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GREECE'S

PEACE

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TM 1919.

CLAIMS AT THE

CONFERENCE:

FIVE GREAT POWERS WILL BROOK NO DICTATION.

LABOUR SITUATION BY NO MEANS DESPERATE,

REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO REGAIN POWER IN PORTUGAL

LATEST CABLES

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] PORTUGAL

REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO REGAIN CONTROL,

LONDON, February 3rd. Messages based on obviously coloured information are arriving, regarding the situation in Portugal.

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MISGUIDED RUSSIA: STILL ANOTHER REVOLT.

HALSINDFORE, February 2ad. Fugitives from Petrograd report that the revolt has broken out among

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COUNCIL. EXCERPTS FROM ANNUAL REPORT.

MUNICIPAL INDUSTRY'S PEACE TERMS.

MEMORANDUM TO THE PREMIER

An important taceting of manufactur- ere was held recently at the Connaught The following are excerpts from the Rooms, London, to discuss the peace annual report of the Shumen Municipal forms to be imposed upon Germany. It Council for the year 1818, to be submitted was a resumption of the second annual the annual meeting of ratepayers exil-gonoral meeting off the Federation of

red.

The artillery at Kronstadt boned for February 17th, at H.R.M. Con- British Industries. Sir Vincent Caillard barded Petrograd. Many were killed insulate-General:-

presided over a large attendance of the loading representatives of industry in Great Britain, and a tacnorandum, in-

soldiers of the old Russian Army in Petrograd, Machine-gun fighting occur

the streets.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. GREAT POWERS WILL BROOK NO DICTATION.

PARIS, January 27th.

The London doctors, meeting on Sun- day, decided to form a body representa tive of the whole profession to watch

A Havas monnage says:- medical interests. A resolution for & During the League of Nations' debate, registered Trades Union was rejected. Clemenceau emphasised the right of by two votes, amid an uproar

the great Powers to make decisions as to procedure and policy before submitting

LONDON TURE MOTOR MEN.

LONDON, February 3rd.

The London Lube motor-men, in spite of the decision of other grades to remain at work pending negotiations, have de Beuter'e correspondent, at Oportu, tele- graphing on February 181, quotes Royal.cided to strike on Monday morning, us

ist communiques stating that conditions are thoroughly normal in Oporto, where the Royalist administration in discharg ing its financial obligations

Torrential rains are interrupting the advance towards the Bouth

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Madrid,

Beuter's correspondent telegraphing on February 2nd, quoting news from the frontier says that the Re-

ublicans, after inflicting heavy losses in a skirmish, are now marching on Oporto.

WAR AGAINST DISEASE-

PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. IN SOUTH

AFRICA.

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CAPETOWN. February 3rd.

In the Assembly, Bir G Watt, moving the second reading of the Public Health Bill, stated that during the wah the Union forers lost 6,305 native, while the resent opidemic carried olf 11,72% white persons and 127,746 matives and coloured

*persons.

The Bill creates a portfolio of Public Health, with a Central Health Adminie. trution, also special provisions for deal-

a protest against the refusal to includo half-an-hour for meal time in an eight- hour day.

SCOTTISH WORKERS OPPOSE

STRIKE

LONDON, February 2nd.

A crowded meeting of Clyde-side work. ers opposed the present strike held in the Govan District, and passed a resolu- tion condemning, whole heartedly, the un- democratic and unconstitutional methods to force then to participate in the strike, and pledging themselves to support the

representatives of the Trades Unions, and to use their influence to maintain law

and ordor.

A big demonstration is being hold in Glasgow, on February 4th, to form Patriotic Workers' League on the Clyde- side, with a view to taking the control of the Trades Uniona out of the hands of the Extremists.

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM.

ESTHONIANS CAPTURE WALK. STOCKHOLM, February 2nd. An Esthonian communiqué states:-On ing with special diseases like tuberculosis, February 2nd, our troops captured the

small-pox and venereal disease.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR.

SWISS SOCIALISTIC VIEWS.

Bers, February 3rd.

Bwiss Socialists have decided nos to participate in the International Social- ist Conference, because the majority of the Socialists in the belligeront countries do not support class war.

EARLIER CABLES.

PREPARING FOR BERNE CONFERENCE.

BEUNE, February 2nd. Practically all the delegates to the In- ternational Labour Conference have

arrived.

It was decided, at a meeting ut Volk- sha to-night, to establish three Com- missions 10 draft reports upon the League of Nations' territorial questions

and an international labour charter.

The Commissions are expected to report Dext week

It is stated that the Trades Unions, which have been sitting in Paris, are com- ing to Berne for a separate Conference, and, with a view to securing unity be tween the Unions and the Conference, n.

joint session will be held.

BRITISH LABOUR UNREST.

SITUATION BY NO MEANS DESPERATE.

LONDON, February 3rd.

town of Walk and advanced towards the

south.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

GRÆCIAN CLAIMB.

They

such, decisions to the minor Powers.

He said: We cannot accept the aug- gestion that any Committee should have the right to dictate to the five great Powers,"

POST-WAR TRADE. THE COMING COMPETITION FROM GERMANY,

PARIS, January 27th.

A Havus inçssage says: -- - Mr. Edward Hurley, the Chairman of the United States Shipping Board, spoko yesterday at a Franco-American dinner

He said that France must be prepared to meet. German commercial competition and he hoped that, France would not wait too long, allowing others to produce wares, while the United States and other peoples were anxiously waiting to place orders for French products.

The trade mark Made in France" should be borne by French products. SHORT-LIVED FRENCH

STRIKE.

FIRM ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT.

PARIS, January arth.

A Havas message says:— The employés of the Paris Under- ground Railway, the Tramway, and Motor Omnibus Companies decided to resume work this morning, as a result of placing the services at the disposal of the military authorities,

EGGS FROM CHINA.

WARNING FROM THE FOOD

INSPECTOR.

PARIS, February 2nd. The Creek demands, to be considered at the Conference to-morrow, ars likely to arouse prolonged discussion. include important territorial claims for |the whole vilayet of Aidin, as well as other concessions, giving Greece control of the whole coast of Asia Minor from Aivali to the southern limit of the might be shipped dried. vilayer of Aidín.

Grexo, likewise, claims Dodecanesos, Imbros, Tenedos, Cyprus, and the whole of Bulgarian-Turkish Thrace, up the Black Sea

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TION. LONDON, February 4th. The French Government has been pro-

LONDON, February 4th. The Chief Food Inspector points out that the use of boricised liquid eggs, from China, is open to very serious objection from the view-point of the health of the consumer. He suggests that the eggs.

TELEGRAPHIC DELAYS. “

A SERIOUS HANDICAP TO EASTERN TRADE.

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The population of the Concession is: Non-Chinese 330, Chinese 160.

The year under review has again, on dicating the terms upon which British the whole, been

very healthy one. industry thinks peace with Germany There have been two separate outbreaks should he concluded, was carried entba. of influenza, which disease bas boensiastically, and was ordered to be for epidemic over the whole world: we have warded to the Prime Minister and other been fortunate, up to the present, in members of the Government concerned

The terms of the memorandum are escaping the pulmonary complications follows:- which have proved so deadly in nearly all the other described outbreaks and have not had a fatal foreign case report Hed is yet. Two cases of typhoid have

occurred on the concession.

The total consumption of water for the year ending 31st December, 1918, was 28,236,800 gallons, nu increase of 491,500 gallons over the consumption for the year 1917. The

average consumption per month for all purposes was 2,954,650-an increase of 40,000 gallons over the con- sumption for the previous year. The amount of water registered through the service meters was approximately 28 million gallons for the year, equivalent to 64 gallons per head of the population per day.

The Defence Corps drilled regularly until the end of July, when parades were suspended on account of the bot weather, Owing to the Amuistics, no drills have been held in the latter part of the year. There would appear to be no present necessity for maintaining the Corps on an active footing. It is accordingly pro- posed to call in all equipment, which can be re-issued from store should occasion

arise.

About fifty-seven thousand square foot of lime, cinder, and, cement-concrete paths have been laid during the past. year, all with cement curbings. Wherever possible the paths have been brought to the same level line. The work has all

been done by day labour under the super- vision of the Council. The total cost amounts to 85,464,30 or less than ten cents per square foot. In the opinion of the Council the whole front Bund from the French Concession to the Boat House (approximately 15,000 square feet) re- quires relaying, and the cost of this, roughly $4,500, is provided for in the estimates. The Council would have pre ferred to have had the Bund laid with asphaltum, but as the tender was $22,000, it is out of the question. It is therefore recommended that clinker-concrete, used in the approaches to the British bridge, be laid down and the work con menced at once. This style of pavement should

very satisfactory and dur prove able. Katepayers have received their full money's worth for the amount expended on new roads, etc., during the year, as W Mr. the paths themselves estiry. Former deserves their hearty thanks for the time and caro he has given to this Municipal Work

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The bund wall on the West end of the Oonbession was found to have sunk about ten inches and was generally in a bad condition. This has been rectified and the roadway filled up, in some places by as much as twenty inches, to bring it to the level of the rest of the Concession. The bund wall here has also been pointed with cement and the pathways relaid, but there are signa of further subsidence. The rest of the Bund wall is only in fair condition and should be attended

the near future.

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Payment in kind, either by materials or in the form of replacemend of property damaged or destroyed, should only be permitted under safeguards which would effectually prevent any pos- sible injury to the development of in- dustry and employment in the Allied countries or any misrepresentation to the value of such payments,

Payments in kind 'should therefore be made to the Inter Allied Commission, which would disp of the goods and credit the sains they received for thean to the enemy Governments. The Coumis- sion should be empowered to refuse any manufactured articles, which could le supplied by Allied countries,

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The institution of such a Cenuzission, if accompanied by a complete disarma- eneity forces, and by noy mont of the nocesanry restriction on e deslapovat Baziden of tigernft or other men as attack. would enable extensive military occupation to cease at an early date, and probably enable the Allies, while ocupying a few points of strategic im portance from a military or naval of view, to reduce their own armaments an extent which would be impossiblo wer any other conditions

At the same time, by providing a com- mon interest and responsibility, and

Resociation definite object for continued and discussion, it should prove a valuable influence instituting the Allied and associated nations the nucleus of a of Nations, into which the enemy League of countries themselves, when their debt haa

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be paid and their period of atonement and probation completed, could, in due course, be admitted. Such a course would be preferred even in the enemy its ori-theinaelves to the constant in- terference and friction exised by a pro louged and extensive military tion.

The Federation of British Industries fully endorses the arguments which have been advanced in other quarters for cong pelling the enemy countries to make such reparation, as is possible, by paying the full cost of the war, on the grounde

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warning any nation, which may ever be tempted to follow their example. They desire bowever, to urge more particularly on his Majesty's Government the serious economic aspects of the question.

Unless the enemy countries pay, the burden will have to be borne by this coun tra

in the form of immensely increased taxation for many years to come. This taxation, however ingeniously ginal incidence may be devised, must, all other taxation, fall ultimately upon the industry of the country, and for an clement in the cost of production. A great increase in the total cost of pro- duction can only have three possible re sults-un increase in the price of the pre- duct, a diminution in sales, ending even. tually in national bankruptcy, or a re duction in the remuneration received by all classes engaged in production.,

The first will be impossible, owing to the competition of the countries who have take a lesser part than this country, and taken to part in the war or who have whose total cost of production will con acquently be less the second means pa tional disaster; the third will mean that producers of all classes-employers and employed alike-will have to work harder and receive less than they have ever done before Capital will be driven away from British enterprises to those of less heavily burdened countries, and both the creation of new industries and the do velopment of those already in existence will be seriously restricted.

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AN INHANE PROPOSAL. Bir Vincent Caillard, in submitting the tremorandum, said that in connection with the terms of peace two voices had len heard-one to the effect that thera should be to indemnities so far us Ger nany was concerned, and the other that Germany could not pay, and, therefore, consonant with demency, we must be as morciful as possible and extract as little Such being the situation, it was the duty ne possible froth the enemy Powers. of the Federation of British Industries to place before the Govermanent what they considered the Powers should pay

the enemy in respect of the frightful damage-loss of life and property- they had deliber ately let loose upon the world. was no necessity to consider whether or not Germany was capable of paying the total amount. That point was reserved for future consideration. Only the pre- vious day he had heard it said it was un insune proposal to attempt to make the enemy Powers pay anything like the cost According to

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view, 1 of the war. was an insane proposal to do anything else. (Cheers.) 1 was an insure pro- posal to say that this country, which was expected dragged into the war, should be ag to stand tremendous taxation in order to contribute towards the cost of the war. Surely the enemy would have to bear the The Federation therefore desires to main part of that east. (Hear, hear.) urge upon his Majesty's Government the 1f production in this country to WET, absoluto necessity of transferring tho taxed with the enormous cost of the war, burden of the war to thow nations which

we were heading towards national dis for its creation. aster. Bu, he was relieved on reading the Bristol speech of the Prime Minister. According to that speech, the Federation of British Industries, in its peace terme memorandan, was really going hand-in- He was hand with Mr. Lloyd George very glad the Prime Minister should have delivered such a speech, because it looked almost as if the right hon. gentleman was seconding the adoption of the memoran- (Laughter.) dum under consideration. But (Bir Vincent continued) to revert to the attitude of Germany, what did Herr Ebert say to the German soldiers on their return home

Under such circumstances the general standard of living would inevitably he reduced, and it is even probable that the total national wealth would prove insufi. cient to provide simultaneously for the war charges, and for the important, but costly, reforms in housing, wages, and hours of labour now contemplated.

TRANSFERRING THE BURDEN.

are soldly reSTIONS that so much of

They feel,

or

any

the damage and

caused by the war must necessarily remain beyond possibility of reparation that they must define clearly those items which they en sider can be dealt with. These are!.

All expenses incurred, as a dirett indirect consequence

of the war, by the Allied Governments,

II-Complete compensation for all loss of

of Allied public property or of private property owned by Allied sub jects, wherever situated, including shipping and invested capital, and for all damage to such property arising

from the war.

111-Componention for all personal injuries, including a sum representing the capitalised cost of all pensione paid to disabled men and to widows and orphans.

You have protected the homeland from enemy invasion. You trave sheltered your wives, children, and parente from flames and the slaughter of war. served Germany's fields and workshops from devastation and destruction."

You have pre-

tion

That was all perfectly true, but it was IV-An estimated sum to cover the true Because the armistice came a little loss in national power of production, too much. (Hear, hear.) If fighting had caused by the death or disablement of gone on for another fortnight, or thres potential producers, and by the dis weeks, no German Chancellor could have organisation of the means of predeo-given exprcasion to such words. But the tion and transport

whole point of the situation was that V.--All enemy debts and obligations, German workshops had not been de on whatever accoust.

vastated.

On the contrary, they had VI-Interest on all these charges been filled with machinery stolen from from the date incurred until the date Belgium and France. of final payment. If the enemy Powers are unable, as is immo probable, to meet this debt by diate capital payment, ita collection will over a considerable probably extend period

mised that the interests of her Colonies Government traffic on the cablos which 845,320,00 The Bu Tax realising or by other political manipulation; and,

will be represented at the Peace Confer-is at present partly responsible for the ence similarly to the British.

heavy delay on telegrams to and from London ?"

THE ALLIES AND RUSSIA. VIEWS OF A RUSSIAN LEADER.

The Acting Colonial Secretary replied: The Government has ascertained that, although heavy Government traffic bas M. Tchaykovsky, the President of the been one of the causes of abnormal delay,

LONDON, February 3rd.

Such being the " Case, he maintained it would be absolute- ly wicked if the German nation was allowed, industrially, a

a big start over other nations a nation which so abomin- ably devastated and gratuitously destroy- ed other countries. Buch an idea could not be entertained. (Cheers.)

THE WHOLE COST OF THE WAR.

The new frontier will roughly corres

Those Hongkong merchants who have pond with the Chatalin line separating experienced annoyance and discomfort, Greater Greeue from the new interna-accompanied very often by financial loss, tional State, of which Constantinople is owing to the delay of telegrams to and to be the capital.

from Long will be interested to hear

accounts for the year FRENCH COLONIAL REPRESENTA that, at the last meeting of the Straits follows:-Estimated Cash Expenditure: | $35,767.25; Nett Cash Expenditure: Legislative Council, held on January $87,712,02, the ARGEĖS over estimates

During this period, it will be necessary to provide some means of enforcing com 27th, Mr. G. W. Darbishire asked:" Is being chiefly due to increased Water-

running Expenses owing tinued payment and of preventing at Mr. W. P. Rylands (Warrington), Works there likely to be in the near future any advance in price of coal, etc. Estimated temptext evasion by real and simulated seconding, said his one hope was that

Actual $42,800.00

Income, transfer of allegiance to other countries, methods would be found by which the reduction in the excessive amount of Income,

here is due to the

whole cost of the war would be placed 83 per cent.

on the shoulders of Germany. (Cheers), above all, to provide adequate safeguards

a do $23,870.30 as against an estimate of against any sudden and treacherous at Major A. W. Huntington said

tack until there is a definite assurance mand should be made of the German na $20,000. The overdrafs with the Hong-

should kong and Shanghui Hank has been re of a genuine and enduring change of tion that they supply the nocca-7 duced from 848,785.41 to $40,388.08. political theory and practice apon the sary labour in order to restore the de vastated districts of France and Belgium. Among the rosolutions to be submitted part of our principal enemies.

Prolonged military occupation of any Mr. A. J. Hobson (Sheffield) urged that to the meeting are the following:-

The House Tax shall be 6h per cont. considerable portion of enemy territory in the interests of labour in this country, for the year, payable before 31st March. would be very burdensome to the Allies the army of occupation should be re- The Land Tax shall be $25 per lot, by withdrawing a large number of men stricted to strategic pointe, and, further, excepting where its area exceeds 12,645 from productive employment, even if that in no circumstance should Germany While the industrial situation is still Northern Russian Govorament, who is there have been other causes, illness feet, when it shall pay $2 extra for overy the actual cost of such occupation wore again possess such freedom of the sea

as she had in the past. (Hear, hear.) threatening, it is regarded as by no means preceeding to Paris, interviewed in Lontongst the staff of the Telegraph Com- 1,000 square foot over and above this borne by one countries, while at

might well impede the development of The Chairman said those points would desperate.

any stable and don, said that the Lengue of Nations cant pany being one. The principal cause aren Payable before 31st March.

The Business Tax shall be $50.

territory occupied.

The memorandum was adopted unani The partial success of the efforts to

Firms exporting. Raw Silks from the authority in responsible domocratic be duly considered

The Federation would suggest that the mously. eproad the Clyde strike throughout the The Allies must find an organic solu- throw main cables. Repairing ships aro Concession shall pay ten cents for each necessary safeguarde inight, be provided country appears mainly to be due to tion of the Russian problem, Measures at work, and it is expected that normal hale of Haw Silk over and above 500 with the minimum of of interference with

SKLAREVSKI-SYKORA CONCERT. the free internal development, economic, like the Prinkipo proposal are uselosa, communication will shortly be restored.exported.

It is not possible for this Governmo Lisines-Hotel 8800, Theatro #26, social, and political, of the defeated no

Moars, Sklarovski and Bykara gavp expense The Bolshovints must be obliged to abdi-to predict whether there is likely in the Dog 10, Bioyeling 5, Hawker #2, Build: tione, and the minimum of expand to their boond concert at the Theatre Royal

the Allies luat moment, camo as a surprise, in view onte If they do not, the League of Na- Inear future to be a reduction in the ingcharte for water supplied by the minimara annual sum tó be furnished by last evening when thore was again a Intga

Amount of Government trallout, tions must organise force and enforce whilst the Conference is sitting at Paris, Council, hail, be at the rate of du cents the quemy countries, and by placing attendance. Many of those who were phe the second and, in all probability, a god the number of despatches passing between per 1,000 gallons provided that: (a) no spoille revenues, calculated, to produce went at the first recital were to be soon England and France prevents full use of charge shall be made where the quarterly this sum, at the disposal of an inter-Allied proportion of them, will be attracted This Commission would be responsible announced for Saturday. It is not often the lines between Calais and Marsailles, consumption of any building does not

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condort which is STARTLING PEACE CONFERENCE and demobilisation must naturally be axed in value 1 per cent. of the assessed for receiving this revenue and for pay 韪

foollist with th responsible for the despatch of numerous value of such building for the quastaring the various Allice by inaialments, that pianist and PROPOSAL

telegrama

(b) where the consumption of water is

abilities of those two artistes vleit Hong- proportionate to the total amount öwdd On the 20th instant the Bocretary of in exces as aforesaid, only such excosto po e socifle roventes allocated them and appreciated their wonderful

Ally.

kong, and znusle lovers, having one heard LONDON, February 3rd. State was informed that the Penang shall be charged for,

Should The Daily Mail's correspondent Chamber of Commerco, lund represented The Connell be authoriped to spend for the purpose, prove insient to pre playing, will not willingly legalano Faria sintes that the British and Ame that the long delays in receipt of com approximately $11,000 for the purpose of tune the annual sum required, the oneday of hearing them on every possible Conference that submarines should be rafal cables seriously, handicapped providing increased socommodation for Governments should assign further, roccasion during thair short stay in tho

the Pelipe Forocyanat

vant to the required amount,Colony.

coercion, not to persuasion.

The decision of the motor men, at the

of the conciliatory attitude of all other

grades.

All the tubes were expected to be held up on Monday, but the motor-men of the district refused to join the strikes

The Railway Clerks' Association, moet- ing at Birmingham, decided to refor to the Cabinet Sir Albert Stanley's refusal to recognise the Association na repre senting the stationmustera. The leather useet the Cabinet la day.

not be realised without Russia,

their doorees.

BUBMARINES.

rican delegates have recommended to tho,

obulishod.

has, however, boen the interruption of

trade.

Commission.