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THE HONGKUNG DAILY - PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 5TH. 1919.

BRITISH AIRMEN DECORATED.

AMERICA AND THE· LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

LENIN'S POWER WANING.

SEVERE DEFEAT OF BOLSHEVIKS IN SOUTH RUSSIA.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:]

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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

AMERICA'S FOSITION.

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WASHINGTON, May 27th. Mr. Josephus Daniels unged the Naval Committee, in the House of Representa tives, to abandon the additional construc tion of ten battleships and ten cruisers, proposed several months ago by the Navy Department, in order to show the con- Adence of the United States in the League of Nations, which it initiated.

Mr. Daniels said that conditions had changed since last December.

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The United States must either have the League of Nations, which would put an end to competitive construction, or the 'biggest navy in the world There was no middle course.

Mr. Daniels suggested the appropria tion of $45,000,000 for naval aeroplane construction next year.

CHURCH UNION

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND'S DECISION.

LONDON, May 28th. The Church of Scotland general as sembly, after a heated and prolonged de bate, has approved, by an overwhelming majority, the report of the Union Cam- mittee. recommending the Presbyteries report before November 30th, whether ap- proved or disapproved, the draft of the articles of union with the United Free

Church, and directing the commission of an assembly to be held in December for the purpose of authorising the Union Committee, in the event of a majority of Presbyteries approving the articles, to approuch the Government as regards the necessary legislation.

AVIATION.

AIRMEN DECORATED.

LONDON, May 28th:

MR. HAWKER'S MACHINE FOUND.

ST. JOHN, May 27th.

The liner Sachen has arrived here, and reports that she received a wireless message from the American steamer Lake "Charleville that she found Mr. maid-Atlantic, Hawker's peroplane in

alved the mail aboard the aeroplane and part of the machine itself, taking them to Falmouth, England.

LATEST CABLES.

THE MENACE OF BOLSHEVISM

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THE FIGHTING IN SOUTH RUSSIA.

LONDON, May 28th.

FIGHTING IN NORTHERN

INDIA.

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SITUATION GENERALLY SATIS

FACTORY:.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

INTERESTING LOCAL APPOINT MENTS.

HERR SCHEIDEMANN ON GERMAN POLICY.

THREE BASIO PRINCIPLES.

before you and your children and thei future of us all! Hera there can be no party differences. To be united in ward- ing off the Soviet Republic means stand- His Majesty the King has been graci Herr Scheidemann, the Premier, speaking together in one great party compris SIMLA, May 31st.

ously pleased to approva of the following in the National Assembly at Weimaring the entire nation, whose one sim muSLĖN ing appointments to the Most Distinguish Reporta from Parachinar indicate that

· ̈ed Order of St. Michael and St. George: there was fighting on a small scale' at'

Sir Francis Henry May to be a Knight Lakkatigg The. Turis are actively a irand Cross. sisting us, but "the presence of Alghan Mr. Reginald Edward Stubbs (Gos troops is causing unrest at Lower Kurernor-designate of Hongkong) to be a

Knight Commander.

dan.

A tribal gathering, from the Khurmana Valley, made a Fruitless attack on a militia post near Sadda....

Everything is quiet in Thai: Good re- ports have been received from Miranshah the Wazire appear unwilling where to commit shemagives seriously unless

supported by Afghan troops,

The arrival of aeroplanes there has had a good effect.

Sume Mahsud activity is reported from the Derajat. Border. Our frontier post at Manjhi, south of Murtaza has been attacked, but without success.

Reports from Chitral state that the Kafirs of Kamdesh, in the Bashgul Valley, have revolted against the Amir.

A SUCCESSFUL CAVALRY.

OPERATION.

SIMLA, June 1st, The situation at. Parachinar continues satisfactory.

The War Office announces that in the fighting in Soath Russia, the Volunteer Army completely defeated the Bolsheviks in the Manich area. The Bolshevik base depot at Remontnoe was captured, with 3,500 prisoners, 15,000 new rifles, and thirteen guns. The Tenth Baishevik Arpty is believed to have been heavily defeated along the whole front, and to have lost 10,000 in prisoners, and 28'guns, besides several destroyed regimenta

The whole of Donetz has been practitude of the Bhittanis, "in whose country cally captured by the Bolsheviks

the post is located, is stated to be still

satisfactory.

EARLIER CABLES.

LENIN'S INFLUENCE OVER.

PARIS, May 28th.

It is authoritatively declared that nev from Russia indicates that the influenes of Lenin has completely ended, and there will be practically no opposition to the capture of the city.

IMPORTANT ESTHONIAN.

SUCCESSES.

COPENHAGEN, May 27th. The Bolshevists offered tenacious resist ance in the fighting preceding the fall of Pskoff. Forty, machine-guns were cap-

tured.

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Pakof, which is the junction of five, railways, is the strategical backbone of At Buckingham Palace, H.. the King the Bolshevist campaign against Estboaíz. decorated Mr. Hawker and Captain Its capture indicates that a decisive stage Mackenzie-Grieve with the Royal Air has been reached. Force Cross.

EARLIER. PAHLEN. STREET SCENES IN LONDON. LONDON, May 28th.

No further action by Nadir Khan is reported from Thal, and there bave been no new developments at Miranshah,

Some Mahsud Lashkars are reported in the vicinity of Jandola, but the atti

Further south, near Murtaza, a squad- ion of our cavalry pushed a party of 300 Wazirs and Mabsuds, who had ventured into the plains. Twenty were killed and five captured, while several more were wounded. Our casualties numbered eight There is no change in the situation on, the Dakka front Reconnaissance, and foraging expeditions are carried out re- gularly by our cavalry.

Sistani where the leading men are volunteering to raise levies, is quiet... GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN OFFICERS

LEADING AFGHANS.

SIMA, May 30th Thal is quiet. The enemy still occupy the adjacent hills.. Aeroplanes severely damaged an enemy camp at Yusuf Khel, four miles above Thal.

Nothing fresh occurred at Miranshah, where the presence of our troops is hay ing

Mahsuda

His Majesty the King has also beau graciously pleased to approve of the fol lowing appointments to the Most Excel lent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division):-- *

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COMMANDSES (JD CLASS), Mrs Stubbs, " Mr. Arthur George Murchison. Fletcher.

MEMBERS (5TH GLASS). the

in April, said that German foreign policy in the future would be based on three principles: (1) strict observance of all treaties: (1) unswerving protection of vital German interests; and (3) mainten ance of a spirit of unreserved concilia- tion fowards the whole world.

Herr Scheidemann, continuing, said: It is therefore a requirement of honesty that we should only undertake such ob ligations as can be harmonised with our We must also be loyal to vital interests. the world in general, and this means the endorsement of a spirit of unreserved conciliation towards all peoples. These three principles must be

our guiding line for the common future. Herr Scheide mann went on to way that they must not be found to fail when it was a matter

of

m.source

be, first and above all, peace (Cheers)

Referring to the Congress of Soviets, held in Berlin, Herr Scheidemann said they followed its proceedings, with "in- forest and best wishes, and added: "May it tread the same Bath as the Imperial » Government by taking stratilising what is best and most serviceable for our people in, the council ideay a heavy responsibility rests upon itar meeting May, it see clearly that an intellectual movement can only be fought with intel lectual weapons, but that fatellectual in- novations, too, can only be introduced by intellectual means. Socialism can no more be forced upon a people like us Ger mans than reaction can "again be forced open upon us. (Cheers.) We desire to the road to economio democracy, and wa

for it the necessary organs, will, depriving the two sworn foes of in-rate socialisation that it

of prosperity, nut

Dot R ternational understanding, namely. Im bacillus of decomposition. But whilst we perialism and Chauvinium, of all posthus deprive Bolshevism of a breeding- sibility of In an intering their foreign policy ground, there is an alternative for as

want. he said. but forcibly to ward off all violent at

l between an equal rapprochement

tempts to take us

(Cheers.) by surprise... i hor-peoples, and cot a fresh division of the

world into alliances and groups which can not yet disappear from the dictionary at a dangerous moment go of like loaded rifles. We hope that the liquidation of the war in the East will soon be com pleted. The appointment of Lady Stubbs as acted. We cannot let the shaping of our internal affairs be forced on us by Rus- the Commander of British Empire

hear but if Russin sin--fhear,

Her forcible nounces Order is doubtless in recognition of her

propaganda of Bol. work on behalf of War Charities in hand to the Russian people, which.

like ourselves, has had to Caylon.

False galculation made by its for the

pay for Mr. Fletcher, the Acting Colonial

perialism, with defeat collapse, and Secretary, was Chairman of the local deepest misery. The bitterly hard road Board of Shipping "Control.

to new economic and State consolidation is common to us both. In many things Mrs. Stabb has taken a lending part in we are mutually dependent. I hope that the work of providing comforts for we shall be able to find a way to one

another. (Cheers)

Mrs. Ethel Stabl Mrs Alice Hickling. Mr. Robert Sutherland Mr. George Macdonald Young. Mr. James Arthur Edward Bullock,

No explanation is needed of the para conferred upon the ex-Governor and the Governor-designate of the Colony they are in accordance with custom

the troops.

in

ahcvisim we will gindly extend a brother

the

it is not our fault if the word force of our people. Help us so that it may soon be able to disappear and that it may not be perpetuated in its worst sense in n mailed Est pence (Loud cheers)

PEACE KANTZAG ON

Count Brockdorff von Rantzau, the Foreign Minister, who followed Herr Scheidemann, said:

It may now be assumed that peace is hopeful cor need we despair. near at hand, but we should not be too We are confronted by hard and coolly calculat ing enemies and we have only onu weapon against them, and that is na appeal to the basis of peace which wo Novem

agreed upon in the beginning of ber.

We cannot sign a peace which de vistes from this basis in any essential point (Loud cheers) The population of Alsace-Lorraine must have its right to

of its will

recognised

In the West, as regards France there Mrs. Hickling, the Acting Mediend can be no lack of clearness respecting our desire for conciliation. We know the ob Officer of Health, has been promin-ligations towards her which we have un- decide its future fate by a free expres- ently identified. with V.A.D. work. dertaken. "Mr. Sutherland and Mr. Young were Loraine, we press for a plébiscité we

not do so in the silent hope of nullify in the East, which for the present seems members of the Shipping Control ing point of President Wilson's pro- to have been overcome, for the Batente Board

gramme, but in order for all time to has renounced its pe

plan to land Polish remove ideas of renache or fresh netusa troops at Danzig, but bas fully main- tions of

(Chears) Shall we, tained its claim to do so if need be. The however,

and Government, be

be situation

become more acute in the Sleswig question.

When, in regard to Alsace-ion have passed through a severe crisis

Mr. Bullock has had his work in the Colonial Secretariat greatly increased by the war

CANTUN NEWS.

CANTON, June 4th.

It is reported that Japan is proposing to return Tsingtao to China under the following conditions:-(1) That a certain part of Tsingtao he ceded to Japan as a concession; (2) that. China shall not use Tsingtao as a naval base; (3) that Japan ese troops be allowed to remain in Tsingtao after it is returned to China: (4) that the duty levied on coal, trans Ported by the railway through. Tsing

THE FUTURE OF TSINGTAO.

be reduced. The above conditions have been submitted to the Peking Govern;

ment lines are being drawn up for the proposed It is also stated that boundary

concession..

ASTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT.

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able to make our

reconciliation

desire

for international

Fr

we are daily justify

documents which

is true that

with thousands of

bae

More or less

to induce the Entente to sanction

to Danish negotiators are

a belief demands of an ever-increasing extent at that our opponents' will to destruction the expense of a weakened Germany. An has not changed. We await evcuts not unscrupulous agitation would like to ex- resolutely, not with dulled senses, but ploit the hunger in Middle Bleswig in also without

from our strivings order to extort declarations of an agree after an

the Danish sense.

men Across the desert- ment in

ed trenches."

DANGER FROM WITHIN

which The danger which

I foresee for the success of our foreign policy come. not so much from the other side of our fron- loud cheers)-from the incessant con- tiers, as from within our nation itself vulsions with which our country is affect- from the deep unrest, from the con- Bagration who

"Rames asuin and again whose shoot up and threaten whole house with destruction. One strike follows an other.

spirit of revolt, like a The sense, seizes arst one town and then another.

cians

machinations cannot be too eneretion opposed, and perspicacions Danish

clearly understand how severely their

would have to country

suffer from a German Irredents. When the farmer. German Government last autumn declar- cd it Waa

resolved to apply President Wilson's principles to the North Bleswig regions it had in view only regions with

undoubted Danish population. At the Conference we will give a clear account to our opponents

both

regarding their demands for paying

pensation and anr epponents cannot the moment when the aim

dismember city.

and paralyse Germany and of us all, besides getting bread, can only at the same time extract from the coun- fresh try's resources the enormous sums which Soviet Republic is proclaimed there, poli- we require the be peace, and nothing but peace,

revolution breaks out in

they expect from them. For that purpose of the industrially into and agriculturally important West armistice, is cut off from the rest of Ger many We need to bave the blockade speedily raised and finally, wo require the importation of foodstuffs on condi tions which make their purchase possible. mit us to feel that the food supply is an net of benevolence, and B comparison with the way the German authorities sup is not favourable to our opponents Wo plied beleaguered Paris in 1871 with food

also expect raw materials from our West- ern enemies, and we need credit to pur- chase these.

release

ical and co tomic affairs are thrown which, contrary to the terms of the

In further successes on the south-west and 1cting influence among the Azira attack on the Companies sitaated on the ar front, the Esthonians occupied Stackeln, firing occurred against our posts in Bund, several Japanese masons, who were

is pro

(loud cheers) placed in danger. The nature of the payment does not per

just when we need will

דנןל

confusion like children's playthings. an offensive and defensive alli -It is stated that during the recent claimed with the Hungarian and Rus-

Soviet Republics, wiworld."

with a joint front the rest of the Not the herland, not

the Government. bat Tochi, notably at Idak In an in the midst of the demonstration, were

peace is, by this action at Baldai, the enemy lost 170 killi on the Walk-Wolmar railway, and caped and 188 prisoners, while 200 broke attacked and slightly wounded by the to give indisputable proof of

put of the fort and Bed, but suffered rioters. The wounded masons are under- for peace, of our repugnance to tared Salesmuende in the Gulf of Rige

heavily from our machine guns and going treatment at the Japanese Con-able honesty, at this very moment incited policy of the mailed fist of our unshake cavalry pursuit.

A political officer interviewed certain late. The Japanese residents in dreamers dare again to set up the ban- Mohmand Jirgas Good relations have Shameen have held a meeting and passeder of war against the nations with whom been established with the Shirwaris, who resolution requesting their home govence-table...

we desire to-morrow to sit at the confer are returning to Bagh and Khargali, undertaking, after harvesting, to supply Lerament to send warships to Canton for I am an opponent of a Soviet Govern- our camps at Landi Khana.

The street crowds which assembled în LABOUR UNREST IN CANADA. London to greet Mr. Hawker and Capt. Mackenzie Grieve have been unequalled since Armistice Day. Dense masses of people held up the traffic in the thorough- fare, whereupen Mr. Hawker descended from his carriage and, mounting a con stable's horse, slowly pushed forward. Mr. Hawker completed the jour ney to the Asro Club, riding bare-headed, on horse-back.

The Australians, acting as an escort to Capt. Mackenzie-Grieve, linked hands and cleared a way by main force.

Similar scenes of enthusiasm were ez-

land Place, vid Langham Place, and Regent Street to, the Club.

THE PREMIER'S STATEMENT.

OTTAWA, May 28th. In the House of Commons, Bir RL Borden made a starement on labour rest in Canada. He pointed out "that a Royal Commission was at present in- vestigating the conditions. Meanwhile, the Government was determined that law and order must be maintained, and that public services must not be dislocated under conditions such obtained in Winnipeg.

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The postal and other employés must

It is reported that number of Ger. man and Austrian officers, formerly resi- dent at Kabul, are now directing the Afghan operations, with amount of Bolshevik co-operation and

assistance.

certain A

their safety: The Consul, however, re- fused to forward the resolution. Special guards have been posted to patrol the surroundings of Shameen every day.". THE TRAMWAY CONSTRUCTION. Beuter's special correspondent 42 The Municipal Council has announced Peshawar states that the Ghilari tribe that the syndicate formed of Chinese and Amir. Amanulla is now described as a foreign merchants will be authorised to young visionary and a tool of unscrupul construct a tramway over the new roads, for gue-and-a-half-million dollars, if no The health of the tropps is excellent. ̈: better offer be received before June 8th..

BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITY AT PEKING CABLE NEWY,

TASHKENT,

are not averse to the selection of à new

ous persona,

ment

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seek They lead to murder and

.RHEIMS CATHEDRAL

governing principle. I cannot forget as quickly as others who, like me, the watch- fought for a life-time under

if Word

EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE. Democracy" and now repudiate it. (Cheers from Social Democrats.

We oppose the Soviet Republic not only for In view of the conflicting reports which TEBBODS, world conception, not merely have from time to time been published on internal political grounds, because we with regard to the damage done to see in it the destroyer of the last remnant Rheims Cathedral by the German bom- of political unity, but we oppose it be bardment, the following statement, which cause we want peace. We wage with the has been received from an authoritative Chauvinism of a Soviet Government a source, is interesting: life-and-death struggle for the sake of

Rheims Cathedral was built on the pesce, without which we are ruined. We which tradition assigned to the baptions do not

Clovis an event which gave to the alliances of the world

of

the of revolution.

Kings France their titles of Roi Très In connection with the internal peace of monarchies and inperialists,

misery in the same way as

as the alliances Chrétien and Premier Fils de l'Eglise

We It early became the coronation church of SIMLA, June 1st Degotiations, the Allied Ministers in of

great world Want &

alliance, the League the Capetian dynasty, and to it Charles Regarding Bolshevik activity at Taah-Peking have passed a resolution to de- Nations, wherein equal nations can acted along the whole route,, from Port carry on or abandon service permanently. kent, an intercopted wireless message to a Note of warning against the velon freely without the old fetters of considered to be one of the most roblo VI..was brought by Joan of Arc to receive of his crown, and to save Suspension

his of the Shanghai Conference armaments and without the new burdens was

one of Country It Moscow, dated April 24th, run:

has bee The

drafted by the Ameri of Bolshevistic civil war. That separates and A Bureau for Musulman Communiste

Minister,

will be handed to

ns to the extent of a was established at Tashkent on March the President by the British Minister in

world from the ideas and most beautiful assin in of Lenin, 30tb.

who, even in 1910, boasted of associated with the the course of

of the next two days. A The first aim of this organisation is the similar Note will be delivered to the

having recommended that the disarma- tism, and the art of France in an excep ment should be struck off the Socialist tional degree, and perhaps appealed more by the Allied Con- Communist Party;

suls in Canton. Secondly, the propaganda issue of lat issued decrees explaining the condi

coming of

apitalism without civil war

Dame or St. Denis, Probably for these No reasons the Germans took special pains. literature and subordination of Mussal- tions respecting Tsingtao, and deprecat Without disarmament the League of Na- to reduce it to its

(Exclamations.)

Lamentable mans to the Communist Party;

the boycott of Japanese goods. The tions would

la and Thirdly, convening of a Conference of President has also ordered the students nerpet

their of Mussulmans decide sil questions con-

perpetuation of force

I brute force as a means of settling,

The western façade and portal are earning the Communist Party and work not to abandon their studies, or they will

be dealt with severely, in connection with it.

fercoas between peoples is to be abolish severely battered, the greater number of We realise it is matter of great diffi

ed then we must reject it first in settling the pinnacles of the southern front have.

rences between our own compatriot been shot away, the roof has several gap- culty to gain these aims owing to the

War at home and war abroad, ing holes in it, the high altar is a form- that is what the counsels and teaching less, mass of debris, and the choir as such The most popular war or post-war story of Lenin's Bolshevism bring us.

has ceased to ex

exist. The glass bas entire it without doubt, that about the British

I am not holding up a med or fantastic ly

some appeared indeed d has been Bwho said to a German 4.B. in a sur picture before your eyes. I have no with preserved,

must has been totally des All that

really remains is istaking" insulting remarks, with expecto out of the Bolshevik movement. I keep core. rant obbligato You can spit on your to fects, to Lenin's advocacy of civil war shaken and weakened--and the own-deck, and you can

curs Lloyd

the Entente on the Bhine, to against the t

of restoration has

Dominion soldiers used lamp standards throughout the route as scats.

In New Burlington Street, Mr. Hawker was lifted from his horse, and carried shoulder-high, inch by inch, into the Aero Club. Capt. Mackenzie-Grieve was then only just arriving at this street. Ultimately he, too, was similarly carried during the last stage of the journey.

THE #N.C..? STARTS.

PONTA DEL GADA, May 28th.

The sympathetic strike of postal hands in Calgary and Winnipeg. was indefen- sible...

THE AUSTRIAN TREATY.

A. CORRECTION.“

LONDON, June 2nd. In Part Two of the summary of the Peace terms to Austria, under the heading The frontiers of Austria," the second

sentence should read:-

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The southern frontier, facing Italy, is

to follow the watershed between the Inn her and the Drave on the north, and the

of medieval

the patrio

deas &Tebitecture, in Euroos thus

union of all those who work for the Canton Government President on. June | Programme, because the idea of the over- to the French nation than did even Notre

to

small number of Mussulman Communists and as Socialism is not readily adapt able to Mussulman ideas; so we must proceed with great caution.

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ing

POPULAR WAR YARNS.

WRS

an

the

Frendered destroyer," when the Hun was to make a boger for child and it reps of the fabric-probably coveriar

and

cloudles He Lombardy Rivers on the south, pasing | Waziristan tribal territory through three George if you want to, but we're damned el adek's incitement to common strug-able series of statues within the west wall.

begun, and

Fet

A FAINT-HEARTED ATTACK. Commander Beed of the N.G..

Reuter's special correspondent says that Nadir Khan and à Khost general entered started. Tho aky was

the alliance resolve the Munich Bovieting in the wublic are shown the 'declared that he

would remain in Col du Brenner and including the Betet Their attacks on our posts are described if we'll let you spit into our sea

routes with Afgbán regulars and 38 guns. Lisban overnight, and

Equally neat and of a Scotch pawki. ] Republic, and to the dion of the Con- church by a guardian who tells them that as faint-hearted, and they failed to make

*****ness, was the side of a British AB. doctrine of salvation by the Soviet If is hard to conceive any better reminder manist Congress to carry the new it will take a generation to repair it mouth on Wednesday

That facing the Serbo-Croce Blovene prey is content with long dishe watched some miles of German battle through the world with fire and sword of the German than the pathetic site of

The enemy course from the Azores tó Portugal is State is to be fixed by the principal Allied tazes iniping, and it is evidently unships and craisers crawl in on all four keep to these facts when I all, to the this monument of Gothic art, which the certain on which side the Waziris to surrender, "Bay, Jack, do you think German peable to awake. Look about vandals of the twentieth century have let "marked by fourteen destroyers.

and Associated Powers at a later date.""

sympathy lies. 4

we're goin' to win this 'ere-War?

yon. Behold the chaam which is opening & shattered shell-Daily Telegraph.

Ayten Valley'in Italy.,

"The