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THE WAR.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY

CURIOUS SIDE-LIGHTS ON THE REVOLUTION IN GERMANY:

NO SIGN OF NATIONAL REPENTANCE:

ANOTHER APPEAL TO BRITISH STATESMEN

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF

THE KUT GARRISON.

ALLIED PROTEST TO HOLLAND.

SOLDIERS SHOW LITTLE INTEREST IN GENERAL ELECTION.

LATEST CABLER.

THE ARMISTICE GERMANY'S DESPAIRING APPEAL,

AMSTERDAM, November 20th, The Forncerts publishes an appcal by Prince Lichnowsky to Great Britain, especially to Lord Lansdowne, Viscount

ALLIES TO OCCUPY WILHELM-

SHAVEN.

AMSTERDAM, November 20th.

A telegram from Hamburg states that the Workers and Soldiers' Council an nonaces the probability of the enemy occupying Wilhelmshaven

other

and

FRENCH REACH RHINE LEFT

BANK.

LONDON, November 21st

A French communiqué states: We occupy Neuf-Brissach, Huminge and St. Louis on the left bank of the Rhine.

LATER

A French enmmuniqué vastates. We passed Given, where 8,000 Allied prisoners had collected. We occupied the

Deuf Chateau, but were unable to reach St. Avold and Saarbrucken, in Lorraine, and Obornas, south-west of Strassburg

in Alsace.

"GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM.

LONDON, November 20th.

The Ministry of Food announces that it will not be permitted to send food supplies to Germany until the Allied Food. Council has satisfied itself concern- ing the condition, in Germany.

LATEST CABLES.

THE GERMAN REVOLUTION.

NO SIGN OF NATIONAL REPENT- ANCE IN GERMANY.-

LONDON, November 21st... A correspondent, Mr. Harold Williams,

NOVEMBER 23RD, 1918.

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES OF

THE KUT GARRISON. HOW THE TURKS TREATED THEIR PRISONERS.

LONDON, November 20th. Appalling revelations of cruelty to British prisoners, this time by the Turks, have been made in a White Paper, issued today. The report teems with details of extortion, robbery and Bloggings, but these are trivial compared with the fendish treatment of the Kut garrison.

3,900 have been reported dead, while 2,922, Of 16,583 men captured by the Turks,

all belonging to the Rut garrison, remain untraced

THEIR MAJESTIES IN SCOTLAND.

SELF-DETERMINATION.

GERMAN HALLUCINATION. LONDON, November 21st.

COPENHAGEN, November 29th. Thair Majesties, and the Prince of Wales, received a very hearty reception Herr Haaso, on behalf of the Govern

A telegram From Berlin states that to-day in Edinburgh.

ment, telegraphed to the Strasburg Replying to an address of welcome the Soviet that the Allied occupation of King paid a tribute to the patriotism of Alsace-Lorraine does not prejudice the Scotland and said that every theatre of solution of the question in accordance" war had testified to the valour and uneen with the principle of self-determination." - querible spirit of the Scottish troops

BRITISH CONSCIENTIOUS whose deeds would live for ever in history THE KING WITH HIS FLEET.

ROMYTH, November 21st. Their Majesties lunched with the Bit tish, French and American Admirals on When the Turks entered Kut, the garri-nessed the departure of the fast destroy board Admiral Beatty's flagship and wit weakened by long privation, were marched to an unsheltered point in theers, forming a vanguard of some 200 fight desert near Shamran and there the men lay for a week unprotected from the sun and rain, 300 dying,

s

On the 100 miles march to Bagdad deaths occurred on the road-side daily, Yood being very short. The heat was intense, and there were perpetual clouds of dust. A great number of the men,were bootless.

After the exchange of prisoners in August, 1916, the remainder of the pri soners were sent 500 miles across the

Grey, and Mr. H. H. Asquith, urging naval bases in accordance with the con in Geneva, confirms the impression, which Syrian Desert to Asia Minor where the

the latter, on behalf of the high ideals of humanity and justice. to use their far reaching influence with a view to securing an amelioration of the Armistice terms.

LATER.

LONDON, November 21st.

Mr. H. H Asquith, interviewed re- garding Prince Lichnowsky's appeal, enid that the terms of the Armistice, did not in the least exceed the just necessities of the case. Germany had brought on the terms by her own, acts. THE HANDING OVER OF U-BOATS

LONDON, November 218.

Stern civility on the part of the British and suppressed surliness on the part of the German, characterized the surrender of the U-boats yesterday. A feature of the ceremony indeed, was the remarkable silence.

Rear-Admiral Tyrwhitt prohibited manifestations of any sort when the U-boats, were pissing, and issued an order that there should be absolutely no fraternisation

As the British Commander of a de stroyer remarked to correspondents; "We shall treat them with the contempt they deserve, but there will be no out- burst. Everything will be done strictly in accordance with naval etiquette."

ditions of the Armistice and urges the inhabitants to remain calm.

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most terrible experiences occurred.

had been already obvious from the despatches during the past week, that the

The sights in the villages and halting GERMAN SOLDIERS CROSS THE revolution in Germany has been characying exhausted in all stages of dysentery places hardly bear talling, parties of men

terised by a remarkable indifference, to, and almost regret for, the overthrow of the Kaiser and other monarchs.

RHINE.

COLONGE, November 21st.. The Volks Zeitung states that large bodies of German troops," trying to reach Berlin, have crossed the Rhine in spite of the Cordon system.

EARLIER CABLES,

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION.

PARIS, November-20th.

A Elavas message says":- French troops yesterday entered. Metz and were received with the utmost enthusiasm.

The honor of taking possession of the

intensified.

and starvation.

They were half-clothed and bootless. The dead ny unburied, stripped of their clothing.

OBJECTORS.

NO RELEASE FROM PRESENT EMPLOYMENT.

LONDON. November 20th.

sent employments us such a release would The Lioverament has declined to release Conscientious Objectors from their pre confer on them an advantage over the

ing ships, to whom the German war soldiers and sailors. vessels will surrender to-morrow,

The King reviewed the entire, Grand Fleet and was received everywhere with

tremendous enthusiasur.

EARLIER CABLES,

DEPORTED. GERMANS. QUESTION OF THEIR RETURN TO

THE EMPIRE.

LONDON, November 20th, GERMAN ILL-TREATMENT OF time, Mr. Bonar Law stated that it was In the House of Commons, at question

imposible at present to decide the ques tion of the return of Germans to those

PRISONERS.

SHARP REBUKE FROM BRITISH

GOVERNMENT. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar

announced that

the following message bad been sent to the German

Law

Government and to Sir Douglas Haig for

quarters:-- communication to the German Hend-

"Information reaches His Majesty's Government of the shocking lack of organisation in the release of British return; on foot, miserably clothed, with- prisoners in Germany; and of their

out food, transport, escort er guide," to the Allied lines, with the result that there

While there is not the faintest sign of national repentance, be says that the All across the desert starving and dying hostility to the Allies" has been rather men in tens and twenties lay in any scrap

He points out that not a of shade or mud: hovel single manifesto has been published from the Kaiser and other monarchs to journey across the Taurus Mountains,mortality.

In September, 1916, abou: 1,000 began has been lamentable suffering and heavy announcing their abdications. ·German being forced forward by butt ends of rifles. arrogance persists with surprising dia

Many dropped dead from sheer inani cipline notwithstanding the acceptance tion. of the new authority. PROTEST AGAINST ABOLITION OF

REICHSTAG.

COPENHAGEN, November 20th, message from Berlin states that the city fell to the Tenth Army and a big-Chairman of the Reichsing contests the toric ceremony took place. The troops, | Government's right to abolish the Reich- beaded by General Petain, marched tag. He has notified the Government past on the Esplanade, General Fetain that he reserves the right to summon it standing in front of the statue of

if necessary.. Marshal Ney.

Many inhabitants of German birth în Metz took part in the exciting reception, cheering, the French regiments. The Te Deum was sung at the Metz Cathedral

General Petain received the Vicar General. the German Bishop being

Accordingly, at the rendezvous, fire As a Felixtowe, the British stolidly" boarded the U-boats."The absent. officers were asked questions, as regards the state of the vessels. The then took their stations aft and the German crews forward,

When General Petain reviewed the Army on the Esplanade the batteries at Saint Symphorien thundered, and 600 aeroplanes flew over the city.

ENTRY INTO MULHOUSE, General Hirschauer, a native of Mul. house, entered the city, heading the 188th

NON-BOLSHEVIK ELEMENTS DOMINATE SITUATION.

AMSTERDAM, November 20th.- Heer Liebknecht has been removed by the Government troops from the Palace in Berlin where he had taken up bis residence.

The Lokal Anzeiger states that there are also other indications that the non- Bolshevik elements are more and more dominating the situation in Berlin. General

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH EZUTKE'S AGENCY.]

Thus they proceeded to Harwich, There were thousands of spectators on the banks of the Stour, reflecting the official coldness of the reception; by a disdainful silence, as

the procession Division. He was received with deliri-THE EXCLUSION OF GERMANS wended its way up the river to the

ous enthusiasm. mooring place in Parkestone Quay.

The Germans were not allowed to land.

The old Cure of Cetty died of emotion at the Town Hall"

The first passenger train from Nancy

They were immediately transferred to to Metz since August 1st, 1914, ran

THE LIBERATION OF LORRAINE

a destroyer as each U-boat was moored, yesterday. and taken to a German transport out- side, for repatriation. THE SURRENDER OF THE GERMAN FLEET.

LONDON, November 1st.

PARIS, November 20th.

On the occasion of the entry into Metz, General Mangiu issued a proclamation

follows:-

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"The regime of oppression and vexa- tion which you endured for half-a-

GOVERNMENT BILL TO BE INTRODUCED,

LONDON, November 20th. "

In the House of Lords, Viscount Cave stated that all interned Germans would

introduce a Bill empowering them to be repatriated The Government would

exclude foreigners in peace time, the same as in war-time, and to differentiate between nationals of different countries. He was personally of the opinion that no German should be allowed to land on British shores.

COLONIES.

The scene can only be likened to Dante's Inferno. Less than half the number of those crossing the mountains survived.

ALLIED GOVERNMENTS' TROTEST TO HULLAND.

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PARIS, November glat. It is understood that the Allied Govern- ments have decided to protest to Holland against the breach of neutrality in per mitting German troops to traverze Lim- barg.

parts of the British Empire from where they had been deported,

FREIGHT REDUCTIONS. RICE FROM INDO-CHINA.

PARIS., November 20th. It is of cially announced that freights on rice and caoutchone from Indo-China will be immediately reduced to 600 and 630 franes respectively.

THE

PERIOD OF RECON-

STRUCTION. BRITISH PREMIER'S POLICY.

Logneş, “November 21st. In the course of his letter to Mr. Bonar Law, cabled on November 16th, the Premier, after stating that his policy did not include taxation of food, says that he will not interfere with the granting of preference un articles such as

BELGUIM.

His Majesty's Government cannot tolerate the continuance of this cruel

sist that adequate arrangements be made COALITIONG OVERNMENT IN streatment (Loud chcera) and must in tea and coffee, on which duty is imposed.

in all the above respects by the Germao authorities with whom the responsibility lies. Otherwise we shall be compelled to take this into secount in any question of. re-victualling Germany or satisfying the requirements of the German population.

His Majesty's Government are ready to lend all available assistance by for- warding food, clothing and transport to the primers campes, where they are not otherwise forthcoming, and are address-

NO MORE MEATLESS DAYS IN ing the Allied Commander, in this sense.

BERLIN.

'AMSTERDAM, November 21 The Tageblate states that besides rais

the last meatless week in Berlin." ing the bread ration, next week will be

THE 1914-15 STAR,

THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSAL.

LONDON, November 20th. In the House of Commons, Mr. J, "I. Macpherson stated that the 1914-16 Star would be given to local representatives or next-of-kin of those who fell in Gallipoli, according as the soldier died testate or intestate.

Sir Douglas Haig has also been 'in- structed to take every possible step to

clothing and means of conveyance for the forward as rapidly as possible food,

use of our prisoners in Germany, and our Allies are being asked, to co-operates in this respect" (Cheers.).

GERMANY'S TREASON AGAINST HUMANITY..

PARIS, November 20th,

A Havas message 2438 :— Alsace, Belgium, and various parts of Allied prisoners-of-war released from Germany, arrive daily at the Gare de l'Est, Paris, in the last stage of exhaus tion, at the rate of about 1,000 daily, hungry, in rags, and wearing wooden clogs.

THE GENERAL ELECTION. SOLDIERS SHOW NO INTEREST.

LONDON, November 21st.

For the first time one candidate is using The election, campaign is in full swing

aeroplane to visit his constituents out! of London. The soldiers outside Great Britain, in France and Belgium and the newly occupied territory, can vote by post- The soldiers in other theatres of war can

AMSTERDAM, November 20th. Hundreds of prisoners-of-war, includ- vote by proxy, but only a small per- ing British, Italians and Russians, are centage of voters are exercising their strenining across the Dutch frontier.

The fog, which had been shrouding the Firth of Forth for six days, disappeared yesterday. The weather prospect is very promising for the surrender of the Ger-century has been abolished for ever. The THE FUTURE OF THE GERMAN right. Officers and men have hitherto

army of the Republic brings Lorraine liberty and justice. France opens her arms wide to all her recovered children."

AMERICAN ARMY ENTERS LUXEMBURG

man fcet to-day. GERMANY'S BLATANT REPLY TO MARSHAL FOCH.

AMSTERDAM, November 20th,

LONDON, November 21st.

LONDON, November 21st. Mr. Walter Long has written to the The German High Command, replying

Agent General of New South Wales, in to Marshal Foch's protest against the

reply to the enquiry regarding the German acts of violence in Belgium, states

future of the German, colonies, stating An American communiqué states:—— that the German Plenipotentiaries, in the

that the Prime Minister had anthorized Our Third Army crossed the German him to say that the whole support of the Armistice discussions, emphasised very frontier of 1914 and entered Luxemburg. Government would be given to the claims strongly that the execution of the terras We made further progress in Southern of the Dominions on this subject. The was technically imposible. The condi- tions would result in excesses. The blame Belgium, and reached a line as follows: Prime Minister had alrendy made this. rests exclusively on the Allied Army Comanditigen, Welmeringen, Dudelange, clear to the Representatives of the Allied

Mondercange, Antelbes and Grandel, in Paris.

MER

shown little inclination to vote. In some cases the ballot papers were used for light ing fires.

Among well known Members of Parlin-

Burt, John Burns, A. Birrell, Jesse tent not seeking re-election are, Messrs

Collings, & P. W. Swift, I. G. 8. Mac

ill and Admiral Meux

civilisation.

PRISONERS STREAMING INTO HOLLAND."

KING ALBERT'S IMPORTANT DECISION.

BRUGES. November 20th. King Albert has decided to form a new Government, representing all the chief Parties.

REPATRIATION OF WAR

PRISONERS.

ARRANGEMENTS WORKING

SATISFACTORILT.

Lostos, November 21st. The Quarter-Master General states that the arrangements for the repatria tion, of war prisoners is working satis factorily.

and: 800 more are expected to-night.

Sixteen hundred have arrived at Dover

Two hundred and eighty-five officera and 3,023 men'have arrived at Hull.

Over 5.000 have arrived in the area occupied by the Fifth Army in France.

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, November 20th. The silver market is steady.

GERMAN CRACK-UP". BIR JOIN MAXWELL'S ACCURATE FORECAST

Lieut. General Sir John Maxwell, Com mander-in-Chief, Northern Command, speaking at a Mansion House gathering 1t York on September 4th gave a re The return of the prisoners is a living' markable accurate forecast of events. He proof of the accusation of treason against continue as we were going on in the war raid he was persuaded that if we could bumanity, for which Germany must a little while longer we should get the British soldiers died on reaching port, vulgarism, the tail of the German dog

aswer. One hundred and seventy

people into such state of and apprehension that, to use & Germany is for ever outside the ban of would be between its legs. At that moment the Germans undoubtedly were showing a very decadent moral, and the Austrians were in a very bad way economically and in a military tense.. About Russia, though she was crushed, there were enormous potential of men that were deducted from the West ties; and it required an enormous ern German army to keep order. Bul- garia and Furkey would only remain allics of Germany as long as there was war.

possibility of Germany winning the The events of the last few weeks had shown us, and be thought would prove that the German Empire was,

very AMSTERDAM, November 20th. near the point when there would be events Eleven German torpedo-boats have was impossible to say with any accuracy of far-reaching importance, though, it

the arrived at a Dutch frontier-station from what they would be. We must not build Antwerp. All have been interned.

up too great hopes, but he thought re should find that there would be, and very it not think the GERMANY'S LOSSES IN THE Once It begun he did he dorman Power, the war would be very far off. Once the German nation cracked it would crack atterly. We had done a great deal by force of arms, and he was hopeful that what we did not do would be accomplished March this year one had to be very by the German nation itself Up to sanguine indeed to say that Germany bad not a sporting chance of winning the war; now he did not think she had a dog's chance

GERMANTORPEDO

INTERNED.

WAR.

BOATS

FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY

COPENHAGEN, November 20th BUDAPEST.

A telegram from Berlin states that the German caualties are 1,880,000 dead, PARIS, November 21st. 260,000 missing, and 490,000 prisoners. French troops will occupy Budapest, The number of wounded men is and Constantind to-day,

4,000,000,

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