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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2SAD, 1919,

"LA MINERVA" CIGARS.

Sold by

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In Baxes of 25

$2.50 per box.

A Cigar of full flavour. and attractive shape, covered with the

finest Sumatra Beal,

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He Apprent

BOVRIL

and the War

"Those who have given up. Bovril in order that the fighting men should have it can now obtain their share.

During the War Bouril was so indis- Pemable to the soldiers, wounded, and the people in the United Kingdom that It had to be retained in the British Isles where it is made, or sent to the fighting fronts.

Fresh supplies of Bovril have now reached this country and no one need be any longer deprived of the wonderful body building powers of this unique food,

A little Sal Hepation in

water, takeri regularly, is a great help toward keeping fit In the Trop- ica.

Unlike many laxatives, SAL HEPATICA does not cause nausea or griping. Sal Hepatica is a mild but effective preparation of harm- less salts that acts gently on the liver and intestines.

It helps the body to get rid of waste and poisons, and is known and used all over the world as a standard specific for biliousness and bowel complaints.

At all dispensing chemists.

Sal Hepatica

HORLICK'S

MALTED MILK

Full-criam milk enriched with barley and wheat) The Ideal Food-Drink for all Ages.

Science affirms its inperiority. Experience, confrmas, Gives strength and maintains it. Generates beat and conserves it. Bulida Bano, Brain & Brawn. Refreshing and delicious. Easily digested and quickly absorbed.

Winds in an instanz by the wompis ádétion af þat er sold war. IMPORTANT NOTICE.

HORLICKS

ORDINARY MILK je mot alwayu Jüze ;

HORLICK'S йs guaranteed unliarmly se. ORDINARY MILK unsafe unless socked

HOPLICK's safe and needs na cooking.

ORDINARY MILK often disagrees :

HORLICK'S zovať časa.

ORDINARY MILK deteriorata qulukly

HORLICK'S keeps indeñafiely,

ORDINARY MILK la seidem ATABANLI WIEN VALINĖ).

HORLICK'S always så hand.

HORLICK'S may be used in Puddings, Bread, Cake, Custards, itc., in place of ordinary milk. Sold by Chemists and Storms.

HORLICKS HALTED_MILK.

LOUGH, BUCKS, ANG

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AUSTRIA AND THE PEACE CONFERENCE

A CANDID SPEECH

APPEAL TO THE ALLIES.

The following is the text of M. Clement cenu's speech when he communicated the Allied and Associated Pence terms to the Austrian delegation:---

POOR, HUMILIATED,

GERMANY."

BISHOP'S WORDE EXPLAINED.

ham,

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poor,

The Bishop of Winchester has sent the following letter to a correspondent in ex- platation of his meent speech at Farn

in which he referred to starved, humiliated fiermany Gentlemen, the Plenipotentiaries of the

**Thank you for your kind note. I am Austrian Republic, The Allied and Asse sorry if an impromptu parenthesis in an ciated Powers have entrusted me with the impromptu speech the other night bas taak of communicating to you the draft caused

needless

annoyance of treaty which will have to be signed be offence The more so, I am certain tween us We cannot give you the that the thing I meant to say nerded whole decument to-day at least you will saying. I shall not waste your time over. have the principal parts, which you will the particular words, they were, I think, have full liberty to examine. It has been clumsy Evidently they conveyed to decided that you will be asked to offer yourself and others a meaning subwinn your observations in writing, and we cially different from what I intended. I am

will

„KRSNUȚI AM MILy critics can be that tierny

any

shall iso answerftecs Lenght to be dealt with on severe prin

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be 81vchin dass

to present your write clples of justice, made to pay for her ten observations. If before that time you cruelties and devastations, to repair bave

any

document to communicate any observation to make we shall be glad far as possible what she has ruined and to receive them, and we shall examine aged, and to lift as much as the can them with due attention. The documents carry of the load of taxation of the which will be handed over to you now shoulders of the nations who have been include the following parts: Freat

Freamble, thrown by her on to their defence, and Longue of

of Nations. Frontiers of Aus have won freedom against her with their Life blood. I have në need to be reminded Cas H correspondent reminds me to Remeber Belgium : What English Austrian man is likely to forget it! In short, I

tria Political Clauses, Czecho Slovak State Political Clauses Relating to cer tain Europe States, Protection of Minorities, General

Interests Chitside Eevi and Air regard Germany, as the great interna- |

Clauses, Prisoners of War and Graves, tinnat criminal rejoice in her down- Penalties, Navigation, numi Clauses. Aerial fall, and in the shattering of her power,

Waterways, and Rail

ways, Labour. Miscellaneous Provisions.

But is this the last and only word I The text of the clauses mentioned here spectacle of a nation plunged from the bad before my mind's eye as I spoke the after will be handed over At a Inter period: The Political Causes, Etaly, ()epths of humiliation, ripped naked of [height of power and ́agubition - to, the Financial Clauses, (3) Reparation Clauses, (4) Military (lanses, (5) Clauses its armaments by land and sea, awaiting Relating

the Serbo-Croat-Slaveno the dictation of its conquerors. I thought State

of what it would mean to ourselves to Eel the pinch of real starvatipu, and to Lades for want of food, as on English and see our children « withering in multi- military evidence we know to have been

The Supreme Council after having ex anised the observations which you will Te good enough to end within, the peinted time limit, will send you a writ- ten answer giving another delay for final answer on your part.

HERR RENNER'S REPLY.

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Herr

Renner, speaking iu

French,

enemy

Dors such a spectacle move no instinct in us but that of justice Englishmen Jure jast, but Englishmen are also gener. ous, flexible, but compassionate. They are ready for good cause to knock a man For a long time, the people of German- down reluctant when he is down to kick Austria was waiting in distress for this him. And there comes to mind words of day to come which will relieve the tension a spirit higher even than English genero- enused by the uncertainty na to its futarexity and Pompassion If thin Fate. We were longing for the hour of hanger, feed hine: if he thirss, give him dovision, because it was to render peace drink. at last to our hard tried country, and to offer as an opportunity to proclaim Titre this illustrious tribunal-the world's highest authority-what our country is and what the conditions are

which posibilities for the "xistence of an in- We may hope to organise the dependent commonwealth. The Danube Monarchy, against which the Allied and Associated Powers have waged war, and With which they have concluded an stice, has censed to exist: the 12th of November. 191 runy considered the day of its death. From this day on there gat name of justier cover disloyalty to was no harsh any more, Her a big the simple, human, Christians instinet of Power

aver which he could hold his swaymen rosity and compassion, but I hear There

no more that fatal dualism, hardly a note of the latter kind in what neither an Austrian cora. Hungarian is daily put before our people." Government, no

and no other re

WIS

costised institution wested with public

fionalitire only remained eight nai

In anxions for my countrymen and countrywomen. but the contional insist ence on 'justice and punishment, and only on thèse, reinforced by a countinual re iteration of all that has provoked our just anger against the hernian antion, tray do us the infinite mischief of harden- hate with mere hate. I am sure that ing our own 'hearts, and making us meet unless we have in our hearts something more than this we shall he unthinkingly poisoning our own spirits and making the

A

organ the opportunity of drawing my conclu-

deprived of noy pted their sions from these contradictions later on.

isation, and over-night they

own Parliaments, their own Governments. their own, armies: in short, their own

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A FRANK MUCIUSSION.

independent States. In the same way as We are before you as one of the parts the other national States our new Re of the vanquished mud fallen Empire. our portion of the public too, his sprung into life. Con-Ready to

Patates

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l and hardest con in your hand. We hope and believe

well

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quently she can, no more than the other abilities grawn out of these our rela

the successor of the tions to the Allied Powers, we are From this very point aware of the fact that ou

our fate is resation aris the tradiction under which we are labouring the conscience of the world will not dens which is waiting to be cleared before this off determination which the As

nor curtail the innti-nable high assembly.

right On the one hand no ang could, frame by the very aim of the war wagerİ sociated Powers have always coclajured' that standpoint of international law, con. indict the Judiigis, statement recently gainst the fansburg and Hohentullern by the chairman of this Conference monarchies, a right which has been the according to which it would be contraryalised by our neighbours with ir rady. to all principles of international law, coding in the principles reengnised by and a right which out people. and tu renson, to maintain that a mudi- fication of that political form of women the Allied Powers, have adopted as the ment, or a change in its leading person

fundamental

their new constit ust that the world's common ags, would suffice to

release 1 nation From the obligations it had assumed.

54 •13 not have in view nor will j This leads to the conclusion that all

themi

our ronnie ruin. "The destruction territories of the former Monarchy

fof the economic unit of the monarchy, the their peoples could be made responsible separation of our quantinous mountry for the consequences of the war, which

from all its natural resource, has con- W:19 forced them all their former demned as this six months to priva Governments.

is weighing upon us. tions" which

seed hy for the

the sufferings like uppn all the other nationalities estab we endured in wartible. It was only due lished the territory vi

of the

former to the „Retirons relief action organised by Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, a portion Mr. Hoover, Jased on resolutions passed

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trust

the dreadful inheritaner left us by by the Allied Powers, that we have been

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the fallen Empire, the inheritance saved from downright starvation.

War, the inheritance of exhaustion, the

inheritance of tlu inost umber

But in all these times of distress our people has, in a turasgre called

and good judgment. Our new

coneric obligations. But admiration, displayed dicht end for new Republic has freed herself from all not stain with blood her re- those imperialistic aspirations which had become so fatal to the existence of the

and, having faith in the deci ancient Monarchy. She has rid herself sins of this. Conference, she

even

has

and for ever of all those reactionary

ay abstained from any military action ditions

which

had turned the former ngainst her Monarchy into a prison

of

•have very hours, although the lat its people alas: the unfortunate victim of tory. She has proved to be mainstay Blx that horrible crime of 1914, a crime com of peaceful and organised social develop mit by the former Government, howment in Central

This attitude and not by the people States which thin, provided that a just and democratic our new Republic will continue to manin- Peace render to our country the

On the other hand, ali

ever, have succede the Monarchy have in the light of international law come into of an economic existent the possibility existente only after the cessation of how we have to receive Pease from your hands, tilities

from the hands of victors. We are firmly

know that

The Germann-Austrian desolved conscientiously to weigh each

it its present shape, has never

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War: Devet carried unwar, and in and any proposition laid before us. relation with the Western Powers, never each and any advice offered by you to had the position of n a warring Power from us. We shall, above all, make it a point an international point of view. There thoroughly to inform you of the condi could, moreover,

no doubt as to the tions, prevailing in our country, and to fact that our Republic never was at war enlighten you, as to the primary exigen- with the new national States. On the cies of our Existence.

If heretofore you had the appointed by the merits, commissions

opportunity new States have met to to hear nothing, with few exceptions, but settle the Crown property left by the late the voice of our neighbors, we pray you, We. Empire, and to divide, in mutual agree gentlemen, to listen now to us, tʊn, ment among themselves, all the rights and tort with equal attention, for you the asels of this property.

world, and the former

hear both sides. We pray for a the future, relatnership, and of settling

under the interven decision which will ensure for all time rantee of the powers for which our national, political, and economic we pray Nevertheless, these new Statesxistence You may rest ured that it meeting face to face in Paris are playing our foremost wish to co-operate, accord- guite A different role in regard to their cbligations assumed in the past of the on-strength within encontested ex boundaries, and to secure possession of pect to eliminate this contradiction at the our national freedom and civilisation in Peace Conference. I reserve to myself the noble task nasured by the League of

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Nations, and thus sorve the cause of

tion of making peace bat of liquidatings of a big world, will have to

Between them and us it is not a ques

ion

and

guarantee

Peace

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