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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18T. 1919.

TO SAVE YOUR MONEY

We sell high-class Cigars,

Cigarettes and Tobaccos

at very moderate prices.

TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,

10, Des Voeux Road, Opposite King Edward Hotel.

OUR PRICE LISTS HAVE NOW BEEN PUBLISHED AND

BALTIC PROVINCES. GERMAN CONSPIRACY,

ADMISSION FROM BERLIN.

Hope of restoring discipline among the

THEATRE

ROYAL

TO-NIGHT

revolting troops at Mitan seems slight Saturday, Nov. 1st, 1919.

(wrote the Daily Telegraph's special correspondent in Berlin on August 29th).

Though only the fron Division of MINISTERING CHILDRENS' LEAGUE

new

General von der Goltz is involved, the whole Reichswehr (the

Germare army) is full of officers; it is even said that ure in every thres are adherents" of this division, apparently lent from else wbere. It is freely stated by the Radical papers and by old members of the Laid wehr that the officers are more interested than the men in the continued occupation of the Baltic Provines. They drive profitable trade is highly needed articles, live well on the bargnial estates, and end

BENEFIT.

Under the distinguished patronaga

of

H.E. SIR R. E STUBBS, K.C.M.G.

HE Major-General F. VENTRIS, G.0.0. 81R WILLIAM BEES-DAVIES, Chief Justice

Kt.

only expect unwelcome demobilisation Commodore V.G. Grisiz, R.N. when evacuation is accomplished.

It is said on behalf of the Lettish The Hun. Mr. SaveEN, CALG. Government that no promise was made

of land in return for the services of tha

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troops; it was only stated that they lan might take up citizenship, and that each case would be considered on its merits. A well-informed friend, kowever, tells me that a full promise was minde, but that its fulfilment was forbidden by the Entente.

My estimate as to a projected free- booting expedition is singularly confirm- ed by a writer in Vorwerts, who says:

During the last four weeks copious news has come to hand that a German privateering expedition is being organi Psed in the Baltic regions. German

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bers to Lettland. They have there been expressly asked by their comrades to pre pare for coming action. The expressed object is a private, but very well financed, mobilisation for a great privateer was against the Polcs. Equipment, during these last weeks, Bas been going on ander the eves of Count von der Goltz, and would have been impossible without his knowledge. The present outbreak of the men is clearly therefore the result of an agreement between the officer camarilla and the Baltic barons, and creates the

excuse for the wild privateer war that

will now break out."

The writer goes on to say that the move- ment is bound up with a desire to sabo tage the Peace Trenty and rescue the "Eastern territory lost by the Pence agreement."

Freiheit says there will be no peace in

Lettland till Goltz bas been peremptorily

recailed: It reminds ita readers that Müller asked for his recall last May, but in August, after he became Foreign. Secretary, vigorously defended him.

A COMPARISON OF SEA- POWER.

BRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVIES.

Is the British naval critic, Archibald Eurd, entirely candid when he says that the United States has now in commission 31 battleships, and that we (the British) bave in a similar state of readiness battleships and 'five cruisers" asks the We Tork Times, He concludes s follows

I doubt whether at any period dur- ing the last two or three hundred years the British fleet ever approached, much less has fallen below, an equality with any Power in its standard of commis- sinnings. and we used to aim at the two-power standard.

Mr. Hard omits to identify the battle- ehips which he counts as the respective Beeta of the United States and Cirent Britain. There is no doubt that, the 22

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houghts, and the presumption is that the

five cruisers are battle cruisers, which

zre almost as valuable for offence as bat Even if you have to pay a little

tleships. He would End it difficult to

tunt 31 dreadnoughts in commission in more for it.

the United States Navy, and he knows that

it includes

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it must be considered that he is A stout partisan of it. and that he may sometimes be inspired. 71 There is no reason to doubt that the British Navy could expand rapidly if confronted by a sudden emergency.

"AMERICA'S NEED FOR DEFENCE.

fidence:

This it United States Navy with be said, however, with con- the new construction planned is in a fair was to take first place among sea powers. navy to a

A policy of reducing the

minimum, following the British example, would be unwise. The United States has two coasts

to protect, and Asiatic pos- sessions to hold. In respect to the neces sity of

strong defence it may be said

to have changed places with Great

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