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THE WAR.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1618,
BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S PARĪS SPEECH
CAUSES SENSATION.
MORE HOPEFUL NEWS FROM
RUSSIA.
KERENSKY AND KORNILOFF IN POWER.
FALL OF FRENCHI GOVERNMENT.
Generali
EARLIER CABLES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. I PRIME MINISTER'S PARIS SPEECH.
CREATES TREMENDOUS:
SENSATION.
LONDON, November 14th,
THE INTER ALLIED COUNCIL.
MR. ASQUITH ASKS QUESTIONS.
LONDON, November 14th.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith, amid cheers, asked what were the fun tions of the proposed Inter-Allied Coun- cil, particularly of its Military Staff, and whether it was proposed that the
Mr. Lloyd George's Paris speech his Council should have power to interfere
crented a tremendous sensation.
with and over-ride the opinions of the Gen- The
RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
KERENSKY ENTERS PETROGRAD,
STOCKHOLM, November 14thi The Swedish Agency learns from Haparanda that M. Kerensky has entered Petrograd and that the Majority troups havo arrested him.
A CORRECTION.
LONDON, November 13th. Douby exists regarding the significance of the mesengo received from Stockholm,
reporting the arrest of M. Kerensky.
The word which was given as arrested actually reached Reuter's Agency as !arrousted???
Reutor's Agency has requested a repetis sion of the orginal message, which now rends as follows:-
M. Kerensky has entered Feograd, where the majority of the troops has jolded him, AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT OF
POSITION
that M. Kerensky now controls Petro
Reuter's Agency authoritatively learns
grad.
Moscow is the headquarters of the Pro- visional Government,
THE COUNTRY IN SAFE HANDS.
The Loninists are holding but only in
Bra
elgian Front,
EARLIER CABLES. THROUGH ELUTE'S AGENCY.].
BRITISH FRONT.
ENEMY ATTACKS BRITISH POSITIONS
LONDON, November 14th. Field Marthal Sir Dougins Haig, in a report, states that the enemy yesterday siternoon attacked our positions on the high ground north of Passchendaele, bat was completely repulsed
FRENCH FRONT. ARTILLERY ACTIVITY.
PAR16, November 14th. A communique states There is great reciprocal artillery firing on the right of the Mouse.. Aerial Activities.
EARLIER CABLES. THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.]
AIRCRAFT OPERA
TIONS.
NAVAL
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LONDON, November 14th. The Admiralty announces that the Naval Air Service carried out yesterday numerous patrole.
There were several engagements
in
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[BE COURTESY OF THE
BAN P
ĐÔNG NGÔI
FASHIONABLE POVERTY
NO MORE OF KEEPING UP APPEARANCES."
Not very long ago the worst part of middle-class poverty was that it was a TO OPPOSE THE BWATOW ARMY disgrace which one had to hide away care.
fully lest anyone should suspect it. Now FERING November 14th.
a-days it has become just as unfashion- nable to be rich, ostentation and idleness La Hoo ohi, the Tuchun of Tukien, has are condemned as lack of taste as well sent an army to Swatcw and has urged without shame to economise in our food as lack of patriotism. We are allowed. Liangsi, Hanan and Kingchow to render and dress and to wait upon ourselves. help to Mak King-yu,
The ideal of the fine lady who might not, soil her white hands bas been superseded by that of the capable woman of affairs not afraid of any necessary work
SENATE'S NEW CHAIRMAN: A meeting of the Senate was held yes terday for the purpose of electing Choirtnan. Wang Yi-tong was elected.
YUNNAN TO DECLARE
INDEPENDENCE"
a
It is reported that the Yunnan military officers will declare their independence against Tong Chi-yoo.
CANTON NEWS.
[BY COURTESY OF THE “CHUNG NUOI
SAN PO.
PROPOSED LOẠN, I
CANTON, November 15th.
Owing to the present condition of the Provincial Treasury a certain high official has applied to the manager of the Mitsui Bussan - Kaisha for a loan of 600,000 Yen,
the Telephone Co. It is provided, that all apparatus for telephones shall be purchased from this ârm in futuro.
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appearances is part, and it is astonis - All the terrible worry" of keeping up
ing how much less one needs when one has act to please other people as well as oneself. One fools so delightfully indo pendent becau • public opinion permits une to whæl the peramulator and to carry one's or parcels without loss of self.. respect, War time, you know, serves as amplo excuse for doing any ener menial jeba
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Since our last servant left us to make munitions we have been managing by ourselves with only occasional help, one woman said, and I am sure we shall not try to get another as long as we are allowed to lead a simpler life. The howe breathe, such an exhilarating atmosphere of freedom since we have had në stronger living in it, and we have even discovered how nice it is to have our meals in the kitchen, I take a genuine pride in the which I was denied when dignity demand brightness of my silver and my pans,
ed that I should leave them to the care of the maid. The work eren does not appear so great although I do it all myself, and I regret the many hours I wasted outer-
House of Commons was taken by surprise eral Staff at home or the Cominander-in-a small part of Petrograd. Otherw1804 which one enemy machine was destrove for a term of 3 years, on the security of taming and being entertained by people and is disposed to be critical. The speech Chief on the field on matters of strategy: the whole of Russia is in the hunds and three driven down out of control.
is interpreted in some quarters as he tokening a desire by the Prime Minister 10 interfere with the military leaders: hence it is hoped that Mr. Lloyd George will make an explanation correcting this impression
Mr.
friends
Much interest, is displayed in Asquith's attitude, but the declare that at present he is not seeking
the Premiershiji.
STRONG PRESS COMMENTS, The Daily Telegraph refers to the
· political; atmosphere of suspicion, and denounces the attempt which it alleges 3s being made to bring down the Lloyd' George Administration.
Whother the Military Staff of the Counthe Provisional Government cfl would have its own Intelligence and Operations Departments; Whether the ultimate decision regarding the distribu- tion and movement of the armies would rost with the Council or the Governments represented thereon, and. Whether there would be an opportunity to discuss the proposed arrangements and Mr. Lloyd's
statements at Paris in connection there
with.
PRIME MINISTER EXPLAINS.
General Kaledin is the Dictator Southern Russia.
The orders of the Provisional Govern- ment are being signed by M. General Korniloff, and General Kaledin. Kerensky
The Allied Embassies are now in touch with M. Kerensky.
The Cossacks destroyed the Red Guard,
which is the chief Leninist Regiment. The population of Petrograd is now
ly hitting the sheds.
We bombed Hontavo aerodrome, direct
All our machines returned. Italian Front
EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY ] ITALIAN FRONT. GEBMAN CLAIMS.
MILITARY AFFAIRS.
cared nothing about, and in trying to persuade en incompetent servant to do better than she could ***
Drees, too, is not the burden it uscul to be when one owed it to oncself to wear a It is proposed to catablish a military frock as new and fashionable as one's best regime in Wuchow similar to that which almost disappeared from our vocabulary, friends. The adjective" dowdy { bas
existed in Shui Hing last year. General and one may put on last year's hat with
t year Luk Wing-ting a the head and will have out fearing to face the world so long as
A
Kit remains uitat and becoming. under his control the military affairs of Instead of tearing across country a
motor-cars,__overing the green with defiling dust, the joys of the quiet picnic in some beauty spot near at hand have been revived, and the bicycle, loug, despised, has been restored to popularity. Some of us have even been allowed to
Kwangtung, Kwangai and Hunan
It is understood that Chan Ping-kwan, ex-Tuchun of Kwangtung, will be trans LONDON November Mt.ferred to Kwangsi as Tuchun, The
hedger
Mr. Lloyd George, replying, proceeded tearing down the Leninist, proclamations A German wireless official messige previous proposal that Chan should lend forego our annual holiday trip without
states:-We stormed snow-clad hill posi- tions to the east of Asingo and armoured works on Monte Lissor.
to read the terms of the Franco-Italian” British Agreement creating the Allies', Supreme War Council. The first clanse
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
OVERTHROWN.
LONDON, November 14th.
We have captured Primoland and
The Morning Post says that a study of states that the Council will be composed M. Painlese, the French Premier in Feltre.
of the Prime Minister and a member of
concluding his speech before the French the speech confirms the worst fears that the Government of each Great Power Chamber (the first part of which an Mr. Lloyd George really intends his
whose armies are fighting
on the Western Political Council direct Allied
Front The extension of the Council's strategy, and worns Mr. Lloyd George
scope to other fronty is reserved for dis
to
peared in yesterday's isstie), relurred to the immense American resources, and said that the Allied nations would soon
PUPPETS OF FATE"! GERMANS WHO PREFERRED
DEATH TO GERMANY, Y.
“Being forced to choose between going
troops against Swatow or Hanny has not adverse criticism, and have stayed st been adopted.
THE TUCHUN'S DEPARTURE,
The Tuchun, Chan Ping-kwan, has de- cided to go to Wuchow to see General Luk. Chan left yesterday evening by the gun- boat kwungtung. He is expected to re turn in about a week Meanwhile his duties have been undertaken by Mok Wington, Lam Fu, and Chan Kwan-put, Chap's staff still remains in other but
home doing the jobs which have been weighing on our minds for many months, instead of violating our hundrum tastes by pretending to be gay at a crowded watering place. At one time we would not have believed that we could hav enjoyed
money
ourselves without spending
We have learub to associate lack of az- finement with waste. Luxury is vulgär, restraint is more pleasing to good taste. Pleasure has a rarer flavour if taken in mall occasional doses as relaxation from the honourable task of doing one's dats, instead of being
that he will have a spili. it be interferession with a Great Power concerned. be able to complete the armament of the to Gerinany and death 1 have chosen the people are more or less excited at his itself. tgarded as an end in
with General Sir William Robertson and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
The second clause says that the Council's
new armies and simultaneously develop latter.".
The Dally Chronicle Lobbyist learnsmission is to watch over the general con- the aerial services. The German drea
-authoritatively that the speech was not
son and Sir Douglas Haig.
duct of the war, to prepare recommenda of defeating the Alles by the destruc
These were the opening words of Micgiried Franz Paul, 67, German, who letter written to a Loadon coroner by There died in hospital from the effects of their 10-year-old boy Conrad were found vernonal polsoning. He, his wife, and
unconscious in bed at their flat at Duiver Holborn They were e moved to
ton Mansoital, where the man died.
secret departure. ANOTHER ADHERENT.
It is reported that Chan Kwang-yuen. the Tuchun of Kiang-si, has informed the representatives sent by Chan Ping-kwan that he will join the South West
Another report says that Commander
The Chamber then passed a vote of and received notice to leave the coun Li Luk kwan has ordered Cheun Heiyu:
confidence, un a motion relying on the Government to assure complete unity of Allied diplomatic and military action all fronts.
on
to send troops to prevent a force sent from Kiang-si from entering Kwongtang,
try and been given a permit to travel, He
The veroner read a remarcable letter which included his wife and child which he had received from Paul. The LUNG AND LUK. letter began with the words quoted above, and continued:
་ང་
· A urssage from King-chow states that
actuated by hostility to General Robert tions for Government decision and totion of tonnage had vanished..
keep itself informed of their execution were diffen months ahead, but, he asked, The comment of the Daily News is in and report thereon to their respective who feared to face them now? the strongest language and denounces Governments, The General Staff and the unparalleled crime of encouraging Military Commands of the Armies of each the enemy and depressing ourselves by Power remain responsible to their respec the shameful slur on the dead in the tive Governments, while general war travesty of the battle of the Somune." plaas drawn up by competent military The journal declares that Mr. Lloyd authorities are to be submitted to the
M. Painleve's subsequent demand for It is impossible to go to Germany, General Lung Chai-kwong and General George, having disposed of his political Supreme War Council, which, under the a postponement of the debate on the in fact that I was born there, I have ac Luk Wing ting propose to combine their
a country with which, in spite of the rivals, proposes to make himself Military authority of the Government, ensures terpellations on judicial affairs till after syaipathy whatever. armies and make the same protest against Dictator. The Daily News Lobbyist their concordance and submits any neces- the Inter-Allied Conference, Ind to great
All my life I have been opposed the Peking Government, says it is dificult to ignore the longary changes. Euch Power delegates to excitement, ✅ and
I WAS defeated, current reports of controversies between the Supreme War Council one permanent although M. Painleve had made it a ques Mr. Lloyd George and General Robert military representative whose exclusive tion of confidence, son, and Sir Douglas Haig He says there were rumours yesterday that the members of the Army Council had sent
in their resignations.
function is technically to advise the Coun eil, The Military Representatives will re- cive from the Government and competent military authorities of their country all
FORCES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT.
PARIS, November 14th. The overthrow of the Ministry was
The papers publish a letter from Major Proposals, information and documents directly due to M. Painleve's disinclina Philip. Sassoon, Sir Douglas Hair relating to the conduct of the war. The tion to afford a date before November
wato secretary, to
pri-
Mayor of Folkes-
Military Representatives will watch daily with for interpellations on the Govern
tone, exhorting the props of England to the situation of the Forces and the means ment's internal policy, particularly with refuse to be diverted from the steady and of every sort of which the Allied and regard to the scandals cabled previously. relentless progress of the British armics enemy armies dispose. The War Council This resulted in such parties as the Ex- in Flanders, which is the outstanding will meet normally at Versailles at least treme Left and Right joining the forces feature of the war, declaring that once a month, but might meet at other against the Goveranient. nothing the enemy can do on other fronts agreed places according to circumstances. can prevent his ultimato defeat.
All the newspapers lay stress on the fact that foreign policy is not at issue.
CONFIDENCE IN LORD
GERMAN RULE IN BELGIUM
A SHOCKING INDICTMENT.
Tender hearts are no longer forn by the startling contrasts between rich and por which vexed them before the war. The spirit of self-sacrifice has spread among all classes, and the feeling that we are countrymen and countrywomen and are one with the majority of our fellow-
sharing their work and their deprivations is, not the least of the pleasures of the new poverty.-M. B. in the Daily Mail..
A HUMANE GERMAN.
CHARGED WITH REFUSING TO BULLY PRISONERS.
The Leipuig People's Gurelie Bolly tung) has published an account by Councillor Schick of Bochum, of the treatment accorded to a compang of prisoners under his charge who were digging potators. The wife of the farmer whose polates were being lifted, WAL furious because the prisoners dug all the tubers carefully and thus got less out per hour than free labourers on prece work, who left many in the ground came out accompanied by dogs and shou
Schick
to order the guards to fira ther with he ground that the doing
to the military system, which has been a curso to the German people. have no intention at this late date to change iny views or run the risk of having to support, in however small
aman nern system which I detest and abhur. If my wife could have found work I would have left her behind trusted my boy to her care; we have found her nationality an apparently insurmountable bar to finding work, and as I cannot leave her any money man occupation. In the course of an in Schick refined on the and she is equally opposed to Germany, terview with a representative of Router's prison
prisoners Abe has decided to share my fate
A physician of Brussels who has suc- celed in escaping from Beigium tells ed to
a pathetic story of the sufferings in the yonet
Belgian capital resulting from the Ger the
Agency he said that for
now the
thezz
Despite repeated interference
best
he
Our boy, of course, accompany scarcity of food has beeld, and dosnife bad treatment, bad
the
health of the
under-
him compels us to take him with us. ~~~
all sugu their very best, and I saw no cuson to To save you trouble I may add we and fat, and the only food containing use force agains, them. They came from bave taken a overdose of veronal, ibumen provided for the inhabitants is a reprisals camp, were o educated. and Yours
very truly,
aration of less than 2lbs of bacon month-
enough to do What 920 could S. F. PAUL
ly Pork and bef, where obtainable, cost humanly demand "them The following pestscript was added:
There is also great
Schick is now
by the general now charged I think it well to state that only adulteration of what food is to be obtain
Commanding
the distri on the
ground a few shillings will be found in money, ed It is quite a common thing for in-of accusation by the farmer's but that must not be taken as evidence dividuals to lose within a few months of being a caroles supervisors The affair * that want, of money has driven us to 2316 to 35lb. in weight, has come to light because Schuck exposed
take this step. For the last 12 mouths The case of the children is particularly the methods of free labourers whereby en I have had practically constant literary serious for, in spite of charitable efforts the Pomeranian farma quantities of work which is quite sufficient to enable in providing extra meals for the late potatoes carelessly dug by free labourers. me to keep my family and myself. ones and sending some to Holland to were lost to consumption.
We both hold that our duty to mini systematically to udging, and bar food the prisoners did
am eure of a continuance of this work
recuperate, Tickets and tuberculosis
These two diseases alone show
i could have faced the future were ran over 40 per cent. xa the
it not for the
to leave the cou
the rest
Jetter, frang neighbour WAR 350
reade
This
Bin
an
ipi
past
DEPORT THE HYPHENATES,
me from going with poether prering from tube i lands and -xpressed the opinion, that the unfriendly.
PROBABLE PREMIER The Permanent Military Representatives The names of MM. Clemencenal, The Daily Mail says that the speech is and their staffs have been established at Viviani, Barthou and Pans have bold and candid, but there were many
Versailles- From the foregoing it is been mentioned for the Premiership. passages a Prime Minister should have clear that the Council will have no execu- FOREIGN POLICY NOT AT ISSUE. suppressed because of the lack of wisdom tive Power, and that final decisions on
two years. Out of 300 children ex- in representing an opinion and not a matters of strategy and distribution in
amined by the doctor this year hatt I were In an interview, resently, Mr Cerard feet.
the movement of the various armies in
to the lowered
epidemich Germans in the United States should be The Timce says that Mr. Lloyd George's the field would rest with the Allied Gov-
of measles, whooping and scarlet departed to their real fatherland, He FRENCH
dwn mamms but my loyal
feelings for
for leves are not only more hun
TERTONS but declared the German type of mind, did object is absolutely sound, but not his ernment. Therefore, there would be no review of past events, especially his un Operations Department attached to the In the House of Commons, replying table
LONDON, November 11th stred of the German Government and This
while work etsitribute the leniency shown to German-American crities to good nature all the beastly
Bt Jean Hospital, the largest or to generosity, but to fear. Those who and in Brusela, ho treated hundred of depor in fortunate · suggestion that all the past Council. The Allies' object had been to to Mr. A. Lynch, Mr. Boner
stated that the War Cabinet had consid. So it 1
De other COL
would go to her at once toss who had been sent back from Ger- preferred Germany to America, and they best that we all three many. Most of these poor people came allowed to return to their country of Ge were only a small minority, should be sleep. I am always so very from Alost, Termonde, Ghent, and and bard, even in the good times when
badly bruised, hubby had the booke to transiste
to my
than
Roland and my sincere diagustan mo Zecom atatesh
who do TELETRIALA
efforts of the Allies were unwise or establish a contral body who would contered all the possibilities of the invasion of us have prayed, you how neighbourhood. The limbs of many were and fht there, not here, where:
FRENCH PRESS FAVOURABLE. LONDON, November 14th. Fromy a mass of comment in the French Press on Mr. Lloyd George's speech,
and
́and
ITALIAN SHIPPING, AG had no trouble. I always prayed hands andrewers had crusher they have turned against, the hand that
LONDORY November 14th thanked Him gratefully for all His kindey, had been forced to hovered nation and are in thug war to W
tinuously survey the field of operations of Britain and had every confidence in as a whole in the light of information Lord French derived from all fronts, by all Govern ments and Stais, and vo-ordinating plans prepared by the different General Staffs posals for the better conduct of the war. and, if necessary, making its own pro
November 19th for a dimension of the rubjout and
also for a discussion of the Paris speech.
fed them.. Mr. Gerard edged :— When of the work the Gernian people realise we are a unit those who came in during During the week ending November 14th won't have anything t
ness. But I
then will come the end of the war. I am afraid that even God suffered from severe frost bites
to do with Germans." ing in sous cars amputation. About have been told that coonomically GermaDY. and the sailings 33334
know that in my next life I will thirty of these died from exhaustion, will be able to continue fighting Jor- There was Que Vassel sunk, this being am about to commit, but a sailing ship of over 100 tons
Just puppets of fute.
mostly favourable there emerges one The Government proposed to set aside the Italian Shipping, arrivals were 384 to suffer for the wrong 1 Saverti patients were submitted in a stale ungher year ham of opinion that she
definite note, which is, that unity of command is what is mainly needful.
we are of coma caused by starvation, and no-less any hold cut a ixttle longer than that,
than half in the dispensary were found but Cot much longer-Davy Zelfson to be tuberculous
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