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THE WAR.

ALLIES MAY OCCUPY GERMANY INDEFINITELY.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 29TH, 1918.

THE DISINTEGRATION SCHEME.

Losos, November 25th.

In connection with the movement for

155 division of Germany into its various States, ruled as Republics, the Festmine- ter Gazette, referring to the possibility that in the course of the peace, negotia GERMAN STATES MUST PAY is the Allies may be faced with a situation in which the legal personality THE WAR BILL.

in Germany may have undergone a com- FRENCH ENTER THE CAPITAL OF plete change, and Germany, like Austria, may have flown into tragments, says: That cannot be allowed to alter the main fact of the situation; namely, that Germany, as 猛 whole, must be held re- sponsible for the consequences of the war and the German States, whatever their form, must pay the bill."

ALSACE-LORRAINE.

HOME ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING.

"LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

THE AFTERMATH.

DESTITUTION ON THE RUSSO

GERMAN FRONTIER

COPENHAGEN, November 28th, Telegrams report terrible scenes of dis bress among destitute Russian and Ger man prisoners tramping homeward.

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS IN.

» RUSSIA..

STOCKHOLM, November 26th.

A telegram from Fetrograd states that immense crowds, of freed Russian war-

THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR.

BERLIN GOVERNMENT'S · DUPLI

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CITY DENOUNCED.

COPENHAGEN, November 28th. The Foranerts, referring to the Bavarian revelations, vehemently de- nounces the Berlin Government's dupli- city. THE GUILTY MUST BE PUNISHED.

LONDON, November 28th... Lord Robert Cecil, in a ̈speech at Hit- chin, aroused the greatest enthusiasm by declaring that there was no feeling more widely or more deeply held than that

posi

IMPERIAL UNITY. IMPROVED METHODS OF «COMMUNICATION.

COURSE.

The main course is one of a boles and

HEATHER DAY.”

ST. ANDREW'S GOLF

Golfers are reminded that this cours LoyDay, November 28th. will be opened for play on Heather Day "Lord Robert Cecil, speaking at Hitchin, and consequently there will be no occa emphasised the necessity of improving sion for them to go to Fanling, Happy the Constitution of the Empire. He did Valley, Deep Water Bay, or to the

U.S.A.C. coursa at Kowloon. not agree with the Australian Premier's complaint about not being sufficiently will tax the skill of the keenest golfer to consulted as regards the terms of the make a good score. Bankers have to be Armistico, but thought that the complaint negotiated very carefully to avoid disas indicated weakness in our present Iter. The following are the Holes: - perial arrangements, as we had no regular means of consulting the Dominions. Something must be done to improve In- perial consultation and Imperial unity,

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION.

FORMAL ENTRY INTO STRASS-

BOURG.

STRASSBOURG, November 28th. The French Army, headed by General Petain, entered Strassbourg. The city was beflagged and the streets were packed with cheering thousands singing the

** Marseillaise."""

AN OLD STAIN EXPUNGED. **

PARIS, November 28th. -

A Hayaa message says:- Marshal Petain made an official entry into Strasburg yesterday afternoozi.

With the recovery of the old Alsatian

fortress, the stain of 1870, is expunged from the escutcheon of France: Alsace and Lorraine threw themselves into the arms

1st, "The Gully " End, "The Rise,

3rd, "The Armchair 4th. "The Mound 5th, "The Pond 6th,

The Bomboo "

7th, The Long Hole

8th, The Fence " eth,

leet Bogey

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THE EARLY RELATIONS OF THE CHINESE AND THE JAPANESE

CHINESE CULTIVATIONS.

It is necessary to dwell on these details in order to fix well the differences be tween the Chinese and the Japanese, [BY PUTNAM WEALE.]

The Chinese were from the dawn of his (The following are some outline notes tory in race of cultivators, peaceful na all of an interesting lecture given by Mr.

peasants are. The Japanese being pri- Putnam Ieale at the North Chien Cain marily a water-people mixed with a Language School,)

geographical position of Ancient, China, After referring to the map and to the discussing briefly the question who the ancient Chinere vere and where they lived, the lecturer stated that the best authorities were agreed that there was a migration across the desert from a point near the 'Caspian Sea. The system of capitalization which is so extensive in China suffers from a defect that may be derived from its infand origin, namely, that sen-drainage is understood, in which and other respects this form of Chinese activity shows affinity with the ancient systems of Babylonia,

NORTH CHINA,

The Home Hole 50 The total Bogey is, therefore, 23,

There will be a Bogey competition open to ladies and gtritleman. There is no reason why the ladies should not excel

North China is a frontier land, on this Course, and we may remind them glacis, to man the Great Wall. In the that a lady won the 1st prize last year pre-Christian era, when the Great Wall on the 7-hole course in the Fair grounds was commenced, the first fortifed area. when Miniature Golf was first intro-was the Kansa-Shensi-Shansi section, duced in the Colony.

directly protecting the upper valleys of Long driving counts for nothing, and

the Yellow River. Sir Aurel Stein has an ordinary player will have as good discovered many garrison order, dating chance of winning the championship as back to 2,000 years ago, showing what a the scratch or low bandicap player,

The first prizes for the ladies' and of China, Siaafu, Kaifengfu and So strict watch was kept. The older capitals gentlemen's championships have been yang, were situated under cover of the very kindly presented by Sir Paul Great Wall. So far as the lecturer was Chater. The conditions of these com- aware no date had been assigned to the

forest-folk, were fishermen and hunters.

they were thinly scattered in the valleys At the beginning of the Christian era,

and along the consts of their own islands. But the aborigines, whom we know as the Ainus, had not been driven out öf the mountains, and warfare against them was constant and intense Early

Chine: Japanese history is obscure. history shows that between 57 und 247 A.D., Japan sent foar embassies to the courts of the Fan, and Wei dynastics, but it is not until the sixth century that the fight up the relations between Japan and China begins to grow clear. With the spread of Buddhism came the first real knowledge of the Chinese classics, the Japanes written language by means of Chinese ideography dating oily from the seventh century. Scholars date

authentie history from then. Prior to that date there are certain evidences that the peculias Korean scrip was fitfully borrowed, but it never took real root,

LEARNING THE BRIDGE.

It is learning, then, that formed the first bridge between China and Japan, and in this learning Buddhism played a great part. Priests and scholars crossed

in great numbers from China. There was a constant stream of immigrants,

prisoners from Germany are adrift on the frontier, and are suffering terribly from lack of clothing and food. Most of them are ill with consumption and dysen-those responsible for the war should be of the Motherland, and there is no tale Petitions are that a minimum of 40 cards closing of the gap between this section who must have come by way of Korea

tory. Thousands are dying on the road punished, irrespective of rank or side.

M. Lenin has desperately, "but vainly; Eppealed to the local Sovieta to help. Serious political consequences are feared.

A French officer from Russia states that

& great number of horses are dying of starvation in the streeta The Moscow people continue to cat horses and dogs. SOUTH AMERICAN DISPUTE,

LIKELY RUPTURE BETWEEN PERU

AND CHILE.

LONDON," November 28th. An official statement says that Peru has withdrawn her Consula from Chile owing to anti-Peravian riots at Iquique and Antofagasta The trouble was due to the old Tamia-Arico dispute.

THE BRITISH AIR FORCEL HIGH TRIBUTE TO ITS VALOUR AND DEVOTION.

tion.

THE COMING ELECTION.

MR. BONAR LAW'S GLASGOW

SPEECH.

LONDON, November 28th. Numerous election specches were madë' this evening, including one by Mr, Bonar Law at Glasgow.

Mr. Bonar Law said that for the future! of the world and for the sake of the

it was not less essential now than during nations which participated in the war, the war that there should be the same good feeling among the nations that helped to win the war.

Mr. Bonar Law emphasised that it was essential that the British representatives at the Peace Conference should have the support of the whole country.

He repeated that an Allied" victory would have been impossible without the financial assistance of Great Britain, which ran terrible risks. More than once we could only look a week or two ahead as the time during which we could meet our obligations. Yet we were right to run that risk, for without success what

LONDON, November 26th. The Air Council pays a high tribute to the valour and devotion to duty of the Air Force during the war. It says that in every war theatre, by sea and on land, the assistance of the Air Force has been a factor of ever-increasing importance in the operations of the Navy and Army, The Home Defence Air Squadrons, under was the use of gold an security or any very difficult and dangerous conditions,thing else." successfully met the menace of the enemy's

resist.

BABLIER CABLES.

of plebiscites or autonomy.

The troops

in Strasbourg passed through the Place Kleber to the Place Republique, where they defiled in a

must be returned for each. The entrance fee is 82 per round, and any number of rounds thay be played. Bunners-up will also receive prizes.

Ladies' and gentlemen's medal play magnificent colurin past Marshal Petain, competition at 81 per round will be good practice for those aspiring to champion ship honours. First prizes for ladies

amid scenes of emotion:

A short service was held in the

Cathedral.

BRITISH TO HOLD COLOGNE

PARIS, November 28th.

A Havaa message says:- By the Armistice terms, the Allies are to hold the entire west bank of the Rhine

eas in addition to three bridgeheads on the east bank The American Army will occupy Coblenz, the British Cologne, and the French Mayence. RELEASED FRENCH

PRISONERS.

Pans, November 26th.

A Havas essage says:-

. Two the sand French prisoners of war from Germany have arrived in Paris from Darmstadt Over 100,000 other prisoners will make their way home on foot.

GERMAN PEACE MISSION.

PARIS, November 28th.

A Havas message says:** It is stated that the German Mission which takes part in the coming peace preliminaries will not be lodged in Paris, He paid a warm tribute to the Domin but in the environs of the Capital:

Eighty-five per cent of the troops

PRONUNCIATION OF YPRES THE QUEEN'S PRECISION MIS-

and the same for gentlemen.

Mixed Foursome should be popular if one does not want to play too strenuous 1. Entrance fee, 81 per card. For this competition, "prizes will be awarded to the tady and gentleman who do the best medal round.

KOREA.

as well as by sea," and the result may be gathered from the fact that a census of the Japanese nebility, taken in g14 A.D.,

indicated 382 Kordan and Chinese fami- lies against 190 of purely. Japanese

and that at Shanhaikwan, but we know that the Great Wall was constantly being expanded and repaired, even the Ming dyarty adding tops. In eee of time, through the conquest of bina by origin. By this time not only had the Tartar and Mongol conquerors, the centre institutions of China been borrowed, the of gravity shifted north to sing from the Yellow River and Teking is some tight departments of state being created as under the Tang dynasty, but also the extent put of touch with the area in which the bulk of the national interest Nara at the beginning of the eighth ren

official costumes, and the capital at and culture have bren

tery was built on the accepted plan of. the Chinese metropolis, wita pine gates ed in the northern section and approach- and nine avenues, the place being situat- ed by a broad straight avenue dividing the city into two perfectly equal halves. pletely transformed by the adoption of During several centuries Japan vis com- Chiness civilization, extreme foppishness is dress and a great growth of luxury being ascribed by all historians to this period. There can also be no doubt that Chinese suzerainty was admitted may have been expressed only as a cul- tural primacy, but the periodic em bassies which were dispatched certainly carried what was looked on as tribute to the Chinese court, and China enjoyed a higher supremacy in Eastern Asia than she has established since

land. The old Korea of pre-Mongol Chinese of the country had, save its language and times was a Sief of China, everything the syllabary, being Chinese.

It

To turn to Korea. The Old Korean kingdom once stretched far west across the Ya-lu and the Liaotung Peninsula, The Bogey fool competition will be Korean settlements in earlier ges avid open to ladies and gentlemen at 81 per ently extending to a point not far from card, and two prizes will be given. The the Great Wall at Shanhaikwan for there Busty for the course is 2, and the is a Kaoli Menor Korean Gute not opinion of the leading golfers in the fat from Shanhaikwan, where tradition Colony is that the Committees of the ally the entry was made into the Korean golf section has set golfers a hard task "domain. It was Chinese scholars at the to beat The Colonel,”

beginning of the Christian era who Korean Kingdoms, and Clock Golf:-This is where the novice founded the

there is little doubt that this race of at Golf will Have a look in even to the cultivators, like the Chinese, made their extent of beating the test men at the settlements wherever there' TULI waste game. match, on the putting green, and the Many a good player loses his

fearless novice who looks at the hole gad

The fact, therefore, cannot be doubted then hits his ball is just as likely to that the warlike Mongol-Tartar element get there as the golfer who studies every broke asunder the old settlement of non blade of gras to observe how the "nap warlike peoples, leaving pockets or islands of them just as pockets or isländs lies There are three “Clocks," and as of the Slav race have been left in there was so much standing round wait-Austria.

A great change.took place in the charac ing turn last year the Committee have

WHO ARE THE JAPANESE 1.

ter of Japan owing to the feudal era, These remarks are introductory to the which was the result both of the struggle erected a small stand, where intending question. Who are the Japanese You for power between certain leading families competitors may rest until their turn will all know that for political reasons and of the fact that warfare with the It was a certain Yorimoto who in the arrives to play." This stand is not the Japanese trace their en perors from Aint or Yemishi was still in progress.

mythical empress who is supposed to

twelfth century obtained the title of exclusively reserved for golfers. Those have conquered Korea in the seventh cen- Seisitai shogun, Barbarian Subduing interested in the game can view all the tury B.C. There is a great deal more in Generalissima, and just as the office of clock golfers as well as the play on the myths that most people suppose, and Regent had long been hereditary in the there is no renson to doubt that the Fujiwara family, so did the office of 9-hole coureo by paying a fee of $1 at earlier connexion between Korea and Shogun now belong to the Minato family.

Southern Japan was expressed in who established their capital at Kama the gate..

warrior terms.

kura."

That Japan was very well known to the thirteenth century ta. proved by the remarks of Marco Polo. It is well to recall that Japan was reputed very rich in gold and that the people were very warlike. It is to be remembered that one of the objects of the voyages of Columbus was the discovery of the rich island of Zipangu, famous for its gold,. as well as to find the westerly route to the Indies.

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TEUDAL ERA.

air attacks on civilians. The work of the ion and Indian troops. Independent Air Force during recent months contributed powerfully to the dis-would be able to vote at the slection. integration of the enemy's capacity to QUANTITY AGAINST QUALITY. LONDON, November 20th.

TAKEN FOR HICCOUGHS. Sir Edward Carson has decided to Queen Mary is very precise in giving stand for the Belfast Division, instead the correct pronunciation to the names of Dublin University.

of towns in the war zone in France and Colonel Lynch has been adopted as the insists upon others doing the same. No matter whether the Queen is listening to Growing feeling is manifesting itself & General at the head of an army corps they will have the services of two guished investigators of Japanese origins its peculiar characteristics, and the clans

CHAOS IN GERMANY, ALLIES MAY OCCUPY GERMANY

INDEFINITELY.

LONDON, November 26th. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on the chaos in Germany, warns the German people that they must themselves estab.

·lish a responsible Government, otherwise. the "Allica have no alternative but reluct antly to occupy Germany indefinitely; until the existing difficulties are cleared

up.

BREMEN BOLSHEVIKS ROUTED.

COPENHAGEN, November 28th. The Bolsheviks were completely routed "in Bremen.

The crows of the warships at Kiel, passed a "resolation condemning the Berlin extremista.

DR. BOLF DENOUNCED.

·COPENHAGEN, November 20th.

Labour candidate for South Battersel z

H.E the Officer Administering the The "Japanese in any case are partly

GOVERNMENTAL DUALISM. The results of these facts tinge all Government has kindly consented to descended from a double stream of im

migrants who came frore the Asiatic Japanese bistory, and begin that long open the course by playing the first mainland by way of the Peninsula of chapter of a dualism in government which round with Mr. B. M. Dyer, the Pre-Korea, one part being. Manchu Koren or still lives under the present Constitution. sident of the St. Andrew's Society, and Turanian stock, and the other part Japanese society, although owing so much Mongol; but Baels, one of most distin: to Chinese culture, began now to acquire in different parts of the country in she interpolates her corrections automa

or to a wounded Tommy in the hospital, champions of the Colony as caddies.

more dominated the country. Ends also from the recording of many more

couria have favour of a freer hand in the local selectically when the name of a town is pro 500 e.p., Kitaan lamps which will make of Malay stock, the Malay strain being priestly office. Rival Shoguns took the

cephalic indices and from other biome- The court sunk, as Chinese trical data that the Japanese are mainly way of doing, into a ceremonial quasi- the strangest one in their make-up, the field against each other and gradually the by a British staff officer, who said it was day play, and all the committee of the the weaker stock.

The following story was told recently play at night equally as enjoyable 25 inbreeding of centuries having bred out great class of Samurai dominated the

whole scene. related by the Duke of Connaught in Golf section hope for is good weather to

tion of candidates. Mr. Lloyd George has been urged to take the matter in hand to prevent the unnecessary wound ing of local susceptibilities..

The Times, publishing a hundreds of candidates, remarks that the quality is fas less remarkable than the quantity.

nounced incorrectly.

The courses will be well-lighted with

the officers mens a: Aldershot

The Queen spends much time visting ensure success ·· wounded men in the hospital and likes

OF MALAY ORIGIN.

RELATIONS WITH 'CHINA. Relations with China, which had been cordial and intimate during the forma-- tive period. appear to have greatly during the Yuan or Mongol dynasties in diminished in cordiality. We know that

gock to show that

Centuries.

If you strip off the outer Chinese cloth list of

to hear their experiences. There was a

A very fine selection of prizes will being of both Japanese men and women, sergeant in one of the guard regiments awarded to winners, and it is hoped origin, you make a remarkable discovery

for the kimono is purely Chinese in who was severely wounded near Ypres and had received the Victoria Cross for that all who are interested in the royal The men wear a loin-cloth that is pecu. China, an expedition, which led this anberry. The Queen heard about him, and ancient game will roll up and do liar to all the water peoples living in the astrously and and on her next visit to the hospital she

island-groups along the shores of South Japan rejected the claims of suzerainty sat by his bedside and asked him to tell their best to obtain one or more. If eri ass, but is unknown amongst those made by Ching was sent to Japan. Eut BRITISH MAJESTIES VISIT her all the details.

failure attends the spending of the first of Mongolian tace-stock; whilst the under the Ashirago Shaguns in the four- "Well, your Majesty," he "began,

women wear underneath the kimene what teenth, fifteenth and sixteently TO PARIS.

***LK like this. We were at Wipers

10 carry on and spend another $10, is nothing more or less than the sarong increasing importance was attached to the trade with Ching to defray the costs of

•Lepi to märch out and check the attained

interrupted the Queen and and still, another ten until, success is and a little sletseless jacket. Garbed the interminable civil wars.

We know got

like that and placed on the bonts they that the Government at Nanking, when advance of the

After we loft enerny. Wipers

Muchies and putters and balls will be still use, with their sharp curved Malay that city was the capital of the Ming prows, you see, the original invaders dynasty, granted a certain number of Fep, and the Queen again, and supplied on the course, and daddies will moving up from their southern islands commercial passports, and it is a fact every time he mentioned the name of the

In their houses, raised two feet or so worth recording that Japanese sword- old Flemish city she corrected him with be in attendance, Out it having any effect on the Bergeant,

above the ground, one may trace the bladen formed one of the principal arti who called it Wipers 17

Arrangements have been made with the vestigial remains of the water house built cles of the Japanese export trade. every time.

By turning to the history of Japanesa Next day the Duke of Connaught said various Stores that winners of prices may on piles; and although the bla poco he had to call at the hospital, and asked exchange them for others of equal value share with the Korenus the lobit of art we know also that Japan greatly the sergeant what he thought of Queen

moving their shoes and sitting on matted borrowed from China during the Ming Mary after his long talk with her, The rules of golf apply to all com floors, their strong clogs are what is left period. Buddhistic art, brought over by be Queen is a noble woman, Bir," petitions. There are no local rules fot of an invention to enable a normally the Chinese, was replaced by new schools. he replied, but what a

barefooted people to tread the long forest and the contact between China, and Japan was now commercial, and not at all politi, hiecoughs so.

the course.

trails leading up from the seashore.

cal, save fitfully in the matter of Koren.

A WARM WELCOME ASSURED.

PARIB, November 28th 2

A conference of representatives from

A Havas message" says :--- the German Federal States met in

Paris is ready to give the King of Eng Berlin. Herr Eister, the President of land a deeply.felt welcome. The King Bavaria, vigorously denounced Dr. Bolf comes to convey congratulations to the and Herr Erzberger, who were deeply President of France on the great victory compromised, as the representatives of secured by the joint Armies. Paris will

honour England and the Empir

the old régime.

pity she