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THE

PEACE TERMS TO BE READY IN MARCH.

THE FUTURE OF THE GERMAN COLONIES:

PRINCIPLE OF INTERNATIONALISATION ACCEPTED.

DRASTIC MEASURES TO SUPPRESS DISAFFECTION.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT RE-ASSEMBLES.

LATEST CABLEN.

ITBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] THE PEACE CONFERENCE. PEACE TERMS TO BE READY BY MARCH

A Bava

PARIS, February 5th

message sinles: The third plenary meeting of the Pence t'onference will be held next Saturday

A report from a high French diploma tie source states that the Conference hopes to have the terms ready for submission

LATEST CABLES.

THE FATE OF THE GERMAN COLONIES.

PRESIDENT WILSON SUURESTS INTERNATIONALISATION,

PARIS, February 4th.

A Havar message sistes :- President Wilson munde a proposal for internationalising the territory captured from Germany The British Imperial War Cabinet has dended to support Pre- sident Wilson's theory. The Dominion

to the different natiound Upovernments || representatives made an energetic pro- for tihention betwawn the middle and

end of March.

The German delegates will be summon ed to Paris carly in April for the con clusion of peace.

MEETING OF ALLIED MINISTERS.

A Havas message statem

trat

The French Press says that the deci Rich involves the admission that the treaties made with Japan, agreeing to

her retention of the North Paciɓe la

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH, 1919.

LATEST CABLES.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

CONFERENCE

BELGIUM'S DECISION.

Bacssels, February 3rd.

M. Van der Velde has resigned the Presidency of the International Bocialist Bureau, owing to the irrevocable decision of the Belgian Labour Party not to parti cipate in the Berne Conference.

Whil regretting that the Belgian Labour Party is not sharing in the con stitution of the new Internationale, he says that the resentment caused by the four years sufferings which Belgium underwent was teresistible,

EARLIER CABLES.

WILL. IT RE JUSTIFIED

BERNE, February 4th. At the International Labour Confer cace, M

Branting, the President, ('STI phasised that the attempts to rally the Interuapaah against the war of 1914 failed because the rulers of the Central Powere succeeded in making their people

believe that it was a question of the de fence of the Fatherland.

FIRM STAND BY THE WAR CABINET.

Losos, February 6th, The War Cabinet has refused to receive a deputation of Locomotive Engineers,

Mr. Bonar Law pointed out that, when the cabinet agreed to an eight-hour day,

it was clearly understood by the Govern nk and the engineers that it was to be an eight-hour working day Hence, there was room for misunderstand

ing.

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The Press Bureau states:

LATER

Mr. Bonar Law, on behalf of the War

Cabinet, declined to receive a deputation from the Society of Loeumative Engine

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A THREAT TO THE GOVERNMENT.

LONDON, February 4th The Press Bureau states:- The Ministry of Labour has received two resolutions presed at anofficial con. terendes of the London Engineering and Electrical Unions demanding Govern ment intervention on the Tyde, in Rel fast, and in London, with a view 10

introducing legislation to secure វ nn. Lional forty-hour week, with the object of absorbing unemployment.

He declared that the Conference was called to give President Wilson the sup port of the workers. If the Conference only succeeded in incorporating the in-

The resolutions included the statement ternational labour cluster in the League that, if the Government refuer, a gro

of Nations Treaty, it would be justified,crul cessation will occur on February 6th,

M. Branting declared that Socialism and, the vase of the Electrical Union, must be realised by an ordered, collective, it is intended to stop the power stations production, not by terrorism by winari

in Loudon,

ands, with the Arabs, regarding Syria. and the understanding with the French

the Cameroons must

be

Lics.

The Ministers of the Eve Great Powers regarding meet this morning to continue discussuunsarintrarily modifed, if not torn up. on territorial adjustments, the abolition The Japanese Delegates declare their of conscription, and the economie reunalterable determination to claim the construction of Germany. The mattere have been referred to a Commission.

BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT NOT

RECOGNISED.

PARIS, February 5th.

A Havas message sintes:

M. Pichon stated to the Journalists

that the Conference did not recognise the Bolshevik loverantirai.

THE SYRIAN QUESTION,

PARIS, February 5th.

A Havas unessage statesi --

With regard to the Syrian question, it is reported that the French plans and Arabian asporations can be arranged in mutual greencut.

THE FINANCIAL COMMISSION.

LONDON, February 5th.

A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb- ruary 4th, states that at the first meet ing of the Financial commission, tho Italian ex-Premier, Signor Balandra was Dominated President.

Mr. E. 6. Montagu bas been appointed to examine the project for the financial section of the League of Nations, drawn up by M. Klotz, the French Minister of

Finance.

SATISFACTORY PROGRESS.

LONDON, February 5th, A communique from Paris, dated Feb ruary 4th, states that the League of Na

ions Commission is making satisfactory

progress.

The International Labour Legislation Commission has agreed to adopt, na a basis of discussion, the British proposals for the establishment of a permanent organisation for dealing with labour matters internationally.

THE COMMITTEE ON REPARA

TION.

islands they were promised.

A question regarding internationalist- tion is whether the principle will govern, not only the fat German colonies, but also the European territory taken from

the enemy.

has

RESPONSIBLILITY FOR THE

WAR

BERSE. February 4th.

A feature of the Socialist Conference bitberto ie the decision te enquire who is responsible for the war.

The French delegates, M. Mistral, M. Renaudel and M. Thomas, quoted many well-known facts showing that Germany Was wholy responsible, and surastically referred to the part played by the Ger man Majority Sorialiste.

Agfeements aiready exist between the Unions and employers fixing a forty seven hour work, and the Executives of the Unions concur in the Government's view that the circumstances do not justify Government intervention.

DRASTIC REGULATIONS TO BE ENFORCED.

LONDON, February 5th.

The Press Bureau states:--

LATEST CABLES. THE RUSSIAN SITUATION THE AIM OF THE BOLSHEVIKS.

PARIS, February 5th.

A Havas message states;-- The Press and the public contine to discuss, almost exclusively, the Russian

situation.

The Bolsheviks desire to entangle the i Alien in discussions. Further debates.

aning the Give Great Powers may fe

BAUSKA BY.

A GREAT COMMUNIST CONFER ENCE CONVOKED

STOCKHOLM, February 5th.

A telegram from Petrograd states that the newspaper publish an exhortation from M, Lenin to all Bolsheviks in firm.

many, Austria, Poland, the Baltic Pro vinees and Finland, in which he courokes a great Communist Conference,

CHINESE BOLSHEVIST LEADER MURDERED,

The bend of the Chinese Bolsheviks in

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FRANCE AND FINLAND.

DIPLOMATH RELATIONS

REOPENED.

HELSINGFORS, February 6th.

France as re-opened diplomatic rela tions with Finland.

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION. COLOGNE NEWSPAPER

SUSPENDED.

Couess, February 2nd. The Bettish authorities love suspended The Cologne Test for tak week for publishing wndesirable matief.

GERMANY

BERIOUS MOVEMENT AGAINST GOVERNMENT.

COPENHAGEN, Febuara nth. Alegram from Weruar states that the members of the Geinian Government arrived there on February and and took up their sidene, at the Patnoe.

AMSTERDAM. February 5th.

A legram from Eisenach states that 1,090 aried suddien and workaren have

Petrograd, who exercised dictatorship gone 10 Wettene with the watchword

ver the Chinese in Russia, and WON guilty of many cruel acts. bay been mur dered.

IRISH

AFFAIRS

THREE SINN FEINERS ESCAPE FROM PRISON.

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LONDON, February 5th. The Sinn Feiners, De Valeen, Milroy McGarry escaped from Lincoln Prison on Monday, it is not known how. They were all right when the warders visited them in the afternoon, but were missing five hours later. They had to

Against the Ebert-Schiedemann Goy- ernment and the Guard troops."

Troups armed in the Independents also left for Gotha to appose the Government

AT A TAPESTRY MUSEUM.

PRESIDENT WILSON'S INTEREST IN A FRENCH INDUSTRY.

PARIS, February 4th. President Wilson paid a visit 10 Globe- lin's tapetry

maoufuctory. He appeared to be interested in watching the repairing of ald tapestries from Rheims and Sens.

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Among the new tapestries inspected by the President. Was the "Noces do

scale a 20-foot walf and penetrate wire Payehe," which the French Governnient barriers on the grounds.

14 is supposed that confederates in motor-car helped them to escape.

PORTUGAL.

EL

CONFLICTING REPORTS.

LONDON, February 5th.

via Vigo and

decided to present to the United States after the latter'a entry into the war.

BARLIER CABLES.

THE LAST OF THE ROMANOFFS

MORE REVOLTING DETAILS OF THE MURDER.

LONDON, February 4th. La Petty Parisien publishes new details of the murder of the Russian Imperial Now Router's correspondent at Madrid Family, according to which the GrandTM and at Vigo, telegraphing on February Duchessen were violated under the eyes

that

Count

of their parents, before they were killed. Azavedo, the Ruyulist Minister for Commerce, ar rived at Vigo from Oporto en route to Madrid.

The French Italian, and British Domin ion representatives are of opinion that any

The Portuguese news A pew Defence of the Realm regulation interntional control system always proved a failure in the past. The

makes a breach of contract of servico Madrid have hitherto dwely on the Royal.

only right of interference a Society of

The Germa delegate, Herr Wela and interfering with the plectricity ist successes. Nations should assume would be the alleged that Russia was responsible, and supply liable to six months' imprison- dwelt op the terrible effects of the right to call to account any Power whose Government is injurious to the interests

blockade. He promised that the old

of the inhabitante.

régime in Germany will Bever be re INTERNATIONAL OWNERSHIP

stored.

INEVITABLE.

PARIS, February 4th. President Wilson's theory of Interna- tional ownership as applied to the Ger- man colonics can now be regarded as an inevitable decision of the Peace Confer

enoo.

Japan has added her formal accept- ance. South Africa, it is understood, will no longer be opposing. The result

LATEST CABLES.

BRITISH LABOUR UNREST.

ment or a line of £100,

AGREEMENT WITH RAILWAY

CLERKS.

4th,

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At a meeting, this afternoon, between

Several Royalist personages, including | the President of the Board of Trade, the Mayor of Oporto, have also reached the Minister for Labour, and the repre- Vigo. All are very reticent regarding sentatives of the Railway Clerks' Associa the position of the Royalist troops, but tion, ил agreement. RAILWAY TROUBLE NOT SETTLED.

was reached, by state that the Oporto fisting-boala re- which the Government promised to main in the Harbour, for fear of meet LONDON, February stb.

accord full recognition, provided the ing the Republican warshipa ai sca. In spite of the railway clerks' settle Association made arrangements ensuring THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR ment, the trouble on the railways is authony the supervisory grades

MARSEILLES TO ALGIERS IN FIVE not yet ended.

within the Association, which the Gov- ornment consider necessary for the pre- servation of discipline and public safety.

THE NEW

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The Secretary of the Locomotive

of Italy's attitude has been the decision Engineers' Society announced last even. that the mandatory system shall noting that the Society was culling out the atcam drivers on the railways which had ix applied to European territories.

Thus, the fat Adriatic const, the Bal-

been partially electrified, in support of kans, the Austrian lands, the French the London tube-men, and if this does territorial claime against Germany, in- not avail, they will resort to national cluding the Suur Valley, remain for in

stoppage. dependent consideration.

It is hoped that, in actual practice, the authority of the League may be con- fined to the right of interference only in cance in which International morality has been outraged.

of

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS RE-

ASSEMBLES.

LONDON, February 4th. The House of Commons re-assembled

The Assistant Secretary of the same Society, interviewed at Leeds, said that 45,000 drivers and firemen, members of this afternoon. The House was crowded the Society, would come out if the Lon- everywhere. Sir Donald McLean, tho don trouble were not settled early. He newly-elected: Chairman of the remnant declared that the railway-men in the

of the Asquithian Party, Mr. W. Adam- M. Tardieu, in receiving foreign Provinces were journalists who asked if the acceptance hearted at the application for an eight

dissatisfied and half so, the Parliamentary Chairman of the of the Wilsou pian

Labour Party, Mr. J. R. Clynes, Mr would mean the tearing up of all Agreements made hour day which was due to the slowness between the Allies during the war, such as the Agreement between Italy, and the of the release of railway-men from the Eatent, and that between Japan and the Entente, replied that all Agreements

Army. would be examined by the Peace Con- ferenco.

LONDON, February 5th. A communique from Paris, dated Feb ruary 4th. states that a meeting of the Inter Allied Committee

Dealing with Africa, M. Tardieu re- on Reparation affirmed the French intention to claim decided to establish three sub-Committees Togoland, the Cameroons and a portion for the consideration of the following of the Congo, questions:-The valuation of the dium- ages; the study of the financial capacity of the enemy States, and their means of payment and reparation; and the mea- sures of control and guarantees,

Two Czecho-Slovak representatives have been added to the Commission.

THE ARMISTICE FRENCH ON RIGHT BANK OF RHINE.

In conformity with the Armistice terme, French troops, headed by General Hircanuer, took possession of the Kebl forls on the right bank of the Rhino.

The operation was deemed necesary for the security of Strasbourg.

EARLIER CAULES. NEW PRESIDENT OF GERMAN COMMISSION.

EARLIER CARLER.

STILL MORE COMMITTEER,

LONDON, February 4th. A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb. ruary 4th, states, that the representatives of the great lowers, after hearing M. Vouitelos statement, resolved to refer the question of Greek territorial Interests A telegram from Berlin states that to an expert Cotamittee, composed of General Baron von Hammerstein has two representatives end of the United been appointed President of the German Binto the British Empire, France and Armistice Commission at Bpn in suces dialy.

nion to General von Winterfeldi.,

AMATERDAM, February 4th.

On the contrary, the National Union

unauthorised and hampering negotia of Railway-men deprecates the strike as

tions.

FA

EARLIER CABLES, DISAPPROVAL OF UNAUTHORISED STRIKES.

LONDON, February 4th. The Executive of the Amalgamateil Bociety of Engineers has issued a state- nent diapproving the present unofficial' strikes, and urging their members to resume work immediately, and thus en ablo responsible Trade Union Exceptives to enter into negotiations with ployers.

The Excentive further states that form stand at be taken against the unofficial strike movement.

John Hedge and Mr. Will Crooks were among those on the Front Opposition Bench.

Behind then were

the Asquithin Liberale and the Labour Party.

The Opposition Benches below tho gangway were filled by the overflow of Unionists from the Ministerial benches.

The only member of tho -War Cabinet on the Treasury Bench was Mr. Bonar Law, with whom was the Food Control- lor, the Minister for Education and a number of Whip.

MR. LOWTHER RE-ELECTED

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SPEAKEN

Mr. J. W. Lowther has been re-olpeted Speaker. All partics congratulated him. Be said that he was prepared to remain at his post for a year, possibly, for twp years, (Cheers.) Ife desired to be thore when the signing of Peace was aunounced from the Treasury Dench." (Loud cheers.) The House adjourned.

HOURS.

A Bavas message says:-

FAR

QDINA

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

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AGREES TO JAPAN'S REQUEST FOR PUBLICITY,

IERING, February 6th. A the request of Japan, China has consented to the publication of the Shan tung Railway Agreement, signed last September, but Japan advanced Twenty Million Yen for ratified, whereby

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purposes of construction and extensions

of the Kinchow Railway. The money

conquer

the

Two French airmen started at two was expended on successful military o'clock où Sunday morning from operations designed to Miramar aerodromfte, near Marseilles, South. to fly across the Mediterranean.

CHINA

The aeroplane landed near Algiers at seven in the maroing. The return fight began at one in the afternoon. The air. men have not arrived yet, although twelve hours have elapsed.

FROM WAR TO PEACE MOTOR CARS IN PLACE OF MUNITIONS.

PARIS, February 5th.

HOPES FOR GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE

PRINCIPLE,

China, having consented to the publi- cation of this Agreement, Government circles hope that Japan's acceptance of the principle of publicity of secret agree- ments and doeaments will be applied generally.

THE SINO JAPANESE MILITARY CONVENTION,

Military Attache, who has been recalled, Major-General Saito, the Japanese is remaining in Peking, in an effort to induce the Chinese to consent to an ex- Convention signed last year. tension of the Sino-Japaneso Military

A Havas message states:~ The well-known Citroen firm, in Paris, is transforming its munition works to the manufacture of motor-cars. The estimat ed daily outpat, by April, will be 100 cars; prices will range from £200 to £360 for each car.

The terms of the Convention provide that it shall be inoperative at the ter EUROPEAN FOOD PROBLEM.mination of the war. General Baito claims that the termination of the war THREE MISSIONS COMMENCE means the signature of peace.

OPERATIONS.

LONDON, February 4th.

ORDER OF MERIT FOR MARSHAL- FOCH,

A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb, ruary 4th, states that three British Food British Embassy, in Parin, in honour of At a brilliant dinner, given at the Missions, under the auspices of the King George, the Order of Merit with Supreme Council, have left for Warsaw, crossed words WIN conferred

upon Triests and Bucarest for the supply of

Marshal Foch, Lord Darly alaimed relief.

silence for

a certain hugl An officer there assembly. fell on the appronclied the King, bearing on a velvet cushion the Order of Merit. Marshal Foch stood before the King deeply and in a soldierly attitude of

The King Baid?

ALLIED WARSHIPS AT HAMBURG.

TO CONTROL PROVISIONS,

aralin, I am happy to take ad- LOXDUR, February 2nd,

vantage of this, necasion personally to A telegram la The Hagi from Hamburg military distinction we punch. This de-

Find you. they states that four British and American coration will be a testimony to you of Insignia of the bigbest.

eruiars and destroyers have arrived at the great admiration and ligh steera Hamburg to control the imparted provi which my people fool for the

millary thief who stone, which the locul Boylet confiscated. armis to be has led tho British

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