EARLLER TELEGRAMS
AFFAIRS IN GERMANY."
COUNT HERTLING DEAD.-
Copenhagen, Jan.
Count Hertling has died in Bavaria,
"A STATEMENT OF POLICY.
Copenhagen, Jan a
Harr Rantzau; the new German Foreign Minister, has published a declaration of policy which has not yet boen received, but comment in the "Barliner Tageblatt" shows Hanitan smphasises that Germany must not yield every peace condition her opponents wish to dictate. The "Tageblatt" says it is urgant that Germany convince the world of har determination to loyally carry out President Wilson's peace but to refuse to accept any other, especially M. Clemenceau's. The journal aids that Hantzan said this with a plainness and frankness long lacking in German policy.
THE SPARTACUS COEP.
Amsterdam, Jan. &
The Spartacists attempted a coup d'etat laat evening but the result is unknown. The latest message from Berha dated 950 evening states that the Wolff Burean and six big dailies, including "Torwaerts" have been seized by the Spartacists.
TYPICAL INCIDENT,
Amsterdam, Jan. 'à
A menage from Berlin states that five conflicting Police Corps are at present undertaking the maintenance of order. Herr Eichhorn received a Government delegation deputed, to instal his successor with revolver in hand and declared that he would only yield to force until the case was properly adjudged, whereupon the delegation discreetly withdrew.
REIGN OF ANARCHY.
Basle, Jan. 9,
The latest news from Berlin shows that unarchy con tinues to reign. The disorganisation of all administrative services is becoming more marked The Spartacists harS occupied the Government printing works and control the Berlin railways which hare ceased running. The Sparta- cists are apparently aiming at cutting off communications between the capital and the surrounding districts with the object of delaying the arrival of troops. There was violent fighting yesterday noon near Wilhelm Platz, the Spartacists shouting "Death to the bloodsuckers Ebert and Schiede man." They were only barely repulsed by troops from reach- ing the Chancellery. The Spartacists, who possess a number of guns and motor-cars for the transport and distribution of munitions, are now besieging the barracks of the Third Regiment of Guards.
German newspapers state that a division with artillery and machine guas from Potsdam and Chasseurs from Lubeck is marching to Berlin. Government troops occupy Pots dam and some of the Berlin railway stations, but railway traffic has ceased in Berlin owing to the trains being fired on The Berlin Bourse, also the Frankfurt Banks and Stock Exchange hare closed. Workers and soldiers are occupying the Wolff Bureau at Berlin armed with hand- grenades. The Spartacists at Dortmund and Nuremburg seized the newspaper offices supporting the Eberters sq burned the printing press. The Spartacists led by a sailor attempted to overturn the Government at Schwerin and Mecklenberg. They occupied public buildings and barracks but subsequently the soldiers ejected and defeated the sailors.
A message from Frankfort dated Jan. 8 states: The Spartacists lost heavily in the fighting at Berlin. The Sparta cist commissariat is defective owing to lack of transport although they hold the military stores at Koopenich Strasse and the military bakery. Private, advices from Berlin state. that the fighting will probably last a week and undoubtedly will result in complete victory for the Ebert 'Government.
TERRIBLE STREET FIGHTING.
Amsterdam, Jan 9.
The "Frankfurter Nachrichten" states that street fight- ing attained unparelleled intensity in Berlin on the night of the 7th. A te ifie canaonade continued until the morning of the 8th. The journal declares that the Government remain masters of the situation. Large forces, especially
artillery, continue to be sent to Berlin. Herr Ebert re- affirmed his absolute confidence as regards the issne of the Spartacist challenge. Government troops have reoccupied the Imperial Printing Works
The Handelsblad" comespondent telephosed on the 8th from Barlin that the negotiations, between the Sparta cists and the Government utterly failed. The former are endeavouring to secure an abatement of the conditions, cabled yesterday morning, but the Government is adamsat. Noske has stated that the Government position is streng thening hourly, because Volunteers are flowing in Tha Spartacista were driven out on the evening of the 7th from Potadam, and Anhalt rail, stations, also the Brandenburg Gate and the railway headoffices. Heavy fighting, with artillery_participating, occurred at the Central Telegraph office. There are no details.
GOVERNMENT GAINING UPPER HAND.
London, Jan. 10,
Owing to the absence of details as regards the numbers engaged in street fighting and the casualties inflicted it is still impossible to confidently guage the extent and severity of the Spartacists bid for supreme power. All latest re-
·ports confirm that there has been violent fighting, but declare that Berlin on the morning of the 9th, was quieter after a night long struggle wherein the Government re- captared a number of buildings and the Government is now steadily regaining the upper hand. The Government has sent wireless messages to many parts of Berlin which are without water or lighting owing to the seizure of the works, and where provision depots have been stormed and the feeding of soldiers' and civiliens interrupted, and assert if the Bpartacist strongholds will not surrender they will redate them with artillery and seroplanes. Herr Eichhorn's sur rendered guard numbered 3,000. The Spartacists scored a great coup by capturing the State printing works thereby gaining possession of a huge sum of paper money. On the other hand the Government has achieved a valuable success by reconquering the railway head offices Liebirnecht was slightly wounded by a' band-grenade on the 8th.
SPARTACISTS WEAKENING:
Basle, Jan. 10.
It is learned from German centres that the Government. is apparently predominant in Centre Berlin but the Sparta- cists hold the east and suburbs. Fighting continues in Unter- den Linden, but the Government is now rapidly receiving military reinforcements and count on the support of 80,000 loyal troops, including 8,000 guardsmen, besides demobilised men, who have volunteered their services, also the Berlin garrison, who have thrown in their lot with the Government in consequence of the incosting, troops". hostility at the Pneutral attitude kitherto observed. Eichhorn's guard "has
alen desertedly The Spartaciste skrongholds are being"close--- ly, beneged and a considerable weakening, of their move- ment is, already discernible. It is confidently anticipated, that the Government will completely reassert authority. The newspaper: "Germanis, asserts that, a thorand Eassing Bolsheviste diagnised as Germans have reached Berlim,
THE HONGKONG STREET
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
AFFAIRS IN GERMANY.
GOVERNMENT TROOPS ARRIVINO.
Copenhagen, Jais, 10,
A message from Barlin dated Jan 8 says that great Governmană reinforcements are still pouring in, including loyal naval man from Biol. All offers of the Berlin garri. son are pledged to support Noaks and officer battalions are being formed a message on the 9th stated: The directory of the railways declare that the railways-are-still-in-the hands of the Government.-- A number of trains are running.. A message from Berlin states that a state of ssigo has been proclaimed Government troops have unsuccessfully endeavoured to recapture the Wolf Burean.
A message from Berlin dated Jan. 9 states that accord ing to the "Frankfurter Zeitung" three Army Corps will'. be employed to recapture the province of Posen and to protect Silesia
POLES V. GERMANS.
Amsterdam, Jan. 8.
A message from Berlin states that the Poles advancing from Kolmar encountered a German Volunteer. Company, oa Jan & Heary, fighting “enaned and the Poles retreated. The Germans have captured Kolmar and Weissenhonho. The losses on both sides were very heavy.
EICHHORN' FLEES.
London, Jan. 10.
The most significantest news of the situation in Berlin to-day is a telegram from Zurich stating that Eichhorn has fed. A Baale message states that the Government har appointed the Majority Socialist Richter as Chief of Police temporarily.
NEW CABINET APPOINTMENTS.
The following are some of the new Parliamentary ap- pointments. The first section of the telegram is not yet. to hand..
Loader, Jan. 1
War Office and Air Ministry, Mr. Winston Churchill; Under Secretary War Office, Viscount Peel; Financial Seo retary, Mr. H. W. Forster, Under Secretary Air Ministry Major General Seely who will be appointed Vice-President. of the Air Council and preside thereover.
The Secretary for India is Mr. Montagu, and the Under Secretary Sir & P. Sinha.
The First Lord of the Admiralty is Mr. Walter Long, Parliamentary Secretary Dr. Macnamara.
The President of the Board of Trade is-Sir Albert Stanley and Parliamentary Under Secretary Mr. W. C
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The Department of Overseas Trade Development and Intelligence is in charge of Mr. Steel Maitland, who is also Additional Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Addi. tional Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade.
The President of the Local Government Board is Mr. Addison and the Parliamentary Secretary is Mr. Stephen Walah.
The President of the Board of Agriculture is Mr. Pro- thero and Parliamentary Secretary Mr. Grifiths Boseswen. The President of the Board of Education is Mr. Fisher and Parliamentary Secretary Mr. Herbert Lewis
The Minister of Munitions is to become Minister of Supply and is Mr. Andrew Weir with joint Parliamentary Secretaries ia Mr. Kellaway and Major Baird.
The Food Controller is Mr. G. H. Roberts and the Minister of Shipping Sir Joseph Maclay with Parliamentary Secretary Colonel Leslie Wilson.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
A RUSSIAN COMMITTEE.
London, Jan. 7.
Reuter learns that a central committes composed of landing Russians has been formed to watch Russian "întertate at the Peace Conference The ex-Premier, Prince Lvo, is President, supported by the Ambassadors at London, Paris, Bome, Madrid and Washington. M. Sezonoff is expected short ly and will join the committee as representating the govern ments sitting in South Caucasus and Admiral Koltchak at Omsk The well-known Revolutionary but anti-Bolshevisk Tchai- kowski, head of the Archangel Government, is also invited. to join the committee. Well-informed quarters here regard the committee as a national coalition which will seek to arrive at a common programme for submission to the Allies for the latter's decisions.
THE BRITISH DELEGATES.
London, Jan: 10. Newspapers atata that the War Cabinet his appointed the following British delegation to the Peace Conference. Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, Mt. Balfour and Mr. Barnes, with a Dominion representative to serve on the Dominion panel, comprising Mr. Hughes, Sir Robert Borden, Sir Louis Boths, and Mr. Massey, when business affects the intersst of a particular Dominion. The "Ezyress" adds that an important decision is that the Dominions will also appear at the Conference as small nations.
A NEW STATE'S REPRESENTATIVES.
Paris, Jan. 5.
The delegation of the sem Serbian, Croatian and Blovene State to the Peace Conference has arrived beaded by M.. Paritch.
ENEMY SUBJECTS BARRED.
London, Jan. Jef
The London Stock Exchange has passed a new rule whereby no member shall without the committee's special permission, employ.in any capacity any person of German, Austria, Hungarian, Bulgarian or Turkish birth, or any ex- member who has been expelled and whose application for re-election is rejected.
SECRET DIPLÓMACY DOOMED
London, Jan.
Mr. Clynes speaking at Bristol said the idea of a balance of power had failed. Secret diplomsey was doomed sad no "great country could afford to remain outside » Lesgna of Nations. Pence influences must be made, ar intensive ss the organisation for war in order to secure the bamshment of the battle field as the means of settling diferences. The Peace Conference must be fade to understand that this war. would not be properly ended unless it made fofher wars Exsponsible.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S WILL".
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Ex-President Roosevelt left half a milion sixty thousand are divided amongst his ol remanandez is left to kis
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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
COMMERCIAL AVIATION,
London, Jan, Te
Majoz General Bykes, Chief of the Air Staff, to-day delivered “an address of grena interest and importanco 'on commercial aviation in the the light of war experience before, the members of the London-Chamber of Commisaros. In the course of a most fascinating story of recent festa. of passenger services, he told how two members of the American mission made a record trip to Paria and back in four hours twenty minutes. On another occasion a trîpi "of 170 miles from Manchester took 85 minutes, the course- being largely steered by compass. A pilot over forty years -af- age crossed the channel. 237 times, frequently in bad..
weather.
Aviation was now on the threshold of a new existence in commercial life. In the technical aspect we could pit the brains of our inventors and engineers againan the world... We had already gained for ourselves a foremost pises in design and technique of aircraft and angices. The risk of danger was much less than often supposed, a consider able proportion of accidanta hitherto being due to higher wat training, in aerial fighting and formation Aring; but even under these conditions accidents, considering the circumstances, were surprisingly few.
Dealing with the everland project to India Major General Bykes said a machine starting from London would fly not-stop direct to Marselles, thence to Sads Bay, Crete, then after a abort rest to Tarsato or Rome for inspection and minor repairs preparatory to the long journey oversea from Crote. The machine would reach the African roast at Sollum, whence after overhauling and replenishing petrol tanks it would go to Cairo with a possible rest en route at Mersa Matruh. It would probably be advisable to transfer the mails at Cairo to another machine in order that the machine from London be completely overhauled. Continuing the journey, the route passes Damascus and Baghdad, both possessing subsidiary serodromes and repair facilities, thence to Bara From Bairs, Karachi would be reached from Bushire along the coast to Banderadbea. Some twenty-five aerodromes were necessary on this route and Taranto, Cairo and Baars would be required to be equipped with first class facilities. Esch formed an average stage of 330 miles and the total distance from London to Delhi was approximately 8,000 miles.
Major General Sykes thinks we are justified in looking forward to a weekly mail service by this route, the time of passage not exceeding seven or eight days. Postal rates by aeroplane would be high in comparison with present charges, perhaps a few shillings per ounce for argent letters.
Another route the Air Force hoped to open win an All Hak route from Cairo to Capetown, muztay parties having already been despatched from: Gairo: This fight would be andartaken both by Aying boat aunt seroplane and it was hoped-to-provide landing gronds every two hundred miles along the route, passing via Arsovac, Wadi Hadia, Khartoum, Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika. The ronte for the flying boat would be Lake Nyassa, Blantyre, Beira, Lorenzo Marques, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Capetown, 6,700 miles in all, whilst for the seroplane the route would be via Elizabethville, Livingstone, Bulawayo, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Capetown, making 6,300 milee
OUR HEROIC MINELAYERS..
Londen, Jun. É
Sir Eric Geddes, speaking at a concert to wounded Overseas soldiers at Oatlands, Surrey, said he would give the pain for being the best, bravest and pluckiest section of the Navy to the men of the Twentieth Mine-laying Flotills, who incessantly penetrated the huge German mine fields off Helgoland, blocking the channels for German vessels. In consequence of the British trap mines a hundred GeimaD craft were caught during the first six months of last year. On one occasion four of these mine-layers, after spotting six German outpost boats, successfully passed through the mine-fiek, laid mines, and, returning, mopped up all six German vessels, capturing their crews. The British mine barrier below Ostend captured seventeen submarines in one month. The first German mutiny was caused by the Gray's mens' refusals to face our mines laid just below. the surface.
GERMAN POLICY EXPOSED,
Berlin, Jan. & 7. Writing to the "Zakunft about Germany's policy of alliances, Maximilian Harden declares that Germany's rolers madly squandered the strength of the nation in an attempt to maintain the old world system which had to be either radically transformed or perish, "The Hapsburg system with its wiles and malice, Bulgaria's lust for power and maladministratiet Young Turks were not to be saved" Germany's. Turkish policy se especially, faulty. German diplomacy_considered the friendship of the Tarks as good compensation for the gambling losses Germany had suffered lor many years through her attempted rivalry of British naval supremacy, through her sycophantic courting of the Calipha' favour and through planning a land route to India Herz Harden concludes The British Allies may now stalk about as victors while Germany's companions all become cripples."
POLISH ASPIRATIONS.
Vause, Jan. 5
Four Polish delegates have arrived to meet M. Clemen ceau and M. Pichon to obtain recognition of the Polish State and also military assistancć and food supplies.
THE AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS.
Amsterdam, JAD S
A message from Vienos deports that the Hate Council has fixed the elections for the Constituteo) Amembly "för Feti. 16.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR-CONFERENCE
Stockholm
M. Branting has invited neutral powers to an Interse tional Labour Conference at Lausanne, concurrently the: Peace Conference. He has notified the Bocialists Central Eussia: thereof 2 rear body
BRITISH NAVAL MISSION IN GERMANY SE
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message from Danzig ʻatafox that the Bri bodwood with. Naya 01861on aboar speet the
iries: under conziz yards Other:warships. Two American craisers Swinemsende.
"DEL-GĦUM-EXPELLING ENEMY ALIENS.
TO-DAY'S_CHINERS
TELEGRAMS.
(Wah Tua Fat Pò Service)
Poking, Jan. 12.
A circular talegram to the Provinces prohibits recruiting of
new troops.
Yuen Tai, former military- officer in Hung Shan, has arrived from Hongkong and is reporting on military conditions.
The situation indicates that Paking is willing to yield to Shanghai being the place for the Conference.
Shanghai, Jan. 19.
Chang Hin telegraphs that ther Government of the South-West: will not send peace delegatas: because the North still contêrves advancing troops in Fukinn and Shansi. He therefore advises the- Central Government to withdraw the Northern troops so as 15- hasten peace.
Hung Hi-hing, telegraphs that if the Central Government; ost mark out areas and stop fighting: in Fakian and Shansi, the same as in Hunan, it will "save face” | for both sides.
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Fung-Kuo-chung will go to Nanking very soon.
The Northern delegates in Nan king have nothing to do. They are merely attending to their private affairs. -
The President instructs the Cabinet to prge the South-West. to send out delegates, as the peace negotiations must "begin the middle of February
The Ministry of Finance has: allotted $600,000 for expetises of the delegates to the European Peace Conference.
The Central Government is to retain an organ in Hongkong and let La Fung-cheong take charge. of it.
BABEAS CORPUS CASE
MACAO EXTRADITION. PROCEEDINGS.
A. Full Court, composed of Chief Justice (Sir Witham Edes Davies, KO) and the Phine Judge (Mr. E. H. J. Gomperis) this morning heard the Habeas Corpus proceedings into the case arising from the arrest of Kosg Chai Ten, a fugitive, from Macro, The Macao authorities finatituted extradition proceedings and the fugitive applied to the Court for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release and prevent his dent portation to Macao. The applica- tion for a rule nisi was head a few weeks ago' and to-day - the application was to make the rule nisi absolute.
Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. P. W. Goldring) appeared" for the fugitive and Mr. J. H. Kemp, K. C.,C.B.E, (the attorney, General) instructed by Mr. G. E. Wakeman (Crown Solicitar) re- presented the Crown.
There was a long argumente to which side was entitle to begin and therefore entitle, to the right of reply. Eventually their Lordships decided to leave the point in abeyance and, Mr. Potter was allowed to proceed.
Mr. Pofter contended that the aplíestion made by the Crown to
Police Magistrate was mis- onceived and made with a total; fisregard to the specia) Extraal țien Ordinance which devered thei prisoner's cine - namely, “the Macao Extradition Ordinance of 1881. He subinitted this Ordinance covered his case and not the English Extradition Act”....” The contention that the Crown Was entitled to elect which procedure I would adopt was abedlutely untenable. The learned Kägistrate. Į held at the close of the esse that the Cown was entitled not to proceed under the Macao Extradi- tion. Ordinance and it therefore followed that the prisoner Aras entitled # no "bened would accrue to him. Macao Extradition "The base is pr
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