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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919.
KEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE LABOUR TROUBLES.
WEATHER FORECAST,
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
CIVIL WAR IN HAMBURG.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,
ARMAMENT TO BE CURTAILED,
"GERMAN SHIPS NOT TO BE RETURNED.
Paris, Februry 3.
TUBES TO BEGIN RUNNING.
FELEGRAMS.
(Reutar'a Service to the “Tuïrgrapă.”)
SILVER QUIET.
Bir garere. February 18. The silver market is quiet.
GERMAN UNREST CONTINUES. London, Feburary 8.
Barlin, February & Reports of disturbances come from all parts of Germany. Civil| The agreement between the National Union of Railwaymen and It is hoped that the constitution of the League of Nations will the management of the Underground Railways came too late to War continues at Dussedorf and, to some extent, at Hamburg.
The Soviets have seized the telephones and telegraphs at Lue- be definitely termed this week, including the abolition of the sub-permit of a resumption of the Tubes to-day. marine as a vessel of war, and the recommendation that the The agreement provides that the Union shall nominate a man beck with the object of interfering with the Government communi- economic weapon shall take the place of armed force. Regarding for each Underground Railway to co-operate with the representatives Cations, but the object was not attained, owing to the State officials disarmament, the League is endeavouring to work out a scheme by of the Companies in seeing that facilities are provided to get the immediately striking out on a policy which is proving effective in cellist played, the Elegy by David Popper, & Bohemian Jaw which the armaments of all nations are to be curtailed to a point physical needs of the motormen, which will be included in an eight-various parts of the country against the Spartacist usurpation. decided upon as necessary for defence.
hours day.
The Spartacists are still agitating the National Assembly, which born in Prague. It is one of the An early settlement of the Clyde strike is now regarded as is receiving "ultimatums" from many parts of Germany. For
most charming and melodious doubtful. The Strike Committee state that the men are determined example, the Soviet of Gotha bas sent an ultimatum that unless the pieces by Popper and is famous to remain out till their demands have been acceded to
Guards are withdrawn from Weimar, a general strike will be pro- throughout the word. Hunger is now entering as a factor in the strike of 25,000 eng-claimed at Thuringen. It is hoped in Berlin that the Centre Party drei by Marks Bruch.
The greatest treat was the Kal Lloyd George has succeeded in establishing an excellent formula iners and others on the North-East Coast for a 44 hours week, which will participate in the New National Government, thus greatly history of this piece dates from The
The German ships handed over under the recent Armistice terms will not be returned, and the principle of ton for ton will be rigorously applied. It does not appear that Australia is yet a supporter of the mandatory systern. The general opinion is that Mr.
under which the Dominion control will be practically absolute.
THE STRIKES AT HOME.
· MR. LLOYD GEORGE AS PEACE-MAKER.
London, February 9.
has lasted for five weeks. The strikers" funds are low, and there is strengthening it. mach distress, especially among the dependent labourers. The strike is contrary to the advice of the London Executive of the Amalgamated Engineers, who had agreed to give 47-hours week a trial.
MILITARY LORRIES USED ROR CONVEYING PUBLIC.
London, February 9.
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The Press Burean states that the President of the Board of Trade
land.
IMPERIAL UNION OF TEACHERS.
PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT OPENS CONFERENCE.
London, February & H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, in opening the Com
the Spanish Inquisition, when Jews were compelled to embrace Christianity at the risk of lasing" their lives. Outwardly they pre- pended to be Christians, but never, theless they worshipped in secret synagogues underground and in catacombs, and to their prayer the melody of Kol This is up till
Everything is ready for the resumption of the Tubes. Tester-dispute of the Underground Railways was settled, it was impossible India Office, which 600 persons attended, said he hoped before they or the Day of Atonement, remind- Licensed Vehicle Workers' Union on Saturday that, until the of the Empire for Oversea Soldier Teachers, held at Marble Hathis day chanted on Yom Kippur day the power stations were working, but the strikers were to say whether military lorries could continue to be used to convey returned home they would see as much as possible of the Mothering them of the terrible times of
the public or not.
A message was read from Queen Alexandria which incidentally
their ancestors. In the melody mentioned that the League of the Empire for Oversea Soldier can feel the tragic nature of Teachers was establishing residential headquarters at London for self a Jew, took the melody their sufferings and Bruch, him- Oversea Teachers.
apparently desirous of having a holiday for another day.
The National Union Railwaymen officials stated last night that meetings of various London centres had decided, almost unanim- ously, to accept the agreement reached on Saturday morning.
Mr. Lloyd George arrived at London last evening and want to Downing Street, where he immediately investigated the strike trouble. It is expected he will take prompt steps to conciliate Labour Dationaly.
The Clyde strike committee last evening issued a manifesto to British Labour declaring that a great unemployment 'crisis is imminent unless the unemployed were absorbed by means of shorter hours. They decided to continue the forty-hours movement and to organise meetings thorughout the country. The negotiations in Belfast continued yesterday, but were adjourned till Monday.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE...
ECONOMIC COUNCIL TO BE FORMED.
Paris, February 8.
A communique from Paris states that the meeting of the com- mission of the League of Nations this morning was marked by the same accord of view that has characterised the previous sessions. The commission finds itself nearing the end of its task and only, a few articles of the draft remain to be formally presented to the members of the commission for discussion.
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The Supreme War Council resumed the discussion of the terms for the renewal the Armistice. The following resolution, proposed by Mr. Wilson, was approved. Under present conditions many questions not primarily of a military character arising daily are bound to become of increasing importance as time passes. They should be dealt with on behalf of the United States and the Allies by civilian representatives of these Governments experienced in such questions as finance, food blockade, control of shipping, and raw materials. To accomplish this there shall be constituted at Paris a Supreme Economic Council to deal with such matters for the period of the Armistice. The Council shall absorb or replace such other existing inter-Allied bodies and their powers as may be determined from time to time. The Economic Council shall consist of not more than five repesentatives from each of the Governments concerned.
PERSIAN AND SIAMESE DELEGATES.
Paris, February 7. The Persian delegate to the Peace Conference arrived at Marseille to-day. Prince Traidof the delegate of the Siamese Government is expected at Marseille to-day.
ALLIED POWERS IN AGREEMENT.
THE RUSSIAN REPLY.
Paris, February 7
M. Tardieu made some intereating statements concerning the blockade question. He desires to give the greatest possible freedom to neutral states to import what they need only on condition of an absolute guarantee that no re-exportation into Germany should take place.
France took a decided attitude in the prohibition of import- ation of raw materials into Germany. If Germany were now awarded freedom to import raw materials, the French factories, destroyed by the war, would be a second time destroyed by peace,
On the question of the non-importation of raw materials into Germany, France and the Allied Powers are unânimous..
FUTURE OF SUBMARINES.
ADMIRALTY FAVOURS TOTAL ABOLITION.
London, February 8. With reference to the suggestion for the abolition of submarines, which has been before the Paris Conference, Reuter's Agency learns on high authority that the British Admiralty strongly favours the total prohibition of submarine building and the use of the submarine in warfare. This naturally would be subject to a general International agreement and rigid guarantees and safe guards. This attitude of the British Navy has all the more point, in view of the fact that Great Britain is far ahead of all other nations as regard the actual possession of submarines and their potential production.
AMERICA FINANCING BELGIEM.
New York, February 8, An American Syndicate, including the Morgans, has arranged fora loan of $50,000,000 to Belgium.
SOLDIERS MARCH TO WHITEHALL.
TROUBLE OVER LEAVE.
Trains were
London, February 8. The Press Bureau states:-TheWar Office in a statement, explain- ing the soldiers' trouble, says there have seen two days accumulation of leave of expired men in London, totalling 11,000. provided for all, but the Tube strikes prevented the men reaching the despatching points in proper time. Nine thousand bad been despatched before 9 o'clock on the morning of Saturday: Afterwards 250 of the remainder, influenced by a few self constituted leaders, marched to Whitehall, whence a guard marched them to Wellington barracks, pending entrainment. Nine of the ringleaders have arrived.
SIMPLE CURE FOR SPANISH INFLUENZA.
Stockholm, February 8.
RAVAGES OF TYPHUS IN RUSSIA.
Sir Cyril Cobb, Chairman of the London County Council, for his composition, and made the suggested interchanges of Teachers between Great Britain and the melody begins within six notes in most beautiful piece for cello. The Dominions.
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SHANGHAI SENSATION.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.)
the old style, and, therefore, han great breadth. The first part is in D minor and the second in D major, which bring out the great difference in the feeling between the tears
and
the tragedy. Klangel's Scherzo was exquisitely rendered by the cellist, after which he played Chanson's Trieste by Tschaikovski which portrays the pitecus compassion of the soul, and expresses it with feeling." Boccherini from the XI Quintett The final item was the Minnet of
Shanghai, February 10. Ting Pao Chien the ex-Governor of Shansi was shot three times in the arra, back, and neek while riding in a rickshaw along Tarunga Road on Saturday morning. His condition is serious. The would- be assassin escaped.
SATURDAY'S CONCERT.
most charming and picturesque piece.
On Wednesday A matinee performance will be given at the Theatre the last of their concerts.
TANK IN CIVIL LIFE,
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THE RUSSIAN ARTISTS. is different in style and character. Some of these parts are the picture of Schumann's musical newspaper friends, like Euselius, Florestan. Paganini, etc. In (response to an encore, the pishist Having won its spars in the played Gluck's Melodie from the war, the tank is now being Opera Orpheum.
Jalapte to commercial uses. It A rich feast was presented to In -the second music-lovers at the Theatre Royal pianist
part the is towing barges on the French gave & on
wonderful canals, and arrangements are to Saturday, when the two grandeur to Listz's Rhapsodie be made for its general use for Russian instrumentalists--MM. XV. a piece which is seldom this purpose. A. Sklarevski and B. Sykore attempted as it is extremely diffi-
It is doubtful · made their third appearance în cult
whether such an enterprise can of correct rendering. Hongkong. They
A presented Liszt's Capriccio in B miner be emalated in England. a programme which again', was another very brilliant Daily Chronicle representative irresistibly impressed the piece, its brilliancy lying in its was informed recently that "the whole of the keenly appreciative soft notes and its special touch. matter had not yet been seriously audience. The two are artists of The Skylark in B flat minor is considered, but the difficulties in The noted Swedish physician, H. Bjoarnson, claims that Spanish extreme temperament and im an old Russian folk music, com- the way were so great that it was influenza is curable by exposing the patient's back to a strong mense power, allied with that posed by that biggest of Russian not likely we should see tanks on electric heat and light, the appliance to be followed by the appli- [delicate sensitiveness which composers, M. Glinka, the ar-our towing-paths. "I think we cation of best-developing compresses, whereby intense perspiration goes to make op ** virtuosity **. rangement for piano being by should is induced. He claims that his numerous patients have been cured of the" first
The Balakirer. It is one of the most canals to fit the tanks." said an rack. in two to five days by this process.
music was. magnificent. To the difficult concert pieces, and is a most perfect mastery of tech- work unique of its kind, both in official of the Grand Junction nique was added the inspiration the splendour of its technical dis- Canal. "Our inland water-wayg of genius. More than common play and its melody, which is are different from those of the powers are needed merely to not simple. Its arrangement is Continent, and I don't think the perform the mechanical feat of made very difficult but it is per- tank method could be successfully playing so lengthy a programme formed so beautifully by M. adopted here. Towing-paths are as that presented on Saturday Sklareveki that the audience cannot wide enough, and bridges" every movement of every work, piece. night, but to give life and soul to not imagine the difficulties of this are too frequent and too low. "On our own system alone we rousing and sustaining the in-, In the second part of the pro-have from 250 to 300 bridges, siasm of an audience an' gramme the pianist could "not achievement only possible for resist the encores, although these and they have only eight or mine musicians of the very highest added to a strain that must bave feet headway. In a good many order.
been sufficiently Bovere, He cases there is trouble to get a The programme opened with obliged with Beethoven's March tall horse under them, and I do Schumann's Carnival This is (arrangement by Rubistein) the not see how a tank could manage one of the best compositions of march of the Turkish patrols and it at all, unless it was very much Pre-fmann, and extremely difficult "In the Convent" by Barodine. smaller than anything we have
of correct interpretation. Many The latter piece was full of life, seen yet. pianists have played" this giving a perfect picture of the piece, but could not make any service in the Convent. The chim- impression. M. Sklarevski hasking of the bells, the movements arisen to do it and entirely surpris- of the procession going in and ed his audience. The Carnival is out-all this W&S vividly composed in four notes-A, (E) 8, brought before us by the CH-which is the name of the playing. place where Schumann's wife was The honours. born. It is one of the many in-[divided between the pianist sad teresting variations, in musical the cellist. M:Sykora fascinated war Harature and one of the his hearers with the concerto of most brillant examples of the Volkmann, written in only one four variatio Composed in an movement. This is very, seldom
DEARTH OF COFFINS..
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Stockholm, February 7, of Russia. Twelve doctors and forty nurses have died in one hospital Typhus is raging in Petrograd and Moscow, and other big towns alone. Sufficient coffins are not procurable.
THE GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
PRESIDENT ELECTED.
DEATH OF M. XAVIER LEROUX.
Copenhagen, February 8. A message from Weimar says Dr. David, the Majority Socialist Ageneral agreement has been concluded between the Great Powers sident of the National Assembly almost unanimously.
and ex-Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has been elected on all the main points, including the big questions of the territorial claims of France and Italy. Mr. Wilson hopes that the convention be complete before he leaves on February 13. The framework of the League has been established, and the details and rules will be settled afterwards. The Bolsheviks' reply accepts the principle of Allied Intervention in the Murman and Archangel districts. The Ukraine and Omsk Governments
M Xaxier Leroux has died in Paris. He was a pupil of Mas- promise 10 respect foreign. loans and industries. The opinion in French circles is that this reply has senet, on whose style his own was modelled. cleared the atmosphere, but that there is a possibility that it is merely bluff
FRANCE AND FOOD SPECULATORS..
TO BE TRIED BY COURT-MARTIAL.
Paris, February 3, Beveral measures are to be taken by the French Government ainst food speculators who are to be tried by court-martial.
The Control of French railways will be restored to the railway Sompanies next February -Havas.
Faris, February 3.
-TRIBUTE TO FRENCH PRESS.
Speaking at a banquet held at Paris publican Journalists' Assocation, M. Poinca to the conduct of the French press during: confidence throughout the darkest hours.
JAPANESE DELEGATE TO LABOUR.
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of contemporary music, it written for 'cello or any other na style instrument in aneh form, but he compos- nevertheless it is the most beau blamed tiful concerto for cello eve
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