Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED
68909 MĦAS-LA^XED THURSDAY, AUGUST-
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
SERIOUS UNREST at home.
MORE LOOTING IN LIVERPOOL..
TWO HUNDRED ARRESTS EFFECTED..
London, August 4.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
ACUTE WORLD SHORTAGE DE COAL:
SUPREME ECONDAIG COUNCIL“ PERTURBED.
London, August
The Supreme Economiş Council, sitting in London on the st 2nd instant discussed, among other things, the difficulty of secp Far Europe adequate supplies of coal, food and raw materialk. The tial situation is recognised to be of the utmost gravity, as coal production in Europe has fallen to a dangeronaly low figure.
The Council referred these questions to special sub-committe
of which that on coal meets in Paris to-day.
弍十七
́DAY BY. DAY,
©Dawson--thë manager (DË gia Ranking Corporation, for Manila to open a there. He is expected Hongkong within two or
SINGLE COPY: 10 CAS
·$36 FER ́AHRT KOOSSE
MURDER CHARGE.
Before Mr. R. Lindsell the Magis the
this afternoon
• constablé» Käther man were charged with the munder of ́s. Chinese Applioban was commenced.
Mr. J.L. Walah, who appeared. las: a witness in yesterday
Marine Court case, saya hê..was | prosecu incorrectly reported as stating-| were" that he was formerly master of d'Almada and the ss. Mausang.
The Pacific Mait S. S. Co. is
moeipt of cabled advice from i Manila Office, to the affect the Colombia Bailed from bat f
The Council further decided to urge upon the various Coverdag ments the vital necessity of increasing production and reducing consumption of coal in Europe during the present period of shit Italy as regards coal.
Saturday, Bystematically looted shops chiefs grocers, jewellers Gange of hooligans, including women, beginning at midnight on Saturdate and hosiers, in the Scotland Road district of Liverpool sitting on the pavement, trying on boots and clothing and discarding supplies. The Council took special notice of the grave situation in part this morning and that the They had pretty much their own way, the women and children nisfits. Pianos were dragged out of a music shop and the looters bald a concert in the street, but a gang pillaging a provision store was trapped by a force of police, consisting of recruits, detectives and Special Constables, who charged with batons and arrested twenty-three, defeating several attempts at rescue.
The troops at one point fired a volley with their rifles, but noboy was hurt.
The looters, when charged, escaped into side streets but returned the main thoroughfares to complete the pillaging.
The rioting ceased at four o'clock in the morning, bat was resumed on Sunday forenoon, when bottling stores in Vauxhall Road: are raided. Two motor-lorries filled with troops came up and arrested all the looters. A hostile crowd throw stones at the troops. who fired overhead. A man climbed up on a motor-lorry and tried Two or three warning shots to wrench a bayonet from a soldier. ware fired ineffectually, then two shots were fired and the man collapsed and was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition.
Altogether there were 200 arrests between midnight and noon. Sixteen hundred more troops have arrived in the city and the authorities are confident of maintaining order.
The troops so far have protected the main portion of the city. A meeting convoked by the Labour Party in Liverpool resolved on a general strike in sympathy with the Police Union and as a protest against the "Government's attack on Trade Unionism.”
There was extensive looting last evening at Birkenhead, where a hundred police are on strike.
RAILWAYMEN STRIKE.
London, August 4.
Six hundred members of the Nine Elms Branch of the Associat-
d. Locomotive, Engineers and Firemen struck at midnight in
THE RUSSIAN FIGHTING:
BRITISH RECAPTURE ONEGA,
•
London, August 4.
A Bolshevik wireless message says the British, following bombardment of Onega, landed and recaptured the town.
SERBIAN CABINET RESIGNS.
The Cabinet has resigned.
MR. ASQUITH ON THE WORK FOR LIBERALS.
THE DANGER TO FREE TRADE.
Mr. Asquith addressed
ter.)
Belgrade, August 3.
TASK AHEAD FOR LIBERALS.
will arrive at this port about the morning of the 9th inst.
The China Mail SS Co. is in- receipt of a telegram from its Yokohama Office advising that the ss. Nanking sailed from that port on August 5th and she may be expected to shrive in Hong- |kong on August 13th.
The American Consul General has received instructions indicats ing that every form of tin, includ- ing pig tin and tin alloys and similar products, may now be imported into the United States under general licence, thus practically removing all restric- tions whatsoever.
Denbys
respectively. Mt. H watched the case on behalf of the retatives of the sccused.
The case is proceeding
1YPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was received by the American Con- sulate General, Hongkong, from the Manila Observatory at 9 am. today
near
20
Typhoon
over Balintang Channel, moving W. or W.N.W
"DISEASE OF DEFEAT."
MR. CHURCHILL ON
BOLSHEVISM.
Mr. Winston Churchill visited Ipswich recently and addressed crowded Victory Loan meeting in the Public Hall, The Secretary for War travelled from Liverpool- street Station in a special-zaloom
sympathy with the Police Union. Consequently the service of the crowded Liberal and Free Trade in that assembly. (Cheers.) Never Brisbane, a well known China more thorough and a more manfal
London and South Western Railway is restricted.
BIRMINGHAM POLICE ON STRIKE
There are now 400 police on strike in Birmingham.
meeting in Edinburgh recently and spoke again, as at Leeds, on the threatening dangers of Protection and on the future prospects of the Liberal party.
the
A BOLSHEVIK MONUMENT,
The above picture shows the first Russian Bolsbevil manament which was recent ly erected in Moscow. The white block bears the inscrips. tion, A Band of White Guards,” and represents the old regime. The wedge driven into the top of the block symbolizes the Bolshevik overthrow of the White Grand The wedge is of brilliant redi
CANTON TRAMWAYS:
CHINESE COMPANY GETS
CONCESSION.
Mr. Donald Ballantyne, who has been associated with the
To-Day's Exchange, Gasranty Trust for a number of years, arrives here by the Kitano
The closing rate of the dallaz Maru to marrow to take up a
on demand to-day was 3«.8.3-161. position with the "Asia Banking the House of Commons, still onlyCorporation. Mr. Ballantyne was
The Weather. a few months old, become so previously in the United States
Forecast — Fair. Baronetar obviously out of touch with the Army and has just been demoblis-decorated with age of the Allied 29.45. Temperature 2 pm: electorate that chose it. (Laughed.
nations and Victory Loan posters. Humidity 2 pm.—75; Aeroplanes, flying at B low The wedding took place this altitude, escorted the train from London to Ipswich. Mr. Chur- But it was generally admitted morning, at St. John's Cathedral, chill said na country, engaged in that the free and independent of" Mr. McCallum, formerly
the war had taxed itself in a Liberals were the only five grap chief engineer of the. s.3. had discussion on the floor of the Coast
steamer, and Miss Spirit than we had taxed our- House been more
necessary. McClellan, of London. After the selves. Behind the Victory Loan (Cheers.) He had never been ceremony a reception was held security was the whole united and accummulated strength ashamed to call himself a party at the Hongkong Hotel The
realm and
The franchise of the street rail- man, and never wa8. he less happy pair will proceed to the of the British ashamed than now
Antipodas
nation. Was there any dan way here (says the Canton Times) spend to
British ger. of the
realm was formally granted to the Can- and nation collapsing? There ton Tramway Syndicate yestar- could clearly be only two causes day, August 6, when the which would lead to the overturn agreement was signed between of our civilisation and prosperity. the Directors of the Canton We might, in the first place, be Municipality. Yang Wing-tax conquered by a foreign foe, but and Ngai Bong-ping, and re- that was not likely. (Laughter presentatives of the Syndicate, and cheers.) But it had been Judge Peter Hing, Sam Kee, and
T. E. MacInnes. suggested that we might break up THE PREFERENCE PERIL
from within like Russia. We To operate the railway, how-
ever, there will be might sink at anchor like the Referring to finance and Free German fleet. (Laughter.)
concern, "I other
the Kwang- Trade, Mr. Asquith said it was do not for a moment believe it," tung Tramway Company, Ltd. Until the affairs of Ireland were the fashion with some people to Me Churchill added. "Bolshevism a corporation registered at Hong-- Mr. Asquith, who was received
grappled with he would never treat lightly and to minimise the has never with cheers, said it was 33 years, cease to call attention to its trumpery proposals of the pre- frontiers of victory,
yet crossed the Kong, headed by Judge Peter
It Is the Bling and Eng Hok Yong, almost to the week, since he!
defeat. When Chinese capitalist.. brought from England over the supreme urgency and the present Government in the direction disease f
amount importance of stopping; of Imperial Preference. That nations have been shamefully Subscriptions to the Company Border his modest carpet bag the policy of drift once and for was a mistaken attitude. They misled and brought to their will be open to both Chinese and (Laughter.) He crossed the then A message from Budapest says Herr Agoston, the new Foreign unbridged waters of the Forthal was absolutely amazed must not treat those propossis on ruin, when all the sacrifice foreigners at ten dollars a shares of democracy, and would give a pledge to the Entents to convoke the Fife. For a generation Fife hart almost said frivolity, with which small. They were intended to been made in vain, and, what is chise is that the term will be Minister, interviewed, said they would establish peace and a system and made a raid on the bounty of at the indifference, levify, retheir face value, which was very they have made is shower to have
THE NEW REGIME IN HUNGARY:
REMOVAL OF THE RED FLAG.
Copenhagen, August 3.
A message from Budapest says the Red Flag was removed from most buildings in Budapest yesterday morning. A crowd of citizens hoisted the National flag on public buildings amidst load cheering.
A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM.
Copenhagen, August 3.
The occasion was a dinner given in the Freemasons' Hall by
Now that the war was ended it honeymoon, Sir Robert Maule, for Scottish Liberals to meet Mr. Asquith and was of supreme importance that the Scottish Independent Liberal and resolution the active pursuit they should resume with energy members of Parliament.. In the and guardianship of Liberal incat war, Ireland, which we, absence of Sir Robert, through ciples. The greatest product of the the mother of free nations, are illness, the guests were received war and the finest and most hope-responsible for, will certainly not by Principal, Sir John Herkless, ful feature of the Peace was he be left unsolved and unsettled. St. Andrew's University (who
practical embodiment of "the League of Nations. In that i ternational scheme he saw ud. recognised same articles of the Liberal creed.
Presided,) and by Sir Robert Maule's daughter, Mrs. Walker. Sir Donald Maclean, M. P., and Sir William and Lady Robertson were among those present.
Constituent National Assembly. The new Government will maintain been his political home. (Cheers.) the principle of socialisation; the extent of which will be determined
the Constituent Assembly.
PRIVATE PROPERTY SAFE.
J:
Berlin, August 3. A message from Vienna says the first meeting of the new Hungarian Cabinet decided to issue a manifesto to all the nations announcing the restoration of private property in Hungary. Ap parently the Soviet did not succeed in selling any considerable amount of securities. It is hoped that property mostly is safe.
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HOW COMMUNISM FAILED."
Vienna, August,3.
the question was now handled.
(Cheers.)
The main feature of the fran-
CLUB LUSITANO TO
BE SOLD,
be the first steps to put as at the worse, in a bad and evil cause, twenty years and the Syndicate LOST OPPORTUNITY mercy of the privileged and pro- then it is that opportunity is pays $1,000,000 as gratuity for FOLITICAL HOSPITALITY,
tected classes.
offered for that surging up of the privilege. The Scottish nation "and the
It was now nearly fivérVALIS If there was one cause more Bolshevism and animalien which Scottish Liberals were a hospit-after one of the greatest struggles than another to which Liberalism we have seen ruin the great able race, particularly in the in our Parliamentary history was committed, it was the main- Empire of Russia and reduce it political sense. They had shown which involved the clipping of topance of the freedom of trade. to, famine and to anarchy. But it more than once to young the wings of the House of Lords, (Cheers.)
an educated and democratic State Englishmen like himself, on the (Cheers.) The Liberal Govern Another of their aims should like our own is not in danger so threshold of public life. They ment of that day placed on the be the application of Liberal long as it continues to exert the had shown it again and again Statute Book, where it will re-principles to Scottish self-govern- qualities which have carried it to We hear that the Committee of when they had offered political mains(Cheers) an Act giring ment. He meant Home Rule for success. It is in no danger of the Cimb Lusitano has decided refuge to weather-beaten political self-govemment to Ireland. The Scotland. (Lond cheers. He this Bolshevik degeneration to sell the present Club premises. marmers, shipwrecked for the operation of that act was suspend-sald without any qualifestion which only only attacks the If & satisfactory price is realias moment by the caprice of Englished, but it remained there a solemn that Home Eule for Scot ignorant, the wicked, and the efforts will be made to provide constituencies. (Laughter.)
declaration by the Legislpton of land was as necessary as Home foolish." (Cheers.)
new quarters in Queen's Road He remembered, some years the United Kingdom that the time Rule for Ireland. It this country ago, ascending the tower af had come when the Irish pegle or its Parliament was to devote
got Raith, on the other side of the must be allowed to govern the necessary time to deal with to
the largest questions of Empire
Julius Poldi has informed Renter's Agency that the Government Forth, near Kirkcaldy, accom-themselves. ire determined to convoke the National Assembly at the earliest panied by Lord Haldane and Mr. Yet, by a series of colossal and Hand of Government it oduld, do Kopportunity. Communism had failed in Hungary mainly because Birrell. As they looked across fatuons binada than ZOMAN 200 by delegating local and
the world revolution upon which they had relied with absolute con- the waters of the Forth in the opportunity fidence had not occurred, also because no Russian military help had direction of North Berwick Law, last twelve been received.
one of the party he would not been descendi betray his identity-musingly the
old
DON TEKORGI
THE SILVER MARKET.
said. How interesting it is to re- hopel
flect that there is not a singl acre of land we see before,
which is not represent
London
W