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THE HONAKOSO, DAILY-

WILL AMERICA RATIFY THE

TREATY ?

ALLIED REPLY TO GERMANY WILL- BE" FINAL.

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PREMIER'S RECEPTION OF SOUTH AFRICAN- NATIONALIST DEPUTATION.

SERIOUS DISTURBANCES AT MALTA

EARLIER, CABLES. [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY."]

¬GERMAN. PEACE TERMS. ALLIED REPLY WILL BE FINAL

PARIS. June 17th..

It is now taken for granted that the Allied reply to the Germans will be final, And no further discussion, will be allow

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A maximum period of a week, will be to the German delegates to go to granted Berlin, consult their Government, and foform the Peace Conférence of their

THE EX-GERMAN COLONIES.

PARIS, June 11th. The Allies reply to the German counter. proposals will refuse Germany's request for a mandate over the ex-German Colonies,

CHANGES WILL PROBABLY BE

FEW.

PARIS, June 10th. It is improbable that the Allies will reply to the German counter-proposals

before the second week.

The reply will consist of a composite. memorandum dealing with the German objections xerintim, and giving reasons for maintaining the Allies own view point. The changes in the Treaty will probably Le few.

AUSTRIA'S ̧ ''DEATH

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM. GENERALDENEK IN'S

ADMINISTRATION.

London, Juna lith← Beuter has interviewed a British naval officer from the Black Sen, who, was in very close touch with General Dealkin's administration. He described the huge quantities of munitions, guns, tanks, and netopianus, valued at £17,000,000, accum ulated at Ekaterinodar. pea

Handreds of British officers are there mostly specialists. They state that General Dentin's troops are showing very great aptitude in aviation and the

WADNESDAY, JUNE 18TH. 1918.

"NEW ZEALAND.

ÉRESTING FINANCIAL

REVIEW

WELLINGTON, June 11th The war has added £31,000,000 to the pasional debt of New Zealand, which is roughly £10 per head of the popula tion

The national wealth is equal to £400 per head, and the Bank deposits to per kend.

The Savings Banksydeposits have in creased from £19,000,000 in 1814 to £31,000,000 in 1918.

The Acting Minister of Finance

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

(NT COURSY OF THE “RONGKONG CHINESE COMMERCIAL NEWS"}

SUPER-POISON IGAS

METHYL

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New Fans day 20th. It had the fragrance of geramum bloe

THE SITUATION IN PEKING.

soms. It was an oily amber quid, highly explosive, and bursting intoylame with SHANGHAI, June 17th,

Water. It was thematican super The Powers have accepted the new Chi-poison gas, deadly by conter or by in nese Customs tariff, but the Chinese halation of the smallest detectable por Government must give one month's notice intolerable agony and death atter a lew tion. A drop on the handwould cause before the system is put into effect. hours. It was called ethyl (partly be Chinaause that name did not describe it) and

Luk Taing-cheong reparts that has joined the League of Nationa

Owing to Tuan Ki-sai and his part insisting on their retention in the new Parliament, which prevents him from

it was the climax of this country's achievement in the lethal arts.

onemy any drst-hand acquaintance with The signing of the Armistice apared the the terrors of methyl. Major-General W

SENTENCE 4, a working of tanks. Beteral ships laden optimistic regarding cial future, I carrying out his pence polley, Chu Sai- tons of it, in shells and drums, be in readi

HERR RENNER'S FIRST NOTE

Panis unes11th, Herr Renner sent his Brit Note to Ma Clemenceal yesterday, vigorously protest ing aganist the dismemberment of "Aus- tria, especially the separation of Bohèmia and the Tyrol.git declared that. Austria, deprived of her, industries, would not he able to live.

WHAT GERMAN-AUSTRIA WOULD-

LOSE.

LONDON, June 11th.. Herr Renner's

Note stated that German-Austria would be deprived of he richest districts, Tand: 4,000,000 cout, pid 10:000,000. GarpianAustrians would be subjected to hostile foreign" domination: What would remain of German-Austria could not live. They would have to im port 75 per cent. of their foodstuff..

Furthermore, the neccessary imports could not be covered by exports because all the export industries, were being taken from German-Austriæ..

The country's transport system would be financially and technically ruined. The country was at present living on a very reduced capital, and the Treaty would destroy the State, and would create breeding ground for Socialist and poli- tical disease.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. U.B.A. SENATE ASKS COVENANT INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH

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BE SEPARATED FROM TREATY.

WASHINGTON, June 11th- In the Senate, the Republican lender, Mr. Knex, introduced a resclation which declares that it is impossible for the Senatu to concur, in the provisions of the League of Nations is dritted

It asks that the Covenant be separated from the Peace Treaty, before the latter is submitted for ratification to the lent and proposes that the Peace Terty permit any nation to reserve the question of League of Nations for further considera

tion.

AFRICA.

ME LLOYD GEORGE'S REPLY.

LONDON, June 11th Replying to the South African Nationalist deputation, beaded by General Hertzog, which visited him in Paris on line 5th, in order to advocate the grant of independence to the former Dutch Republics. Lloyd George declared that the South Africa Union rested on a fundamental agr ment between the.. British and Datel elements, and could not be dissolved by 'the action of the one without the consent

The resolution has been referred to the of the other Britain could not agree to Foreign Relations Committee.

any action which meant the dikjuption of the Union

It is understood that the resolution is intended as the official notice to the

Fence Conference that the Senate will oppose the ratification of the Peace Treaty.

PRESS COMMENT,

NEW YORK, June 11th. The newspapers comment lengthily ́on Senator Knox's resolution to separate

the League of Nations' Covenant from the Peace Treaty.

The World and the New York Times condemn the resolution and point out that the Peace Conference will be far more impressed with the action of the American Federation of Labour in endorsing the Treaty and the Covenant as a triumph for freedom, justice, and democracy.

They say that the difference between Senator Knox's and the Labour resolution is the difference between political sabo tage and patriotie -Americanism.”

The Sun and the Herald, which are opponents of the League; support the resolution.

QUESTION OF GERMANY'B ADMISSION,

PARIS, June 10th.. M. Clemenceau is of the opinion that Germany must not be regarded as per

manently ineligible for membership-in the League of Nations, but it is for the Allies, not for Germany, to decide the time at which she is to be considered it for admission to the benefits and respon aibilities of the League

THE FRENCH VIEW-POINT. -!!!

PARIS, June 11th In regardtothe question of the admission of Germany to the League of Nation, the French view-point is that bet, admission We would at prment bo very inopportans, and that Germany must be admitted only after a period during which the simerity of the pacific dispositions of the German people, can be ascertained.

with munitions arrive (weekly. :.

Very great importance is attached Flocally to the efforts to effect a junction of General Denikin's and General Kola chak's troops, which, it is generally be lieved, will be accomplished. GENERAL DENIKIN'S ENCOURAG ING PROGRESS.

LONDON, June 11th, The War Othce states that Genera!" Denikin's troops bave been making cu

couraging progress....

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The cavalry on the Manitch front have been placed under the command of General Wrangel, who crossed the Manitch River on a wide front and is pressing forward,

their res

provided that the people a ponsibility towards solving industrial problems. He regards industrial unrest as merely an outward sign of a great world-wide struggle for improvement.

AMERICAN LABOUR

THE TELEGRAPHISTS' STRIKE.

NEW YORK, June 11th. Officials of the Telegraphists' Union Announce that a nation-wide strike of telegraphists, including cable operators, has been called for to-day.

The object is said to be to forcibly attract the attention of President Wilson by interrupting his daily cable service

T

SERBO-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE.

SUCCESS OF CAMPAIGN AGAINST

AUSTRIA, te podkla

The Volunteer Army, up to May 29th captured 15,000 prisoners and 60 guns, and reduced two Bolshevist cavalry and three infantry divisions to skeletons.

Consequently, it is estimated that the Bolshevist Tenth Army has been reduced to 10,000 men.

Inter

news has been received that the Yolunteer Army and the Don Cossacks have advanced con aiderably all along the front. Jutovo. Berba occupied lagen and Tsaritzin, also Popova, Slavyanak triams signed an Armia Bakmut and Berdiansk, have been capa Serbian tone Compra Klagenfurt,

tured. UKRAINIANS WANT ALLIED HELP.

LONDON, June 11th.

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A Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission bas arrived in London and another is going

to Washington.

BELGRADE, June 11th. France has recognised the Serbo-Croat- Slovene Kingdom.

after the the Aus ablishing

A comminaque; states

and a neutral 2008 nori coi Klagenfart.

FRENCH LABOUR, UNREST.

MORE STRIKES THREATENED.

PARIS, June 11th.

A considerable number of workers of the metal industry and on the tubes have

The Mission submitted its case to the Government and is satisfied at the, wmpethetic reception accorded it by themed work. All measures necessary to

Foreign

cope with a railway strike have been taken.

nice.

The Mision informed Beuter that its Kreasith 2 to co-ordinate the military action of the Allies and the Ukraina against Eclihévism. For this purpose, the Crahians want the formal recogni. ton of the Ukrainian Bepublic, and declare that General Kolechak recently. Ešked General Pemlura to- co-operate against the Bolsheviks.

TURKEY.

A general strike of coal miners i threatened.

ESTHONIAS WAR,"

INDIGNATION AT GERMAN TREACHERY.

COPENHAGEN, June 11th. The Esthonians, after sanguinary fighting, levacuated Wanden, which the Germans occupied.

FIGHTING IN NORTHERN INDIA.

emphasised that, besides enjoying HER DISPOSITION TOWARDS THE Valy great indignation is felt through complete domestic Indipendente, the

ALLIES.

out Esthonia at the Germans' treacherous Union of South Africa occupied a very

attack Lennox, June 11th. prominent place Jn v

world politics. It A British naval officer, who has just. was futile to believe that South Africa returned from the Black Sen, com- could, ever return to that isolation which mented

the good relations possible a century ago, and in the between the Turks and the Allies was future League of Nations South Africa at Constantinople, where, the Committee would have the same membership and of Union and Progress is not much in: status and far more influence than any evidence. Restaurants exhibited the in- other State outside the ranks of the Crestscription: "Welcome to pur Allice.".

Powers

DISTURBANCES AT MALTA SEVERAL FATALITIES.

on

GERMANY'S SURRENDER

SPEECH BY SIR DOUGLAS HAIG.

LONDON, June 11th, 1

LONDON, June 11th. Telegrams from Malta report some disSpeaking at the Mercers' Hall, where turbances, apparently owing to unem. the Freedom of the Mercers' Company was ployment, the agitation for autonomy, conferred on Admiral Beatty and him, and the report that the University is Bir. Douglas Haig emphasized the cam- plateness of Germany's military surrend- to be abolished.

The military were called out and there. were some fatalities, but it is believed that order has now been restored,

SITUATION; IMPROVING,

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THE AMIR'S REPLY RECEIVED.

SIMLA, June 15th. The Hazara, Peshawar, Bannu, Kohat, and Derawat areen are quiet.

The station at Zhob is satisfactory except forta iuinor disturbance between sections of the Khetran tribe.

chong has not entirely given up his idea of resigning. So far he has revived 21 telegrams from different Provinces asking him to remain. When all the telegraphic replies have been received he will make

a declaration of his intentions.

Sibert, in command of the Chemical Warfare Service, had directed that 3,000

ness on the battleBeld on March 1st, 1919. Ten tons a day were being produced in an eleven acre plant near Cleveland. Ohio, and the plant was two months ahead of its schedule. It is estimated that ten enough to depopulate Manhattan Island; tons of methyl is one ton more than.

and so it is not difficult to guess what- would have happened had Hindenburg and his cohorts persisted until Spring. workmen began dismantling the big Two days after the armistice was signed plant. They scrapped the complicated and expensive apparatas every piece of which had been specially planned and manufactured for the production of the most terrible instrument of manslaughter eter conceived. On February1st the work of demolition complete. There remained no trace of that scattering... had been a cradle of death. But the for- array of barracks and laboratories which

aulas processes, and perine, were Washington against the contingency of painstakingly set down for the records at

A certain Party has made the following conditions for Chow Shu-moo forming a Cabinet: first, the portfolios of the Interior, Finance, and Communications, and the Vice-Minister ship of Agriculture shall be given to them second

second, the chief Directorship of the China Bank shall also be given to one of their members third their retention in the new Parliament Chu Sai-chong refuses to accept these conditions: therefore it is uncertain whe ther Chow Shu-moo can form a Cabinet another war.

The editor of the Fik Sui Po is being tried at the District Court. He is being charged with disturbing the public peace.tuna?

The Tientsin students have resumed their studies....

The Japanese Minister visited the Wai. chiapu and lodged 1 strong protest against the boycott...

BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA, MALL”),

RELIEF OF SUFFERERS IN JAVA.

SINGAPORE June 17th. The Legislative Council, yesterday; donated $10,000 for the relief of sufferers owing to the Java eruption.

THE MAHENO,"

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The Attorney-General stated, in reply to a question in Council, that the Secre- tary of State had telegraphed announcing that the hospital-ship Vahere was not available, but he anticipated that the one of the Kleint would be allocated to Malaya...

X-RAYS FOR STEEL BARS DEFECTIVE CASTINGS DETECTED

There did remain, however, tons and tons of methyl. What was to be done with it, now that there was no longer any active occasion for exterminating, Ger

Cleveland did not want the deadly stuff dumped into Lake Eriend there seemed no practicable methot neutralizing its deadliness chemically, Almost enough was on hand to destroy: the entire people of the United States, and some safe way must be found to dis

poke of it.

The ocean was selgeted as its entch- basin. Difficulties were mid in trans porting the stuff from Cleveland to the | Secan, Handling such quantities was perilous. So it was put into big iron containers, for it does not react on iron and those containers were loaded into

freight cars Then there was assembled the most extraordinary train probably that ever traversed American railroad. tracks. It moved under an armed guard, and on a specialy schedule. No Tallinas emping? rode on it except the engine driver. The train moved algwir, so that two days were consumed in the journey from Cleveland to the Edgwood. Arsenal near Baltimore. And then the iron con- tainers ware stowed gently in a ship And taken fifty miles to sea, where they were lowered over the threa.. miles deep. the side into water thres

Rust will eat pinholes into those con tainers and there will be & minute and gradual intermixture of water with their fatal contents. In such circumstances. there is no flame, but a' slow chemical reaction which produces two nontoxic compounds. Experts do not believe even. that fish will perish, from the presence on the ocean bed of this vast quantity of ruys, which have hitherto been used poison. When the salt water of the At only to disclose defects and injuries lantic embraced the last of those irón hidden from sight within the human tanks, finis was written to a chapter fa frame, are now to be used to be examine | American war effort which, until now, hak inanimate materials like steel and tim bien a secret scrupulously guarded, ber. The whole subject was discussed at

Compare this secret new compound with joint meeting of the Faraday and mustard," which the chemists dubbed Royal Society at Burlington House; the used by the Germans, with terrific effect, Röntgen Societies in the rooms of the "king of poison gases." Mustard was Brat

chair being occupied by Sir Hobert Had at Ypres, on July 20th, 1817. Thereafter its field, who some time ago initiated ex-use became general, and afforded such periments in radio-metallography at the marked tactical advantage to the enemy Research Laboratory of his firm in She- that retaliation by the Allies became im field.

perative as a matter of self-preservation,

One obvious application of the X-raya American chemists devised a formula one is to the examination of metal castings fourth more toxic than that used by the for defects, such as blowholes, which Germans. The gas, known to chemists as cannot be revealed by external inspection, property of combatant nations The dichlorethyl sulphide, is now the common and yet may seriously impair the strength of the finished article. If the Processes by which it is made are generally. castings are not too large, each of them known. It is a sweetish liquid, both in may be subjected to routine testing by taste and smell, about as vointile as tur the raya, and it may be found that by peatine. In contact with the skin its some alteration in the method of casting. Presence is at first not noted. Then there blowholes, that occur regularly at some begins the burning and awelling which prompted its nickname among the Tom- particular point, can be eliminated. The rays may also be employed to study the uties. It spreads through the tissues; and on reaching the lungs breaks there down effect of adding different quantities of aluminium to steel, and thus to ascertain setting up what is called chemical

pacumonia, usually fatal, M the proportion most suitable for the pro- duction of sound castinga."

Methyl is somewhat mom volatile, and Quetta reports that the Afghan Camp

is comparable in that regard with beat. Rough analysis of different steel is also Instead of being inoffensive at first con was pitched at Murgba, 13 miles north feasible. Since different metals vary in tact, it sets up an acute and simest on- the resistance they offer to the penetra endurable pain. It does not spread north-east of Chamnan

tion of the rays, according to their atomic through the tissues, but poisons the blood Reuter's special correspondent at weight, it becomes possible to distinguish and attacks first the kidneys, then the different alloys. Thus, as suggested by heart and lungs. It harderia the cell

states that a senior Afghan official, es- deal of radio metallographic; inquiry has taneously strangulation and a heart af- been carried out if a number of carbon fection which speedily produces violent. carted by a couple of troopers, brought the steel and of tungsten steel bars had death. If taken into the lungs by inbais- Amir's reply yesterday to our lines af beer becidentally mixed up together, they tion in aby perceptible quantity it fills | might be quickly sorted out by means of almost instantly. It is estimated to be Dakka. The contents have not yet been X may be radiographs obtained with seventy two times deadlier than "mas the former are blacker than with the fard announced:

dott med

Peshawar, telegraphing on June 15th,

He said that to have pressed forward after the great culminating defeat of the Gerinans on the Sambre on November 4th, BRITISH SUBMARINE LOST, 1918, would have meant further loss of

seen many mist IN THE BALTIO. lifer destruction of property and expens diture of money, while it could not bare

LONDON, June 11th.

LoY5ON; June 11th, Reuter learns that the latest reports from Malta indicate that the situation is improving

rendered Germany more helpless," mili- The Admiralty states that a British Marines have been landed to deal with tarily, than she was to day, with her army-marine operating in the Baltic has been overdue since Inne 4th, and is pre sumed to have been lost with all bands

THE SILVER MARKET.

the looters

dissolved, her guns,

transport, and The trouble is chiefly due to dearness aeroplanes surrendered, and the crossings of food, and unemployment.

of the Rhine held by the Allier.

Some of the students participating arc aggrieved

red over the question affecting University degrees. It is believed that a were killed and 8 injured in the rigta.

The surrender of the German Fleet was not inbre abject, completo, or irrevocable then the furrender of the German Army,

M. Schneider, at whose works good tisses of the lungs, and causes simul-

latten berruse the raya penetrate the The processes of manufacturing the gaten steel less freely than the carbon donant differ radically. It is not "even libsigrastiil hat basia Fof-the, constituent tungsten.

for the raw matemat cires but a The method has its limitations, been hort time. The equipment elaborate. at present the rays can be made to pere- No fear is felt that experiment will be trate only a few inches, about four at able to make such a gas. That is United the most of ordinary steel and a still States came to know of such a bron smaller thickness of special alloy steela was due. in the first place, to an accident, But great improvements have been made Years ago a student of chemistry, when in recent years by the aid of the Colidge living in another country, happened upor X-rays, tube and of exciting currents at combination which almost-cost him his very high electrical pressures. Further life. It was a compound never made b advances may be looked for not only in fore, or at least never recorded. Saba this portion of the apparatus, but alsoquently he came to this country, and wb n in the methods employed for detecting the question of poison gases came to the the rays after there paisage through the fore he recalled his narrow encadeau Silver is quoted at 543, buyers and material under investigation, whether by imparted the information to the Govern sellers. The

photographic plate, the fluorescent ment. The production of methyl re- arket is quiet.

screen, or the phenomena of

sulted

eteel:"aving) to the higher atomic weighs De Mersin mufacture

LONDON, June 11th