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Hongkong Telegraph.
(ESTABLISHED 1881).
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RAJAREN FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920.
日式廿月六
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
POLISH AFFAIRS.
BOLSHEVISM BEING ENFORCED.
London, August 4. The design to imposa Bolshevism upon Poland by force appears A Moscow wireless to be actually in process of sccomplishment. message announces that a Provisional Revolutionary Soviet has been formed in the occupied parts of Poland, with the Pole, M. Dzerzhinsky, a sinister figure who is head of the Extraordinary Commission, as one of its leaders, Its manifesto says peace is only possible with Soviet Poland, and when the Government is overthrowa
Soviet Republic will be established.
AN ANXIOUS TIME
LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS,
(From Our Own Correspondent)
JOHORE'S FINANCES.
A SATISFACTORY REPORT.
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Singapore, August 5. Johore reports a revenue of $11,000,000, which is an increase of $1,750,000. There is a surplus of $2,750,00 Satisfactory progress is reported in trade, valued at $100,000,000,
BRIBING MUNICIPAL ARCHITECT.
CHINESE CONTRACTOR HEAVILY PINED.
London, August 4. The military situation in Poland is arousing considerable anxiety in view of the uncompromising attitude of the Bolsheviste. The question of helping Poland to defend her frontiers, as defined by the Allies, is complicated by Germany's obstructionist tactics regarding the use of the Danzig corridor, which is the sole com-
A Chinese contractor has been fined $500 for pffering a bribe to munication with Poland. Germany, despite her protestations to the contrary, is strongly suspected of playing the Bismarckian role of the Municipal Architect. fishing in troubled waters.
There is at present no iden of despatching British troops to Foland, but French circles seem to favour the sending of some Colonial detachments.
The Bolshevist advance in Eastern Galicia, furthermore, raises the problem of preventing the isolation of Rumania and the invasion of Hungary,
The Daily Telegraph understands that in view of the breakdown in the Baranovitchi negotiations and the obvious Bolshevist intention to crush Poland, the British Government has decided to suspend all negotiations with the Soviet delegates in London regarding the resumption of trade relations, and if the Soviet armies persist in their efforts to enter Warsaw, the Russian delegation will be required to leave England.
NO LONDON CONFERENCE
Paris, August 4. The Havas Agency states that the British Government bas wirelessed to the Bolshevik Government that in view of its pretention to begin with Poland not only an armistice but peace negotiations. the idea of a London Conference must be abandoned.
SOCIALISTS SUPPORT COALITION GOVERNMENT.
Warsaw, August 3.
Singapore, August 5.-
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
From Our Own Correspondents.)
RUBBER DEAL
Singapore, Angust 5. Karangan Rubber Estate, Penang has been sold for $350,000 to a new company, the profit being $100,000.
INDUCTION AT SINGAPORE,
Singapore, August 5. Rev. Mr. Douglas, the new Scotch minister has been inducted. The Central Committee of Polish Socialists han approved of the decision of the party executive to participate in a coalition Govern-All the Presbyterian clergy of Malaya were present. ment for national defence, and has also manifestoed its supporters, urging concentration on the repelling of the Bolshevist invasion.
AT LAST.
DELAYED AMERICAN
MAILS ARRIVE. ·
FULL COURT.
INTERPORT CRICKET.
IMPORTANT MARINE
CASE
SHANGHAI TEAM TO VISIT HONGKONG.
Quite unexpectedly, the mails The Full Court, compriving The sporting public will be which were held up at Vancouver the Acting Chief Justice, (Mr.interested to hear that there is by a dispute between the Canadian Justice H. H. J. Gompertz): Mr. every probability of interport Government and the C.P.0.9. Justice Skinner Turner (of H. B. cricket contests taking place in arrived here by the Toyohashi | M.'» Supreme Court, Shanghai) Hongkong this autumn. Mr.L.8. Maru last night Previous ex- and Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, Greenhill, the Hon. Secretary of pectations had been that they heard this morning the appeal the Hongkong Grieket Gigh, would be dispatched here by the of the Hung Hing Steamship informs us that the Shanghai Kashima Maru, which, ss Company, the owners of the Cricket Club hopes to send an matter of fant, arrived.. Laartes, against the judgment interport team to the thlony, here this morning, but of Bir William Rees Daries, dis- probably about November 8th. bad DO maila that could missing their claim against tho It is many years now since wo be stated to be included in the Tai Sua Marine Insurance, Co., had any interpbet cricket, and hatch that was bold up.
Ltd. for the recovery of the coming contests will go $20,000, being the amount of doubt be eagerly looked forward the policy
Dne with to. It is to be hoped that a légzs them" on the profits of the thoroughly representative of the Laertes.
cricketing talent of the Colquy will be got together.
taken
There were about 300.bags con- signed here from America, Japan and the North, and of these up to noon about 100 had bean landad. The Toyohashi Haru is The Hoa Mr. E. H. Sharp ane of the steamers engaged by appeared for the plaintifa- the Postal Authorities on con-appellants, and Mesura, Potter and F. C. Jenkin for the respondents.
tract terms.
Advices have not been receiv ed as to the result of the C.P.O.S. mail subsidy question now in course of argument, and it is surmised that future mails for Hongkong will continos, as in the present instance, to be delivered by Japanese contract steamer
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THE CADETS.
The Hon. Mr. Sharp, in opening the case for the appellants, said
Orders for the Cadet Company the case was to review the judgment of Sir William Rees of the Hongkong Volunteer Davies on January 14th last. The Defence Corps by Lieut. 1. 0. facts in connection with this Brawn state:— action were very few, and the documen's to which it would
PARADE-BATHING,
| be necessary to refer their Launch will leave Blake Pier Lordahips were also few. at 5.15 p.m. on-Wednesday, 11th On May 19, 1917, the as. Laertes instant and call at Kowloon ten was chartered for a period of 12 minutes Inter. Officer detailed months to the plaintiffs, who were for daty: 2nd "Lieut. the appellants in this action. Weyman. The vessel was chartered to the Ho Hang. That was the first fact in the documents. The
STRENGTH.
A.J.M.
Cadets A Clark and 3. Clark-
DAY BY DAY.
with them because, though dr. Asquith also was without relation- ship to the governing families, be was rather Ballolmade than self-made, and went forward by Zeezies Wes ebartered for joined on 27th ult. and are posted. the recognised high road of $30,000 a month on May 19th. to Section 3. Orford and the Bar. But with On June 16, 1917, they had this one possible exception every the second fant in the documents other Prims Minister of England to which it--was necessary to bas either belonged definitely to safer their Lordships. On that the aristocracy or, like Pool and date the appellants entered into Gladstone and Campbell-Benner policy. In fact they undertook man, been born with a silver to taks two policies on that day spoon in his mouth, and we shall with the maring insurance
Our Pictorial Supplement to not find a case anything like Compsay in question for 12 morrow will include photographa those of Disraeli and Lloyd | months from that date. First, of the late Mr. de Journel and George until we get as far back the bull and the machinery of the late Mr. R. Brand. as the great Chatham, who came
the Laertes were insured for of an impoverished family and $20,000, so far as this particular made an unpromising beginn-
concerned. The country was
Mr. Smith, the General ing for politics by taking a appellants entered into a second Manager of Messrs. Whiteaway. commission in what
they policy, which is now in disput Laidlaw and Co, Lid, is leaving used to call the Blues. Dis before their Lordships, for the on Saturday by the aa. Victoria. raeli and our present Primesame amount of $20,000 on the 100 & three months" holiday.. Minister resemble each other still profits of the ship. There were During his absence Mr. W. A. Shanghai, August 5. more significantly as being the altogether 17 policies entered Webb, the Assistant Manager, The President has called all the foreign advisers to a meeting only two "racial" Prime Minis into on the profits of the ship. will act for him. The Department of Commerce, in a report to the Lands Com-
ters England has bad.
The aggregate amount of those of exch of mittee of the Senate, says it appears that the British Government is in regard to the present political situation.
Commander Wong Wai-hing bas informed the President that Premiership
profita was valued at two lakhs the promotion of dollars. Fourteen of those definitely going into the oil business. It cites in this connection the
MAD but Government's acquisition of two-thirds of the stock of the Angin-moes of the leaders in the present crisis have taken their refuge them has been
policies had been paid, and the that Persian Oil Company and says it seems Imperative that the United her in the Japanese Legation or garrisons, and has requested that not only of a
* race, and for
particular one before their Lord- a religion.
ships had not. The alliance of eight southern provinces is imminent. States Government should take the same course or fad a way of their surrender should be demanded from the Japanese Minister. preventing as far possible a monopoly of the future sources of oil general office for the delegates of the eight provinces has already supply by the nationals of foreign countries.
been established in Shanghai.
THE OIL SITUATION.
r.S. URGED TO FOLLOW BRITISH LEAD.
Washington, August 4.
WITH GENERAL WRANGEL
ENEMY DESECRATES CHURCHES.
London, August 4. Communications from General Wrangel, dated July 30, report successful fighting along the whole northern-eastern front, many prisoners and guns being captured. Enemy attacks were heavily repulsed. On the Waldheim front, the Red cavalry of the Second Army was put to flight with heavy losses. White troops have re-taken Korssoon monastery, near Kokhovka. The enemy bad desacrated the churches, defaced the ikons and used the altar cloth for tobacco pouches.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
NEW DEMANDS BY JAPAN.
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Most of the soldiers of the Frontier Defence Army have been disbanded A sum of $10 was given to each of them to cover home- ward axpenses.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
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SHANGHAI SPORTING CLUB. December With a membership of over
15, 1917, the ship was a total loss, 1,300, the Cercle Sportif Francais
as a result of a collision in the building and ground in Shanghai
THE WEATHER.
2 p.m. Barometer:-29.66. Tem
The Scots may have acquired Straits of Malacca. The insur-have been found shle no longer their love of bagpipes from Eng-ance Company bad already paid adequately to care for their needs As a result of the fring on a Japanese ship and the killing and, not from Ireland, as suggest the $20,000 on the hold policy. and a proposal is to be laid before Japanese by the Southern soldiers,, the Japanese Government has by Commander Kenworth in Shortly after this date the insur-the members to transfer the Club made eight demands on the Government and insists on an immediate the House of Commons. In 1865 ance Co. went into liquidation, to a new building to be erected reply. The Foreign Affairs and the War Ministries have despatch-Mr. James Moncreiff, then Lord The appellants put in their claim in the Verdun Gardens, where a ed officers to Honan to have the matter investigated.
Advocate,told an Edinburgh meet- on the policy on profits of the new and very much larger club
the ing that the bagpipe wAS
Laertes, and
liquidator house will be built. Pasentially English Institution. demanded from the appellants "The English," said be, "were particulars and vouchers of all as well as in private practice, the original bagpipers. Shakes-profits earned by the Laertea and it was found that 54 per pear, who was an authority on before the collision. The appel- cent.of the instruments examined music, often refers to the bagpipes,lants considered that they were
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE. were unreliable. It appears that but he does not introduce them under no obligation to account when the war interfered with into Macbeth. The armies in to the insursace company for
The closing rate of the dollar, om There are curious points of re-imports some American mann- Macbath' do not march on Dan any actual profits which the ship demand, to-day was 48./21⁄441. lationship between the career of facturers who had no knowledge sinane to the sound of a bagpipe: had made for five months prior to Disrasli, whose biography is now of thermometers entered the bat he speaks of the drone of the her sinking. Mr. Sharp argued finished work, and that of Mr. business of making them, with the Lincolnshire and the Yorkshire that the appellants were under Lloyd George. That both of them result that aspy of their pro- bagpipe, and of a person laugh-o obligation to prove their should have been trained for docts were of such a low grade ing like a parrot at a bagpipe actual loss, because under their affairs in solicitors' offices is & as to be unfit to be used "on all without the slightest policy they were entitled to be persture-89. Humidity -72.
reference. more sick dog." The American desire Caledonisa
The value of the And paid $20,000. point of apparent than it is real, because for speed is also blamed. Even when we look at the works in bip was put down at $200,000. Disraeli was only in the law with materials and designs as the Register House which show The policy on the profits was to through a period of indecision those of the imported articles, how our former monarchs spent be paid in the event of the
the tous. af
ship. He never either became a solicit many manufackutere, it is said, their income, we find their ex-total or or saw himself as one, wherese are so anxious for a large and penditure for music put down in The applicant claimed from
liquidator the Mr. Lloyd George at the outset of rapid output that their instro-ruch entries ss. To the English the London, August 4. A War Office .communique says the situation on the Lower life can never have seen himselfments are turned out hurriedly piper, 3. 63. The Scots were amount of $20,000 on the hull Euphrates is quieter. The Arabs, who attacked our posts to the clearly as anything else. Wills and tested carelessly. In con-not pipers; they were harpere. and machinery of the ship. north and north-west of Hilla, suffered heavy losses. They left 130 which were witnessed by the sequence of this inquiry the com- The harp was the old Boottish in-which was paid, but the policy of dead. There have been further small raids, particularly near present Prime Minister when he paisory standardisation of clinical strament, and, I believe, con 20,000 on the profits. Jerbolisk. The Kufa garrison is still holding out. Part of the town was an articled clerk or made by thermometers is likely to be inued to be the Scottish in-not paid. The solicitors for him when he had an office of his secured by an smandment of the strament until a very recent the liquidators demanded from was afre three days ago.
own must shll be coming into Sanitary Code,
period." This speech provoked the appellants particulars of affect in the "Lloyd George"
livaly controversy in Notes the profts, but the appellanla parts of North Wales:
and Queries, the consensus be raised-su, objection. The fog the whilst the Lord AdvoChief Justice had that the Fright cimbolding the owners must account for all have been in early, earnings. Betnally... mada, mund more popular among the could only recover the Balance: ong the Boots, between whift they made and the Hing It esant sgesed valuation. The sppellant
then found that they conla?“
THE "MESPOT " RISING.
ARABS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES.
HOME CRICKET RESULTS.
London, August 3. fants by 165 rans. Warwick beat Derby by
An unsuspected. handicap. 1o the aficioney of medical and sur gical treatment
said
· DON'T FORGET.
TO-DAY.
Theatre Royal-Frawley Co presents Polly with a Par 9.15 p..
Coronet Thestra -5.
Hongkong Tuenti and 9.15 h.m