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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, MARCH
GERMAN BRAVADO: PROBABLE MEASURES BY ALLIES.
WAR IN PANAMA, AMERICAN WARSHIPS TO WATCH
1.
DEVELOPMENTS.
RISINGS IN RUSSIA
CHINESE TROOPS TO MOSCOW. MOVES
SOVIET
LATEST UABLES. {THROUGH BITTER'S AGENCY.} GERMANY'S SHOW OF DEFIANCE. · ·
STILL REFUSING TO ACCEPT ALLIED PROPOSALS.
LONDON, March other Germany continues to maintain a show of dohance to Allied reparation proposals Beuter's Berlin correspondent says that the Reichstag met at its own desire to bear the Chancellor's report on the past tion of the London negotiations. Fehrenbach, in
guarded statement, reiterated that Herr you Simons had been instruction not to sign agreements which
cannot be fulfilled,
Herr
NO NEW GERMAN PROPOSALS.
LONDON, March ɛth..
the
Herr von Simons, interviewed by a re- presentative of the Sunday Times, out- Imed the reply he would winke to Allies to-morrow. He will insist that Germany is prepared to pay as much as she can, but that she objects to the pro posed, terms of 42 years. As regards the Faris figures, they are unacceptable, 11 the Allies are immovable, Germany, will submit to the sanctions.
Herr von Bimops, while hoping for a compromise, made it clear that he will not manku a new financial proposal.
SARLIER CABLES.
UPROAR IN THE REICHSTAG. AROUSED BY MR LLOYD GEORGE'S
SPEECH.
LATEST CABLES.
WAR IN PANAMA. AMERICAN WARSHIPS ON THEIR
·War
NEW YORK, March 5th. A Panama message says that the Costa Ricans have captured Guabito. The Panamans retired to Bocas del Toro, leaving dead and wounded.
American warships are proceeding from the Atlantic and the Pacife sides to the
disturbed area to protect American întor-
esta.
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT,
LONDON, March 5th. The latest news, officially received in Londen, is that Panaman troops have de- | feated and disarmed the invading Costs
Ilicans.
BERLIN, March 5th.`
UNITED STATES READY TO In the Reichstag an attempt 'by Harr
INTERVENE. Loebe, the President, to read Mr. Lloyd
WASHINGTON, March 6th George's speech as regards reparations
The Secretary of State, Mr. Hughes, provoked very stormy scenes. The Com-has sent Notes to Panama and Costa Rica munist, Herr Hoffman, Endeavouring to demanding immediate cessation of hos speak, was unsailed with shouts of "Throw tilities. It is understood that the Notes him out!" At Herr Hoffman's request
convey the impression that America is Herr Losbe read the rest of the speech,
ready to enforce peace, if necessary. which produced a storm of unparliament- epithets The Chamber then ad-
journed.
FRENCH PRESS APPROVES.
LONDON, March 4th.
LATER. Mr. Hughes conferred with the ox- Under Secretary of State, Mr. Davis, sad the деп Under Secretary, Mr.
1921.
FAR
EASTERN
NEWS.
RISINGS IN RUSSIA. REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE IN POWER IN PETROGRAD,
HELRINGFORS, March 5th. “A message from Reval saya that distur bances in Petrograd continue. The sailors in Kronstads have oponly revolted. Great excitement prevails throughout the conn.
CABLE
ÍTHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY: INDO-CHINA RAILWAY PROJECT.
PARIS, March 3rd.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS, Commander A. E. Johnston has boot. appointed to the Bee on re-commissioning, | and after that, event will become chief'ef staff to Rear Admiral Borrett on the Yangtze. Commander Johnson is prò sently the thief executive oficer of the Before sailing for Indo-China, M. light cruiser Cairo on the China Station, Lieut. Commander J, Brooke, D.S.Q., Maurice Long, Governor-General of has been posted to the Cairo from January French Indo-China, stated that the Indo-28th. He saw much service in the Grent War, was mentioned in despatches, According to information received in Chinese internal loan granted by Parlin and received the Distinguished Service Roval from Moscon-a-revolutionary comment is to be used-chiefs, for completing Cross for gallantry and good work in mitteo controls Petrograd, also, the forti- the railway system, notably a through line
try.
lications and the Flot. CHINESE TROOPS FIGHTING FOR
→SOVIET.
LONDON, March 8th. The sensational reports of the extension
of the anti-Sovies risings in Russisco
to Chinnavia.
FAR EASTERN CONSULAR SERVICE.
LONDON, March 5th.
Far Eastern Consular Services will, hence Appointment to the general Levant and
forth, be by competitive examinations only. The limits of age are years to 24, with two years' extension for the Far Eastern service for war service.
various naval affairs.
Lieut. Commander CH. Lang. D.S.O., From the Naval Intelligence Division at the Admiralty, has been appointed to the command of the river gunbont Teal from Januar 25th. During the war he saw much hard service in the North Sea and risowhere. He was mentioned in despatches and given the D.S.O. for excellent work in action.
ships of war arranged for 1091, the Mont- According to the disposition of French cum will replace the Dease in the for
East Division.
THE YANGTSZE FLAGSHIP.
tinue, but there are obvious dimonitis in the way of gauging the real situation However, Heuter's Stockholm correspon- dent saya that the papers there regard it
The Bee, screw gunboat, one of the Insect class built during the war for as a reliable fact that Social Revolution. aries hold Kronstadt, which is the centre
service in Mesopotamia, is to replace the AMBASSADOR ON CHINA'S
paddle steamer Kisha as flagship of the of the revolutionary organisation. Many
PROBLEM.
Senior Naval Officer on the Yangtaza Fleet Commissaries have been arrested.
This command is at present held by Rear- Losnos, March 4th. Admiral George H. Borrett, who has 10 General Kostovsky is the Artillery Com
small craft under his orders. The Bee is Interviewed by the Pall Mall Gazette, already serving on the river, where nine mander.
Dr. Wallington Koo, the Chinese Ambas out of the 16 vessels belong to the "Insect??
class. Messages from Moscow state that thesador in London, emphasised the fact that
The Kintha was originally the passenger: Sozlet has started a reign of terror, and the great problem of China was to divert steamer Pioneer, of 616 tons and 14 knots wholesale arrests have been made
money from military into civil channels. speed, and was built by Messrs. Denny, If the army were reduced to a strength seated by the late Mr. Archibald Little of Dumbarton, for the syndicate répre Jews tear the recurrence of pogzems.
salcient for police purposes large sums for the navigation of the Upper Yangtzze. would be released for education, sanita At the time of the Boxer troubles in 1900 A message from Helsingfors states that tion, and economic development. Mr.
The
The French Press greatly eulogises M-Fletcher, with regard to the Costa Rica the aim of the insurrection is the establish. Koo declared that the internal troubles/sho was taken over by the Admiralty for
and Panama dispute.
Lloyd George's speech which it is pointed out is most opportune on the eve of the He also approved the attitude of Mr.
ference.
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Subsequently, Mr. Hughes had, hour's conference with Presiding Harding, to which Mr. Weeks, the new Secretary of War, was called in.
ment of the Constituent Assembly.
A telegram from Bukharest says that
closing of the Russo-Rumanian frontier, owing to a violent revolt in Odessa, where there are only two faithful regiments and Chinese, have been engaged in a stern fight to support the frontier troops who are retiring to Odessa, while the Soviet is concentrating Chine troops in Moscow.
in China were mach oxaggerated. Politi cal difficulties were being adjusted." If the Chinese were left to work out their own salvation they would undoubtedis
AN ECHO OF THE WAR INTERESTING ÎNCIDENT ON THE
CHINA STATION..
| inauguration of the new American PresiDavis in respect of the Tap controversy the Soviet Government has ordered theĮ sogn adjust their troubles.
sident, as it makes it clear that the Allies during the Cable Commünications Con- are-united in imposing penalties on Ger- many. There are signs that the Germans are very perturbed at Allied armuess, some Berlin nawspapers pointing out that the German counter-proposals were in no way an altimatum but merely a sugges- tion, though the Berlin Tageblatt defiantly“ declares that the Allies' demands are in- possible and should again be rejected. | TOUCHING
It is expected that the Alliva will reject | The debtuhr Abendblati suggests that a the plea
fresh proposal may be made, perhaps from MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S SCHEME TO a third side. The Gorman Cabinet dis
MAKE GERMANY PAY.
LONDON, March 6th. The Sunday Times says that a political Personage, ruferring to the Allied "diffi- culty of discovering a muhed
of collecting indemnity without injury to themselves, - mnderstands that Mr. Lloyd George-win
offer a suggestion; to-morrow, under which 50 per cent, payment in respect of German Axperts to the Allied countries will bo im- pounded by the Allied Exchequers, anu pooled for common Allied benett.
The German Government, by increased taxation, will reimburse exporters thus mulcted. It is pointed out that the rein- bursed sum would remain in Germany.
VIEWS OF GERMAN FINANCIAL
EXPERTS.
HERLIN, March 5th. -a-semi-official-statement says that the
committee of experts, presided over by the Chancellor, Herr Fehrenbach, discuss- ed the economic effects of the threatened Allied measures, and unanimously ex-
cussed Mr. Lloyd George's speech till late last night but apparently the only opinion expressed was regret at the penalties, which it was declared, if imposed, would find Germany defenceless and would in- fringe the Versailles Treaty.
FRENCH WARSHIP RUMOUR-
DENIED.
OVATION FOR MR. WOODROW WILSON,
SOÊNE AT HIS „NEW
HOME.
WASHINGTON, March 5th.
When ex-President Wilson returged to
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COUNT KAROLYI'S ARREST. ALLEGED RELATIONS WITH COMMUNISTS.
FLORENCE, March, 5th. his new home in Washington ilter & visitdent, Count Karolyi, and his family have The ex-Hungarian Premier and Presi. to the Capitol, several thousands demon been arrested and are being conducted to strated, cheering him and demanding the frontier for banishment. speech.
siderable sum had been spent in charter naval duty on the Yangtze. After a con-
and has been under the. White Ensign money, she was purchased for the Navy,
ever since. Among well-known officers who served in her as sub-lieutenants or lieutenants are Captain Sidney R. Bailey, now Deputy Director of Operations at the Admiralty Captain Eric G. Robinson, who won the V.C. nt Gallipoli in 1915; and Captain T. J. S. Lyne, now command ing the Indus training establiebment, who is the only officer of his rank who has risen from the lower deck.
BRITAIN IN 1920.
AGGREGATE CAPITAL OF
The recent promotion to flag rank of Captain Maurice Fitzmaurice,,C.M.G., who has returned to England on relin quishing the post of Commodore at REGISTRATIONS IN GREAT
recalls, The Times, very interesting, but little-known incident of the early days of the war, showing the fine spirit of comradeship and co-opera- tion between the Navy and the Army. Rear-Admiral Fitzmaurice, at the out- break of war, held the post of Senior Naval Officer on the Yangtze, with his
mand of the battleship Triumph, which pennant, in the sloop Cadmus, but on mobilisation of the Fleet he took com had been in reserve at Hongkong,
the
£588,884,300.
Particulars of companies registered during the year 1920, compiled. by Jordan
shows a greater number of companies and Sons, Limited, in the course of their business as company registration agenta, registered than during any preceding year, even the "
record" being exceeded..
figures. of 1919
1019 there were 9,820 companies registered" The Board of Trade reported that in at Somerset House, with a nominal capi for each company of £30,117, The cores tal of £384,133,801, showng an average ponding figures for 1920
508,804,382, and £58,522.
In the first half of 1920, 6,415 companies
are 10,085,
The completion of the Triumph to full crew presented difficulties, as it was found It is understood that the arrest was small craft which it was possible to pay that the personnel available from the Mr. Wilson appeared at a window, made in connection with the recent distur-off was insufficient to provide the 700-odd bowed, shook his head and withdrew,bances here. Count Karolyi was believed tion of the Admiralty was to fill up with men required for the purpose. The inton choking with soba) -
native seamen, but these men were not to have been in relationship with several ready to sign on for duty in a warship, Communists.
The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Thomas H.M. Jerram, then made an KIRKCALDY BYE-ELECTION. Appeal to the Army, by permission of public and private-wore registered, Major-General F. H. Kelly, commanding with an aggregate capital of £449,738,317, ANOTHER LABOUR VICTORY.
the troops in South China, Practically but in the second half the number of com- the entire garrison at once volunteered, panics was only 3,630 and the aggregate LONDON, March 6th.
and two officers, 100 men, and six signal. capital was £120,156,005. men from the 2nd Battalion Duke of The by-election at Kirkcaldy han reboard the Triumph. By this timely help. Cornwall's Light Infantry were taken on
ANTI-BRITISH AGITATOR. TABOOED IN SOUTHERN AMERICAN
STATES.
PARIS, March. 4th. The Ministry of Marine denies the re- port (published on Saturday) that the Dreadnoughts Paris and France, have. CHARLESTOWN (Carolina), March 5th. been ordered to hold themselves in readi.
ness to leave for the North Sea to
CO-
operate with the British Fleet in any naval operations which may be contem- plated.
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NO WAB, IF THEKE HAD BEEN
A LEAGUE OF NATIONS... ITS AUTHORITY AND PRESTIGE. ESTABLISHED.
..
Mr. Kennedy (Labour) 11,674 Sir Robert Lockhart (Coalition
Liberal)
10,100
Mr. O'Callaghan has turned up in the
Georgia, prohibited him from speaking. South. The municipality of Macon, insulted as follows:-
Now the Charlestown branch of the Ame- rican Legion of Veterans has resolved opposing. Mr. O'Callaghan visiting CharU.S. SUBMARINES ASHORE. lestown-by-a-to-1 on the ground that
LONDON, March 4th. -- he is connected with an anti-British
The United States rebmarines 27 and 08 are ashore, the one in Long Island Bound and the other in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Attempts to tow them off hava so far failed.
movement.”
NOT SERIOUS DAMAGE.
PARIS, March 4th,
SENATOR SHOT IN WRIST. Before the termination of the session of ASSAILANT'S CRYPTIC STATEMENT. pressed the opinion that the measures the Council of the League, the iwiss inci-
WASHINGTON, March 6th. would seriously affect Uerman economic dent regarding the transit of troops for
A would-be assassin shot Senator Jile, but that the effects could not prevent the Vilna plebiscite was closed by the Henderson, of Nevada, in the wrist. The the Government from refusing to sign Swiss delegate, on behalf of his Govorn-wound is not dangerous. The assailant," obligations which canut he fulfilled. ment, acknowledging the moral duty of who was arrested, gave the name
Abimilar conclusion was reached members of the League to support the Charles Brach, and explained that the damage. after a discussion between the Minister Council's recommendationa
Mr. Da shooting was due to Senator, Henderson
EARLIER CABLES.
THE TEXTILE AND SHIPPING-BOOKS."
It was impossible that the huge figures Captain Fitzmaurice was able to sail, with of the textile and shipping trades could the Tarmouth, the French cruiser Dupleis, be maintained at the level to which they and five destroyers, under his orders, to of each industry waro extraordinary, and soared last spring. The circumstances keep watch on the German base at Tsing the ardour of promoters probably ex- tau, while Admiral Jerram himself, with the Minotaur, Hampshire and Newcastle, hausted all available material, sound and trymen remained on board the Triumph in textiles may be measured by the fact went in search of the Emden. The infan unsound, The magnitude of the boom for a month, and then returned to joindustry (£118,000,000) in the first half of
that authorised capital in that one in their comrades when the latter were trans 1020 very nearly equalled the total for all ferred from Hongkong to Calcutta...
companies, public and private, in the whole of the second half of the year, when than one-fifth. The decline in shipping they shrank to 23 millions, or rather less is, proportionately, still greater, being only one-eighth.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
DINNER AND DANCE:
The Hongkong Football Club scored a weeks of 1990 amounted to 340 millions, The authorised capital in the first 16 brilliant success at the Hongkong Hotel yielding an average of £21,240,000 per
· LATER."
on the occasion of the Club's dinner and week. The remaining 36 weeks of the The submarines have been re-floated. been content with a dinner and a few ad valorem "duty, nè a. in the £100 was dance. In former years the members have year averaged only £6,300,000. The of They did not sustain any serious speeches, but this year, the Committee increased to 20 on April 20th
decided to discard the speeches and to put weekly of the duty at the old rate The on instead a few dances. Covers were
laid for 160. Mr. IL J. Wilton, Chairman of during the first period was, therefore, almost as much as the weekly yield the Club,
the loyal toast of "The throughout the second period. Bence the The Hotel orchestra played weloc National Exchequer was but little bene THE IRISH SITUATION. tions during the dinner
After dinner dancing commenced in the LARGE INCREASE IN C
CASUALTIES ballroom which had been tastefully des M. C. C, TOUR,
corated for the occasion. The following How far the collapse in the volume of LONDON, March 4th. gentlemen formed the Committee: Mr business was attributable to the exaction DEFEAT OF ALBURY FIFTEEN.
RJ. Wilton (Chairman), Menara. N. L. of the revenue cannot be accurately The official weekly review of Irish con Railton, J. Rodger, H. McTavish, J. ALBURY, March 5thditions states that there were 32 casualties, Romsey and D. J. Purvis (Secretary), Raiston, J. B. Hamilton, W. Badge, P.
case.
of the Interior and the Parliamen Cunha, the President, in a closing speech, years ago being his counsel in tary representatives of the occupied dwelt on the authority and prestige of the territory, when it was stated that League which had convinced the incredut- the threatened measures were severe ous, and endorsed Mr. Lloyd George's but were not unexpected, and that the opinion that the existence of the League Government as far as possible had taken in 1914 would have made war impossible. precautionary measures in view of the
IMPERIAL CUSTOMS feared damage...
QUESTION FOR GERMANY.
REPARATIONS · COMMITTEE'S ACCOUNTS..
PABIS, March 3rd.. The Reparations Committee has called the German Government's attention to
CONFERENCE.
UNIFORMITY WITHIN THE
EMPIRE.
LONDON, March 4th.
runs.
and
and
fited by the higher rate
THE INCREARED DITY.
gauged, but its apologists must almit can be to doubt that it was responsible that it was a contributory cause. There for many a contraction in the anthorised capital of undertakings registered by cir cumspect promoters.
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The companies registered July-Decem ber with a capital of a million or morá form a very select band of 18, with a gross capital of £38,000,000. In the first: half the number was 81 and the capital £184,000,000.
The Marylebone Cricket Club played a to the Crown Foreca during the week end- drawn game against a Fifteen, of Alburying February 26th, as compared with in Albury made 140 runs in the first the previous week. A sinister feature is
JAPAN'S OPIUM" CROP.
innings, Parkin' taking 7 wickets for ca the cold-blooded nasassination of indivi- THE INEVITABLE CORRUPTION.
duals. Five police and five soldiers were so murdered during the week ending Reference has been made on previous The M.C.C. made 320 for 6 wickete and February 28th, besides five soldiers mur occasions to the cultivation of the poppy The Imperial, Customs Conference is declared, Russell, contributing 146 two police, all the murdered-men ware of Fukui Kasuga, Miyajima. Mishima, dered in Cork on February 28th. Except between Osaka and Kyoto, the villages
Among the interesting registrations proceeding very satisfactorily and has Wilson 62
anarmed, and the five soldiers were mur-Yasunari and Abuno, in the Mishima dis were, a company to hold landa, houses, dered after they had been taken prisoner. trist, Osaka prefecture being largely etc., with a capital of £2 in 480 panny roached virtual agreement in the main
Albury made 101 for the loss of 10 Two civilians were also assasinated on devoted to this very profitable crop, shares, and a West of England grocer's
the ground that they were alleged to have In this connection, the Asaki reporth with a capital of £11,103 156, of which communicated with the police or the mili thas several opium offences were fraced £3.159. is in 900 employer' shares of one by the Tharati police to these villages penny each A quaint title for a book Internment orders numbering 186 were some time ago. On the morning of the and shot dealer," Cheepjax," wAS TO made. There are now over 2,000 persons 18th January more than fifty villagers, gistered in November. intermed
including some influential men. were sumi- moned. It is further reported that some
the fact that the account of payments objects of drawing up a single form for wickets in their sooond innings.
declaration of values for duty purposes, or deliveries to be made before May next, under Article 255 of the Peace Treaty, and a form of certificate of origin apple- already shows a deficit of 12 billions of able to all parts of the Empire, thus gold marks. The Committee asks Ger avoiding the separate and distinct certi many how she expects to meet her ficatos at present required by the different obligations- (avoi
Customs authorities.
DAVIS CUP:
BELGIUM'S CHALLENGE"
New TORE, March 6th. The tenth challenge Eng béen received I for the Davis Opp from Belgiu
M. KRASSIN,
London, March 4th. M. Krassin has arrived in London.
to kwan of the drug valued at $10,000 or
so had been sold to an Osaka Chinese, two The Government is out of touch with Kobe men, and some other accomplices the mass of its people, unreprésentative. lat Moji and Shanghai.--Japan Chronicle. of its bent hopes.Bir. Philip Gibbs.