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February 15, 1920, Temperature 49.

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No. 18,183.

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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1921. 號五十月二年二十二百九千一英

日八初月正酉辛克童年十國與華中

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PARLIAMENT BEOPENING."

*GOVERNMENT'S MOST DANGEROUS SESSION.

BRILLIANT CEREMONY TO-DAY.

MUCH ROWDINESS IN SOUTH WALËS BY-ELECT

LONDON, February 14, The King reopens Parliament to-morrow with pre-war splendour. Their Majesties in their State robes wearing crowns and driving in's gilded coach escorted by the Household Cavalry, while the Foot Gards, will reappear In the glory of their bearskins and scarlet tisoles. Moreore: the Spanish, Franch, Italian, and Japanese Ambassadors have decided to ride to West minater in their State coaches. The King and Quees will be received at the entrance of the House of Lards with ancient pomp and circumstance, but no spectators will greet the King in the Royal Gallery as the public is still excluded from Parlament. This acknowledgment of Sina Feir activities presages a topic which will open the Parliamentary battle for the inde- pendent Liberals and Labour members to give Ireland the place of honour In their amendments to the Address in preference to unemployment and re trenchment which will be clamorously debated later.

A BITTER FEUD.

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WORKERS WANTED,

AN URGENT CALL.

The second detachment of famine relief workers recruited by the person- act committee of the United Inter" national Famine Refe! Committee has already proceeded to the Reld and si urgent call has been sent out for others, especially those who can re- main for a minimum of one month.

Philip A. Swartz, chairman of the recruiting division says the special need now is for workers who can re- main for a month or still better, for full period of relief.

Constant recruiting is necessary il the work is to be expanded and the programme must be expanded to save the people, Mr. Swartz says..

While knowledge of the Mandarin tongue is not necessary in all lines of work, it is necessary in most lines and the most argent call is for those who know the language.

KILLIONAIRE MURDERED.

POLITICIAN'S ASPIRATIONS.

There was a meeting of the Cabinet presided over by Mr. Lloyd George to-day on the eve of what the Government's critics describe as its TRAGEDY OF AMBITION. most dangerous session. These critics are not satisfied, with the new ministerial appointments on the ground that they are a mere re-shuffling of places. A curious fact is that Sir Worthington Evans was not appointed Air Minister and it is presumed that Mr. Churchill will carry on at the Air Ministry until a separate minister has been appointed. The changes. A story of high political ambition involve only one by-election namely at Dudley. Altogether five by-elections lies behind the alleged murder three are pending, amely at East Woolwich, Moseley, Cardiganshire and weeks ago by his niece, Clare Smith, Penistone. The most interesting is Cardiganshire where a religious and of Mr. Jake Hamon, the multi-mil- lionaire and politician, at Ardmore,

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Mr. Lloyd George among 23,000 Liberal, electors, one section regarding made by certain of the dead man's him as a lost leader and the other as a national saviour

EVENTFUL BY ELECTION. -

There has been much rowdiness. Mr. Evans, one of Mr. Lloyd George's secretaries, belongs to the Calvinistic Methodists whose ministers are serving in both camps. Their most eloqüent preacher who is opposing Mr. Evans was howled down The Rev. Thomas, President-elect of the Welsh Baptists, which is Mr. Lloyd George's sect, is against the Coalition A meeting of Mr. Llewellyn Willams', workerk at Newquay was broken up, driven into the street and stoned. Mr. Willems had to circularise angry "Aberystwyth students urging them not to break up a meeting addressed by Mr. Ian Macpherson on Saturday, Mr. Lloyd Gauges actively campaign ing the constituency with Lady Bonham Carter on the other side Seven thousand Conservative electors will probably turn the scale in favour of Mr Lloyd George who is expected to make an important statement on his ministerial policy in the House of Commons in order to reassure the Doubt ing Thomases on the eve of polling on February 18.

FRENCH SOCIALISTS.

SOVIET GOVERNMENT'S BRUTALITY CENSURED.

THE PATH TO TYRANNÝ.

PARIS, February 14.

A Hates message states: The Council of the French Socialist Party affiliated with the Third Internationale passed a motion expressing sympathy with the Russian revolution but censuring the brutal and uncompromising attitude of the Soviet Government. The Council akoow- ledged the declaration of the German Independent Socialist Party requesting the German Government frankly to admit Hability to reparations - and blaming the pan-German agitation. A congress of French dissident Socialists passed also a motion rejecting the Russian Soviet regime which far from emancipating the proletarian class leads straight to tyranny such as the French people will never submit to..

KUMANIA AND COMMUNISÍM.

BUCHAREST, February 14.

The universal socialist problem of communism was settled in Rúmanía in a similar manner to that in the majority of European countries recently by the rejection of the terms and a split in the party.

-TAXPAYERS, BURDEN.

BRITISH COMMITMENTS IN MIDDLE EAST,

MR. CHURCHILL'S PROPOSALS.

LONDON, Febraźcy. 14°

In saying farewell to the War Office staff, Mr. Winston Churchill foreshadowed a reduction in British commitments in the Middle East and the establishment of a Middle East Department. He pointed out that we had undertaken to maintain troops at Constantinople and carry, our mandates in Palestine and Mesopotamia, but when he had established the Middle East Department, the machinery of which be would set up in a few months, he proposed to relieve the Army votes of the formidable charges with which they were burdened. He hoped to lighten the taxpayers' burdens by bring ing the regions mentioned into a less extravagant condition than now,

TRAUS IMPROVEMENT.

FAR EASTERN MARKETS NOW HEALTHIER,

LONDON, February

friends.

-Hamon lived for several years with his niece, who in a diary and in in- terviews described him as **a beas: " and a devil" who enslaved her," rained her life." and "killed her When found after her fight soul.” to Texas a few days ago the girl said that she killed Hamon when be an- nounced his intention of leaving her to go back to his wife.

His reason for doing this has been the subject of speculation. Now, on the eve of the girl's arrival in cus tedy at Ardmore, Hamon's reason is disclosed. His wife is a cousin of Mrs. Warren Harding, wife of the

Himon was un President-elect.

aware of this relation till he met Mr. Harding at the "Republican National Convention in June, when Mr. Hard- ing was adopted a candidate for the Presidency and Hamon was elected to the Republican National Commit- tee, the governing body of the party.

Hamon realised what value the mar- riage connection with the President would be to his own political future. Bu Mr. Harding is well known, as a home domestic man to whom a domestic scandal is extremely diş- tasteful.

So Clara Smith had to go, sacrificed on the altar of Hamon's ambition.

CHINESE STUDENTS:

BOXER INDEMNITY.

PLEA FOR £100,000 A YEAR.

In the memorandum which it has rust issued dealing with the education of Chinese students in Britain the China Association "makes the sugges- tion that a modest portion of the Bozer Indemnity should be diverted to the maintenance of Chinese students in England, following the example of the United States. With £100,000 a year," it states, wonders.could be accomplished, and the objections weigh as nothing in the balance against the advantages to British

"

Of the nations which had a share in the Boxer indemnity, Germany and Austria have already waived the hole amount of their claims in the Treaty of Versailles. The United States has waived nearly half its claim and applied it to the education of Chinese-in America: France is de voting a large part of the som she received to the maintenance of Chi- Dese students in French institutions and works. There remain only Italy, Belgium, and Great Britain, aho have not so far taken any similar action

"How "long" asks the Chine Association, could the British Government resist a demand to have the whole question re-opened? Would it not be better to act betimes and gain some damage from a yelim king zary remission? No other compro

mise would tend so much to maintain

The trade current is at last changing "to a more healthy direction, especially in the markets of the Far East, declared Mr. Kellaway,

at Northampton. In the nizantime the stablisation of exchanges and The former is a symptom barter is useless under present conditions.

not a disease,

LONDON, February 14.

Coats thread mills at Faisley have reverted to full time if there time due to sccumulation of stocks. The prospects are regarded as good.

friendly, relations

The association does not advocate the absolute cancellation of the, in demnity, but only the application of small part of it to strengthening the social and trade, relations between Great Britain and China.

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