1918-12-12 — Page 5

THE WAR.

. THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19TH, 1918.

KAISER ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

DEMOBILISATION OF BRITISH ARMY

FREE

COMMENCES.

PASSAGES TO HONGKONG:

FOR SOLDIERS' WIVES. FAMILIES AND FIANCEES.

ABOLITION OF CONSCRIPTION RECOMMENDED.

THE LAST OF THE ROMANOFFS MURDERED.

BIG COTTON STRIKE IN ENGLAND.

LATEST CARLES

THROUGH MEUTER'S AGENCY ]

GOOD NEWS FOR THE SOLDIERS.

PREE PASSAGES FOR WIVES, FAMILIES AND FIANCEES

Lupos, Devender 5th It is officially atinented that passages wait by ratatosis fushed for WARM mol fatu-lies of officers and anen, and for the pouries of man who are permanently eluguged m for Regula, Army, serving Overseas Carpe, but not in Infantry.

Cavalry and Avidlery, except the Royal Garrison Artillery.

Husbands and forces must be serving to the terms of Paragraph 1389 of the King - Regulations of 1992 of Appendix.

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Army Hegulatione, pr in the case uf staff officers, for at least 12 months from

December 3th

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Those who provoked the war must be THE ALLIED OCCUPATION. made to pay the penalty. The more exalt. !

PARIS, December, sth.

ed ones were most responsible. Democracy ENTHUSIASTIC SCENES AT METZ. must no fashion its judgment that the Kings, Emperors, Crown Princes and such like, will know, in the future, if they bring upon the earth such wretched. mese, the kind of penalty that will inevit- ably fall on their own beads.

The Pence Conference iust abolish the

A Havas message says. Metz went into transports of rapture over the ceremonjal Rate ALPI of the President of the Republic, with M jet'lemenceau, Marshal Foch, nrshak

gigantic conscript Armies which have offre, Field Marshal Sir Dongius Haig. been the means of tempting the rulers to General Pershing. Marshal Pelaio, aud

Lord Derby. Never did Motz see so dis tinguished a

of campany

visitors nod

were the arrow streeta

sra lbtt]

make war.

COALITION GOVERNMENT'S

INTENTIONS.

LONDON, December 9th.

The Coalition Headquarters RIZIKATION that if the Coalition Government i turned to power, the Government will goj to the Peace Conference with the definitel intention of proposing the abolition of conscription in Europe.

RUSSIAN REPRESENTATION.

NEW YORK, December 4th Prince Lyoff. ex Premer of Russin, an M. Bakhtetell, Russian Ambassador to the IgUnited States, and other Russian leaders,

five have sailed for Frange to attend a Cun

ference of Russian Diplomats in Paris on flissian representation at the Pence Con This fereuer.

The second step wall be the summoning about March of a plenary Pence Confer

of the Allied Powers. The

fu Allies will probably have three Delegates, the soulter Allies, probably two and the newly Ubernded states, n this process of formation, our Delegate Conference wal) he the lug Peace Congress 10% decisions will probably form the round plan of the Sories of Nations to which the enemy will be asked to sign und which will be sulamitted to the Conference

THE FATE OF NORTHERN

SCHLESWIG.

LONDON, December 8th. Reuter authoritatively learns that the StatementS napating from repeated

of the whole world as a basis for a deci Germany that Northern Schleswig has sion of a Bocety of Nations in subsequent | been reded to Dentuark, are wholly un- International Toeeting The plenary true.

Alhed Peace Conference will probably sit

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at the Galerie des Glaces where the Ger-pared in come to an agreement with Ger- man Engure proclaimed the end of the many on the subject and will leave the settlement to the Peace Conference, on the Franeo. Pyussian way.

basis of self-determination and the prin- ciples of automality as outlined by the

Much spade work wil be elit 151

smaller Comuottees, meeting at the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, which will tackle the ques tions like the new frontiers, International status of Fentral European Powers and the Waterways of the Rinne and Danube,

etc.

BELGIUM'S DEMANDS.

Associated Governments.

NO GERMAN BANKS FOR FIVE YEARS.

LONDON. December 5th. Lord Stanley, President of the Board uf Trade, declares: -There is no possibili. ty of the German banks re-opening for

Rever

MERCHANT SHIPPING.

POSITION AT END OF OCTOBER.

LONDON, December 6th, The effect of the war on the Merchant Shipping of the United Kingdom is 'strikingly illustrated by a Parliamentary Paper which shows that on etuber 3184. the position of world tonnage was

Lowry

VAINE.

15.053 70 cops

11.h19,527

New Yoast ruction Exciny tonnage cap

Lared

2,392,675

New Loss

1.811,584 The position of British tonninge, exclud nig Transfers to and from the British ng Theft the same dije was

LisaM

lisarly decorated.

President Poncate presented. in front of the statue of Marshal Ney esplanade, to tieneral Petain, the baton of a Marshal of France, saying are worthy of the famous Lorraine Gen Erval Fabert.

You

There was a formal pes iew of troops. hended by the Americais, and a proces ston through the town.

The President left at forur in the alter noon for Strasbourg, and as spending the night in the tram.

MEMORABLE SCENES IN STRASS

BOURG.

Dual 488 tons

GAINS

estruction.

6,342,200

53301,000)

Nes

United Kingdotu Purchases abroad Enemy Toonage enj

turer!

Net loss

716,020

3,443,01%

THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS. ATTORNEY GENERAL PREPARES

TROUBLOUS GERMANY.

PROMINENT INDUSTRIALISTS

ARRESTED.

AMSTERDAM, December 10th. A telegrun from Muelheimster states that the prominent Industrialists, August Thyssen, Freitz Thyssen, Edmund Stinnes and others, were arrested yesterday by the Workers and Soldiers' Council on charges of Aramm in attempting to induce the

for treesid jag be ndustrial region. FORMATION OF A BOYALIST PARTY

PARES. Deepminst 10th. Juter avier wunds, from Holland, that Prins Henvy of Prussia, bns pro jeboizmed the Fw.tarin ..f и Royalist

Party

-POLITICAL MEETINGS IN BERLIN.

AMSTERDAM, Deceanber 10th. large number of political meetings was Alegram from Berlo states that al

held the apital on December 8th, wiele mehude all ha stes of Socialist Virunpes, and trembers of the Spartacus Filetera!. There were authsorders.

Du Decenter it disturbances arose over an attengit, by several thousands of soldiers, to swerthrow the Rareufive of the Beels Sacri, po prelama Republio arlo taka Hem Elert. President. Here Ebert has refused, BRITISH TROOPS RESTORE ORDER.

Caprione, December 10tb. The Bartosh troops have restored order. charged actors, soldiers and studenta. Munt of the loving as being done by đầu

British sentries patrol the great. Rhino Bridge The fientans held the eastern end," and "the British machine gunneru command

strategic points. Tho Burgomaster expressed appreciation of the British courtesy THE LAST OF THE ROMAN-

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HOW THE TSAR MET HIS END].

A MEMORANDUM

Lastus, Dewamber lüth. STKASSWOO KG, Déormier nth. Sir PE South, squeaking at Liverpool, Fresideda Potucare, descompanied by said he wots preparing a memorandum for Marshala Foch, and offre, General the War Cabonet on the subject of the Petun, Sir D. Raig. M. Clemenceau and I freedom of the was We would probably mumerous Senators and Deputies, officialty | tell the Peace Conference that we were: entered the pawn and was archimed by

Adeveriam, December 5th, quite satisfied with the definition. the A telegram rom Herlin states that the the 1970 Veterans and the Allied troops.

freedom of the was," cumbling the British

Kieff newspapers publish details of Lhas murder of the ex Tsar and his family by The President, in a sperrb, definitely Navy in fature wars to do exactly what Bolshevike, at the Convent of Ekaterin rezented tite idea of a plebisette in Alsace the Navy assisted by the America Navy-cellar, lined up agnst a wall, and shot burg, on July 17th They were taken to m had been doing during the past eighteen one after the ber ntonths.

The Czar's last request was to die with the sick Carina u kis »

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and stated that Great Britain, the United States and Italy were absolutely vinced of the country's determination GERMAN NAVAL SURRENDER adhere to France

ADMIRAL BROWNING'S FURTHER DEMANDS.

The pronouncement aroused a moving) outhers of patriotic joy

OFFICIAL TAKING OVER OF

ALSAUE LORRAINE.

Loston, December 9th.

A Havas message statem On Sunday. President Poincare, M.

Applications T the cases of fancies

Clemenceau, and a number of civilian will be subject to the existetice of vacan

officials of Francs, met ut. Metz, and wok | civs,

the a ried establishinent.

over, officially, the possession of Lorraine The Belgian Foreign Minister, M Passages will be only afforded to North Hymans, has issued a statement indicatat least five year after prace; and then Four special trains left Paris yesterday

Hongkong. Singapoer, Ceylon, ing that Beigium at the Peace Conference, only with the consent of Parliament. with several Deputies and other guests.

MAKING GERMANY DISGORGE. India, Mauritius, Bounth Africa, Egypt, would probably ask for a review of the

. There was a sweżał train for the Presi Sierra Leone, Malta, Gibraltar, Jamaica, | Treaty of 1999, under which Belgium was.

Patus, Dreember 8th. dent, the Premier. Marshal Joffre, Presi- The Finance Minister states that the dents of the Senate and the Chamber of Bermuds, and foreign counters where] deprived of the principal portions of her Military Attartós are merelated

pruvinces of Limburg and Luxemburg. Armistice

kas formulated | Deputies.

Alama.

Applications chume on Junonry 1st when all the shipping will probably be required for Army deadu! malhotr

PORES.

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DEMOBILISATION OF THE BRITISH ARMY.

COMMENCED IN LONDON ON

MONDAY.

LONDON, December 10th

Demobilisation began in London yes

terday and it is expected that by the end of a week several thousands will arrive daily. The mua disbanding cen the is at Wimbledon for troops coming

from France.

COMING PEACE CONFERENCE

M. Hymans thinks that Holland might to renounce her monopoly of the Scheidt which unfairly and unnecessarily bottles up the port of Antwerp '

PRESIDENT' WILSON'S VISIT TO

PARIS.

PARIS, Dreember 9th.

A Havas message says,

President Wilson will receive a right

royal welcome in Paris, and will be re-

Commission

the conditions for the fulfilment of the On Monday, the President will take) linancial clauses of the Armistice The official possession of Alence at Strass-

onthers, stipulate | bourg. conditions,

THE ENTRY INTO AIX-LA-

CHAPELLE.

LONDON, December stb.

Std. The Grand Duchess Tatiana was only wounded, and was subsequently killed with maile bates The corpses werɑ hurned in the outskirts of Ekaterinburg.

FURTHER BRUTAL MURDERS,

HARBIN November 30th. It has bees confirmed that the Bol- desheviks, nt Alapaevsk, in Eastern Russin, ordered the Grand Duke Berge Michaelo vitch, the tirandizab Frodorovna, Prince

Constantino and Ivar, also Prince Palei, to jump into amine shaft. The bodies have len sinon found. The names of all the murderera are known.

London, Deceber 9th. Admiral Sir Montagu Browning's nunds include the surrender of the new Dreadnought cruiser Mackensen, which was not finished when the Fleet was sur rendered.

It is noteworthy, in his connection, that Germany unsuccessfully tried to palm of substitutes for the Allied mor chant vessels which had to be given up! oven although condemned by the German Prize Courts. These must be returned to stipulated harbours intact, at Germany's expense.

COTTON STRIE. AT HOME

FIFTY MILLION SPINDLES IDLE.

LONDON, December 9th, The cotton strike is in full operation and 100,000 spinners, and fifty million spindles are idle. As stocks of yara are and, the weasing shede must soon close,

and thus an additional 200.000 workers will be idle.

It is also demanded that all German the crews housed ashore. war-veascia be put out of corumission

ARMISTICE TO BE ADHERED TO.

THE OPERATIVES DEMAND. LONDON, December uth.

LONDON, Beccumber 7th. The Admiralty and the Foreign Office. The trouble in Lancashire is due to the assert that the Entrnie's naval demands demand of the operatives for a 40 per from Germany will in no way exceed thevents increase on current wages.

Tho terms laid down in the Armistice.

employers have offered 40 per cent. in- erense on the standard wages and pro- pose arbitration which the operatives dem elined.

THE DISMEMBERMENT OF HUNGARY.

COUNT KAROLYI ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

AMSTERDAM, December 10th. A telegram from Budapest states that the Government is unable to prevent the dismemberment of Hungary into small failure of his efforts at reconstruction Republies. Count Karolyi, owing to the

unsuccessfully attempted to commit sui-

"BRITAIN'S DAY" IN AMERICA. THE WORLD'S DEBT."

New York, December 76. The Americat people have organised order to express their thanks, in schools, "Britain's Day for 10-Borrow in

throughout the United States, to Great churches and uther public places,

Britain, for her share in ensuring the liberties of the world.

that Germany shaif not alienale, concede nor mortgage her railway, mines or colonial 'cuterprises in which the Stat Ja interested She shall H, touch A correspondent, describing the Belgian foreign verurities belonging to the State entry into Aix-la-Chapelle, says that the le gold in the Reichsbank except proclamation prescribing their behaviouf under conditions already laid down. inexactly translates the German pro- ceived with Naval honours at. Brest, such She shall immediately band over to the clamations in Belgium. An incident dur. os few heads of States ever saw. On Franco-Belgian authorities the securitiesing the entry demonstrated to the popula- arrival on Saturday at ten in the morning, Laken from northern France and Beltion that the proclamation must be Prince Murat, of the Rue Monseau, will giun and restore, during December, the obeyed.

A Divisional General stood in place his splendid mansion at the disposal notes of the National Bank of Belgium | the (ity Square to take the Belgian Divi. of President Wilson. The city of Paris and also the cosh belonging to the siona salute.

When the first regiment, wheeled into the Square, Bles of zoldiers walked the pavemente ahead of the Colours calling hats off," A number of

The soldiers ment of British war-prisoners, ten temptibles," for her great Fleet, for her flung away the offenders' hate and there during the offensives of 1918, by the Ger dead in the war.

100,000 graves in Ypres, for her 1,000,000

was no hesitation anywhere when the next Mr. Justice Younger that the prisoners Britain.

mans, is contained in w further report of |

Committee There As an equal beneficiary of the fruits of nery victory, America given thanks to Great, is much sworn evidence that

Hail Britannia.” behind the firing-line were half-starved

will present a gold medal to President Franco-Belgian banke which she convert. Wilson, who has expressed a wish to visited into marks and hand over to the Allies the ravaged towns and villages in North- the gold she received from Russia under

THE INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE. ern Fennen.

PARIS, December 9th..

A Javna uessugo says:-

The Inter-Allied Peace viens on December 17th.

THE PROCEDURE.

Conference

LONDON, December 5th. The Time Paris Correspondent out lines the details of the procedure of a series of meetings of the Peace Confereux which will be held in Paris and Versailles, probably beginning on Drecibor 20th.

RESENTMENT IN AMERICA.

LONDON, December 5th.

the Brest-Litovsk trenty.

THE ARMISTICE.

men and boys hesitated.

regiment's colours passed."

ciale.

TREATMENT OF WAR PRISONERS.

MORE EVIDENCE OF GERMAN BARBARITY

LONDON, December 5th. Fresh evidence of the ferocious treat-

The ex-Presidential candidates, Mr. Alton Parker and Mr. Hughes, and other lading Americans, will address mass meetings. Allied diplomats are participating in the celebrations.

An official statement says that America is proud to voice the world's debt to Great Britain for her immortal con-

A dramatic episode during the entry much overworked. brutally treated and Mr. Lloyd George boa crbie J

had to

unable to change their clothes. A number to sleep without shelter. They were actually died from starvation.

There is considerable resentment in the PROLONGATION TO BE DISCUSSED. United States, even amongst Democratic

AMSTERDAM, December 5th.

occurred when the

strange sound of politicians and newspapers, regatding

A.telegrain from Berlin states that Herr British cheers were heard in the distance, President Wilson's departure to attend

Erzeberger nanounces that the French Soon

ДП unkempt, unghiavon atrenm the Peace Conference, especially in views

have requested the German Army Com- of men was seen marching from the East. of the uncertainty regarding the pro-

mand to designato Plenipotentiaries to They were British and they had the antis- west front. gramme he intends to submit to the Con- Scrence,

THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY.

New York, December 4th. There will be three separate stages to wards the final peace.

The Presidential party, aboard the The first will begin sont after Presi. George Washington includes 28 experts on dent Wilson's arrival in Paris on Decem-political and economic conditions in ber 18th, with the representatives of Europe and Asian, with several tons of Piance, Great Britain, Italy and the documents and maps.

THE CERTAIN PENALTY.

LONDON, December Oth.

The report shows that the Germana recently transferred to East Prussia and German Poland, prisoners who wore no longer fit to work behind the lines. tho

I discuss the prolongation of the Armistice. fuction of eecing the Germans doff hats to aid that he saw over 200 men arrive at al

at Treves, on December 12th and 13th.

FUGITIVE EX-KAISER.

AWAITING THE PENALTY.

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TOTAL SHIPPING LOSSES.

6,022 VESSELS SUNK.*

LONDON, December 6th.

Lannon, Documber st Correspondents at Amerongen, describe| Speaking at a meeting at No. 10, the ex-Kaiser as daily becoming more] Downing Street, on Saturda“, afternoon, United States, discussing the points which

morose, sitting by the window and bur-in support of the appeal by Lady must be considered at the final Congress

riedly writing all day long against time. Duale for £100,000 for a hostel for and the method of procedare. This meet-

Mr. Lloyd George, aponking at the ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE. ing will be a sort of super-Versailles Con- Queen's Hall, emphasised that pease must

AMSTERDAM, December 10th. the merchant seamen as a memorial from ference, propably assembling at

There is an unconfirmed report in the the women of the Empire, Bir Erie the be a just peace. War must be made mote Leipziger Touchlart that the ex-Kaiser Geddes stated that 2,475 ships had been Trianon, the palace in Versailles Park, difficult, if not impossible. Hence, he was attempted to commit suicide. and sitting until the beginning of Janu-an ardent believer in the scheme for a

sunk, during war with the arewa A manker of his Staff, intervening at board, and 3,147 ships with the crown Longue of Nations.

the last moment, was himself wounded, left adrift.

ary.

sympathetic message.

The celebrations will include the enter.... Lainment of members of the British cruisery at New York and Boston.

ANGLO-AMERICAN FRIEND-

SHIP.

HOW BRITAIN TREATED AMERICAN TROOPS,

A witness from Heilsburg, East Prussia,

anmp there in two trains They wore. mostly stretcher cases, all raving for

WASHINGTON, December 5th. something to eat. Some of them found ás tub of refuse which they devoured. Their Mr. Newton D. Baker, Minister of clothing was torn, and they said that they War, in the course of his annual re had had no proper lood, no medical trent-port, quotes the following eulogies by ment, and could hardly even wash the General Pershing, saying that tho dirt, which was thick on their hands and warmth of the welcome accorded to the faces. They were like skeletons.

GREATER LIBERTY DEMANDED.

American troops by Great Britain and France we only equalled by they Fondiness of the Commanders-in-Chief, AMSTERDAM, December 6th. of the Armies of the Allies and their have unconditionally demanded greater dispo

The French Armistice Delegates at Spa Staffs to place their experienes at our liberty for war-prisoners in Germany.

co-operation of the Allies wan The German Delegate unsuccessfully invariably of a very cordial nature Th ought to extract mutual concessions. reception of those of our forces passing

* REVENGE MUST BE TAKEN.”

through England and of the men station. ed there was always enthusinatie. Pants, December 9th. À Harna ingsenge says:~

"Altogether it has been deeply im- French prisoners in a camp at Langensal selves together completely and insepar-

•pressed upon a tint the ties of languages The cowardly Gassination of nine and food ring the British and qur- Zn From minong 16 wounded in not an ally." isolated oxámplo of German atrocity. Revenge must be taken.

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