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CANTON NEWS

THE TROUBLES, IF KOŃCHOWOT

TYPHOON OFF ANNAM COAST, SEYHRAL STEAMERS BADLY DAMAGED.

sustained by ships, which encountered the Reports continue to come in of damage typhoon, off the Annam const on Novem ber 31st.

GERMAN GOODS,

**SOLD TOO CHEAPLY."

RZBERGER'S STATEMENT.

There was rumour in Shameen yes. At the sitting of the National Assembly terday that the Japanese have becupied on October 1st., on the occasion of the Foochow, but, according to the informa interpellation by the German People' tion given by the Telegraph company to Party regarding the low standard of Gerthe Telegraph office in Shameen, it ap The Tras os Monter, which brought the man specie, the Finance Minister, Harr

that further detachment of Wiltshire Regiment, did not get the full Erzbergar, declared:---

As the strongest contradiction of the Japanese marines have been landed at force of the typhoon. Nevertheless, to Foochow, but there is no confirmation of wind was strong enough to carry away assertion that: the distrust of foreign the occupation report. The Tuchun has bar wireless installation and do other countries is directed against me person now ordered the Telegraph company to damage on deck. ally, I am able to announce that I have

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A. G. DA ROCHA. IS THE AUCTIONEER.

AND

A. G. DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER SURVEYOR GENERAL BROKER Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 1932.

FAVOURED with instructions from

The Concerned,

just succeeded in arranging in Hollandagsor telograms relating to the trou. The Panoma, Maru did not look as trim will I by Public Auction, on MONDAY,

December 1st, 1918 11 at

at his Sales Room, 1,200 lbs. Assorted Chocolates in Fancy b. Khres-will be sold in mall lots.

bis in Foochow before delivering them as usual when she steamed into the hir a large specie-credit for the delivery of to the addresses. Peking cables state bour on Wednesday afternoon. She had goods. After five years of terrible war- fare, faith in the German nation and its that Li How-ki, the Fukier Tuchun, has many deck fixtures blown away and roll- lished all at once. A primary condition Government regarding the panic prevail delayed for two days on her voyage from

Singapore. for the recovery of Germany is an ade-ing in Foochow owing to the landing of

So far as is known here, the greatest quate supply of foodstuffs and of raw the Japanese marines. It has asked the materials, and the fullment of the Peking Government to send some of the damage was suffered by the American economic and political demands of the Northern gunboats to Foochow to appease steamer Doylestown, which arrived in masses at large. The burdens of taxation the people. It is stated that the Amer typhoon and suffered considerable dam! will force the nation to get to work. Fean Government, on hearing of the treat- nge. The wireless installation. ventila-

capacities cannot be completely re-estabent numerous telegrams to the Peking, ed heavily, in the rough seas, having been Boxes," in very god condition 1b, 1lb. and

They will not leave any idler the po

ment

port yesterday.

She ran full into the

accorded to the American mis-tor's, lifeboats and light rigging were all : sibility of living on his dividends. Insionaries in Focchow by the Japanese, carried away. the place of the unemployment dole we made representations to the Japanese pore on November 17th. and, therefore, The steamer left Singa ars to have an insurance fund against unemployment. Work by agreement is Government. Another message states took ten days for a voyage which is usual- making progress, especially in the State that a number of American warships have ly completed in six. The wind came from Factories.

The import of every possible ready-made article and of luxuries proves at the Philippine Islands for Foochow the North-east that the Government cannot, without The American cruiser in Canton is also some definite plan, prevent the import

The Glenfallach, which arrived yester-

6 cases Victor Coffee in 1 lb. and 5 lbs. Cartons in very good condition, will be sold in small löte to suit purchasers.

4POINTER PUPS (MALES) 6 WIRK). TERMICA on delivery. Hopakong, November 8th, 1919. 148

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NOTICE ALL Persons with the exception, "of

persons of Chinese race, hing to- Leave the Colony mus have in their posses- sion & VALID PASSPORT. Passengers not in possession of passports will not be allowed i to leave the Colony.

able Men's Wear for Senit unnecessary thinga. The import of believed to be under orders for Foochow day from Singapore, which port she left- All persons, with certain exceptions,

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raw materials has been safeguarded, and as large quantities of provisions have an agreement regarding large quantities beep sent to the cruiser by the compra of petrol, for a series of years, is, in- minent. No large loan can be expected before the ratification of the Fence Treaty. Loanseekers in every part of the world are waiting before the door the only moneylender

of importance, the United Stater

With regard to

question. The Finance

mana exchange) This is not merely a German affair, but an international one. The European States are starving partly because of the low standard of their valutas, or they are being stifled owing to a fox favourable valuta which cripples their export capa city. Germany, therefore, has made all preparations for international discus- sions, regarding the settlement of the European "monetary system, with the in clusion of the United States. It is also

oochow a deputation of the Fukieneso In consequence of the troubles in

MF's waited upon the Military Govern bent and also enquired from the Adminis rative Directors if any steps were likely to be taken. Dr. Wa Ting-tang could not give any defnite assurance, so the M.Ps, then marched to the Naval leaders who are mostly Fukienese. The American cruiser Helena lefs Canton for Foochow

yesterday.

MENT

dr.

November 28th..

on November 20th, "reports that she en- Who remain in the Colony for more than countered a very strong North-east mon-elves under the RBGISTRATION

7 days are required to Begister them- soon, with a very high N.N.E. swell south Forms of Registration, giving the par

PERSONS ORDINANCE, 1916. of the Paracela

ticulars required, may be obtained at: the G.P.O. and at all Police Stations." The Penalty fordon compliance is Que not exceeding $50.

E. D. O. WOLFE Captain Buperintendent of Police, Hongkong, September 2nd, 1918

KUNO METER DEAD.

A THAITUR TO ENGLAND.

Government Wireless on October 11th. A message issued through the Berlin

states that Professor Kuno Meyer, of the Berlin University, who was known also in Anglo-Saxon circles as greatest authorities on the English and one of the

finelic languages, and as a champion of Irish literature in Europe, has died, after a short illness, at Leipzig, at the age of sixty-one..

German Jew came prominently before The record of this notorious "kultured the British public in the early part of 1918. For nineteen years, during which University, he kept he had been a professor at Liverpool was found

Mary in which it that bo recorded; every land. Before the outbreak zhe Great thing

that could be arged against Eng- Wir be went back to Berlin, so as to be events, and at the actual beginning of fully

informed as to the development of hostilities he was sent by the German Government to America on a mission to

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a deplorable state of affairs that German REORGANISATION OF THE MILITARY GOVERN exporters still sell far too cheaply. This means the wasting of national values, damages foreign industry and has caused The reorganisation of the Military

it dissatisfaction against German enter-Government has been recommended by the

se. In order to avoid all this, negotia

are now being conducted with the MPs after their failure to form a new- interested

parties. Fresh counter-mes Government. The name of the Military sures are being taken for the prevention Government is to be known as the As of the migration of capital and the

of taxes."

god

sodiated Government of the South-West During the debate, the former State Provinces, and the Administrative Direc. Minister

of the Treasury, Herr Gothe, stated that a lasting improvement in the tors are to remain. A responsible Cabinet valuta is impossible so long as prices on is to be formed by the Fremier, and a the German comestic market. do not ap- proximate the prices in the domestic mar. Council is to be established comprising kets of the world. At the in the world Unless illicit trading in discuss political affairs. It has also been England and to inspire, by his speeches PALACE HOTEL, KOWLOON" Germany is actually the cheapest country the Ministers of the various boards to the West be stopped, a healthy regula decided that the camber of the Adminis tion of imports and exports is impossible,trative Directors should vary according

In this connection, the State Finance

Minister Herr Erzberger, declared him to the needs of the time, and that the

self in full agreement with the previous Chairman of the Directors should be speaker, and pointed ou

out that so long as the Entente does not make Germany the elected at each meeting.

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is virtually impossible to regularise the cxonomic existence of

It is stated that about $700,000 was purate an orderly anan Germany, and to do not even poness the power to carry

We handed over by the Commissioner of the out the Peace Treaty so long as an Canton Customs to the Military Govern- healthy national forces are handicapped ment yesterday, being the fourth contri-

bleeding

wounds

in the west. By ite

at the cheapest rate obtainable owing to attitude the Entente damages itself. No bution paid by the Foreign Diplomats to

favourable exchange.

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reliable and decent merchant class can the Military Government from the custom maintain itself in Germany if every illicit surplus. The total amount of the con- trader in the occupied regions, is able to establish branches and can compete with tributions so far received, is a little over the German merchant.

to

ferentange

presentatives

of

Herr Erzberger than announced that three million dollars. the English Government had been able THE CIVIL GOVERNORSHIP,

that on October 10th. a con- Commander Shumi Hung-ying is now be, bold between Entente re

regarding the Customs mentioned as a probable candidate for frontiers As an example of the misuse the appointment of Ciril Governor She Wenter German Custom frontiers; Shum has done much for the province. transferred from Copenhagen to Ham, burg, vid the Rhine frontier. He also

Civil mentioned a case in which a consignment Governor is, however, still under con from Czecho-Slovakia to Dresden was sideration. sent vid Austria, Switzerland, Mainz, and thence to Dresden-Wireless GENERAL LUX'S MOVEMENTS.

despite the fact that he had been indebted

no conception of the real

the Irish people there,, among whom he did everything in his power, to vility

Senate of the University of Liverpool at an uprising in Ireland. The Council and pace placed on formal record their con demnation of the action of Moyer, who, to our country for hospitality and honour during a period of thirty years, had been acting since the war began as an agent

sedition,

and had imputed treason to loyal Irish soldiers, prisoners at the time in Germany. Meyer, in a letter to the Morning Post, made an impotent attempt to defend his action. He had evidently offending. There was nothing repugnant I gravamen of his to his standards of decency and honour fed. Even such great benefits and bon- in biting the band by which he had been ours as this country had conferred on him were not reason sufficient to make him, na he wrote, "disloyal to his native coun- try." But they might, with anyone but a German professor, have been held suff- of malignant hostility to the country of cient to restrain him from a campaign his adoption. They should have been a to foment disaffection in and to bear faire bar to his deliberate and persistent effort witness against a nation by which he had

attempting, a h did, to stdb his benefactors in the back gettable object lesson of what the German Meyer furnished a striking and unfor nature was capable. ineffable Abstraction Auitur such cond

According to that It is reported that General Luk Wing-

as that of which Meyer had been guilty was the most natural thing in the world ting is proceeding to Wuchow to meet it was evidently not only permissible bat Shum-Chan duen Shum left Canton

even laudable. It was, however, condu-t such as that of Meyer which has helped to for Wuchow the other day and it is said make the name of German a thing of con

conference is to be held attempt and odium. An extract was published in Paris, on

Wachow regarding the question of peace, October 14th. from the report of the Milias many of the leaders in Canton are tary Commission of Inquiry which has ending, representatives to meet General

the circumstances of the Frane British ahensive of April 1917. Link there The report, which has hitherto been re garded as confidential, sets forth Marshal ERANGSE OCSYZLENCE, Foch's opinion of

those

operations, and includes the following passage

A message from Wachow states that If the whole of the hoped for results Bhum Chun-huen passed through Wu- were not achieved, it is none the less true chow and the Washow authorities met that the operations constituted a Teni success for our armies. Under the threat him on board the gunboat by which he is of its preparation the enemy refused travelling General Lak is going to the battle on part of his front and evacuated Wei Yuen district to meet him. Dr. 3,000 square kilometres of ground, theres ring-fang has also been invited to by liberating an eighth part of the. in- vaded territory: A to the attack itself the conference it secured 55,000. prisoners, 800

And 1,000 machine guns.

Press.

and

THE 1917 OFFENSIVE. MARSHAL FOCH CALLS IT A REAL SUCCESS.

In addition to these material results,

Trentino front, awept

The question of appointing &

November 27th..

STUDENT'S AGITATION.

Owing to the strike of the students on the question of the dismissal of Ngai Pang-ping, the Superintendent of Polle the Civil Governor, Chang Kam-fang invited the headmasters of the various schools affected to his yemen to discs Proposal for bringing strike to an end. Governor has issued orders to the students No decision was arrived at The Civil to return to their schools within three obtain their certificates and may even be days failing which they will be unable, to expelled from the schools in regard to the arrest of journalists the Civil

Governor has taken over, the inquiry into. their cases personally

TROOPS ATTACKED BY BANDITS,

It is stated that General Luk Wing ting It is reported that about three hundred and thanks to the rapid wearing down intends to re-assume office as the Inspector of Li Fook-lam's troops, who are station. of the enemy's reserver, the offensive die

ed at a place just on the boundaries of engaged the Italian

General of the two Kwange (Kwangtung the Nam Hol and Shun Tak districts, elf danger from the Russian front, and and Kwangsl) with Chah Ping-kwan as were attacked by a gang of about s placed the initiative of the

hands for operations in the maneung

Foch order the transfers of the two Tachun; Their headquarters were burned dem were overpowered and many were dljed. it with M Poincaré to Belpra Homing, the Kwangsi Tachao, and almost all their arms were seized by gium, assured King Albert the 14 GRA Wint-son, the Canton Tuchangia to be the bandita, : Only a smail number of #56

Liberté states that his assistant. Luk bas also decided thousand, bandits yesterday? The soldiers

to be transfered to Canton and Mok

oral Nivelle had been allowed to go on tramfered to Kwangshaipatched, a large fares foko the French territory might

soldiers managed to escape Compiander, have boen liberated sixteen months sooner

Continued at foot of next column.)

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