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CABLES.

EARLIER TABLES. (THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)

PEACE!

DEMONSTRATING BRITAIN'S

PREPAREDNESS.

LONDON, June 10th.... Dirigible left. Barrow, in York- abire, inst evening, with, all her guns mounted, for a light of 48 hours over Heligoland and the Kiel Cana), *

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 26TH,

ITALIAN CABINET RESIGNS.

„KING RESERVES HIS DECISION.

Roue, June 19th.

In consequence of an adverse,vate in the Chamber, the Italian Cabinet has resigned. The King has reserved his decision.

رایی ویژه

DEMOBILISATION,

NEARLY THREE MILLIONS ALREADY RELEASED.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT BRITISH AVIATORS HONOURED.

LONDON, June 19th, i

Bapt. F. Alcock and Licht. W. Brown, the British aviators who successfully completed the trans-Atlantic Fight, will be entertained to lunch at Windsor Castle, on June 21st, by His Majesty's command. DEMONSTRATIONS BY

FRENCH SAILORS.

EXCITEMENT AT BREST.

RuzST, June 19th. The return of a French battleship from Sebastopol, where the

recently

FAR EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

KY COURTESY OF THE HONGKONG CHINESE COMMERCIAL NEWS.'']

1919.

OUR LONDON LETTER MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S TRANSITION

BUDGET:

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT:) BOYCOTT BECOMING AN ANTI-

LONDON, May 7th. - FOREIGN MOVEMENT.

HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DÉL SHANOKAI, June 4th. Perhaps the most incisive criticism of Luk Tsing-chrong telegraphs that the New Year's Honours List (publica the boycott gainst the Japanese appears tion of which has been postponed until gradually to be becoming an anti-foreign now) is a Balance sheet" published by movement,

which gives the Foreign | the Clube and reproduced in other papers. Powers a pretext and endangers China's it gives in columns like a ledger thi international position at the present revipients of moment.

LONDON, June 19th. The Way Office announces that between

these distinctions since The Daily Sketch understands that the the date of the armistice and noon on

over Berlin at four o'clock | June 16th, 105641 peers and 9,219,707 |

December 8th. 1918, ünder the respective 2.34 was

He therefore requests the Government handinvitings (including politi were demobilised or discharged as mutinied demanding their return fea Jesterday, afternoon.

toto instruct the local authorities to explain feians, party services, etc.). "Sailors. medically unit for service.

Franes, has been marked by demonstra- the matter to the people. tions by French sailors who paraded the streets faunung red flags.

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FOODSHIPS DETAINED. Many foodships from America to Geg many have been detained until pence Tax been signed.

GERMAN CABINET CRISIS.

BERLIN, June 19th

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Two hundred demonstrators,

later,.

broke down the gates of the barracks, which some mutineers had been incary rated by a Court Martial in connection with the Black Sea incidents The de-

Men are now streaming away at the rate of 40,000 Weekly, and, if peace is signed, this number will gradually in- crense, and it will then be possible to reduce almost immediately the Rhine Army from ten to mix divisions, and when there is evidence of the terms being carried out effectively, this army can bemonstrators attempted to reseus their Herrmann Muller Coalition, an Egrediced still further. berger, or a Nosks Cabinet.

A Cabinet crisis has occurred, and a resignation seems imminent

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The alternatives are said to be three:

BEFORE GERMANY'S DECISION

WAS MADE.

BERLIN, June 15th.

minth

in

On the presumption that. pence will be signed before the end of June; it is still hoped that all men who joined in 1914 and 1915 will be re- The Mittag Zeitpay declares that thepatriated for releuse by the end of July, Price Delegation is en route from except these serving in India. The re- Versailles. The delegates have drafted a lease of the latter cannot be dealt with memorandum containing their decision till the autumn.

So far that the Treaty cannot be signed.

as the 300,000 Derby men The Berliner Tagshlu?? states that Count now serving are concerned, it is hoped von Rantzau will resign his present post to release them according to the if the Cabines toes nos accept this view.

which they joined. A telegram from Weimar states that it the meantime, no. Derby mer is believed the Cabinet will refer the joined for continuous service during question of the signing to the different January, February, or March, 1916, will Parties who will decide their attitudete sent on a draft to the East, and, when beparately. If the Majority Socialists the choice within a unit ordered, to pro- decide on signing, the Treaty will be vide drafts for foreign service lies be signed, as they would, with the Centrists,tween men who Fave beer abroad and men who are wavering, and the Independents who have not, the latter will be invari who are, solidly for the sigantare, have

ably chosen. ajority in the Ambly. BRITAIN READY TO RE-ENFORCE. BLOCKADE,

"COPENHAGEN, June 19th. Twelve British cruiera and a number of destroyers have arrived here. believed they will be part of the blockad ing forces in the Baltic, in the event of the non-signature of the Treaty.

GERMANY.

THE SPARTACIST COUP AT WEIMAR

In

who

It is also contemplates to exempt from servier abroad all within. few

months of 37 years of age.

HUNGARY AT WAR.

It is A WARNING FROM THE ALLIES.

BEDAPOST, June 18th. The Allies have informed the Hungarian Government that no State will be com pensated for prolonged warfare by en-

comrades.

PREMIER'S POST GOING A-BEGGING.

chung appointed Premier, but Chi Sai There is a movement to get Nri Sa

chong strongly opposes the step.

Infantry reinforcements were brought "P to restore order. Gradarmes are patrolling the streets. BULGARIA

Complying AND PEACE.

PRO-GERMAN HEAD OF PEACE DELEGATION.

LONDON, June 19th Reuter learns from a

Jugo-Slay, sourpa that the pro-German ex-Premier p Bulgaria, M. Guechoff, has been appoint ted head of the Bulgarian Peace Delegh

tion.

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM."

TROUBLE IN ADMIRAL KOLTCHAK'S ARMY.

LONDON, June 19th. Telegrams from Omsk indicate that the

has been satisfactorily dealt with and recent trouble in Admirel Koltebak's army

that there is, consequently, no further serious set-back anticipated.

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RESUMPTION OF UKRAINIAN. OFFENSIVE.

LONDON, Jun-1 The Ukrainian offensive against the Bolshevists has re-opened. Important strategic points have been captured.

The enemy has been driven back towards the east.

The Ukrainian population is volun-

be trebled.

largement of its territory, and declaring tarily enlisting and supplying provisions. that the Peace Treaty frontiers will per-It is anticipated that the forces will soon manently separate, Hungary, Czečho. BERLIN, June 18th.Slovakia, and Rumania. Further details from Weimar discloso Therefore, the arusies of these countries hostilities and withdraw that, during the attempted cup, the must situation was very critical as, tempo-behind their respective frontiers rarily, the members of the Government HUNGARIANS

were unprotected, owing to the troope entraining for Erfurt to quell a local insurrection.

The military guard in the Castle, bow-

Cedar

COMPELLED

TO

HALF A MILLION HOUSES.- GOVERNMENT EXPECTS TO PAY Half a million new houses in the next three years is the Government's expecta tion, stated in the House of Common by Dr. Addison.

In Committee on the financial resolu tion authorising expenditure in connec On the instructions of the Allieding Bill, he said the policy was that local tion with the Housing and Town Plan-

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FIGHT.

BUDAPEST, June 18th.

A Hungarian communiqué states:---

and Soldier*.**

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follows:- Civilians.

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The result is set forth

MACHINERY OF THE EAR

A SPRING BALANCE, NOT A PIANO.

At a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine held in the rooms of the society, Professor Arthur Keith brought forward a new theory of hearing-a novel explana tim of the part takin by the ear in the act of bearing. The author of the new theory is Sir Thomas Wrightson, who has been long known as a leading engineer" in the north of England, and as member [of Parliament for Stockton-on-Tees and

for East St. Paneras,

The gerin of the new theory was first put forward by its author 43 years ago in a presidential address to the Cleveland

Institution of Engineers, but it was not anti 13 years ago, when he was retiring from political life at the age of 67, that Sir Thomas Wrightson had found leisure to pursue and develop the application of "It appears that in two and a half years self was merely responsible for the his idea. Professor Keith explained that

Sailors...

Soldiers..

A

Tien Mun-ift told a certain person that unity among the militarists, and Chow Tuan Ki-sui was the better man to effect

Shu-moo the better man to deal with all matters. Now, if both these men will noting Services. form a Cabinet, he could not dare to form

! There is one qualification," says the a Cabinet himself.

Marning Pust in à lender highly spiced with Kung Suurjarm's with sarcasm. which had not been desires, Chu Shut-sang stays in the thought of in any previous war-no one Cabinet Secretary's office daily to attend Jenni a candidate for honours who has tą matters. Only he and: Chang Pak. actually fought the Germans on the sen ying are in one room, No other person or in the front-line trenches. If we proger

Freed upon this course of evolution a little Chu Shut-sang urges Kung Sum-jarm further we shall reach the pacific ideal of to form & Cabinet promising to support China, where it is considered a disgrace him secretly.

is allowed to enter,

to the date of the compilation' there bad been created a new Peerages, or promtheory, and that, in his opinion, Sir anatrumien details relating to the new tions to the Peerngr; and 50 new Baronets. Out of these 196 hereditary honours, 125 Thomas Wrightson had succeeded in to piilians and only une (the giving the most rational and complete ex- Peerage to Adniiral Pellice) to the fight-planation of the intricate machinery of the ear that was at present before medical men. The theory which finds almost uni- versal acceptance at the present time is that put forward by the German scientist, Hermann von Helmholtz, in 1863, Helm- holtz conceived that the internal car was built on the principle of a piano furnish- ed with 15,000 strings of varying lengths -n piano so microscopic in size that it could be contained within

body no big chun pca. The

waves of sound which wh impinged on the ear set appro sympathetic vibration; the 15,000 strings priate miseroscopic piano strings into wara connected by a similar number of nerve fibres, with a corresponding hum- ber of receiving stations in the brain.

In Protosser Keith's opinion, the Ger This is a sample of the criticism met with, and no doubt it is purposely rather from an

man scientist's theory was impossible over-dons. Many of the games in the the theory of

point of view; it left the machine

of the ear unexplain- Honours List are those of civilians who Thomas Wrightson the various parts fell Sir have rendered distinguished service to the into place as parts of a effective State, during the war-though there a minute and delicate spring balance ever machine. The car is really the most who have never been heard of beinvented; it weighs every phase of the fore. The Blood of criticism must result later on in a much larger List in which exactly every factuation of pressure in SHANGHAI, June 25th.

simplest sound wave; it not only weighs. the Navy and the Army will receive the the most The On Fook Club has suddenly made recognition due to them. The present at as that

volumes of anund, such a concession to

from a large titude of the newspapers, accurately re Chow Shu-moo, saying Hecting public opinion, is that the fight

orchestra, that if he can guarantee to supply the ing men ought to cuine first. Nothing is

trùng

Party expensca ($8,000,000) they will give too good for them, hi full power to select men for the COMMERCIAL, ELVING. L'abinet.

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Kung Sumara bax called on the British Minister to press for the payment of the Customs surplus also to discuse the Shantung question.

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THE UN FOOK CLUB'S

“CONCESSION,***

The Cu Fook Club is holding scrat meetings to devise means to hasten the election of a Vice-President and to secure Tuan Ki-sui the" position.

Another report states that the On Fook Club is willing to form & Cabinet, but prefers to wait until the Paris Fence Treaty has been signed. In the meantime Kung Sum-jarm will continue 'acting,

It was expected that the agreement would be signed yesterday. The Govern- ment will therefore have funds to meet

to be a soldier.

Air

but

also

very

and

mits by a system of nerve signals to the brain every phase of a compound sound wave. The new theory also serves to ex- plain defects and disorders of hearing which have not hitherto been satisfactori- ly

for Sip

Wrightson was present at the meeting and took part in the discus-. sion which followed.

The offcial ban on the commercial use of aeroplanes, which was removed on Mayip was promptly signalised by a fight to Manchester by a Handley-Page machine identical with that which few to India last year. It is the type known as the O 400, with two Rolls-Royce engines Financially, Imperial Preference us of 350-h.p. much, Nothing in the nature now proposed amounts to little-a mere of a show performance was attempted matter of £2,500,000 loss to the revenue. Eleven passengers were carried, with six And what is that one way or the other ext of luggage, and the total load was compared with the figures is the Budget wood aerodrome the weather, was uns ordinary conception. The National Debt, six tons. At the start from the Crickle-generally? These Bgures are too vast for favourable, and the journey throughout which before the war was in round figures war perf rmed against a 30-mile end 2645,000,000. had, by March 31st lust, A SHORT TERM LOAN. * wind.

riven to £7,980,000,000. To this stupen. The incident is noteworthy because it dous tatal must be added £65,000.000 re-" Kung Sup-jarin has asked Chu Yun-inaugurates the new era in travel.

routes in Britain have been mapped out, repay at par War Bends issued at a presenting the obligation of the State to yuen to contract a short term loan of rules of the road" drawn up for air discount.. $5,000,000 gold with a certain Americannen, and approved landing places selest

The important point in this connection ed. The question is raised how and by firm in Ticatsin, with the wine and whorn are the regulations to be enforced? is that a large part of our total indebted- tobacco taxes in Peking and Tientsin as Must there be patrols of aerial policemen is in the shape of short-dated long security.

continuously circling round on paint that must be paid off as they mature. The duty to maintain law and order in Cloudfoating debt amounted on March 31st to land?

£1,419,000,000, or more than double the OVERSEAS AERIAL POST.

whole of the National Debt before the War. Moreover, there is the further debt In reference to aerial development, incurred by the Government to the nation hear that an aerial postal service may by the issue of paper money. On April become an accomplished fact sooner thanrd the paper earrency was £349,000,000 STILL WRANGLING.

many people rem to expect. The Bat against a gold backing of £25.000.000. denial of Mr. Illingworth, Postmaster-Having regard to our world-wide trade The quarrel between the Fengtien and he had entered into a contract for the standard as speedily as may be.

General, in the House of Commons, that we shall have to get back to the gol Kirip Tuchun is getting more serious.

carriage of certain continental mails by MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE. Wong Yap-tong has again fed to the usual official evasion whenever a pointed to command the light cruiser

air is regarded as in the nature of the Western Hills.

Captain Aubrey Lambert has been ap- information is considered inopportuns.

However, that may be, whether he likes Admiral G. H.. Borrett, C.B., China Guire, and to act as flag-captain to Rear- Chang Jok-lum is concentrating his it or not, the P.3.G. will have to bring Squadron Captain Lambert, who joined troops at Huni Tukh Sien.

the postal service up-to-date. In any the Navy as a cadet in 1803, is a specialist Can Shu-fan, 'in' chasing soldiers Page and Graham White Companies, for a time on the China station.

case, I am informed that the Hardleyin gunnery and torpedo work. Ho. was instruation would be issued indicating under" Kwa Ck-fan, entered" Samyuen working independently of each other, art ship, the firu, belongs to the "C" class that, in the view of the Local Government territory. Therefore Chan Shu-fan and enable mails to be carried between dif. and will carry the flag of the rear-ad- least equivalent, on a commercial basis, Wn Yo-yom came into con fict again, and ferent parts of the country at rates that burns oil fuel, and has a speed of £7:20 Board, by 1997 the rents should be at

miral. She was built during the war, and road. Letters from London to Edia present cost.

will compete with present charges by rail

knots. burgh could, it is stated, be conveyed for

Admiral Sir, Cecil F. Thursby, 2d. an ot, and for 1d. to Leeds and K.C.M.G., formerly Rag-captain of the Manchester.

King Alfred, China Squadron, has been service is a business proposition between China when the King Alfred, now Once it can be shown that a regular mail prometed to full flag rank. He was in one part of Britain and another, or he obsolete, carried the flags of Sir A. W..

ever, in the nick of time, closed the iron Powers we took measures to suspend our authorities abould borrow where they the administrative expenses this month.

doors and prevented the insurgents from war operations, Nevertheless, the Czechs

entering the Castle. Order was restorag/attacked on the whole front. We were year, 200,000 in the following, and 200,000

in two or three hours.

TURKEY.

compelled to commence vigorous defensive

measures.

Heary fighting is proceeding in the

MISSION RECEIVED BY COUNCIL | Sajo and Ricin valley, west of Eperjes.

OF TEN,

PARIS, June 8th."

A Havas message says: The Turkish Mission was received by

the Council of Ten--not as Peace envoys, but merely for the purpose of information and consultation

Damad Ferid Pacha made a short speech in French, stating that Turkey went to war as a result of secret agree ments between the Committee "of Union and Progress Had Germany; the war was not desired by the Ottoman people. He advocated the maintenance of the Turkish Empire, Constantinople remaining the .capítul.

PRESIDENT WILSON,"

ARRIVAL IN BRUSSELS.

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BRUSSELS, June 18th. President Wilson and the King and Queen of Belgian arrived hers to-day, and drove to the palace. They were given a great ovation by the crowds. "

"THE SILVER MARKET,

Bilver" it quoted at said buyers and fellens. The parket in quiet

could do so at the market rate of interest. It was estimated that they might erect 100,000 houses in the current financial in the next year-a total of half a million bouses. If these houses

uses cost. £500 or £800 each, the sum the Treasury might have to assist in raising would probably be 125 millions in respect of the money which the local authorities could not borrow for themselves,

It was quite clear that they could not, under, present circumstances, expect to get an economic rent commensurate with the

of the houses built. A

organising a commercial service that will

His

CRICKET AT HOME.

BIG WIN FOR LANCASHIRE.

LONDON, June 19th. Lancashire beat Derbyshire by an innings and 24 runs.

to at least two-thirds of the

It was estimated that they would have the Government had to telegraph them to to pay a contribution of bs. a week on explain matters. these half millies bousca, and the ulti- mate annual contribution was estimated at Chu Bai-chong intends sending Chang six and a half millions a year in aid of Yuan-ki to mediate, with a view to effect. the housing scheme, exclusive of the pro-ing an early settlement of the questions of duce of the penny rate. The lose falling on the exchequer this year would prob the Peace Treaty, the formation of the tween here and the Continent, we shall Moore and Sir Hedworth Moux, 1905-8. ably not exceed half a million. The resolution was agreed to.

AN AUSTRALIAN VICTORY.

LONDON, June 18th. The Australians beat Yorkshire by one wicket.

RACING AT HOME.

THE ASCOT GOLD CUP.

LONDON, June 19th. The race for the Awent Gold Cup re- sulted as follows

BY JINGO AIR RAID ROAMER

2 ........... 3

Four ran. Won by three-quarters. of a langth, six lengthe dividing second and third.

Cabinet, and the internal Peace Confer-

ence.

FARMER'S WAGES. EXPERIMENT. Chu Bai-chong held meetings in the An interesting caes of a farmer who, Palace on June 23rd and 24th, attended apropes of wages which should be given by 20 odd persons These matters were to agricultural Inbourers tried a practi

THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] KOREAN INDEPENDENCE

MOVEMENT.

cal experiment, was reported in the discussed, but, opinions being divided, no Liverpool Echo recently. First he gave decision was made. his wife 35, the minimum wage fixed by the Agricultural Wages Board, for at week's maintenance of the bousehold At the end of the week, however, his wife, o careful woman, said it was not enough, and he raised the allowance to £2, but at the end of the second week, this proved insufficient. The farmer thereupon in- creased the amount to 60s and at the end of the third week his wife said she could manage nicely. The household was not a large phe, the couple only having one The objection against "By Jingo 11 bas, been over-ruled and the deposit foring to the farmer, who immediately in child. The experiment proved convido creased all his men's wages, to boni

The betting was as follows:-By Jingo, 8 to 1; Air Raid, 5 to 6; Roamer, 20 to 1. MR. BOTTOMLEY'S OBJECTION

feited.

OVER-RULED....

LONDON, June 18th.

BEDAT OF SELF-DETERMINATION ASK FOR.

PAZIS, June 18th.

The Korean delegates have sent a letter to M. Clemenceau, re-urging the Koreans fate, and asking for the recognition of the request to be heard as regards their own right of self-determination for Korea.

not have to wait very long for an exten. In the Great War he took part in the sion of the service to India and the Far Gallipoli Expedition. East. It sets one's imagination aglow to think of Hongkong, Shanghai, and in a week's postal distance from London. other places in China being brought with IMPERIAL PREFERINGE.

It is announced that Commander Chen Shao-kwan has been appointed Naval Attaché to the Chinese Legation in.

London.

Recently Mr. Hoo Wei-teh, Chinesa The outstanding feature of Mr. Austin Misister in Paris, presided at a dinner Chamberlain's Budget is the introduction Bixby representatives of the Chinese of Imperial Preference. It is true that

Presif the Peace Conference to the Preference is adopted only in a limited rene and Foreign Prear, about 200 form, but the principle has been accepted tests being present. The Chinese Minis of fiscal reform. In the forthcoming dein the course of a speech complimentary and that is what pleases the advocates to attached to Washington and Brussels were also present. Mr. Hoo Wei-tch said,

bates on the Budget proposals the Fres Trade party in the House mean to put up of which the Allies had mads themselves to French journalista, that the principle a fight against any departure from pre the champions had always been held in war fiscal policy; bat, no matter what honour, in China. He added," The more they strive to accomplish in this respect,

their efforts will not affect or alter the China is known the more you will res that, fact that for good or ill in future tradespite of the difference that separates tial treatment. within the Empire will receive preferen. We have the same love of justice, respect for the will of the people, and desire to live in peace and constant amity with our neighbours."-H.B.

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