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CABLES.
LATEST CABLES. ĮTEROVŠE" KHUTER'S AGENCY.}
IMPERIAL PRESS CON- FERENCE.
OFFICIAL WELCOME IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
ST. JOHN's, July 31st.
The British delegates to the Imperial Press Conference were welcomed at an -afinial luncheon to-daj.
Sir Robert Bruce, editar of the Glasgow
THE
LATEST CABLES.
POLAND IN PERIL,
FIERCE BOLSHEVIK. ATTACÉ AFTER ARMISTICE,
LONDON, July 31st. Polish telegrama from Warsaw "admit that a most intense Bolshevik offedrive was restarted after the acceptance of the pro- povals of armistice, the enemy's immediate object apparently bring to establish himself between Brent Látovik and Udovice. If his objective is gained the Poles will be forced to evacuate their prin
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST BED, 1920.
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
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[Tao of owA CORESSPONDENT;)
THE PEKING CRISIS. COOLERA OUTBREAK AMONG CHINESE
"TROOPS.
CHINESE WEDDING. BRILLIANT SCENE AT CITY HALL,
As the City Hall on Sanday evening the marr'age took place of Mr. Long Pui-wai,
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HUNGARIAN TREATY.
THE BRIEF SIGNING CEREMONY
AT VERSAILLES. The thig Telegraph Correspondent in Paris seat the following port of the cerem mony of signing the Hingorina Treaty :--
never camU
Herald, in the course of a speech, emcipal defenos, namely, the Pinsk marshes, sumed to-day. The Coke's Rifles, forming. F. Yung. At the conclusion of the also provided Miss Claribel Fontaine, who further than Vienna, The reaty will pres
phasised the importance of the Conference which will discuss, inter alia, a better and abamper cable Press facilitics, also the qurision of circulating news throughops the Empire
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Mr. Nayier, Provident of the Printing Trade Federation, said the time was approaching when Labour would govern difference England. This would make no in the attituds of the Motherland to the Dominions. He hoped that the conference! would result in promoting the best feelings between the industrial elements and the
newspaper profession throughout Expira
the
NEW AIR MAIL ROUTE MONOPLANES LEAVE NEW YORK
FOR SAN FRANCISCO.
!! Now Youx, July 30th. Throw all-metal monoplanes carrying the irst trans-Continental seriál mail have left
the permanent air mail route which will probably begin in September.
NEW PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
NOMINEE OF NEW LIBERAL
· PARTY.
The Bolsheviks launched a simultaneous attack on the Podolian sector, but the main issue of the situation depends on the in pending battle south-west of Grodno, where the Bolsheviski have already penetrated the ancient territory of the kingdom;»....
A Bolshevisk wireless quotes the mani- festo to the Red armies saying "Our delegation, beaded by Comrade Kamenoff, has gone to London. Comrades, on your oss at the front depends the success of the delegation.”
THE FRAWLEY COMPANY. THEATRE ROYAL CROWDED ON OPENING NIGHT. Hongkong forgot its weather worrice last a graduate of Boston University, eklest sonnight when is extended a hearty welcome of Mc Liang Shih-xii well-known financier to the Frawley Company at the Theatre Nearly six months have passed between and ex-Minister of Finance of China, and Hayal. For the time of the year it was the presentation of the terms of the peace with Hungary and the signature of the Miss Cheng, daughter of Mr. Cheug-bang record house, and judging by the hearty Treaty. In the interval Count Apponyi : Pexixo, Auguаv 2ad.
of Fukien, a coal mining magnate, Both outbursts of laughter which punctuated the and the rest of the original delegation hava The outbreak of cholera, sang Wn Pri-parties are very well-known throughout Perfcrmátor it was most appreciative resigned, and the duty of putting their Fu's troops, outside Peking. is ervating Chion. The hall presented an animated tience to was a happy choice of the signatures to the document has fallen to two Hungarians hitherto unknown outside the alarm. The diplomate, the foreign medical appearance when the ceremony was per- Frawley Company to select so bright and country. M. August. Beynar. Minister for It furnished Mr. Drasche Lazar. Even their appointment men and the Chinese Authorities are taking formed by Professor Lai of the Hongkong voracious a play as "Fair and Warmer "Labour and Social Welfare, and M., Alfred
University. The bride was attended by the for the opening night.
dates only from few days; General Sda, action.
Partial train service to Tientsin was re- Misses Tea. Chow. Cheng and Chan, and T. Dani Frawley with a part as Billy who was to have signed on buislf of Hin the best men were Messis, H. L. Yung and Bartlett in which he fairly revelisil, and gary, and in tes tert-Budapest for this
purpose, for KONAN reason ceremony, the fathers of the bride and appeared as Blanng, Wheeler, with great, sumably be known as the Trity of the the British Legution Guard, proceeded to Tientsin today, having been replaced by bridegroom made speeches. In the evening opportunities of proving her versatility Trianon, since it was in the Palace of the dinners were given at two well-known re Miss Vera Doria, as Laura Bartlett, and Grand Trianon at Versailles that the core- many took place. From this point of view, the Wiltshires.
staurants at West Point. The uple, who Mr. W. Messenger Bellis, as Jack Wheeler, therefore, Hungary has been honored gro leaving for Anjorien. were the receipente!" the characters with just the about Bulgarin, who signed in the Towa pients of numerogs presents, including two requisite shades of contrast to reveal Bail of Neuilly white-walled room is a clearly. the humorous intention of the Part of the pabes not usually accessible to the publica long gallery forming a right Vases from the President of China.
nuthor. Anong recent plays, the part, of
angla with the main building, and joining Blenny Wheeler in Fair and Warmer," it to the part konen as Trianon-sous-Bois perhaps, makes more exorbitant demands had been specially prepared for the area sion. Through the tall windows, botween for ita interpretation, than any other. It each of which is a picture of the gardena is such a whimsical yet' straightforward, fat Versailles as they wore when Long XIV, shrewd yet simple, submissive yet militant Built the Trianon, the delegates looked out jan the rest of" the pink” närble-fronted woman Blanay Wheeler represents that the bulding and the colonnade and the foun interpretation of the part is apt to prove tains playing in the garden. The setting too grent a strain upon the histrionic was indeed the most interesting part of the
ceremony, which was of the simplest. powers of an actress. It is therefore, nu
The change in the Allied representatives 4. Bobbie Hrand-fur so he was always small praise for Miss Claribel Fontaine to scated around the horseshoe table made it, aid--as in only his 7th year. He was say that she never once disappointed the however, somewhat different from its three - born in London with Mentor 1502 authence at the male counter part predecessors. For the first time M. Miller
and presuled at the carly educa Shanghai de recived his torus ght but Ranny Whooler, the stay-att-lone, sit-by- and for the first time lord. De of a tresty, tion at the Shanghai Public School, this the-fregide husband. Mr. Frawley very any behalf of the United Kingdom. There was also a distinguished spectator in the per He supported Miss Claribel Fontaine. "In th
Awon of King Alexander of, Greven, who sat being completed at Chiton College. returned to the Settlement and jäined up with the Union insurance Co. an, whose author's humorous conceit" the staid hus employant he has since served, with the band is provided with a temperamental wife,
was engaged on and the Enusewife (Blanny Wheeler) with exception of the years active service. He served with distinction
[THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.)
CANADIAN MAIL CONTRACT.
* KMPRESS
LINERS TO CARRY AMERICAN
MAILS.
LONDON, July 31st. The Timer Vancouver correspondens says") that the disagreement between the Douin-i
inn postal authorities and the Canadian EARLIER CABLES, Pacino Railway Company in regard to the trans-Pacific "mail contract is becoming serious. As a result of the dispute all British and Canadian mails are now sent
TROOPS ENTER GERMAN TERRITORY.
BERLIN, July 31st,
2,000 Polish troops, which were cut off and cringed the German frontier -near
to the Far East by Japanese ships which
are much slower than Canadian vessels.
A telegram from Marienburg states that Hitherto, the Canadian Pacific Railway
mail subsidy has been $325,000. but this year the company, asked für $450,000. The Government refused, and offered alter Prostken, will be disarmed and internet.atiron which the company rejected. The The Russian advance guards are operat- culmination was reached when 6,000 mail
the line.
MEXICAN FERMENT.
-PASSING OF-GENERAL VILLA.
Esoia Pass (TEXAS), July 29th. It is officially reported that General Villa unconditionally surrendered after an all-night conference with the Government's
representative
The announcement has been received with rejoicing throughout
ria Vancouver at the rates asked.
OBJECTION TO JAPANESE IN
AUSTRALIAN COASTAL SERVICE.
SYDNEY, July 31st."
THE LATE MR. R. A. ̈RRAND.
A SHANGHAI TRIBUTE. The Shanghai Verrury, announcing the sudden death of Mr. R. A. Brand, while bathing at Yokohama, says;--It is conjec tured that he had been suddenly taken with cramp or heart inilure. –
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1
Kame
in the front row of the other invitel gorsk at one end of the gallery. Otherwise, the
rowdings followed egnetly the courseas on previous occasions. The Allied in the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards hand (Jack of that ilk) who worships representativy having all inker: their and was the recipient of the Military at "a mystic shrine. Same would sex, places a little before half-past four, the Grow On his-return-from-service naturally and accept the results of the Hungarior delegates, who had yume from. "Bobbia" resumed his position with tho
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the Hotel des Reservoirs, were introduced
New York for San Francisco to lay outing along the frontier but are not crossing bugs, mostly from the United Kingdom, wern removed from the Empress of Asia prior to her sailing. The mail is now subject to a delay of from five to ten days Union Lasurance Co, at Hongkong and it matrimonial ventures as foregone conilu- and took weary at the right find end of the [ Fair and Warmer" the Horseshoe. M. Millerand then stated in a was only recently that he was transferred sions across the Pacific. Meanwhile, the Cana to the kokohama branch from where news author, however, makes the worin turn; the few words the purpose of the meeting, and called upon them to sign the treaty, the, dian Pacific Railway. Company, has entered of the sad fatality was received in Shang- into a contract to carry the American mail, ba during the weekend. Death, accordsolein husband of "the vivacicis wife and terins of which he delaned to be in every"
ing to the mesangos received, was the result the hom-loving wife of the frivolous way identient with the copy they had of a bathing accident.
ceived. M. Beynar and 31. Drasche Lazar "his mother, bis husband revolt. Their efforts at consoling stepped up to the small table in the middle He is survived by brothers, J. K. and Lavid, and his sisters ench other and their plans to read theif who are resident in the Settlement but aro just now on summer vacations. Te each spouses, a lesson in their own terms make and nut of these the deepest sympathy of the humour of the pier. It was due to the his soares of friends in Shanghai, in Bong whole-hearted support which the other mer Three Japanese steamery are expected-kong in Yokohama, and elsewhere will be
killed in the wake,
Fontaine. Miss Vera Doria, Mr. T. Dani here shortly to trade on the Australian extended. His eldest brother, James, was bers of the company gave to Miss Claribel It was as a sportsman of the finest type The Seamen's Union, however, is
was best known in Frawley and Mr. W. Messenger Bellis that that Bobbie strenuously objecting to the "intrusion of
Settlement, in Hongkong and in Yoko Fair and Warmer" was registered as one coastal Eastern crews in Australian
hama, and his particular forte for many service, on the ground that many Austra years before the war was the cricket field, though latterly he was also very keen on The Mexican Consul at Eagle Pass stated ian seamen are unemployed and that it tennis and golf. But in the years preced small parts. The stage settings, also, were that Villa's surrender followed an all-night against the interests of the Cummoning the call to arms he was classed as one of Shanghai's best all-round cricketers and conference with General Masting, repre-wealth to keep the Japanese on the const. when one remembers the standard of Shang- hai cricket "this is saying a great deal LARGE QUANTITY OF SISAL HEMP Ring the new Mexican Government. "
CHINESE LABOUR FOR SAMOA,
indeed, Bus Clifton College has always been noted for the quality of its leading WELLINGTON, July 31st.
cricketers and this is not surprising when PUSSYFOOT'S OWN STORY. d'ared the treaty signed and the sitting at A later menage kaya Villa and his follow- In the House of Representatives in
Goremment sis have been restored to full Mexican debato од Samoa, the
DETROIT. July 31st. Senator La Follette is the Presidential -candidate of the new Liberal Party which is being formed out of the faction which broke away at the recent Convention of the Farmer-Labour Party at Chicago, ou re- fusing to andarse the platform submitted för amalgamation with the Labour Party.
AMERICAN WARHOUSES
DESTROYED.
BALES LOST.
mated at over a million dollars.
NO CONSCRIPTION. NEW GERMAN BILL.
BERLIN, July 31st.
INTERESTING MOVE BY AMERICAN FIRM
Mexico. Villa will retire into private life after seeing the President at the capital.
URTHER DETAILS.
LATER
Villa is expected in Mexico City abortly
to place himself at the President's disposal.
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A FRENCH ‘REVOLT.
MEXICO CITY, July 29th,
coast.
LONDON, Jaly 31st,
LATE SIR J. T. GOLDNEY.
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one recalls that for years the coaching was in the hands of the great J. T. Tunnicliffe, of Yorkshire. "Bobbie" was a brilliant
min to watch, whether batting, bowling or
of the horseshoe on which the treaty lay wrote their signatures, amid the clicking of cameras and the turning of cinematograph handles, and retired to their place. Then followed the Allies in alphabetical order. Mr. Hugh Wallace in spite of the fact that beginning with the American Ambassador, the Hungarian treaty like the others, begins with the covenant of the League of Nations. Lord" Derby's signature wax followed by that of the representatives of the British Donrinions. M. Milleraad M Francois. Marshal. Minister of Finance, M. Isaac, Minister of Commeren, and M. Jules Cam- bon signed on behalf of France. Then came excellent.
Italy and Japon, and after them the rest. To-night the company present " Scandal.” of the Allies. Little more than a quarter
of an hour had elapsed when, the last signa ture having been written. M: Milerand do
as end
of the great serveses of the company.
It was, indeed, a strong cast, oven in the
The conclusion of peace with Hungary has aroused very little general interest, and eren at Versailles brought out only a band-
NICKNAME'S ORIGIN.
W. E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson in
bow
The
delegates as they drove through the gate fl of people to watch the arrival of tho into the park of the Trianon
.:
The
CHARGES AGAINST JAPANESH. MINISTERS. SPECULATION ON STOCK EXCHANGE.
NEW ORLAINS, July 31st. The Appalachiat Corporation warehouses containing 30,000 bales of sisal hemp have artizonship. It is reported that Ville will announced that it had been definitely been destroyed by fire. The loss is esti- be given a yearly allowance and that his decided to continue to import properly! Bolding. It goes, of course, without eas interview with London Tit Bite tells
controlled Chiness indentured labour into 15% that when the dare fine for not he came to be called "Pussyfont."
honours to be considered "Bobbie's" place followers will receive farming land and a Bamon which was considered accessary in in the team was understood. He repre-story foliows
"I was christened Pussyfoot because year's Army pay.
The men will be disorder to prevent the destruction of the seated the Settlement on several occasions.
hiace his return to business from the Sects of my fondness for hunting down the banded at Torreon, whither they are pro- plantations.
picuar dy be had been playing, in Hongkong ooeding.
The House, by 33 rote to 11. endorsed at least, more-golf and tennis than cricket, desperadoes as a cat does a mouse.
but now and again he returned to his old incidont which really led to the name, how A Washington-wessage anys it is generally the-Government's policy the Prime love and figured in the Hongkong C.C The Reichstag has passed a bill abolish accepted that Villa's render brings Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. F. Hasse Deep Water Bay were strong upon him and at 3inskaged with a message from a certain
eleven. But the attractions of Fanling and or war thing
One day a man walked into my office
A Tokyo spessage dated July 24th ing-compulsory military service. The Ger- American recognition of the Mexican having undertaken to substitute "fre already a good steady golfer, a few more saloon keeper of Haskell, intimating ia.o
a section of the PeoGovernment measurably nearer.
show my say's ****** Villa's labour" when possible. The minority con years would have seen him in the front friendly way that if I dazed man National Pazy,
rank of linksmen. Cricketers and all kinds face in Haskell he'd shoot me. Well, I Mr. Shimada, the Opposition leader statas tas not greatly changed. He is
sisted mostly of Labourites. ple's Party, voted against the measure,
of sportsmen in Shanghai and the other
like that?
ance, on behalf of forty-one. Kankait . EARLIER CABLES.
under an indictment for killing soldiers CHINA INVITED TO THE LEAGUE town in which he worked will especially it to you, could I refuse an invitation and Mr. Taketomi, the ex-Minister of Fine join in the tributes which today will be
I sent a scout into Haskell and found members, yesterday presented a written paid to a gallant comradë.”
that the saloon keeper had never seen motives, alleging that the Minister of Fin-
interpellation to the House of Representa and civilians in Columbus in 1916, and the
but had a good description of mo. Bo one SHARE-OWNERSHIP
fact that he has placed himself under the EXPERIMENT.
A communiqué states that the League of
night I disguised myself and rode into anos, Baron Takahashi, the Minister of Haskell, I tethered my horse to bis Agriculture, Mr. Yamamoto, and the laws of his own country may mean that his Nations has invited China to send delegates A Northern paper says: The two Ger-
wrongfully utilised afficial information for extradition will be sought. Thus the Mexi- to the assembly of the League of November man diplomatic agents who arrived in the veranda and, walking into the bar, called Minister of Education, Mr. Nakahashi, hart
Capital the other day to negotiate with the for a drink,
the stockc "My feros friend was a big man, but their personal interests on can Government will be freshly embarassed, 15th.
Government for the resumption of diploma the thing that interested me most was a market. The interpellation states that the tic relations between Germany and this 45 at his hip.
charges, which have already been made in New York, July 30th.
country have made a request to the Minix He offered me a battle, which I at the House, demand more than denials by Shareholders in the International Bar-
LONDON, July 31st..try of Foreign Affairs, through the Dutch; once said was too weak, and mashed it the Ministers involved, the acceptance of vester Co., bamo voted for an increase in Colonel Canta, Governor of Lower Cali Sir J. T. Goldney, ex-Judge of the Legation, asking for an informal interview on the bar, Give me bell fire," I cried, which would be tantamount to acquitting
with the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. He opened a secret trap in the floor and man before a Judge on his personal pics. preferred stock of $40,000,000 and in com farcia, has openly, revolted against the Btraits Settlements, left £81,022. -
handed me a bottle of old whisky. -
of Not Guilty The Opposition leader mon stock of $50,000,000. It is proposed (overnment.It-is-reported that 3,000
"My one object was to get him to show describe the attitude of the Beiyukai ar THE OPEN DOOR" IN CHINA...”
me his back, and Ismayed him until irrational or face of these charges, in supe to set asido out of the now
Federal troops ar proceeding to Lower
I was able to whip out his revolver, held port of which they quote a report by
commercial news agency at Kobe, compar $20,000,000 commen. stockz and: $40,000,000 | California,
it to his car and introduce myself. LONDON, July 20th: It is understood that the Governmen? it In the House of Commons, replying to
The next day the local paper told the ing the amount of stocks, held by the preferred stock" for the share-ownership:
giving clogo attention to American and Mr. Gershom Stewart, Mr. Harmsworth story and called me Pussyfoot. That was Ministers in the names of their sons and wives, in the latter part of 1019 and the amount held on May 1990, which is alleget plan, open to 40,000 employees in the
HOW HOUSE-BUILDING IS Japonoso relations and Japanese polley instated that Japan had expressed her will how I earned my name,'
ingness to return Shantung to Ching with
to prove that the Minister, forescuing the "United States and Conada,
ENCOURAGED AT CALCUTTA. the Far East, affecting the withdrawal of certain limited restrictions. The Govern-
financial slump," sold out. The interpella. tion states that the suspicion againet. The following is a clipping from the Americans from Siberia, the signing of the meat had no information that China had | signified her willingness to accopt. Bhan--
the Minister ised, may crystaližses "
nd may Englishman (Calcutta):-The provisions Consortium Loan Agreement, Japanese
into national belief in their guilt in the Rent Act which permitted owners to charge whatever rents they liked for house assumption of control of the Chinese East put up since the Act became law, has carern Railway and the occupation of North taisly bad the effect of impouraging build Bakkalin ing in Calcutta. New and larger houses are
Mr. Colby has conferred with Bir Auck springing up all over. Calcutta in spite of the increased cost of materials. The trouble land Geddes and Bir Bailly Alston. It iHE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE. ed in 1887, when eighteen years old, and slightly. is that in many cases existing houses are The Evening Fort of New York City is being pulled-down-to-make way for the understood the Great Britain and America a newspaper with a background, A recent now. The neighbourhood of Park Street desire the prowervation of the internationa In the House of Commons, replying to It is a beautiful portrait of a girl, full who is ill and confined to bed, is reported hidden away the Ministers, should an ambiguous reply isang contains an allusion to a contribution begins to look at if an earthquake had lity of the Chinese Basters Radway in Mr., Geralion Stewart, Mr. Harmsworth of rich tone, and I saw it at the Twenty to be ready to introduce a Bill impeaching to its columns made over a century ago. | taken place or as if it had suffered from
stated that if and when negotiations were One Gallery in Johnstreet hidde
in a back room, not on exhibition. When be made to the interpellation. Miss Helens Van Brush de Kay," it a Hun bombardment, so bury are house order to ensure the maintenance of the started with regard to the renewal of the Marin died two or or three years ago he parted to have said: I am in possessio saya, dif who contributes to this issue breakers at present Ho
However, any tempen door."
Anglo-Japanese Alliance full pomidoration had already forgotten its Locality Drake, author cind The American Flag" will be compensated for when the now. IDan- It is generally believed that the United and The Culprit Fay," who died in 1820, mons and flata contemplated are ready for Staten has protested agains, the He contributed light vern d'occasion to the they will run into three and four storoys New York Evening Post in 1817-18 and thus providing much more accommodation compation of North Sakhalin "used the pan-name" Cröacker?
kbares
AMERICAN AMBASSADOR'S
WILL.
NEW YORK, July 29th. our former American. Amb
to France, left $7,500,000.
"is a great-granddaughter of Joseph Rodman | "porary shortage of houses in the
than had wristed,"
WASHINGTON, July 29th
"(Continued at foot of nest column.)
THE SHANTUNG PROBLEM.
A MARIS DISCOVERY.
even culminate in tations indigestios with the possibility that national morality:
tung from the League of Nations, The I wonder if connoisseurs know that one Government could not accept the enggestion of the most beautiful examples of Matthew that they should infilzenos, Japan to sanul Maris ourlier Rembrandtesque style is to all leases and concessions obtained from be found hidden away in London, may may affor China in Manchuria since July, 1911.
writer in the Daily Expres. It is his Today's press reports state that the picture called "Lyabeth, which he paint charges are affecting the Ministers vary
Their friends argue that Minia when the greatest old masters of his native tere bave the same right as private indivi Holland were good enough models for him. duals to engage in business. Mr. Bhimada,
LONDON, July 29th.
would be given to the principal of mein- dour if the old painternod, and I09077 which will prove the corTWO-
mind was tion the Ministers concernod. For
ning the open door """in China, and then obered with the new discovery which take of public morality and official do that temporary military occupation of be thought he had made of ghost picturescipling I have brought the facts to light Chineso territory would be of no avail to and misty shapen, would have chrod to have and I am ready to sacrifice my political Akure préferential treatment for any par- nemowledged the great work of his life, if it is proved that I am falsely ace Keylar-Power,
borhood
ing State Ministers, "
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