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KAISER'S
RATTLING
THE HONGKONG DAILY PERSS, THUESDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 1919.
SABRE.
"I'SHALL NOT STAND ANY NONSENSE.”
SERIOUS FIUME DEVELOPMENT.
GERMANY
BLAMES ALLIES FOR SCAPA
FLOW.
STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATES AND MEXICO.
LATEST CABLES.
TAROTGH RELTER'S AGENCY,"
· GERMANY'S SURRENDERED
WARSHIPS
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. | ALLIES BLAMED FOR SCAPA FLOW
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
STRAINED.
New YORK, November 29th..
Relations between the United States and, Mexico are strained in view of the Mexican Government's refusal to release Jenkins, who the Consult Agent, Mr. was arrested after he was ransomed from the bandits.
Eagranza's soldiers shot and killed an American. Mr. Wallace, near Tampico. The State Department has ordered an investigation.
GERMAN OCCUPATION OF
4k
BELGIUM.
GERMANY TO RENEW VALUE OF NOTES.
BRUSSELS, November 29th.
An agreement has been concluded he tween, the Belgian and the German Gov -ernments by whith Germany undertakes to renew, within 20 years, German notes to the value of 6,000,000,000 marks imued
- dűring the German occupation, which the Belgian Government has withdrawn from circulation.
WAR REVELATIONS EX-KAISER'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS
་་་་
SERBIA,
LONDON, November 19th. The Times has published extracts from
·German official documents examined et the Wilhelmstrasse by Herr Kautsky, the Ġerpan Socialist writer," dealing parti- cularly, with responsibility for the war.
The extracts, which are published. the form of w diary, reveal.
SINEINGS.
BERLIN, November 29th. Germany has sent a memorandum to the Peace Conference blaming the Allies for the Scapa sinkings, as the warships, contrary to the Armistice, were interned in British ports and not în neutral ports: Germany contends that Admiral vOD Reuter had been cut off from intercourse with his homeland and was 'bound to
assume that the Armistice had ended on June 21st. and, therefore, he ordered the sinkings, in accordance with samens'
usage.s
Admiral von Reuter had been with drawn from the German Government's authority and the latter, therefore, had no responsibility for his acti...
In order, however, to prevent the dis pute delaying the Peace Treaty, and thus delaying an effect which is urgently de sired in Germany, it is proposed that the affair be submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Bague.
DIVISION OF THE FLEET.
Loxpos, November 29th.
A telegram from Paris states that the Supreme Council has adopted the British proposed partition of the German war Heet, allocating, in tonnage, to Britain; 70 per cent., to France and Italy, 10 per cent. erch, to Japan, 8 per cent, and to the United Stater, 2 per cent.
AMERICAN COAL OUTPUT.
A THREAT FROM THE DEPART-
MENT OF JUSTICE. «
WASHINGTON, November 29th, The Department of Justice announces in the most conclusive. manner that it will prosecute any mine-owners, or
in
the
that
Austria bad inconditional miners making any agreement to restrict support of Germandy in forcing war the production of coal, against Serbia in July. 1914. Extracts
from Ambassadorial despatches pub. lished with the ex-Kaiser's marginal notes, are typical. In commenting on the Tschirsky despatch of June 30th, 1014, the ex-Kaiser sayṣ:-"A clearance must
00
one
of
PARIS NEWSPAPER STRIKE RESUMPTION OF WORK DECIDED
UPON,
WELSH MINERS.
DISPUTE OVER PAYMENT OF INCOME TAX.
THE NEW FRENCH CHAMBER. EACH PARTY'S GAINS AND LOSSES.
Pais, November 23th.
A Haras message sayı:- The new Chamber will consist of 628 Deputies
**THE PEACE TREATY. GERMANY, CLAIMS FURTHER *
ALTERATIONS.
Pas, November 28th.
A Havas message nys:- The German Government has replied to the Supreme Council's Note, expressing its readiness to ratify the Pears protocol, but claiming that certain important clauses of the Fence Treaty be made less Guin, Lases, harsh,
The gains and the losses of each Party, 10 far as is officially, known, are. Ús follows.
party,
Leti Republicans Radicals
G
31
20
Radient Socialists
10
Republiest Socialists
13
Unified Socialists
13
**Dissident Socialists ...
8
Progressives
Active Liberais
10
MEXICO.
Conservative
of
NO FIGHTING IN THE CAPITAL
MEXICO CITY, November 29thj; There is no foundation for the rumours
fighting in the capital.
EARLIER CABLES.
NEW CHIEF GERMAN DELEGATF APPOINTED.
PARIS, November 27th.
A Havas message says:— 3. Clemenceau has sent letter
Lo
AUSTRALIA'S LOST LEGIONS.
MEMORIALS IN FLANDERS AND
around.
-INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
CONFERENCE.
BREEZE BETWEEN JAPANESE DELEGATES.
At the Women's Committee meeting of
... FRANCE..
Australian battle memorials have already been erected in- Belgium and in France as a tribute to the 30,000 gallant the International Labour Aonference at dead of the Eve divisions which represent-Washington on November. stb.. the Japanese" delegates, including all 'the the Dominion on the Western front, Rising proudly from the waste lands women adviærs, differed from each other hefore Ypres is
followed, Mrs. a tapered column to and recriminations dominate the shell-torn ground for miles Tanaka Koko (Baron Shibusawa's niece), Midway between Cambrai and Mrs, Ogata Setsuke, and others, dis St. Quentin, to the south. A similar russed the prohibition of night work for column rears itself from what was once
women, Mr. Satu Kobei, a Labour ad- the Hindenburg · Line. On the gauntviser, said that Japan is the only rountry brown, ridge of Pozières, with twisted in the world which does not prohibit night. trenches, rises a third monument. Very work for women, and such night work shortly a fourth will dominate the Sammie must be stopped at once, Valley from, Mericourt, and the bronze Sr. Muto of the Kanegaduchi Mills, figure of an Australian infantryman will the representative of eapital, opposed this demand for immediate abolition; on the Herr Leraner the German delegater be placed on the height of Mont St. ground that it would be a great blow to seating that France owes to Germany Quentiu.
Japanese industry, and because it would nothing except the strict execution of the Following the armistice the Australiando no good to Japanese works them-
belves. Treaty which ended the merciless war.Government decided to begin the construe Mrs. Tanaka Koko, speaking on behalf 'tion of adequate and permanent of Mr. Kamada, the Government delegate, memorials to the Australian divisions. A acknowledged. the necessity of prohibiting night work for womem Factory Act committee was constituted with Liou provides for its stoppage after fifteen tenant-General Sir J. J. Talbot, Hobbs as years, but, as the question has become an
Japah
rendy to enter the After considerable delibera acute one,
Convention. So far Mrs. Tanaka Berne president tion the following sites were selected:"
Pozieres (1st Division), Mont St. Quen spoke for Mr. Ha amuda. She proceeded to tin (2nd Division), Méricourt (3rd Divi ve ber uwn opinion that the abolition of xion), Bellenglise Division), and night work would be more gain than Fosa. Zonnebeke (5th).
She pointed out the evils of the present These sites are in commanding and con- system. (by which the mills are kept going spicuous positions. The names of the continually with a day and a night shift), places are reminiscent of the greatest from the social economic, technical; and feats-at-arms of the Australian divisions, hygienic points of view.
After the Committee dispersed. Mr. Under an avalanche of shell the 1st. Divi- sion achieved great deeds at Rozières inuto angrily attacked Mrs. Tanaka 1916. At Mont St Quentin in 1918 the
You
national expose our
disgrace abroad," he said. French Government, arganize a Central and Division accomplished an almost im
possible task, occupying what was consid- Mrs Tanaka no less angrily replied, I spoke with Mr. Kanda's permission Office of Verification and Compensation. ered an impregnable position and cut its duty will be to realize, officially, allting out" the town of Péronne, while the on the real condition of Japan, which is
I than anything have triumph of the 3rd. Division astride the as bents of debts owed by the Germans Bray-Corbie rond at Méricourt is among
the
e greatest deeds of the Australians. At Mr. Kamada endeavoured to settle thi Belenglise the 4th. Division added to its matter. I agree with Mrs. Tanaka," If Japan enters the Berna imperishable record by penetrating the he said. Hindenburg line, while the Butte of Poly. Convention there is still enough time be
Wood, Zonnebeke will always be re-fore its rules will come into force to enable membered as a conquest of the 5th Divi- the capitalists to make proper prepara¬ sion.
tiona.. The ships contracted for include five of
The design for the division memorials 13,800 tons each for the Australian FIRST MEETING IN JULY NEXT
is a uniform one-an obelisk of stone 40ft. PARIR, November 27th. in height except in the case of the 2nd. emigrant and cargo business vid the
Division, which takes the form of the A Havas message, says :—-
bronze allegorical grouping an Austra- Cape.
An International Chamber of Com-lian soldier bayoneting a German eagle. merce has been created by the Allied Economic Missions now in the United States.
THE P & O. co.
AN INCREASE OF ACTIVITIES. LONDON, November 29th. The report of the Peninsular an Oriental Steam Navigation Company states that a large holding of shares bas been acquired in the Orient Compans. which will continue to be worked sepur ately. bat in close conjunction with the P. & D. and its allies.
The balk of the shares in the Khediyi Mail Company has been, acquired,
The Board is arranging to it those passenger-steamers under construction
for oil-burring.
.. BRITISH COLUMBIA. INTERESTING SUGGESTION BY CHINESE CONSUL.
LONDON, November 29th. With a view to reducing the cost of living it and the developing, of British Columbis, the Chinese Consulatan couver inggests the retention there, under indenture, of the thousands of coolics now en rute for China from France." NEW ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. CUSTOMARY CEREMONIALS
ABANDONED.
According to the German papers? Herr Simsun is not due at Paris gain. Herr Lersner will act as the chief German delegate to sign the Peace.protocol, which he will do at the earliest possible mo
ment.
GERMAN DEBTS TO FRANCE.
PARIS, November 27th.
A Havas message anys:— The Chamber of Commerce in Paris wish that the has expressed the
to the French.
INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The first meeting will take place in July, 1920 CREATION OF A PARIS "WORLD
de
MARKET " -LEGED
".
PARIE, November 27th. A Havas netange says: The Municipal Council of Paris urges the French Government to create, in Paris, a World Market for the sale and purchase of goods, patterned on similar, World Market existing in New York
RUMANIA.
It has been decided that Parliament. shall be opened without the customary. ceremonial Not even the procession will READY TO SIGN PEACE TREATIES. take place.
Eaxis, November 27th.
The King will not appear in full Gen- erat's uniform, but in a field uniform.
Diplomats have been requested to wear
THE FRENCH MINISTRY. TWO NEW APPOINTMENTS.
PARIS, November 28th. A Havas message states:-. The new Minister of Education is M. Berard, Deputy for the Basses-Pyrenees Department:
PARIS, November 29th: The newspaper printers have decided, | frock-coata......... becade of Serbia, and that soon. Aby 741 votes to 463, to resume work. -conference was held at Potsdam on July 6th, after which orders were issued for preparatory war measures.
Commenting
Prince 'Lichnowsky' despatcher adumbrat- ing Lord (then Sir Edward) Grey's attitude, the ex-Kaiser says that Grey must understand that "I Grey shall not stand any nonsense. makes the mistake of putting Serbia on the same level as Austria and the other great Powers. This is unbeard of. Serbia is made up of a pack of briganda who must be brought to book for their crizzies."
The extracts preceed to describe the subsequent kaleidoscope of events in close detail, and depict the ex-Eaiser's fury -on realising the possibility that England
would not be able to stand axide.
The ex-Kaiser describes Grey as the arch, base Mephistophelian, but truly English."
THE MODERN CORSAIR.
ALLIED INTERFERENCE URGED..
PARIS, November 28th:
LONDON, November 29th. According to incomplete returns, the Welsh miners' ballot concerting resistance
The new Minister of Trade is M.
gon
the
much worse described.
Many Japanese announced that the Japanese Government intends to abolish Article 17 of the Police Regulations, and ao give Labour the right to organise.
All the delegates were taken to Mount Vernon en a Navy launch at the invitation of Mr. Daniels. Secretary of the Navy
Το each of the obelisks is affixed a huge, repli
All except Mr. Muto that is, for. it plica of the Australian Rising Sun badge, and heheath, a bronze plate, which is reported that he was so angry about. reads as follows:-
Mrs. Tanaka's speach that he would not To the Officers, Non-commissioned Off-accept Mr. Daniels's invitation, pleading nors, and Men of th Australian Divi indisposition, and staying in his hotel sion, who fought in France and Belgium. The incident which angered him occurred 1916-1917-1918. Below will follow the as follows When Mrs. Janaks was naked the names of the principal battle honours to read dr. Kamada's statement, she took
The
land is purchase of the requisite
out from her pocket ber. own statement, now, practically completed.
•The Austra which, included a.severe attack on Japan. lian Governmcat is also acres of midway
on the command 10 ese factory:life, and placed it behind Mr.
c height
ght Kaminda's statement. There she
read tween the vill his will be the as though it were all part of the Govern
of Villers straight on from one to the other, just Bretonneux and Corbie. site of an elaborate national memorial. rent statement Competitive designs will shortly be called Tanaka, who said that she made the state- Mr Muta angrily reproached Mrs. for in Australia. The choice of a site was difficult, and it was only after much deliments entirely on her own responsibility. beration that Villers-Bretonneux was de This, however, did not satisfy the angry cided upon.
The Australian Prime capitalist, who proposes to establish a Minister made a special visit there before special committee of investigation to in- guire into Mrs. Tanaka's mental condi- a final decision was reached.
A factor Largely determining the selection. The labour group was amused at tion was that the Australian operations the incident. at Villers-Bretonneux marked the turning
FORMER JAPANESE AMBAS-
point of the war. Here the Australian Corps, saved Amiens, carrying out what THE SHANTUNG RESERVA- was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant operations in its
history.
The German
TION. a Havus message says:~!
wave was broken on the points of Austro- After the King of Rumania's declaraian Bayoneta Australian soldiers are proud of the fact that before returning tion of the indissoluble union with the to their homes they assisted with, and sa Entente, there is no doubt that Rumania will stand for all time in reverential the completion of the monuments which I ready to sign the peace with Austria memory of their comrades-the gallant sad: Bulgaria...
deed.
INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERA- JAPANESE INTERCEPT
TION OF STUDENTS. THE ADMISSION OF GERMANS.
Pants, November 27th A Havas message says:
SADOR'S VIEWS.
merly Japanese Ambassador to America. In the opinion of Viscount Ishii, for- the reservation proposal regarding the Shantung clauses adopted by the "Ameri- Can Senate has no direct effect upon the Viscount Ishii, says that although in the Peace Treaty. As quoted by the Axas,
absence of faller information about the KOREAN ROYAL PRINCE.
reported approval. by the American Prince Yi Kang, second son of the late Senate of the Shantagg reservation prn- Emperor Yi of Korea, was intercepted by sal it is rather hazardous to pass. the Japanese recently on his way to criticism on it, he may way that it Shanghai, according to telegraphic advices | very doubtful whether this reservation
against "payment of an income tax for Babois, Deputy for the Seine Department An International Confederation of received by Mr. Li Dong-whi, Premier of proposal will obtain the support of the
below £250 resulted in 81,562 voting for a ↑
Official re- strike and 63,831 against it. tarns will be published on Monday."
MURDER OF
LUXEMBURG.
BOSA
ABBAILANT CONFESSES HIS
CRIME.
BERLIN, November 29th. The Hanover correspondent of the Berliner Zeitung reports that Otto, who has been living in Hanover under the name of Kotb, has admitted, the murder of Rosa Luxembourg. He has been arrested and placed in a military prison.
A DISASTROUS FIRE,
TRAGIC DEATH OF OZÉCHO-
SLOVAKS,
A Havas message says:mm: News has reached Paris that the war- ships Genoa and Smyrna have made com mon cause with d'Annunzia, the modern corsair. Collisions with the Yugo-Slavs are feared. It urged that the Allies a wooden shed at Mark Graf Neumid, in
should take wontrol of the sitartion.
... AN ARMED CONFLICT LIKELY.
LONDON, November 19th."" The Yugo Slay Governeaths in fimated to the Allies that any extension of d'Annunzioʻs activities in Dalmatis or Montenegro will inevitably lead to mo armed conflict.
VIENNA, November 28th A fire broke out early this morning in
AVIATION IN ARGENTINA NEW LINES TO BE INAUGURATED SHORTLY.
PARIS, November 28th
A Havas message says "--" Very shortly, lines of serial navigation organized in Argentina by a French Aviation Mission will be inaugurated." RHCONSTRUCTION
OF
NORTHFEN FRANCE. GERMANY TO TAKE A HAND.
PARIS, November 28th,
A Havas message says:—
Students' Associations, with its bead
quarters at Brussels, will shortly be formed, on the decision of a congress of students held recently at Strasbourg.
Germans' will not be admitted before their country bas become a member of the League of Nationa
THE SILVER MARKET": A RISE AND A DECLINE. Messrs. Montagu & Co.'s report dated November 27th, states:
The fresh record in prices, culminating opents feing quoted on November death was due to an
the Korean Provincial Government, who other four, Great Powers, which have is in Shanghai. Prince Yi, who is supalready gone through the procedure of posed to live sumptuously and contented ratifying the Peace Treaty. There have ly as & persioner of the Japanese Gov-been signs of late that the Chinesa ernment in Seoul, eluded his guards and people, despairing of efficient support got as far as Antung on the .Manchurian from the American Senate, have been border where he was seized and forced to developing an inclination to open direct returo.
negotiations with the Japanese Govern- ment concerning the Shantung question, and coming as it did at such a juncture the news of the approval by the Ameri ran Benate of the Shantung reservation proposal may prove an impetus to those Chinese who are against the direct nego The late emperor, whose abdication was tiations between the two Governments.
left three sons: The eldest was But it is an impossibility for China lo forced, left of and be still lives in Seoul refer the Shantung jasue to the League in magnificent quarters, closely guarded" of Nations Conference for settlement With him has been Prince Xi Kang, the The League of Nations is an instrument second son. The third on and heirby which it is proposed that disputes
The memage states that he was on his way to Shanghai to join the Provisional Government cabinet. He sought to do monstrate that all classes in Korea are a unit in their demand fer national independence.
The German State Minister of Recon-demand from Chineeedingly keen and is kept carefully removed from canur belli should be settled by pacifo
there the France.
valde.
quotation of 7/4,
ני
all political matters. It was his sp-mocans. It is beyond the realm of the Chips, as a result of which
proaching marriage to a Japanese League to sit in judement on the existing struction has left Berlin for Southern the tzel exchange commands a high ster-princess coupled with the death of the treaties If the Siantang reservation Transactions were recorded old emperor last spring that led to the proposal in question does not go beyond. Germany to discuss with the Governments
report that the emperor had taken his withholding America's approval of the construction of Northern at much higher rates than the official own life in order to interrupt the wed- Shantang clause in the Pence Treaty, it
ding.
Mured and will not in all likelihood directly affect. Anti-Japanese demonstrations through the Peace Treaty, toon br may have Fig subsequent fall in prices was due out Kores again occurred recently on the the effect of winning the goodwill of
an announcement that the United occasion of the birthday of the Emperor Chinese people for America be the mani of Japan. Wholesale arrests were made festation of a friendly attitude in thị States is prepared to supply broken up by the Japanese authorities, even before way. The only point causing anxiety
the thirty-first of October, they having from the viewpoint, of future relatioon the vicinity of Vienna, where 108 Czecho
silver dollars, of which it is believed scented trouble. The affair in Seoul was hetween the Japanese and Americans Slovak agricultural labourers were alpep
there will be seventy million ounces led by the students of the Higher Com that China, under the Impresion the available, in exchange for a similar num- mor School, pho struck es mane and she has the sympathy of America, Fifty-four perished in the fumes and
ber of gold dollars
| started & demonstration which, was noon | act in a manner that hampers twelve
iously injured. Were
This is equivalent to adering silver at joined by hundreds of other Koreans. The smooth progress of 156 wes due to explosion of all ball-rooms and dancing halls to recents ounce compared with the authorities, hearing that demonstrations tween the Japanese and Chinese.
"concerning, the Bhantang.. remarket price of 136. at New York en were to be conducted in automobiles, ment
November 25th
tommandoered all the machines,
Detrol or am
COAL SHORTAGE IN PARIS
A BAN ON DANCING
PARIS, November 28th. A Havas disage says :-*
view of the persistent coal shariaga, The the Prefect of Police in Paris has ordered
main closed till further notion."
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