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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY S
FIGHTING IN UPPER
SILESIA:
SERIOUS POLISH RISING.
NAVY
BILL
PRESIDENT HARDING'S OBJECTION.
U.S.
WILL GERMANY
וי
SUBMIT?
ALLIES NEW MEASURES.
LATEST CABLES.
LYN2000H LACTER'S AGENCY.] FIGHTING IN UPPER SILESIA POLES IN AGGRESSIVE MOOD.
WILL GERMANY SUBMIT ? SIGNIFICANCE OF NEW SANOTIONS
ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY
LONDON, May 3rd.
LATEST CABLES.
· REDUCTION OF WAGES.
MOVE BY U.S. STEEL CORPORATION.
New Yox, May 4th.
KÄRLIER CABLES.
WORLD'S PAPER SUPPLY. INDIA'S POSSIBILITIES.
1991.
FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.
{THROUGH ZEUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE TOXUYO MARU”
It is reported ISASTER.
New
May 2nd. sixty-five were rescued from the Tokuyo Maru. Eight are missing and one dead.
INSURANCE VÄLUN.
LoNDow,: May 4th. The Tokayo" "Haru, “was insured at a value of £300,000, and there are likely to be considerable insurance interests on the cargo.
- TOTAL LOSS: 1881NG
LONDON, May 4th,
the Takuro Haru is reported as a total A Port Townsend message states that
Josa, All passengers and crew have been. saved, except a persons, who are missing.
SPECIAL CHINESE ENVOY IN
ENGLAND.
LONDON, May 3rd.
The Chinese Minister gave a dinner in. honour of Chu Chi Chien, at which the principal guest was Mr. Fisher, Minister of Education. Proposing the health of Mr. Fisher, Dr. Wellington Kuo dwelt on
Chu Chi Chien's interest in educational, systems.
Mr. Fisher, replying, spoke of the interest of the British Government in maintaining good relations with the East, He declared that the British were greatly attracted to the Chinese by the latter's. art; moral teaching system, religion, honesty, simplicity, and absence of pre-
tence.
"A communiqué issued shows that the Bupreme Council at for are hours until the evening, and completely agreed upon the substance of the communication to
It is announced that a reduction of Germany. The Drafting Committes is 20 per cent, in the wages of day labour- drawing up the protocol tonight, which are in the plants of the United States the Reparations Commission, dns from Steal Corporation is proposed, which Paris to-morrow morning, will despatch affects nearly 175,000. nos later than the 6th inst. The German reply is due at the latest by midnight on the 19th inst. Germany has to pay. £100,000,000 annually, plus a 25 per cent. exports tax, and has also to give
LONDON, May 2nd. £6,078,000,000, in bonds now and in dus
Mr. Raitt, an Indian Government ́cellu- course, bearing 5 percent. interest, lose expert, addressing the Society of with a sinking fund of 1 per sent. It is Arts and referring to the dearners of estimated that each sarice of bonds will
newsprint owing to the reduced supply of be redeemed in thirty seven years from
of issue. The interest in chargeable wood, estimated that the world's consump date As regards the proposed
the Customs or other revenuestion of paper was twelve million on CONTROL OF TRAFFIC IN OPIUM.the genius of the English people. He was- upon Graves insurrection has broken out in against Germany, it may be recalled that acceptable to the Reparations Commission annually. He said that investigations by the Polish part of Upper Silesia, and the Treaty provides for fifteen years The bonds are to be distributed among the Indian Forest Research Institute the Inter-Allied Commission has pro occupation of te Rhineland, but the new the Allies in the proportions already fixed showed that only two vegetable sub-
Of the before-mentioned, bouds
stances were economically valuable for claimed martial law, throughout a great torms would extend the period in-
issuable now and
papermaking, namely, bamboor and part of Upper Silesia, and also, com definitely, until Germany pays. Further, £800,000,000 centrated-tanks and troops in the pria- that if the occupation of the Ruhr aros £1,900,000,000 in November. The balance avannah grasses. He was of the opinion outh-west India which the standard will be the product could produce ten million tons of hamboo view to ensuring the carrying out of
credits scheme to British India and, of the 25 per cent exports tax. The pulp annually, and Assam three million provisions of the Hague Opium Con-ests are opposed to the extension of the
reation. amount required for the service of the tons of savannah grass pulp. Therefore,
British possessions in the Far East, in Sir John Jordan (Great Britain) and $2,200,000,000 bonds issued now and in India could produce pulp for the whole November will be £100,000,000. If the world. There were prospects that ham. Mrs. Hamilton Wright (America) will be cluding Hongkong, on the grounds that the scheme will enable the Eastern im- with the results of the conference. The £100,000,000 suauity and exports tax axboo unbleached pulp could be delivered present as experts. The Commission has Another report declares that the insur-schemia for payment by Germany througheed current mterest requirements, further in the United Kingdom at a cost of £is requested the Council of the League to porter to 'enter into fresh routracts with
BERLIN, May 4th
cipal centres of disorder. "It appears that, on the occasion of a
LONDON, May 4th.
measures
fails to bring the Germans to their sensee of £4,250,000,000 is to be issued in accord the naval penalties are likely to include
ance with Germany's capacity to pay,' of
Polish national feast day, insurgents warships anchoring in Hamburg, Lubock, and occupied Stettin, and Bremen harbours, with crews Tarnowitz, patrolling the quays to enforce the Cus
toms regulations
frontier.. crossed the
nad Beuthen, Kattowitz where serious shooting occurred. A num ber of railway bridges between Oppeln and Karlsonst were destroyed."
.......
Allied statesmen are highly satified
gents numbered 20,000 irregulars, who guaranteed bonds was mainly the work engaged in fierce fighting the German of Mr. Churchill and M. Louchour. Wiebiscite Police
French circles are fully confident of the success of this scheme. M. Loucheur de clared yesterday, that the bonds will be the international money of the future.
FRENCH EXPERTS RETURN TO
PARIS..
ITALIAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED" LONDON, May 4th. British telegrams state that the Polish outbreak in Upper Silesia, occurred on the night of May and, on the eastern -border of the Upper Silesian industrial area and in the region of Pless and Byebuik
LONDON, May 4th. Marshal Forb and Admiral Grasset have returned to Paris. Members of the Re most of pirations Commission have arrived in The insurgents captured Byebuik. Several soldiers in Polish nai-London. forms participated.
A number of Italian officers and men Wure wounded. A British police officer was made a prisoner, but subsequently released:
FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION.
PARIS, May 2nd.
M. Briand's viewpoint, as expressed
yesterday's London conference, has met with the unanimous approval of the It appears that the Allied troops recup French' public, which considers that fur- tured Ternowitz French troops are still ther parley with Germany is utterly uns fighting the rebels in Kattowitz. Britishless, and military measures must be pro- ceeded with, Germany remaining in the official circles take a very serious view of meanwhile at liberty to comply with the the movement, which is considered to be Allies' demand, until the occupation of the Kubz district is an accomplised fact. ...a determined and systematic attempt to —Huvas-
saticipate the decision of the Supreme Council by forcibly seizing · disputed
preas.
--U.S. NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS
BILL
PRESIDENT HARDING'S
OBJECTION.
WASHINGTON, May 4th..
to
It is announced that President Harding. objects to the provision of the Naval Appropriations Bill requesting him call a naval disarmament conference, on the ground that it might appear to convey a Congressional recommendation pa international policies within the juris thiction of the Executive
It is stated that the bill, which has already passed the House of Representa tives, will, therefore, be submitted to the Senate without, this provision. It is understood that. President Harding's desires approximate to disarmament, but he has reiterated his opinion that ample appropriations should be provided to carry out the 1910 programme and "round out" the navy, before & dis armament programme is established.
U.S. IMMIGRANTS. NEW BILL PASSES SENÄTEMA
WASHINGTON, May 4th.
With
angle dissentient vote, the Senate passed the Emergency Immigr Lion Bill, limiting admission into the United States of aliens to 3 per cent..of Bach nationality resident in the United
MYSTERY OF OFFER
LONDON, May 4th. The German Ambassador in London is ignorant of any new offer from Germany, of which the Reparations Commissioners, also, have heard nothing.
EARLIER CABLES.
NAVAL AND MILITARY
PREPARATIONS..
LONDON, May 3rd.
bondy
that Burmah, Bengal and
THE JAFFA DISTURBANCE.
ALLEGED COMMUNIST ORIGIN.
„will be issued ta” abourb the sur. or £18 a ton. plus. Au additional 1 per cent, exports tax, making 20 per cent., will be charged and earmarked as intercat on the un issued bonds. The £150,000,000, due to Belgium in respect of
war expenditure borrowed from the Allies, and chargeable against Germany, is included in the total of the foregoing bonds,
SUPREME COUNCIL MEETING.
LONDON, May Bid. Contrary to anticipation the Supreme Connell did not terminate its labours this evening. There will be unother meeting
to-morrow.
''INDIA' TO`SHARE IN INDEMNITY,
LONDON, May 3rd.
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In the House of Commons, in reply to Sir J. D. Rees, Mr. Montagu stated that the Imperial Government had allowed the validity of India's claim to share in the indemnity from Germany as a member of the League of Nations. The amount is now being discussed:
FEELING IN BERLIN.
LONDON, May 4!b.
LONDON, May 3rd.
Chu Chi Chien, replying, said that he was an ardent admirer of British institu tion, and had been much impressed by
GENEVA, May 4th.gind to note the increased interest in
A Consultative Commission of the Oriental culture and öivilisation. League of Nations has been entrusted EXTENSION OF EXPORT CREDITS with the control of the traffic in opium and other harmful drugs. The object is to assist the Council of the League, with
request members of the League who have not yet ratified the Convention to do so without delay.
COMMERCIAL WIRELESS BETWEEN
WASHINGTON AND JAVA.
WASHINGTON, May 4th. The Naval authorities announce the "establishment of a commercial radio ser-
vice' between the
the United States and the Dutch East Indies.
CHINESE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN CHILE.
·SCHEME: TO FAR EAST.
LONDON, May 3rd.
It is stated that Eastern banking inter
the British exporter through other channels than those having knowledge of his possibly having dishonoured bills run. ning to large amounts,
PROPOSED TROPHY FOR CHINA SQUADRON, SUGGESTED GIFT FROM BRITISH RESIDENTS IN JAPAN.
The Japan Gazette sașa:-It has been' auggested to the Committee of the British Association of Japan that British residents of Yokohama and Tokyo might subscribe towards a permanent Trophy. to be presented to H.B.M.'s China" Squadron from the two cities, the Trophy to be for some athletic event selected by the Flagship on the China Station.
The High Commissioner in Palestine telegraphs that the labour meeting in the Jewish suburb of Jaffa on May was dis- turbed by Jewish Communists, who were driven back to the mixed Moslem and Jewish quarter, An affray ensued, in which many Jews and some Moslems were kill ed. Troops were summoned and restored
LONDON, May 4th. quiet, but disturbances broke out in the morning, resulting in the deaths of On Yang King, the First Secretary of several Jews and Moslems. Additional the Chinese Legation, has left for Peking troops and police restored order. Alto from where he will proceed to Chile The Committee of the British Associa
tion feel that the idea is an excellent one, gether 30 Jews, and 10 Araba were killed, Charge d'Affaires
and solicit subscriptions towards the pur- while 170 Jaws and 57 Arabs were treated AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN TOKYO. suitable article to be inscribed
chase of such a trophy-the cup or other Pro- in hospital for wounds. The troops did
sented by the British.
h. Besidents of Toko- LONDON, May 4th.
hama and Tokyo." not need to fire and the proclamation of
Router's New York correspondent basin any form, our. Yokohama contempor It may interest all those fond of sport martial law was not necessary. Sixty-six reported that arrests were made. The rest of the coun-editor of Collier's Weekly, has been every game of contest known to Britons, Mr. Washburn Child, ory says, to learn that H.B.Ms China Squadron hold annual meets for almost
try is quiet
17
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
selected sa Ambassador in Tokyo.
CONSULAR BUILDINGS IN THE
FAR EAST.
LONDON, May 3rd.
In the House of Commons, on the Vote
and the idea of a permanent Trophy for one event at least presented by Britons from Yokohama and Tokyo seems a very happy one. The cup or souvenir will, we understand, be presented to the Flag- ship on the China Station, and the ship, or crew of a ship, which wins the event to which the Yokohama Tokyo Trophy has been assigned, will keep the prize until year and date of their win. next competed for, engraving thereon the Should a
The definite and emphatic nature of ARCHBISHOP OF YORK'S ADDRESS. the rejection of the German Note by the
LONDON, May 3rd. United States has created great depres. The General Assembly of the Presby-for Consular buildings and residences in sion in Berlin. The reply is regarded as terian Church of England, which opened the Far East, Sir Frederick Banbury in ship leave the Station before the next a sharp rebuff. The Cabinet met to dis- to-day at Newcastle, is momentous for quired as to the necessity for spending the Flagship again, as this trophy is in- meet, the prize would naturally revert to cuss the situation, and it is reported that the Cabinet may follow Washington's two reasons frstly, for proposals to £53,015 on the acquisition of a site, and tended as a permanent presentation to advice and make a fresh direct offer to
the Chins Squadron, and will probably The conference examined with Marshal the Allies. The feeling, generally is one admit women to Eldership and authorise the erection of a new Consular building be known as the British Residents of Foch, Admiral Beatty Field-Marshal Sir of embittered resignation. It is further women of gifts and consecration to give at Tientsin, £22,000 for rebuilding the gestion is all the more appropriate at Yokohama and Tokyo" Cup. This sag- Henry Wilson, Admiral Grasset and hinted that the reply may now influence Generals Maglinse (Belgium), Marietti the acceptance of Dr. van Simons' re-addresses in the Church; secondly, for the Consul-General's house at Canton, thog ships of H. B. M. Squadron will (Italy) and Watanabe (Japan) the coersignation. cive military and naval measures to be
fact that the Archbishop of York address £20,000 for rebuilding the Consular offices regularly visit Japan ports in future. applicable to Germany if she continues
ed the Assembly and received a remark and assistants' quarters at Canton and able ovation when he submitted the to default in her obligations. The plan of the bccupation of the Buhr region has It is stated on good authority that the Bishops' Lambeth appeal for reunion of £27,000 for the erection of a new Con been, approved. The sanction, if neces new German offer to the Allies was telo the cranes (cabled on August 11th, 1920). sity arises; will comprise naval measures, graphed from Berlin, yesterday, to the His Grace repudiated the idea of absorb-sulate residence at Harbin. which are still being considered.
German Ambassador in Paris, for trane ing the Free Churches, and said that the Col. Gilmour, replying, said that as re- Bishops thought Free Churchmen could mission to the Reparations Commission accept the Creed Nicene and Communion gards Tientsin all medical opinion had The offer is believed to approximate to Bcceptance of the Allied decisions reach the Sacrament, leaving communion in decided against the occupation of the south-west monsoon owed its origin to presumed that the offer will be placed be explored. The Moderator of the ed in Paris at the end of January. It is the Ministry as the most difficult field to
Assembly is Dr. Barclay, of Formosa.
BLOCKADE OF GERMANY OR OCCUPATION OF HAMBURG.
LONDON, May 3rd, Reuter learns from a French source that Marshal Foch submitted to the conference details of the conditions under which, if necessary, occupation of the Buhr area can be undertaken with the co-operation of all the Allies immediately. Additional French troops recalled to the colours are ready and the military plan has been entirely agreed upon.
THE NEW GERMAN OFFER
LATER
before the Supreme Council to-day,,
BRITISH RAILWAYS. PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF
·CLAIMS."
LONDON, May 3rd...
OFFER TO IRELAND.
"DENIAL FROM LEADER OF THE HOUSE.
www.www.
London, May 3rd..
more
CAUSE OF THE MONSOON.
Dr. G. C. Simpson, Director of the Meteorological Office, lecturing recently before the Royal Meteorological Society said it had generally been held that the
the great difference of temperature which present Nirrar building £9,955 was re-existed during the summer, months ho quired this year for the acquisition of tween the heated land surface of India
and the surrounding oceans.......... ground, but the sale of the present ground The south-west winds were not due to
the
temperatura in India, but ware was expected to realise £37,500, ·AN
relatively small part of a general circula- against the necessary expenditure for tion of the atmosphere caused by a region new quarters, he thought that was a fair Ocean and a region of low pressure which of high pressure over the Bouth Indian
trade winds, as far as the equator, where it got caught up in the circulation sround the low pressure over Asia
In the House of Commons, at question, and redsonable proposition. As regards extended over the whole of Central Amis Sir Erio Geddes, in the House of Com time, Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared Canton he pointed out that severe floods high pressure, constituting the south-west fast on Air passed northwards from the region of Admiral Beatty and Admiral Grasset detailed the naval operations which mong said it had been arranged to pay that the Government had not sent any might be carried out by the British and the Railway Companies fifty-one millions message to Sinn Fein or authorised any had swept off many of the Shameen build French Fleets, if deemed accessary, in full settlement of various claims under body, to open negotiations on their behalf ings. There was absolute need of repair, These include either the blockade of Ger the war-time agreements. A recent De
[This is in reply to the rumour that Mr. B
Reconstruction many or the occupation of Hamburg, with partmental Committee assessed the pos O'Farrell, the ex-Lord Mayor of Dsislin, many being damaged.
↑rible liabilities at 150 millions. the co-operation of the land forces."
Sir Eric Geddes stated that an agree basis of Dominion Home Eule.]
had received semi-oficial overtures on the was being carried out as economically The Conference also approved a tale
as was commensurate with the dignity of gram to the United States Government ment between the Government and the
FIERCE FIVE HOUR FIGHT.". inviting there again to be represented Companies was embodied in a new Bail-
our position. The Tote was agreed to. on the Supreme Council, the Conference Way Bill, which would also provide for of Ambassadors and the Reparations the grouping of railways The Bill has
JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE
SAN PANNA Commission. The conference this after already been widely endorsed by all the wounded and two soldiers were wounded
States at the time of the 1910 commis
OBITUARY
noon will definitely opprove the financial Programme. This will end the present conference. M. Briand returns to Par
interests concerned.
COALITION MP RETIRE- MENT
LONDON, May 3rd
LONDON, May 3rd, Six Sinn Feinern were killed and 14
in a fierce five-hour fight rear Calbally, | Limerick, between Sion-Feinars and the
Crown Forces
DAVIS CUP TEAM.
On account of the particular arrange- ment of me and land this simitravelle 4,000 miles over the ten before it reached India, where it arrived very warm and exceedingly humid. Here it was stopper by an unbroken wall of mountains and held in a kind of trap out of which there- was no escape except by Racecision. Thes damp humid air, which began to rain an
A soon as it rose 500 feet, was forced to rins GIBRALTAR, May 3rd. between 10,000 and 20,000 foot. In conne
The Japanese Crown Prines departed at guides large masses of water were pre- 10 o'clock this morning. He was delighted cipitated over the greater part of the with his visit and was given a farewell Indian aren.
by the Governor, Admiral-and-perecdel
The conference, to-day, also took note of the commercial results of the doomOPILĒT. sanctions approved by the recent London Brigadier General 3 Wigan, M.P.
The Kator-and-Kashima_were conference, which are described sa most hus resigned on business grounde
Kingscote has withdrawn from the escorted from the harbour midst royal
In cong satisfactory The receipts of the Allied At the General lection – Brigadier. Davis Cup Teamis Gordon Lows has been salutes
from ashore and afloat. The oratly, grace in favo Customs on the thing smounted 180 mil Generat
an was returned selected:"Ang takut will prob
-and-manning of British and the degrees warshipa made an imposing Master of ESTER opposition,
lion paper marks in one month, of a total unopposed 21.2%
for the Abingdon, Lows and Crawley for "the"
of 500 million gold marks an ona year... – } division of Barks.] ..... Lesett and Wocens in the donk