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FRIDAY," DECEMBER 17. 1920,
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents)
BOLSHEVIK CRIME.
Shanghai, Dec. 16.
IRISH DEBATE IN THE COMMONS.
London, Dec. 14.
The Bishop of Cork's excommunication order has caused a The P. and O. . Devanha ha sensation among the extremists. At a meeting of the Hunicipal | Falled with two plain wooden Council the Sinn Feiners denounced the Bishop's action. jeaskets, one containing the remains It is announced that the Irish garrison is being lncreased to ten
of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, | battalions owing to martial law being proclaimed.
more
who, with five other Romanata, In the House of Commons Com. Kenworthy moved the adjourn. was murdered by Bolsheviki near|ment and demanded an impartial inquiry into the occurrences at Cork. | Ferm, and the other the remains of Mr. Adamson supported him. In Greek Catholic convent sister! Sir Hamar Greenwood declared that loss of life was
who' perished with her Supetier. important than loss of buildings. Only one woman looter last her life The Grand Duchess bad long been through the Bres. He repudiated the suggestion that the fires were the Abbess of this conveni. The caused by the forces of the Crown. caskets were brought norviss Siberial
Sir Hamar Greenwood read a tolegram sent to Com. Kenworthy to Peking. where they have been from the Lord Mayor of Cork and the Sinn Fein M.Ps. Walsh and since August. All but these two Roche, alleging that during the week Cork men and women were held are buried in l'èking.
up in the streets and robbed and unoffending citizens publicly whipped On Sunday the bagal Russiansand shot, and, it was believed, some burnt alive in their houses. "We held a simple service in the colown demand the immediate withdrawal of the Army of Occupation." The bodies are en route, La Jerusa lem. their final robes play through the courtesy of the, iritish
Government
SHANGHAI SHOOTING
AFFAIR.
Sir Hamar Greenwood said that General Strickland started an inquiry to-day. He would telegraph General Strickland to call the Lord Mayor of Cark and Messrs Walsh and Roche, and as their names had been quoted in the House, "they shall turn up." They would | have safe conduct. Not one of the three had ever condamned the murders of polies and soldiers, Precarding, he declared that these murders prevented the peoples of England and Ireland from coming Shanghai, De 16.
to a peaceful settlement. The suggested inquiry by Lords Cave and Mr RF. Hazelton, heal of th
Buckmaster and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons was Under Department
Mess impossible.
The only person who could hold an impartial inquiry Gaston, Williams at Wigmore, Was God. He was doing 30, who was shot in the banen int the cloakruoin of the “El Dorado," a low class bar in the Trench- district, ja still, hovering between life and death
Dealing with the argument that we should endeavour to stand well in the opinion of the world, Sir Hamar Greenwood declared that the only part of the world that counted in this difficult period was the part which wished us well. He had yet to see any comment, official or unofficial, from any civilised country condemning the The Court in By Francia British Government. On the other hand he had seen many com- Qaida, ene of the tun Americanmunications wishing us well in one of the most difficult tasks that implicated, this afternusa never faced a Government, namely suppressing a conspiracy which charge . ben Jruck
and during the war grew strong and powerful and which, could not be disorderly.
wiped out in a single minute. He thought we held our position in Later.
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MESOPOTAMIAN DEBATE.
London, Dec. 15.
In the House of Commons, on the Army supplementary estimate,
Sir Hamar Greenwood repeated that there was no policy of The US. Commissioner recom-reprisals: He read documents to show that he himself. Sir N. Me mende revocation of the El Dora-Ready and other heads had doce their best to stop anything of that!
kind. He maintained that it was unfair to attribute every burning to the gallant men who showed such splendid restraint against almost intolerable provocation. The forces of the Crown saved Cork from absolate destruction. When the Fire Brigade was exhausted police| Thomas Edward Melbows, wo ogland military took over the work and did not spare their efforts to Chief Inspector Mellows of the check the dames. There was no evidence that any of these forces Mr. Churchill announced that General Ironsides' force at Kastin, Biver Pule, has been sentenced caused a single fire in the great conflagration in the centre of the which was practically the sola protection of North-west Persia and to three months' imprisonment by jcity. All the disasters, whether burnings or murderings, were the Teheran, would be withdrawn in the spring. Meanwhile we were the British Court be obtaining borrible but logica! consequences of the Sinn Fein extremist trying to arouse the Persian Government to a sense of its responsibility money by fale pretences and for conspiraty to smash the Empire. The way to prevent the consequences for self-protection. It was melancholy to contemplate the possibility ging his father's name. He refused automatically was to uproot the cause. He was glad to say that the of the ancient capital and monarchy being, engulfed in barbarism, to pse Magstrate King an exons, percentage of people responsible for the crimes of violence was but there must be a limit to Britain's responsibilities, (Cheers). whereupon a detective zase el decreasing. He welcomed the sermon of the Bishop of Cork, condemn cher that pas mer had patenting the sticks on the forces of the Crown. He was hopeful that hundred and nity dollars in Four before long we would open a happier chapter for good between the day in the Treuzba, **
peoples of treland and Britain.
London. Dec. 15.
VENEREAL DISEASE.
Shanghai, Den, in The Eastern Commissio of the British Nations Coutvil fut com batting venereal disease- opened with a public meeting yesterday
Mr. Churchill said that if we faced the situation and coolly and firmly pursued a policy of contracting commitments and establish ing a congenial local government, it would relieve na of this burden and enable the great natural riches of the country to be developed to the advantage of the Empire and the whole world.
Mr. Churchill reviewed the history of the position in Mesopota
The Premier, writing to Father O'Flanagan, saya: sincerely trustį the activities of all men will be for peace and goodwill and that the mia, drawing attention to the Government's efforts to reduce the com policy of those adhering to violence will finally be abandoned, and the mitments hung up by the rebellion. He eulogised General Haldane's people of Ireland be free to return to constitutional methods, whereby wisdom and capacity and his success in breaking up the rebellion. alone their reasonable aspirations can be attained. I heartily join We were only now emerging from a campaign wherein we were fight with you in hoping the season of Christmas will allay the passioning for our lives. We had begun to resume reduction of the garrison. after coa.
which are producing the present hideous and unchristian strife and Mr. Churchill declared it was useless getting excited. The House Educational unil Medical Conf-r.so pave the way for the frank and peaceful discussions with the could dismiss the Government by refusing to vote the additional enres are being held this afternoon, acted representatives of the Irish people, which are essential to a nine millisas for Mesopotamia, but the dismissal would not alter the
Ast and reasonable settlement.
difficulties nor reduce the expenditure. for complete evacuation would
THE BOULON CASE.
Shanghai. Dec. 16. The China Industrial Develop ment Bank has been opened, with) three million tarls deposits,
NEW CHINESE BANK.
Shanghai. Dec. 14. The brief in the Boulon cw have been flied and the decisio will probably be given 1ste pes week.
MURDER PUZZLE.
Mr. Lloyd George's message to Father O'Flanagan was in involve us in heary fighting. It we scuttled out the country would reply to the latter's requesting facilities to communicate with Delbe ruined, and heavier expense would be imposed on the British tax- Valera, at present in America, and Griffith, President of the Republic. Payer. It would be most imprudent to allow the impression to get at present imprisoned in Dublin.
abroad that we were going to be downcast over our responsibilities
The Premier replied to Father O'Flannagan that facilities will out of weakness. be afforded him for seeing Griffith, while as regards De Valera the
General Townsend, in his maiden speech, declared that it was a ordinary methods of communication with America are fully open to mistake to occupy the whole of Mesopotamia. There was no reason, Father O'Flanagan,
CHINA FAMINE RELIEF.
London, Dec. 14.
The organisation of a national appeal for aid for the Chinese famine sperers is progressing. The Lord Mayor presides at a meet- ing at the Mansion House on Thursday. The speakers will include Accomplice More Guilty Than Sir John Jordan, Sir Charles Addis and ex-Minister Sze, while the,
The Principal.
organisation throughout the country will be superintended by Mr. A knotty point in criminal law Donovan, ex-Postmaster at Shanghai. The movement is warmly sup will shortly come
before the ported. The Foreign Office has announced that the Chinese Diplo Canadian Cabine It involves matic and Consolar staffs in Britain are contributing twenty per cent. the curious question how far an of their salaries for three months. accomplice in a murder case can
be regarded as guilty of murder ben the principal (who fired the of manslaughter only. fatal shot) has been found guilty
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strategically or politically, why a single soldier should be kept in Mesopotamia. We should simply hold the province of Basra. That was the solution of the Mesopotamian question. Mr. Courchill Fad said the forces had been reduced to seventy thousand. Ha (General Townsend) declared that seventy thousand troops in the East wers sufficient to conquer half of Asia. If he had had them only the Black Sea would he stopped him. As regards the potentialities of the, country he said that if we put millions into the country as we had done in Egypt then in fifteen or twenty years it would begin to pay. (Cheers).
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Geneva, Dec. 14. The German note to the League on the subject of the Eupen Malmedy question declines to agree to the Council's decision thereanent and suggests fatimidation in the plebiscite, which it therefore asks be declared invalid and a fresh plebiscite taken.
The Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution dealing with the constitution of an International Court of Justice, with the provision The case originated in Quebec.
that it be submitted to the different Governments for ratification, whereafter the Court will be called upon to decide disputes arising father, shot a man named Mor Romeo Remillard, incited by his
between the States. London, Dec. 1-4. rissette, who had called at the The "Daily Mail" in a leader urges action with regard to train-
Geneva, Dec, 15. Remillards house for an addressing Chinese students in Great Britain to avoid the decline of our trade
The Council of the League of Nations has approved of the pro- Morrissette had been mistaken by in China, especially in view of the activities of France, America and tocal voted by the Assembly, establishing a permanent Court of the elder Remillard for someone Japan. It points out the significance of Japan's remitting a portion Justice. The protocol includes a clause, whereby the signatories may of the Boxer Indemnity for the establishment of an engineering school declare the jurisdiction of the Court immediately compulsory on cer- Both father and son were pun China staffed by Japanese, and the fact that the Chinese Minister tain legal questions. The Council also adopted a report-establishing An Army Order has been issued on trial, but before separate juries. Dr. Sze, graduated at Cornell, while Dr. Wellington Koo graduated at an International Commission to institute a scheme of international by the Commander-in-Chief in In the case of the father, a ver Columbia
else.
India stating that he has record-dict of murder was returned, and
ed with regret the serious cases he was sentenced to death. The
of indiscipline which occurred son, however, was found guilty of among the Connaught Rangers manslaughter only. last summer, as a result of which
The father was to have been
- ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE TREATY.
69 non-commissioned officers and hanged on October 22, but the men were tried for rutiny. Of courts have pranted a respite un
London, Dec. 14. fourteen sentenced to death, one til February 25. Efforts were
The "Daily Chronicle" states that M. Krassin has submitted toj tences of the other thirteen were ground that the accomplice can aim at the elimination of the clause regarding Bolshevik propaganda private was shot and the sea-made to secure a new trial on the the Government the Russian amendments to the trade treaty, which commuted to penal servitade or not be guilty of a more serious and the removal of the stipulation regarding recognition of private less penalties; 47 others were crime than the principal. A new debts with Russia. They also demand British legislation safeguarding sentenced to various terms of trial, however, was refused.
Eussian gold from attachment by private persons seeking to re- imprisonment, and eight ware
credits to allow impoverished nations to produce necessary resources
In the course of the discussion Dr. Wellingten Koo, supporting the adoption of the report, said he entirely agreed with the Idea of compulsory jurisdiction, which would extend the supremacy of justice to the whole family of nations.
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VICTORIAN COALMINERS' DEMANDS.
Melbourne, Dec. 14. The State coalminers have presented to the Vittorian Gover
discharged from the army with so far as the courts are concerned, tions have taken
If the capital sentence stands Cover money due from Russia. The "Chronicle" adds that negotiament a new schedule of conditions of work.
a most unfavourable turn in view of the above ignominy.
it will probably be commuted demands.
(Continued on pacé 4.).