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PREMIER'S DEFENCE OF THE PEACE TREATY.

WAR MUST BE TREATED AS A CRIME AND NOT AS AN HONOURABLE GAME,"

TRIBUTE TO GENERAL DENIKIN'S MARVELLOUS WORK.

RE-OPENING OF TRADE WITH CONQUERED RUSSIA URGED.

LATEST CABLES,

TURGCGH RELTER'S'AGENCY.1

TREATY.

"STRIKING SPERCH BY ME

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 25TH,

THE PRICE OF COAL.

STILL, OPPORTUNITY FOR A

SETTLEMENT,

Luxmas, July 18th.

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AVIE.

SCENES IN LONDON.

Lundos. July 19th. demandes, liga Sugodne a verildig inter' gnitional vamp. Troops of all the Allied

tations are pouring in at every station, JAPAN TO RETURN SINOTAL IN REFORM ASSOCIATION "TO"SEND" "A

FAR EASTERN CABLE THE CONSTITUTIONAL

NEWS.

REFORM QUESTION.

GOVERNOR

IT TO GIVE **CAREFUL CONSIDERATION." »

in speeldt trains, and are being cheered by the crowZÙM,

In the Hause of Commons, deplying to 131r. J, R. (15 mes, Mr. Butar Law stated that. in consequence of the Miners' Federation's decision not to accept the Government's offer, the ts, increase in the price of real would opwhite, from Julyén.

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The parks are packed with - boliday- makers, Who are fraternising with the

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NEW

HANG-KONG, LEÏNESE

COMMERCIAL "NEWS, ''],

SIN MONTHS.

SANGnar. July 24th.

It is reported that Britain and America will guarantee that Japata shall return Tsingtan to China within six months.

chow Tinn Raitway shall to under They will also guarantee that the Kall

Sin»Japanese joini contiok THE CONFLICT BETWEEN

DEPUTATION.

The following correspondenco has taken place between the Government and the Constitutional Reform Asociation of Hongkong on the subject of a change in the Gouernager af the Colony :

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong,

Jung, 30th, 1919. St. With reference to my letter of February 12th, 1919, No. 2001, 1913. 1 am directed to inform you that the Secretary of. Stute for the Colonies has received the

The chief feature of today's celebra It was noted, he said, that the ninegstions will be the march through the representatives in the House of Commons] City and the West End of Love sailors had carried out their undertaking to re from Seuthe End, and the unveiling of cominend to the miners acceptance of the the temporary epitaph at Whitchali. proposal of the Government.

CHINESE AXIŲ, JAPANESE. The monument is of very simple construc This decision did not" przelach the potion, and hears mirely the words The

Be Japanese Minister visited the "Wai Coloniex. Nobody thought that Germanssibility of an opportunity for negotiating glorious death,”

wupu on the moring of July 21st, and of the resolution passed at a public ruud pay the whole cost of the war, namely. i settlement, but that did not alter the

(metini sotivened by your Asseiation, on During the procession on Jay 19th the the Cabinet, on the wait, afterwaiti, sh, uth January, and that he has repeate fact that any delay in making the Dricornotaph will be guarded by four privates lodze a protest emcerning the contact fod Sir Reginald Stabbs to give his careful of coal equivalent to the cost would be the Guards with revised nons. All between the Chinese and Japan tres consideration to the questions involveď Following on this, Chalar Faik elu and after he has had some experience of the the binds will cese playing when pass ing, and the troops will salute the dead.

the Ministry of the Army bold a joint Colong. L'an, sir. Your obedient servasit, :conference and devided"to, ad-graph to THE TRUTH ABOUT GENERAL Chang Jok-lum' and Fow Kweihing, pu

DENIKIN.

investigate and punish by others, ebas cerned."

THE COMMONS ACCEPT THE,000,000 yearly, even if the whole of

these territories had been under her cotto All the Allied experts hail concluded that the repärasion attached to the Treaty was FLOYD GEORGE.

The Hindi of Germany's capacity to pay. LONDON, July 21st.

THE RIGHT COURSE, TULEND CONSCRIPTION, Replying to the delete or the second

Ele sabb that they bail"taken the right rombing of the Trenty of Pence, Mr. Lloyd

entrpus to end conscription. Thay uld Giorge expressed the opinion that, the ↑ but end armaments until they struck at Government and the Power Caufienee this routs Prussian militarism was the —fari-escort-rawn-to-be-graafiedzichthyout as of wanariprian in Britain,

natias the debate, as in the main, the House had accepted the Treaty. believed that jmblie opilion concurred in this decision,

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE,

The discussion had escoryth the Treaty entered data butween Britain. America and France. It had been asked why this

Treaty was necessary. It was no proof of want of confidence on the part of the French peoplit

member ite natural anxiety Fraper in the face of this terrible menace. 2A OPRAY EXPÉRIMENT.“

and

tentioning, the Premier said: The League of Nations 1 ast meessarily be treated as a "rrent experiment. France. naturally says, that De Lelieves in time experimqur and will de her best to carry gut, but she would like to feel behind

her the afghs and iwer of the British Empire and the United Sintes, in order that the langu. may have a better chance of establishing itself as

organisation.

agent

CRÍTICISMS MUTUALLY SELF-DESTRUCTIVE

| Criticisms of the Treaty of Pener

fatal.

FEARLESS BRITISH AIRMAN. POSTHUMOUS AWARE OF THE

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A LARGE-MINDED, STRONG

RUSSIAN PATRIOT.“*

Lostost July the The Gazette announces the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to the late Captain Etware Minork (Royal Air

LONDON: July 27th Fran Italy, Russia and mieriën. [gorge), bus42." (two bros) M.C (bar), in

General Sir Charles Briggs, chief of Therefore, Prussiarism bad "been up

recognition of bravely of the first order | the "British Military Mission in South during an aerial Pombat, rinted,

Russin. his evturned from

- IMPÉRÁCULOARLE TO IMMEDISTRUS Asi

PONSCRIPTION.

A mandate has abreasly, been issued dis- missing Go Shr-ban had all the ottimi Leuncerned in the conflict between the

Chinese and the Japanee.

Spd.) A, Gy M. FLETTRER

(Colonial Secretary).

The He Serretary,

The Constitutional Reform Associa-

Bon of Hongkong.

Constitutional Reform Association

of Hatekong,

In Chater Road,

July 18th, 1919.

A NEW POST FOR MAN YUN-YPEX.

luang Jok-heat has requested chi General | Severniment to appoint Mari Yun-yuen

chief commander in the frontiers withi Shanhai kwain. He has also telegraphed | The Hüni. Me," A. ft, M. Fletcher, 6'.B.E., Interviewed by. Reuter's representative, Chu Shuang saying that his object-is

Colonial Servelary. to get Marn Yut-yoem and his troops to beeniphatically entradicted the reports leave the three Eastern Proxinera, Feirelated against General Denikins ach

His was an outstanding example ' of | Deníkin's Headquarters. fearless courage, remarkable skilla devo. tion to duty and self-sacrifice, which has never been surrpasspił Ho destroyed &

It was impracticable for us immediately to afish conscription. A good pence had herte sectored only impatis, Germany had jenemy, machines.

gnised the existence of Armies in her The Gazette specifies the combazs be: soil ably to impose our own terms. Thetween June 17th and July 2nd, on the

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Armentiaris Front during which He dos-

Treaty of Versailles would have been im promifile without the Armies of the Rķinu | trosed 7 Gergian neroplanes. lam. He expressed the opinion that by New Year the voluntary, army would suffice for all our requirements overseas.

THE TRIAL OF THE EX÷ANISER-

As regards the trial of the" ex-Åäiser, said that the persons responsible for the "mwful slaughter' shuuld not esenpe

there

trial The Allies had suffrirur confidence in Britain that wherver enume wouldabave a trial equal to tip highest traditions of "British gutertinent, and there were nune higher the world over.

*** WAR 15 TO 199, ENDED.``

If war was to be ended, it must ls tævnt.

itsdt have been mutually self-destructived as a great erine, and not as an honour-,

* Some have criticised begnuse we have göne to far in exacting indemnities Others said: we have not gone far enough,"

THE REPARATION QUESTION.

* As regards repirations. Britain has

gut sobetancial competition for the whole of the shipping sunk, for the lives Bist, and the injury stained by the ators, and for all damage in respect of air raids, which damage was very con-

Fiderable,”

PESSIONS AND ALLOWANCES. Morrower, continued the Premier, com

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'bble game. That was why, after reflec tion, it had been decided that the person who was regarded as the author of the war

should be tried for his crimes.

THE TROŃ PROBLEM,

Replying to Mr. Join Destin's appeal to apply President Wilson's and tienerál Smuts' principles to Ireland. Mr. Lloyd George asked would Mr. Devlin apply the principles to the whole of Ereland.

The

real difficulty was that Mr. Devlin's coun- trymen were not satisfied to get, self-deter.

others of self-determination.

ministration and declared that General Denikin is a large-minded, strong Russian patriot, unswayed by any personal ambi.

tions. :

The

KUNG-SEM JARM "AND THE CABINET

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Str. I am firected by my Committee to acknowledge with thanks your letter of Both June, 1919, No. 2005 1915, advising that the Secretary of State for the Colo "The members of the Du Fork Club denies has requested SFP Reginald Stubbs not unanimously approve the proposal

pand

to let Kung Sum-jarm form a Cabineto give his careful. consideration to the Fertain ineinders delare that they will question of further representation after

approve the proposal until he has no the Party expenses fund the

"hé 'bas had some experience of the Colony- nunund allowance,

It is proposed by my Committee to Pequest Sir Reginald Stubbs to reefive a odepatation shortly after his arrival in order that this Association may more

THE SINO-JAPANESE MILITARY. PACT

The beads of the British. "Frenel, and American Missions bad formulated the following programae in onjunction with General Denikin's administration. programige had been signed by all. clearly proving the eatery of General, Denikin ollation of the Sino-Japanese Mitney fully place before him its views on this and other questions-1 am, sir, Your abedient servant,

MARSHAL FOCH. BEING HONOURED BY ENGLAND.

LONDON. July 19th. Marshal Foch has been invited to heroing an Honorary Freeman of the City of London, and to acerpt, a Sword of Hon-policy.

Tu Kisi will not agree to the can-

Pact.

LIANG SHYT'S SYNDICATE,

The Cabinet has approved Liang Sht yi's"Chang Wah syndicate.

prices during the war. It is hoped ton of Holsevik anarchy; the reconstrue car in menghition of his distinguished The program inclurled;-Fhe aboli

that the ending will be held on July tion of a United Russia: the entrvugation 195 People's Asserally based on universal suffrage: decentralisation by means of HOME PEACE CELEBRATIONS with, and regional autoniny; liberal | Chai

30th.

EARLIER CABLES.

VICTORY MARCH THROUGH LONDON

local self-Government, with guarantees of full civil and religious freedom: Jume diate agrarian reforms with a view to LONDON. July 1sth

meeting the demand for land for the Marshal Foch, accompanied by a heil-working classes; and impediate laboar liant Staff; including the famous Divi legislation securing the working, classe sional Commanders. Debenry and Laguiche from exploitation by the Government or and two Brigadiers were ceremoniously by capital. received as Folkistone.

He added that our duty was to help When they arrived in London, theyGeneral Denikin and Admiral Koltebak were welcomed by Sir Dongles Haig, and

distinguished company.

He said that 55 per cent. of the whol population of Russin wag 20

apti Bolshevist.

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Marshal Foch then inspected the guard

of honour composed of the Welsh funds. The Irish Guards played the Marseil

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pensation bail to be paid in respect of laination themselves without depriving jaise" and The Men of Harlech."

all pensis and allowances which would

be a very considerable apnunk riarge on taxes in this country, If we rivived froen Germany payment of these ships, We

woulik Feurivétvery considerable pélief.

THE TOTAL CURT OF THE WAR, He asked whether here was the reubtest chance of exacting all the gists of the war. The tulalgust of the war for the whole of the Allies was £20,000,000,000. The question had been examined by the ablest Allied experts, who had endeavoured to exact the uttermost farthing possibile from

Germany. Beyond bt they had done

Unt.

REPARATION FICURE INDETERMINATE,

It was 'n criticism that the reparation gure was indeterminate. but it was, he stid, impossible

determine to figure, because one could

114) ante the damage to

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A wildly chihusiastic crowd greeted Marshal Foch, who was accompanied by General Weygand, Chief of Staff.

ال

r cent, consisted of Commisaries, five per cent. of highly-paid assassins to carry out the orders of the Commissaries, and the reninining five per cent, were donbtsf, vaing to Soviet propaganda:

The work accomplished by General

INTERNAL PEACE.

The Governmete intends appointing

FAR

Kai-kim adviser for interual peace.

(THROUGH RECIPE'S SCENCY,

(Sgd) H. B. L. Dowsingis

(Hon. Secretary).

WORK FOR UNIVERSITIES: MATION AND RECONSTRUCTION.

dnder the presidency of Sir Robert EASTERN REPRESENTATIVESabers of the Glasgow University Club Burde, M. P., the Minister of Labour, IN VICTOR'S MARCH"

resumed the bi-yearly dinners-inter upied by the war at the Truendiero Restaurant freeatly.

Loxtos, July 20th. In the Victory March in London, the Japanese naval and military officers, headed by Colonel 5. Abe

Generals Tane and Pan, 'representing China and the Siamey Army Contingent. were pociferously greeted in pli * Victory March

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Crests." proposed by Sir John Mann, Sie- Responding to the boast of Our Auckland Geddes said the universities dung the pay four years had shown that within their walls were the men when the nation required to enable it to win the war. Both hy land and sea the univer- sities, through their professors, had con- ENGLISH CHARM.

tributed here to victory than any other organised part of the community. The "BY LACEY AMY, A CANADIAN,]

work that now lay before the univemities. was far greater and just as vital as that They say England is eald in manner

in the WILT. and climate. They tell me that Englund which they performed would rather starve on a hedgy, and a Strang movements were in the world the park than gorge on a whent field. in object of which was to overthrow auciety emotional critics point to a list of figures and reform, the social organisation In to prove that England is falling back in come places this force had broken through the race. They hold up a convesigner the crust, and whole nations were in the here, and an invention there, and a new grip of forces that were destroying the inethod new and then, and ask why Eng entire "social structure, The leaders of

And they

these movements were not in many cases and has them not. England's modesty,

university men, and the result was ex tremely dangerous to Society. At the

and England's ...

for

in

Denikin in the past 15 months had bega | differen waste their tears on ne siner | back" of all the movements was an etno-

miraculous. It was unfortunate that Admirat Kottchak had been forced back, but this was only a passing phase. `-

But they

holiday. pr the

I have seen England as never saw her before I four sunny tion of humanity with which all human beings must sympathis. This emotion was days 1 have found the soul of this in different, soutulent, modest creature that retermined that the people should have wou the way and has been duing other better conditions than their grandfathers windrous things for centuries before this bad. Properly led, it would do much for invention and that convenience and these humanity, but wruggly led, would Dew methods evolved...

plung the world back into the Dark I have the cars for the critic, if be be Ages. The danger was that there were so bave been. Let him climb to the fronting who were helping to bear the burden a foreign "one, Let him come where Flew men who had had a university train- sent of an omnibus or a motor car and of leadership. leave the grime of a scentrated eight.

Denling with industrial unrest, Sir behind.

THE FAILURE OF THE ČUSVENTION, Continuing, he pointed out that he had endeavoured to apply President Wilson's

He will head the French contingent on primciples in Ireland by constituting an

July 10th. which will be under the cam. Irish Convention, which had failed to

mand of General Doheney. bring the Parties, any nearer, The dis- culty was that Ireland was not a dation,

The Generals riding with Fieli-Marshal

It must be remembered that the rgy but, three nations-in men, religion, tem- Sir Douglas Haig will be Sir Julian pernment, and outlook.

Until it was

in the front line of the Red Arinics were bridged, it was futile, to talk about the Byng, Sir Henry. Rawlinson, Sir W.

driven to fight and kept as their' posts by principis of self-determination.

Marshall, Sir W. Hoskins. Sir C. Briggsmachine-guns controlled by paid assassins BUSHMEN. MUST FACH THE DIFFICULTY " Si R. Horrie, Sir W. Birdwood. Sir P.

who remained in, thus rear.

Sir Charles Briggs concluded by cin millions Dorking, there's Rickman Auckland said the danger arose from the He despaired of any weltlement untilChetwode. Sir G. Fowke, Sir R. Law.' the Irishmen definitely resolved to face renes, Sir A. Chauvet, Sir G. H. Davidphasising the necessity of quickly asiat-worth, there'a Serenoaks, there's Hamr this difficulty. It was useless to quote President Wilson's principles unless the

son. Fir A. Currie, the Earl of Cavaning the anti-Bolshevists, and re-opening erities were prepared to apply them to the and Sir T. F. Clarke. whole of Ireland.

THEMSELVES.

THE IMPERFECTIONS IN THE TREATY. He looked to the League of Nations the ultimately to repair and redress the im. esti-perfections in the Treaty of Peace, The League would exist as a Court of Appeal,

The Overseas detachments, will be respectively headed by Lieut-General Monash Lieut. General G. N. Johnston, and Lieut-Geneeni Lukio, p

were

and a score trade with the re-conquered territors but gland'. otherwise Germany would recapture the whole of the Russian trade and influence General Denikin had already re-conquer

The urgency of this was clear, asing curi ed a tract of country with a population of vastated by the Bolsheviks.

Major-General M. F. Rimington will 60,000,000, which had been previously do into the cager distance. Smell the odour when he said that at this moment Europe

MABONIC CHARITY. -

fact that the leaders had never had the ton Court, and Boxhill, and Watford, whole of life presented to them as the other jewels in no crown university alone could present it. Ite. There are quaist old therefore, urged the universities to lend churches of fint, there are hedges of their help and guidance. The man of the glistening holly, there are canals of ten universities were the pilots to of the curiosity. Rend the names on the ship of State through the storms of war. Saunter into the bird melodies and tidy inns and the modest t rooms. Too many men who had the right to speak

were dumb, and dumbness now meant dis verdure of winding paths that lead ever

arter to-morrow. He did not exaggerate the devastated to re-adjust crudities.

of woods and elds.

flowers and taste the regions extending over 400 miles by

breeze over silken **AS FAR AS HUMAN FORESIGHT FERMITED head the Cavalry: Sir. G. Birch, the

was poised on the crest of a great wave Rest beneath 30 miles. If a definite amount was fixed;

the oak that looked on the grandest deeds

that was racing towards the rocks, and if Nevertheless, he claimed that the Con- Artillery; Six "G. M. Heath, the Engine we should simply have trariferred the ference had redressed many old wrongs,"

we could not get the ship of Europe out of history, and admire its sheath. ers; Major-General Elles, the Tanks;

Take me blindfold through the blank of that wave before she struck then no- uncertainty from Germany to France. while he could not think of any new ones

Rear-Admiral Sir Edward F. Inglebeld. gate in the blank brick wall with its thing but physical death awaited many which had been created dry new the Major-General Rügglesbrise, the Machine Provincial Grand Master of Buckingham- broken glass surface, and open my eyes millions of Europeans. Were the men of shire, presided at the 121st anniversary in the glories of an English garden, and the universities really trying to rise to had established guarantees and securities, gun Corps; Major-General C. J. Deve festival of the Royal Masonic Institution T laugh at England's critics, cheer the height of their opportunity1 Were given Germany an opportunity as far as human foresight permitted, rell, the British infantry; Major-General fog of sending experts through the devastated and had disarmed and punished, and hed. P. R. Robertson, the Scottish; Major. 12th. He was supported by a record Take me where, through a slit in the into the channels which led into safety?

against a repetition of the past horrors,

there being over 1,600 present bills, there peep the lights and shadows At a time of grent peril the universities General Hickie, the Irish; Major-General in Connaught Roomax, with an over of far-off alopes, of villages grey with age Blackader, the Welsh; Major-General Row at the Holborn Restaurant.

rose to the situation, and now in a posi and crowned by ancient ateeples, of feed- Pulteney, the "Contemptibles."

tion of no less danger he did not see yet. Mr. Percy G. Mallory. Secretary of ing herds and sluggish canals Major-General Sir R. Butler will be at

in announcing the result

lying there where I the head of the Colours?" Major-General |

I can look

that they were rising to the height of their opportunity-and of their duty, He E. C. Carter, of the Service Corps; Major.

stewards was a record for any festival of may never change but remain a great would be fnise to the best interests of the General . B. Moore, of the Medical the three institutions, the total being park land, a monument to nature merely country if he let that opportunity pare Ordnance Corps; and Major-General £2.478. The grand total announced was quiet its nerves, the word's sanatorium and he earnestly appealed to them for Corpa; Major-General Parsons, of the Foreign stations with 16 stewards, sent the push" of other lands may come and responsible for the pilotage of this land,

of whom 4,205 were Freemasons. touched by man," a boliday spot where without saying that they were directl

Blenkinsop, of the Veterinary Corps.

IF GERMANY'S ESTIMATE IN PAIR.

We

Fagions to make their own estimate. If demonstrated all the world over that national rights and liberties could not be such was submitted within four months, trampled upon. (Cheera.) and if it was fair, France would accept it,

WHAT GERMANY HAD LOST.'

Germany had lost three quarters of her iron gre, one-third of her mal, 7,000,000 of her population, and the whole of her

A" LIGHTHOCSE IN THE DEPR The Treaty would be a lighthouse in the deep, a warning to the nations and rulers the German Empire had shattered itself. of nations against the perils upon which (Loud cheers)

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