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號八月三英港香
MONDAY, MARCH 8. 1920.
REUTER'S TELĖGRAMS.
GREAT BOLSHEVIK VICTORY.
REDS ADVANCING RAPIDLY.
London. March 2.
The Bolsheviks claim a great victory in Northern Caucasus, near Bellzagtana Denikin's First Kuban Corps have been annihi Isted. The Reds are advancing rapidly.
DENIKIN'S PLIGHT.
London, March 2.
A Moscow official message dated February 28 says the Army has taken Tichoretzkaya. Denikin has been caught as in a mousetrap on the Kuban Peninsula,
IMPENDING EVENTS.
London, March 2. The Associated Press correspondent at Constantinople says the evacuation of Novora-sisk is hourly expected. British subjects have been ordered to leave. Inter-Allied officials here are preparing to handle the refugees of whom 20,000 are expected. It is proposed to divert 3,000 to Egypt and 3,000 to Cyprus. The situation is aggravated by the prevalence of typhus at Novorossick. Officials opine, that Sebastopol will soon collapse also,
PEACE OFFERED TO CZECHS.
Prague. March 2.
The Bolsheviks have offered Czecho-Slovakia peace, pointing cut the desirability of reopening commercial and friendly relations. The Government is considering the offer.
FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE SETTLED.
The French railway strike been settled.
Paris, March 2
Paris. March 2.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
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LEYLAND LINER WRECKED.
FATE OF CREW UNKNOWN.
日八拾月正
RISING DOLLAR.
UP A PENNY.
Exchange is firmer to-day. being a penny up over the closing rate of Saturday. Silver came Halifax. March 2.
the wires to-day a While proceeding to Liverpool from Boston, the Leyland liner over Bohemian was wrecked on the rocks during a snowstorm ten miles penny higher. Shanghai has gone south of Halifax. She carried sixty-four passengers, who are safe. up 2d. to-day. business having The fate of the crew of a hundred from Liverpool is not been done there at 2d. over the official rate. On Saturday the known.
Another message says the Bohemian is pounding heavily. The rate of the tael was 7s, 10d.. crew is throwing overboard the cargo of cotton. The Captain has while to-day it is 8s. sent a wireless saying the prospects of saving the vessel are poor.
MOST OF THE CREW SAVED.
The cross-rate between Now York and London, which on Saturday went up from 3.43 to 3.60. has gone up further to-day.
37 Later. The Bohemian has broken in two and has been abandoned. All being 3.62. but seven of the crew were rescued.
PASSENGERS' EXPERIENCES.
Later.
The Robemian's passengers were afloat in open boats for four) hours before being rescued.
THE TURKISH TREATY,
NO NAVY EXCEPT A FEW CUTTERS.
London, March 2
The Chinese speculators and others are selling now, expecting prices to harden.
The tendency is certainly for higher rates. the market being very firm. New York and San Fransisco have gone up. 14 points, the rate on New York being $8.1/8
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TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 5s/51d.
THE WEATHER.
29.93. Temperature p.m.-65. ForecastCloudy, Barometer.
Humidity 2 p.m. :-90.
The 8.8. Quinnebaug, which was chartered by the Douglas Steam- ship Company, left for Manila The charter. has yesterday. expired and the vessel was turned over to Messrs. Bass & Company, who are acting here for the agents. Messrs. Figures Almanis CATHOLIC CHURCH.
of Manila.
The ss. Hailung, the re-named boat which the Douglas Company | ECCLESIASTICAL MEETING recently purchased from Messrs.
AT HONGKONG. H. M. Nen.azes and Company, is st present in the Docks, under- going alterations. She will be put on the Coastal run, and will replace the s.s. Haiyung, which was chartered to Messrs. Wo Fat Sing, some months ago.
GETTING EVEN.
June last year the appointing by The local papers recorded in His Holiness Pope Bendedict XV of Bishop de Guebriant of Canton, as an Apostolic Visitor to the Catholic Missions in China.
Bishop de Guebrian took up his exalted functions in Septem- ber 1919, after a trip to Yunnan, first visiting Northern China and Mongolis. In December, he was. ia Shensi, and early in Jan-
A TALLYMAN IN TROUBLE.uary in Szechwan. He arrived
at Hongkong on Wednesday last, "When the ship's co.opradore after he had held meetings with absconds without paying your all the Bishops of China. North, wages, you are entitled to help West and Middle, and fully con
sidered with them the present yourself out of the ship's cargo.' This formed the defence put up needs of the Missions and the
It is reported that over eight thousand tons of rice have been put through for shipment to Cuban ports during the last week, and the It is understood that under the naval clauses of the Turkish bills for these will shortly come market. When they Treaty, Turkey will possess no Navy except a few revenue cutters. on the The financial clauses of the Treaty are likely to follow the lines of appear, they will certainly exert the Hungarian Treaty.
a hardening tendency on The Turkish population is likely to be reduced from 30,000.000 change. The value of this rice tallyman of the steamer ways and means most likely to Wing Ping, who stated that forward the Christian cause in to 6,000,000, owing to a large restriction of the territory of Turkey in is over two million dollars.
several months' wages, to the China Europe, which will be little beyond Constantinople. This will neces- At the end of this month it is amount of $100, were due to him. The political events that have The National Federation of Railwaymen has issued a statementsitate a readjustment of the Turkist Debt and ex-Turkish territories expected that the Yangtse, which by the compradore who, to happened in China since 1911, that, following on negotiations with the Directors and M. Millerand, may be required to hear a portion of the burden. One of the first has heing covered with ice, will make matters more aggravating, have resulted. inter alia, in a He consulted greater liberty for Chinese an understanding has been reached between the Federation and the financial charges upon Turkey will be reparation for Greeks and be open for trade and shipments had absconded. Directors. Consequently an order to resume work will be given other sufferers dispossessed of valuable property.
should be freer from the North. immediately. According to a Ministeriul statement, almost normal
The Straits market is dat the services will resumé to-day,
cessation of the demand for the American twenty gold dollar pieces having taken the ginger
VOTE OF CO■FIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT.
Paris, March 2.
OTHER POINTS.
London. March 2.
It is stated that the Allied Conference has reached a number of important conclusions as regards the Turkish settlement, including After a debate on the railway strike, the Chamber passed by regulations for guardianship of the Straits, and has also decided out of the gold leaf trade.
help Turkey to place her finances on a sound basis, ensuring on this point the elimination of polititical influences and the establishment of an expert administration.
503 votes to 5 a vote of confidence in the Government.
LABOUR TROUBLES AT HOME.
DEMONSTRATION AGAINST POLICE.
London. March 2,
While a deputation of men forming part of a procession of dis- charged Woolwich duckyardsmen were laying their case before the Premier's Secretary at Downing Street, comrades outside attempted to break the Police cordon, throwing bottles and glasses. An In- ispector was injured. Mounted Police pressed mark the crowd with Sieten demonstrators were wounded, mostly slightly. Two only were detained.
batons
ANOTHER STRIKE THREATENED.
London. March 2.
A Conference at the Ministry of Labour between employers and
Furthermore it is declared that the Supreme Council bas reached a complete agreement as regards the problem of high pricesi and exchanges.
MR. ASQUITH'S RETURN TO PARLIAMENT.
WILD DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON,
London, March 2. London's demonstration to Mr. Asquith was the most remark able upy politician has ever received from the Metropolis. He arrived at Westminster, hatless and bespattered with confetti, riding in a car. of which the windows were broken and the mudguards torn off owing to a "rag "by hundreds of students, who swarmed over the ear, climbed on the roof and sat astride the bonnet until the police secured the masters and ejected the students.
The car arrived at Westminster with mounted policemen fore
DAY BY DAY.
a solicitor, was advised that he Christians, and by way of con- had no chance of success in a sequence, in new needs arising legal claim, and decided to make from the new circumstances and things even by liberally helping the fresh opportunities afforded to himself to a box of umbrellas. the Christian community. Hence The value of the umbrellas was many questions such as Evange-
more than twice the amount of lisation, the training of the native
the education of the wages which he claimed. Clergy. Evidently the balance surplus youths, the Prese, etc., require a was meant for compensation for special treatment and up-to-date the trouble he bad gone. in the administrative methods for their attempt to recover his wages. promotion and normal develop-
Inspector Watt informed M. ment. for N. L. Smith. at the Police Court
The Hongkong Fund the War Devastated Villages of France is DOW closed. The total receipts are $911.843.26
a very satisfactory result.
Sir John Toian, ex-British Minsiter to China, and Sir Al exander and Lady Hosie proceed- ed Home by the P. and O. Kashmir to-day.
Wan.
The Catholic Church remains to-day, that the case of umbrellas what she was and ever will be, was consigned by a Hongkong in all that concerns dogmatic and shop to a firm in Kwang Chow moral teaching. Nevertheless in The Wing Ping, by which the exercise of her apostolic the case was consigned, was ministrations, she knows how seized in Hongkong for debts, to accommodate herself to the and taken to Samsuipo, where necessities of the times and the rage and stole the case heed of the Christian peoples who rbe tallyman broached open circumstances and to every new of umbrellas. He escaped to follow her guidance. She devotes Macao, extradition proceedings herself solely to the attainment of were then instituted, and he her sublime end, which is to lead elected to return to Hongkong to the souls of men to God accord- stand his trial. It was a fact, ing to divine mandate delivered Mr. M.O. Odell has joined the
months' wages were owed to him, sive Popes are official represent- Orient, Limited. He was previous but not to the extent of one year, atig
arth. ly in the United States Army.
as he claimed.
The ecclesiastical meetings in He joins the firm as Assistant Evidence was then called, and the other parts having concluded Manager. He was previously in the tallyman was sentenced to a meeting took place in Hongkong the San Fransisco office of this three months' hard labour. Company.
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road tran-port workers' representatives as regards the demand Pen and at and constables riding on the roof of the car and holding on firm of Messrs. Getz Bros. of the said the Inspector. that several to her by Christ, of Who succes-
increase of 19 weekly broke down. The workers' representatives afterwards decided to ask their Unions to authorise a strike.
AMERICA AND THE TREATY.
THE HAGGLING STILL GOES ON.
Washington, March 2
unless Article Ten is modified.
There is every indication that the Treaty will become an issue in the presidential campaign and an early unfavourable vote on ratification is forecasted.
to all sides brandishing truncheons to keep off the "raggers."
nationalisation.
NATIONALISATION.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S INTENTIONS.
London. March 2
MR. CHARLES GARVICE DEAD.
London, March 2. The death is announced of Mr. Charles Garvice, the novelist.
An American seaman from the
This
s.s. Goldshell met with a serious A THIEF'S TRICKS. Bishop Fratt of Fokien, Bishop
at the French Mission. meeting was presided over by Bishop de Guebriant and there were also present Bishop Aguirre, Pozzoni of Hongkong. Bishop Rayssac of Swatow, Bishop The Republican leaders have reaffirmed their decision not to In the House of Lords, Lord Peel, replying to Lord Jersey,am accident on Saturday, from
Ducoeur of Kwangsi, the accept changes in the substance of their reservation to Article Ten stated that the Government did not intend to nationalize the land the effects of which he died at the
How a policeman came near to Right Flev. da Costa of the Treaty. Both sides agree tha: there are enough Democrats and other industries, except mineral rights, as already announced. Government Civil Hospital yes-
Nunes of Macao and the to defeat ratification who are determined to oppose the Tres: Recent elections manifested that public opinion did not favour terday. The patient was in such being hoodwinked by a Chinese a bad condition that efforts to get thief was related in a case before him to speak failed and, it has, Mr. N. L. Smith at the Police Right Rev. Fernandez of For- therefore, not been ascertained Court this morning. The modus osa. Here, as in other places whether the injuries be received cirendi of the thief was to visit in China, the heads of the Mis- sions were guided in their were sustained in boarding the houses at night and pick out the deliberations by detailed Instruc- tramcar or while slighting from it. locks of the doors, which he tions issued by the Holy See, to subsequently sold. It is known which they gave, according to to the Police that no less than the unfailing Catholic tradition, five houses came within the their unqualified and unanimous Mr. Robertson, of the Kowloon
operations of this thief Godowns, charged a Chinese at whose stock-in-trade consisted of allegiance, having nothing in view but to find out the most efficient the Police Court to-day with
a jimmy and a punch.
means to bring the Chinese stealing two files from a case
was arrested by a constable which was being discharged from whilst trying to enter a shop. Christian religion and to foster people the knowledge of an American steamer into the A saries of conjuring godowns. Evidence was produced acts calculated to deceive the Christian communities in China. the spiritual welfare of the to show that the case broke open constable was then witnessed. and a number of files dropped out. The constable wanted to know his passage on the next French Bishop de Guebriant has booked of which the Chinese-appropriated where the instruments used by mail for his journey to Rome, Shanghai, March 5.
two to himself. A sentence of the thief were. He asked the there to report on his Apostolic General Rozanoff is now near Kobe and is daily expected here. six weeks was inflicted.
man to show his right hand,
Visitation. Contributed. According to many Russian officers General Rozanoff and his men
which proved to be empty. The The Crown Prince of Rumania is at present in Egypt and is go-are coming to Shanghai from Japan after leaving Vladivostok
other hand was inspected, with ing to India and the Far East,
because they refused to serve as social revolutionaries.. A Bukharest newspaper states that the Crown Prince has re- of the s.s. Orel, interviewed, said Rozanoff was not a passenger on
following residents of the same result. A bright idea solved to dissolve his morganatic marriage and consequently his the Orel After Vladivostok went into the hands of the social Hongkong left for Home by the then occurred to the constable. 'claim to the succession is revived.
revolutionaries, General Rozanoff left Vladivostok on a Japanese P. and O. Kashmir to-day-Mr. He ordered the thief to spread transport, they say.
Washington, March 2. -
POLISH LOAN IN AMERICA.
The Polish Legation announces the conclusion of negotiations for the flotation of a loan of $50,000,000 here.
CROWN PRINCE OF RUMANIA.
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COMING TO THE FAR EAST.
Bukharest, March 2.
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HUNGARY'S REGENT.
Buda Pest, March 2. " The National Assembly has elected Admiral Horthy as Hungarian Regent.
CAIRO TO THE CAPE.
London, March 2. The Silver Queen has reached Livingston, in North Rhodesia.
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
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(From Our Own Correspondents.)
ROZANOFF IN JAPAN.
An officer
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and Mrs. Beattie, Mrs. Hallifax out his legs, and the instruments and children, Mrs. E. B. Cubey dropped to the ground. What and three children, Miss actually happened was that the H. Davis, Mra. Alderman, thief transferred the instruments Mrs. Brück, Mies
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·TO-MORROW.
TO RESCUE DR. SHELTON,
Shanghai, March 5. Mr. A Cousins, Misses N..and D. behind his back, whilst Messages from Yunnanfu say Dr. Shelton is believed to be a Stone, Miss R. C. Wallace, obeyed the constable's orders captive in the mountains on the border of Cochin China and Yunnan. Mrs. Stabb and two children, of holding out in turn each hand. Col Thursby Pelham The third trick wes to wedge the Doctor Osgood, Mr. Frederick Smith of the Chicago Tribune, and Lt. Mr. Thornton, of the Standard Oil Co, left Yunnanfü on March 4th and Mrs. Thursby Pelham, Mrs. instruments, between his legs. in search of Dr. Shelton.
Sears and two children. Mrs.The smartness of the thief was Drew and three children, Mrs.rewarded with a three months' par.
sentence from the Magistrate. W. J. Herr and two children.
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