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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 218T, 1919.

GREAT BRITAIN MISTRESS OF THE AIR:

WARM TRIBUTE TO BRITISH AIR FORCE.

UNPLEASANT ALLIED SITUATION IN ODESSA.

BRITISH RAILWAYMEN REFUSE

EMPLOYERS' TERMS.

SPARTACISTS SUE FOR PEACE FROM GERMAN GOVERNMENT.

LATEST CABLES.

THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH AIR FORCE.

A WONDERFUL WAR RECORD

LONDON, March 13th.

Tat the House of Commons, Brigadary General Seely, introducing the Air Fore estimates £8,500,000, for a personnel of 750.008), mentioned at the Arnstars said i

The chief object of the attack was n secure a big from depot ten miles behind. the front line

On the Morman Const, the enemy has retired towards the mouth. Our patrols advanced 10 miles beyond Seges n.

ROLSHEVIET BUILDING RAIDED

IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, March 13th

Ti Police raided an East sid mild-

that we had 200 air squades, varupared mng which, it is alleged, has been occupied with sis before the wit, and were able { by to build 4.000 aeroplanes monthly, com pared with a small and turn helare the

war

He da tribme to the pilots and ohwervers who land made Grem Britai

The Air Force's war mistress of the air. record, which would shortly be published. would be a wonderful revelation. Near

va lý,000 enemy aeroplanes had been shot down during the war, while 2,400 Hritish

machines were lost.

Brigadier General Serly emphasised that we were already far ahead of any other entry in preparatus for civilian Aving.

A Russian Prasants and Workers' Union, arrested 20 persons, and seized a quantity of literature, including Bed books printed in Russian, advocating the overthrow of the American Government GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

GOVERNMENT TROOPS MASTERS IN BERLIN.

COPENHAGEN, March 12th. A telegram from Berlin, dated March 12th, states that the Government troop occupied the east end of the city, includ- ing the suburb of Lichtenberg, after lively fighting. L'onsiderable arms we ro captured. The losses among Government Casea of bestial troops were not heavy

He hoped that the principle of the cruelty by the Spartacists have been fully

draft of the Internationa) Aerial Conven

tion, to which the thaminius and India had already agreed. would shortly ansopted by the Alles. If so, there wa little doend that other nations would join, Be mentioned that, after experimenting for years, we now had a wireless telephone, by which an aeroplane could not only fend messages to souther aeroplaus but.. Previve manswers. This latter had hitherty

been impossible.

The whole route from Africa to India had been surveyed, and the route from the Cape to Cairo was being surveyed.

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conɓrned.

INCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF

ARMS.

BALK, March 12th.

A telegram from Berlin, states that, replying to the Spartacist request for

peace, Here Noske demanded the uncon ditional surrender of all Spartacists'

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The Berlin newspapers state that, so far, 1,2 Spartacists have been arrested,

THE NATIONALISATION BILL. COPENHAGEN, March 14th

A telegram from Weimar states that, He mentioned that we were now able

the debute in the to direct aeroplanes by wireless from the after

National Assembly on the Nationalisation Bill, the He also mentioned that ground.

semplare.

(Herr Aur's) amendment, carrying 13,000 Socialist's pounds, with a speed of 100 miles rejecting State obligation to indemnify hour, and ስፖት even larger aeroplane, expropriated owners, was defeated by 165 Dearly 20,000 pounds. to 126. The minority was composed being constructed. A still entirely of Socialists larger neroplane had ned, and this novel machine, which, if it succeeded, would attain >peed hitherto not dreamed ei, was being coN-

structed.

carrying

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BRITISH LABOUR UNREST.

RAILWAYMEN REFUSE COM-

PANIES OFFERS.

A meeting of Railwaymen's delegates, in conclusion, he emphasised the im-held in London for the purpose of con- mense possibilities of airships and flying sidering the Railway Companies' offers,

boats on greni navigable rivers, such as

the Nile. He was confident that wo

would maintain our position in aerial development. (Cheers.)

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM.

VERY UNPLEASANT SITUATION

IN ODESSA

LONDON, March 13th. Reuter learns that the situation in

Odessa is very unpleanest, The Boi sheviks are carrying on intense pro paganda among the Allied troups,

General Gregorieff, the Bolshevik como- ander, with 3,000 troops, is in touch with the Clermans at Niculaief who are too demoralised to resist them.

Three thousand other Bolshevik troops! are in the rear of General Gregoriaff at Dolinsk. These troops are apparently tho advance-guard of a large Bolshevik force at Alexandrija. Two Bolshevik armoured-trains nye shelling Kherson.

ACTIVITY ON THE ARCHANGEL FRONT.

LONDON, March 13th.

flouter is informed that continous fight

rejected the proposals; also the principles on which the proposals were based, and refused to compromise on the national They have instructed the programme. Executive to inform the Government, a- cordingly.

THE BRITISH ARMY.

IMPORTANT CHANGES IN

COMMANDS.

LONDON, March 13th.

EGYPT.

DEPORTATION OF NATIONALISTS.

LONDON, March 13th. Four prominent Egyptiui Nationalists, including two Ex Ministers, are being deported to Malta, on a charge of con | ducting anti- British agitation

1HE FRENCH PREMIER.

ASSAILANT CONDEMNED TO

DEATH

LONDON, Marth 10th.

A telegram from Paris states that M € lemmeneran's assailant, fottin, has cen

condemned to denah.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE

THE GERMAN PEACE

DELEGATION

The

BALE, March 13th.

Weimar Frankfurter Zeitung's Correspoutient nuthoritatively learns that the German Delegation at the Peace Con ference will insist of Count Brockendorff von Kantzon (President). Doctor David, ninister without purifolio, and Heer Giesberts, Munster of Posta, also the

Hamburg merchant, Heri Mas War burg. Professor Belucking, and Dr.

Adolf Mueller, German Minister in Swit.

wuland.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR

CamMaury th

THE KIEL CANAL. | FAR EASTERN CABLE

CONTROL BY AN INTERNATIONAL

COMPANY.

Panis, March 16th. A Havas message says: --- The French newspapers »late that the sehen, for the future status of the, Kael

Canal, which has revived. 121 Ceram

amount of support among the Pence delen. gates, melutles the exploitation of the Canal by an international limited halul ity company. The value of the Canal and of n narrow strip of territory so either bank to be deducted from the general sum to be revered from Germany.

AMERICA,

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LOANS TO SIBERIA,

Washington, March 19th.

The inited States Treasury Depart ment afneed a new credit amounting 10 $15,000,000) to bus expended by Siberin, taking the total loans by the United Sintes to Silenin $27.000.000. Hurdless

SIX BILLION DOLLAILS BY NEW

TAXATION

Wasmesures, March 19th. President Wilson, in signing the Be

venue Bill, has put into operation the machinery for collecting six billion dol lars by rsation this year.

rider

NEWS.

DY COURTESY OF THE PRINA MAIL,"

PEACE CONFERENCE DELEGATE

AT SRENSI

SHANGHAI March Inti

Chang Shui kay, aporial deputy from

Peace Conferences to Sheusi. Iris

arrived at Sian.

the

Members gel the Peking Cabanet repsy ed teingraphie pratexts from the Yangtze

military governors, and have rebuked

han Shu fan and Han Shu trang

[PKROGGA RESTER'S AGENCY-j

BRITISH TRADE IN THE FAR EAST

Loxians, March 19th.

In the House of Courmens Mr Rugdeu

drew attention to the

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in the markets load, of the out

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM.

SOME OF ITS TREABI ̃RES.

According ter present proposals, the Imperial War Museum is to be built be side the London County Hall, Lacing cho Thanes This is the aden adopted by the Ministerial Committee appointed tu 292- wities the matter. Sir Martin Conway. M.P wia as Director-General of the lia. perial War Museum, approves the site.

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Ju says. In very expensive 959, but is very sustable, and with a fronde

Towards the Thames should givə splendid appurtunities for au moosing architectural design.“

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Si Martin Conway holds that in colp bining the National Mentorial in the Fallen and the War Muscum a gravÍ could very likely be obtained which would make the memorial worthy of its Ti would, too, be more égemutui- |...... of the War Mus dezureby

to the his valuable to he

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must

that would toring was that devoted s and Fibery 1 have asked for photo-

graphs.

he susci to an interviewer. salthier who has either died for hi country or bus been digitated for gallan. fey in artion. Instead of a million pho-

tonkets word than which should base just now,

ton, spinung und wenying trade strop the Armistice. He neked about the possibili

ties of opening new sebution of exchange values.

Mr Steel Maitland replied that it was the duty of Commercial Attaches and Trade Commissioners to report upon the possibilities of new and extended mar kety for British geode

The Far Eastern situation was full of anxiety and the despatch of a special mis ion of investigation was being consider

No report could suggest any gen eral solution of the exchange values as the problems differed in various locali ti49.

COMMISSION.

The tan Treasure carried LONDON, March 13th. anking the District of Columbia - Lone A

Paris, dated day, with no figuurs permitted, except ort. March

13th states that the Labour in the foreign Embassies and Legations, Legislation Comunission is recommending | which will not be affected by the measure, to the Peaen Conference that the Inter

national Labour Conference meet in Washington in October. PRESIDENT WILSON RETURNS TO

PARIS.

PARIS, March 14th. President Wilson arrived here at noo31 to-day, and was received by President Poincare. He received a great uvation from the crowds.

EARLIER CABLES.

CONSIDERATION OF TERMS.

Pais, March 18th.

A Havos message says:-* Contrary to expectations. President Witron did not attend the meeting of the Council of Ten yesterday.

The Supreme War Council had a very bulky volume before it containing the detailed schedule of military, naval and serial terms to be imposed on Germany.

BIG FIRE IN BRAZIL

DAMACE ESTIMATED AT £1,000,000.

SANTOS, (Brazil) March 6th.

A very serious fire in the docks destroy ed 20,000 tales of jute and 90,000 bags of State Government coffee. The 'loss is estimated at £1,500,000,

THE LEAQUE OF NATIONS.

PEACE CONFERENCE'S DECISION.

PARIS, March 18th.

A Havas message says:- President Wilson has issued a statement that the decision taken at the Plenary Session of the Peace Conference, on Jan. wary 25th, that the foundation of the

League of Nations should form an inte- gral part of the Peace Treaty, is final Therefore, there is no ground for the reports that a modification of this deci- sion is being considered.

PART OF THE PEACE TREATY.

New York, March 19th,

The Secretary to President Wilson ARDounced that he is in receipt of a cable-

grom from President Wilson stating that the Plenary Council has positively decid

The report that Sir William Robertsoned that the Longue of Nations will be is about to succeed Sir Douglas Haig is part of the Peace Treaty.merican authoritatively described as, at the very

Wireless. least, premature, but it is understood that important changes in Commanda are pending.

TELEGRAPH COMMUNICA- TIONS' BOARD.

LORD MILNER APPOINTED CHAIRMAN.

THE RENEWED ARMISTICE. GERMAN ACCEPT ALL ALLIED

TERMS.

Pials, March 10th.

--American Wireless.

COTTON QUOTATIONS.

LIVERPOOL, March 19th, The cotton quotations are as follows:-

March

10.81d. May

13. 46d. Spol

.... 17.470

-American Warrios,

THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, March 19th. The silver market is quiet.

IN

WAR

SIMPLE SUMS

FINANCE. WHAT IT WOULD COST EVERY

GERMAN TO PAY THE BILL

These are days when stupendous figures are constantly parading before the pub lic eye. A Chancellor of the Exchequer, whe one was content to think in tens of millions, must now talk in hundreds and thousands of millions.

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Thirty thousand million pounds! That of all the countries involved in the war. the War Bill, in approximate figures, The figure staggers the imagtantion and the old-fashioned financier has gloomy furebodings of world wide ruin and dis aster.

Yes we see the picture of the statesmen of the Allied countries pursu ing their combined altruistic theories for the future days as though such things as mere pounds, shillings, and pouce (and dollars) were of little conseqience.

ONLY TEACH.

He was not aware of any prospert of shortage in American cotton for the Lancashire mills, while the Government had already taken the necessary steps to secure Egyptian supplies.

[AMERICAN WIRELESS. Į

CHINESE COMMERCIAL

ORGANISATION IN U.S.A.

CHICAGO, March 19th.

On Tuesday, the firm exclusively Chin

commercial organisation 1 the

United States was formed in the shape

of ib new Chinese Steamship Line, to which the Chinese merchants of San Francisco have subscribed $3,000,000.

The dedication of the Chinese In

dustrial Commercial Association build.

ing, in the Chinese quarter in Chicago, took place on Tuesday.

Chi Liu-tson, Chinese Consil-General at New York, and a number of Chinese residents of New York were welcomed by the Chiengo business men at a banquet.

The Consul General said the Associu- tion had been planned to promote friend. y relations and to encourage commerce between the Republic of the United States

Viscount

The credit of the whole world, however, demande that the War Bill shall be hon oured and paid in fall. According to the statistical authorities the population of the world is. 1,847,000,000. but as this of America and that of China. A cordial figure includes neutrals and the native spirit of co-operation was shown between cace the figure does

not help much in arriving a basis

td incidence of the American merchants and the Chinese. liability. In the prescut turbulent state of Russin it would be futile to attempt

PEACE CONFERENCE AND RACE to estimate its capacity for meeting its

PREJUDICE. liabilities, consequently Russia has also to be left out in an endeavour to make a

New York, Marel 19th. rough di balance stoet. Belgium, Serbia, and Rumania are not likely to be

Ishii, Japanese Ambassador large contributors to a Way Redemption Fund, and can also be left out for the to the United States. speaking before the moment.

Japan Society, last evening, urged action Generally speaking, the War Bill has to

paid by the Mid-European confederates by the Peace Conference to eliminate rece

made the war, and, at the worst, by prejudice. the United Kingdom, France, America,

Italy, who unmade it. Approximately the population of the Central Powers can be set down at 150,000,000, and that of the Allies at 250,000,000. The latter figure does not include India or the native races of the British Empire.

and

GERMANY'S LEASE OF TSINGTAO.

WASHINGTON, March 19th.

The Associated Press Correspondent at Paris reports that it is said that the

If the Central Powers were only to Peace Conference has virtually decided make reparation for the ruin of Belgium

and Northern France, as some gentle to includo in the Preliminary Treaty of pacifists suggest, then it is only necessary Pence requirements that Germany re- to hump the whole of the populations and divide into the aggregate War Bill to linquish her loaschold of Tsingtao ned arrive at a figure of individual liability of all her property canecasions in Shan- Four hundred million people are then faced with a liability of £30,000,000,000, tung province. and that givee us an individual liability of £75 per head.

POSTERITY TO SMILE,

That is to say, if every man, woman, and child of the chief countries involved

GREEK GIRL SLAVES.

in the conflict made a contribution of The Greek Military Mission in Bul £75 each, the War Bill would be paid in garia is displaying considerable activity full-and posterity would smile!

If instead of wiping out the liability, in tracing the Greek girls who had boon

Perhaps

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I have received about 5,000 this ina Du been made know widely the relatives of these 1 yang enough men to send photographs each with small biographiend autier attached. They will be carefully filed and catalogued. That in a side of the Imperial War Muscam which really mught to be popular feature. If the public will mere- is send to the Imperial War Museum, Office of Works, Westminster, the photo- graphs and lá-graphies attached, we will do the rest.

The

Bection devoted 10 women's work in the war, said Bir Martin Conway, would bulk very large. At present they had a staff of women making models for the purpos These models, winch will be accurate in detail, will show wonten making munitions and

work us operating an ring other ch

installation

In a wrecked behind the firing line. The War Museum would be a treasure- house of pictures. The directorate were securing portraits painted by the best artists of the day of successful generala and admirals, V.C. heroes, and others. Mr. J. S. Sargent, R.A.; was at work on a huge painting representing an in- cident in a gas attack, the materials for which he collected at the front. It would bene of the finest pictures in the 77194111)

ACTOR BECOMES AN EARL NEW OWNER OR THE COWLEY ESTATES.

By the death of Earl Cowley the title and the forles, estates of 4,000 acres pass to Viscount Dangau; a professional actor, known on the stage as Arthur Wellesley, who has been playing a part in a popular farce at a London theatre. In the early stage of his career the new earl, who in the son of the late Earl and of Violet, Counlose Cowley, was employed as scene-painter, id earned £2 a week. Ho resides at Horsham with his wife and two children.

The late Lord Cowley succeeded his father, the second Earl, in 1

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wae married three times and divorced twice, while in 1888, ne Viscount Brogan, he was sued for breach of promise by Miss Phyllis Broughton, the famous Gaiety actress. The case was settled by consent, and Miss Broughton received, £2,500.

He married Lady Violet Nevill, a daughter of the Marquis of Abergavenny, in the same year, and eight years later he was divorced by his wife.

Lord Cowley again appeared in the Divorce Court in 1902, when he was named as co-respondent by Sir Charles Hartopp in an action for divorce against his wife, Lady Hartopp. The case lasted thirteen days, and six peers, including the then Duke of Devonshire, the Eari of Essex, and the Marquis of Cholmonde- well as many baronets, knights, and other Society men, were ealled as witnessen. The case was dismissed, but in 190h Sir Charlos brought another suit against his wife, in which Lord Cowley was again cited as corespondent. The nction was undefended, and a decree was granted. Lady Hartopp and Lord Cow- ley were married at Colombo. Ceylon, in the same year.

In January 1913, Lord Cowley was the co-respondent when Major Geoffrey for a decree against his wife, Mrs. Clans Charles Buxton successfully petitioned Buxton. In March of the same year. Counters Cowley obtained a decrce of restitution of conjugal rights, which the carl did not obey, Four months later she entered proceedings for divorce. The suit was undefended, and for the second time Lord Cowley was divorced. He mar ried Mra. Buxton at the British Con- sulate at Biarritz in January 1914.

Lord Cowley was a familiar figure in the shires during the hunting season. While bunting with the Quorn in 1000 his horas fell at a fence, and Lord Cowley was thrown and his collar-bone broken.

BRITISH VITAL STATISTICS. Figures given in the quarterly return of the Registrar-General show that from

we decided to let the bill run on and oat outraged by force and kidnapped by the A Havas message says:-

up, say per cent, per annum as interest, Bulgarians during the invasion of Enst then all we should need to do would bo Representatives of the Entente and of to pay £3 its. per annum cach, and there orn Macedonia. Those young girls aro Germany held a meeting at the Hote you are! Two-pene-halfpenny ench por now kept on alaves in Bulgarian houses, the average of 1,040 the rate has sprong

diem for ever!

up to 1,048 boys for each 1,000 girls The Astoria, BrusseİK. LONDON, March 19th.

They did not salute And for those who may,Make the says a revent telegram.

birth rate has fallen from 841 in the Hun pay."

"they can add to the force of The Greek Mission: The Postmaster-General nanounes that one another, entering the room without their demand by saying. It will only formed that

was recently in year before the war to 158 in the third Dr. quarter of last year, but the number of polite formalities.

General Petroff, east them £200 ench to liquidate the whole the War Cabinet has appointed a Tolo.

hirthe wee 5,926 greater than in the same period of 1017. As a result of the infant welfaro campaign, infant mortality has graph Communications Board with Lord

Admiral Wamy sa road the report søk.

gigantic bill or £10 a year each to pay Stancioff, former Bulgarian Minister in Die per cent. interest, or Cid. per diem Parle, and Mr. Angheloff, Governor of nations of Philistines who have devastat

ing has been proceeding on the Archangel Milner as Chairman to deal with intering if the Germans accepted the terms for ench shan, woman, and child of the Cavalla, during the invasion, ware de.dearented 25 per thousand. Marriages-

front. In the Vaga seeto an ailemiy attack was heavily defented with sworn lossen.

Imperial wireless,

communications, including

for renewing the Armistice. The lauder of the German delegation replied "Yes" Then the agreement was signed.

civilisation and almost murdered containing young Greek girls in their houses. science."

They spend more on lager The immediate release of these girls line beer after thṣir. Thirst' in quenoliad 1- A.L.P., in the Daily Represe

born demanded.

are increasing. In the second quarter of Just year 07.120 persons were marries*** 9716 more than in the same quarter of 1017 compared with 108.298 at the end of 1015.