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GERMANY AND RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKS SIGN TREATY.
THOUSAND MILITARY INSTRUCTORS FOR RUSSIA.
Russia to Ignore the Entente.
London, April 21.
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Warsaw. telegraphing on the 17th instant, says a formal Treaty was signed last week between Germany and the Russian Bolshevis: Government, under which the Germans are to re-organise the Russian Railways and send a thousand military instructors to the Russian Army.
Russia undertakes to send Germany agreed provisions yearly. Russia undertakes not to enter into negotiations with the Entente.
Russia will militarily assist Germany in case of need during the next 20 years.
PEACE IN THE MAKING.
MARSHAL FOCH'S ADDRESS TO CONFERENCE
Paris, April 26.
A plenary session of the Peace Conference will be held on Monday when the approval of the Conference will be sough; for the League of Nations Covenant in the amended form and for the report on the Commission of the responsibility for the war.
PROBLEM OF THE ADRIATIC
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT WILSON.
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ALLIED UNITED FRONT AGAINST GERMANY.
NO TRUCULENCE ALLOWED.
Paris, April 22.
New York, April 23. (ciz Paris, April 21.) President Wilson, this afternoon, in the first statement dealing The Haras Agency states that the German Government has directly with a controverted question before the Pesca Confered accepted all the Allies' conditions and will send to Versailles a delega- issued an official statement dealing with the Adriatic problem. Intion headed by Count Broikdorf Rantzau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, issuing the statement the President let it be known what he desired the total number of the German delegation being abou: 75. once again to call attention to, the fact that there were certain well- defined principles which have been accepted by the peoples of the The United States simply world as the basis for a lasting peace. recalled this in order that there should be no deviation from these principles. The statement as issued was as follows:—
STATEMENT IN RE ADRIATIC,
In view of the capital importance of the questions affected, and in order to throw all possible light upon what is involved in their settlement, I hope that the following statement will contribute to the final formation of opinion and to a satisfactory solution.
The French Press state that whatever differences of opinion there may be among the Allies, they will delegate them to a back place, showing a united front against German bluff and trickery. America, France, and Great Britain are absolutely at one in their attitude towards the Germans' efforts to protract a discussion. controvery is possible between Versailles and Berlin at Versailles. The Treaty mast be published, communicated, imposed and signed. Haras.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
THE SINGAPORE RELIEF SHIP.
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DISGRACEFUL CONDITIONS REPORTED,
Singapore, April 27. Reports regarding the Marama are unsatisfactory. She put in Colombo for more stewards and fresh water.
Letters describe the conditions as disgraceful, with possibly serious results.
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When Italy entered the war she entered upon the basis of a definite, private understanding with Great Britain and France, now known as the Pact of London. Since that time the whole face of circumstances has been altered. Many other Powers, great and small, have entered the straggle with no knowledge of that private understanding. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, then the enemy of Europe, and at whose expense the Pact of London was to be kept in
Not only At a meeting of the French Cabinet yesterday. Marshal Foch the event of victory, has gone to pieces and no longer exists. spoke for an hour and twenty minutes on the question of the occupa-that. The several parts of that Empire, it is now agreed by Italy and all her associates, are to be erected into independent States and tion of the Rhine.
associated in a League of Nations, not with those who were recently our enemies, but with Italy herself and the Powers that stood with Italy in the great war for liberty. We are to establish their liberty as well as our own. They are to be among the smaller States whose interests are henceforth to be as scrupulously safeguarded as the interests of the most powerful States.
was ended, moreover, by proposing to Germany an The war Jarmistice and peace which should be founded on certain clearly.
Shanghai, April 29, defined principles and which should set up a new order of right and
Peking learns that Italy has withdrawn from the Peace Con- justice. Upon those principles the peace with Germany has been ference as a result of President Wilson's statement refusing Fiume conceived, not only, but formulated. Upon those principles it will to Italy. be executed. We cannot ask the great body of Powers to propose and effect peace with Austria and establish a new basis of indepen. dence and right in the States which originally constituted the Austro- Hangiriau Fupire and the States of the Balkan group on principles -French circles feel that Signor Orlando, the Premier of Italy, of another kind. We must apply the same principles to the sattle- has a chance of proving that he is a great statesman if he leads the meat of Europe in those quarters that we have applied in the pace introduced to make flogging a compulsory part of all. judicial Italian people to tarr- out the policy of International solidarity on with Germany. It was upon the explicit avowal of those principles the basis that that the Council of Four will not agree to Fiume being that the initiative for peace was taken. It is upon them that the
whole structure of peace must rest. wholly under Italian sovereignty.
Probably the Japanese amendment asking for the equality of A nations in the League and the French amendment regarding the Military side of the League of Nations will figure on the agenda of the meeting Haras,
THE FUTURE OF FLIME.
ITS SOVEREIGNITY UNDECIDED.
Paris, April 26.
The French papers declare that the alliance still exists between France, America and Great Britain and that they will not be divided by a warning against illusions of panic.-Haras..
TRADE EXHIBITION IN PARIS.
Paris, April 26.
Speaking yesterday at the Hotel de Ville inaugurating the Foire de Paris, the President of the Municipal Council mentioned the presence of 3.500 exhibitors, despite economic restrictions still prevailing. Hatus.
SUPPRESSION OF OPLIM TRADE.
CLAUSE IN PEACE TREATY,
ITALY WITHDRAWS FROM PEACE CONFERENCE.
FLOGGING FOR ROBBERS..
Singapore, April 26. Owing to the continuance of armed gang robberies, a Bill is being
sentences for this crime.
SINGAPORE YOLUNTEER COMMANDANT RESIGNS.
Singapore, April 26. Singapore Volunteer Corps and eight years as Comandant, is resigning Colonel Derrick, who has had thirty-one years' service in the
FOUNDATION STONE LAID AT CANTON.
DEATH OF MR. G. A. DUTTON.
FORMER RESIDENT OF HONGKONG.
To-Day's Exchange.
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LEST WE FORGET.
On October 9 last, 60 Russian 250 men were brought as prisoners non-commissioned officers and of war to Mannion Five days
later a German officer told them they were to be employed an mili- tary works in Northern France, and asked the non-commissioned officers if they consented to go. When they protested be called a detachment of German soldiers and ordered them to best. the, Russian non-commissioned of ficers with the butt ends of thei riflos. The German soldiers did so for an hour and a half, until all 60 men had become an almost compact mass of bloody flesh. When the massacre had been completed, the German officer mounted this heap of corpses and walked about on it for some time.-Statement by M. Kritisod, member of the Russian Senate and President of the Extraordinary Canumission of Inquiry. Published Daily Chronicle," March 5,
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1917.
DAY BY DAY.
The s.s. Hejaz left Shanghai for this Port on the 26th instant, a.m., with the homeward English Mails, and is due here on the 30th. instant, morning.
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"The House of Hate,” new episodes of which where screened on Saturday at the Victoria Theatre, has been drawing packed houses. Pearl White is a film favourite and it is interesting to record that every picture depict- ing her requires no bleating to attract the public.
If these principles are to be adhered to, Fiume must see as the outlet and inlet of the commerce, not of Italy, but of the laid to the north and north-east of that port: Hungary, Bobemia, Boumania, and the States of the new Jugo-Slavic group. To assign Fiume to Italy would be to create the feeling that we had deliberately put the port upon which all these countries chiefly depend for their access to the Mediterranean in the hands of a Power of which it did not on 30th April. He is an original member of the Corps. form an integral part and whose sovereignty, if set up there, must inevitably seem foreign, not domestic, or identified with the commer cial and industrial life of the regions which the port must serve. It NEW CHINESE CHURCH. is for that reason, no doubt. that Fiume was not included in the Fact of London, but there definitely assigned to the Croatians.
And the reason why the line of the Pact of London swept about many of the islands of the eastern coast of the Adriatic around the portion of the Dalmatian coast which lies most open to the sea was not only that here and there on those islands and here and there on
Aladdin and his Wonderful that coast there are bodies of people of Italian blood and connections,
Lamp. the pantomime which but also. and no doubt chiefly, because it was felt that it was The corner-stone for the new
Mrs. Gurner has promoted and
Paris, April 26.
necessary for Italy to have a foothold amidst the channels, of the building of the Chinese Holy
which Mrs. Neighbour and Mrs. Chürch at Canton
Beatley produced at the Royal At a meeting of four foreign Ministers and the first Japanese eastern Adriatic in order that she might make her own coasts safe Catholic
We regret (says the NC. Daily Naval Theatre, drew a packed delegate it has been decided to suppress the opium trade, meaning against the naval aggression of Austria-Hungary. But Austria was laid last Sunday by the the inclusion in the Feace Treaty of a clause accepting the Interna-Hungary no longer exists. It is proposed that the fortifications which Bishop of Victoria (Hongkong)eus) to announce the death of house on Saturday afternoon. tional Convention drawn up in 1912 for opium and derivatives, to be the Austrian Government constructed there shall be razed and the Rt. Rev. Gerald H. Lander, Mr. George Alan Dutton, which Friday's performance netted, wa confined to medical purposes, for preventing smuggling. It requires permanently destroyed. It is part also of the new plan of European D. D., who also officiated at a has taken place in London, follow- are told, $1,000 and Saturday's ing on influenza and pneumonia.matinee must have brought in a the Powers possessing leased territories ip China to enforce the order which centres in the League of Nations that the new States confirmation service.
erected there shall accept a limitation of armaments which puts A Confirmation service took Mr. Dutton was connected with good sum, so with two more për- measures recommended.- Harai -
aggressions out of the question. There can be no fear of the unfair place yesterday, April 27, in the Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mat-formances-one to-night and the treatment of groups of "Italian people there because adequate Chinese Holy Catholic Church tews for a short time in Shang- other on Wednesday afternoon-- a decent sum would be guarantees will be given, under international sanction, of the equal (Chung Hua Shen Kung Hui) in hai and Tairen and afterwards in quite and equitable treatment of all racial or national minorities. Fook On Street when twenty-Hongkong. During the first two secured for the cause, namely, Ministering Children's In brief. every question associated with this settlement wears a seven candidates were admitted years of the war he served in the the
Defence Force in Hongkong. the new aspect a new aspect given it by the very victory for right for to
Holy
League. Communion. which Italy has made the supremas sacrifice of blood and treasure. A large number of
Deep sympathy will be extend- members
ed to Mrs. Dutton, who was well-
A metal store at No. 10. Italy, along with the four other great Powers, has become one of the and visiting clergymen
of the known to many in Shanghai 25 Mallory Street, Wanchai, was in spite chief trustees of the new order which she has played so honourable present
Nurse Callaghan of the Railway broken into on two occasions and hot weather, including the a part in establishing.
And on the north and north-east her natural frontiers are com- Bishop of Victoria who delivered Hospital She left Shanghai a large quantity of iron bolts pletely restored, along the whole sweep of the Alps from north-west the sermon.
when war broke out, travelling on stolen. The latest theft took place The subject was to south-east to the very end of the Istrian Peninsula, including all This is the victory that over-
a Russian steamer and was held yesterday morning. The thieves, the great watershed within which Trieste and Fols lie and all the cometh the world, even our faith. up in Spain for a short time, but four in number, scaled the high fair regions whose face nature has turned towards the great Other ministers and officere pre. eventually returned to the Farwall at the place, and got access peninsula upon which the historic life of the Latin people has been sent were the Rev. Mok Sau East, marrying Mr. Dutton in to the metal by boring &
Hongkong. worked out through centuries of famous story ever since Rome was Tseng, the Rev. W. Rogers, the first set upon her Seven Hills. Her ancient unity is restored. Her Rev. King Lee, Rev. Wong Tang lines are extinct to the great walls which are her natural defence. Ng and Captain Bundle, Military It is within her choice to be surrounded by friends: to exhibit to the Chaplain of Hongkong. newly-liberated peoples across the Adriatic that noblest quality of greatness, magnanimity, friendly generosity, the preference of justice over interest.
THE MINES IN THE SAAR VALLEY.
BENEFITS CONFERRED ON FRANCE.
Paris, April 22. The Peace Treaty provides the ownership of mines in the Saar Valley by France, involving the ownership of all accessories, plant, equipment, buildings and schools. The Saar basin will form part of the French Customs Union.-Haves.
FRANCE AND SYRIA.
Paris, April 20. Emir Feisal has postponed his departure at the request of the French Government, to pursue negotiations regarding Syria.--Horas.
FRANCE'S NOTE CIRCULATION.
Paris, April 20. M. Klotz the Minister of Finance, has brought in a Bill in the Chamber of Deputies, to ratify the agreement increasing the note
circulation from 36 to 37 milliards of francs-Horns.
JAPANESE NAVAL SQUADRON AT MARSEILLES.
BIG FEAST ARRANGED.
Paris, April 20.
A Naval Japanese Squadron, comprising the Ideumo, Hinoki, Momo, Yanagi and Kashi is due at Marseilles on April 27th. big feast has been arranged.—Havas.
PRESIDENT WILSON CONFERS WITH FRENCH PREMIER.
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Paris, April 20. President Wilson yesterday afternoon had a long interview at the French War Office with M. Clemenceau, who afterwards saw Marshal Foch.-Havas,
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hole through the door. As they were coming on to the Praza with their plunder, contained in |sacks which were slung across The news of Mr. Dutton's death their shoulders, they were mit After the service, the congrega- tion, together with the choir, the will come as a great surprise in by a constable. One of them Clergy, the Churchwardens and Hongkong, for an enquiry at threw his sack into the sea whils The nations associated with her, the nations that know nothing other officials followed the Bishop Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and the others took to their hals, of the Pact of London or of other special understanding that lies at of Victoria, to the new site at Matthews' offices we learn that pursued by the constable.. On?
WKS arrested รา the beginning of this great struggle, and who have made their Dang Wang Street where the no intimation of his demise had th supreme sacrifice also in the interest, not of national advantage or stone for a new church building been received there. Mr. Dutton the information ha KAYS defence, of the settled peace of the world, now unite with her other was exposed to view ready to be was with the firm for a period to the Police led to the arrest
lof five years, most of which was of another man. associates in urging her to assume a leadership which cannot be laid, mistaken in the new order of Europe. America is Italy's friend. The ceremony for the laying spent in Hongkong, and he left sentenced to-day at the Magis- Her people are drawn, millions strong, from Italy's own fair of the stone was opened with the for Home in March, 1916, in a tracy to three months hard countrysides. She is linked in blood as well as in affection with singing of a Psalm and prayer, rather poor state of health. Mr. labour. the Italian peoples. Such ties can never be broken. And America after which the stone was laid by D.K. Blair heard from him some was privileged, by the generous commission of her associates in the Bishop. The Bishop, in the little time ago, and he then seem- the war, to initiate the peace we are about to consummate to course of his speech, mentioned ed to to be in fairly good health, shortly initiate it upon terms she had herself formulated, and in which I that the cost of the building of We understand that was her spokesman. The compulsion is upon her square every this Church will be about $30,000 after reaching Home, Mr. Dutton decision she takes a part in with those principles. She can do but, thanks to various subscribers was appointed Secretary to the nothing else. She trusts Italy, and in her trust believes that Italy the amount has been pledged Finance Committee of the Minis- will ask nothing of her that cannot be made unmistakably consistent and that the Church itself try of Munitions, and resided at with those sacred obligations. Interests are not now in question, will accommodate at least 700 East Sheen, near Richmond. He
"&BOTL of the but the rights of peoples, of States new and old, liberated peoples persons. He also mentioned that, w
late and peoples whose rulers have never accounted them worthy of owing to his health, he is obliged Mayor of Chester, and leaves right; above all, the right of the world to peace and to such settle to go away for a time, but he wife and one child. Mr. Dutton ment of interests as shall make peace secure.
hopes that on his return, which was greatly liked by all who knew These, and these only, are the principles for which America will be probably next autumn; him, and the news of his death bas fought. These, and these only, are the principles upon which the Church will be finished. will be received with intense re- she can consent to make peace. Only upon these principles, she
The ceremony concluded with gret by his many friends, who hopes and believes, will the people of Italy ask her to make peace. the photographing of all those will join insincere sympathy with
(Signed) WOODROW WILSON who were present. Canton Times the widow in her loss.
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TO-DAY.
Theatre Royal..
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Phillips Co. present "The Case of Lady Camber"-9.15 p.m. Victoria Theatre 915p.m Coronet Theatre 5.15 and 9.15
TO-MORROW.
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Victoris Theatre 9.15 pm Coronet Theatre-5.15 and 2.15
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