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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE ARMISTICE CONDITIONS.
STERN MEASURES AGAINST GERMANY ADVOCATED.
Paris, February 12,
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The
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1919.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
GERMANY'S FINANCES.
HOW VAST SUMS WERE SQUANDERED.
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KEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL ALLENBY IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
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London, February 13, Reuter's correspondent at Constantinople, writing on the 7th inst., says General Allenby has arrived and was accorded a most notable reception. Crowds assembled in the streets and cheered him en route to tha Embassy.
TELEGRAMS.
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(Reiter's Service to the “Thingraph.“)
THE SILVER MARKET,
Basle, February 17 A message from Weimar says Herr Schiffer," Minister
Landon, For, 1k After the statement by M. Klotz, French Minister of Finance.
Finance, explaining the situation in the Assembly, on Monday, Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss reported regarding, the of
Company's silver report says the Messrs. Samuel, Montagn and 161 milliards naval conditions of the Armistice that it was decided that a special estimated the outstanding credits
Minister considered the present chaos Committee of eight members should be entrusted to report on the marks.
A curious feature of the reception was the presence of a Turkish Price fell on the 11th inst, to 477ad. in sympathy with reduced whole question of the Armistice terms and the possibility of due to the fact that, on the assumption that the war would be short,
French vast sums were squandered. Hindenburg's programme was likewise military band in the Galata quarter to welcome the victor of Pales-rates of freight and insurance using economic measures to enforce their execution.
from America. circles hope that this sub-Council of eight, working rapidly, will economically deplorable. Herr Schiffer pointed out that only the tine and Syria.
Shangbai ex- be able to report agreement to the War Council.
interest on War Loans was covered by taxation; therefore fresh
change has fallen to 4s. 9d. to the tael. taxation would be necessary. Sales of war stores were expected to
1. nia, Feb. 14. realise only thres milliards, as they had been largely pillaged.
The silver marke: is steady.
- dn, Feb 15. The silver market is quiet.
The proposal is finding favour to give the Germans a short period of time in which to comply with all the terms of the previous Armistice which are unfulfilled, and, in case the Germans fail to carry out their promises, to bring into force stern economic measures and tighten up considerably the military terms.
On President Wilson's suggestion a formal request has been sent the German authorities that they inform the Allies of the stocks of war material they have in their possession.
According to France's practical demand for the creation of an international body large enough to protect against possible German aggression, an agreement has been passed for an International Army and Flost by the League of Nations Committee.-Haras.
ARMED U-BOATS TO BE BROKEN UP.
London, February 16.
It is reported from Copenhagen that the Eatente Nüval Commission has arrived at Kiel and announced that, owing to the delays in disarming certain submarines, those nor disarmed before the 17th inst. will be broken up.
GERMAN APPEAL REFUSED.
London. February 17.
AN INCIDENT IN GERMANY.
BELGIANS
v. SPARTAPISTS,
Copenhagen, February 17.
A message from Duesburg, dated yesterday, says in view of Spartacist activities, Belgian troops arrived last night. When they reached the Town Hall, there simultaneously arrived three Spartacist leaders. The Belgians held up the motor car and the Spartacists, who tried to escape, hurled at them a hand grenade which did not explode. The Spartacists were severely wounded. The Belgians occupied the Town Hall to proect the Administration.
BRITISH OCCUPY NEW POINTS.
London, February 16.
It is reported from Constantinople that the British hare A telegram from Berlin says Marshal Foch has declined to l postpone the German appeal to extend for twenty-four hours the occupied Nikomedia, Angora and Konies. time for the answer to the amended Armistice.
TO PREVENT MORE FRIGHTFULNESS.
Paris, February 10 (delayed).
M. Clemenceau states, in an important.interview with the Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of America, that recent
BOLSHEVIKS DESERT WINDAU.
London, February 11 The Hamburger Fremdenblatt states that the Bolsheviks have
disclosures have shown that the purpose of the enemy was not deserted Windau owing to bombardment by British warships. merely military domination but the extermination of France industrially and commercially. The enemy stole machinery. destroyed the Lens coal mines and devastated wantonly French territory, even when retreating.
M. Clemenceau points out that there are yet reasons for frightfulness and the new Armisties conditions must annihilate all danger.
PROLONGATION AGREED TO.
Treves, Feburary 16. The agreement for the prolonging of the Armistice was singed at 6.30 this evening in Marshal Foch's saloon carriage.
HOME FOOD CONTROL.
MORE AND CHEAPER TEA.
London, February 13.
In the House of Commons, the Food Controller, Mr. Roberts, announced that as about five months' home supply of tea was at present bonded and supplies were now arriving regularly, he had decided to suspend the orders governing distribution and price. He was consulting the trade regarding the date of suspension and anticipated that arrangements with the trade would enable a very considerable quantity of good tea to be retailed below the present fixed price of 28. 8d. per pound. Effective steps will be taken to prevent whole- sale dealers cornering stocks.
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISTS.
REFUSED A PASSAGE TO EUROPE.
London, February 17. Reuter's correspondent to Capetown' says the crew of the Durham Castle refused to sail with a Nationalist deputation for Europe headed by General Hertzog and the liner sailed without them.
SIR WILFRID LAURIER,
STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS.
London, February 17. - Reuter's correspondent at Ottawa says Sir Wilfrid Laurier has been stricken with paralysis. His condition is critical.
BELGIUM'S ASPIRATIONS.
GUARDING AGAINST FUTURE INFRINGEMENTS.
Paris, February, 12. The aspirations of Belgium have been submitted to a Council of ten members, Belgium, like France, cannot forget that the possession of land frontiers has made peculiarly vulnerable possible future infringements of international covenants. She desires a radical revision of the international situation created in 1831.-Huvas.
ANTI-BOLSHEVIK ARMY.
MAKING BPLENDID PROGRESS.
Odessa, February 11.
THE ALLIES AND RUSSIA.
Paris, February 5 (delayed).
M. Pichon, speaking on the question of the attitude of the Powers towards the project of the conference at -Prinkipo Island, which is theatening to become abortive, stated that the object of the Prinkipo proposal was to cause the opposing parties in Russia to bring about conciliation and agreement. A meeting between re- presentatives of the Soviets alone and those of the Allies will not take place if the other Russian parties fail to comply with the invitation. -Hares.
FUNCTIONS OF ECONOMIC COUNCIL.
Paris, February 5 (delayed).
GENERAL DESPEREY ARRIVES.
London, February 13. Reuter's correspondent at Constantinople, writing on the 8th inst.. says:--General Desperey, the Allied Generalissmo in the Balkans, has been transferred to Headquarters here. He formally entered the city to-day and was enthusiastically received by the non-Turkish elements. General Allenby has left for Palestine.
PROOF THAT GERMANY WAS MILITARILY BEATEN,
A HINDENBURG, TELEGRAM RECALLED.
Amsterdam, February 13. In a speech at Heidelberg, Hen Fehrenbach, ex-President of the Reichstag, stated that at a meeting of members of the new and
old Government at the Chancellor's Palace on November 10, at which the original Armistice terms were accepted, a telegram from Marshal Hindenburg was read saying that unless all the conditions were immediately accepted he would be compelled to capitulate with the entire Army.
AN INDIAN JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT.
London, February 13. His Majesty the King has approved the appointment of Profulla Ranjan Das as Puisne Judge of the Patna High Court in succession to Sir All Iman.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
FRENCH AND JAPANESE AMENDMENTS.
Paris, February 12.
LOGIC IN COURT.
WIVES, BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
"I am not satisfied," bluntly said a Chinese defendant to Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, with this constable's evidence". Retort, which Shakespeare has divided into three sections, came swiftly from the Bench: "It is not a question whether you are satisfied; it is whether I am satisfied. The charge against this man was that he in company with an accomplice called round yesterday at 11.30 am. at a goldsmith's shop in 210, Queen's Road Central.
Let us call these two, Alfa and
The plenary sitting of the Peace Conference to discuss the Beta. Alfa asked the manager of League of Nations has been postponed because, after the original the shop to show him the rings be had for sale. Draft was completed, various members, chiefly French and Japanese. One by one he rejected them, suggested a large number of amendments.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
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INDIGNATION OVER COMMANDEERING OF HOME-GOING LINERS.
Singapore, February 17.
until eventually Alpha thought that one of these rings, valued as $3, which be tried on his finger, would please his girl.. He asked the manager to show him some more rings and when the man- ager's back was turned to get them from the counter, Alpha disappeared.
Just then the manager saw Beta's hand moving in his cont pocket, and, being afraid that Beta
There is great indignation in Malaya over the arbitrary com-fas well might vanish into thin mandeering of the next two P. & O. steamers in order to repatriate air, he secured Beta, and in the The Supreme Economic Council's functions will be to cothe German families in Chine, thus depriving British women and letter's pockets were found two ordinate relations in the Allies economic sphere and abeof the children of passages which the Medical Conference pressed on the bangles. A hue and 's cry were...!
raised and Beta was brought up- inter-Allied machinery for dealing with commercial and industrial Government as being urgently necessary.
before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this questions. It may become a permanent and most conspicuous
morning but minus àlpha. feature of the League of Nations-Harus
THE CHINESE PEACE CONFERENCE.
Shanghai, February 17.
Chu Chi-chien, the chief Northern delegate, has arrived and wil confer with Tang Shao-yi-concerning the opening of the Conference. A definite date has not been set. Northern military activities in Shensi are still a bone of contention.
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AND ANGLO-AMERICAN CONCESSIONS.
LAND GIVEN OVER FOR AGRICULTURE.
Washington, February 17. It is officially reported that the Mexican Government has cancelled some of the British and American concessions in Mexico, and has handed over the land to the people for agriculture. The other concessions are being revised.
OBITUARY.
SIR MARK SYKES.
London, February 17.
Lt. Col. Sir Mark Sykes has died of pneumonic influenza at Paris, where he was attending the Peace Conference as an expert
adviser on Near Eastern affairs.
FORTHCOMING INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
London, February 17, The Industrial Conference, mentioned on the 16th, inst., will be
held on the 27th.
NAVAL LOSSES IN THE WAR.
BRITAIN HEADS THE LIST,
The anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army is making fine strides in
Paris, February 17. the Caucasus. It is advancing on both banks of the Terek towards The French rallosses during the, war are four battleships, Vladikavkaz and has captured Grozny, which was strongly defend-namely, the Bouvet, Buffren, Gaulois and Danton; four ed, as well as 800 prisoners and twenty guns........
armoured cruisers, one cruiser, four destroyers; eight torpedo bosta: Further north-asst after routing the Bolshevik mai forces in 14 submarines; 62 armed trawlers fre
auxiliary Cornisers and the North Ca nessus, the volunteers have pushed within twenty five
rogate of 110,000 to at al-Kuber kad are now gaining contact at Daghestan with
"Kolenkorf
twelve smaller wateraft, saprot
Great Britafrsfonte
76,000 tons ma
SHANGHAI GERMAN PROPERTY.
Shanghai, February 17.
This is what Beta told the Be ch: "The manager tried to aLLOUSE
Eight lakhs of tasks worth of German property in the French me because the other man TEN Concession is to be auctioned.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(Wah 1sz Yat Po Service.
ALL OVER ONE【CENT.
PICKPOCKET CHARGED...
away with the ring. I wanted my ring for which I paid $3,55, but I did not get it. The matingiz took the bangler out of the sout ter and said I stole them." -Buch” moonshine, both manager and his salesman said, they were never treated to.
Thus spake the magistrate': 越 Have you any witnesses
Peking, Feb. 17. A cent, a cent, a birthright for who
can-
speak to your
wife and
witness. It is my brother,"
now. It
Over 200 Cantonese met in thes cent! Quite an entertainment character ?"—"My Kwongtung Club, Lisng Shih-was provided this morning in sister Your wife and Bis- ya made an appeal for them to Mr. B. E. Lindsell's Court when ter are not good witnesses for find work for disbanded soldiers the charge against a Chinese was character." I have another in Canton after the conclusion that "be did pick the pocket of a "Yes, the case is remanded for of internal peace, in order to Chinese to the extent of one cent for the production of the brother.” minimise robberies.
fia Des Voeur Road." The victim
True, wives and sisters are, was an employee of the Hong-not good witnesses for char- Shanghai, Feb. 17. Chu. Kai-kim arrived at mid-kong University. Mr. Lindsell: acter. But how are brothers goo nightandia staying in the Deutche In what pocket did you witnesses for such purpos Asiatic Bank building. He will carry the money?"-Complain- we understand meet Tang Shao-yee this after-ant: "In my jacket pocket."-after the logic of Kant. noon in Chu Yuen Garden "to" And you still carry your discuss preliminary matters, the money in your outside jacket opening date to be fixed after the pocket after you have been pick- interview.
pocketed yesterday?"-"Yes,"
was asked to count the cash in The Military Department and-"Don't you think you are his pocket. This was all the the General Staff have decided stupid?"What stupidness is wealth that the pocket treasured not to allow Tuan Chi-jai tolit to carry money in the out---35 cents in silver, que czat in resiga or to abolish the European side jacket pocket?"Why, copper and 4 cash. Only one cent was missing. Mr. Lindsell War. Participation Barsau until you invite thieves by doing so. European peace is signed. The story of the thieving, as (to the watchman): "What part A cable from Japan says that related by a district watchman, did you seize?" Tho America has agreed to joint was as follows: Near Sincere's watchman "I seized him control of the Siberian Railway he spotted the thief who was by the collar." "The defendant and the East Manchurian Railway trying to pick the pockets of the said the watchman picked the by the Allies, and that Britain, people who crowded near the show cent up from the
ground sad France, Italy and China, are rewindows. The man did not sccused him. "If I wanted to quested to send deputies to succeed, but nevertheless the pick his pocket wid he Hadiy Lock to open formal watchman kept watching him and could have taken more.
near the Sun Co. he saw Lindself. You might not have The Osbinet has cabled Luk the pick-pocket put his hand had the chance."
e-approach-the into the complainant's pocket, promised to bring
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