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ERMANY'S

THE HONGKONG

COUNTER-

PROPOSALS:

REFUSAL TO HAND OVER THE EX-KAISER: IMEDIATE ADMISSION TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEMANDED

ALLIES PREPARED TO BOMB

BERLIN.

PRESENTATION OF

DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 2ND 1919.

EARLIER CABLES. FIGHTING IN NORTHERN INDIA, ATTACKS BY BOTH SIDES.

SIMLA, May 29th

An enemy column from Khost, under Nadir Khan, is engaged in operations against Thal.

It is stated that the Afghan regulars have rations bus that Nadir Khan's followers are subsisting by begging food from the Wazirs.

The enemy has occupied Spinwam Our withdrawal was satisfactory.

Reporters from Upper Kurran show that some "Afghan tribesmen attacked Special editions were snapped up in Chapri yesterday, near Paiwar Kotal, thousands. The scenes in the streets could but were driven off by the local militia. only be compared with national rejoic.who killed a number of the assailants inge. There were similar scenes in the without sustaining casualties,, Provinces.

AUSTRIAN PEACE TERMS "DELAYED.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

THE PEACE TREATY,

STEPS TO ENFORCE SIGNATURE.

Paris, May 9th.

A Havas message Mys!-- Steps to be taken to make the tiermans ign the 'race Treaty, if desired by the Allied. tiovernments will include the benbing of Berlin "and other large cities. which could be easily accomplished. Such attacks would quickly bring the Germans to reason, assuring their final subnission. GERMANY'S COUNTER-PROPOSALS.

PARIS, May with.

A lavas message says"- - The counter-proposals of Count von Kantian har been handed to M. Clemen-

ceau.

Germany demands immediate admis sion to the League of Nations, insisting that she should receive a mandate for Eer former Colonies.

Hundreds of holiday-makers travelled to "Surbiton, where they besieged Mr. Hawker's residence. The Police had to be called in to regulate the traffic.

Our troops at Chaman captured an Afghan frontier post at Spin Baldak on the 26th. The forts were subjected to a thorough bombardment, "after which the towers of the ridge commanding the forts were assaulted and taken, while the main

SUNDAY IS OUR LUCKY DAY." Mrs. Hawker, interviewed, said sheRate was blown "up. never lost hope. Sunday is our lucky day."

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The aviator's escape is regarded as miraculous, as the Mary herself was taking an unusual course and there was' not a single ship within 50 miles:

CLEVER NAVIGATING Experts pay a tribute to Mr. Hawker's fine navigating, as the aeroplane kept in jt dead stright line more than half way across the Atlantic.

The opinion is expressed that the mishap was so slight that if the machine She refuses her consent to the handing had been a seaplane, Mr. Hawker could over of the Kaiser

haye repaired the damage and completed

Germans propuses to pay as com pretī sak- tion for damage one milliard pounds sterling by 1920; and afterwards make annut payments, the total of which is not to exceed five milliard pounds ster!. ing.

BETTER THAN GERMANYÁ

DESERVES.

PARIS. May th A Havas message" states: Paris opinion on the German Note on the exonic terms is that it is a tissue The Allies conditions

of sophistries. leave the Germans in a better situation thin they deserve, for Germany has been spared the nameless horrors and devasta tion that France, Belgium, Italy, Serbia, Peland and Rumadin suffered. Germany is disappointed, not repentant.

THE LATE GERMAN

POSSESSIONS.

FRENCH SATISFACTION.

The capture was completed by our as saulting troop escalading the walls, where breached. The garrison stubborn ly resisted but the bulk were either killed or captured

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No change is reported at Dakka In conformity with our policy in Upper We have withdrawn exposed Tochi, militia posts south of Waziristan.

THE MARCH ON KABUL.

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THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

NOTABLE SERMON BY THE REV.

J., KIRK MACONACHIE The Rev. J. Kirk Maconnchie preached very interesting sermon at the Union Church yesterday evening. Taking as his text: Whence come wars and wheäce come fightings among you! Come they not hence, even of your passions that war in your members Ye last, and have not; ye kill, and covet, and carmot obtain; ye. fight and war, yet ye have not because ye aak not." (James iv, 1-2), he said: I think one's first feeling on looking at this passage with any care is amazement at Anding it in a letter to Christian converts of the early days The tote is what might be looked for from Amos or Malachi in a period of degeneracy; we are surprised at it from an Apostle who was the brother of our Lord in the first generation of Christian life and institutions.

It is indeed dificult to imagin

Christians in the Brst Bush of a hew life could have needed to be reproved" for anything deserving tu be called wars and fightings. or. As jealousy and faction It is impossible to suppose that murder can have been a common practice in even the least instructed of Christian com maities the law of the fand would have prevented that had there been nothing else to prevent it. It cannot be literal killing then that is spoken of here. not yet literal wars" and fightings." The Apostle then must have been look ing beneath the surface, and laying him-

bow

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NEWS.:

[BY COURTESY OF THE COMMERCIAL

Now"

THE SHANTUNG QUESTION.

SHANGHAI, May 31st.

There are other quotations from other FAR EASTERN CABLE German sermons of a similar kind in the same article, and I am glad to acquaint yon with them for more reasons than one. · They are in a way the best news I have read since the Armistice, for, though one must not exaggerate their importance they do at least prove that in Germany

It is reported that America will, sup- there are eyes which atylength are open-port China in her plea for permission ing to the realities of the moral situation. to sign the Peace Treaty, with a reserva- That this signifies a change is shown by the contrast between utterances of the tion regarding the allotment of Shan- saate preachers about a year ago and tung to Japan. then after the German collapse.

Listen to Dr. Traub. A prominent

THE SHANGHAI CONFERENCE. Lutheran, on the eve of Ludendorf's great onset in March last year! "Let

Rumours persist that Peking will send our German soul rise to the height of the

and solemn events of the next delegates to Shanghai to resume the few

when not only the vast material. power of the Fatherland, but our sublime Peace Conference: One report says the

as well will be spirituality as

challenged

Cabinet has alreach sent Yong Yo-ling and. by the western forces of evil. With will fight: enemies have the "dark Ludendorff and Hindenburg the angels Kong Chia-kit to Shanghai to make pre" fores of Mammon behind them, the great iminary negotiations for the resumption Li and Hypocrisy. Our enemies are of the Conference.... hypocritical and canting England, de

France, Judas Italy, and dollar-hunting America." generate Listen

again to the same Dr. Traub a months later at Charlottenburg :--- Wa German people bave forgotten God, not the God of armies and Kings and Kaisers, not the God of state and show and noise, but the God of justice and merey, the creator of the still small

of conscinace, the Father of au Lord and prior Jesus Christ. And

Peking, has telegraphed in reply to Tom Hao-ming, and Ng Pui-foo that the Peace Conference will be resumed and not to arrange a separate peace.

CONSTITUTION IN NANKING. It is reported that Chien Nung-fum

in the previous chapter, for hitterntil we return to Him and acknowledge will approve of the proposal to make the

in their hearts.

Constitution in Nanking.

His right to rule us, and follow is precepts as our supreme law, we shall never be able to accomplish our DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. destiny in the world. We are sunk in the depths, we have become a reproach and

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Only one way an WP Warning.

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The An Fu Club has declared that it would agree to dissolving the new Parlia ment provided their members be appoint ed Ministers in two certain Ministries A year ago Dr. Conrad was

Another case is that of Dr. Conrad, of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, and one of the ex-Kaiser's Court

lf out to destroy the roots of the the

German victories in hin any future Cabinet.

ascribing them to the presence of God in the hearts of the leaders, the andoubted justice of their cause, and the weakness which a consciousness of evil doing had imposed upon their enemies.

THE SUSPENSION OF A NEWSPAPER.

The Fit Sai Pu may be allowed to re

last November we find him reproach- ing his countrymen for despising God's sume publication on condition that it that unless they will not publish anything racial again.

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St. John, whom we call the apostle of Castenings, lity in one direction The Editor. Mr. Poon, will also be

master their

and their arroger in another they are released on a guarantee by the Peking a lost people, adjuring them to turn from Pras Association.

their un their pride," their injustice. desires worthy aims, their base, selfish, sinful

passions he writes about. though their outward results as yet were only shewing SIMLA, May 9th. ic the bad. This would be quite in line with our Saviour's own way of teaching Reuter's special correspondent

for He always did teach that sin lies in Peshawar, writing yesterday, "says:- the heart and may be as blameable when "Interest now centres on Kabul and the hidden there as when it appears in act. marching on that city of certain Afghan love, takes the same tone when he de- clares that the man who hates his troops. Behind them is the eavey bear brother is a murderer, and likens him to ing General Barret's reply to the, Armis- Cain who carried out in act the evil

It is clear that wra tice proposal, and behind him is Saleh whose root is in many a reputable citi Mahomed, the "Afghan Commander, wholings, and, disputes had appeared among says be has been recalled, bat who is un-some of the early Christian flocks. There doubtedly going to Kabul for an ulterior is nothing surprising in that for whilst Dr.

these people were Christian they had hot Hpurpose.

ceased to be human, and we know what human nature is, even when it is under the working of grace.

the course

OF SOUTH AFRICA. UNION

BRITAIN'S GIFT OF RAILWAY" MATERIAL.

CAPETOWN, May 31st.

Hun, In the Assembly, the Burton, Minister of Railways, commuri- cuted a cable from General Botha that the Imperial Government had given the Union Government railway materials to the value ct £500,000 free. for the national service rendered.

Burton believed

The Hun.

that the House and country would deeply at Kabul. appreciate the spirit of the gift, which was only another mark of the cordial relations between Britain and the Union. (Cheera).

THE BOARD OF TRADE. SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES APPOINT

zen's heart.

Well. St. James here goes right to the

Now these things are very remarkable, and as far as they go very hopeful. Of course these German preachers do not take our point of view in many respects. Conrad, complains that the like treating his country tioners:

But we do se at any rate the beginnings of a change of mind with- out which there can be no hopeful future no prospect of before: Germany and

HORDER DEFENCE.

Lung Chai-kwang went to a small station to inspect troops.

It is reported that he will lead them to the Kirin and Heilunkiang border for

defence pur poses.

•

BANDITS AS SOLDIERS,

Chang Bui-ki has returned to Peking. He advocates separating the troops from

excepting those under Chun Shu-fan,

tr

Bringing up the rear, and likely to get to Kabul first, is Hezrat Bibi, the Queen Mother, possessing the late Amir's speediest motor cars. conflicting personages and elements meet to look for the origin of "wars and fight. And for ourselves have we no need to Military and Civil Governors. He adds Dramatic events are possible when the root of some of these troubles. We tend abiding peace and goodwill in the world the bandits and removing the present inga in external circumstances. but it change, bave we do vices tu renounce, no f that all the soldiers in Shensi are bandite, sing to repent of Is there no frivolity, Information brought by a recent de- really lies within the human heart My no selfishness, no money last and plea Keon Kum-jui, and Chang Sik-yuen- putation has since confirmed the fact circumstances are not of no importance sure lust to be laid to our charge. no that Nasrullah is alive. He is well lodged but they matter little compared with my contempt of God, no disobedience of His

and holy lawel and not locked up in the citadel. He is state of mind. The Kingdom of heaven.

our Savion? taught, is not to be looked wise

should have done you an ill service We do not yet believe that we nationa allowed a certain amount of exercise. The Amir occasionally visits him and affirmed. The same can be said of from humbled Germany if the result were it one member suffers all must suffer. We for here or there it is within you, by reading you those agonised cries in this world are one family, and that apparently discusses matters of policy.

That realm of only to inflate our high opinion of our He is fed with delicacies from the Amir's the Kingdom of Satan.

and sinners. I agree with Mr. E. A shall have to share her punishment; on table, which has led to the rumour that darkness is also a matter of inwardness. selves by contrast with the policans can panish Germany, and should, but we he was poisoned. His family are allow. If the light within us is darkness we

her coal to make up for the mines sbc ed access to him, but is no other way is have reached the utter negation of day Burroughs that the fall of Germany is that let there be no delusions. You tabe and of the happiness and peace which common reproach on human nature,

Perfectly just, but he treated with harshness. The money belong to it. If the inward principle be rather than ground for congratulation wrecked in France. LONDON, May 26th.

for those other mortals who are not Ger the fact remains that Europe for some Sir. Albert Stanley has resigned from made by Nasrallah in the gun-running evil passion. such as jealousy and covet man "

years will be short of cont You will ing. Its manifestation can only be fac

means, of course, the moral fall of exclude Germans. if you get your way, tions between France, and Britain for the Board of Trade to which Sir Auck-fade has been confiscated.

It is difficult to obtain information as

tion and strife, in either Church. or Germany, the nation which carried out from this Colony for ten years and pre- the distribution of the former Gernian land Geddes has been appointed.

to what is happening in the place. The Amir lives in constant dread of assai family or nation, or, between one nation with organised thoroughness the false vent them from moving about on their possessions in West Afrien.

and another. War between nations is the principles which every land in Christen-business over the resp-of the world. 1 scale of the very wicked feelings which and ruin are the comment of inhabit individual hearts.

it is mistake, for if you relieve yourself" upon the selfish pursuit of which advantages

for the tale of a competitor, you also has been the Ein- spring of

of political and

int cripple a customer, which is unsound. commercial activity in the rivilisation which has business, particularly, when you been weighed in the balances during these him to pay his back debts. catastrophic years and found wanting to an almost fatal degree in justice, mercy,

God. and the love of

A Havas pessage may

PARIS, May 26th. "

It is evident that satisfaction is felt

in Paris at the progress of the negotia

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It is houneed from an authoritative source

MENT.

that Togoland and a great part of the FRANCO-AMERICAN FRIEND-nation and hardly leaves the precincts of open expression on public and organized¦ dom has been living by too much: strife think that is wrong, but I am convinced

pass to France--not to

Cameroons will be considered as being under a mandate from the League of Nations, but to be beld in fall sovereignty by the French State

The French will also regain possession of a strip of territory in the French Congo adjoining the Cameroons, ceded to Germany after the Agadir crisis,

The Council of Four admits only one Anodification to the regime of the Saar

valley.

If after 15 years the Germans are to purchase the coal mines from France, they may pay in securities other than gold.. 'TOCHILAND AND THE CAMEROONS,

PARIS, May 26th. France will control Togoland and the Cameroons with mandates from the League of Nations.

THE AUSTRIAN PEACE TERMS ITALY AND ISTRIA:

PARIS, May 29th.

A Havas message says:- The Council of Four, fruitlessly, de- voted time to the consideration of Italian

involving counter-proposals Italy further wants sovereignty over all

Istria

Fiume.

It is generally thought that an agier ment will not be reached in time for in- clusion in the treaty with Austria

PRESENTATION OF TERMS

DELAYED

PARIS, May 6th It is not likely that the Austrian terms will be presented this week.

MR. HARRY HAWKER'S

RESCUE.

ROYAL CONGRATULATIONS,

LONDON, May 26th, The King and Queen Alexandra tele.. graphed to Mrs. Hawker their gratulations on the happy rescue of her gallant husband.

ENTHUSIASTIC SCENES IN.

con.

LONDON.

LONDON, May 23th. The dramatic news of Mr. Hawker's afety came as a complete surprise

bope was abandoned on Saturday, when twelve destroyers returned from Ireland after having fraitlessly scoured an area 300 miles from Ireland.

SHIP.

SPEECH BY NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.

A Have mange mys:-

PARIS, May 29th. Mr. Hugh Wallace, the new American Ambassador in Paris, in a speech, said must that France-American friendship develop in the field of activity, nothing shall weaken our bistorio friendship, strengthened by memories of war sacri £ces.

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THE LATE CAPT FRYATT. REMAINS TO BE CONDUCTED TO ENGLAND.

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Lesbos, May 6th- In the House of Commons, Mr. Bouur Law announced that similar arrange- menta to those adopted in the case of Nurse Cavell were now being made with regard to the remains of Capt. Fryatt. (Cheers.)

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FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM. RECOGNITION OF KOLTCHAK AND

DENIKIN GOVERNMENTS.

PARIE, May 26th.. The Council of Four has decided to re- cognise the Keltchai and Denikin Gov. ernments, provided the two leaders agree to recept the verdict of a Constituent Assembly as regards the future of Russia. ALLIED FORCES CAPTURE PETERHOF.

STOCKHOLM, May 26th. It is reported that the North Russian Army, assisted by British naval forces, captured Peterhof. The Bolshevists, fled in disorder.

COUNTY CRICKET. ESSEX SURREY MATCH DRAWN.

LONDON, May 28th At the Oval, the Burrey v. Essex match was drawn.

THE SILVER MARKET

LONDON, May 27th. Silver is quoted at 521d. buyers and sellers. The market is steady.

his palace, while only very trusted people are admitted to his presence. He

transhets most of his business over the

telephone. The Palace is fitted with a complete installation connected, with Jallalabas.

now we do not seem to see where

want

portant step of this kind be not taken there could be n Cod. But in God's eyes modern invention and organisation, it is houd and friendly co-operation must be

without a speech from the Throne. He will soon know the physical and moral effects of the recent bombing raid on Kabul

The problems of our time are many and complex, and I am not so foolish as to imagine they can be settled by a phrase or a formula. But they will never be we were wrong o or how terribly for. We settled "at all unless from the lailpre have been horrised by the revelation of which came to a head in this past war war really is and what, under we learn that the principles of brother? capable of becoming. A serious and determined effort is being made to do ven a wholly different scope and appli away with the appeal to violence, or at any cation in all the affairs of the world from rate to limit and minimise it in the future, anything, attempted in the past. That of course is good, and a tremendous matter how elaborate the machinery thing will turn in the end on the spirit war, the world will not be really better advance. Still is it not clear that every devised for prevening the outbreak of Mankind ist nations and men refuse to purge their behind that noble effort

No

Before the outbreak. of the last war the world was in a certain sense at peace, but it is open to question whether the peace we had was worth

preserving. Indeed There have been no Durbar since the it was not peace at

all in any real

sense. one at which the Amir announced his All the causes of war were lying under intention to invade India. It remains neath, like banked-up furnaces, only wait to be seen whether the Amir will have ing for an opening of the door to let the After war had really broken the courage to hold a Durbar to consider air through

que and the earth was filled with the Armistice.

Afghan precedent demands that an im pain and sorrow, many doubted whether the world may have been worse during the time when we were satisfied with it, satisfed not because it was a good world but because we found it & one. in which we could buy and and get and follow our ambitions and our was not open war in the world, but all the ugly things which lie at the weary of war, as well it may be. But is hurts of the seeds of strife. root of war were luxuriant in men's it weary of hating and envying We are

We have all been at fault, though the hearts, and if it needed a war to check recognising that force is no remedy or German ruling classes, followed by a too them we have more reason to believe there is a remedy more dangerous than the Jis docile populace, set the pace, and there- is a God after the war than we had before one.

But have we shed the delusion that one fore fermany is hurled deepest into it. There is indeed a God, and He can-i

disaster. The Christian nations have not suffer ill-will and envy to be the nation's los can ever be real gain to any mainsprings of buman life, so He has other? There are worse things than war. Janied Christ's right to rule them. His

passions

is said often, but not as often we business has been held to be that of always, sooner or later, result in loss and sorrow. ought to be are we instructed that one mystic saving of souls from a fature" I should like to give you an extract of the things worse than war is the hoary hell. but the deliverance of national life a German sermon, for which I ant falsehood at the back of it riz, that the from the very present hell of envy, jeal contains but a limited supply of qusy, suspicion and hatred has been

GERMANY.

JEALOUSY IN HIGH CIRCLES.

PARIS, May 24th. A Havas message states:- French Foreign Office circles state that Herr Erzberger, leader of the Catholic Centre Party in Germany," who" is now very influential in the councils of the Government, is notoriously hostile to

place as head of the German Delegation` he hoped to occupy.

gain an

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ordained that these evil

Count Brockdorff von Rantian, whose to the Christian World of wood things, and the successful nation or denied Him. We have not yet heartily.

FRANCO-ITALİAN AMITY. CELEBRATION OF ITALY'S ENTRY

PAR18, May 24th.

A Havas message states

27th

It was preached Dz, i

by, individual is the one that can get hold repented of these sins of our fathers and

a Franciscan monk, to

confraternity

of the largest share of them, at Munich

ourselves. The human heart hugs its on February 23rd

year after

So, in the this

world! "reconstructed "

hatreds, its pride, its vast and manifold wanted to gain the

the war thinga Are to go unbrotherlines. There is hope in the to barter off whole world and were eager

upon the

old line it certain future for that happier time which we cur souls for the prize. Would it tendencies are to prevail. The phraseolong and pray for, so far and only so have profited as When I reflect upon loyy of arms is being transferred to far as we cease to be sorry only for tho the iniquity and sin which governed our trade, and continued in politics and in pains and impoverishment which have Irves both as a State and as individuals the relations between capital and labour. come upon us, and learn to hate evil On the occasion of the anniversary of I am forced to believe that it was pride,. The nations are going to disband their passions from which they spring as God, Italy's entry into the war, resolutions avarice, greed, and envy of the welfare armies and restrict their outpt of muni the Father of all men, hales them. affirming the brotherhood of the two of others which were the active driving tions of war, but they are being urged to If this better mind should arise in

within us. Think of what world nations were voted by the French Chamilon would have "made of us Ger prepare for an expected economic cu stricken Germany while it is scorned in ber of Deputies and the Senato.

test," to equip themselves inst “trade victorious Britain, then, before ou We should have walked the as gods.

themselves Arrange Superciliously we should have enemies,"

inchildren's beads are grey, Britain an looked down upon

of groups more or less hostile to reh other. Germany will have changed places and the in

racea inferior mankind, and not a chink or cranny We are still to "fight and war" under once again it will be seen that publicans would have been left in our brazen party government, in rings and com armoar through which the divine graces bines; still to look upon deadly competi-heaven sooner than righteous personA and harlots may enter the kingdom of of charity,

and humility,

might tion as the normal plane of human who need no repentance. mercy puter. We bave sinned grievously, we deavour, still to conceive of life as n have disgracedoar German hame, and struggle for limited means of existence ses that we read them deep enough. So, it will be God's own of healing us if Ho caste te na way of aling as if in which the strong are to take what and does not stretch out His Almigher they can and keep it while the weak go hand to raise us until we are again ready to walk with Him and He with me.”

FRENCH LABOUR.

EIGHT-HOUR DAY IN PARÍS.,

PARIS, May 24th.

A. Havas message states:-

A satisfactory arrangement has been come to between the employer and the management of the Paris street car ser viess concerning the application of an eight-hour day.

mans.

earth

to the wall.

to

(Continued at foot of next column.)

Let us read the lemons of the time and

shall we learn to labour and ray for that goodwill in the inward heart by which alone true peace can ever last in our outward life.,