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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE ITALIAN CRISIS.
WHAT AMERICAN PARKES THINK.
New York, April 24. Most of the evening papers, commenting on the Italian crisis, incline to the belief that Italy's defection would not vitally affect the final Peace Treaty, and support President Wilson in his contentions as regard the Adriatic settlement, professing to regard typically Italian emphatic Signor Orlando's withdrawal as gesture."
The San, however, attacks President Wilson's idealism and holds him responsible for the present deadlock. It says the Fiume issue is not America's affair.
MORE ARGUMENT BY SIGNOR ORLANDO,
London, April 25.
Signor Orlando is of opinion that President Wilson, as an advocate of the right of self-determination, must himself recognise the right for Fiuma, the ancient city which proclaimed she was pro-Italian, "even before Italian ships were near." Moreover, if the right is denied on the grounds of the international character of the port of Fiume, then such international ports as Antwerp. Genoa and Rotterdam were refuting precedents. Furthermore, be claimed that among the various national reorganisations which the Peace Conference is establishing, none of these reorganised peoples would contain without their new frontiers a number of foreigners proportionately less than that which would be assigned to Italy. He asked why should Italian aspirations especially be suspected of Imperialistic cupidity, adding that despite the history of these negotiations, in which firmness was necessary, the Italian delegation always showed a great spirit of conciliation in the search for
general agreement.
AMERICAN SENATORS SUPPORT PRESIDENT WILSON.
Washington, April 25..
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Senator Johnson of California, and other Republican Senators, Endorse President Wilson's action and promise to fully support him "if he maintains his attitude and declines to carry the execution of secret bargains whereby peoples are to be disposed of without their knowledge and consent. They hope that President Wilson will refuse to recognise Japan's secret bargains.
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THE GENESIS OF THE TROUBLE.
Paris. April 25.
M. Pachitch, chief Serbian delegate, interviewed by Reuter's Agency, said that one of the Allies' greatest mistakes since the Armistice was allowing Italian troops to occupy Dalmatia. Most of the trouble with Italy was due to this.
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SIGNOR ORLANDO NOT KEPT IN IGNORANCE.
London, April 25,
(ESTABLISHED 1881).
TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE FLYING ERA
"BIG CIVIL AVIATION -PLANS.
at 36 PER ANNUM.
IRISH APPEAL TO THE KING.
COMBATANT OFFICERS FOR
HOME RULE.
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SALE OF HONGKONG
SHIPS
INDOCHINA BOATS".
CHANGE HANDS.
USE GE FANS AND KEEP COOL
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LEST WE FORGET.
Horrible, alan to say, he [the
Irish officers serving in the London, April 25,
Army during the war have taken. The ban on civil aviation will be removed on May 1, when the unprecedented step of send- Aying will be permitted along seven trunk serial routes radiating ing the Prime Minister for pre-kong recently there have been from London and extending to Scotland, Dublin, Belfast, Plymouth, sentation to the King & memorial some notable changes worthy of Bestol, France and Helland.
praying his Majesty's assistance being recorded. The Indo-China In a statement issued by the Air Ministry, details are given of in laging Ireland's claim to self- Steam Navigation Co.,Ltd. is the routes and facilities to be afforded by the Government to civil government before the Peace disposing of some of its old boats, enemy] has tried to delage us by pilots at various stations between the starting point and the destina-Conference. The memorial is having just sold the ss. Mausang foul and poisonous means, cutado tion. It is the intention not merely to establish direct communics signed, sa follows:
and the Suisang Messrs. Jar the pale even of modern warfare, tion between the metropolis and the places named above, but to
dine, Matheson and Co.'s policy which is very broad-minded in its Generals
has always been to sell old boats definitions of lawfulness, A Ger- provide for some larger towns on the lines of flight. The Ministry
and build new ones. Cofonala is responsible for the air-worthiness of all civil aeroplanes and
man agent has been caught in passenger-carrying craft. The pilots and aerodromes will be subject
our lines with bacteriological Majors to rigorous periodical inspection...
The s.s. Mausang, which has culture for spreading disease Captaine
been purchased by Messrs. H. M. among our horses. Hir orders H. Nemazee and Co., is a steel were
these virulent Some of the signatories have the Indo-China Navigation Com- or to scratch their nostrils with a screw steamer which was built for microbes with the animals" food, been demobilised, but many are pany by Messrs. Skinner and Co. wire tainted with these living still serving with the colours of London in 1893. Captain G.H. organisms of disease They claim to represent a very Alcock is still in charge of the level with the befouling of the large majority of the fighters of Irish birth and Irish blood in the vessel. She is of 2,160 gross wells, which I have seen with my on the syes. Mr. Phillip Gibbs, Allied Forces," and to be moved tonnage and has been by a sense of honour to speak for Hongkong-Borneo run for many Special War Correspondent of the
Daily Chronide years. She has, we understand,
and other the multitude upon whom silence been sold. for £33,000, or, at to-papers.Daily Chronicle." March is enforced. They are drawn from day's exchange, about $190,000. 30.1917. every Nationalist group with the exception of Sinn Fein, whose support was not desired.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
!" Chinese Commercial News" Service.)
REPORT OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S ASSASSINATION.
BELIEVED TO BE WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
Shanghai, May 5. The Chinese American Newspaper Agency announces that although it has enquired from all cablegram offices and wireless stations, there is no confirmation regarding the repart that President Wilson has been assassinated in Paris. Therefore the report must be without foundation...
THE CONFERENCE AND OTHER MATTERS.
Shanghai, May 5.
Other officers
...84.
The ss. Suisang is also a steel-' screw steamer (2,790 gross tons), The memorial begins by drawconstructed in 1895 for the Indo- ing attention to the vast number China Steam Navigation Co., by of Irishmen serving in the Allied Sir Raylton, Dizon and Co., of Forces. For his Majesty's Forces Middlesbro. Captain H. Simpson slone approximately 200,000 Irish is at the helm. She was sold volunteered in Ireland, and at through Mer Ray and least an equal number were fur-Falconer, ships brokers, we un nished in Great Britain, mainly derstand for over £33,000. by voluntary enlistment In the
army volunteered.
Dominions another great Irish The Fausang, which has been persistently reported as The Peace delegates, including Chu Kai-kim, met together on
A brief survey of recent Irish having been sold, is still in the the 3rd inst., but owing to the dispute over the local administration history follows, closing with the Indo-China fleet. So far Messrs. question there was no formal Conference. The delegates had only | passage of the Home Rule Act, Jardine, Matheson and Co. have an informal discussion, which ended at noon. There was no sitting "Thus was a great pact of inter-, diclined offers for her. She was. in the afternoon and also no meeting yesterday.
uational appeasement ratified. auilt in 1896 and is of a gross Therefore, and as the first-fruits tonnage of 2,251. of the new rights and obligations, Ireland rallied to the cause of
Chu Kai-kim telegraphs to Peking that the South insists upon restoring the old Parliament. Chu Sai-chong replies saying it is improper to stay away from the Conference and he should resume negotiations,
Li Shun is willing to proceed to Shanghai to try to bring about a compromise in the negotiations.
The Central Government has remitted money to Yunnan and Kwangsi for payment of troops, in accordance with their original promise.
The On Foot Club asks the provincial authorities to protect the new Parliament but most of the provinces reply that as they have politics, it is inconvenient for them to say anything.
to
It is on
DAY BY DAY.
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow -Local vessels running "to were considerably delayed fast. week owing to a heavy fog. Vessels were fog-bound outside Amey for some hours and the OS.K. Amakusa Maru bada. very difficult time in making the harbour and narrowly missed go- ing aground. The same condi- tions obtained at Foochow and Swatow.
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The Times Paris correspondent, writing yesterday, says the gist only recently advocated that military men should not interfere in freely. Victory has now been that a vessel has left this port sentencing him to six weeks' hard
of President Wilson's manifesto, if not indeed its full text, was communicated to Signor Orlando' by President Wilson ten days
ago.
ENTENTE POWERS AND HUNGARY.
APPEAL FOR ARMISTICE.
Berlin, April 25.
The Lokalanzeiger reports from Vienna that the Hungarian Soviet has requested the Entente Mission to send representatives to Budapest to negotiate concerning the arinistice, whereupon the Entente replied, indicated their readiness to conclude an armistice
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Wong Yap-tong has telegraphed Luk Tsing-cheong saying they must fight for sovereign rights in Shantung, adding that the nation will not agree to the Five Powers' control.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
STRAITS FOOD CONTROL.
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Singapore, May 6. The Chinese merchants in Penang bave. arged the Food if the Government abdicated, and a new Cabinet reprea eating Controller to take over Burma and Siam rice and adopt a sliding all the parties in Hungary were established and all the Soviet scale. decrees withdrawn.
The telegram adds that negotiations will begin upon these conditions.
AUSTRALIAN AERIAL FORCE.
ITS AIMS FORESHADOWED.
STRAITS SHIPPING COMMISSION.
Bingapore, May 6.
The Shipping Commission has already been appointed and starts to-day.
THE CORONET.
Melbourne, April 20.
It is anticipated that the Commonwealth Air Force will reach
a total of 1,400 officers and men in two years.
It is proposed that the instructors shall subsequently thorough- ly train all men desiring to become 'civilian flyers.
COAL COMMISSION REPORT.
PUBLICATION POSTPONED.
London, April 25.
Commission report will be presented on June 20th
20th as originally proposed,
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TO-NIGHT.
DAY BY DAY.
Hongkong's time-bali is not working at present, being under repair.
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A Chinese thief tampered with one of the watertight doors of the Empress of Russia and stole The 5.5. Haiching, of the the brass butterfly screw. This the British Empire, of which she Douglas Steamship Company, has theft might have led to serious had become at last an enfranchised ben chartered to Messrs. H. M. consequences when the ship was and self-respecting national unit."H. Nemazee and Co. for a period on the high seas, but fortunately Fired by the twofold enthusiasm of six months, and on Saturday it was discovered and the thief of a patriotism that had reached she made her trip to Basra with a arrested. its goal and of a moral fervour full cargo of sugar, manufactured offence was pointed out to the The gravity of his inspired by belief in the Allied by the Taikoo Sugar Kafining thief, this morning, and M. cause, Ireland gave her sons Company. This is the first time Lindsell impressed it on him by "But, the memorial con- for the Persian Gulf with a full labour and 10 strokes of the birch tindes, "we Irishmen upon our cargo. The Haiching, before she return home, find cause for deep was chartered by Messrs. dissatisfaction." The permanent Nemazee and Co., was converted amputation of a portion of a by Messrs. Douglas Lapraik and province containing a population Co., to burn oil fuel. This had which is an essential factor in been done at the special Ireland's composite nationality request of the charterers, is threatened. The memorial oil is cheap in the Persian Gulf, proceeds:
principally by reason of the fact "If the dissentient minority be that the Anglo-Persisa Oil Com temporarily estranged from the pany is operating there. majority, that is largely the result of an external intrigue which has sought to foster and inflame that activity. estrangement in order to fashion are very busy at present with days to come, as he is now in the for itself a weapon against the shipbuilding. Three big ships Government Civil Hospital, where kindred causes of liberty for are being built for the doctors and nurses are attend- Ireland and democratic progress the Admiralty, namely, the ing to his injuries.
Great
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Sentry duty is so monotonous that is hardly surprising to learn that an Indian posted at Govern- ment House got drowsy, fell on his bayonet and cut his chin severely. This occurred yesterday at 2 am. Whether the man was dosing off a bit or fainted, as he submits, is not material. At any rate, there won't be any more In the docke there is great patrol duty for him at Govern-.
The Kowloon Docksment House at least for some
War
Bomber
"Brains for Sale!" cried a Chinese. They were not his own brains but those of a bull, though the difference to be gauged between them could not be great,
in
Britain "In our War Sceptre, opinion, Ireland as a nation and another. has been robbed of ber treaty rights. and the Irish. The Blue Funnel sa. Laertes people as a race reduced to the is gradually reaching completion position of halots by the with- at the Taikoo Docks. The British holding of that which, in virtue Knight, a tanker belonging to the of their citizenship, they had won British Tanker Company of by constitutional action, Of London, is undergoing repairs had been trying to impress an those for whom we speak, the at the Kowloon Docks. survivors feel that their reliance
on the Home Rule compact was ill-founded, and that their com- rades who have given their lives in that reliance have made a sacrifice fruitless up to the
as he was found by the Police who
him the fact that it was not lawful for him to hawk. within market limits.
** Agres business is done in brains commented Inspector Roylance, to the Magistrate. Quite so, and
DON'T FORGET.
"We pray your Majesty that the the rogues who have made other present of benefit for the Father-long agony of Ireland may thus people, their dupes will be the land that they loved."
be at length assuaged, and first to agree with him. In the After an allusion to the Binn that her future destiny may present case, the hawker wi Fein movement—“a violent be moulded by the application fined $25 by the Magistrate. emotional upheaval, with politic of those great principles "we," as Ireland's al reactions, that could have been which foretold with mathematical devoted sons and humble repre- precision"-the document closes sentatives, and as a portion of with the submission to the King your Majesty's armed forces, that "the issue between the have sided in enthroning upon Kingdom of Ireland and the the judgment seat of humen dance would be There has just been published Kingdom of Great Britain civilisation.” astonished at the graceful in perophlet form a summary offshould not, either in expediency. execution of the different Negro the missionary work (educational or natural justice, be finally reels. Besides this, Champion stc.) of the Church of England in determined by Ministers who Charlie," depicting Charlie Chap: Hongkong and South China, represent
Mr. E Vasaalo, conductor of Quite a treat is billed at the the Band of the 18th Infantty Coronet to-day, when Smith and leaves with the members of the Bella Jackson, negro comedians band for Tientsin on Friday. and dancers, are to take the
boards. Those who have not seen
negroes
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Teatherstone is the editor, and
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Among notable signatories are Major-General Hickie who com- manded the famous 16th Irish Division; Brigadier-General Hammond, late commanding the
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