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THE DOLLAR

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ISHED

May 16, 1923, Temperature 77.

Barometer 29 83. Rainfall 0.00, inch. Humidity 84

Temperature 82.

No. 18.877.

三邦雞 號六十月五年三十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 19.3.

日一初月四玄癸次崇年二十國民暉中

SOVIETS' STATUS.

COMING BACK.

HOME LABOUR LEADER'S DEMAND.

CHARGES AGAINST DEPORTED IRISHMEN.

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RECOGNITION OVERDUE.

(Reuter's Service to the China Mail.)

LONDON, May 15.

"HOME SECRETARY'S POSITION.

́(Reuter's Service to the Chind Mail,)

LONDON, May, 15:

Mr. Krassin was seated in the distinguished In the House of Commons, questioned with re- strangers' gallery of the House Commons to heargard to the Irish deportees, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the debate asising our of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's Chancellor of Exchequer, announced that the motion for a reduction of the Foreign Office vote." - Government would introduce to-day an indemnity Mr. MacDonald bill which it hoped to have passed by the night of demanded that May 29 The House would meet again, after Britain accept the Whitsun, on May 28 instead of May 29 with that Soviet Government object.".

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as it accepted the Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, Home Secretary, Tsar's Government. announced that I view of the House of Lords' de- Then the accumula-cision, the Government is to-day requesting the tion of accusations Free State Government, to return the prisoners to contained in the England and he did not doubt that the Free State British note, assume would comply. ing they were ac- curate, would be dis posed of diploma

The Government would consider the question of criminal proceedings against coriain internees, and subject thereto the internees would be released on their return to England. '.

tically as they arose. He did not deny

(The House of Lords decided that it could not that the British hed interfere with the Appeal Court's decision granting. a right to protest the writ of Habeas Corpus applied for by ArtO'Brien, vigorously if leader of the Irish Self-Determination League, who Moscow was foster- was arrested in the big March round-up and deport- ing revolution and ed. The Court based its decision on the ground that the Home Secretary was not empowered to violence in Britain, order the internment of a person in the Irish Free India and the East, etc., but he demanded that the State. The indemnity bill the Government is introducing is designed to protect the Home Secre- Government produce textual documents. He tary who would otherwise be liable to severe declared that it was useless to imagine that art ex- penalties.] change of heated documents, written by a bitter minded man on one side to a pompous-minded man on the other, would have satisfactory results.

GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE, ‚'

Mr. Ronald McMeill, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, declared the Soviets reply was en- tirely unsatisfactory on all points. He warmly denied auy lack of friendship with the Russian people and recalled that the heroic sacrifices of the We were Russians saved Paris carly in the war. not proposing to tear up the trade agreement but to see it was observed,

HOME COUNTY CRICKET.

SOME INTERESTING CONTESTS.

LONDON, May 15. The match between Hampshire and Surrey was drawn. For Surrey Shepherd scored 133 runs, and Harrison 155 not out. The Hants player Mead

made 106 not out...

Yorkshire beat Middlesex by an innings and 229 mua For Yorkshire Rhodes made 126, and Kilner in the second innings took 6 wickets for 14

runs

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Mr. McNeill asked the House to accept the assur ance of the absolute trustworthiness of the evidenco regarding propaganda. He declared that in addition Lancire beat Leicestershire by as junings to Mr. Davison who was murdered in 1920 and Mrs and 109 rane. The Lucastrian Parkin took it for

98. Stan Harding who was imprisoned the same year, at least 116 Britons had been wrongfully imprisoned in revolting conditions.

Even the reply relating to the trawlers, said Mr. McNeill, was unsatisfactory because it offered neither compensation nor assurances regarding the

future.

CONFERENCE PLAN REJECTED.

As regards the suggestion for a conference, the Government was not going to be drawn into negoti- ations where trumped up counter claims would be again advanced.

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Lord Curzon was willing to meet Mr. Krassin if the latter desired. Moreover a reasonable extension of the time limit might be granted to enable Mr. Krassin to communicate with Moscow, but nothing less than compliance with our demands would satisfy, 119,

FRANCE'S HEAVY HAND.

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Gloucester beat Essex in the first innings. Glamorgan beat Worcester in the first innings Northants beat Warwick in the first innings The Northants player Woolley in the first innings made 145. The Warwick man Quaife in the second innings made 121.

Notts best Derby in the first innings. The Notts player George Gunn in the first innings made

220.

Sussex beat Cambridge in the first innings.

Kent beat Oxford in the first innings. The Kent player Woolley in the second innings made 107.

QUEEN'S INCOGNITO TRAVELS.

ENGLAND CHOSEN THIS YEAR.

THE HAGUE, May 15, Queen Wilbelmina intends to visit England this year, travelling incognito as is customary during her annual trip abroad.

(Queen Wilhelmina Helena Paulina Maria was

MORE GERMAN CONCERNS TAKEN OVER, born in 1880. She succeeded her late father. King

MINERS' STRIKE PROTEST.

BERLIN, May 15.

A French regiment this morning occupied the Baden Aniline and Soda Works at Ludwigshafen. The employes were not allowed to enter and work has come to a standstill.

COLOGNE, May 15.

William III, in 1890, and was married in 1901 to Prince Henry, Prince of the Netherlands and Duke of Mecklenburg.

PACIFIC DEFENCE.

SYDNEY THE CENTRE?

MELBOURNE, May 15,

Mr. Bruce, the Premier, is reticent with regard The Belgians have occupied the Beurath and to Colonel Repington's suggestion in a London Victoria lignite mines. The miners have struck as newspaper that the defence of the Pacific could be a protest.

better managed from Sydney than from Singapore, but he remarked this would certainly bea matter for serious consideration by the Imperial Conference.

The Belgians have also occupied the railway station at Ockoven:

JAPAN ANSWERS GERMANY,

PARIS, May 15. The Japanese reply to the German note declines to accept the proposals on account of the total sum offered and the methods of payment suggested, afso the guarantees. The reply expresses the opinion that Germany should do, what is necessary to facilitate settlement of the reparation problem.

STATE OF SIEGĖ.

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