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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND, 1919.

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RESUMPTION OF TRADE WITH

TURKEY.

MAGNIFICENT VICTORY OVER THE BOLSHEVIKS.

TAX ON CAPITAL IN FRANCE.

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FRANCE AIMING AT A RESUMPTION OF HOSTILITIES.”

FULLER DETAILS OF ATTEMPT ON M. CLEMENCEAU'S

LIFE.

LATEST CABLES.

ĮTHROUGH LECTER'S AGENCY.] THE PEACE CONFERENCE. BRITAIN'S REPRESENTATIVES

LONDON, February 19th.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Lambert asked for the names of the Plenipoten- Liaries who are actually empowered to agree, on behalf of the United Kingdom, to the peace terms.

Mr. Bonar Law replied: The Premier, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Barnes, one representa tive of the Dominions, and myself.

PUNISHMENT OF THE GUILTY,

Replying to another question, Mr. Bonar Law stubed that the Government

possessed a list of the chief culprits ju connection with the ill-treatment of

British prisoner, but emphasized that action could only be taken in conjunction with the Allies.

LATEST CABLES.

THE SETON MURDER CASE

THE MAID'S IMPORTANT EVIDENCE.

LONDON, February 19th. The hearing of the Rutherford case was resumed to-day. Mrs. Rutherford's maid emphatically denied that she had ever seen anything suggesting improper in- timacy between her mistress and Major Beton.

She also stated that, at her mistress's request, she removed a photograph of Major Seton from her mistress's room, the day before Lieut, Col. Rutherford came home, because Lieut.-Col. Ruther ford would have burned any photograph be found in the house.

The bearing was adjourned.

KOLN's

THE AMERICAN NAVY.

NEW APPROPRIATION BILL

Washington, February 19th, The House of Representatives passed A communiqué from Paris, dated February 19th, states that the Reparaan Army Appropriation Bill of over a

THE REPARATION COMMISSION.

LONDON, February 19th.

The Government was immediately end- ing a message of sympathy and indigna

tion.

The suggestion that the Speaker should send a special message on behalf of tho House was contrary to ull precedent but would be considered. (Choera.)

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NOT SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.

LONDON, February 18th. It is confirmed that M. Clemenceau was nut seriously wounded. He was able to walk home.

A YOUNG ANARCHIST.

PARIS, February 19th, Cottin, M. Clemenceau's assailant, is twenty-three years of age, A cabinet- maker by profession, and militant anarchist.

A soldier accompanying M. Clemen ccau's claffour fred at Collin with a revolver.

M. Clemenceau, in the afternoon, 18 mained bright and cheerful, and had a lengthy interview with Marshal Foch.

M. Clemenceau is of the opinion that he recognised his assailant as a man he saw loitering, when returning bome the previous evening.

M. CLEMENCEAU'S CONDITION.

Pin18, February 17th.

The condition of M. Clemenceau at three this afternosu was the same, but the temperature had slightly risen,

M. Clemenceau is resting. Visitors are excluded.

FURTHER DETAILS.

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LATEST CABLES.

AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS.

BIG SQUIALIST SUCCESS.

PARIS, February 18th. A telegram from Vienna states that the results of the elections, besides showing the Socialist success, constitute a victory for the advocates of union with Germany FRANCE'S WAK EXPENDI- TUBE

FIGURES UP TO JANUARY JIST.

PARIS, February 17th. France's war expenditure, up to Janu Dry 31st, amounted to £7,280,000,000, of which £720,000,000 was raised by taxa- tinuing expenditure, including compen-

redemption

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The debit balance of £30,000,000 doce not reckon much large and long con tion and £5,700, 000.000 by borrowing, sation (£400,000,000) German currency J2] Alsace-Lorraine (#100,000,000) and allowance to enldiers and their families (between £170,000,000

and £240,000,000).

The Finance

EARLIER CABLEN.

DEMAND FROM GERMANY.

PARIS, February 18th.

Minister, M. Klotz. making a statement to the Chamber Bud get Committee, said that Frauen's civil and military expenditure in 1938 totalled 50,000,000,000 francs, but the public wealth

GT. BRITAIN AND TURKEY FAR EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

RESUMPTION OF TRADE

AUTHORISED.

LONDON, February 17th.

The Press Barena states:- The Board of Trade authorises, under

certain existing restrictions, the resuinp tion of trade with Turkey, including Turkey-in-Europe, Asia Minor, Artesia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Byria and

Bulgaria

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. J CHINESE COMPLIMENT TO MARSHAL FOCH,

PEEING, February 25th

military attachés, visited Marakal Fock Lu Teng Batang, accompanied by the

on February 7th, and expressed the Pre- sident's desire to present an illuminated Allied Gene- rafissimo in trengustion of his brillinab

Trade with iussian Black Bea ports Chiab decoration to the may also be resumed.

RESUMPTION OF BLACK SEA

TRADE LONDON, February (7th.

to

The Prese Bureau states!-- In connection with the resumption of Black Sen trade, the Department of Over- seals Trade offers Facilities British traders to send representatives to South- ern Russia in the hope of fostering trade. Several British steamship lines are already arranging a resumption of ser vicos.

POLAND.

GERMANS IN DISPUTED TERRITORY.

PARIS, February 19th. Marshal Foch reported to the Confer ence on the afternoon of February 17th, regarding the renewal of the Armistice, that the demarcation line on the Posen frontier had been slightly modified, alter discussion between Herr Hammerstein and General Weygand.

Wus considerably increased.

The question of the government of the Exchange had improved and the discount different territories thus withdrawn from

rate lowered.

PARIS, February 18th. Fuller details show that M. Clausen- The Government's financial policy in- cenu was driving through the strects when ciided, firstly, demand from the enemy the would-be assassin suddenly sprang of the payment of the whole of this debt from a public conveyance where he had with guarantees; secondly, tax been waiting and fired five times.

The capital. shots pierced the hood of the car, but

He said that the establishment of a only one hit the aged Premier.

financial section of the League of Nations was being considered,

The Police seized the assailant, but not

tion Commission to-day received the billion dollars, having previously elimi-before he tired two shots at them, wound evidence of Japan, the United States of naled the proviso of the Senate calling up ing two. The crowd would have given

America, Italy and France,

INTERNATIONALISATION,

a temporary standing army of 540,000.

The Bill restricts voluntary enlistments LONDON, February 19th. In prace time to 176,000, enlistments A COMUM UNKYBĖ from Parie, dated being for a year only, without reserve. February 19th, states that the inter-Allied The Bill now returns to the Senate. sub-Commission on Porta, Waterways THE NEW BRITISH ARMY. and Railways, met on February 18th and "WHICH WE ARE DETERMINED discussed two draft conventions on the

TO GET." internationalisation of rivers, submitted by British and French delegates.

The general principles embodied therein appeared acceptable to all the nations interested.

LONDON, February 10th. Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking in London, said: We are reoruiting a new army for two and three years' ser- vice, at a rate of over 1,000 daily. It is

1 was agreed that the revised draft essential, in order to disarm Germany would be drawn up by a drafting Com-and secure reparation, which we are de mittee consisting of delegates from the termined to get, to maintain a strong British Empire, France and Belgium. MR. LLOYD GEORGE RECALLED TO PARIS.

LONDON, February 19th, Mr. Lloyd George has received Вд urgent recall to Paris, and is leaving thither immediately, after addressing the Miners Conference to-morrow.

BARLIER CABLES.

JUGO-SLAV DIFFERENCES WITH

ITALY.

and well-disciplined army on the Rbine. There is no intention of ænding a large British force to Russia. If Rusin is to be saved, it must be by her own exertions."

ATTEMPT ON M.

CEAU'S LIFE.

CLEMEN-

M. PICHON DESCRIBES THE

ATTACK,

PARIS, February 20th. M. Pichon, describing the attack on M. Clemenceau, said that, after the first shot, M. Clemenceau exclaimed: "Ho'a missext me," but he knew that other shots might be fired. It was indeed a later shot that struck him. Several bullete lodged in the Premier's overboat. LONDON, February 18th. The scone of the outrage was only 60

The Jugo-Slov representatives have informed M. Clemenceau that they are willing to submit their differences with Italy to arbitration by President Wilson. FRONTIER CLAIMS.

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him a bad time had not the Police got hire off quickly.

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LATEST CABLEN. BRITISH LABOUR UNREST. WILL THE MINERS STRIKE?

LONDON, February 19th. The South Wales ballot continues to The culprit's name is Coltin, and he day & two-thirds majority is necessary is a native of Compeigne.

for a strike.

The Premier's chauffeur was slightly wounded.

Eminent physicians announco thut M. Clemenceau was hit in the posterior part of the right shoulder. The wound is a penetrating pue, without visceral lesion.

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The patient's general condition perfect.

EARLIER CABLES.

THE KING'S CONDOLENCES.

LONDON, February 10th..

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Up to the present, the winere ballot in South Wales has resulted as follows: 18,000 for a strike, and 2,900 against.

EARLIER CABLES. INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE TO MEET SOON.

LONDON, February 17th. The National Industrial Conference, it is officially confirmed, will probably H.M. the King has telegraphed to before the end of the month.

Disputes as regarde wages, hours, con- "I was shocked to hear of the dastard-will be discussed.

Hitions of employment, and profiteering ly attack on you this morning. I earnestly trust that the injuries are not serious, and that, thanks to your splendid energy and courage, you will soon be restored to health, to continue your great and valued efforts for Trance and her AN Allies."

LATEST CABLES.

GERMANY.

STRIKE IN THE RUHR REGION.

BALE, February 19th. A telegram from Weimar states that the Government, discussing the critical situa tion in the Rühr region, where nino tenths of the mines wero in the hands of Communiats, who were preventing the transport of coal, sent a telegram ta Hanover, and 30,000 loyal troops were brought in to suppress the strike.

The Spartanists, on February 18th,

A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb-yards from M. Clemenceau's house, whi- ruary 18th, states that representatives ther he walked. Explained the territorial claims of the It appears that Cottin, who Serbs, Slovenes, and Kroats respectively.studiour youth, a teetotaller, and a non- It was decided to submit the qucation smoker, belonged to a group of anarchists of the frontiers claimed, with the excop of a supposedly harmless, oratorical tion of those in which Italy is directly order. interested, to the Commission charged He had apparently no accomplices, occupied 100 pits in 40 communal contres with the examination of the question ip though a man was arrested for protesting in the Rühr basin. cegard to Banat.

YUGO-SLAV DEMANDS,

FARIS, February 19th. The demands of the Yugo-Blava, which have been presented to the Council of the great Powers, include the whole of the Adriatic Const from the Italian fron-

against the crowd's attempt to lynch Cottin The man arrested is an ox- soldier, invalided owing to heart troubla M. CLEMENCEAU'S "CHARAC TERISTIC POWER."

LONDON, February 20th,

EARLIER CABLES. REASON FOR FOREIGN MINIS- TEN'S RESIGNATION.

PARIS, February 18th.

The sittings will be held in public. This announcement is hailed with gen- cral satisfaction, even in extremist circles.

"INDEPENDENT” SOUTH'

AFRICA

NATIONALISTS OFFERED A

PASSAGE.

CAPE TOWN, February 17th The Admiral offered the Nationalists passage on a warship.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR. DELEGATES AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

LONDON, February 18th.

Gorman sovereignty was not settled, but the protection of the Germans there had

mission at Warsaw. been guaranteed by the Inter Allied Com-

The Polca had been telegraphically re

German territory. quested on Monday evening not to attack

HEROIC POLISH DEFENCE OF LEMBERG.

WARSAW, February 18th. The Inter Allied Commission is send

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ALLIED MINISTERS AND THE PEKING RANKOW RAILWAY. The Allied Ministers are presenting an identic Note to the Chinese Govern- ment protesting against the shortage of cars on the Peking Hankow Railway due to military operations and the allocation of a majority of cars to one firm, THE DEPORTATION OF GERMANS.

The deportation of the Germans is pro- ceeding satisfactorily. The fourth and Just transporting strainer iz duc at Shanghai on March 6th,

OUTRAGE

ON CONSUL AT WUCHOW.

WOUNDED, TIED UP, AND TAKEN

TO THE GENERAL'S YAMEN. The following telegram was received by a well-known firm in Hongkong yester- day from their agent at Wuchow:--

Last night at 7 o'clock a British Constable interfered with the boat people who were throwing stones at a Kweilin soldier owing to an altercation with a Chines; woman in front of the Consulate, More soldiers arrived and the Constable was beaten. The Consul arrived and was also wounded. Both were tied and taken to the General'e Yamon, but later Were released.

Twenty-four Kweilin soldiers are under arrest. Everything is quiel "

LIBERTY FUEL IS BETTER

AND CHEAPER.

ing on Allied delegation, including the SUBSTITUTE FOR GASOLENE. British General Carton de Wiart, to Lem berg, to endeavour to arrange an Arini- stice between ibe Poles and the Ukranians.

The Poles, with only 3,000 regular troops and a few gune are defending Lemberg very valiantly againal the Ukranians, who are well equipped with Austrian artillery.

Polish women and children are parti. cipating in the fighting. Many Polish soldiers luck great-coats, and are fighting in 42 degrees of frost.

COMPROMISE WITH POLAND URGED.

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Bai, Feburary 17th.

Liberty fuel, which is said to be cheaper than gasolene and to poseesa been invented by officers of the U.S.A. many advantages over that product, has

War Department and is now being pro- duced

in large quantities. The new fuel is the result of more than five monthe effori devoted to experiment conducted by Major 0. B. Zimmerman Weinsberger, of tho and Capt. E. C research and development divisions of the general engineering depôt at Wash- ington.

Exhaustive experiments are said to have proved that the new fuel is adapted to all kinds of motor vehicles, stationary engines and airplanes. Its base is kero

успе

man.

Hon-corrosive.

Liberty fuel acts perfectly us In the German National Assembly, the gasolene sabstitute, says Major Zimmer- Independent Socialist, Herr Huase,

"It is odourless, tasteless and arged a compromise with the Poles made in a motor-cycle that covered 23,000 Tests for corrosion were Herr Noske, Minister of National De miles of variable operation.

It leaves fence, declared that the honour of Gar-les carbon residue than any gasolené,

requires less air or uxygen for combus many must be defended at all costs

tion, and develops greater horse-power. against Polish imperialism,

The fores of the explosion has been found There were large quantities of food-to be 30 per cent. greater than gasolene." stuffs in Posen which big land-owners in

The discovery, which,

it is asserted, ranks with the gates of the war. Poland furnished Germany with. It is resulted after twenty-seven gasoline difficult to foresee how Gormany could substitutes had been produced. The in- pass through her present difficulties up

gredients are of low cost and can readily less these supplies could be obtained.

be obtained, while the process of mana- facture is exceedingly simple.

Horr Noeke affirmed that the Boldiers' Councils were endeavouring to prevent volunteers going to fight against tho Poles. (Applause from the Independent Socialista, whom Herr Noske indignant- ly rebuked.)

FIGHTING BULSBEVISM.

GENERAL DENIKIN'S MAGNIFI. CENT VICTORY.

ODESSA, February 18th. A communiqué from Paris, dated Feb-

General Denikin's forces have reached ruary 18th, states that the International the Caspian Sea, baving advanced 350 Labour Legislation Commission yesterday verats in 12 days.

sented at the annual Labour Conference

They have taken 31,000 priamera, 95

An official dospatch states that the wagon-londs of booty cover 30 versta of the railway line.

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The tests, said to have proved conclu- sively the value of Liberty fuck, hava most exact and rigid. They were conducted under the supervision of the Bureau of Standards. The not resulta showed that although checked against every commercial grade of gasolene in the highest types of gasoleno engine re- fined to the limit of engineering know- ledge, and with no change in the car- buretter, Liberty fuel," nevertheless, develops greater thermal efficiency than the best gasolene.

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Major Zimmerman said the cost of the new fuel would be vastly less than that of gasolene, Arrangements would un- doubtedly be made so that the public will benefit from the discovery.

THE POPE AND ITALY.

Following up the Pope's decision to Romana question, for the purpose of ellest. submit to the Peace Conference the

ing an amicable settlement between the The Red Army, numbering close on Vatican and the Quirinal, bigh Vatican General Denikin to turn his attention to 100,000, is smashed. The victory enables

the Don front, where the position is Government. The

precarious.

rod that each State shall be repre-canada, eight armoured trains and a by two delegates for the Government and bugo quantity of other material. one for each of the employers and work- people, each delegate having one vote.

THE BERNE CONFERENCE

PARIS, February 17th, Mr. Arthur Henderson, interviewed | by Router, Hiates that he intends to re- The Frankfurter Zeitung Boyd that Wh to Berne. *** In the House of Commons, replying to Count von Raten told the Cabinet that also said that the Conference Dole tier at Friuli to Albania, including con- Major Wedgwood, Mr. Bonar Law stated he wanted to resign because was in-dasta to clearly acknowlogo that that mix shots wore fred of M. Clomen-possible to continue his foreign policy they had acted wrongly 'in, supporting gate required the German Majority

which, with characteristic power and Ono hit his shoulder, after

"while France is notoriously aiming the Government. strength of will, M. Cleanenedau walked at the resumption of hostilition" home He declined to go to bed unti)

REMAINING IN OFFICE. ordered by the doctor, who was of the Count von Ranteau is running in opinion that he would be up again in n office, in deference to the wishes of the The Council bua reserved ita decision. day or two. (Loud eboore)

sequently, Trionto and Fume,

The Italiano strongly claim these ports, saying that Italian form the majority

of the population.

The Yugo Blurs reply that the popula

tion of the whole Hinterland is Croatian,

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The Conference decisively confirmed the low dr the great bulk of Allied workers that a tieman victory would have meant the defeat of liberty and cocracy in Europe

already been made towards the Italian

relates confirm the statement that en- couraging conciliatory approaches have Anal settlement prove's plan for P

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The giving Pope an

GENERAL BERTHELOT'S ARRIVAL ro (about £120,000) annuity which Italy things, that the accumulated three million Trench fores in the Near Eat, kas ar but which the Vatican

General Bortblot, commanding the has secorded to the Vetion since arrived at Odess from Constanza.

ALLIED SITUATION IN NORTH

RUSSIA... WASHINGTON, February 18th President Wilson bus notified the Minis-has now been incorporated by the Fabe tor for War that the Supreme War in the present plan of settlement. The

ject was drawn up BODO TOMÉ ago,

Coil is directing steps to improve the Pope will also ask Italy to rellaquish its Allied military situation in Northern right to approve the appointment of Lumia

Italian bishops,