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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1019.

UKRAINIANS RESUME HOSTI- LITIES AGAINST POLES.

THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE.

GERMAN ESPIONAGE PLOT DISCOVERED.

AERIAL POSTAL SERVICE INSTITUTED.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S ACKROY.]

GERMANY.

GOVERNMENT TAKING PRE-

CAUTIONS.

BERLIN, March 1st. As a result of the recent disturbances by mobs, the authorities are taking pro cantions in Berlin and elsewhere,

EARLIER CABLES.

GOVERNMENT DETERMINED TO COMBAT TERRORISM

COPENHAGEN, March 3rd. A message from Berlin states that the German Government, in a lengthy mani- festo, denounce the attempts to get rid of the National Assembly, condemn the strikes and declare that only work can save the Empire. The Government pro- mine the socialisation of suitable indus tries and asseverate their resolve to wage a relentless war against

rorism.

COALFIELDS TO DE

NATIONALISED.

A Bill has been introduced by the Weimar Assembly nationalising coal- fields.

LATEST CABLES.

STARVING PEOPLES.

MEASURES OF RELIEF.

PARIS, March 1st.

The Conference decided to send a Com mission to the Adriatic to enquire into the question of food supplies destined for Czecho-Slovakia. The Conference is also prepared to send pecessary labour to prevent further starvation in the interior. STILL AT IT. GERMAN PLOT DISCOVERED.

PARIB, March 1st. A telegram from Prague says that the Czech authorities discovered an anti-Ally espionage plot directed from the German Conenlate under cover of the Red Cross.

JEWISH NATIONAL HOME ZIONISTS CONFIDENT OF SUCOBSS.

PARIS, March 3rd. The Zionist delegation have announced that they are confident that Zionist claims, which were submitted to the Peace Conference, for the reconstitution of the Jewish national home at Palestine, will be recognised. The details had yet to be worked out, but the Zionist ideal had already triumphed.

After the Zionist delegation withdrew from the Council Chamber of the Peace Conference, Mr. Balfour sent a message congratulating them upon the success

Pachieved.

M. Tardieu declared that France did not object to Great Britain having a mandatory power over Palestino on ba half of the League of Nationa

EARLIER CABLES.

HOLLAND. BILL TO RE-ORGANISE DEFENCE FORCES.

DEMOBILISATION.

CANADIANS CAUSE SERIOUS DISTURBANCES.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. OUR POST-WAR REGULAR ARMY.

LONDON, March 3rd.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Chur- chill stated that, in view of our reponsibi-

lities, the British regular establishment never ought to fall as low as before the war; but as we did not know what the other Powers were going to do the final revision of our army system must be deferred.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE POST.

WAR ARMY,

Mr. Churchill pointed out that four distinct stages of army development were proceeding present:Firstly, the great armies of the war were being de- LONDON, March 7th.

mobilised; secondly, armies of occupa The Press Burenu stateg:--

tion, approximately 900,000 men, are The Minstry of Overseas Military

rapidly being formed Forces in Canada, in an official state thirdly, the voluntary regular army for

compulsorily

went regetting the Kinmel Park inoid the immediate garrisoning of the Empire, ent, particularly in view of the splendid formed out of trained men who re- discipline record of the Canadians dur- enlisted for one to four years, was grow- ing the war period, explains that Kinmeling at the rate of 1,000 daily; fourthly, Park was a concentration area since the a permanent post-war army is being built Armistice, where the troops were sorted up out of the new young recruits, who, into drafts according to their destination when they reached the age of 20, will be

sent East to replace war-time soldiers.

In addition, voluntary formations must be found to replace our fourteen terri torial, divisions,

in Canada,

The failure of the Ministry of Ship- ping to furnish sufficient ships to carry ut the February programme caused great disappointment and was chiefly responsible for the disturbancee.

The Chief of the General Staff has

THE ALLIED FORCES IN RUSSIA.

THE SUPREME WAR COUNCIL.

IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS,

LONDON, March 7th. The Press Bureau states:— A communiqué from Paris states that information was given to the Supreme War Canmail to-day concerning the inter ruption of negotiations at Spa regarding the surrender of the German merchant flect.

The Council completed the discussion of the re-victualling of Austria-Hungary, Mr. Lloyd George made a statement re- garding the military terms of the pre- liminary peace with Germany.

not

THE RUSSIAN ARMY. HOW THE COLLAPSE BEGAN.

Another serious mistake which largely assisted in the disorganisation of the arny was the despatch to the front of the ĮRY A MARIASBIN,].

whole of the official and secret police and These The heroic resistance of the Russian of the political gendarmerie. army in the Crimean War, in spite of chenies of the new régime, sent into the unexampled sufferings and privations, army without any precaution, thanks to opened for the Russing people the epoch the superiority of their education, as. of great reforms at the beginning of the compared with the ignorant majority of reign of Alexander II., and the liberation the army, succeeded in entering the com- of thousands of peasants from serfdommittees created by the "Prikaz No. 2, What the Russian army suffered during and placed themselves at the head of the "defcatist" and Bolshevik movement in Mr. Dansing submitted a proposal with the war of 1877-78 is well known. It was reference to Qerman cables.

the want of heroism among the order to bring about the complete dis The return to soldiers, sailors, and officers that was the organisation of the army. cause of the débâcle of the army and of Russia in German trains of Lenin and the destruction of the Russian fleet in his associates accelerated the fatal result the war with Japan. This collapse was due to the abominable crimes of those Entering Russia shortly alter the who had left the Russian army without revolution, I was struck by seeing that arms and without equipment. The Bus-nt the soldiers of the frontier garrison sian army bravely did more than its duty. at Torneo-who were entrusted with the and hundreds of thousands of heroes have important service of preventing the entry bathed the battlefields of Munchuria with into Russia. of Prussian spics--were read". their blood, while thousands of others meting the defentist" journal Foinu. a glorious death at the bottom of the sea. asked goveral of these men to explain to mo why they read this defeatist news In this instance, again, the enormous suffering of the Russian army and wavy paper, and they replied that the journals. largely helped in wreating from the re of other political parties bardly ever actionaries the famous manifesto of reached them, and that while they de October, 1905, which marked an epoch in tested this particular paper, they were

cipally guilty of these disasters have repatriated Russian history. Those who were prin obliged to read it because there were no.

romained unpunished; they have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

The Council decided, at the request of the Italian delegates, to appoint as inter-Allied military Commission to en- quire no, the incidents at Laibach.

The Jugo-Slav authorities were alleged to have expelled the Italian Military Mis- sion at Laiback, on February 20th. The Italian Government retaliated by closing the frontier. The Jugo-Slavs asserted that they were in enemy territory and interfered the Italians, in Laibach, acted as though with internal affaire, Later, an Italian Italians aboard, was attacked at Laibach Station by Serbians, who tore down and burned the Italian flags decorating the train.1

train, from Austria,

with

THE FRAWLEY COMPANY,

A PAIR OF SIXES."

A Pair of Sixes" which the Fraw-

But all the sufferings and martyrdom which the Russian army has experienced in the whole course of its history aro nothing in comparison with the final act of this tragedy. A personal friend of

of that mistake.

others.

* DEFEATION " AT WORK.

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After the return to Russia of Lonis and his friends, the Pravda, the official organ of the Bolshevik General Staff, began to publish very violent and calumnious articles against the Allies One day they. announced that eighty Russian soldiers had been shot on the French front in the 1917. The delegation of

Referring to the Allied force in ley Company presented at the Theatre Count Witte told me that the boginning month of acers of the Russian army

Russia, Mr. Churchill said that an Allied

addressed men in fifteen diferent places, Army of a certain size, about half of termed gale of laughter."

and it is unlikely that further disturb ances will occur aning the 18,000 of all ranks in camp..

Many offenders had already been arrested, including twelve civilian, and three rioters; also two men on picket duty, who had killed 21 men and wound. ed two officers.

which was British, occupied considerable regions in North Russia, with the parts of Murmansk and Archangel as bases.

Continuing, Mr. Churchill paid a tribute to the gallant services performed by Colonel John Ward, with a handful of men, on the Omsk front. That force had become a factor of appreciablo im- THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR portance in stemming the tide of Bolsbe-

vism in immense regions of Siberia.

AERIAL POSTAL SERVICE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT.

LONDON, March 3rd.

An Aerial Postal Service has been instituted between England and the Con- tinent, in order to carry mails to the Army of Occupation. The mail thus

THE ENFORCEMENT OF PEACE

TERMS. The enforcement of Peace Terms called

of his disgrace was due to a too frank soldiere and

in statement which he made one day to the revolutionaries, Buch as 7

like

Royal last night has been appropriately

among whom were some very The story concerng The Eureka Taar, when he said: "You have neither and L., protested against these pernicious lies, and demanded the publication of a Digestive Pill Co., the two partners in the money nor the army for waging war denial, bat without success, because it which-George Nettleton (Mr. Reynolds against anybody." From that day the would not have been in the interests of

The great "' defeatism." Denniston) and J. Bogge Johns (Mr. G. carcer of Witte was ended,

Russian generala

Dragomiroff, The officers at the front made herois A. Forbea) could not agree on any mat- Alexeieff, Brussiloff, and many others efforts to arrest the systematic destruc

A distance and under A lawyer were kept at

andortion of the army, which was confronted ter connected with business.

dissolution of the like Dondratonko and Makaroff lived and and often they were massacred by

the suspicion of being too liberal. Heroes

PATOR by a formidable and treacherous tries to arrange a

cloud. It was the Stoessels, own soldiers, who had been led away by partnership, but the partners could not died under

the Besobrasoffs, the Bukhoralinoffs, thy the Bolshevik propaganda and the appeala agree even in this He then suggests a Miassoicduffs, who were loaded with for fraternisation Suspired by the Ger

honours

nad it is they man General Staff. The stories on this game of poker, the loser having to serve

for the loss of who are really as the servant of the winner for one year. the Russian army and navy. They basely the front were very

subject related by office

One can To this they consent. Jofing loses and for deceived both the Tear and the people, imagine the sufferings of theho heroe who and now thousands of officers of the saw the German Kamerad bety two weeks hus a strenuous time ax

Russian army and navy are paying for hoers of the General Staff enter the It is impossible most important Russian position under Nettleton's butler. Then Florence Cole the crimes of these men.

ever to forget the terrible death of more the escort and protection of Russian (Miss

Chapman), Johns' loyal sweet than 80,000 soldier and officers in the " comrades."

Minssoiedoff

from

for a speedy settlement. We were holding heart avggests a scheme under which marahes of East Prussia, betrayed by The flood of words which drowned the

Nettleton will break the contract. The plan works, and Miss Cole settles all the

all means of coercion ready for im- mediate use-rigorously enforcing the disputes that arise by pronouncing the blockade, and maintaining strong armies agreement invalid--having been based on

INDICATIONS OF TREACHERY.

carried will reach Cologne in ten hour. able to advance at the sbartest possible a game of poker, and poker being system of trenches admirably adapted for eatly to the joy of the

instead of in five days as hitherto. The

mails will arrive at Folkestone by train,

and will be taken by lorries to an aero- drome, where machines will be held in readiness to load them up. Twenty-three bags will be taken across on the first journey by four machine.

POLAND.

UKRAINLANS RESUME

HOSTILITIES.

WARSAW, March 3rd.

notice. Germany was at present on the verge of starvation, bat when she accepted our terms, the re-victualling of the coun-

try and the supply of necessary raw material could be energetically pursued.

gambling.

Commandant N., of the Military Engi

behind our front in Galicia a complete neera, told me that one day he found

the purposes of the German army in case they should advance. And when he made a report on this subject his superior

to officer, a Russo-German of the Baltic pro- vinces, the latter merely told him not to

meddle with what did not concern

The two chief characters were extremely well portrayed, Mr. Forbes was especi- ally good first, as the real American business man, and afterwards, as the per fect butler. Miss Florence Chapman had

tion

bim,

whole of Ruesin penetrated the army, and the front, from the Black Sea to the Baltic, was transformed into a monstar

The situation becaine impos and in order to redeem it Kerensky started his famous offensive.

July to bring about acts of was able

sublime beroisin

and souse the intellectual youth and Russian regiments, together with the Czecho-Slovak regimente and an enormous number of officers, broke the Austrian

These forces were sent there as part of the most attractive part among the ladies. The same commandant also inform-face of the enemy merely by means of

our operations against Germany, and we must neglect nothing required for their safety and well-being. We also incurred heavy commitments towards the people of these regions. OUR FORCES IN THE NEAR EAST. We also had an Army of a certain size in the Cascasus which was sent there in order to ensure that the Germano- Turkish forces were turned out, and which remained there to maintain order, pond-

A message from Lemberg, dated March 1st, says that the Ukrainian, notified that they would resume hostilities on March 3rd. The Allied Commission replied deing the decision of the Peace Conference manding a prolongation of the suspension regarding the future of that country. We of hostilities, threatening them with the were now holding, in some force, the hostility of the Paris Conference if railways from Batum to Baku, and the Adipiraity had a feet of armed vessels on fighting were resumed.

the Caspian Sea.

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Later news shows that the Ukrainians carried out their threat by shelling the rail-road from Lemberg to Oracow.

POSEN, March 2nd.

NECESSITY FOR ARMIES OF

OCCUPATION.

Any delay in settling with Germany A message from Lemberg states that might be the cause of another great area the Ukrainians repudiated the arrange sinking into anarchy. It would not be pos ment cabled on February 25th, and, not able to withdraw our Armies of Occups withstanding the Inter-Allied Commistion immediately Germany agreed to our sion's efforts, declined to agree to an forme, as we got to make sure that ‘she, armistice with the Foles, against whom would carry them out. These armies, they resumed hustilities.

Wansaw, March 3rd.

Miss Molly. Malim had a comparatively small part as Mise Parker, the typist. The Most realistic acting in the play was that of Miss Valentine Sydney, who as Goddies, the plavey, was extremely laughable Miss Antonetta Lloyd some what over-did her part.

The Company is staging Mary's

| Ankle " to-night.

DEADLY MINE. MISTAKEN FOR BOAT.

CHANNEL PILOT'S NARROW

ESCAPE.

A Channel pilot has had an escape from death as wonderful as any the war

cords of this port could furnish.

war,

and forbade him to speak about it. That front; but by now it was clearly seen that happened a long time before the revoluit was impossible to direct an army in

committees and words, me that, at the beginning of the

were only 609

WORK OF THE ARMY.COMMITTEES. in many divisions, rifles per regiment, and in order to

Captain Dzevaltovsky, who was said to remedy this shortage wounded soldiers wore not admitted to hospital unless they be an Austrian officer remaining in the brought their rifics with them. Yot, in Russian lines after a fraternisation, was spite of all this, the Russian army held one of the principal authors of the up the Gernian and Austrian army for horrors of Tarnopol and Kinoucht winch three years, and from time to time dealt followed this offensive. Kerensky had an them some formidable blows,

oppportunity of seeing what the Dzevel- The Russian fleet, numerically inferior tovakys had managed to accomplish in

certain committees of the army.

The to the German fleet, held the latter in

heroic and superhuman efforts. check in the Baltic with great ability and Korniloff arrested the disaster which of General But what the Germans were succeeded the opening of the Russian courage unable to accomplish by force of arme Front as a consequence of the desertion they succeeded in

means of in achieving by intrigues and treason. Between fifteen of the divisions corrupted by the

featist" propaganda. T know and sixteen million soldiers were mobilla

which officers, on their cd in Russia, and while the front kept

UP men to advance. These soldiers replied Litanic

all the large towns in

that the whole regiment would follow if Russia

with onormous garri- all the officers marched, ahead of them, Bone, a fact which disorganised all the and when the officers went forward they

of country,

stred

were

The strange experience which befel forens

the

and

de

in

knoes, begged their

The work of the German agents was especially notable in the Russian feet, particularly at Cronstadt, where the

Thea the regular supplying of the were shot down by their own men

the Provisional Government of Kerensky, combatant army. Moreover, the

the inactivi- him he told Dungeness waiting to dis of these large garrisons brought about Savinkoff, agreed to the restoration of

on the urgent request of Korniloff and I was off

thet embark from u posel into the pilot their demoralisation; discipline was re- denia pouales, id the arany. But it whe outter's boat. It was dark at the time, laxed, the military spirit was weakened, unfortunately too late. but there was Boficient light for me to and when these soldiers were sent to the the bare outline of objects front their fighting value was negligible. distinguish in the near vicinity. Knowing that the

To this must be added the fact that in cutter's boat was alongside the ship some

the first year of the war the great majori where or another, I went over the sido ty of the officers of the cadres had dis officers--and, above all the specialista, and down the ship's repe ladder, hand-appeared, and the training of the army who are difficult to replace were miss

was thus left in the hands of young offered under the direction of the infamous over-hand

cors, very courageous, it is true, but Rochal. I was travelling one day with

About

million and a four sailors of Cronstadt, sons of pea- inexperienced. half of deserters were wandering about sants, and quite inoffensive in their man- all over Russia, oucumbering the lines of her and I was horribed by the stormiral they Such was the state of told me of the assASH communication.

Virenius and

other son of

naval ofloors at the army before the revolution.

Cronstadt in the e earls dave of the DESTRUCTION OF DISCIPLINE,

As I neared the water I could just discern a dark object bobbing up and down beneath me. I took this for the waiting boat, and planted one foot on it. It felt solid enough, but as I began to press with my fall weight it soomed to sheer away.

I was still under the impression it was the

"The whole of the Russian pricy and. ite nt, and was just going to lot

the coolnces of finished criminals

moreover, would-contpel-Gormany to act go, when was hailed by the boat's crew. great chiefs loyally supported the new on, in which they had taken part

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related how the Beansfired by rightly towards the now States on her who were alongside, but a little further regime; and if Rossi bnd had its senco of his and how on

Hero we are, sir. Hold on a bit filled with enthusiasm by the vision of of his cd suicide, “And in-

Away.

ma

The HAGUE, March 1st. The Second Chamber adopted the Chamber of Deputy's motion by 43 votes

the bayonets of the to 35, inviting the Government to ro

Napoléon he would havo, led the army,

fearing to fall

into The Ukrainians fired on a special train Eastern border, whose continued proe they called out organise the defence forces and diminish

hands, liberty which at length radiated over their the War Ministry's expenses, but the War carrying the Inter-Allied Commission perity was such an important factor of hung suspended for a few seconds Russia, towards the grant victory. Un explanation of this dummary excontion until the inen roached me. As soon as fortunately, the Russian revolution did they said that the admiral had carried Minister declared that the motion would from Lomberg to Warsaw. Two Polish the whole European problem. Mr. Chur

I was anfely in the bent. I

the country in sailors who did not wear the regulation mot influence the attitude of the Governofloors on the train were severely wound gill, therefore, urged the maintenance it was I bad pus my soul oaked what not discover this genius who would on furious campaign against those of a strong army in the Rhineland until aparently, had notfood, nothing, so the interior and victoriously continue the troupers, and that ho had gone as far as to out of the offending garmonta with .:. ed. ment, which diangrood "with"át.

omlored them to drop stern a bit, but strugglo

whenever he saw them; ** to, go carefully.We made use of a The Pals and Ukrainians ronchod a the future cleared,

aring Intern, and to our utter surpriso

was the Prikax No. which agreement at Lemborg, on February 25th,'

of ignorant this sort, and I know from at trustworthy Ho concluded by emphasising, the nood discovered a large, live mine, dipping in the exce

quietly up and down between our to an hoalition. The arrangement. won

soldiers legalised insubordination and poured that the Dronelade Ballors who subject to 19 hours' reunuciation.] .

completely destroyed military discipline. joined the Bolshevik hovement, repaired) The dindly prongs GERMANS ACTIVE ON THE dosading more than was right or pru showing above the water line. The bight known that the régime which they desired was at Cronstadt hat the Gornano-Bol-

FRONTIER,

dent.

gave us all the droopy, I can tell you to ornate in the Lussian army in which shovik coup Fint of Lenin and Trotsky Had my foot bunting the weight of my the grond majority of the, soldiers re was prepared, and hero is not the slight It is reported from the Polish German The Bacet combination in the world was 16 stones, Toome intel contact with one of filterate would not have been applicable on doubt that Cork agents said Fa frontier that the Gormang.pro re-stick-power, and morey; the worst, den

those prange, It would have boon all over even to sharing cobinosid of zilisons with me, with the bont, and probably educated in accordano with the most ing all alugg

and epito,

with the ship and her crow as well. democratie principles.

PORTUGAL. MONARCHIST LEADER COMMITS BUICIDE.

Lissor, March 3rd.

is reported that Senhor J'aive sodoro, the "fugitive" leader of the mommitted suicide

the line.

The fret wortel blow at the Russian was not difficult to corrupt men of

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for not being carried away by succèse intó: boat 'and the ship I4. As The authors of this docurgeat must have as inuch no 150 roubles per math.NE

Ware

un gold were responsible for the purely 'anaroltival' and anti-Ally olisasotor to the "ovanta at Crohsindt:"Mily Telegraphs,

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