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GERMANY

TUM HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4Tm. 1918,

THE

PEACE

AND TREATY:

"HOUR IS APPROACHING WHEN NO BLUFF WILL AVAIL":

WAR WILL BE RENEWED IN ITS SHARPEST FORM."

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ENTHUSI ASTIC RECEPTION IN LONDON.

MR. HARRY HAWKER'S

PETROGRAD'S PITIABLE PLIGHT.

GEN, CURRIE ON BRITISH

EMPIRE AIMS.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)"

MB HARRY HAWKER AIN

ENGLAND..

A TRIUMPHAL PROGRESS,

LONDON, May 27th. Mr. Harry Hawker and Capt. Mar. kenzie Grieve made a triumphal pro- gress through Scotland to London. The train was besieged by crowds fighting to shake hands with the aviators.

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ENTHUSIASM IN LONDON.

LONDON, May 27th. On arrival at King's Cross Station, which was densely thronged, Mr. Hawker and Capt. Grieve got one of the most remarkable ovations ever given to any-

one.

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They were seized by a body of Australia diggers and carried shoulder-high into Euston Road. They were crowned with louch hats, an Australian custom, con- ferring the highest popular honour.

The huge crowds assembled at Euston Road at first did not recognise the air men in Australian hats. Then they gave

open

car

the, two airmen a tremendous ovation.

The airmen were placed in an which proceeded slowly, along an arrang ed route, to the Royal Aero Club.

morn

FLIGHT Giving another interview to the Daily Mul, when he entered into detailed description. of the incidents

said: of his fight. Mr. Hawker "After four hours, the visibility became bad and heavy, cloud banks were encoun- tered Eventually we encountered beavy storm and rain squalls.

"After 5 hours, we were forced to descend several thousand fact an account of the choking of the filter. After this, everything went well for a few hours, and then the circulation system was again choked

The temperature of the water rose to boiling point We realised that until the pipe was cleared we could not rise much higher without using a lot of motor power.

When we had been about 19 hours on the way, the circulation system was still bad. We changed our course and began to fly, diagonally aerom the main shipping route for hour.

THE SILVER MARKET MESSRS. MONTAGIUS REPORT.

·Lerdos, May-20th." Messrs. Montagu & Co.'s report states that the inclination of the priod is gen erally upward Quotations for cash and two months' delivery are identical, with buyers for the latter well in evidence."

At the lower level of about bid. sellers are lem inclined to operate, preferring to await favourable rates.

The Shanghai exchange rate is 3/9d. per tack. It is reported that small par- chases have been made in America on Chins account. The shipment of about 127,000 cunces has been made to Shang- | bai, beginning in May.

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LONDON, May 29th. The silver market is steady.

THE GERMAN. TREATY, GERMANS CANNOT EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

FARIS, May 30th A Havas message says:—- The whole tone of the German proposals such that the Berlin Government can hardly believe that they will be taken seriously.

BRITISH EMPIRE AIMS. GENERAL CURRIE'S SOUND SPEECH.

LONDON, May 27th. General Sir Arthur Currie, ex-Com- mander of the Canadian troops in France, was entertained to luncheon at the Mansion House, at which the Duke and Prince Arthur of Connaught and numerous Dominion representatives were

present.

CANADA

GENERAL RAILWAY STRIKE- FEARED.

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MONTREAL, May 26th.', Mr. Talton, the distrigt railway leader, denies that an order has been issued for a general railway strike in Canada,

Wissino, May 28th The railway service is normal, A general strike is reported at Calgary,

HUNGARY.

"ALL"" HOSTAGES.

General Currie, speaking on behalf of | # the Dominions, said that the war had caused many rapid and drastic changes SOVIET GOVERNMENT RELEASES in the view-point of the Dominions con- cerning their relations with the Mother- and They now believed that it was

COPENHAGEN, May 28th, argent that a new basis should be found fr A telegram from Budapest states that which would strengthen the British the Soviet Government has released all system, and recognise that certain com-hostages. ponent parts of the Empire had earned for themselves the status of nations, and they were anxious, among other things, that every suggestion of political inferio rity should be removed. (Cheers.)

The national spirit of the Dominions had been matured by war, but the ties binding the Empire together had in no

GERMANY,

QUALITION MINISTRY FOR

· BAVARIA,

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BERLIN, May 28th. The Bavarian Socialist Congress at Nuremberg passed a resolution in favour feeling that machinery should be erected of the formation of a Hoffman Coalition that would make out of the British Ministry. Empire, &, constellation of nations-free, equal, united in goodwill, with common ideas, and reciprocal confidence, all under one fing and one King. (Cheers)

The German Government will be wellway been weakened. There was a strong advised to remember that the hour is approaching when no blu will avail.

The Allies will be united when Germany refuses to sign the Treaty, and, war will be renewed in its sharpest form.

BERLIN READING GERMAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS.

PARIS, May 30th

A Havas message says:- All Berlin is occupied in reading the complete text of the German counter-pro posals.

The Liberal Press declares that there is no expectation that the Entente will that Germany, We landed in the water being a new democracy, has abandoned all.

"When we sighted the Mary we sent up distress signals which were answered practically promptly.

recognize

COUNTY CRICKET.

YORKSHIRE DEFEATS

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

LONDON, May 27th. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 63 runs.

These nations, although enjoying absolute freedom in working their parti cular destinies, should have a voice com mensurate with their singular interests in the Empire as a whole. They should, through the medium of the machinery AUSTRIAN provided, share equal duties one toward the other, in the broadest spirit of co-

operation

There was no reason why Canada, Australia, South Africs, and New Zea

ahead of the steamer. The sea was very idea of militarism and imperialist coland should not be to England in ro rough, and it was only at great riskservation. that the crew succeeded in launching, a The Press is bitter

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. LEGISLATION DIRECTED AGAINST

It was intended to hold a civic recepmall boat" tion, ," with the Mayor present at the station, together with a large number of distinguished military men and civiliana, but the Australians, déclaring it was "Australia's Day" took the affair en- tirely into their own hands.

THE AIRMEN INTERVIEWED.

LONDON, May 27th, Mr. Harry Hawker and Capt.. Grieve, interviewed by the Daily Mail, declared that their start was due to the Americans' Light to the Azores.

The Sopwith's start was splendid. The airmen, at the start, only, ate cue sand wich apiece, with some chocolate, and drank four cups of coffee each.

Mr. Hawker, after that, did not eat for 72 hours, owing to sca-sickness..

It was like looking for a small motor

boat in a heavy sea when they few down to look for a ship. When they alighted on the sea, they were knee deep in the water, and big waves occasionally dashed over the upper plane. Meanwhile, their little boat was "afloat beside the machine, dancing like a cork,

They were picked up at 8/30, after they

BOLSHEVISM.

CAPETOWN, May 23rd...

PEACE TREATY

TERMS VERY SIMILAR TO THOSE

IMPOSED ON GERMANY, -

The following is the remainder of the

Summary of the Peace Terms Part Two and a portion of Part Three having against the donation to the Empire what Glasgow,

already appeared in our columns. Part The Allies ask userpool, and Manchester, were one, containing the Covenant of the

London in relation to the United Kingdom.

ment, summing up.. to submit to murder. We ask, ourselves, to be allowed to commit suicide."" GERMAN DELEGATES RETURNING HOME.

VERSAILLES, May 27th..

technical experts, secretarica, typists, are leaving to-morrow.

and

A Bill, extending the operation of the

A portion of the German Penco Dele Public Welfare Acts, contains important gation, numbering 80, including the amendments directed against Bolshevism. It prohibits the publication of matter or membership of associations advocating violence in order to effect changes in political, industrial, or economic condi- tions, or publication of matter inciting

the natives.

It also provides for the registration and identification of aliens. ·

THE DIAMONDS TAXATION BILL.

In the Assembly, during the Commit

EARLIER CABLES. BELGIUM PREPARING RESUMP TION OF OFFENSIVE.

AMSTERDAM, May 27th.. The Belgian frontier has been closed. Leave troops have been recalled. A general mobilisation is believed to be tee stage, the Diamonds Taxation Bill,reeding owing to the approaching

termination of the signing period. with the proposal to reduce the tax on alluvials by five per cent, was negatived by 46 votes to 36.

WAR SERVICES OF SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS.

LONDON, May 29th. Reuter is informed that the national had been flying for 144 hours. They were wrvices for which the Imperial Govern- mant are giving a gift of railway materials worth £500,000 related to specific services rendered by the South African Railways to the Imperial autho rities.

they

izi the water for 80 minutes.

declared Mr. Hawker

when

started Wo are left. It was a cert.:

100 to I on."

The machine foated well. They ex- pected a north-easterly wind for a short time, the a

north-west, but actually found a strong northerly wind and ran into a depression which had worked up' from the Azores.

THE CHINA NAVAL COMMAND. BELATED NEWS FROM THE

* TIMES,"

"LONDON, May 29th. The Timer states it is understood that The weather W89, however, 20 Rear-Admiral G. F. Hope has been select hindrance. The fight would have been éd as Commander-in-Chief of the China. accomplished but for the boiling water Station trouble

The wireless was not a great success. Capt. Grieve sent out a message every

30 minutes, but no reply

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received.

He later signalled a gory 15 4

minutes, but the wireless stopped spark- “ing at 1.30 a,17,

A CORRECTION..

LONDON, May 30th. The Timer states that Vice-Admiral Bir A. L. Duff, not Bear-Admiral Hope, will be appointed to the China Command,

THE AFTERMATH. INCREASED COST OF LIVING IN FRANCE

LATEST CABLES,

POLAND.

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AT TESCHEN,

PARIS, May 27th explosion in Teschen, Silesia, owing to Owing to the suspicious nature of an which 300 Foles were killed, the Polish Diet has demanded an inquiry

The Diet has, contributed 200,000 kronen for relief purposes.

EARLIER CABLES.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UKRAINIANS.

Pakia, May 27th.

He believed that the political system which would realise this ideal would prove an everlasting benefit not only to the. Empire's constituent parts but also to the whole world,

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM. ALLIES TO RE-VICTUAL

PETROGRAD. «

Losbox, May 27th. *Beater understands that the Allies have | mada every arrangement to re-victual Petrograd and to render all possible assistance to the starving population, immediately after the expulsion of the Bolshevista

NO BRITISH TROOPS IN FINLAND.

LONDON, May 27th.

In the House of Commons, at ques- ion-time, the Eight Hon. W. Forster stated that be had been informed that no British troops had landed in the Gulf of Finland

ANOTHER DENIKIN VICTORY.

EXATERINODAL, May 23rd." General Denikin reports that he has cleared out the Bolshevist army from an area 200 miles off the south bank of the Manitch River, and has advanced 40 miles beyond Manitch.

score of guna

He captured 4,300 prisoners, and a

COSBACKS JOIN FORCES.

The Cossacks, after capturing Oren tar joined up with the Ural Cossacks who were driven out by the Bolshevista from Novousinsk; half-way between the Ural and the Volga

DISORDER RAMPANT IN PETROGRAD

STOCKHOLM, May 26th. The Polish National Committee an-

A telegram from Viborg states that nounces that Polish troops are in po heavy bombardment was heard during session of Tarnopol and other East the last few days in the direction of Galician towns, where local Poles successKronstadt and Petrograd, from the sea fully revolted against the Ukrainiane.

PADEREWSKI'S RESIGNATION

DENIED.

M Paderewski's resignation is denied. The Diet, on May 22nd, passed a nani mous vote of confidence in him,

LATEST CABLES.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. ARRIVAL AT LISBON

NEW YORK, May 27th, The .C. 4 ho arrived at Láibón::::

EARLIER CABLES. Capt. Grieve found they were 150 miles - south of their course, owing to the drift.

AMERICAN SEAPLANE LEAVES THE AZUREB They then altered their contae Dorth

: ... wards, with a view to reaching the track

POTTA DEL GADA, May 27th."

of ship.

dem Interior, the average increase in price The N.(started at 9.90 this morning, of the principal necessaries of life in Aying: splendidly. It expecte to reach France, sincs.1910, amounts to 592 per Liston in the afternoon, the distance

being 800 miles

Mr. Hawker used 170 gallons of petrol out of the 340 he carried

Paats, May 30th. * A Havas message says:- According to the Statistical Depart ment of the French Ministry of thế | |

cent.

Refugees from Petrograd state that the Bolshevist leaders are panic stricken

Many have already absconded with State funds.

and Finnish Reds.

The city is controlled by Chinese, Letts,

There has been heavy street fighting recently.

Workmen have barricaded their quar. ters in order to prevent pillaging by the

Chinese

The Bolshevists have placarded the city threatening to execute all capitalists^ if they are compelled to leave the city. FIGETING IN AND NEAR RIGA

COPENHAGES, May 26th Atelegram from Liban rid Berlin. states that the Bolsheviste exploded railway bridges between Langel and Lake Blint, north-east of Riga - Fighting "is proceeding for possesión of Duena, mende. Before retiring, the Bolshevists at Riga killed 20 political prisoners and carried on other Bixteen hundred prisoners were liberated.

League of Nations, and Part Twelve, con- taining the Labour Convention, are iden- tical with those in the German Treaty, and are therefore omitted.

Part Six, dealing with Prisoners of War and Graves, and Part Ten, with Aerial Navigation, are identical, with the substitution of Austria and Austrian for Germany and German, and are, also amitted

Similarly, Part Thirteen of the Ger man Treaty, containing guarantees for its execution, is not included in the Austrian Treaty...

PART THREE.

·POLITICAL CLAUSES,

GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS.

LONDON, June 1st. the Allled and Associated Powers make Austria accepts all arrangements which with Turkey and Bulzario with inference to any rights, privileges or interests claimed in those countries by Austria or ber nationals, and not dealt with else where.

Austria accepts all arrangements which the Allied and Associated Powers make with Germany concerning the territories whose abandonment was imposed upon Denmark by the Treaty of 1884.

PROTECTION OF MINORITIES

In a series of special Clauses, Austria undertakes to bring her institutions into conformity with the principles of liberty. and justice, and acknowledges that the obligations for the protection of minori- ties are matters of international concern over which the League of Nations bas jurisdiction.

She assures complete protection of life and liberty to all inhabitants of Austria, without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race, or religion, together with the right to free exercise of any creed.

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All Austrian nationals, without distinc tion of race, language, or religion, are to be equal before the law. No restric tions are to be imposed on the free use of any language in private or public. and reasonable facilities are to be given. to Austrian nationals of non-German speech, for the use of their language be- fore the Courts.

Austrian nations belonging to racial, religious, or linguistic minorities, are to enjoy the same protection as other Aus- trian nationals, in particular with re- gard to schools and other educational establishments.

and in districts where a considerable proportion of Austrian nationals of other than German speech are resident, facilities are to be given in schools for the instruction of children in their own language, and an equitable Share of public funds is to be provide for the purpose.

PART FOUR. AUSTRIAN RIGHTS OUTSIDE EUROPE

THE ALLIES. TO DICTATE,

Outside Europe,, Austria renounces all rights and privileges, as to her own or her Allies' territories, to all the Allied. and Amsociated Powers, and undertakes taken so accept whatever measures are by the principal Allied Powers in rela tion thereto.

The Clauser a to Egypt, Morocco, China, and Siam are identical, after the necessary modifications, with those of the Gergan Treaty, except that, especially in the case of China, there is no need for so great detail.

PART FIVE.

MILITARY, NAVAL AND AIR CLAUSES.

MILITARY CLAUSES. The Military Clauses are reserved

NAVAL CLAUSES.

All Austro-Hungarian warships, sub marines and vessels of the Danube. Flotilla are declared to be finally mur rendered to the principal.Allied and Associated Powers

Twenty-one specified auxiliary cruisers are to be disarmed and treated as mer- chant ships.

All warships and submarines ander" construction, in ports which belong, or have belonged, to Austria-Hungary, shall be broken up. The salvage is not to be used except for industrial purposes, and not to be sold to foreign countries.

The construction of, and the nequisition of, any submarine, even for commercial purposes, is forbidden.

All naval arms, ammunition, and other var material, belonging to Austria- Hungary at the date of the Armistica shall be surrendered to the Allies.

The Austrian wireless station at Vienna fis not to be used for navad, military, or political messages, relating to Austria or her late Allies, without the assent- of the Allied and Associated Governments during "three months but can only be used for commercial purposes under supervision.

During the same period Austria is not to build any more high-power wireless stations

AIR CLAUSES.

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The Air Clauses are practically the same as "in the German Treaty, except. for the 100 seaplanes and their personnel which Germany is allowed to retain till October, to search for mines

GENERALES

Austria agrees not to accredit or send any Military, Naval, or Air Mission to any foreign country, nor to allow Aus- trian hatronsa to enlist in the Army, Navy or Air Serdce of a foreign

Power.

PART SEVEN

PENALTIES.

IDENTICAL WITH GERMAN TREATY.

tical with those in the German Treaty, The penalties for war crimes are iden except the omission of any provision similar to that calling for the trial of the ex-Kaiser of Germany.

PART FIGHT.

REPARATION.

RESERVED FOR FURTHER DEC1810

'The Reparation clauses are reserved.

PART NINE.

FINANCIAL "CLAUSES.

DECISION TO BE MADE LATEE.

The Financial Clauses are reser

PART ELEVEN.

ECONOMIC CLAUSES.

SIMILAR TO GERMAN

TREATE

The economic clauses, except in certain details, such as shipping, are similar to those of the German Treaty,

Special provisions are added, however, for former Austro-Hungarian nationals acquiring an Allied nationality, similar to those in the German. Treaty relating to the inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine.

The contracts are maintained subject to cancellation by the Governments

Austria undertakes to recognise any agreement or convention made by the Allies to safeguard the interests of their nationals in any undertakings, consti- tuted under Austro-Hungarian law, which operate in territories detached from the former Austrian Empire, and to transfer any necessary documents and information in regard to them,

„FREEDOM ́OF TRANSIL

The clauses as to freedom of transit are, the same in the Austrian" as in the German Treaty, except for the cmisnome

Germany of provisions affecting and the insertion of specifio

Priv granting Austria transit through former Austro-Hungarian ritory in order to assure her access to the Adriatic

PART FOURTEEN.

MISCELLANEOUS " PROVISIONS.

WHEN THE TERÁTY COMES INTO FORCE.

These provisions do not preclude the Austrian Government from making the After necessary substitutions, virtually teaching of German obligatory. They identical with those of the German are to be embodied by Austria in her Treaty, the Trenty in to come into force fundamental Law as a bill of rights, and when agned by Austria and the three to be principal Allied Powers and to be effec- provisions regarding them are under the protection of the League of five for the individual Btater on the de Nations"

posit of their speciße ratißestions.