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CABLES
LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} PLEBISCITE IN UPPER
SILESIA.
OVERWHELMING GERMAN
VICTORIES.
PARIS, March 21st. A message from Berlin says that the figures in the Upper Silesia plebiscites
which Polish and German inhabitants voted, yesterday, to determine which flag they desire to be governed by, are already arriving. They show overwhelming Ger The man victories in several big towns. majorities, it is declared, range from 78 to 94 per cent.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES“, TUESDAY, MARCH 22ND, 1921.
MEMORIAL SERVICE AT SEA. FAR EASTERN CABLE
IMPRESSIVE SCENE OFF SCILLY
IBLES.
"LONDON, March 21st,
A moving ceremony took place at sea, a hundred miles from the Scilly Isles, yes- terday afternoon, when 14,000 officers and
men of the Atlantic Fleet, returning from the Spring cruise, participated in a solemn service in memory of their com rades of Subinarine Ks.
The Admiralty announcement des cribes the force as consisting of six battleships, two battle cruisers, nix light cruisers, seventeen destroyers and an aircraft carrier ander the orders of Vice- Admiral" Sir. “Sidney, Freemantle. These approached the scene of the disaster in
The German semi-official figures, vid an imposing formation. Berne, confirm this statement.
સંપ
The plebiscite passed off calmly, despite the anticipated collisions Fears aro, howover, entertained that the declaration of the poll will lead to violent outbreaks, which it will be the Allied detachments
duty to repress.
The General commanding the Allied detachments has captured 40,000 rifles since his arrival, but he says that both camps are still armed throughout the
country.
The final decision as regards the rich territory's future rests with the Supreme Council. It is not unlikely that it will be split up, according to the national desire recorded at the various contiguous
areas.
U.S. AND THE ALLIES, SPECIAL MISSION TO PRESIDENT HARDING.
Pants, March 21st.
M Viviani bas departed for America on a special mission.
It is believed that he will urge Presi dent Harding to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, and that he will ask the United States to remain a member of the Allied
Concert.
M. CLEMENCEAU. RETURNS AFTER EASTERN TOUR,
Touzos. March 21st. M.. Clemenceau has arrived here, He is in excellent health.
EARLIER CABLES.
CHEERS FOR "WAR."
'SCENES IN ATHENS.
ATHENS, March 20th.
The 1913, 1914, and 1915 classes have been called to the colours to reinforce the Greek troops in Anatolia. There are crowds in the streets cheering "Grecco" and "War."
The King, in a mensage to the Greeks, declares that the Turkish Nationalists are
The rest of the fleet held funeral ser
vices at which well-known hymns were sang. An aeroplane, in the meantime, circled round, the feet, despite the dif ficult flying conditions. A party of a hundred seamen on the Revenge fired the three customary volleys and the Last Post was sounded, and "Land of Hope and Glory wap played as officers, and
men left the quarter deck.
The ceremony terminated with the hoisting of colours, and the Fleet then
resumed its cruising disposition and pro ceeded up the Channel homewards,
NEWS.
EST COURTESY OF THE “ CHINA MATE.
· ROUBLES. GORS UP.
SPECULATORS ACTIVE,
SHANGHAI, March 21st.
Following the news of the trade agre ment between Britain and Russia the value of the rouble over the weekend appreciated from 83 to 810 per thousand. It is expected further to improve Speculators are active.
tended to the end of March.
RACING MISHAPS.
JOCKEYS INJURED.
SHANGHAI, March 21st..
There was a chapter of accidente at the vida and Rowe both broke bones, and extra race meeting held on Saturday two other jockeys suffered minor injuries.
NEW UNIVERSITY.
SHANGHAI, March 21st.
The organization having been nearly completed, the South-Eastern University is expected to open in the antuma.
FREEMASONRY.
DIAMOND JUBILEE OF ZETLAND LODGE.
OUR LONDON LETTER.
THE PASSING OF THE EXCESS.
PROFITS DUTY:
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LONDON, February 10th.
IRISH ROMANCE "RECALLED.
man who is still referred to by those who know him well as the proudest
mortal who ever lived.
Until about ten years ago, the Globa used to employ a messenger mounted on a pony to carry the reports of Parlia ment from Westminster to the office of the paper in the Strand. It was the newspaper to do this, and the Globe boy on a cob was a familiar sight of an after- noon, when the Houses were in session,
copy an old-fashioned touch that trotting in and out among the motor-
carried one back for a hundred years.
cara and buses with his eatchel filled with
THE END OF EP.D.
--Mr.Chamberlain held out valiantly for the Excess Profits Duty, but opinion in the business world and the logic of facts proved too much for him. It was plainly evident that what the business people told him was true that the tax® WIS-A-
Yesterday was a red-letter day in the annals of local Freemasonry, for it was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Warrant of Zetland Lodge,
The newspapers have given full" pro~ occasion was celebrated by an Extra- the career of Charles Stewart Parnell, the Mother Lodge of the Colony. The minence to the sad and dramatis end of ordinary Lodge of Emergency at 9 p.m., which is rocalled by the brief announce which was attended by 153 brethren ment of the death of his widow, at Brigh from sister, and visiting Lodges, and ton, at the age of 75." - It is nearly 30 substantial sum was subscribed to the years since the country rang with the Hongkong and South China Masonic whole story of the Irish leader's passion Benevolent Fund Corporation. During the for the beautiful Kitty O'Shea, wife of TAMIKE" BELIET.
proceedings it was announced that Rt. one of Parnell's followers who was Mom SHANGHAI'S, UNIQUUE-EFFORT. Wor Bro. T. F. Hough had resigned the ber of Parliament for Galway. As all District Graad Mastership, which he had the world knows, the scandal led to SHANGHAI, March 21st.
held with such tact and ability for divorte, and the subsequent downfall of stranglehold on industry; and, in addi- Saturday's tag day in aid of famine several years, and that the Most Parnell, the uncrowned king of Iretion, as a tax it could no longer he justified since it was ceasing to produce relief was unique in the annals of Worshipful the Grand Master of the land," as he was called in those days
revenue. The Chanceller was, therefore, After the fleet had stopped the engines, Shanghai. Four thousand students and Grand Lodge of England, HRH. The not without reason, either.
Duke of Connaught, had been pleased Ever since that period the lady, whom compelled to "shoot Niagara" and give as far as the typical sen-going weather boy scouts participated. The poor ple- to appoint Wor. Bro. P. H. Holyoak, Parnell married following the diverco, way. The announcement was made at a would admit, colours were half-masted,ment, including ricktha coolies, were D.D.G.M., to the vacancy thus created, had lived in close retirement at Brighton public meeting at a public meeting at Mr. Chamberlain took and a memoral service was held aboard willing givers. The drive has been ex-The following were elected honorary with her daughter. Only once did her Birmingham.
members of Zetiami Lodge:-Bt. W. Bro. name come up again into prominence credit for making known his intention the flagship Revenge.
P. H. Holyoak, D.G.M.; W. Bro. Claud when she published a Life of Parnell from the platform in advance of the
some years ago.
The book revealed in Budget. This is a departure from proce Severn, P.D.G.8.W.; W. Bro. F. Grahama, detail the whole tale of her relationship dent never previously resorted to, but P.D.G.S.W., and W. Bro. W. Kent, with the Irish leader, and was much then the peculiar nature of this tax is P.D.G.. Cordial, frutorun! congratula- tions and good wishes were extended to criticised for laying bare the secrets of also without precedent.
The country has received the announce. the W.M. (W. Bro. W. A. Eustace) and
decision was not unexpected, but Mr. by the representatives of the District the officers and members of Zatland Lodge
ment, with the liveliest satisfaction. The Mrs. Parnell will go down to posterity Champerlain's action in departing from Grand Lodges of English and Destrum is one of the few Bomen who made of tradition and anticipating what, would marred the history of a country. It is normally be a Budget pronouncement is Masonry, by the W.Ms. of local English within the mark to say that but for her appreciated by the business community.. and Scottish Lodges, and by visiting influence on Parnell the course of Irish to use his own words, the heads of in- brethren. The original programme had history would have been vastly different dustry now know where they stand.
It is not necessary to enter into the rea- to be modified awing to the regretted from what it has been since he died of
broken heart at the ruin of his ambi- sons given by the Chancellor for drop- absence, through ill-health, of Rt. Wortion. Both Mrs. Parnell and her comping the E.P.D. The leaders of the Fedars- Bry Hulyoak, who had intended to be panion saw nobody and went nowhere, tion of British Industries take credit for present with the officers of District Grand and they frequently moved from one the fact that they are precisely the rea- house to another in the Brighton district. nons which they urged with great per Lodge.
Their neighbours were scarcely aware of sistence on the Government since the their existence. The door was never Armistice was signed. Their only regret, opened in response to the infrequent they say, in a statement I have recsired, Parcels had to "be | is that it has taken a serious industrial left on the doorstop They hid them; [crisïs to bring the authorities to we tho
force of the arguments put forward in. selves. absolutely from the world,
the name and on behalf of the business world. There is gratification that Mr. MEDICAL EDUCATION.
Doctors everywhere will be interested in Chamberlain does not propose to sub- a change of uncommon importance which stitute an altorastive, tax for the dis has been made in medical education by credited E.P.D. We see our way," he four of the great London hospitals-St. zaid, not marely not to Bartholemew's the London, University Excess Profits Duty, but not to impose College, and St. Thomas's. They have any new tax in lieu of it, or to add to established clinical units at their medical the existing taxes in order to make good schools. The meaning of this departure the lesses for the coming financial year, is that the system by which students have 1991-92. the hospitals is vary considerably. modi hitherto gained experience by "walking
Generally speaking, it may be said that the relief from this war-time impost that bed,
Generations of students have gained had reached the utmost limit of endur- experience in the wards of London hose will be a great stimulus to trado pitals under the supervision of dis and industry, and enable hard-pressed tinguished surgeons and physicians prac-heads of business undertakings to face The latter received no payment for their renewed hope and courage. Unfortunately the party were denied and regularly from Canton to every services; they looked for remuneration to BRITISH FLOUR, the opportunity of seeing this new type
meeting. At the eve of his term of the students they trained when these in
All over the country the farmers arg of air-craft in fight owing to a wind that
later years sent them patients in need attacking the Government for alleged was blowing at a rato of 40 miles an office he had the satisfaction of
of specialist advice and treatment. Now, breach of faith in the matter of wheat hour. Whereas this would not have been seeing Zetland Lodge firmly established: at the hospitals named: students are to prices that were guaranteed early-last a deterrent to an ordinary seroplane.
year. The farmers cannot sell their serious risk would have been run with The first meetings were held in hired receive comparative training under a the torpedo-carrying machine. The lat rooms, and in 1848, the minutes refer to University-trained professor in the same wheat to the millers because the latter
way that they are trained in anatomy
In cases ter possesses high lifting wings, and wind
where money is urgently needed farmers to-day would, in itself, have been quite meetings taking place in a house in and physiology. Certain hospital wardsave more than they require.
will be allotted for the purpose. Tho aid of the engine. The danger, would built on the site now occupied by Free-vate practice, will each receive £2,000 aplies, and hence the trouble The Govern sufficient to fly the machine without the Stanley Street. In 1853 a bungalow was professors, who are not to engage in pri-are.compelled to sell below the guaranteed price, in competition with foreign supe hare arisen in landing. The Swift is
masons' Hall. Eleven years later, in-year. The appointments will be tenablo: specially designed for landing on the deck of a vessel, and consequently pon creased accommodation being necessary,
ment are charged with flooding tho for five years.
market with foreign wheat" By this system it is expected to attract
A particularly sore point with John csscs low running speed. If wind of the existing buig was orected, the only young men, thoroughly up-to-date, higher velocity than the landing speed be encountered the craft may be borne opening taking place in October, 1885. who could not hope to cars such income Barleycorn is that millers are being re- up into the air again, but when employ- Since those early struggling days the in private practice at the beginning of quired to use 5 per cent. of Chinese flour. their careers. The idea is to obtain a with British four they make. But this ed by the Navy the machine would be record of Zetland Lodge has been one of succession of the most brilliant young is not unreasonable, seeing that the Gov made captive on alighting by men trained
Buch arrangements uninterrupted usefulness and prosperity. men fresh from the schools as professors rnment have a large stock of Chinese flour on hand and naturally insist on were not possible at Brough.:
On the removal of the Royal Sasser THE PASSING OF THE "GLOBE."
getting rid of it. Still, there are Govern ment critics who are making political Lodge from Canton to Shanghai in 1876 Zetland became the senior Lodge of the
capital out of the situation.-H.B. District. To-day there are no fewer than eight Craft Lodges in Hongkong, besides numerous Chapters, Mark Lodges, etc embracing in their ranks members of every section of the community.
COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE,
PRINCIPLE OF LIBERTY OF
-TRANSIT.
NEW WAR: WEAPON.
AEROPLANE FOR DISCHARGING TORPEDOES.
A BRITISH SECRET.
caller or messenger.
the
It is interesting to recall that the charter or warrant of Zetland Lodge was granted on March 21st, 1846, and that the ärst meeting was held on June 24th of A torpedo-carrying aeroplane, named that year. The population of the Colony The Swift, has been completed after Was small in those days, and it was often months of experiments and tests, by the impossible to get sufficient office-bearers BARCELONA March 20th. Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Com-
pany, Leeds. The Leeds correspondent of to carry on the Lodge; in fact, in 1843, The Communications Conference has the London Morning Post writes it was suggested that the Lodge should adopted Article VII. of the Draft Con- was one of a small party who visited the be closed, because no qualified brother vention dealing with restrictions on the toy's works at Brough to inspect would accept the chair. This difficulty this latest model and witness a trial flight.
Naval or aviation attachés of war pvercome by War, Bro. Bawson, the liberty of transit, and providing for the America, Japan, Norway, and Holland Provincial Grand Master, who resided in maintenance of the principle of the free were present, as well as representatives Canton, being elected a member nad,
of the British Air Ministry, SA lettør dom of transit without affecting measures was received from the French representa immediately afterwards, placed in the of national security, which each State tive stating that he was extremely sorry chair. For two years, at the cost of may need to take in emergencies,
he could not be present, as his Depart great trouble, inconvenience and expense ment was specially interested in the ques this worthy brothar came punctually tising as specialista in the Weat End. the problems that still confront them with Article X., abrogating all previous tion of torpedo-carrying acroplanes. international agreements incompatible with the proposed Convention, was re- ferred to a sub-committee. Some coun- tries favoured the preservation of the existing treaties, alongside with the Convention, while others were against the suggestion. Article VIII., providing for the maintenance of the utmost free dom of transit in war-time compatible with the rights and duties of belligerents and neutrals, was also referred to a
committee..
again attempting to overthrow the GERMAN DISARMAMENT BILL for the purpose.
POWERS OF FEDERAL STATES. situation established by the Treaty of Sevres and concentrating against Greeks.
BERLIN, March 20th. Reinforcements are necessary to protect The Reichstag has passed the Disarma the Greek populations, and to secure the definitive pacification of the Orient, which Greecele pursuing jointly with the
Allies,
TURKEY'S HOPES ABOUT PEACE.
PARIS, March 18th. General Gourand leaves for Constan- tinople, on March 22nd, where he will confer with General Pelle, the Allied High Commissioner, and then proceed to Beyrouth, after visiting the Sultan and the Grand Vizier.
A despatch from Constantinople an nounces that Turkey is greatly satisfied
ment Bill, which provides that if the statutes or the conduct of an association indicate that its purpose conflicts with Articles 177 and 178 of the Peace Treaty it shall be dissolved by the Government of the federal State concerned, failing which the Imperial Government will be empowered to act.
GRAIN DUST EXPLOSION.
1 KILLED: 4 MISSING.
CHICAGO, March 20th:
GOVERNMENT ORDERS,
The Government so far have ordered only a limited number of these machines, and that inspected to-day was an experi mental one for the Government. Foreign countries are showing great interest in the new type; and already the firm have submitted tenders to ten foreign Powers. The torpedo gear and certain internal fittings were removed on the instruction of the British Government before the: foreign representatives arrived to-day. The Air Ministry insisted on this being done with a view to keeping the secret of certain parts of the mechanism
German Fleet.
FUTURE.
NEXT CAPITAL SHIPS.
PORTSMOUTE REPORT OF ADMIRALTY POLICY.
REFORM OF THE LORDS.
A few days ago the Plymouth Mercury, established over 60 years age as a daily paper, ceased publication. In a valedic tory notice the proprietors stated that it had been incorporated with the Western Morning News. High cost of production, shortage of paper, and other difficulties only too well-known in the newspaper CABINET COMMITTEE'S INQUIRY. world to-day aro responsible for the
Lord Birkenhead, speaking at the an Mercury's 'disappearance as a separate publication. Something of the same kind nual dinner of the City of London Solici is constantly happening in other parts tors Company on February 8th at the. of the country. The Jungle law of the Salters' Hall, said that proposals for survival of the fittest" is in full opera the reform of the House of Lords wore tion in the domain of journalism. The under discussion. In the entuma of last pity of it is that the fittest" is not year the Cabinet appointed a Committee always the paper of the highest standard whose duty it was to examine the various as judged by literary excellence and the schemes which from time to time had sense of editorial independence and res been proposed with the object of reformi- possibility, but the paper with the big ing the House of Lords That Commit-
too would address itself to its labours,
that it
in turn
The machine can rise to a height be yond the reach of enemy ship shell-fire, and can divo swiftly dawnwards, dis-The Portsmonth correspondent of the charging its torpedo mun in the same Naval and Military Record, states that way as that fired from a destroyer, but in all probability a start will be made with even greater accuracy it is claimed, this year in the Dockyard at that port gest Gnancial backing. At the time of the Armistice several of with a capital ship that is to embody all The provinces are not, however, singu. and it would be its duty, when they were these torpedo-carrying aeroplanes, but of the lessons of the war. Bho will carrylar in being the scene of these minor completed, to make a recommendation to An explosion due to the ignition of under sealed orders bound for the Kiel will be practically invulnerable to tor week has secus the end of the Globe, the that it might be possible to present such less perfect type, were on board ship the most perfect gun that can be made, tragedies of post-war conditions. This the Cabinet as a whole. It was hoped grain dust has wrocked the world's Canal for the purpose of blowing up the pedo and aeroplane attack, and will oldest, and for many years in the brave proposals to the Cabinet, and
travel faster than any vessel now afloat. days of yore, one of London's foremost might be possible for the Cabinet largest grain elevator, shattering the ...“ MOST FORMIDABLE. WEAPON OF THE The men employed in building her will evening journals. Founded in 1803, it to present such proposals to Parliament with the results of the London conference, windows of neighbouring towns. One pilot's facilities of view have rothe public will get no sight of her until lication, having been amalgamated with misleading his hearers if he concealed in.
be under a pledge of honour and secrecy, has ceased to come out as a separate pub in the coming Session, but he would be and the relations between the Turkish, on the one hand, and the French and Italian persons was killed and four are missing-ceived attention, and partly owing to his she is complete, and extraordinary care the Pall Mall Gazette, which in future any way the difficulty and complexity of Half a million, bashels of grain was des- the clean lines of the fuselage, there is any information the croissarios of Globe. But the identity of the older realize the time that must necessarily be relatively high position and partly to will be prevent the leakage of will bear the title Pall Mall Gazette and this task, and did not persuade them to representatives, on the other, in solving questions referring to Cilicia, Syris and troyed The damage is estimated at an exceptional field of vision forward, foreign Governmenta Anatolia Turkey states that at last the $500,000. British standpoint concerning Constan- tinople, the Dardanelles, Armenia and Kurdistan has boon clearly indicated, and consequently every question between
FRENCH ARMY,
TERM OF MILITARY SERVICE.
Panio, March 18th... The Army Committee has adopted
The"
down, and to the sides. The design gives
a. high measure of stability, allowing
paper is lost, as has happened in the consumed in bringing forward, in the case of similar amalgamations, notably first place, and recommending to Parlia the Morning Leader absorbed by the ment, and, in the second place, to the bands off" flying for long perioda, BIG JOB FOR THE HOME CENSUS Daily News, and the St. James's Gazette country, proposals of so novel, aut con- whilst the arrangement of the controls
MORE STAFF, rendere muscular effort negligible.
by the Evening Standard. To journalists tentious a character:
such changes bring regret, for every paper When he heard voices impeaching the As a ship aeroplane The Swift is For the first time. England will have a that matters has a soul and personality constitution of the present House of fitted with airbags for ficatation in the
22) Commons; and laying sacrilegious tongues event of a forced landing at sea, and real employment record in this year's all its owne
The Globe maintained a high literary on the circumstances in which it came with wheels automatically removable in Census.Formerly it has been enough to
Tarkey and the Allies seems to hold out eighteen months' military service for the has a speed of 28 keats and a range of ready way; the new papers will demand/culation among the clergy and landed them that a nation, like an individual
the air to render such landings safe. It state one's occupation in a rough-and- style, and it enjoyed a large postal cir into being, he was tempted to remind
- hopes of a satisfactory solution. The only contested point preventing the re-estab lishment of peace in the Near East is
the dispute between Turkey and Greece regarding Smyrna and the Thracian question Havas
192) recruits.-llavan:
of Frank Woolworth, founder of the five Probate has been granted in the will cent- stores, who left approximately £8,000,000, all to his widow in a will of 200 words made 30 years ago,
E.
The task which
300 nautical miles, with a climbing rate an exact account of the particular branch interests of the country. It used, also, was a being of moods. of 850ft. per minute. The cost is about of work done in any given trade, as well to be act with in the most out of the awaited the critics of the Government
way places on the Continent in railway- now was not, to propo
propose a prescrip- £3,000, compared with something like as the place of employment stations and reading-room For some tion that ho undertood was already done. £350,000 for a destroyer. - Ons man only In this way very elaborate statistics years past it has had difficulties of a-but to persuade the patient when the is required as "crew and the cost per will be obtainable of the fluctuations of financial nature, and the final blow to moment arrived that the right doctor was sentatives expressed the vow that it was throw some light on the housing diffinity days by persisting in a statement that When that process had been been gone milo is load. Several foreign ropre industry, as well as a record that will it fortunes was its suspension for ten prescribing the right prescription. the most formidable weapon of the in relation to, employment. To analyse Lord Kitchener had resigned. This was through, and not before, the Government future as its swiftness made it much the new records will be the biggest job at a critical period of the war, and was would pack up their bags, and make way. superior to ordinary torpedo cralk. over tackled by the Conans stall
an unforgivable sinzug
**" for other men.