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LORD

FISHER HITS OUT:

IS THE BRITISH NATION "GOING TO MAKE THE SAME DAMNED MESS?""

THE

FRANCE TO OBTAIN MANDATE FOR

SYRIA.

BOLSHEVISTS MAKING PEACE WITH ESTHONIA AND "LITHUANIA.

RECRUDESCENCE

DISTURBANCES IN

OF IRELAND.

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AMERICA AND THE PEACE TREATY,

PRESIDENT WILSON'S FIRM'

STAND.

OMARA, September 9th... President Wilson, referring to the re Bervation cabled on September 5th, said that the United States must take or·leúva the Treaty as it stood.

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EARL GREY.

DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON FIXED.

LONDON, September 5th. Earl Grey sails on the Mauretania Taufe for Washington on September 30th,

GERMANY'S BREACH OF TREATY TERMS

FRENCH CRGE EXTENSION OF

" OCCUPATION.

Pants, September ach.

A Hixas estge says......

The Washington message of September

1. The French Delegation has strongly 6th ways: The Senate Foreign Relations Compitler, having considered the Presurged the Supreme Coupril that wniose Treaty, has reported to the Sennur after. Reservations:- Providing adopting that the nited States he interpreter the Monru Bartrine, that pariff immigra ter мод tion and other domestic questions be deter- individual nations, that the mined by United States declines to assume any ter- mandate without a ritorial obligation.ar -direct resolution from Congress, and that the USA. reserves the right to withdraw from the Feague of Natings-j

UPPER SILESIA.

COMMISSION RECOMMENDS

ALLIED OCCUPATION.

Oth.

LUNDCs, September The Allied Mission to Upper Silesia. consisting of high military representa tives of Britain, the Faited States, France and Italy, have arrived at

Sosnowier

Liermang agrees to suppress the clauses. in her fonstitution presaging a union with Austria without further delay the area of occupation on the Rhing should I extindech 27, the expiration of the ultimatum.

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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1919.

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GERMANY.

A FALSE ALARM FROM STUTTGART.

THE BRITISH NAVY. STRAIGHT TALK BY LORD FISHER

Jepoy, September 9th. Lord Fisher, in a series of articles in the Teine on the development of the

·Sturravay, September 9th. The apath who fired on General Lettoweforms, says that the Seapa Flow, had Savy, describing the inauguration of his run Vorisek, only used a toy pistol.

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A SPEFT AMONG THE INDEPEN

DENT SOCIALISTS.

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COPENHAGEN, September 9th.

A telegrams from Berlin states that a leavage has securred among the Indepen dent Socialists, 'The opposing elements

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nut been surveyed nad was nameless in 1905, when he sent a surveying vessel there: the result being that the Fleet was stationed there before the war."

DISORDER IN SPANDAU.

chequer, Mr. Lloyd George, for the land The Extremists arranged a demonstra-ing of 1,000,000 Russians 82 miles from tion at Spandau but found the venue Berlin. These amphibian monsters would Degupied by Government troops who turn-

have been weather, shot, mine and torpedo ed their machine-guns on the procession, proof, each bolding masses of men, guns, wounding five. After this, the crowd horses and mistors, ploughing their way like huge hippopotami, nad crawling up the shore like tanks." The oil-engine would have done it the engine which would yet revolutionize romme Fur And alter sen warfare.

dispersed.

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RIOTS IN BREMEN.. There we riots in Bremer, the dis- turbances annyluding with a street fight.

AVIATION. GOVERNMENT ASSISTING COM MERUTAL ENTERPRISE,

stations,

The assistance wild"ivelade wireless meteorological information sheds, and a trained personnel.

It was urgent,..on politira!'grounds, that a schepse should be launched very speedily.

The merci decided to appoint a fina cial committee to consider details,

SIR D. HAIG IN THE CITY PRAISE FOR OUR ALLIES.

Sir Douglas Haig received the hon. Freedom of the Carpenters Company, ove of the oldest of the fondos City Guilds.

entertained at luncheon, on July 17th.

Subsequently Sir Douglas beig was

the health of Field Marshal Sir Douglas The Master insuhaitting the toast of

Haig, said it was the proudest moment in the annals of the Carpenters Company where they were privileged to welcome, as a member a man of such world wide. hear. They had all witnessed the simple distinction as Sir Douglas Haig (Hear, little ceremony of admitting their young-

DAY It was

Loypos, September 9th. The question of the disposal of airships

eommerfiat enterprise was discussed at a and Government assistance to gerial

eonference in London, turday, Tetween representatives of the Air Ministry and person's interested in commercial aviation. Brigadier toneral Seely said that when HIS PLANS FOR AN, ARMADA,

the polition situation was cleare, in He dewires that" Etter reactionaries about a month, "the Air Ministry, and the derided the battle cruisers:

These Admiralty would rossbine to offer, cheap "muddlers also did not carry out hisly, airships to those who would undertake alternatively favour Parliamentary plan for

Armada of 612, vessels, the formation of commercial airfest Freeman, and the antiquity of that faction, and are against direct action." authorised by the Chancellor of the Ex-

scheme

company (their records went back for nearly 300 years) and the trudition which the rezemony represented gave it its chief - interist on the Field-Marsha and their other guests. It was the greatest. Honour that they uld bestow, and they 38 per prond indeed when they recrived Sir. Douglas Haig's acceptance. He and all of them had had many dark days to go through since then before they chrongh to a triumphant peach, quite unnecessary to recount the plurious dreds of the Commander-in-Chief through- at the wondrous rampaign. but one episode sevimed to him to stand out, and DANGERS TO INDUSTRY,

certainly appealed to him as a human being, and that was the magnificent and EFFECT OF HIGH INCOME-TAN,

Whole-hearted way in which their guest The Royal Commission on lactone Tax, had 'effaced himself and placed his mer- under the chairmEnship of Lord Colwyn,

vices and those of the ever-valorous met on July 17th at 12, Great Georges

British Army under Marshal Foch when street. Westrainstes. when evidence was he felt that the position would he helped thereby There was another matter ha given by Mr. Sidney Webb," Professor of would like to allude to, and which he Public Administration in the University las Haig's character and that was his thought so much redounded to Si Dong- of London. Messrs. Scrimgeour and active interest in the pension hardships. Johnston, on behalf of the committee of would agree with him. Hid him dhe great- he thought, they the Stock Exchange; Mr. Harold Cux. est credit. (Cheers) and Sir Archibald Williamson, B., M-P

Mrs Webu gonsidered that to meet should be raised to £230, and that the present allowances for wife and children should at least be doubled. The age limit for the children's allowance should be pais from 16 to 36, and allowances abould not be limited to tax-payers whose in comes do not exceed £900. He suggested that windfalls" and gains of an occa

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** GRIMINAL TOLLE OF THE SILLY INDIWE."

Lord Fisher says that be re-enters, the SCOURGE OF BOLSHEVISM

arena very reluctantly, but, what was BOLSHEVIKS MAKE PRÁCE WITH meant to be privacy must be published,

ESTHONIA,

to help enainy. Drastic serapping was as necessary as very life itself, as the nation condemns the criminal folly of the silly crowd who want the British Navy dis persed over the world. He says that the massacre of the Prynsus ip Zanzibar was due to this award policy of isolated small eruft in peace tink.

foxos, September 9th A Moscow telegram states that the Soviet tlovernment Thats Esthonia's proposal to hold peace nego- accepted

tiations N Pakof. The Soviet has arranged for the safe conduct of the kikle

No farther reply is necessary, sier the gates on September 10th. Note was sent last werk nadia as a real ultimatum, the failure to comply with which carries mediate sanction; for any

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH

LITHUANIA,

THE MISSION OF THE BATTLE CRUISER. He deplores the fact that the mission.

THE SILVER MARKET.

Losis. September 9th. The silver market is steady,"

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Maid

Thin

A DESPERATE STRUGGLE."

It is reported from Warsaw that the of the battle cruiser was totally unappre action which the Allies see fit to emping Bälshevik and. Lithuaning peace negotin rinted till the Torincdile sanz von Spee's modern conditions the exemption him much he owed to the quality of the sol-

THE FATE OF SYRIA

NO CONFLICT BETWEEN FRENCH AND ENGLISH GOVERNMENTS.

PARIS, September nth.

A Havas, message sings:-- General Sir Edhiune Allenby, who Arrived in Paris yesterday, denied the existence of a conflict between the French) and English Governments..

sent representatives to the front.

tions will start immediately, on the form-quadron. The pen and the resin er's initiative The Lithunnians have escaped because the battle cruisers in the | Mediterranean were not used. If they (had gobbled up, the Borben" and the Brest, there would have been no Galli poli and the Baltic would have beon | sional nature should be made liable to

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Loknos, September Colonel John Ward, Labour M.P., who has just returned from Russia, interview.

Sir Douglas Haig, in returning thank. be knew better than one how diers who fought under his command. He understood also and must deeply ap preciated the nature of the support that the nation at large gave to the Army and to him. He had often had occasion to speak of the Army, and. would be difficult to any too much regard

and certainly

it ing what our men of all ranks had done. It was for that reason that he had been insistent that everything possible did

Poccupied. and Berlin captured by the incometax and pointed out that such should be done for them now. Yet he

WHEN THE SUBMARINE WAS RIDICULED,

accasional profits are brought into assess.

directed to show the danger which threa energy, and determination of Pab

all at

Russians landing, covered by the Britishment by the incometax laws of Hanburg, furget the nation itself, and the morn Fleet.

Breton, and Basie. City and by those of he had travelled about the British Isles Australia and New Zealand.

it had been past few months the

the mora The evidence of the representatives of much the nation itself had done too. brought home to bim how the committee of the Stock Exchange yas The self-sacrifice, tens British industries"in general, and

men and women, "was astounding. the resultant business on, London bank. man could gay

how much the Army: owed ing, exchange and stock markets owing to the magnificent spirit displayed by

the present high rate of income-tax on their kinsmen and kinswomen in all interest derived from capital invested by of Empire. It

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was only proper that foreigners in this country. They con- this should

be understood, sidered that under present financial con mind it could not be understood too wide- ditims it was of paramount importance. The pation had a

After hearing considerable evidence. holding long conferences, and visiting various towns and camps of the fugitives and insurgents, General Dupont, the France is to receive the mandate for, said that to desert the Russians, who

He says that the most striking feature French representative, ordered the insur Syria. Complete union of views is shar rallied to our standard, would make our of the pre-war period was the ridicule

name stink in the nostrils of every non- gents and fugitives to be informed thated by the French and English Govern-

east on the submarine.. When a young he is telegraphing to Paris urging the ments in regard to Syria.

Bolshevik Russian.

submarine commander in pre-war man- We went to necessity of despatching Allied troops to.

Russia to prevent the Ger-wires twice torpedded a hostile flagship, masaransferring then to the Western and claimed it as a prize all the change occupy Upper Silesia.

Such occupation, for technical reasons FRENCH FISHING INDUSTRY. Prat Are we now to sity to those who he got was the Admiral's signal: You

GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO RE rallied round

cannot be carried out until September .20.b.

THE LEAGUE OF NAHONS PRELIMINARY ORGANISATION

PROCEEDING, ...

LONDON, September 9th. The preliminary organisation of the League of Nations is proceeding.

General Allenby will stay two days in Paris,

GIVEN.

EARIS, September "9th.

A Havas message Raya:— A Bill will shortly be introdured into

You've served our

· be ́damned."*

Burn: we are going: we wish you luck ? ?*]

That said Col, Ward, is unthink- h it would be black treachery, to leave them to face the enemies they've

more substantial than our goodwill"

the French Parliament in encourage the ad for our sakes without anything declares that he was literally persecuted construction of trawlers and improve the arrangements for landing 6sh in French ports.

FRENCH COMMERCIAL

CONFERENCE

IN PARTS ON OCTOBER 27TH.

PARIS, September th.

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A Committee representing all the adherents of the League will hold their fret meeting in London after the Ger man Peace Treaty has been duly ratified.

The first business will include the ap- pointment of a Governing Commission for the Baar Yalley, within a for night of the League's official birth, also a High Commission for Dantzig. as speedily us possible.

The meeting is of first importance, the The Committee will also confirm ir matters for discussion being French corn- Eric Drummond's appointment as Secmercial balanse, and the drop in French.

exchange.

retary General, and prepare the agenda for the public inaugural meeting of the Assembly of the Lengue at Washington, which will probably not before March.

A number of appointments have been provisionally made to the Secretariat.

**These include ten different nationalities.

FRENCH STRIKES.

BETTLEMENT OF THE THREATRI- CAL LOCK-OUT.

PARIS, September 9th, Managers and representatives of the artista conferred to-day, with a view to'

BRITISH LABOUR

TRADE UNION CONGRESS AT GLASGOW,

LONDON, September 9th. The Trade Union Congres, by a card A Havas message says:- An assembly of Presidents of the Chamote, passed a resolution, on a motion bers of Commerce in France and her by Mr. R. Smillie, by 4,000,000 votes to Colonies will take place in Paris on 2,000,000, referring back to the Parlia- mentary Committee the passage in the Committee's Report which dealt with direct action," but did not express an opinion this connection, merely saying

October 27th

THE AUSTRIAN TREATY

SUPREME COUNCIL APPROVES COLONIAL CONVENTIONS.

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PARIS, September 9th. The Supreme Council has approved

Austria's signature...

the text of the Colonial Conventions for

The Conventions relate to the sale of

action"

HIS TNBOUNDED BELIEF IN SUBMARINER Lord Fisher quotes a memorandum he eirenlated in January, 1984, in which he said that the submarine was the coming type of warship for rea-lighting- He

for building gubinarines while he was First Sen Lord, and says that when he left the Admiralty in January, 1910, there were 61 efficient suboviripes and 13 being bailt, but when he returned in October..] 1914, there were only 51: so he summoned the Schwab Bethlehem Steelworks," whe delivered a batch of submarines in five menthun unprecedented feat, us 1 months was the previous record. These Submarines went to America and the Dardanelles unconvoyed and neted there prodigiously.

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LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

the passage was referred back it would except ourselves is pushing ahead. The be construed as a vote in favour of "direct experimental laboratory for the develop

on political issues, but the vote ment of this engine, instituted by the spirits, traffic in arms, and the abolition would not prevent a direct resolution on Board of Inventions: liliputian in of certain clauses in the Declaration of the subject later. Brussels of 1800,

size and miserly in inadequacy. "I really look forward to the Day of Judgment when all the champion liars now so highly

DISTURBED IRELAND

UNRULY CROWDS AT FERMOY.

Lonnos, September 9th. A crowd wrecked lifty shops at Fermoy

"a settlement of the theatrical lock-out.resterday evening.

MUNICIPAL EMPLOYES'

DECISION.

The Municipal employés dévided in striko to-day..

GENERAL PERSHING. GREAT OVATION IN NEW YORK.

Naw YORK, September, Oth. "General Perahing arrived to-dav. and

was ceremoniously welcomed. ceived a very popular ovation.

To re-

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BRITISH TROOPS ATTACKED IN CORK COUNTY,

LONDON, September Oth. A large body of armed civilians attack- ed a military convoy a few miles from Fermoy on Sunday evening, captured 25 rifles, and drove off in motor-cars. Skibbedeen, on Sunday evening, attempt Twenty or thirty men, four miles from

ed to hold up a party of armed soldiers in a motor-lorry but desisted when the soldiers presented their rides.

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parts

his

and to

of what it had accot to be proud

of the sacri- and of

"the

to this country to attract foreign capi

fices it made for tal, which, in spite of the well-known security that Britain offers, would not tremendous energy it put into the singla flow here if a tax of 30 per cent, on the

task of winning the war. After all, the Arpy Wa incorar were dedacted. They advocated tion of that resistless energy and devoted

but the supreme manifesta either a complete remission of the British spirit of self-sacrifice which inspired the income tax to foreigners or a "reduction in whole nation. Even though the full mea- the scale of taxation to not more than "Is. are of estates of foreigners in this country nut be known in our time, yet, for the in the pound. They did not suggest that race accomplished during the war might are of what the men and women of our

should not be liable to death duties," and sake of the generation now growing up they pointed out that if Foreign capital to manhood, they had no right to refuse were attracted by low rate of income, the credit that was fairly ours. tax the revene would gain the boneft

on the death of the holders.

Sir Archibald Williamson dealt with three points:

The effect of income-tax upon the formation of British companies where the targely raised abroad: the effect of the enterprise is abroad and the capital is

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to disparage or minimise the efforts and To accept that credit was in no way achievements of our Allies. Nothing *could farther from his thoughts and his desires than to attempt to do that. Nothing that he had ever said, whether he had known that there were reporters not, had been present at the time..or whether he

had with that intention.

I have so often added, Sir Douging,

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stemple baxation, of foreign companies

and in so through their agencies in (reat Britain; our overseas busines and the effect of double income-tax upon my admiration of the deda, expressed of är Allies. whether on the Western or the Eastern He stated that with a high rale of tax fronts, whether they belong to töe old obtain foreign capital for an enterprise can say a word or two in it was becoming increasingly difficult to world" or the -new, that

I trust that I carried on abroad by British company, own people without giving offences to

praise

my registered and controlled in this country, hers, for whose

pthant

many successful actions and he suggested that the foreign recipi. in the field I have

nothing but

but admira Lord Fisher declares that the British ents of dividends from such companies tion and gratitude. Even as I am in a should be allowed to reclaim either the better position than most to realise the that the principle involved was grave. nation is going to make the 11 kame

whole of the tax deducted or alternative-

fall worth of what our own Armies have Before the vote was taken the chair-damned mess over the internal combusly the balance down to ed.

1s, in the and I admit that I am jealous for man (Mr. Stuart Bunning) said that if tion engine, with which every, nation pound. With regard to the taxation of tion to understand to the full the magni reputation ho also am I in a posi foreigners through their agents here. Sir tude of the efforts and sacrifices of our Archibald Williamson explained that Allies, the gallantry of their troops, and coating to appoint agents, and obtaining by our united efforts, the combined was foreigners could easily avoid liability by the value of their achievements. It orders by correspondence or by travellers. deavours of all the Allied countries, that was endeavouring to establish itself in united action and continued co-operation He pointed out that British enterprise we gained the victory. It will be by our every foreign country, and any attempt and goodwill that we shall reap to the full to penalise agencies here would reanit in the fruits of pesor (Cheers.) nation harder than any other. On the his remarks chiefly on the position as it

DOCTORS' NOVEL DUEL. affects the commercial rolations of this country with foreign countries, and espc. of St. Paul, and Dr. Hill, of Minnesota, After protests from many, Dr. Zettel. cially with the United States. He drew virtually decided

July 13th. attention to the provision in the U.S.A. articles to regalste a straight scientific

upon. SQUADRONS.

Revenue Act which allows the tax paid experiment on modern lines. It is in the country of origin as a act-off virtually duel between ordinary health LONDON, September 9th.” The

Admiralty has ordered a reduction

against the tax payable in the country of and the Intent methods of inoculating the discontinuance of military intervenin the Home Fleet battleships and the residence, and suggested that a similar against disease.

Zettel holds that the tion in Russia and in Trade Union dis- Fourth and Fifth Destroyer Flotillas to policy here would be a possible way out viciousness of germs hea been

greatly ex- putee at home

of a very serious position. a reserve basis from September 1st.

aggerated. He relies upon bealthy food Mr. Harold. Cox laid two propositions and drink for protection Hill will reduce on completion of wiv, similarly before the Commission through the potion.

of inoculati Baltic,

income-tax should be made absolutely and vaccination. Both undertake to ex- reconstructed Fourth Destroyer universal, so that no person could claims themselves to the germs of typhoid Flotilla and the Second Light Cruiser full rights of citizenship without paying or

bubonic plage, and Squadron will be fully manned and will income tax, and (b) that the tax should Zettel and Hill are two quiet-looking in a duel to the death. join the Atlantic Fleet, Submarine be levied at the source in the case of gentlemen, each desirous of hoisting his flotillas attached to the Atlantic Fleet wage-earners as it already is with divid opponent with his own petard, and only will be reduced to saven each of the "K," end drawers, land owners, and Civil regretting that the public has becom

"L" and "B" Clauses.

aware of the strange challenge.

retaliatory measures which would hit our

Included in the passage referred back was the record of the refusal of the Coth bonoured will be exposed and flagellated," question of double income-tax, he based

mittee to comply with the request of the

He concludes by declaring that his Triple Alliance to call a special Trade years, from 1902 to 1910, at the Admiralty. Union Congress to

discuss whether won the war.

RECONSTRUCTION OF HOME direct action should be taken to enj force the abolition of conscription and

FRENCH ELECTIONS.

PROBABLY ON NOVEMBER STA...

PARIS, September 9th." The general elections will probably be

held on November 9th.

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