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TAK HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST STM, 1918,
FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM. GENERAL RAWLINSON PROCEED ING TO RUSSIA.
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LONDON, July 31st.
It is officially stated that General
THE NATION'S THANKS TO THOSE WHO WON THE WAR.
LONDON, July
Is as understood that the text of the vote of thanks to the Forces of the Crown
eummer, St
GERMAN NAVY.
THE DEBT DUE TO THE PRESS.
FOSTAL CENSOR GOING. UNRAVELLED GERMAN SECRETS.
The work of the Postal Consor, which London paper of late May, will make is shortly to be brought to a close, SAVE A when it is all re'sted, one of the most
interesting and romantic chapters of the
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OXFORD COMMEMORATION. |LORD BERESFORD AND THE
PRINCE OF WALES AD.CL. MARSHAL JOFFRE, HONOURED, The Encwain, the chief event of Ox-
Preceding the rull-dress rehearsal of ford Commemoration, was once more held,
the Military Tournament at Olympia, on on June 25th, in the Sheldonian Theatre,
This
June 13th, Major-General Fielding and Wren's historic building.
the committee entertained a large con marked ጊ
import pany, mainly composed of representatives revival of
As many as 130.000 letters a day have tance the gathering, and in this res
men and women. Often when a letter or it will rank with some of the most memor gentlemen who had helped to make the nble of
The Prince of predecessors. its
tournament a success, to luncheon. Wales was unable to be present owi
owing to
The chairman. having welcomed the parcel has been apparently harmless the guests, said the present tourna sent show uspicions of the 'examiners have been his engagements in the Frincipality, and other notable absenters for reasons of a marked changes in comparison with its aroused, and chemical tests have revealed State included President Wilson, Mar- predecessors. It was the Lorts first secret writing and X-rays have detected shal Foch, M. Venczelos, Paderewskind, and for the past five years it bad articles contented in parels Signor Orlando (formerly Prime
favourite method employed by Sot be held. In the present demonstra Germans abroad to send food to them at tep of Italy), Baron Makino
DISORDERLY SCENES CONTINUE Rawlinson is proceeding to North Russin which is being moved next week in both ceremony, the Victory and the tht the Press, French othcers, and any been examined by a staff of nearly 4,000"
Chicago, July 31st. Yesterday evening, troops patrolled the negro district. There was considerabis fighting elsewhere.
The negrues are Bring on trains of the New York Central Railway..
Hundreds of negroes have appended for protection. They may be said to be faced with starvation, as the drivers of supply. vans are afraid to enter the negro dis-
trict.
Fires are burning in one white and a number of negro neighbourhoods.
EARLIER CABLES
BRITISH COLONIAL
ADMINISTRATION. SOME RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS
· Loxnos, July 31st.
In the Unuse a Commons, during his sperch en the Colonial Office Estimates, -Cal. L. C. S. Amery stated that immense
immediately to co-ordinate in the dif. Houses of Parliament will be penetically ficult military operation of the with-imilar to that of the resolution adopted drawal of the Archangel and Murmansk at the close of the South African War, save that a tribute will be paid to the BRITISH GENERALS HONOURED.Air Service and the immense army of In recognition of their valuable ser other workers who contributed to the
successful issue.
forces.
vices. General Maynard and General Ironside have been awarded the Knight. Commandership of the Bath.
The l'oles Duy
POLISH SUCCESSES,
LUNDON, July 31st.
оссиру All East Galicia, which was temporarily assigned them by the Peace Conference, and con- tinue to advance against the Bolsheviks. They have reached the Ving-Minsk Railway
ON THE NORTH RUSSIAN FRONT. On the North Russing front steps have
(
WAR HISTORY. WHEN LUDENDORFF GAVE UP
HOPE,
LONDON, July 1st Revelations in regard to the rectus history of the war continue daily. They are mostly mutual recriminations, but the
the tiernian leaders were torn by conflict main fact merges that, after August last,
ing emotiona
tieneral von Ludendorff held his ground until the end of September, when be a been taken to prevent further trouble mitted there was no hope. This resulted
ar Russian troops..
in a complete change-of-the-arts-actitud. SACKING AND MURDERING."
eulminating in General von Hindenburg's
A
Plenipotentiary at Paris),panese tion they were going to produer all the house was to make up a roll containing
of Bikanir, Mr. G. N. Barnes, M. P., and General Sir William Robertson.
The list of degrees ontbreed some of the most distinguished men in Europe and America
The D.C.L. Degree of Diploma was TEN- ferred on the Peace of Wales Magdalen College, and this was done with hestery ncelamation His Royal Highness has intimate that he hopes to fix a day after his contemplated visit to Canada when he will conie to Oxford to receive the degree at the hands of the University au thorities
"PUBLIC ORATOR"S TRIMETES, The proposed degrees were submitted to Convocation and heartily approved. The new doctors were presented by the Public Orator, Dr. A. 11. Godler. Magdalen Col
Irze.
Of Marshni Joffre, the Public Drittor said, his already great reputation placed him at the head of the French armies in TIT. He was no longer young, hur his vigour was that of a man still in the prime of life. By shattering the first Franes, and forced the enemy to a sensive
test and most modern types of impleries, coff, cocon. and so on, and attach ments of war-bombs, aeroplanes, artil
false ends to it to make it look like a ery barrage, and, in fact, all the latest parcel of newspripers. Others would fold things that had been seen on the field of their papers, lay them flat together cut hattle. All the Forces of the Empire i would be represented; all the new wonish's large holes in the centre. and pack these hollow spaces with rubber and other organisations would be present in soute
articles. form or other, and enter into the pro- Kramme. The responsibilities of the com-
would be used for cencealing th mature of 19. The Germans were. putting their new wine into old h in this way, as the library and max, that have been formed by the departme abundantly testify.
The Bolsheviks continue to move west-dramatic declaration on October 3rd, in- | onslaught of the Germans he saved over to the Army Council to expend on leeway must be made up in the Protect. sard along the shores of the White Sensisting on an immediate offer of ponce, ary warfare and that the French to first time French troops appearing at the members
orates and Colonies. Administrations sacking and murdering on their way.
was a standstill.
General Denikin appears to be holding He enghasised that revunstruction his own on all his fronts, but his pros. meant far more than the restoration of peges depend on his ability to improve the pre-war conditions. We must establish a material condition of the inhabitants in new and more positive stpüdard of duty the liberated area and testion towards the peoples to GREAT VICTORY FOR GENERAL whoan Parliament were responsible na
DESIKIN'S ARMY. trustees. There were territories of bound. less potentialities which urgently demand
BRITISH LABOUR CRISIS HOW THE NEGOTIATIONS BROKE DOWN.
under
More than this, it was
mitter of the tournament were great;
OLD WISE IN NEW BOTTLES. Ciermans at home would send forth their their idea was to encourage every section | propaganda, Puder Unise covers.
What to compete in every form of exorcise ne appeared, for example, to be a school cessary to its profession, and for these edition of Honey would contain pada competitions prizes were given for regi-phlets on British-misgovernment in ludi mental tournaments, district tournaments. Similarly, magazine covers, dated And prizes were given by Olympia itself The object of the tournament was nise to advertise all the Forces of the Crown su ns. to popularise them to the nation at arze. (Cheers.) The Military Tourna on paid all expenses, and kept the men and there were no expenses borne by the Some of the most curious things in the publis "After they had paid all these library are the cartoons which the Ger churmous expenses the surplus was bandas tried to send brondenat. One, when unity of command was established, repre Were necessary. Hesent the allic Cock perched on the head such charities as was perfectly certain they would be glad of the British Lion; another, when to hear that they had that day for the Amorien 'enterid the war, depicts all the in spite of the loss of the Germandiers developed that invincible spirit of
the Roosevelt family as Red had been under-staffed and development/GENERAL DENIKIN'S PROSPECTS Colonies, Alsner and Poland.
tournament (Cheers.) The tournament Indians fourishing tomahawks, erduranes which never afterwords failed.
bad never done so well in selling ticketa
In the ouseum are may curiosities He can to Oxford not only as a great
neral, but as a living proof of the due to the Preas, to whom he tendered his chicken bones and dry bread, a scarab as it had on this occasion, and this was | which were addressed to the Kaiser-bara friendship censented on many battlefields
that is cursed," and an American cartoon which bound them to their gallant Allies warmest thanks. (Cherry),
Lindley, introducing-Leneral Persh Major-General Sely said it was bis barked If party is not there please ing said that none could doubt that pleasant duty on behalf of the Govern forward to St. Helena. America would sooner or later standment and on behalf of tn, Forces of the Whilst these and similar" discoveries LONDON, July 31st.
shoulder. Ic shoulder with England Crown, which he preserted that day, to added a curious interest to the work of in the war against tyranny. The general public is amazed at
The propose the toast of The Fress. Thesthe department. information of a more Of her troops atcelebrated that day the advent of prave, valpable kind was constantly obtained by critical moment. And the breakdown in the strike negotiations, the circumstances attending it, must forur on they were able to hold a tournament He Without this very vigilant censorship, the the and for the first time for several years the expert commercial staff of the Censor. inmediate cause of which is the refusal of the most remarkable pages in his thought they might say that among the trading with the enemy laws could not
*tory. He was a soldier with a great pe of Mr. Smith, President of the Yorkshire cord of service, and his presence, there manifold cases which led to their great have been enforced. Miners' Federation, to recognise the right was a pledge of their union with Aracrins the chief was the help they had had. not
of their union with Atarrica success and the glorious victory, one of portant cases the prosecution relied large-
ly upori its evidence. of the Miners Federation of Great time
doing their best
only from their Dominions, but from their Of Admira: Beatty, the Public O Drator
Allies. Continuing. General Seely said "The British Colonial Administration the Volga. 120 miles north of Tsaritsin, Britain, to negotiate a formula regarding said the
yar
had vastly added to the that the tournament owed most of its The censorship made it impossible for rates applicable to Yorkshire.
success to the generous publicity given it † the enemy to communicate with his over- great reputation of the British Navy. The long sigil of the Fleet, with all its by the Press. to whom he desired to offer sea markets, and innumerable letters from Mr. Smith has asked the owners to bardships, was repaid by the total anni hearty thanks.
Bently was himself a type of the British past; and their lively thanks for fasoure my for
They owed them deepeneny sources indiented how much this bilation of German sell-power, Admiral gratitude for what they had done in the inctor contributed to the pressure of the Elaborate schemes by the accepted by the Miners Federation of sailor, of those famous ske, and whom word
enemy for being frst in the markets of the world when the war was over were Great Britain, and to accept us basis in
aim. was always to attack, in action was
the eneroid!
defeated by the fact that they were inveri that every collier should receive the same
Admiral Lord Beresford said they all ably discovered by the Censor.
The prisoners-of-war, whose letters are Shows in countless engagements. notably had said about the French nation. fn still being censored, are fall at the one the raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Dr.
the old days they had been chivalrous idea of getting hoine. They are very
fority. Ife had done more. renown for himself and a reflected glory
and affectiouate friends He hoped it Government will sign, but will not keep college and the whole Uni
would continue. They knew that they them. versity!
He had would continue to have the esteem and greatly added to the fame of the British admiration of the British nation for the Amay He had the qualities of fortitude way in which they had conducted the war. and enlm endurance which distinguished they were the pronents of the air service, the British soldier. Hence the unbroken was essential that the British should confidener between the Army and its have supremacy in the air as na the sea leader. There were many front who him. Ther well remembered the spirit which breathed in his orders to the Army in the dark days of the spring of 1918 Now he was rewarded by completo vie
LONDON, July 1st. a communique states that a great ed development in the interests of their victory bas been gained by General own inhibitions and the impoverished | Denikin's army. world. s
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The important town of Kamishin, on
was the leest in the world before the war, which, for a considerable time, has been
hut kence"wrth we intended to greatly in the immediate objective in the advance negotiate independently of the formula
prove on the old standard.
towards Sarutov, has fallen into their hands
The Colonial Service quớt be brought to tie iglust statie of praßciency. Ile
The town is situated midway between paid a tribute to the work of the officials Tsaritsin and Saratov and is the tez during wagtinge under exceptional" dit-minus of the Tambor Balashov-Kamishin
closely. With the
this spirit
to
whose
In coine.
**A LEAGUE OF IRRITATIONS."
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pay for seven hours as he formerly did der bis command, and hence the daring cordially endorsed "what General ocely
eight hours. This would mean the, eli-
In all the most in-
100 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
fculties, and declared that the whole Railway. Its possession gives Generalmination of piece-work because, whatever Godley said, had most truly wor, undying enemies, and now they were most warui angry about the peace terms, but say their
permanent scale of salaries of the Colonial Civil Service" nerded revision, and must be seriously considered in the near future, Married life must be made, morg pos
Deniken a firmer footing on the great the cutput, the payment would be the and most important river in the country
It brings the junction of the Volunteers with the Ural Cossacks appreciably ceur-
MILITIC.
However, the obligations of the owners to the Coal Controlier in any case pre-
Letters in more than 100 different languages bave had to be deciphered by an expert staff of 90 linguists. Amongst the most dificult of these communications were those written in Basque, Zulu, Chinese, and such devices as Greek in
sible by improvements' in housing and fer, and also constitutes a further threat vented them from agreeing to nog would bear witness that no danger shook ugland was no longer an island. They Turkish and Bulgarian characters But
health matters and should be the, rule rather than the exception.
to Bolshevik communications with Astra- khan...
"Moreover, the Government wished to
The attack was launched on July 25th enlist the full operation of the up and was completely successful. General official community, mug only through the Denikin's forces immediately pushed for. Council Chamber, but by advice and supward to the line-Antinovka-Boulaya- which they were Glinka-Talodacak-Petrunin, rwelve miles port. The ideal at aiming was to secure the participation of
from Kjishin, capturing 5,000 Bolsheviks, the people. as far as capable, in the Gov
nine guns, many machine-guns and a ernment of the country.
great store of war material.
The problem was difficult and complex -sometimes owing to the backwardness of
The Bolsheviks, alarmed at the sudden
independently. The negotiations, thus broke down.
RACING AT HOME.
THE GOODWOOD. CUP RESULT.
LONDON, July 31st
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could not conceal the admiration that fait no dificulty has ever been too great for ter the young men of England who bad the Department i hyrcome. The censor tought her battles in the air. He was ship has done useful work and bna kept conndent that Gt. Britaia bred that kind | the Government constantly informed on a tory, and it was for Oxford especially too young man, wih plack, grit, relapse, thousand things which were vital to the honour her famous 10.).
resource, and indepeudence of action. winning of the war. General Sir Wilcon, Dr. Godley said. Other nations might do as well, but no in his many high con
The Goodwood Cup resulted as follows: maintained the repands had always should do better. He feit à little anxious
Queed's Square-
White Hent
Splutter
2
3
Five ran Won by two" lengths, thro
DEVOTIOS OF THE DOMINJONS.
the population, sometimes owing to the rapid progress, made every effort to ste quarters of a length separating second Godley said it was a foolish belief oftain peace. The other day they had an smallness and scattered character of the advanes, fighting desperately. Their and third.
people or, as at Malta, where this po pulace lived within the precincts of n military fortress..
Health was one-of-the gravest-problems of reconstruction. Countries must be
ravalry, in particular, fiercely counter attacked. Nevertheless, the Volunteers pressed on making further material gaing during the advance.
They entered Kamishin on "July 30th, passed on, and "are now pursuing the feeing enemy 12 miles beyond the town.
made healthy, not only for white people but for the whole population. Diseases must be tackled in a comprehensive and THE METROPOLITAN POLICE very bold spirit.
Furthermore, in the labour problem A GENERAL STRIKE THREATENED our main hope lay in inducing the native
LONDON, July 31st- to become a cultivator.
A meeting of the London Police has
Railways in the Crown Colonies must be
multiplied.
declared in favour of an immediate strike.
The chairman of the Police Union
states that they demand the withdrawal of the Palice Bill and the recognition of
the Linion,
COST OF LIVING IN AMERICA PRESIDENT WILSON TAKING STEPS. WASHINGTON July 31st The increase in the cost of living i causing trouble in the United States. President Wilson has issued a staternenti that he is devoting his whole attention to
the mutter. STRIKE OF AMERICAN RAILWAY MEN THREATENED. The President of the Railwaymen's Union threatens drastic steps unless wages | · ars raised or prices reduced hefore October 1st. The heads of important Government Departments hurriedly met to discuss prewinary measures.
HUNGARY.
RUMANIANS PURSUING, THE HUNGARIANS
LONDON, July 31st. Information has been received that the Rumanians are pursuing the Hungarians
beyand the Theiss,
M. BELA KUN NOT REPLACED. The British representative at Vienna reports that the recent rumour that Dr. Samuels had replaced M. Bela Kun is
inaccurate.
The betting was
as follows:-Queen's Square, 7 to 4; White Heat, 100 to 30; Splutter, 20 to 1.
did not interpret that view on all occa to its traditions and to the public if it xicas. They all knew the commato talk the unpreparedness of Great out Britain for war. It was quite true that
of a talented about the future. There was a sugges and vigorous soldier and administrator.
lar as they were to-day. (Cheers.) They tion afoot, which they hoped would bear Admiral Sir R. Wemyss, the Public trait, for a Leage of Nations. He sailed would be strangely ungrateful if they did The Press would be true Drator marked, had done sininent ser- it & League of Irritations it not think so.
in the war, notably at Callipoli, and" (laughter) but he wished it every success, vice he had held high commands in India and and would do everything he could to help Egypt.
it. At the same time he feared it was Of Lirut, General Sir J. Monash. Dr. there likely to breed war than to main former generations that our Colonies would example of what might happen. The Ger 8000 separate, themselves from the Mother man feet bad bren put into the charge Countrs, but over and over again they of the British Navy, but there had been a proviso which made it absolutely impos. had proved themselves oral and devoted citizens of the Empire, as witness the ible for the Government and the Ad recent countless battles in which the des-miralty to guard the feet properly. The perate valour of volunteers from Aus-result had been that the Germans had tralia and New Zealand had won them it. He did not blame the Germans.
laurels.
He knew that the British would have done by the Admiralty. War Ofier, and Press war correspondents
the British State was not prepared for a war of this magnitude, but they could'. not say, after what the Regular Ariny.did in 1914, that that Army was uz prepared"
untrained. (Hear, bear.) Never was on the the Press so well prepared as
ion of this war. Three years before it bruke out arrangements bad been made
L'ommittee, that
THE SILVER MARKET.
CONSIDERABLE RISE ÎN PRICE.
As Directer of the Intelligence Division would never have got into the circulanded an foreign shores, and the names LONDON, July .
of the Admiralty War Staff, the Publicstances. (Laughter and cheers) British Messrs. Montagu & Co's, report states Supreme importance to the country. He
The Press had even bought the bores bad been a
a most efficient director and the with their ships if they had been beuten,
and saddles, and it was no fault of theirs that, owing to continued scarcity of terror of enemy spies.
but they would never have been beaten. The danger of starvation caused by the There was a mandate given to then saying that they were unable to do justice to the stocks, spot silver continues in good war called for the highest administrative that they could not take charge of the superb achievements of the British Army The war correspondents were not allowed demand" the premium being maintained.
talent in
the distribution of American German fleet. I was humiliating un Food supplies and to
and Mr. H. C. Hoover had and to the British Navy, and it might to go. When he went to France in June, The price has risen considerably, carry-proved
to this colossal task. make differences unhappy rúd peculiar 1915, war correspondents were playing Lord
The Germans had committed a deplorable St. Omer, which they were hardly allow- said his close association with the car differences betwrep. us, and our Allies, Cricket in the grounds of a chateau near Versity of Oxford would of itself ensure and cowardly action when they burned ed to leave. Things were altered after..
wards. It was found that it was uncer him a warm welcome. He had great the French ensign,, and he file foost warm- abilities and hereditary gifts, and one of ly for the French nation in regard to that ary to give the Press proper facilitim his chief present nims was the establish
of the League of incident Eulogising the work of the for the responsible daties they had to effect of the great conception, it remain when they saw a Preman in the barracks worked adriven then, and the system square was to "turn him out; now they admirably. He though they had ad a high and ennobling ideal. F
J. R. Clynes
ran to the newspaper to see what was reason; and editors would agree with him, Godley said, was a meraber of the Labour party but he going on with their friends at the front to be proud of the work of British war had shown that no cause could be really Now the Pressman was put into the best correspondents. (Hear, hear.). They were that of the
of people in general. the front-lide trenches, where he would ents were in the front line trenches. on a false American passport, committed the well-bei Which did not conduce position; he was put into the trenches, proud of the fact that their corresponds
unidmiral Sir W. R. Hall's work the same in the circumstances, but they should accompany the first contingent that
Dentor anid, was recognised as being of crews" irould have fought and gone down of the war correspondents were accepted.
ing with it the price of forward delivery.. Over 2.000.000 ounces of silver were shipped to Chinn and Japan from Ban
Francisco on July 26th.
LONDON, July 31st Silver is quoted at 559-18d buyers and 554d. sellers, with Chinn buying.
mert and
Nations. anisation t be the nitimate Press, Lord Beresford said "the old idea perform, and in the latter days of the
Mr.
In the
Dr.
THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS Dara Charlton, aged 24, who travelled
discharge of the onerous duties have an opportunity, if he were not Those who represented the British Pres suicide in Turin on Monday, when she of food control he had given satisfaction killed, of giving the country the facts of shirked, no danger in order that they was arrested as a sy
to the vast majority of people, and no the case. They owed an enormous lot to might do justice to the profession they re
hope to
that She made frequent trips between Italy one could to do more than
no good in presented and the public they served. the Press, and there was and Germany by way of Switzerland M, Henri Pirenne, Dr. Godley observed,
clusion, Lord Beresford exhorted his the future the facilities which had been during the war and is alleged to have was not only a true, savant, but a brave patting them in the background. In con- (Hear; hear.) He did not believe that in obtained important military inlarnetian man, for when Belgium was overrun by hearers to maintain that grand spirit of accorded to the Press in regard to war. from allied officers, by whom she the Germans he stood firm for the ancient
of our success from the beginning to the be recognised as part of the necessary nicknamed "The Lady of the Camellias rights of the University of Ghent, and good comradeship which had been the basis reports would be withdrawn they would machinery of the State and givm facili- was placed under arrest, because she always wore those flower,
She was a beautiful woman and posed cheured. Marshal Joffre being hailed with
The new Doctors were very heartily end of the war. (Cheers.)
ties according to the necessities of the BRITISE-WAR CORRESPONDENTS................ as an American. She stayed at the best cries of Vive la France
time on behalf of the great public which and the play: Viscount Burnham said it was not a
required to hear the truth, and nothing Hotels, had plenty of money, and wore ing of the Marseillaise" on the organ. question of popularising the forces of the but the truth. (Hear, benr.) War car- the latest Parisian gowns, which, it is Bir Douglas Haig, Sir David Beatty Crown. Those forces were never so popu
respondents had, so far, not received the alleged, were supplied by the German General Pershing, and Mr. Clynes were
Proñour that was their dye. Politice Department.
greeted with expecial hatine
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