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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH KAUTER'S AGENCY.}

TURKEY.

INDIAN FOTENTATES SEGGES- TION.

LONDON, June 10th. Waiting in the Timer, the Aga Khan and Ameer All urge that, according to the Premier's promise, the Turkish sovereign "should be left in absolute possession of Constantinople. Thrace, and Asia Minor from the north of Syria Proper, along

the Aegean, to the Black Bra

EARLIER CABLES,

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE izra, 1919.

LABOUR UNREST IN FRANCE STRIKE SITUATION WORSE.

PARIS, June 4th. The strike situation is steadily becom ing worse. The strikers now, number | 350,000. Most of the underground rail- ways have closed; also the trams, and

'busei..

PEACE OFLEBRATIONS AT HOME,

NAVAL MARCH THROUGH LONDON,

LONDON, June 4th. In the House of Commons, at question time, the Rt. Hon. Walter Long stated that it was intended that the Peace Celebrations should include a march of The strikers demand the immediate apnaval men through London, and a visit plication of an eight-hour day, without of a squadron to the Thames, where the reduction of wages. All workers in the public would be allowed to inspect the metal and engineering trades are now out. The electrical workers appear ready to strike. The military have taken over the Evry Vitry Electrical Works

"One of the greatest days in the Peace SPARTACIST LEADER'S END. celebrations in London will be that on which, the tribute of the Thames will be paid to the Mercantile Marine, when 300 boats, manned by merchant seamen and decorated with flags, will form a pageant from Tower Bridge to Chelsen.

CONDEMNED TO DEATH.

COPENHAGEN, June 4th,

A message from Munich, dated June 3rd states that a Court Martial con-

ships.

$

THE THAMES PAGEANT.

LONDON, June 4th

It is

VISCOUNT FRENCH'S BOOK|STORY OF DEIRUT MURDERS.

ON THE WAR.

RATTLE FOR LIFE. IN A TRAIN, "THE PREFACE BY MARSHAL

REVOLTING SAVAGERY, FOCH.

<[FROM ** THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT. J

The following is a translation of the proface contributed to Viscount French's book by Marshal Foch:

Field-Marshal French was the Comman-, der-in-Chief of the British Army as the beginning of the war. in 1914 the

tuns, as is known, sought to prost by their numerical superiority and the crush ing power of their armament to put the Allied armies of the West out of the field as rapidly as possible by means of an enveloping manœuvre. After having vainly sought a decision on the Marne, then on the Aisne and the Somme, they pursued it sucessively at Arras, on the

ser, and at Ypres.

In this rush to the sea, in proportion as the ground available in front of them

GENERAL ROBERTSON'S ARRIVAL demned the Spartacist leader, Levine, to hoped that on this occasion all Londonience, the reserves are engaged, and,

PARIS, June 3rd.

A message from Mayence states that General Robertson has arrived. He was ceremoniously received, and presented General Mangin with the insignia of the Order of the Bath.

THE NEW RHENISH REPUBLIC

BERLIN, June 3rd.

death for high treason.

AUSTRIAN PEACE TERMS.

** UNACCEPTABLE AND IMPOSSIBLE."

COPENHAGEN, June 4th, A message from Vienna to the Press states that the Cabinet discussed the peace

A sem-oficial wessage states that Herreros, and unanimously decided that Sbeidemann has "received a despatch

FUL INHERITANCE." ..

Taxis, June 3rd,

they were unacceptable and impossible,” from a cartain Doctor Dorten," notify-READY TO ASSUME THE DREAD- ing the proclamation of a Rhenish Re- public, requesting the assent of the Be public and the co-operation of the Peace Conference to which it had applied for admission..

The Imperial Government replied that it has instructed the prosecution, for high

treason, of Dr. Dorten.. and other mem- bers of the so-called Government of the

becomes restricted, the blows are hastened and repeated with more and more vio-

will be singing, led by choirs of 50,000 numerous and intact new trained voices located along the river embankments. Thirty bands have been arranged for, and the decorations on the shores, on the bridges, and on the strings of barges will be of a kind never before attempted in the history of the Thames.

ANARCHIST ACTIVITY IN

AMERICA.

EARLY APPREHENSION OF PLOTTERS EXPECTED."

WASHINGTON, June 3rd.

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army corps are brought into line. Moreover, the aur. render of Antwerp, assures the enemy the disposal of important forces. But already the Belgian army supported by French troops, stops the Germans on the Yer, from Nieuport to Dixmude. After hay ing taken part in the battles of the Aisne. the British Army has been transported to the north. Thus it happens that it is engaged progressively from La Bassee to

CAIRO, April 27th. The inquiry into the murder of English men in the Assiut-Minia train is proceed Ing. New information now available makes it possible to reconstruct the out- affair the fellaheen in the area where the rage. For two or three days before the murder occurred had been very excited. Demonstrations, which were at first pures political but were gradually becoming more hostile to the British, had been held whilst there was considerable coming and going between the various stations, people travelling quite freely.

There appears to have been some hint

farther north, for although a large party. at Assiut of the possibility of trouble including the victims, left Luxor by ex- press, the latter stopped at Assiut. There some remained, but the murdered men. probably disregarding the warning as but | another idle rumour, continued on the ordinary train, being joined by Pope Bey and his native officer.

stations. After Assiut it appears that

Hostile crowds assembled at various

British soldiers who were travelling second class were taken by the officers into the first class. For precaution's sake all doors and windows were shut, and the conductor was put into the second clas carriage with instructions to say that there was no one in the first class.

PAY WITHOUT WORK,

SLACKNESS EXPOSED BY A LABOUR OFFICER.

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It is the intention of the Government to continue their unemployment donation scheme-pay without work and no employ.. ment for those who want it-until Novem ber 25th. That is unless the debate on the question in the House of Commons in- duces a change in Government policy.

lied soldier or sailor or to the genuine No sane person objects to a State allow- ance during unemployment to the demobi worker who has lost his job owing to the change from war to pesce industry: but the whole country is crying out against the system as at present administered. Careful investigation has been made by the Daily Express into the operation of the out-of-work benefit in London and throughout the provinces, and the tollow- ing outstanding facts are shown ---

Large numbers of unskilled workers, particularly women,girls, and fads whose earning capacity is small,are. "making no effort to obtain employment

while the State donation continues.

Thousands of genuine workers and the

employment exchange as

medium for obtaining

work useless because the exchanges have very largely become offices tor the payment of out-of-work donations.

The donation is being given to many persons for whom it was never intend ed: women whose husbands are in work, people who have employment to go on the out-of-work "pay," and persons of notoriously bad character.

By this time, however, the train wasS

TO STOP ABUSES. tull of natives, who knew full well the

The Ministry of Labour is keen to stop true state of things. At the next station abuses, and a number of prosecutions have more excited crowds of fellabeen awaited been authorised. Some employers are un- the train and joined those already en is doubtedly to blame for the wrongful issue. and by the time that Deirut was reached of the benefit When a person registers it a packed with a mob of shouting as unemployed at an exchange, a form in what circumstances he was dis At another infuriated

Ypres, everywhere opposing the invasion. Datives, even the roofs being crowded. using red is sent to the last employeť.

never

vainly developed their efforts from the swarmed on the platform. They had that in many instances this form is New to the Lys from October, 1915, andoubtedly been advised by telephone, for returned to the exchange, and therefore themselves obliged, after the end of the no sooner had the train pulled into the there is no check on the statement made the doors and windows of the first class fact that often this vital inquiry form is earridgen

ever sent to the employer,.

A Havas message says:--

manœuvre is definitely to fail, their offen Herr Regner, the chief Austrian, dele-300 feet from the Attorney-General'sive in the West to

to expire, and the Coali tion gate, made a favourable impression during house. This and other clues are expected point of Ypres, they are brought to con- to remain standing. Thus, at their

Notwithstanding the efforts of the his speech on the occasion of the presento lead to the apprehension of the Anar- centrate all their means a powerful beavy native officials travelling on the train to divert their attention. the mob forced tation of the peace terms.

artillery plentifully supplied, reinforced by mine throwers, and numerous and

away. Most of them were armed with reknives and faste. (hoes), many carried newed army corps-in a bitter battle.

As for the Allies, they are reduced to stones and nohute (heavy sticks). Quick receiving the shock with restricted effecly all the doors and windows were broke

scanty munitions, and a a weak heavy in.

The attack began, and the eight Whatever may be the duration British, who were quite unarmed, do

fats, kit-bags, cushions, etc.

A man's head was discovered on a roof/month, to conquer at Ypres, unless their station than the mob started hattering by the person registering. It is also a

He pleaded eloquently on behalf of the new Austrian Republic, which, he said,

chist plotters, whose beadquarters are believed to be in Philadelphia.

In the Seente, after speeches denounc

An ex-official of an employment ex- shange declares that he knows of cases where the out-of-work pay, is granted. without any proper inquiry, and also that unfavourable replies received from ed are destroyed to saves trouble employers about people who have register- unfavourably reply has to be referred by the employment exchange to a court

Rbeaish Republic. It declares the cfficial could not be considered a successor of the ing the bomb outrages, Mr. Walsh, // battle, they are forbidden hay fended themselves as best they could with of referees before the benefit is given.

acts of the so-called Government null and void, and urges the local population to disobey its decrees,

GOOD NEWS, IF SINCERE:

PARIS, June 3rd.

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A Havas message says: Mistrust prevails in Paris in regard to the proclamation of the Rhineland Re- public. sincere, it would be the most important news from Germans since November last.

A GERMAN COMPLAINT.

BERLIN, June 3rd.

The German "Armistice Commission at Spa bas banded Marshal Foch a Note de claring that the French occupation autho rities are promoting treasonable, move- mente in. the Rhineland, and have arrest cd Germans who removed the posters pro- claiming a Rhenish Republic.

The French, it is said, also threatened to stop the food supplies to the towns opposed to the foundation of a new Re public. They expelled the local Govera-

ment President

The German Government protests very sharply against this "gross violation of the Armistice conditions."

THE COAL INDUSTRY.

A BERIOUS POSITION.

Loypos, June 4th.

In the House of Commons, Bir Auck land Gedden stated that the coal position was serious. The estimated output (for twelve months from July next when the reduced hours are enforced) was under £17,000,000 tone annually, compared with 287,000,000 in 1913. The consumption of coal for inland purposes and bunkers in 1918 was 196,000,000 tons, compared with 210,000,000 in 1913, and the exports 34,000,000,"compared with 7,000,000 tona. In order to preserve, appro ximately, the same quantity of coal for

inland consumption and bunkers, from July 1,919 all present restrictions in con- Aumption must be fully maintained, and the exports must be reduced tó 23,000,000 tons annually. The estimated deficit on the coal industry for twelve months, from “July, waa ̈£46,300,000, menningarin crease in price of is. 60, per ton, or the deficiency falling on the tax-payer.

RACING AT HOME.

THE EPSOM MEET.

Lowpow, June 4th, Despite rain, there was an enormous attendance, which included Tacir "Majestica, at the Epson race riset.

Hapsburg Monarchy,

The Republic was, however, willing to acknowledge the principle that the change of Government did not relieve the State of its responsibility, and Austria"

Democrat, re-introduced a Bill, which fail-of

ed to pass last winter, providing for more severe penalties for acts of violence designed to overthrow the Government.

The Police at Pittsburg arrested Mr. Johnson, President of the Independent therefore, ready to assure the dreadful Workers of the World." Mr. Johnson bur

inheritance.

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM.

ESTHONIANS AND FINNS"

CAPTURE PETROGRAD.

WS,

STOCKHOLM, June 4th.

A telegram from Murmansk states that an Army, chiefy composed of Eathonians and Finns, has taken Petrograd.

No confirmation of this report has been received.

OBITUARY.

SIR B. REDWOOD.

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LexDos, June 4th. Si Boverton Redwood, Director of Technical Investigations, H. M. Petroleum Executive, is dead.

THE INDIAN SITUATION.

MARTIAL LAW IN THE PUNJAB

ABOLISHED...

SIMLA, June 9th.

The Viceroy, on the recommendation of the Lieut. Governor, and the approval

of

relief by the scarcity of troops. To men

tion only one example, the ârst British is engaged from October 20th to November 15th-in the midst of most violent attacks, and in spite of very beavy losses.

ricaded his house and heartlessly fired his revolver at the detectives before betion. was overpowered.

THE SILVER MARKET

SINGAPORE, June 8th. "Silver is quoted 3, "buyers and sellers. The market is quiet.

OUR SECRET SERVICE

THE SPECIAL BRANCH AND ITS WAR TRIUMPHE

Some day perhaps. Mr. Basil Thomson! will write the romance of the wonderful intelligence system of which he has just been appointed director, It would be a story teeming with sensational episodes,

of

thrills and triumphs, mystery and ad- venture (says the Express)

the Criminal, To-day Department,

Tene.

COWARDLY POLICE.

''

local police officer appeared on the sera

Whilst the attack was in progress a with a few unarmed police. He had But at this last date the battle was won.

been warned an hour before the train was The Allies bad inficted a resounding dus by the station master that there might check upon the enemy, they had saved the be traintes after its arrival, and has communications, and thereby 20 after he fixed the fate and the fature of the Coal appears to have made no effort to inter

If the close union" of the Allied Com- mand and the valour of the troops. per- fitted these glorious results to be achiev ed, they are due also to the fact that Field-Marshal Freach displayed the utmost integrity, the most complete con Adence, die rather than retreat.

the greatest energy-resolved to,

"In him Great Britain found a great soldier. The kept his troops up to the level of those of Wellington.

With the emotion of a deep and always living memory, I salute my brave com- panion-in-arms of the bitter days and the glorious British flags of the Battle of Ypres.

of

Save

WILL GERMANY SIGN

NEW GOVERNMENT POLICY.

[TROM LEONARD SPRAY.]

The position in the country is as bad. as in the towns Farmers cannot geb positions, such as under gardener and labourers for the land Hundreds of odds, are vacant in country houses, aud' no one can be found, to fill them.

Evidence of this was fortheuming at a

meeting of the Worcestershire War Agri- cultural Committee. It was reported that the labour officer of the committee went to Evesham, where there were a number of The Beirut stationmaster made his men and women drawing their unemploy- wap with great difficulty to the engins et allowance, and asked eighty four men and tried to get the driver to restart, to volunteer for work with a farmer, who but the brake. Had been interfered with, wanted forty men.. and the electric staff had been taken

Not one responded. The official away. However, after much altercation

Inbour exchange,

was also manager of the and he ibon rent and delay, the defect was remedied and through each case separately, with the the train was allowed to proceed. the result that be found that fifty-six had crowd which had travelled down from work to go to and had not taken it, and the previous stations having been re- the others were

disabled or could by inforced at Deirut. There is reason to

rovided for her committee said believe that twa British had been killed that if every labour officer would act in

chairman of by the time the train left Deirut, and

unemployment pay could be reduced by a similar manner, the amount given in one-half within a fortnight.

their bodies cast in the can along with that of Pope Bey, who, it is said, waz still alive when he was thrown into the van, and who was done to death by the men travelling in it.

the General Officer Commanding, has it frustrated seven Aaring Bolshevis their own, not only dealing with the their heads battered in.

blow to the plans with all the other questions raised by A little later the three remaining men

abolished martial law in the Punjab, from to-day, and in the Lahore Civil Can- tonment from June 11th, except in the railway lands, for military reasons,

PLENTY OF WORK.

The committee decided to press the Ministry of Labour to urge officers to seek to reduce the unemployment allow- ance and to cite what had been done in the Evesham district. It was stated that there were any amount of jobs for men on the land.

are 63,000 men unemployed in the build- ing trades; the shortage of ap palling, and yet not one shoes is an government bousing scheme has been started.

Fighting went on all the while the train was in motion, and at Deir Musas, incredible as it may seem, the remaining five British were still holding the mod at Ten years ago the Special Branch was little more than an obscure offshoot of

BOTTERDAM, April 24th.

bay. There another infuriated crowd awaited the passage of the train and, It may now be accepted, that the Ger

More than a million men and women Scotland-yard.

thanks to the man Government has abandoned any idea having been duly notified of what had energy and initiative of Mr. Basil Thom-

are unemployed and drawing nearly rejecting outright the Allies peace con already eccurred, proceeded to stunt £1,500,000 a week in pay for 20 work, son and his skilful lieutenants, it is one ditions, whatever their character. They British. Two descended and fought a Labour members of Parliament are of the most vital and formidable organ informed source, decided up a new assist the driver to get the train going work in some shape or form, instead of however, as I learn from a well-way to the engine, where they tried, to urging that the Government must find isations in the land

It has to deal with political firebrands policy, of which the main outlines are again. Their efforts were in vain, he merely pinying out the donation. There and at sod

mischievous agitators at home, and follows:-

ever, and the man tied for his life when After receipt of the Allies' terms they part of the crowd started to attack the conspirators and revolutionary emissaries will come forward with counter-proposals engine. The two were overpowered and abroad. In

In recent

for instance,

League of Nations, but also concerned of Litvinoff, Lenin, and Trotsky. Whole. the liquidation of the war. coups.and dealt & severe

If the Allies reaching the carriage and succeeded in sale arrests of Bolshevist agents were refuse to discuss these proposals and

engine. They were im- Britain is practically free from a menace own original terms, the German Govern- resisting desperately with whatever the Egypt to the British, which is illustrated made a

all over the country, and to-day mand acceptance or otherwise of their wediately attacked by the mob, and after

The hostility of the people of Upper which, not many months threatened ment will refer the whole question to the could lay their hands on they were like

ndustrial up-

National Assembly, and ask, in effect, wise overpowered, dragged to the platt only by this attack on the train, bat "Do you empower us to

also by the decision to kill all the English sign this treaty 1 form, battered with nuts and fursat Minia and by the search for "Ingleze" Nobody is better qualified to judge and In this event the probability is that the and jumped on until their bodies were at Beni Suef and the general attack at has

a loftier appreciation of the achieve National Assembly will also evade respon beyond recognition,

the Special Branch than Adibility of

Assiut, has been skilfully worked up by Malta, June 4th.

mira, Sir Reginald Hall, M.P.

Every conceivable brutality was enal- When mit a referend and proceed

The mitted on them. It is stated that one special agenta, who had excited the people war broke

out Vice-Admiral de Robeek will succeed with Mr. Basil Thomson, and the out-

sel result would, of course, be Admiral Hall took counsel

depen had his leg cut off, and some assailants of what bad occurred at Cairo, whence by all manner of inflammatory accounta dont Qu

the internal wid Vice Admiral Calthorpe as Commander-tion of the Special Branch to the Ad- said, that if no revolutionary change ground were spat on and had filth thrown when the their frenzy drank his blood. Another votes were taken; come of their deliberations was the affi-

this much can be but

was hung up, whilst those lying on the the inspiration undoubtedly came.

The manner in which progressively tho Department.

comes about, and if the feeling of the miralty Ince It is understood that Vice-Admiral the task of rounding up all the enemy

Broach was entrusted people remains as at this moment, the on them. And all the while the crowd crowds at various points went from crime Calthorpe remains, High Commissioner liens knd undesirables in the country,

in watched, screaming its delight. The Paratively pacific demonstrations to bes Sign!" This work was carried out with the maxi at. Constantinople and will eventually

last few days the Government thrown into the van with the rest, and of savagery, leaves no doubt whatever become the first British Ambassador under of ciency and thoroughness, and have been relieved to a great extent of thus ended this terrible unequal battle at the whole thing was organized by

8 week every detention camp their fears in one direction, namely, that in the train.

agents who went up and down the line in England was crowded with Germans of opposition to signing the treaty from After an hour's delay, the crowd having 5ging on the people to greater exconses.

While it lasted the struggle on the train Socialists satisfied themselves that no more espionage plots have played into their,

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TAE BRITISH NAVY.

IMPORTANT CHANGES PENDING.

JJ

in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet.

the new régime there.

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THE SUEZ CANAL STRIKE.

EARLY SETTLEMENT LIKELY, LONDON, June 4th.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth stated that the British Directors of the Suez Canal Company re

chise a tremendous

to

beaval

mum

the

to the

to sub

majority will

of a A large, if not overwhelming bodies were then plundered, stripped, and tile acts, culminating in this exhibition

In the

estrians. But a gráve evil had to the aft for the Independeby their Ingleze" were in the train, allowed it against overwhelming odde must have

many

secret

in a

from

which

spring

and

were, aloot. agents, began to creep rice delaying stocking the a

England

peace by not:

sufficient showing a ienting stations the platforms were crowded victims, who are computed to have resist- variety of disguises They came from concessionary attitude towards the with an excited mob eager to view the ed for over two hours. One can picieri

lands, from Middle Europo,

now bodies, on which further indignities were in imagination, the desceration with which the Scandinavian countries, from the threatens the

Governm

if they sign the perpetrated. Ak. Mellawi one of the this gallant band defended themselves East, and from far of South America.

The Special Branch, co-operating with the Right.

treaty comes not from the Left, but from bodies was dragged on to the platform without arm of any description aguinat

It i the Admiralty, and the War Office, drew love of

is significant that on the departure of the German pieni and left behind (it was subsequently the furions onslaught of the mob, mad cordon round the Kaiser's potentiaries for Versailles reactionaries buried there). This is why only seven dened by lust of blood, and armed with

murderous weapons, the p have again been ported, on May 19th, that the questions spies, and one by one they were accounter having been comparatively silent

raising their shrill voices, bodies were found on arrival at Minin ed for. From the

the moment a Germair

EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS ABET RIOTERN. rained by the strikers had been discussed agent set foot on English soil his every for some time past. Thousands of pester proceedings was the behiriens of the their despair when they found that they

The most disgraceful part of the whole police arrive at Deirut, and Deir awes movement was watched day and night and leaflets have suddenly appeared, telegraphically with Paris, with every

Lurging if any, ever returned the second time people not to assent to what they polics at the different stations, whoone to the engine with the the desperate ruth prospect of a settlement. The strike was

It is on

A Fence

of Humiliation, Bad it spite of warnings, took no precautions the faint hope of being not a single German spy of any import is quite evident that this is only the be to afford protection, and of other pas able to get the train moving and thus not based on labour conditions but was ance succeeded in leaving England, and ginning of a campaign for the renaissance sengers in the train, who included some

of national what is still more gratifying no nave)

and inspiration Egyptian Army Officers and shent to of a political character.

The intervention of the British authori-ever transmitted to the German Govern With the German people in its presenting to Cairo from the Budan, who, far time-expired Egyptian soldiers, return mood there does not seems to be much

or military information of any value we do Conse

WHE

up in their breasts know the

cane the fury of the mob, finally the awful struggle under the blows of fre death under the feet of the mob ter- adabue, and the final trampling to The Kinghorse Viceroy won the tien was limited to maintaining order British brains triumphed over Berlin chance of success for such propaganda from intervening, actually encouraged rible and tragic conclusion: to a happy holiday trip, for they were all, except Stewards Handicap, evcking the and assuring the vital services of the bin, and the Special Branch completely but i have authority for stating that the the leasing leaning out of the carriages Pope Bev, returning from leave in Upat

exploded the so-called German Seared movement is giving anxiety to the Gov and cheering-

Egypt; hence the reason for their being ernment--Daily Telegraph.

(Continued at foot of next column.) · unarmed.

greatest enthusiasm."

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