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November 23, 1918,
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23,
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE ARMISTICE CONDITIONS.
Violation by Germans at Brussels.
THE "SCRAP OF PAPER" POLICY.
Paris, November 21.
At Heis only one kind of flag is flying the Tricolour." The long-lost daughter of France recognises only the Motherland. The hage equestrian statue of Wilhelm the Firet is lying prone on the ground, the bend, severed from the body, biting the dust. A aimilar fate has fallen to the statues of the Bed Prince and Frederick the Third.-Havas
German Breach of Artalatice.
Paris, November 21 The French Prees diconsees the impudent communication to the Allies from Dr. Solf, the Foreign Secretary, vitually demanding »that the Armistice conditions accepted by the German Government
be sanalled or modified like another "orsp of paper". The Gemsas | have been guilty of destructiveneer and bestial cruelty, and are complaining at their economic situation not being normal. The papers say the scandalous Prussian former brutality is preferable to Dr. Balf's by pooritical suivelling. French opinion is that it is the duty of the Allies to apply the conditions of the Armistice without the slightest modification, especially after the wanton breach of the Armistice by the Germans blowing up the Brumele Railway stations-Havas.
Preparing for Peace Conference.
Paris, November 21. " Various repeira ere being carried out at the Grand Trisnon in Versailles, where the Pesce Delegetion will meet and where the final Treaty of Pesce is expected to be signed. Half the mirrors in the osmonfisge park have been removed.—Havas,`
France Pays Homage to Allies-
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By a unanimous vote the Chamber of Depatiee has psised s resolution rendering signal homage to President Wilson, the American nation and the Allied natione.-Hovas,
THE GERMAN FLEET.
FIRST INSTALMENT SURRENDERS.
Lordon, November 21.
It is coially announced that Admiral Sir David Beatty met et 9:30 this morning the first and main instalment of the High German Sea Fleet which is surrendering for interamen..
The Surrender of U-Boats.
London, November 21,
A farther nineteen German submarinee surrendered at Harwich to-day. The twentieth broke down en route.
THE KING'S SPEECH.
Appeal for a Spirit of Unity.
Lonson, November 21. His Majesty the King's speech on the prorogation of Parliament was se followal
"My Lords and Gentlemen,-Toe ocassion upon which I "address you marks the close of a period which will be forever | memorable in the history of our ocuntry. The war, upon which all the energies of my peoples throughout my Dominions for over four years have been concentrated, bss at length been brought to a triumpbant issue. The conclusion of an Armistice with the last of the Powers ranged against un promiese ere long an honourable and enduring peace. I have already sought sn opportunity of expressing pablicly to my peoples and my Allies the sentiments of heartfelt admiration and gratitude with which I regard the supreme self-sacrificing devotion that has. led to this glorious result. Amidat our rejoicing, let us not forget to render humble thanks to Almighty God for the saccess with which it has pleased Him to crown our arms
"Gentlemen of the Commons,-I thank you for the unfailing patriotism with which you have made provision fox the requirements of the war,
"My Lorde and Genilemer,-The exertions which have carried us to victory in the field mart in dowise be abated or elackened antil she ravages of war are repaired and the fabric of our nations! prosperity restored. Through the extension of the st Erage wbjob this Parliament has effected, all classes of my people will have an opportunity of inspiring and gaiding this beneficient undertaking. I trust that the spirit of unity which has enabled na to surmount the perils of war will not be wanting in the no less arduous task of establishing on the surs foundation of ordered liberty the common welfare of my people. Io bidding you farewell, I pray that the blessing of Almighty God may rest upon your labour."
DISGUISED AS GERMAN OFFICERS.
Turkish Statesmen · Arrive la Berlin.
London, November 21, message from Amsterdam saye Talaat Pasha and Ever Bay have arrived at Berlin disguised as Germosa officere, The German Government has decided to intern them, pending their expalsion whan pesca in tigned.
THE U.S. NAVY.
A Big New Programme,
London, November 21,
Renter's correspondent at Washington says that addressing the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniela. Secretary of the Navy, urged the continuance of the policy of naval mida Losgue of Nations and disarmament were iture settlement, and none could forase the r
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"THE GERMAN NAVAL SURRENDER.
King George Review's the Fleet..
Rosyth, Now...it Their Majesties lanched with the British, French and American Admirals aboard Admiral Sir David Beatty's abip and witnessed the departure of the fast destroyers forming the vanguard of some two hundred fighting ships to whom the German war vessels will surrender to-morrow. The King reviewed the entire Grand Fleet and was received every- where with tremendous enthusiasm.
The fog shroading the Forth for six days disappeared yesterday and the weather prospect is more promising for the surrender of the German Fleet to-day.
Contempt for U-Boats.
London, Nov, 2.
Stem civility on the part of the British and suppressed Burliness from the Germans characterized the surrender of the U Boats yesterday. A festurs of the ceremony indeed was the remarkable silence. Admiral Tyrwhitt prohibited. any manifestation of any sort when the U Boats were pass ing and ordered absolutely no fraternisation. As the British commander of a destroyer remarked to the correspondents, "We shall treat them with the contempt they deserve, but there will be no outburst. Everything will be done strictly in accordance with Naval etiquette.' Accordingly at the rendezvous five miles off Felixstowe the British stolidly boarded the U Boats, Officers aaked questions as to the ztate of the vessels and the men took stations aft, the Ger man crews being forward, Thus they proceeded to Harwich, thousands of spectators on the banks of the Stour reflecting the official coldness of reception by a disdainful silence as the procession wended its way up the river to the mooring place at Parkestone quay. The Germans were not allowed to land They were immediately transferred to a destroyer as cach U Boat was moored and taken to a German trans- port outside for repatriation.
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TERRIBLE TURKISH CRUELTY.
London, Nov. 20.
Further appalling revelations of cruelty to British prisoners, this time by the Turks, are revealed in a White Paper issued to-day. The report teems with details of extortion, robbery and floggings, but these are trivial com- pared with the fiendish treatment of the Kut garrison. Of 16,583 men captured by the Turks, 3,200 are reported while 2,929, all belonging to the Kut garrison, remain wa traced. When the Turks entered But, the garrison, weaken- ed by long privation, was marched to an unsheltered point in the desert near Shamran. They lay a week unprotected from sun and rain, three hundred dying. On the hundred miles march to. Bagdad deaths occurred on the roadside daily, food being very short, and the heat intense. Clouds of dust were perpetual and a great number of the men were bootless. After the exchange of prisoners in August 1916 the remainder of the prisoners were sent five hundred miles across the Syrian desert to Asia Minor, where the most terrible experiences occurred. The sights in villages and halting places hardly bear telling, parties of inen lying exhausted in all stages of dysentery and starvation, half" clothed and bootless. The dead lay unburied and stripped of clothing all across the desert Starving and dying men in tens and twenties lay in any scrap of shade or mud hovel In September 1916 about a thousand began the journey across the Taurus mountains, forced forward by the butt- ends of rifes. Many dropped dead from sheer inanition The scene can only be likened to Dante's Inferno. Less than half of those crossing the mountains, survived,
THE ARMISTICE, CONDITIONS. Presumptuous German Retori:
Amsterdam, Nov,
The German High Command, replying to Marshal Foch's protest against German acts of violence in Belgium, states that the German plenipotentiaries in the armistice discussions emphasised most strongly that the execution of the technical ly impossible conditions would result in excesses. The blame resta exclusively on the Allied Army Command.
Prince Lichnowsky's Appeal.
Landon, Nov. 29,
**Formserts" publishes an appeal by Prince Lichnowsky to Britua, especially to his many personal friends, naming Lord Lansdowne, Viscount Grey and Mr. Asquith, urging the latter to use their far-reaching influence on behalf of the high ideals of humanity and justice" with a securing amelioration of the armistice terms,
view to
Sheer Justice,
London, Nov. 21, Mr. Asquith, interviewed regarding the Lichnowsky ap peal, said the terms of the armistice did not in. the least exceed the just necessities of the case. Germany brought- them upon berself
THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
London, Nov. EL
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The election campaign is in full swing. For the first time one candidate is using an aeroplane in visiting his con- stituents in outer London Soldiers outside Britain, France, Belgium, and the newly occupied territory will vote by post, and soldiers in other war theatres by proxy, but only a small per centage of proxy voters are exercising their right. Officers and men have hitherto shown little inclination; to vote. In some cases the ballot papers were used for lighting fires. Among well-known Commoners not seeking re-election are Mesura, T. Burt, John Burns, A. Birrell, Jesse Collings, Swift MacNeill and Sir H. Meux
THE ALLIED OCCUPATION,
Amsterdam, Nov 20
A Hamburg message states that the Soldists' Council announces the probabilit occupymg Wilhelmshaven and other naval bases in
the conditions of the armistice ind habitants to Tamsin calm
AFFAIRS IN GERMANY.
Non-Bolsheviks In the Ascend.ocy.
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Amsterdam, Nov 16, Herr Liebknecht has been removed by Government troops from the palace at Berlin where he had taken up his residence, Bosa Luxemburg was forcibly removed from thehena of the "Lokal Anzeiger." There are also other. indicatius. that the non-Bolshevik elements are more and more damlasting the situation in Berlin.
The Abolition of the Reichstag.
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Copenhagen, Nov, 20
A Berlin message states that the Chairman of the Reichstag contests the Governinent's right, to abolish the Reichstag and has notified the Government that he reserves the right to summon it if necessary, ... ·
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No National Repentance:
London, Nor, 21,
- The correspondent Harold Williams at Geneva confirms the impression already obvious from the despatches of the past week that the revolution in Germany is characterised by remarkable indifference to, almost regret for, the over throw of the Kaiser and other monarchs, while there is cot the faintest sign of national repentance. He says the bostility to the Allies is rather intensified and points out that there has not been published a single manifesto from the Kaiser or other monarch announcing abdication Ger- man arrogance persists, with a surprising discipline in the scoeptance of the new authority."
Trying to Reach Berlin.
Amsterdam, Nov, "21" The "Vaike Zeitung" states that large bodies of Ger- man troops. trying to reach Berlin have crossed the Bhine, despite the cordon system.
ROYALTY IN SCOTLAND.
London, Nov. 21. Their Majesties and the Prince of Wales had a very” hearty reception to-day in Edinburgh. Replying to an ad. dress of welcome the king paid a tribute to the patriotism of Scotland and said every war theatre testified to the valour and unconquerable spirit of the Scottish troops, whose deeds would live forever in history.
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THE 1914 15 STAR.
London, Nov. 20
in the House of Commons Mr. Macpherson stated that 4 star will be given to local representatives or next of kin of those who fell at Gallipoli according as the soldier died testate or intestate.
FUTURE OF GERMAN COLONIES. "
London, Nov, 21.
Mr. Walter Long has written to the Agent General for New South Wales in reply to an enquiry as to the future of the German colonies stating that the Prime Minister authorizes him to say that the whole support of the Gov ernment will be given to the claims of the Dominions on this subject. The Prime Minister has already made this clear to representatives of the Allies in Paris.
PROTEST TO HOLLAND,
Paris, Nov. 21.
It is understood that the Allied governments have decid ed to protest to Holland against the breach of neutrality in permitting German troops to traverse Limburg.
FOOD CONTROL IN GERMANY.
Amsterdam, Nov. 21
The "Tageblatt" states that besides raising the bread ration, next week will be the last meatless week in Berlin and Cologne.
THE EXCLUSION OF GERMANS.
London, Nov. 20 In the House of Lords, Lord Cave said that all interned Germans would be repatriated. The Government would introduce & Bill giving power to exclude foreigners in peace-time the saine as in war-time and to differentiate be- tween the nationals of different countries. He personally wai of the opinion that no German should be allowed to land on British shores.
"HEATHER DAY".
The Miniature Golf Course.
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SINGLE COPY 10 CENTE.
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BOXING,
The Mala Bvent Fixed Up.
The main event in the Palion Reserve boxing tournament which, i is to take place in the City Hall on December 14 has now been definitely fired up, S.P.O. Amey and Sto Neighbours (having signed the contract" in the Telegraph offices this morning. These men, whose records will be published later, s18 to meet in a 20-round contest for the Bantam weight Championship of the Colony, in accordance with N.8.0. Rales. The referee is to be Mr. H. J. Gedge.
The whole of the proveeds, after meeting expenses, sïe to go to the mother of the late Sergt. Linfield, Naval Police, who was recently murdered and who wa the sole support of his agei mother. Among those who have kindly consented
the function
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ronage are the following:--His Excellency the Omoër Administer
tag the Government (Hon. Mr. ̈ Olaad Severn, C. M.G), Him Excellency Major General Ventris, His Honour Sir William Brea Davies, EO. (Chief Justice), Captain Edwards, R.N., Com- modore Gurner, R.N., Hon. Mr. McL Messer, (Captain Supt. of Policey, M. ED.O. Wolfe (First Police Magistrate).
BOLISHEVIKS ́AND THE CHURCH.
Disestablishment to be Enforced. The struggle between the Church and the Revalution is the coming orisis: At the very start, when the Soviet, which then was got Bolebevik, opposed the hold ing of church services over the graves of those killed in the Petrograd fighting in Maob, 1917, this hostility was felt and wondered at.
As the Revolution proceeded it became clearer that sooner or later it most come to an open confics. The Church wuch ́resented the rough and ready reforme.of Vladimir Lroff in the first staga of the Revolution, but after the Soviet took the Government into its own hands it made common cause with all the parties of the Bight, and the Soviet hostility towards là grew serial. Di establishment made the Church's only hope some sort of counter revolution.
Latterly, when other demons- trations were forbidden, the Church has organised processions with annndrubted political, purpose. On May Day the pro jecting spirkes on the ikon over the Italian Gate of the Kremlia tore the red banner with which that tower- was draped. Proce sions were organised, and an attempt was made to get the people to believe that this special mirsele showed Divine disappro»- Tal.
The Soviets on their" part are carrying out a systematic attempt to lessen the hold of the Church on the people. A considerable HONGKONG HARBOUR, part in this is played by the
Some Restrictions Removed.
It is notified with reference to
“prolétariat's pret, Damian Biedy whose utterly irreverent coinio verses have had an extras ordinary vogue. After an allega. tion that the patriarch Tikhon. had agreed to hold a thanksgiving sevice for the success of a oɔdn.
The pablic will be interested to Enow that this year the ministare St. Andrew's Golf Course will| again be a feature of the Fair. Government notifications regard. ter-consplay which the Obarch Several improvements on lasting public traffic in this port that denies the Soviet evidently fesla year's course have been effected, from this date until further itself strong enough to go further, amongst these being the notios the following modifications of the provisions of the decree of
and declared that the provision grass-covered ground will be made-
considerably. 1. Smsil oraft, namely, janks, This disestablishes the Church, Jan. 28 will now be enforced. lerger Bros. Competitions will launcher; and rowing boats may makes it illegal for religions be held throughout the duration move within the Port up to 8 associations to hold property of of the Fair for Ladies Singles, Gentlemen's Singles, Mixed
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