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ALLIES

THE HONGKONG DAILY' PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE. Ara, · 1919.

REPLY DELIVERED

TO GERMANY.

GERMANY CEASES HOSTILITIES AGAINST ESTHONIANS.

TURKEY AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE. **FORCED TO JOIN GERMANY."

AMERICAN TROOPS DEFEAT

MEXICAN REBELS.

BIG FIRE IN LIVERPOOL.

LATEST CABLE. THROTON 83CTER'S AGENCY.]

GERMAN PEACE TERMS.

IF GERMANY REFUSES TO SIGN

PARIS, June 18th.

A Haas usage says: The Allied Armies are ready to march further into Germans.

GERMANY. SPARTACIST COUP DETAT PEARED

BALS, June füth Gerionale states that there are signs of the Spartacists shortly attempting a fresh roup itat. They are particularly It is

An advance on I active in the industrial regions. Berlin is declared to be an easy under taking, the Clerman army being incapable of any great resistance, as they have been deprived of aeroplates and war material. The Supreme Blockade Council met on

reported that the Government, is taking counter-measures.

SOVIET CONSTITUTION REJECTED.

BERLIN, June 16th.

SCOURGE OF BOLSHEVISM. ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK'S OFFEN- SIVE.

LONDON, June 13th An official telegram from Omsk states that Admiral Koltchak's offensive in the direction of Viatka continues.

The troops north of the Perm Railway wiped out several Red battalions.

AMERICAN TROOPS IN

MEXICO.

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A CAMPAIGN AGAINST VILLA'S REBEL TROUPS.

BOXING.

THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION.

SHIP.

LONDON, June 17th.. EL PASO (TREAs), June 18th. At the Olympia, contesting the heavy- After several persons had been killed or weight championship of the world, in a injard by stray bullets at Juarez, in match of twenty rounds, Joe Beckett Mexico, where General Carranza's troops knocked out Frank Goddard in the second ace Bghting Meneral Vikin's rebels, 3,600 round,

ICE. SNOW. DIRT AND DESOLATION. ENGLISH WOMAN'S STORY OF MURMANSK.

BY RHODA POWER.).

Few English women

have had the opportunity of visiting the Marman » cust. and it would be difficult for the most Imaginative person to picture the

The general situation, is greatly modi-American troops crossed the frontier with THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR desolation of this corner of the world.

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By June 9th victory was achieved over twelve Red regiments in the direction of Sarapul and 300 were taken prisoner.

The ral "Cossacks also defeated the Rek. taking 1,000 prisoners.

LONDON, June 17th. KRONSTADT FORTRESS AFIRE. The Daily Mail's Helsingfors corres- pendent states. that the fortress of Kronstadt is on fre, severn! forts abow- ing a white fame.

BOLSHEVIST WARSHIPS

SURRENDER.

Seven Bolshevist warships hoisted with' white flags surrendered to the British squadron.

FINLAND.

NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT A FAILURE.

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Lopes, June 16th, The new Republican form of Govern- The Socialist Congress at Weimar rement provisionally adopted in Finland June Fath for final, consideration of thejected the proposal of a Soviet Constitu- did not materialise, because it did not measures that might be rendered necessary tier and favoured the systems of Councils receive the necessary five sixths' majority by a certain eventuality.

and an Imperial Constitution:

There will be an absolute cessation of.

It passed & resolution against the pay.

the food supply conjuintly with the adment of pensions to the royal families. vance of the troops.

PUNISHING THE GUILTY.

-PARIS, June 18th,

list of

The Allies have promised the Germans to deliver, within one rath, a persons they intend to try for erimes com- mitted during the war. DELEGATES LEAVE NOISY-LE-ROI

PARIS, June 16th,

HUSTILITIES AGAINST ESTHONIANS DISCONTINUED."

COPENHAGEN, June 16th.

The Eatbonian Press Burcau states: A message from Weimar says that Ger mang has ordered the cessation of hostili ties against the Esthenians.

AUSTRIAN

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COUNTER T

PROPOSALS

The Gekan delegates, including Count Brockdorff von Rantzau have left Nony-A PAMPHLET OF THIRTY PAGES le-Roi. Nothing extraordinary took place. TIME LIMIT EXPIRED YESTERDAY.

PARIS, June 16th.

The Germans have been granted twa additional days to reply Yes" or No to the amended terms, namely, by 7 pm on June Zird.

GERMAN DELEGATION TO GO TO

WEIMAR..

von Rantzau re- Imediately "Count ceives the Allies reply the Delegation will proceed to Weimar. The journey will occupy 24 hours, and a translation will be made en route.

It will be telegraphed" to "Bestia, from War, and published in the news- papers immediately. The Cabinet déli berations on the Allies reply are likely to last two days. Thirefore, no answer will be laid before a plenary sitting of the National Assembly before June 20th. AN EXTENSION OF THE -TIME-LIMAT.

PARIS, June utb.

It is anticipated the Germans will ask for an extension of the five-day time- limit, on the ground that only one revised copy of the Treaty in English and French has been furnished.

PARIS, June 16th.

The Austin, counter-proposals were presented this afternoon. They run into

pamphlet of thirty pages,

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GERMAN-AUSTRIA. COMMUNIST COUP D'ETAT FAILS.

COPENHAGEN, June 16th.

A telegram from Vierina states that the Communists yesterday, attempted in coup d'état.

A huge crowd tried to storm the Frison and releases the political prisoners, but Bed in panic when the Government troops and Police attacked them.

There were many casualties.

THE CASUALTIES.

COPENHAGEN, June 17th. A message from Vienna states that 11 were killed and 70 injured in the distur bances mentioned yesterday,

THE TURKISH PEACE DELEGATION.

RECEIVED BY THE ALLIED MINISTERS.

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PARIS, June 17th. The Allied Ministers received the Tur- kish delegation, which submitted a. Note,

· ---- · -- FORGED INTO WAR.

LONDON, June 17th.

in amplification of the Turkish case,

Turkish the that the Note stated sovereign and people were not responsible

A VERY SIMPLE CEREMONY.

VERSAILLES, June 18th. The ceremony of presenting the Allies reply to the Germans took place at the Hotel Reservoirs at 6.50 this evening. It for Turkey entering the war, which was was a very simple one. The Secretary of begun by a German warship, commanded

in the Diet.

The question will be held over till after the elections. The old constitution at pre-

sent remains in force.

THE REFORM BILL.

HELSINGFORS, June 16th. The debate in the Diet on the Reform Bill is assuming & beated character. The remove Herr Republicans threaten to Hannerheim, the Regent, if the Bill is not again taken up.

POLAND

VICTORIES IN EAST CALȚUIA,

LONDON, June 18th. Reuter learns that the Polish troops in Eastern Galicia have captured several thousand prisoners and much booty near Zlotalipa, and have established contact with four Polish Divisions from Odessa PARIS LABOUR TROUBLES.

·TRANSPORT STRIKERS RESUME WORK.

PARIS, June 15th.

A Havas message sayı:— The strike of the Paris sub-way and surface car employee has finally ended The strikers will resume work on Monday. The announcement was made after M. Clemenceau's interview with the strikers' representatives.

PUBLIC SERVICES WORKING REGULARLY.

PARIS, June 16th.

The Paris transport workers have resumed. The public services are working regularly.

MINERS STRIKE.

PARIS, June 15th...... The National Miners' Federation has declared a miners' strike, operating throughout France,

The coal-miners of France have decided to strike on Monday, and have declined to'confer with the Minister for Labour.

A PROTEST FROM LILLE.

PARIS, June 15th.

A Havas message. says:

The Lille section of the Post, Telegraph

the Conference, M. Dutasta, handing over by German admiral. The Committee of and Telephone Association has issued a

four documents, requested acknowledg ment of the day and time of receipt, as the time-limit would be reckoned from the moment of delivery..

Herr Simons signed the receipt "about Then, on behalf of Count seven o'clock." von Rantzau, he protested against the shortness of the period,

As regards extension of the time-limit, it is pointed out that five days bad been originally bxed because the Germans themselves considered that time sufficient."

EN ROUTE TO GERMANY. The German delegates and their stafis were, subsequently, conveyed in 29 auto- mobiles to the station, leaving for Ger- many, at 8 in the evening. DELEGATES DIVIDED IN OPINION.

Union and Progress, with the Germans, was responsible for the continuation of vigorous protest against the attempt to the war.

use trade corporations for international political manœuvres.

The Turks did not break off the war through fear that the Russians might get Constantinople. Moreover, Turkey was now ruined, Asin Minor being reduced to desert. She protests against the ceding of Smyrna to Greece.

DELEGATION RECEIVED BY THE COUNCIL OF TEN.

Pants, June 17th

THE BELGIAN ARMY,

STRENGTH FOR 1919.

BRUSSELS, June 17th. The maximum atrength of the Belgian The Council of Ten received the Turarmy for 1819 has been fixed at 350,000 on kish delegation at the Quai d'Orsay. The

a war footing, and 109,000 on a peace delegation motored from Vaucresson, accompanied by French officers. The pur footing. pose of the meeting was to hear the state. ment of the Turkish situation. The Turks attended purely in the capacity of experts, Bamad Farid Pasha anid the Turks were not to be blamed for the war, as PARIS, June 16th. The German delegates leaving to-night Committees secretly agreed upon war in will be handed 200 revised copies of the support of the Kaiser against the wish Allies' reply. The delegates appear to be of the Turkish people Turkey was now entirely divided na regards whether Ger- anxious to remain intact, and fo continue many, ought to sign. French circles are the Ottoman Empire in Europe and Asia, of opinion that they will sign: if the Allies as before the war. There was an informal unanimously inaint The Americans are affair when the Turks withdrew from the confident the Germans will sign the Conference room, refreshments being pro Treats.

vided them in the ante-chamber.

THE AMERICAN NAVY. DIVISION INTO TWO FLEETS.

WASHINGTON, June 17th The Navy Department has ordered the division of the United States naval forces into two fleets of equal strength, called, respectively, the Atlantic and Pacific

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a view to rounding up the rebels.

REBELS DEFEATED.

El Paso, June 18th.

The Americans victoriously engaged General Villa's rebeleforres at Juarez. taking many prisoners.

American cavalry surrounded then AMERICAN TROOPS RETURN TO

THE U.S.

EL PASO, June 7th, As onsequence of the flight of Villa's troops, the American forces re entered the United States, after a short cavaly pur- suit.

THE VICTORY LOAN," STIRRING MESSAGE FROM THE. PREMLER.

LONDON, June 15th, The City gave a splendid send-off to the new Victory Loan" to-day, when Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Austen Chamberlain

addressed a large and enthusiastic meet- ing at the Guildball. the Lord Mayor presiding

"No

The Fremier, in a message from Paris, urged that victory must not be left to rust on the battlebeld. It must be enthroned in a new settlement of the world. country played a prouder part in the war then Britain. L'i, sist see that we do not fail, through lack of steadfast purpose, to complete the noblest structure in nur country's history.”

DEBLIN'S WARM WELCOME TO AIRMEN

Losos, June 15th Aleock and Brown"received a cheie wel come in Galway, and had to fight their way shrough the enthusiastic, crowds at the station. Huge crowds paid a tribute to the armen on their arrival in Dublin. | They were carried to inotors, and driven by American airmen to Trinity College. anth afterwards, to the Antomabilé Club, where they are the guests of the Chief Serretary

THE INTERNATIONAL

The land of the midnight sun" has a romantic title, but Murmansk and the but littla adjoining villages suggest

romance,

Last summer I was one of a number of refugees from South Russia who spent. seven weeks on the Murman coast at the time when our troops were landing

there.

This district between Kola and Mur- anak was wooded and billy. The snow was beginning to thaw, but the marshes were still frozen, so that travelling waS not as dangerons as it was further south. The train in which we were seated was composed of, fourth-class carriages--that

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to say. compartments with wooden benches, accommodating about thirty MER-people. They were unspeakably dirty and without sanitary arrangements t either end was stove, and we had to collect wood in order to make a fire be. fore starting.

CANTILE MARINE CO. THE PROPOSED SALE OF BRITISH TONNAGE.

JERSKY Cury, June 17th.

We had expected Murmansk to be a nice little town, not unlike Archangel, and were amazed at the appearance, "ib A meeting of stockholders of the Inter-presented. The curved bay was ice-freed. and here were lying warships--French, naticaal Mercantile Marihe disapproved British. American, and Russian-two or In spite of this. three was a suggestion three trawlers, and some smaller boats.

the proposed sale of the Company's Bri. tish tonnage to a British syndicate. The voting was 500,079 shares against. and 77,591 shares for the sale.

EARLIER CABLES.

HOMEWARD PASSAGES. CONGESTION IN INDIA.

MELBOURNE, June 18th. The P. & O. Co, have been instructed by their Bombay office not to book passen- gers for ports beyond India at present owing to the thousands of saldiers and others in India awaiting passages to Eng

and.

Mr. Chamberlain said only a small part of the new loan was required for paying the cost of the war, as it was hoped to balance this year's expenditure. He dealt with the criticism that the terms of the new loan were too generous, and said it. was well worth while to give rather better terms in order to secure a real good result to relieve us of the great incubus of THE CASE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. a floating debt. The United Kingdom now stood in a position of unrivalled credit and financial stability amongst all the Allies. (Cheers.)

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Mr. Ronar Law emphasised the need for money, now not so evident, but equally

great."

HOME.

RACING AT AN OBJECTION BY MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY.

Losos, June 16th..

THE ASCOT STAKES.

ORIENTALS AND LABOUR UNREST.

lifelessness about the place, and wo felt depressed as soon as we had arrived.

RAILWAY CHAOR

The railway lines were blocked with trains of avery description, and many of them appeared to be tenanted by officers: I afterwards learnt that most of the wagon-lits were used as hotels and offices because there was not enough accommo- dation in the town. The Russians, ap- peared to be in charge of the railway, but a British..officer was wandering up and down, orcasionally blowing a whistle or waving his hand without any appre- ciable result.

After living in the train for about three days, we were allowed to move into The latter was: composed the town.

of huts and low wooden buildings known as barracks These were built on a hill off the main street.. I say "the main street because it was the larger of the two which Murmansk boasted.

Each barrack accommodated about two hundred people. At the time refugees. were housed there, but probably they are

now occupied by soldiers, and I fervently hope that something has been done to ex- terminate the lice which swarmed up and down the walls. +

PROTITEERING.

The Royal Commission on dustri Relations, recently appointed. by the Dominion Government to investigate con-

A good deal of profiteering went on in the barracks. The Russian peasants, ditions of labour with a view to prist ing permanent improvement in the lawho could buy nothing at Murmansk, tions between employers and employes, would give large sums of money for old has concluded its investigations at Vic clothes. Kerensky paper 'money. was Sometimes as much an toria. This was the first session of the refused, and only the old pre-war notce Commission, the chairman of which is seventy roubles would be given for an Chief Justice Mathers, of Manitoba, and fold blouse, and untold sums for a pair of

shoes. it lasted two days.

According to the evidence heard, un

were taken.

The soldiers lived in a camp a little further down the hill. They appeared to An objection has been lodged against employment and the high cost of living be as comfortable as it was possible under the circumstances, and had good but uns By Jingo," the winner. of the Man-are the principal factors in the unrest in varied food.

The wooden houses were converted into chester Dop, by Mr. Horatio Bottomley, British Columbia, with the employment

of Orientals as a contributing factor. cinemas, and films were shown once og

The chief relaxation, how! the owner of Aynsley," on the ground Labour representatives stated that the ex- twice a week. that "De Pledge" is neither the real ner pulsion of Orientals would remove one ever. was football, and when the ground- The mill owners was free from snow the men used to or-. cause of grievance the assumed name of the owner.

stated that such a poliey would mean that ganise matches. Sometimes they had con. they must clow down entirely, as approxi-certs, and at rare intervals dances, and

to the gramophone. The following is the result of the Ascot mately 40 per cent of the employés in I remember a party of Americans jazzing

the lumber trade in British Columbia are Orientals, and their wages average con- It was strange to hear a gramophone on the shores of the White Sea. But, siderably less than white men's wages

Wha The Trades and Labour Councils of then, many things were strange. Victoria and Vancouver refused to reco- would have expected to find the Y.M.C.A.. gnize the Commission, but some of the ina cattle wagon. somewhere in the I discovered it quite by leaders are appearing in their individual Arctic Circle capacities. The burden of their evidence accident" when I was wandering ameng is of the most radical type, for.organized the trains.-Daily Express. labour on the Pacific coast is very largely controlled by the extreme element.

Stakes:--

Huki

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Silver Bridge Langddon Hills Fourteen ran Haki won by half a length. Two" lengths separated second and third.

Betting: 9 to 1,.Haki; 100 to 6, Silver Bridge; 19 to 1, Langddon Hills.

COUNTY CRICKET. SURREY DEFEAT SUSSEX.

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189 runs

LONDON, June 17th.

THE GERMAN RETREAT. WELCOME THEY RECEIVED WARMED THEIR HEARTS."

In a pamphlet. that bas just been pub--

MEMORY OF SEA OUTRAGES GERMAN DELEGATES SUPPORT

BELGIAN RESOLUTION,

A recent Amsterdamn telegram sbowa that" as the first sitting of the Inter-

Surrey beat Sussex by an innings and lished General von Freytag-Loringhoven national Transport Workers Conference,..

describes the technical difficulties of the M. Chapelle, Belgian delegate, asked why retreat of the German Armies across the the Central Council of the international Rhine, and says that the successful accom- plishment must rank with the finest feats

DIVORCE CASE

of the Army, when it was stiil accustomed to war and to victory.

organization had failed to protest against DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER

the murders by German aubmarines, and Mr. Beavin; British delegate; said that GRANTED A DECREE NISI.

He is bitter as to the conditions im- the object of the conference, to restore LONDON, June 17th. posed by the Allies, saying that many of international relations, would be impos The Duchess of Westminster has been them were so severe that they could have sible to attain unless the Germans were granted a decree nisi on the ground of been dictated only with the object of repentant. desertion and misconduct. The resprad-making it impossible for the armies to ent's answer was a simple denial. The

case was undefended..

I the British Government had com- complete their task as coherent units. mitted a crime such as the Lusitanin out- The men were broken in spirit, the horses rage, the British workers would bare used up, the transport almost useless, and overthrown the Government, he said, the authority of the officers sapped by the M. Chapelle moved a resolution that BIG FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.

soldiers' councils. The object of the the conference, considering that about DAMAGE, ESTIMATED AT £1,000,000 Allies would have been attained, and it 20,000 seamen of all nationalities had been would have been only a disorganized murdered by sabmarines, should appeal LONDON, June 17th.

rabble that crossed the Rhine, but for two to the German Government to award full A fire, the damage caused by which is psychological factors that the enemy had reparation to the families of the men an estimated at £1,000,000, broke out at the forgotten.

quickly as possible. Alexandra Dock, Liverpool. It originat- The men realized that they were going A German delegate, Herr Doring, ad- ed among hundreds of barrels of turpen-home, and, day after day, so they got mitted that the English Beamen's organi- tine which were stored by the quay-side. further from the scene of war, instead of zation had done much to mitigate the There was an extraordinary spectacle. the forced marches becoming shorter, the treatment of German prisoners, and said Bursting casks poured into the river, men were willing to cover more ground that the German-organization wanted to which was aflame for two miles. Two Secondly, after long experience of liv render a similar service in return, but huge sheds, crammed with timber, oils,ing amongst a hostile population,, they did not possess any influence over the cotton, etc., were speedily destroyed came again to their own friends, and the former Government. Ha declared that Ships in the vicinity were hastily removed welcome they received from the German the German delegates supported M from their moorings.

people warmed their bearta

Chapelle'a resolution.