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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919. 日五十月五未已大全年人國民奉中

TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mait)

PARLIAMENT.

FEDERAL DEVOLUTION.

LONDON, June 5. The House of Commons by 187 to 34 passed a-motion urging the Gov ernment to appoint a parliamentary body to consider and report on a measure of federal devolution creat ing subordinate legislatures within the United Kingdom.

LABOUR LEADERS NO PULL

WITH PREMIER.. Mr. Ronald McNeill called atten- tion to a report that certain labour leaders and influential personages had put pressure on Mr. Lloyd George to modify the peace terms favourably to Germany.

Mr. Bonar Law replying gave the assurance that neither the Premier nor any other British delegate could be influenced by any particular in- terest but would be guided by what he believed to be the public interest The Premier certainly had not seen Mr. Ramsay Macdonald er Mr. Arthur Henderson. To the best of his knowledge the Premier consulted only the British and Oversea de legates in Paris and a considerable number of his colleagues in the Government who went to Paris ex- pressly in order to confer with him. TO GET AN EMPIRE AIR FORCE.

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HOW ADMIRALTY DISPOSES..

LONDON, June 5.

`TO-DAY'S CABLES.

(Reuter's Bervice to the China Milalt.)

SUEZ CANAL STRIKE.

LONDON, June 5.

Reuter learns authoritively that the strike of Suez Canal workers continues. The outlook is again unfavourable. Further trouble is anticipated.

RHENISH KAPUBLIC.

BERLIN ANGER.

BERLIN, June 4.

"The Admiralty has issued instruc- tions revising the boundaries of naval stations from June 1. except pro- visionally in the case of the new Australian station, the limits of which have not yet been finally settled, as Herr Erzberger bas handed Mar regards the dividing line between it shal Foch a second: Note arguing and the China station on the one that the Entente's toleration of the hand and between it and the New treasonable machinations In Rhenish Zealand station on the other, A territory violates Article Five of the distribution of the Fleet as compared ing the entente to facilitate the great change is effected in the armistice. Furthermore he is expect-j with the situation during the German prosecution of the principal traitors menace for which it was customary for high treason which was inaugur to have a battle fleet in the Far East. i ated by the supreme, attorney of It may be assumed, says the Times' Leipzig and to permit their arrest naval correspondent, that such a and removal for trial. policy will shortly-commend itself again.

prewar

times

COPENHAGEN, June 4.

strated against the proclamation of workers of Aix-la-Chapelle demon A telegram from Berlin says the

the Rhenish Republic.

OCCUPATION AUTHORITIES

"NOT PAF CIPATING.

extent be stations whereon squadrons The naval stations, will to some will be distributed to remain as in Dominion navies introduces a new until the rise of

MUNICH, June 4. feature which is bound to extend its Ernst Tollen, "the dictator of influence in time. Neither Canada Munich" during the Soviet regime, cor South Africa yet possesses a has been arrested on a charge of seagoing feet but the limits of high treason. stations of British forces in their waters would probably be unchanged if they provided themselves with navies. Apparently the scheme of division has been framed in

RUSSELS, June S. Replying to Col. Ashley, Maj. Gen-order to allow for the future

The new Rhenish Republic has Seely announced that the Govern development of Dominion feets been well received in the occupied ment had approved the proposal by The naval stations of north America zone. Belgian politicians' favour the Air Council that a gift of and the West Indies station now such a republic but declare it must aeroplanes should be made to each embraces the waters of both the be created by the Germans unassisted Dominion and to India and to any Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, the by the occupation authorities. Dr. of the colonial governments or pro- Panama Canal forming a connecting Dorten, the new president, has pro- tectorates requiring machines. The link. Similarly the South America claimed a general election on the object of the Government was to station extends into both occans, basis of universal suffrage of men assist the Dominions, India, colonies including on the Pacific side the and women over twenty years of and protectorates to establish air waters of Chile and Peru. The vast age. The occupation authorities are forces thereby developing a common expanse of the Pacific Ocean is thus not participating in the conflict. air defence for the empire. CABLE DELAYS. GOVERNMENT MESSAGES TO TAKE THEIR TURN,

divided among no fewer than ave stations. Further developments are fairly certain and it should not be difficult to revive a Pacific squadron, possibly with headquarters at Her bertshoehe in New Britain.

PEACE TERMS.

DECISIONS. BY COUNCIL OF FOUR.

At question time Mr. Illingworth stated that owing to the congestion The Home station is naturally the of the Eastern Telegraph Company's most important of the nine among

PARIS, June 5. cables arrangements had recently which the oceans are divided and been made to suspend priority of the force commissioned therein com- discussion of the German counter- The Council of Four continued its transmission for government teleprises both the Atlantic and Home proposals. It seems probable that grams except in the case of really fleets and, of course the reserve

urgent ones. Consequently govern squadrons and flotillas. Although any changes will only involve the ment telegrams were now dealt with one of the smallest stations it Procedure for carrying out the terms similarly to commercial telegrams reaches northward into the Arctic conditions in the slightest degree. without affecting the Allies' essential and special steps were being taken Sea and southward to a little above It is apparently certain that Germany to reduce their number and length, the Cape Verde Islands, westward will be unrepresented on the repar It was admitted that many messages nearly to the longitude of Cape ations committee and not permitted to Australia were taking ten to

Farewell, Greenland, and naturally twelve days. (Laughter). The cables it includes the North Sea and the to restore the devastated, regions

herself. to Gibraltar were restored but faults Baltic. The next most importan: in one or two prevented their full station is the Mediterranean, the Le Journal states that the Allies use. The American Pacifc cable only other station at present whereon have adopted a compromise between was still interrupted but he hoped it

the force includes a battle squadron, the Belgian and Dutch standpoints would be repaired in a few days. The beadquarters station is Malta with regard to the revision of the thus somewhat relieving the conges and it extends from the straits of treaty of 1839 which takes into con tion to the Far East.

Gibraltar to the Straits of Babe sideration the Dutch desire to pre- Lieut. Col. Sanders stated that the whole mediterranean and Red Sea.

Mandeb, comprising therefore the serve the integrity of their territory. The newspapers state that the

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PARIS STRIKES.

PARIS, June 5. The dispute of the underground railway employees is partly settled but the strikers have decided to resume work only when the tram ways and motorbus employees receive satisfaction.

BOLSHEVIST WAR.

NEWS OF PETROGRAD'S FALL PREMATURE.

mon the Turkish, plenipotentiaries to participate in the negotiations with regard to the fate of the Ot toman empire.

AUSTRIAN VIEWS.

VIENNA, June 3.. Whilst the newspapers unanimous- COPENHAGEN, June 4 ly declare that the peace terms for An Esthonian communique says Austria are impossible and unaccept- Esthonian troops in eastern Lettland able it is not suggested that the continued their victorious forced treaty should not be signed. It is marches against Kreutzburg on the hoped that the Austrian delegates Dvina, and captured 1.900 prisoners, will be able to obtain better terms. a heavy battery, and a number of WHAT STRIKERS WANT.

machine guns on June, 1 and 2.

PARIS, June 5. Reports continually appearing in The financial (Austrian) terms as PARIS, June 5.

the Press about the capture of completed do. not specify a sum for The underground railway workers Petrograd

are very premature. reparation. That is left to the com- demand a minimum wage of 450 Vigorous counter attacks by Bolsh-mission to examine the resources and france monthly, a pension at fifty eviks west and northwest of Gatchina determine the amount and method of years, and the right to a certain pen continue." Their repulse by the payments. sion after fifteen years' service.. northern corps has not yet achieved PARIS, June 4, a decisive result. Nothing is known The employes of the great Prin. at Esthonian Headquarters of a temps stores decided to resume work Finnish advance on Petrograd. The after a conference between the strike northern corps is solely engaged in committee and the directors. Their repelling attacks. demands were partially satisfied.

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THE AFGHAN BOTHER

SIMLA, June 10,

Reuter's special correspondent at

LONDON, June 5. In Transcaspia, owing to our bombardment and aerial bombing, the Bolsheviks evacuated Alexandrovsk

NAVAL FIGHTS.

STOCKHOLM, June 4. Helsingfors reports, there have

Peshawar says numerous reports from been two engagements between Jellibid tell of increasing unrest in Bolshevist and British warships. The

CRICKET.

LONDON, June 5. Notts beat Derbyshire by an innings and 49 runs.

The matches, Yorkshire v. Essex and Lancs, v. Northants were drawn.

BILVER

LONDON, June 5. Montagu's report says that mainly the Afghan army," of want of dis first occurred off Bjorkoe on the owing to scantiness of supplies prices cipline among troops and of growing afternoon of June 1 when two British have risen during the week although lawlessness in the districts occupied ships met four Bolshevist and cap trade and enquiry has been less by them. There is a certain reaction tured their tramport. The second active. Shanghai exchange is quoted In Kabul where the people agree that occurred in the Gulf of Finland at 58. 3d. the power rests in the bands of the five in the afternoon of June 2

LONDON, June 5. soldiers. The Kabulis are afraid to between six Bolshevist and an un Silver is quoted 53 1/7 to 530d. discuss events and it is impossible to stated number of British ships, The market is steady. discover what is happening in the resulting in the Bolshevists fleeing royal palace.

after an hour's violent cannonade,

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