC WASTAGE MR. RUDYARD KIPLING ON ENGLAND'S ROLE.
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with the Bolsheviks?
Fewhat terms would you make pence
GERMANY
What are one views, abou“ “Ger- many 1 skish.
If Russia were forced by the course. at events into becoming an ally in Ger miny's scheme of Frientation, it would be LONDON, April gehi
far greatest tragerly in my, country's his Mr. Rudyard Kipling: presiding at they will not caintenance such a the St. George's Day banquet and referring tording computer, and would resise it with
alt my pewo P. the effects of the war, said: "We and and publie sono rifnos speak of such a thing. If wetions of the Presa uttr kin, after the great years; ans sick. they only do sin moments of panie and
has doerd us with sufficiency of ballast shaken and dizzy, like all convalescents, test of Mr. Lloyd George's Guildhall →
despair. Such a moment arrived when the but instinet tells us that our national life speech was received.
To understand such a thing it is, myces. to navigate through whatever storms may have been inmersed in a sea of bloodshed sary to hear in mind. Bat the Ruskians he ahead.
We know England has been and treachery for several years. rippled by the loss and wastage of
Their natality cannot, be judged by English whole generation, but the whole weight of talk of sailing in German help, but the standards. A small sertion, of people here the world lies again as it is to be in zy cumes from the ultra-pessimistic fra
send delegates to the Paris meeting of \ residence, and to ten years of deprivation the days of pur fathers upon two nation's ternity who catch at the prospect of Ger
May 10th to receive the Peace Treaty
NEW FINANCIAL COMMISSION. Sas. Rev. April 22nd. The Conference has decided on the foramtion of a new Enancial commission to manage financial affairs of Turkeya aliolishing the existing commissions.
FRONTIERS. OF TURKEY.
SA Reno, April 23rd.
The Supreme Council is again discussing
the territorial clauses of the Turkish Treaty, and has fixed the frontier of European Turkey.
who explained the stand-point of the "The Council also heard Bogos Pasha Armenians.
FUTURE OF SMYRNA,
SAN REMO, April 4th. The Supreme Council has discussed the Armenian mandate and reports that the Military Advisers of the Council have decided that Smyr should be placed ander-Turkish suzerainty but administer- ed by Greece.
It is expected that the conference will conclude on Monday..
EARLIER CABLES.
SETTLED.
LONDS. April 24th. Lord Robert Cecil, spanking at Wat ford, urged that the amunt of Germany's indemnity should be fixed the possible by the Reparation Committee,
said that we must get rid of the war TURKISH TREATY PRACTICALLY atmosphere, and the scour the Supreme Council" ecases to exist the better. Now that we were at peace with tiermany, the Supreme Council could give place to the League of Nations"- The entry of the German troops into the Ruhr Valley was clearly breach of the Treaty. The proper course would has been for any member of the League to take immediate action under the provisions of the Coven- ant There would have been no question"
PARIS, April 2nd. As regards the last German Note, the
uf Germany disobeying an order from the According to Le Petit Journal's vorre real question was whether 100,000 mened of an impartial decision and any mis-insisting that Germany's indebtedness be League, Germany would have been assar-Italy is supporting Mr. Lloyd George in pendent at San, Reino, Japán as well as
"The Premier was of opinion that the fear of Bolshevisa in (irrmany was not exaggerated, but that
German character would not readily netupt Bol-i shevism. On the other hand the ludicrous failure of the Kapp incident showed that Germany was not disposed to support! the military movement.
were sufficient to maintain order. If
understanding would have been avoided.
EARLIER CABLES.
CRITICAL STAGE IN NEGOTIATIONS.
they were. then the German request was unreasonable, but if not then different, Considerations in 123 apply. Marshal Foch once recommended a German army of 200,000 when he believed that America was joining in the guaranted to France.
LONDON, April 99nd. but the situation had changed owing to
The Fires, in the coune of a lender, the attitude of America. All the llitary existence of the League of Nations and ways the stability of the entire Treaty, the
proposed
ground
:
ip
of political rights.
PROFITEERING CHARGE-
AGAINST THREE PROMINENT MEAT, PACKERS.
New Yoas, April 3rd! The Federal Grand Jury has indicted three
Chiengo meat packers-Armour,
an help as a drowning man clutches at The Texning towards Germany
The sole Forgal straw.
-England and France, which ern me this and torn' our fate is has no deep roots," not temperament, not apportunion, not any attempt to do better than guod, but character.
BRITISH WARNING TO
RUSSIA
Swift and Wilson-also their representa-HOSTILITIES MUST CEASE IN THE tives here, on a charge of profitering,
AMUNDSEN'S RETURN.
POSSIBLE ABANDONMENT OF EXPEDITION.
Loxnos, April 23rd. A message L'om Nome, Alaska, says that the explorer Amundsen has arrived at Amadir. Siberia. This indicates that he is returning and a possible abandonment of the expedition.
REAR ADMIRAL'S SUICIDE
小
WHILE ON DUTY WITH THE FLEET.
...
Is the Volunteer Army Czarika ? ** The impression that it is Charist and reactionary, General Denikin replied, arises from the fact that it originally consisted of officers and mer loyal to the old régime who hated the disorder and yranny inaugurated by the Buisnevik Sines then its ranks have been reliurced hy men drawn frum alt classes of us! (LİR
ciety.#
DEPENDENCE
Bolshevism has destroyed practically all our manufacturing resarces, and we are dependent on our briefies abroad for material of all kinds. Until final
SOUTH.
LONDON, April 24th. The Times says the Government in hatte is fought 1 think-France and kng- trong note to Russia points ant that land will continue to help us won vital Denikin's
Bry has practically equipment. Thire are plenty of available i laten. Therefore, Britain must have rphis war stores in Europe wait we are deɓnite assurance that hostilities in South
conhdent of being offered. Russia would cense.
WASHINGTON, April 24th.hese Rear-Admiral Carlo Brittain, Chief of the Staff offche Atlantic Fleet, committed jeide while on duty with the fleet in
han waters.
THE MEXICAN REVOLT
SAN REMO, April 2nd.* tienlly settled. Kurdistan rennins under The Turkish Treaty has been prac Turkish sovereignty for the present, final settlement will be reconsidered within armed force necessary two years hy the League of Nations. The
to enforce the RISING TIDE AGAINST CARKANZA, Turkish Treaty has been settled. There' involved. are already 200,000 troops in the areas
MORE SUPPORT FOR MIL. LLOYD) GEORGE.
fixed now.
GERMAN TACTICS.
AQCAPRIETA. April 23rd
"The Commander of the Sonora Forces asserts that the States of Michoacan, Vera Cruz have joined the revolt against Guerrero, Zacateens, Tehuantepe and
Carranza.
UNITED STATES WATCHFUL.
WASHINGTON, April 28th.
PLAYERS.
We are upheld by the Faith that our raise.erfinos jose and that ultimately right and sanity will prevail over the forces of anarchy and disruption. If all outside help is withdrawa I may he beater and bang' eguse mudy suffer temporary eclipse, but the struggle will go on. The faith within us will never admit the possibility of a permanent Bolshevist triumph.
Pruductivity has erased, and the
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THE DENMSTON
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL OPENING NIGHT IN HONGKONG. The Denniston Players, a capital comuajor portion of Russia is "now starving bination of clever American artistes, open- The agrarian problem can only be solverk ed their senson at the Theatre Royal lastium cannot be achieved by a stroke of the by a well-guided evolution. The millen night, and were greeted by a crowded on. The average good prasant is against Up in Mabel's Room," wel; Polahevism, especially against the crude domgribed in the announcements
and, oriminal way in which the Soviet frivolous farce of feminine foibleger has tackled the land problem.
Please tell the British people ·I, hoft kept the audience in roars of laughter the view that within the last fifteen months from beginning to end. It abounds in plicated and intricate and the elforts of international politics have become so curr amusing situations and is full of clever politicians to straighten things out have mirth-provoking turns of speech, Eleven been so ineffective that the whole world is members of the Company were in the case, avalanche of words.
in danger of being engulfed in each with a fair anunt to do, and all did so uncommonly well that it would be almost invidipus to single out may for special mention. Certainly the play afforded convincing proof of the general and we would like especially to compli- excellents and strength of the combination,
ment the artistes one and all upon the enunciation of their lines. Every word spoken on the stage could le distinctly heard in every part of the house, and this contributed not a little to the enjoyment the scenes were well in keeping with the of the play. There were three acts and high standard of the performance. It is
It is learned that Admiral Rodman has PARIS, April 22nd. sent warships to Mexican waters under the General Minsterman, according to the Palit Parisien, has reported that theIt is stated here that the cruiser Sacra-
orders of the Navy Department, Germans are deliberately opposing at tempts at checking war material, render-neute is already off Tampico. The De ng the Mission's Journeys most difficult partment is watching the situation in a long time since a Hongkong audience
officers everywhere are behaving hostile manner, aviation material Mexico. discovered in the neighbourhood of wingtolen and war material depots have Berlin and fresh construction is being THE WAR INDEMNITY BILL carried our secretly.
"I am treating the problem of Russia today is one that ean only be dealt with in its present stage,by" a soldier. What
he Allied statesmen do not appear to gre in that a Russia"ent inte"bits cannot exist Further, it cannot allow itself to be cut
mean. present Allied policy in the Baltic will off from the sea, and that is what the
If partitions are built up within the or later be pulled down by the sheer force Russian territories to-day they will sooner an innate national desire for unity and rohesion.
democratie State, but it will have to be a united and indivisible Russia."
"We are fighting to establish a' free
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enjoyed a play at the Theatre as they enjoyed Up in Mabel's room," THE PRINCE OF WALES. Company created an impression which end hardly fail to assure them of full houses every night.
Tonight's," Civilian Clothes" after-the-war comedy of demobilisation.
ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND.
- AUCKLAND, April 24th. H.M.S. Reroun, with His Royal High- ness the Prince of Wales on board, arrived to-day.
is an
UNITED STATES TO HOLLAND
OUR POST-WAR ARMY... A FRENCH CRITICISM, advisers at that time recommended an
Anglo-French frienship, cemented army of 200,000. 'Marshal Foch, however, tion of the hour-whether Germany is to torrents of blood, all hinge on the ques
Lieutenant Rourent, one of the soundesta the Liberté same interesting comments en of French military critics, publishes in a conscript army of that size, declares that there is barely time to avert be compelled to observe the Treaty. It
Mr. Churchill's statement in the House of but the proposal was rejected on the a catastrophe, to which Mr. Lloyd George
A SAVING OF £700,000,000. §4.
Commons on his Army proposals. It ir evident, he points out, that, after allowing that it would give Germany and Signor Nitti seem to bedrifting. 2,000,000 trained men every 10 years which state that France consider Mr. Lloyd been issued, providing for indemnification British correspondents at San Re
For the troops it is necessary to keep in LANDON, April 23rd. The text of the War Indemnity Bill has
India, Egypt, Bouth Russia, and else was too dangerous. Accordingly, a long totally inadequate and they believe good faith but without authority in carry- George's plans of economic pressure against the consequences of acts donis in
where, Britain will be able to command servico and voluntary, army was sub-France is ready to act alons in order tang out war doties, and validating
not many more than 100,000 men to enable stipated, and Marshal Foch reduced the secure enforcement of the Traky.
NATION'S PHYSIQUE.
it to take action in any eventualities that NEW CABLE SERVICE...
may arise in connection with the European number to 100,600,
French correspondents asert that Mr. and sentences of military and other courts. certain war Ordinances, Proclamations,
concert. The support that Britain might Lloyd George and Signor Nitti ought to It is expected
PRINCE ALBERT'S TIMELY
According to a Kokusai special message
be able to give to France in case of need, The Premier strongly denied that he invite the German Governant to parti- £700,000,000.
Rys Lieutenant Rousset, therefor ever proposed a revision of the Treaty,
from Amsterdam,' in the Japan Times, the appreciably the same as that, which she WARNING. cipate in the San Remo Conference in the As regards the presence of the American person of the Chancellor himself. They
Western Union Telegraph. Campany is 2150 in 1914. It is evident, he adds.... Ambassador nt Ban Remo, Mr. Lloyd delato that Mr. Lloyd Garge deferred
LONDON, April 23rd, planning the construction of a direct cable sufficientie on extended or speedy; help. George said there, was very little advan-to M. Millerand's opposition but has been
that France cannot count in case of need Prince Albert, in his capacity as Presi- between America and Holland. tage in the attendance of a representative endeavouring since, with fertility of in-
GOVERNMENT'S NEW POLICY., addressing the London Chamber of Com- nes between the United States and the Treaty of Peace that she cannot for a very
dent of the Industrial Welfare Society who only took notes.
from England:" The conference vention, to achieve the same end by other
The after-the-way congestion of basi Germany so firmly under the terms of the All that remains to be done is to tie up needed someone able to explain the Ameri-means. can point of view to which the conference
LONDON, April 23.merce, dwelt on the necessity of national Continent overloaded the available cables, long time recover her lost strength. This greatly deferred. It was anxious to have Germany has at present an efective Army Ireland, including the cesntion of raids workers, His Royal Highness said, should transactions have been greatly hampered. anguillity and restoration. Let ya hap The Times Frankfurt corremundent says ernment has decided on a new policy in physical education. Business men and land, to meh an extent that financial the mental ondition for our Intare the American view, because it was detach-of at least hafa million which has been for seditious literature, etc. Arrests will combine the task of repairing the ravages
the can only give it to handge this forin The Daily Chronicle says that the Glov
all of which are rented, by way of Eng d from European prejudices. Mr. Lloyd organised secretly by the Mitars Party benceforth be confined to murders of the nation's manhood and childhood George, therefore, greatly regretted its against which the German Government is number of minor restrictions will be
this the help of our English friends" vince alicace.
that in order to enable me to nigonish helpless
removed."
which was a serious menner to the future,
will never be lacking in any circumst or at any time.
.to
Mave. the
UNREST IN IRELAND.
State
crbies are disturb the mails have been used by the able companies to relay mes At times, when the English erntrolled
ages to England.
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