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(ESTABLISHED 1881).
FRIDAY, MAY 23. 1919.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS/
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
GERMAN ANGER OVER PEACE TERMS.
GROWD URGED TO THRASH ENTENTË REPRESENTATIVES.
Berne. Mar 14.
A huge demonstration, organised by the Majority Socialists at
platforms
the Koenigsplatz last evening. listened to addresses from four Deputy Fischer, speaking from the stops of the Reichstag. denounced the peace terms as more brutal and more shameful than the Romans imposed on Carthage.
Subsequently, the crowd marched through Brandenburger and Thor to the Wilhelmstrasse. In front of the Hotel, Adiea, where the Entente Missions are staying, two men härangued them, one inciting them to fetch out the Entente representatives and to thrash them. The police and troops prevented an attack on the hotel.
The crowd proceeded to the Imperial Chancellery where Herr He said it was Scheidemann addressed them from the wil in s impossible to sign the Treaty. "There is not a man in the present Government so dishonourable as to promise what he knows he is unable to perform. We need bread and raw materials and ani opportunity to work in order to fulfil our obligations"
*** DOWN WITH ENGLAND!“
Berlins, May 13, Another procession was formed late in the evening and closed with a meeting of the Hansa League singing." Wacht Rhein Deuts chland Ueber Alles." The crowd went to the Adlon Hotel, wher they shouted Down with a peace of violence!" "Down with Clemenceau!" "Down with Englanl: They called on Herr Scheidemann to speak. When he mentioned President Wilson's fourteen points, there were shouts of Down with Wilson!" Herr Scheidemann warned the procession againstrash arts and urged the crowd to unitedly back up the Government.
There were also forty mass meetings organised by Independ. ents in Berlin and the suburbs yesterday." The speakers- prote-ted against the Entente peace, though they declared that it must be signed, but hoped that the international proletariat would semure a speedy revision.
AFGHAN AFFAIRS.
Simia. May 14 (delayed!.. We made a further advance in the Khyber ares and occupied the important frontier cantonment of Dakka on the 13th instant. We have now captured a total of ten güns. The moral of the Afghan troops is stated to be bed. From Chaman the news is normal, bat rumours of activity by the Kandahar garrison are current. Other reports from the frontier show that the Wozirs and Mahsuds are quiet and nothing untoward has occurred at Khost Kurram. The evident signs of hesitation and indecision in the Afghan Army is a most satisfactory feature. By pushing forward a comparatively small body of troops into our territory and leaving them unsupported. Amanulla is guilty, in half measure, of unprovoked violation of our frontier. His has been answered by effective and immediate action. We freed our loyal Shinwari villages from hostile incursions and hold Dakka, which the enemy intended to use as an advanced base, for future operations. This will doubtless prove an object lesson to the Afghan people and also to any waverers amongst our independent Tribes.
"The Nizam of Hyderabad has issued a remarkable manifesto rejoicing that his subjects fully recognise the nature of past and present events and have maintained a proper attitude to their ruler who is a faithful ally of the British Government.
Simla. May 19.
In
An official message says:-We completely hold the crest of the ridge west of the Dakka Sherabad cantonment and Robat Fort. the Chitral affair of the 14th inst the enemy had seventy casualties. Har Mahamad's gang of Afridi and Shin'wri- riff-raff had sixty casualties on the 16th and 17th inst.
THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
FORCED DESCENT AT SEA.
New York. May 17.
A message from Ponta det Gada says the NC1 reports that she has gone 05 her course and been forced to alight on the open gea two hundred miles north of Fayal. Four destroyers have gone 10 her assistance. There is no news of the third seaplane so far.
CREW RESCUED,
Washington, May 18. - An official message says the crew of the NC1 have been taken aboard the steamship Tona. The seaplane was taken in tow, but the tow-line parted.
FOG TROUBLES."
London, May 18.
'BOLSHEVIST FLEET,
PREPARATIONS FOR LEAVING KRONSTAD
London May 15, Reuter's Agency learns that the Bolshevist Navy, consisting of two Dreadnoughts, two cruisers and also torpedo boats and destroy- dra, are preparing to leave Kronstadt.
The serious threat which the Bolshevist Fleet would cause
Helsingfors, which is easily bombardable from the Gulf of Finland, is the real cause of the large concentration of Finnish troops in this are which has been interpreted as indicating an intended attack on Petrograd..
BOLSHEVISTS” ATTEMPT TO SAVE PETROGRAD
Stockholm. May 19.
It is reported from Petrograd that with a view to saving Petrograd, the Bolshevists have devised a plan of making it a free port. independently administered. maintaining but loose connections with the rest of Russia.
NURSE CAVELL
London, May 15.
.The remains of Norse Cavell arrived at Dover last evening aboard a destroyer. The coffin was borne ashore by eight blue.. jackets and taken in a procession, including naval, military and local authorities, to the marine station, where it was guarded during the night prior to departure for London in the morning. Women sarring in the forces were conspicuous in the reception of the remains and the procesion..
HOME CRICKET.
London. May '17.
At the Oval, Surrey best Somerset At Lords, Middlesex and- Notts have drawn.
BRITISH VITAL STATISTICS.
SOME ALARMING, FIGURES.
London, May 15.
The Registrar-General's returns for England and Wales showed that the deaths for the quarter ended March 31st exceeded the births by 47,002 compared with an excess in -births for the corresponding quarters of three previous years.
AUSTRIAN PEACE DELEGATES IN PARIS.
CHIEF DELEGATE'S CONTAGIOUS SMILE
Paris, May 15 The reception of the Austrian delegates was more friendly than that of the Germans.
Renner, the chief delegate, stepped out of the car. with his hat, in his hand, and with a contagious smile made a very brief and tactful speech which the Prefect of Seine and the Chief of the Reception Committee replied. He was delegated to meet and treat them with friendly courtesy.
REVISION OF BELGO-DUTCH TREATY.
- Paris, May 15. The Commission on the revision of the Belgo-Dutch Treaty of 1839 has called a meeting for May 29th. Holland has beet invited to send a delegate.
REPATRIATION OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS.
Paris. May 15. The Council of Foreign Ministers has considered the question of ways and means for returning Russian prisoners at present in Germany. Repatriation has been decided upon.
THE SCHLESWIG PLEBISCITÉ.
Paris, May 14.
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HON. DR. LIM BOON KENG.
who on Wednesday last was presented with the O. B. E. at Government House. Singapore.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) AERIAL ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA.
Singapore. May 22. General Burton, interviewed, said that the Dutch authorities were most helpful. He spent a month selecting sites for an aerial service to Australia.
STRAITS TIN.
Singapore, May 22.
LEST WE FORGET.
I was, at Sempst about the end
of August. The Germans were retiring and we wore pressing-on them. We entered about mid- [day. A young girl about 17 came up to me crying in the village: she was dressed only ina chemise: she told me that 17 girls including herself, had been dragged into a field and stripped quite naked and violated, and that twelve of them had been killed by being ripped up across the stomach with a bayonet. She told me that thers were a great number of soldiers. I could not leave my battery to go and see the corpses: the girt told me it was 10 minutes' walk. In the same village on the same day I saw a man in à barn (dead); the corpse was burnt and his legs
off. The village people told us that his legs had been cut off, and he had been thrown alive into the fire. I also saw a man lying shot against a wall; his wife told me that he had refused to give up his horse, and the Germans bad then taken it and shot him.- Official deposition of Belgian Officer before Committee German Outrages."
ON
STEEL FURNITURE,
According to an American von- sular and trade report. a Cuban firm in one month recently sold steel furniture to the value of 3.000 dollars. It is said to embody modern conveniences hitherto practically unknown."
COST OF LIVING.
The Labour Gazette, a périodi cal of the Board of Trade.gives an
Tin is quoted for the first time in many weeks at $115.12.iateresting account of the move- Sales amount to 120 tons.
DAY BY DAY.
Shinyo Maru to-day for Tsingtau
Lady Rees Davies left by for the summer months.
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patrol duty in the Mediterranean and mine-sweeping out here. The funeral takes place this evening. The deceased leaves a
widow and two children.
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ments in the cost of living since the beginning of the war. By the time of the armistice the cost of food had risen to 133 per cent, of the pre war figure, and the general cost of living to 120 per cent. Since the beginning of February prices have begun to fall, the coat of food has gone down from 130 per cent. to 120- per cent of the 1914 figures, A thief whose favourite occups and there is no doubt, that it will Sergt. D. K. Blair, H. Ktion lies in the light-fingered line. continue to move in the right bas met his match. Imagining direction. It must be remember- Defence Corps, has been promoted that he had an easy picking, heed, however, that the rise was Company Sergeant Major and is going to again take charge of came up to a Shanghai woman caused by two distinct causes. the Signalling Section, a position who was proceeding along Jubilee The first, an actual shortage of which be held under the old friends and snatched an earpick cease to be operative. The second, Street yesterday with several many commodities, will gradually Volunteer regime. The right from her hair. The lady turned the inflation and consequent de man again in the right place.
round and gave him a blow on his preciation of the currency, and jaw which stretched him in a the general decline in the value of semi-conscious state on the money from that and from other H. R. E. Prince Tagala of ground. Two Indian constables causa, will be removed more Siam and a large suite are at who had hurried up completed slowly and with greater difficulty. present in Hongkong and putting the discomfoxture of the thief.
arrived by the Empress of Asia was shaped for him by Mr. R. E. from Japan and are leaving by Lindsell at the Police Court to- the Dilwarz to-morrow for day. His Worship, in addition, Singapore eventually going to ordered him to be accommodated" Bangkok.
with the birch and stocks.
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According to a telegram from Horta, the Commander of NC4,
The Council of Foreign Ministers has considered the question interviewed, said he flew 3,000 fleet till he sighted Corvo Foz of sending a mixed British, French and American force to Schles-up at the Hongkong Hotel. They His career for the next 12 months compelled him to descend to 200 feet and then alight on the water.wig to maintain order during the plebiscite. He located Horta and resumed his flight, completing the passage in ?
∙13 hours and 19 minutes.
Washington, May 18. -
ITALY'S AFRICAN CLAIMS.
No apprehension is felt by the Navy Department regarding the missing seaplanes, which are believed to have been compelled to descend owing to fog. The destroyer Harding reports that she has
Paris, May 14. established communication with the NC1, which was fog-bound
The Temps says & Commission consisting of Lord Milner, M. south-east of Flores Island, Azores, at 4.27 in the afternoon. Wash-Simon (French Minister of Colonies) and M. Kartino (ex-Governor ington time. The Harding is speeding to her rescue.
of Erythrea) has been charged with the examination of Italy's HAWKER AND RAYNHAM FLY.
African claims under the Pact of London. St. John, May 18. Hawker and Raynham both fly this afternoon.
Later. The Sopwith machine with pilot Hawker started on the trans- Atlantic flight at 5.51 in the evening, Greenwich time.
Washington, May 17. . N.C.4, was 100 miles off Corvo island, the Azores, at 5.45 a.m., Washington time.
HAWKER'S DISCRETION.
St. John, May 18. The Martinsyde mishap was, due to a collapse of the under- carriage, owing to the bad field. Hawker dropped his wheels before leaving land,
DESTROYERS SEARCHING FOR N.C. 3..
Washington, May 18. In the vicinity of the Azores the weather is unfavourable, which continned during the flight to-day of N.C. 4. „The destroyer Harding is towing in N.C. 1 to Horta,
Tan destroyers are scouring the foggy seas for No. 3 which has not been heard of since 5.15 on Saturday, having discarded its wireless owing to the weight.
New York, May 17.
20. 4 has arrived Horta, In the Azores
ADVANCE OF SIBERIAN ARMY,
Omsk, May II Siberian troops have reached the River Viatka, 100 miles east of Kozan.
THE FLU. IN RUSSIA.
Stockholm, May 18. A message from Petrograd says Spanish Infinenza is raging in Petrograd and Moscow. There are two hundred cases daily.
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·AERIAL MISHAPS.
DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY. Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Coronet Theatre--5.15 and 9.15.
TO-MORROW.
Victons Theatre 9.15 p.m Coronet Theatre -5.15 and 9.15-
Empire Day.
Polo Club Gymkhana at the Race Course p.m.
raigangower Club's Homé
Messrs. Trueman. and Parry. All the stock-in-trade which. two Dockyard employees, are go Leung Kee requires consists of a ing home on the 28th instant pair of pliers, a chisel, screw P.m after having been here for sever driver, and about 16 skeleton and al years.
A smoking concert other keys. Equipped with these will be held to-night in the Naval formidable articles he paid a visit Recreation Club room at 8 pm to No. 17, Gage Street, on on the occasion of a presentation Wednesday night, and let himself P to them.
in to the first floor. The only thing which he could CAITY SWAY Was an electric We regret to record the lamp-fitting, No other articles of death last night at the Naval value met his eyes, and in his Hospital of Chief Stoker. Eanxiety to search for them he
THURSDAY, MAY 29. Haughton of H.M.S. Hydrangea. revealed his presence to the pao-. The deceased was very popular ple of the fist by the great noise. "Star Ferry Co, Ltd--Mast- on board and had been 18 years he made. The result was that ing of Shareholders at the Offices: in the Navy. Previous to joining he had to take a hurried depar of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson da H. M. S. Hydranges, he served ture. In the streef detactive Co, Ltd 11: 30 mm, -- on the King Alfred a cruiser was on duty and he effected the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd. stationed round the Canary Isles, capture of the burglar after Mesting of shareholde and the Achatos, a destroyer. long pursuit. To-day Leung Kes- Hongkong Hotel - Ho He
37 years of commterise a three months, bags
At the end of fast
Rome, May 18 Devon Heroined EMS. landed at Centocelle: