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·THE・ HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 1019,

MALE HOHENZOLLERNS: PROPOSAL TO BANISH THEM TO ALGIERS

BUILDING OF BRITISH SUPER-

ZEPPELINS.

GERMANY'S FOOD PROBLEM SOLVED BY THE ALLIES.

SPREAD OF THE BOLSHEVIK CAMPAIGN.

LATEST CABLES.

THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.] THE FUGITIVE OX-KAISER.

FRENCH PROPOSAL FOR

BANISHMENT.

LONDON, January 12th.

British Dominion Ministers and Indian Delegates met this morning and discussed several matters connected with the Posoe

Conference

EARLIER CABLES.

ACTIVITIES IN HOLLAND.

COPENHAGEN, January 14th.

EARLIER CABLES.

GOVERNMENT RESUMES CONTROL

IN BERLIN.

Bense, January 14th.

|TRANSYLVANIA ATTACHED TO RUMANIA.

BELNE, January 11th. - An official message states that the

Romanía,

to

The Haagsche Port of Amsterdam, of the 30th instant, says that Bois A message from Berlin on the 13th inst., Romanian Guzette has published a decree,

is definitely in Holland states that the Spartacist revolt active

attaching Transylvania propagandiste are where they are spending millions of broken and that military operations were florins. Borisovitch, the ex-General-Man-practically finished on the 12th instant. ager of Siemens factories in Moscow, is There has since been only desultory firing

one of the principal Bolsheviste. in the newspaper quarter. whilst an ex-Director of a Gorman bank-papers are republishing.

The Government has issued warrants ing firm is acting as a Bolshevik foreign financial agent.

for the arrest of Herr Liebknecht, Rosa Luxembourg, General Eichhorn und Herr Radek.

Dow

Bolshevik propaganda was first carried abroad by German Foreign Office couriers. AFFAIRS IN POLAND.

LONDON, January 13th, The Times Correspondent in Warsaw, telegraphing on the 11th instant, states the The Supreme War Council this after that the people are jubilant over

announcement that Marshal Foch has noon Bettled the terms on which the

ordered the retiring German forces, who have hitherto been opposing the Poles, to allow the passage of Polish troops in order that they may defend their frontiers against the Bolsheviks.

armistice will be renewed, including The National News of Paris declares

questione cunnected with the treatment of that the French General Staff will proGerman shipping, the surrender of sub- pose, at the Pence Conference, that the ex Kaiser, the ex-Crown Prince and all male members of the family be banished to Algiers on the ground that there would be no safety while the Hohen zullerne remain at liberty.

THE ARMISTICE.

STIFFER TERMS LIKELY.

LONDON, January 14th. The newspapers give prominence to the fact that the renewal of the German

Armistice will be made the version for stiffer terms, owing to the failure of Germany to comply with many of the previous conditions, and the spread of Bolshevism westward,

COMING PEACE CONFERENCE.

REPRESENTATION AT THE

CONFERENCE.

marines hitherto under construction or repair, the completion of the transfer of railway and transportation material and the restoration of machinery taken from

Allied territories.

AL un informal conference later, views were exchanged regarding the procedure in other matters connected with the Peace Conference, and it was decided to hold first a formal meeting as a preliminary to the Inter-Allied conference on the 18th inst

CAMPAION AGAINST M.

CLEMENCEAU.

PARIB, January 13th. All French newgpapers condemn the publication of M. Pichon's Note by the Socialist organ Humanite which is carry. ing on a campaign against M. Clemen- cean and which had ante-dated the Note

create the false belief that M. Clemen- cenu withheld knowledge of it from the Chamber in his recent speech on Foreign

Affairs.

PARIS, January 14th. The Supreme War Council has decided that the live great Powers will ench have five plenipotentiaries; Brazil, three; Bel-

The publication was also intended to gium, Serbia, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania and China, two: Portugal and create an impression of Franco-British

the States which broke off relations with dissension on the eve of the Peace Con- Germany, one.

The question of the representation of Jugo-Slavia and Russia have been ad

journed.

However many delegates a country may have, it will only be entitled to one vote.

ference.

The British proposal was one among many and its isolated publication we deliberately rischievous. However the result has been that Washington and London have assured Paris that they en-

THE ARMISTICE RENEWAL.

PARIS, January 13th. The Allied Military, Navel and Econo mie experts met this morning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the presidency of Marshal Foch,

The Dominions will be sperially repre Lirely agree with M. Pichon's point of sented apart from the delegates of the view. mother-country. Canada, Australia. South Africa, and India will have two reprezentatives cach, and New Zealand ard Newfoundland one each.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

ING DOMINIONS.

LONDON, January 14th. The Times correspondent in Paris saya that the British Government is support- ing the expressed wishes of the Domin- jons to be represented at the Peace Con ference by two delegates an having co-operated in the war, thus raj.

nations

ing a novel point in the history of the Empire, making it a small Society of Nations.

EARLIER CABLES.

MEETING OF ALLIED MILITARY

AND NAVAL EXPERTS.

The Supreme Inter-Allied War. Council met this afternoon to consider the deci- sions of the military experts, and the reports of the ministers concerned will subsequently defuitely adopt the new conditions to be imposed on Germany for

a renewal of the Armistice.

At the conclusion of the meeting Marshal Foch will leave for Treves to most the German Plenipotentiaries on the 14th and 15th insts.

LATEST CABLES.

THE BOLSHEVIK CAMPAIGN. SITUATION IN BUENOS AIRES IMPROVING.

PARIS, January 13th. Among the watters discussed at this

morning's meeting of the Allied Military and Naval experts were, firstly, decisions regarding sending reinforcements of mon and material to assist. the Poles; second- Jy, the question of the Allied use of German commercial shipping as compen ringleadors have been arrested, of which sation for submarined tonnage; thirdly, so per cent. are Russians.

the question of the occupation of certain German ports as a guarantes for the carrying out of the Armistico Clauses and

BUENOS AIRER, January 14th.

The

Bituation is approaching the normal. Beveral large stores are opening and the tramways are resuming. Eight hundred agitators and etriko

re-

EUROPEAN FAMINE RELIEF.

WASHINGTON, January 14th. President Wilson has sont a message to Congrons re-nrging the necessity for the

The newя-

The Minister-of-War, Herr Reinhardt, has declared that the military are now proceeding to disarm the population and a systematic search has begun.

Owing to food shortages, however, the future is pregnant with difficulties for the Government, as the continued support from, soldiers and civilians largely de pends on better supplice, but it is authoritatively stated that the shortage is likely to grow worse.

The promoters of the National Assembly, It was reported in Berlin on the 13th which is raceting on February 10th, de instant that Herr Liebknecht had fled olare that the Assombly will demand ante Leipzig and General Eichhorn to Den- open alliance with the Entonte. The mark. popularity of Paderewski in daily grow - ing

PROMISING SITUATION IN

I

SOUTHERN RUSSIA, The Times' Correspondent at Constan- tinople, telegraphing on the 6th instant, states that the military situation in Southern Russia is becoming promising. Large anti-Bolshevik armies have taken the field. General Deniken's army com. 1ts headquarters prises 180,000 troops. are at Ekaterinedar and its sea base is at Novoriesik. To the north of General Doniken's armis, General Krasnoff is operating with 250,000 men.

The Caucasus are now practically clear- ed of Bolsheviste. The main objective is to establish a junction between General Krasnoff and the Siberian army. BOLSHEVIK EMISSARIES ARREST-

BOW

ED IN B. AMERICA.

MONTEVIDEO, January 19th. Four Russiane, who have been arrested,

have confessed that they were leaders in a plot to overthrow the Uruguayan and Argentine Governments and to establish Boviets. The police are searching for other conspirators.

HERR LIEBKNECHT'S FATE. There is still no verification of Herr Liebknecht's death. Judend he is report ed de speech-making in Berlin on the 11th. instant. It is extremely difficult to sift facts from the mass of conflicting reporta,

LATEST CABLES.

THE ALLIES AND RUSSIA.

BRITISH FORCE LANDED NEAR RIGA

STOCKHOLM, January 18th. The Russian Journal Severnnjazyieni announces that a British force landed in

ESTHONIA'S SUCCESSES. FINNISH TROOPS CO-OPERATING.

LONDON, January 11th. An Eethonian communiqué of January 9th states:-

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

YESTERDAY'S INVESTITURE, ·

Government House was the Bono, yes! terday afternoon, of a purely formal bug impressive function, when H. E. the Officer Administering the Government presented the insignia of the Order of the British Empire to those who had recently receiv nd the honour from His Majesty the King.

At 3.45 p.m. His Excellency, attended by Mr. B. A. Ponsonby Fane, and Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, A.D.C., entered the The Esthonians yesterday captured the ball. The receipients of the honour Commander of the enemy's marine troops, having been ranged in front of the operating on the coast, three machine-platform, Mr. Ponsonby Fane read as guns and other booty.

The Fianish troops participating for the first time captured two villages.

The Estbonians captured the Staff and Artillery of the 48th Rifle Regiment.

of Walk,

The advance continues in the direction

We have also reached Walge.

** EMPEROR OF THE SAHARA." KILLED BY HIS WIFE.

NEW YORK, January 12th. Lebandy, the so-called Emperor of the Sahara, was shot dead by his wife. THE LONDON PRESS. MAGNIFICENT RECORD IN

RECRUITING

LONDON, January 10th.

A striking fact in connection with re- eruiting was mentioned in a speech by Sir Auckland Geddes. Of 10,000 men and

follows:-

Majesty the King, by letters patent under the Great Seal, was pleased to create and institute an Order of Knighthood to be styled The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.'

"On the 24th of August, 1017, His

It is ordained that the persons to be admitted to this Order shall be such persone, male or female, sa may have rendered or shall bereafter render im- portant services to the Empire,

It is ordained that Commanders this Most Excellent Order shall upon all great and solen occasions wear round their necks a purple riband atid pendent therefrom the badge of the Order.

"It is ordained that the Officers of this Most Excellent Order shall wear a badgó of similar form and pattern as that ap- pointed for the Commanders of the Order altached to the left breast of their coats.

His Majesty the King has been grɛ- ciously pleased to nominate and appoint to this Order the following persons re

haye employed in London newspaper sident in the Colony of Hongkong.

at

uffices, 5,000 joined the Army, and the moment the Armistice was signed there were not 30 men fit for general service in all the London newspaper offices. That was a record, and Sir Auckland Geddes, the neighbourhood of Riga, where they which placed the Press at the head of every trade group in the matter of re

ure auccessfully attacking the Bolsheviks. GERMANT'S FUOD PROBLEM.cruiting.

THE ALLIES LAY DOWN TERMS

PARIS, January 14th. The Supreme War Council has decided that in return for the Allies victualling

Gerraaby, the latter will have to hand over all merchant ships in German or neutral ports for transport of food eup- plics, whatever their place of origin

destination.

MAKLIER CABLEN.

LUXEMBURG'S FUTURE. AN ALLIANCE SOUGHT WITH THE

ENTENTE.

1.

To be Commanders of the said Most

Excellent Order.

Jossra HORSFORD KEMP, K.C., Attorney,

General.

FRANCIS CHARLES JENKIN, Barrister at

law

To be Officers of the said Most Excellent,

Order.

EARNEST HAMILTON SHARE, KC, Bár

tiater at Law. NEWTON JOHN STABU

CHALONER GRENVILLE ALABASTER, · ·Bar-,

rister at law."

The above gentlemen were conducted on LONDON, January 13th. to the platform in order by Mr. P. P. J. The Luxemburg Government has issued Wodehouse, and, in presenting the in a proclamation denouncing the revolu- signia, His Excellency said "I have great ortionary movement for a Republic and pleasure in presenting to you the riband declaring that the Government has decid- and badge of a Commander (or Officer) There is no question of occupation of ed to seek an economic alliance with the of the Most Excellent Order of the German ports.

Entente, especially with France and British Empire, to which you have been The question of military intervention The in Poland has been postponed,

POLAND.

AWFUL STATE OF PETROGRAD.

STOOK BOLM, January 13th. Travellers from Petrograd state that the conditions there

awful. Bre population is starving and freezing to death en masse. Mortality is so great that--STTUATION INCREASINGLY

the same coffins are used repeatedly.

THE FIGHTING IN ESTHONIA.

DESPERATE.

The Timex correspondent at Warenw, On January 12th, says that

Belgiam, it is stated that the Grand norinated and appointed by His Majesty Duchess has announced that, if it is the King."

nocery to secure the alliance, she will This concluded the function. Tea and willingly renounce the throne, but the light refreshments were subsequently Government is convinced that the preserved.

servation of the Dynasty is at the present Among those

Luno

uf for the guarantee necessary national autonomy.

present were:-H.E. Major-General Ventris and Miss Ventris,

Aa Esthonian communiqué of the 18th telephing

The final decision of the question of Commodore V. G. Gurner, Mrs. Gurner inet., states-In the coastal area wo Poland's condition is becoming desperate the Dynasty will, however, be reserved and Miss Gurner, Sir William Rees reached a line-Malla Tolks-Vaikall. Our

and Allied help is urgently needed. The to the will of the people, legally ex- troops captured three manors in the direo

country is overrun by Bolshevists, who pressed. tion of Laisholmdorpat.

are estimated as numbering over 20,000.

They are advancing by three railways upon Warsaw.

LATEST CABLES.

BOLSHEVISM IN GERMANY.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

ELECTIONS,

The

AMSTERDAM, January 11th. German Provincial National Assembly elections at Brunswick and Baden show no Spartacist auccesses.

POLICE AND TROOPS AGAINST GENERAL EICHHORN. The Frankfurter Zeitung reports that two-thirds of the Berlin police and troops bave declared against Gen. Eichborn.

The main Bolshevik forces, which are well equipped, are at Lida and Baranovit chi, but the advance guards are only 170; miles north-east of Warsaw.

Davies and Lady Rees Davies, Bi William Wilkinson and Miss Wilkinson the Bishop of Victoria and Miss Lander, LABOUR AND THE GOVERN-Sir Boshan Wei Yok, Sir Paul Chater,

MENT.

MR. STEPHEN WALSH REFUSES

OFFICE.

+

LONDON, January 14th.

It is reported that Mr. Stephen Walsh,

Hon, Mr. B. E. Pollock, K., and Mra, Pollock, Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, and Mrs. Holyoak, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham and Mrs. Chatham, Hon. Mr. C. M Dodwell and Mrs. Dodwell, Hon. Mr Messer and Mrs. Messer, Hon. Mr. S

The Poles bave a very few badly equip the labour member, has refused the Par. Shewan, Hon, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher, liamentary Secretaryship of the local Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Hon. Mr. D.

pod troops to stem the invasion.

AERIAL DEVELOPMENT. BUILDING OF BRITISH SUPER- ZEPPELINS.

LONDON, January 13th. The big programme of airship construe- tion by the Admiralty includes airships

Government board.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

INDIAN TO BE RAISED TO THE PEERAGE.

LONDON, January 13th. The Daily Telegraph states that

Laadnic, Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Mrs. Kemp, Mrs. Stabb, Mas.. Jenkin, Mrs. Alabaster, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gedge, Mr. J. H. Hastings and Miss Hastings, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Haraton, Sir Mr. and Mrs. T. H. King, Capt, and

The Police Headquarters have been with a gas capacity of 21 milion cubie Batayendra P. Sinha, the new Under Mrs. Murray Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Adams

removed to Chariot Tonburg.

DISORDER THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. AMSTERDAM, January 12th. Reports from Germany indicate that Bolshevism is spreading in Westphalia and other parts of Germany.

Telegrama from Frankfurt state that the Spartacists control Dusseldorf.

foot, with a range of 8,000 miles, spood Secretary of State for India, will be Mr. and Mrs. F. B. L Bowley, Com

created a peer, to coable him to represent mandor C. W. Beckwith and Mrs. Beck

of 05 to 70 miles hourly, and a lifting the interests of India in the House of with, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Lang, Mr. and

capacity of 60 tons, to carry a crew of 26. Lords.

Plans have been laid for the building. of even bigger ones,

The first of those super-Zoppoline will be lauiched towards the end of the your. It is itted that they are being primarily built for sen patrol and observation work,

Mrs, Beattie, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Alves, BINN FEIN HEADQUARTERS Col. Paasby, Mr. Justice Gompertz, Engineer Companader Tucker, Mr. T, F.

RAIDED.

J

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS SEIZED.Hough, Mr. Elden Potter, Mr. J. H. Wallace, Mr. A R.. Lowe, Mr. Paul na punishment for the difficulties which the

LONDON, January 13th.

Kremer, Mr. H. W. Looker, Major Wako- The Police raided and occupied the Germans have hitherto placed in the way appropriation of $100,000,000 for Euro- They stormed a prison at Musieler, and will be stationed on the count.

man, Mr. J. N) Wood, Mr. C. A. D. Mel- Bios Fein Headquarters in Dublin to bourne, Lt, R. E. Lindsell, Mr. II. Porey of such carrying ont; fourthly, the ques-pean famine relief, because Bolshevism is liberating 170 criminala, and occupied The authorities regard that the niraliip day. Important documents were wodzod, Emith, Mr. A. Hand, Mr. J. Ludin of the German gold reserve; and steadily advancing westward and could all the newspaper offices at Mellaims-poucesce everal advantage over aero- including the draft Constitution of na M. Andrew Forbes, Mr. G. E. Archhutt ally, the victualling of Germany.

not bo stopped by force, bat only by food masbr.

Mr. G. M. Young, Mr. J. W. Franks, Mr. R. IL Kotwall, Mr. F. A. Wells, and Mr. MEETING OF BRITISH IMPERIAL | relief, which was the key to the whole Rioting ccurred in Dresden, Munich, planes for long distanco journeys-endur. Irish Parliament.

anco, lifting heavy weights, affording ANOTHER WAREHOUSE FIRE P. M. Holburn. The Foreign ConsuỄN KHYİ” European situation. Money would be Augsburg and Stuttgart.

the Staff Inspectors, Inspectors and non- Severe fighting is going on in the atrocis passengers greater comfort, and cooon-

IN LONDON.

Commissioned Omers of the Police spent to buy food for friends in Poland

Reserve

were also invited, and were well of Hamburg.

Löwnon, January 1ath.

represented. The Press Bureau has received's son and the people of the liberated units in

Thousands of Russians, disguisod, are

This present British airship record is. Another East-end food "warehouse lins:

Babsequently, as a Parade of the Poli -muniqué from Paris announcing that the Austro-Hungary, also the Aunciated reported to be gliting on behalf of the 450 inlles in the air for 61 Lours, manned tean gutted, the damage being estimated Rewerve, an address of congratulation at £150,000. The cause of the fire in us bearing the signsture of every man of tha British Imperial.Delegatión cobalting of Governments in the Balkang.

| Sportmötiado,

A l'eros was presentech.

DELEGATION,

London, January 13th

modation,

I by orew of fitoon.

known.