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THE HONGEONG · ·DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919.

OCCUPY

GNIFICANT REMARK BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE.

EMIER'S APPEAL

LABOUR.

ΤΟ BRITISH

NCH OPPOSITION TO TAX ON CAPITAL.

ANOTHER GENERAL STRIKE IN BERLIN.

FRANCE'S EVER-PRESENT FEAR OF

INVASION.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

THE MILITARY TERMS.

MORE SEVERITY SUGGESTED.

PARIS, March 7t

A Havas eksilge says!

M. ternis, Regarding the many Tardien stated, at the Conference of Journalists, that the ananimous feeling among the Allies was that the terms should be made huure severe than sugges: ed by the Allied military advisers

RESPONSIBILITY

FOR

WAR.

RUMANIA.

PEOPLE IN SORRY PLIGHT,

Paris, Murch 7th.

A Haras message says... Queen Marie pleads for the Rumanian people who are suffering toisery from under-feeding. She says that the stories of the revolution are untrue,

FRENCH WAR BONUS.

£10 ON DEMOBILISATION,

PARIS, March 1st.

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A Havas message says: Every French soldier will receive THE bonus of £10 on demobilisation, together

ALLIED INDICTMENT OF THE

EX KAISER.

PARIS, March 7th.

A Havas mesange says: The Sub Commission on the Reepon- aibility for the War has submitted its re port indicting the ex Kaiser, the Crown Priner, the inner civcl of the German War Party, und several hundred civil and military officials who governed oerupied territories in France, Belgium and Poland,

THE GERMAN FLEET.

FRENCH CLAIM FOR MAJOR PORTION.

PARIS. March 7th.

A Havas message says: An agreement was brought about yes The Allies terday on the naval terms, Are in complete accord that the German Navy should not be handed back to the

Germans.

The French favour the German Navy being given aver in part to the French

Government.

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COMMON CAPTURE OF THE

ALLIES

PARI, March 7th.

A Havas message saya :-- At the Conference of Journalists, M. Leygues reiterated his previous expres sion of opinion that the German war- ships should neither be sunk nor broken As constituting the common capture of the Allies they should be divided in the best way for France to make up the loeses sustained.

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with 12. for each non combatant and 169. for combatants.

EARLIER CABLES.

GERMANY'S TROUBLES. BERLIN IN A STATE OF SIEGE. COPENHAGEN, March 4th. A telegram from Berlin states that tbo has declared Government Prussian aeveral districts in Berlin in a static of siege, in order to effectively protect the workers from letrorian.

Defance, The Imperial Minister of Herr Noske, who is the Commander-in- Chief of the army in that area, has assumed executive authority.

A GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSED.

COPENHAGEN, March 4th.

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NEWS.

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** GERMANY MUST PAY THE LEGITIMATE BOUNDARY, the first time in history, an international FAR EASTERN CABLE

FIRST."

They must see that the stream of pro-sympathy which is quick and vital-a FRENCH OPPOSITION TO TAX ON|sperity irrigated the whole land. It was sympathy which does not display itself

CAPITAL

PARIS, March 3rd.

A Havas message states:

Germany must pay first" in the curt reply of the French tax-payers to the proposition of M. Klotz, the Minister of Finance, to lexy a lax on capital.

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increased taxation is inevitable, the Ger man tax payer must first be eloared by | Alhed tax collectors,

THE PEACE CONFERENCE

THE FUTURE OF FRANCE BEING DECIDED

PAS, March 3rd.

A Havas message states: It is believed that the future of France will be derided at the Peace Conference during the next seven days.

only in the contrast of government, but which displays itself between the great bodice that evostitute the great nations.

The significance of a great conference like this is that we are expressing in it-- and I believe they express in it in the result of the conference that we are ser

vants of this great silent mass of people

mistake to keep men working lenger than was absolutely necessary, bus, at the same time, two things must be borne in mind, namely, foreign competition, and need of productivity for a community of 45,000,000. Therefore, it was necessary to find the legitimate boundary, just as the Paris Pence Conference was trying to fix the boundaries of Europe. They who constitute the United States of must use common sense, and get a line|| America, and as their servants it is their that would meet the justice of the case. busthors, as it is unr privilege, to find THE BOGEY OF UNEMPLOYMENT. our how best to assust in knitting their Referring to unemployment, the Pre- lives where we wish them to be, giving mior emphasised that while the thes the other opportunity that they employer unemployment

ought to have in assisting in public counsel

on their private affairs, upon which the happiness of man depends. And so I am more distressed that i can not take part in the council, because my present business is to understand what plane man every where wa5118.

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the toss of profits and mental worry, Lo the worker 14 meant per monal suffering aud the still greater sorrow of seeing his Inmily starving Only those who had lived among the work

It is the aim of the military part of the Conference in secure the absolute dising classes could appreciate these horrors,

which must be banished: armament of Germany, within limits. not

DISTRESS AND FAMINE MUST leaving the German Government defence-

CEASE less to suppress internal disorders.

France wishes to prevent the Rhenish Palatinate from ever again becoming the taking off point of a German invasion, and will like to have a reliable bul tress between France and Germany.

The settlement of the left bank of the Rhine will figure in the preliminary Peace treaty.

is suggested that independent German Republin be formed on the left bank of the Rhine

Marquis Sacniji, the head of the | Japanese delegation, will join the Com

mittee to-day.

It

BRITAIN'S AIR FORCES.

THE POWERS OF THE NEW BILL.

LONDON, March 4th. The Naval and Military Air Force Service Bill has boon issued. It en powers the retention of men now in the Forces until April 30th, 1990.

BRITISH LABOUR,

PREMIER'S SPEECH TÓ IN-

DUSTRIAL COMMITTEE.

They must deviae some scheme whersby. when unemployment cute, it would be impossible for distress and famine to haunt the homes of honest people who were only socking work. Even the criminal, sentenced to hard labour, was fed.

Was it just

or fair that man seeking work should be deprived of food 1

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PROSPERITY AND PRODUCTIVITY The Premier emphasised that the pros perity of the country depended upon increasing its productivity, and said that the heavy charges on the State, owing to the war, by which the National Debt had reached £8,000,000,000 must be meg by increasing productivity. Не urged employers and employed freely to exchange views, have a quiet talk and devise an understanding.

PROPORTIONATE PROSPERITY.

It was hard to get their suspicions against the employers, out of the minds of the workers, but they mast make the workers understand that the greater the LONDON, March 4th. Addressing the first session of the In-productivity in the country, the greater

would be their and their employers' pros dustrial Joint Committee of Employers,

perity. Let them sec that sunshine enter. and Employed, which was constituted at the Industrial Conference on Februaryed the workman's cottage as well as the 27th, and which was held privately this employer's mansion. (Cheers.)

POLAND AND THE UKRAINE,

RECRUDESCENCE OF THE

A telegram from Berlin, dated March 3rd, states that at a very stormy meeting of the Berlin Soviet, the Communists and Independent Bocialists, by bare morning at the Central Hall, Westmins Sir Thomas Munro presiding, majority over the Majority Socialists,ter,

the Premier said that he was returning to passed a resolution in favour of a generaš strike to enforce the demand for political Paris, to the Peace Conference, this after- noon, but thought it important to come recognition of the Soviets, and the over-

there and say a few words to them, who throw of the Bebiedemann Ministry.

were also sitting at a peace which was more important for the future than per- haps they realised.

It is anticipated however, that the Majority Socialist workers will not par- ticipate in the strike.

DISTURBANCES IN BERLIN.

COPENHAGEN, March 5th. A telegram from Berlin states that, following upon the Spartacists' decision for a general strike, disturbances occur- red in various parts of the city.

It is declared that the Government is prepared to meet eventualities.

SAILOR PRESIDENT ARRESTED.

The sailor, Kuhne, who, last Novem- ber, was proclaimed President of Olden-

BRITISH OCCUPATION OF

GERMANY 1 Russia had gone to pieces, and be was sorry to say that the symptoms were that Germany was also going to pieces. Thero was, in Germany, a lack of cohesion of ideas regarding the way the country was going to march and he would not be surprised if Great Britain had again to save civilisation in more ways than one. A MODEL OF CIVILISATION. The Committee's task was to settle the peace of the country, but they were doing They were setting up a model of civilisation for the rest of the world. Let them approach their labours in that spirit. Civilisation might be shattered to atoms. It could only be saved by the A telegram from Berlin, dated March, triumph of justice and fairplay to all

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. burg and Friesland, has been arrested by Herr Noske's orders and conveyed to

Berlin.

WHEN GERMANY CAN BECOME A

MEMBER

PARIS, March 7th.

M. Tardien, at the weekly Conference

of Journalists, stated that the French

RECOGNITION OF SOVIETS

DEMANDED. COPENHAGEN, March 5th.

Government hoped that the League of 4th, states that a meeting of Soviets pro. Nations would be made part of the proclaimed a general strike of all transport liminaries of peace. Connection between workers, electricians, telegraphiste, re- the League of Nations and the Ponce stauranteurs, and pressmen, but exempt... Treaty must be maintained.

more

olarBoy.

NOT ADVOCATES, BUT JUDGES. The Premier urged them not to try to get advantages over each other. They

TROUBLE.

BERNE, March 5th. The Ukrainians have issued a statement declaring that the Armistice has been de nounced by them, becuase the proposed new frontier would hand over Lemberg and the petroleum district of Drohobycz to the Poles.

PRESIDENT WILSON TO U.S.

GOVERNORS.

world.

It is perfectly understood Paris that we are not meeting there as the masters of anybody; but that we are meeting there as the servants of about | 700,000,000 people, and that unless w

show we understand the business of ser- vants we will not satisfy them, and we will not accomplish the peace of the If we show that we are about to serve any interest other than their, we' sta!! have become candidates for the most lasting discredit that could ever attach to men in history. And so it is with a

profound feeling of significance of the thing we are understanding that I bid you welcome, because 1 believe you are come together in the spicit which you have tried to indicate, and that we will together concert a method of e-operation and individual action which will really accomplish that which we

wish to sce accomplished in steadying and masing and creating the whole labour forces of the United States of America." - ámert

IFirclens.

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THEFT OF RICE

FROM DEM OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

KOREAN INDEPENDENCE

MOVEMENT.

PERING, March 12th. Independent reports from Korea in- diente that the independence movement mure widespread than is officially admitted by the Japanese.

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Traube Bad been anticipated on the occasion of the funere! of Prince Yi, and the Japanese culled in the gendarmeric from outlying stations.

Forestalling this, the Korean national leaders ar

aged for Independence Day demon- trations to be held two days earlier, thus catching the Japanese unprepared. Eventually the situation was restored, by aut lefore thousands had been a rested.

The Koran Independence manifesto calls upon the people to arise and make a peaceful demonstration of their inde pentence and ander no circumstances to use force The document is dignified and powerful,

THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS STRIPPED

AND BOUND TO CROSSES.

Students of the Pingyang Presbyterian Theological School were seized, stripped, lied to rough wanden crosses and curried through the city, their Japanese captora saying that as their Father had born a [cross they, ton, should have the privilego

of bearing it.

THE KOREANS' DEMAND.

The Koreang demand Japan's advisory control only until such time as the League of Nations considers the Koreang fit for absolute self-government.

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THROVON KEUTER'S AGENCY.]

JAPANESE AND THE SHANTUNG PROVINCE.

PARIS, March 3rd. A Havas mesruge støtes :-- The Chinese Pence Delegation has issued communication implying that China not a voluntary partner to the destitute, was charged before Mr. R. E. A Chinese, said to be homeless and

bransaction involving Japan's preferen- tial rights, interests, and privileges Lindsell, nt the Magistracy, yesterday, with stealing a quantity of rice valued throughout the Chinese province of Shan at $1.

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The defendeat, on seeing Inspector, as such a transaction could not Lawrence, dropped the rice, apparently be said to be innocuous, or not involving in fear, and ran away.

violation of China's territorial integrity.

At the Police Station the defendant stated that he had gathered the rice from the roadside He told the Court, how- ever that the rice was given to him by another man to carry.

A fine of $10 was imposed, with the alternative of 10 days' imprisonment,

THE VICTORIA THEATRE.

There is an excellent bill of fare at the Victoria Theatre to-night. One of Pathé Frères finest lins. For Sale," will be soreened, and Fredony, the quick change artist, will after his programme. Miss Astut Erjeksen, the Norwegian vocalist, will sing new songs, and Malle. Leona will dance the cake walk in the

Miss real Yankee way."

Tessic Turner, the American rag-time singer, will make her bow to a Hongkong audience.

Rear-Admiral Rudolf W Bentinck, C.B., Royal Navy, who has just been pro moted to flag rank, was flag commander of the China Squadron from 1901 to 1906, the Emperor of Japan conferring on th the Order of the Sacred Treasure (3rd class). In the early part of the war he was appointed Chief of Staff to Admiral Beatty, and in the capacity was at the Battle of Jutland.

Admiral Hir Martyn Jerram, K.C.A., who has been appointed President of the

the

SINO JAPANESE SECRET TREATIES.

PARIS, March 1st.

A Havas message slites :---

A member of the Chineso Delegation at the Peace Conference has made a cate- gorical statement that the Chinese Gay- ernment never objected to publishing all Sine Japanese treaties and notes, well knowing that it was to its interest to avoid secret diplomacy.

When the Council of the Five Powers cailed for the secret documents, the Japanese Delegates expressed willingness to comply with the Council's request, wishing only to consult Tokio.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Delegates too had no objection.

The Chinese Delegation declares that they are assured of whole hearted sup- port of their attitude by the whole of China.

THE FRAWLEY COMPANY.

FAIR AND WARMER."

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TO TAKE COUNSEL WITH THE AVERAGE MAN."

WASHINGTON, March 12th. President Wilson addressed a confor ence of Governors of the United States of America at Washington to-day. After Committee to review the pay and condi

tions or service of officers and men of the

The Frawley Company brought their greeting them, ho said:-

Royal Navy and Royal Marines, was season in Hongkong to a close last even-

China Commander-in-Chief,

Station, ing.

Their stay here has only been a He was on this short one but it has been highly auccessful February 1st, 1913. station when war broke out, and took a part in the proceedings at the Singapore from every point of view. Full houses.

have been the rule, and the plays pre- Acting Captain T. J. 8. Lyne, who has sented have been thoroughly enjoyed. been given the substantive rank of The community owe the Company & debt st last learning that the business of captain in the Navy, did fine work on of gratitude for providing them with a

**The thing that has impressed me, net only in the recent work where I have been in conference on the other side of the water, but for many months before I outbreak. went across the water, was this: We are

average man.

government is to take counsel with the We are at last learning that the whole matter of the prosperity were not advocates, but judges, for the of the people runs down into the great ed firemen, undertakers and the staffa of whole nation, which looked to them to body of men and women who do the work It was highly desirable that the Ger- hospitals, Trade Unions and Sickness save the State. He advised the employers of the world, and that the process of man delegatea should admit the principle Funds.

not to seek temporary advantages which, of the League of Nations, with the under.

The meeting demanded the recognition might finally ruin them, but to take guidance is not completed by the mere long view and see that the foundations, suocess of great enterprises. It is com Banding that Germany would be maile

ploted only by the standard of the beae fits upon those who in the obscuro ranks of life contribute to the success of these enterprises.

a member after giving proof of her in tention to carry out the terms of pance. NOT A PRACTICAL MEASURE, PARIS, March 1st.

A Bavas message saĵo >~

It is noticed that there is an important chango in publio French opinion con cerning the League of Nations, and a great deal of scepticism about the league 24 not being a practical mousure.

of the Soviets, the release of political which in some places were rotten, were prisoners, especially Herr Ledebour and pianed down and made secure. Horr Radek, and the disbandment of the CLASS WHICH ANARCHY SUITED Volunteer Corps, and passed á resolution denouncing the Hohenzollerns, General

LEAST,

Ch 10se rivers, being thanked by the

series of highly diverting entertainmenta Admiralty for his surveying and other work. His directions for the navigation and there is little doubt that if a return of several rivers are official publications. He was promoted commander in Septem-visit is contemplated the debt will be ber, 1912. On the outbreak of war he was remombored and paid in the shape of appointed to H.M.B. Ganges at Harwich for special service. It is for this acrvice ranker in the Navy, it is, stated, bas that he has been made captain. No other

become a commander on the active list.

continued support.

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for

Last evening "Fair and Wormer" was given: It is a play which pro vidos the fullest opportunities humourous noting for Mr. G. A. Forbes. The Into Engineer-Captain A. P. L. and Miss Florence Chapman, and those Dapon, accidentally killed at Malta on who have seen these two in other parta Christmas Day, made his mark in the will realise that they did not allow their China War, 1000, when he was engineer opportunities

alip to by unheeded. Their in charge of the Taku Tug and Lighter

nttopis

to compromise themselven Company's works, and there rendered were in Indicrous and so cleverly done roost valuable service in erecting distill that even those who know the play, by ing plant, repairing tugs and lighters heart, and were prepared for the faraical Elo pointed out to the workers what was The heart of the men, women and used

in the activo, service, opera situatione, could not restrain their the von Hindenburg and General von Luden happening in Rassin, and might happen in children of the world have been stirred rings for the rust of the laughter. The general feeling at

guns Algerine Germany, showed that they were the class in a way that he never been known be valuablo work in these directions ho

and

For his in.

eloso was one of regret that the Company are tabla to

tostimony just now from the 'honie, which was the ship ho

when entertainments are coming along in was commissioned for in 1899. He-after-

an anbroken succession. The Frawley wards took part in the advance to the Company may be paired of a hearty relief of the Peking - Legations (pedal

welcome when next they appear belofs d with Relief cleap),

Hongkong audienco,

dorff.

which anarchy suited lousb,” and, that

Phania loops.

Vornerta published an appeal to the when they seemed to be triumphing more fore. They are not only stirred by their was specially promoted chief engineer aurely is along their stay and that

Directorate of the Bocial Democrats they were really, except, perhaps, urging the workers to resist terroristio favoured fow, suffering from the most compulsion to atriko.

dreadful horrors.

own individual circumstances, but they are beginning to get a vision of the gezioral circumstances of the world for