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CABLES.

· KATEST, CABLES. (THROUGH AKUTER'S AGENOT.)

INDIAN COTTON, SPINNERS' STRIKE.

REFERRED TOʻMR. GANDEL

ARMEDABAD, April 8th.

THE HONGKONG" DAIMODA

OUTLOOK IN GERMANY.

FRANCE READY TO ACT.

Paves, April 5th.

A Havas message says:--- An official note issued in Paris laat night states that the military measures which the French Government is consider. ing are solely intended to bring Germany to respecs Articles 43 and 44 of the Peace Treaty which forbid the presence of Ger-:

PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL S. 1920.

WHY THE COOUPATION WAS NECESSARY.

PARIS, April 6th A Havas message sayrid French Headquarters announce from Frankfort at four o'clock this morning. Mains that French

troops copied Some forces have already made a forward movement and other towns, including Darmstadt, Hanan and Diesburg, will also be occupied

The decision was taken after a ̈confer,

SCOTTISH LETTER.

A SUMMER COURT AT HOLYROOD. KING'S YACHT TO RACE ON THE

CLYDE

RRFORM FRANCE

CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HONGKONG.

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. The Report of the Committee to be rub- HOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) mitted at the third annual general meet, ing, to be held at the City Hall, on February 25th. Royal Family during the coming summer.

Scotland is to as a good deal of the Thurdsay, 18th April, is as follows:- large part of July and August will being to discuss matters during the past The Committee have held frequent meat

devoted to the visit, Edinburgh, as the rear and have been in correspondence from

Holyrood, a military review in the King's and Housing Refarm in regard to which ceremonini. A Court will be held at questions celative to Constitutional Reform Park; and a Chaptor of the Royal Ordern interim report was issued to members of the Thistle in St. Giles Cathedral in December Inst

AND BRITAIN IN

AFRICA. NEW POLITICAL LINES FOLLW

OLD BOUNDARIES,

With the coming into force of the pases the formar German colonics grans the treaty with Germany the now regime for necessary international sanctions, foxyDA

France and Great Britain are made the the Times), For the West African colonies of Cameroon and Tagaland: mandatories for the League of Nations.

The greater part of Cameroon falls to

colony as the result of the Agadir crisia Equatorial Africa annexed to the German

partition of the country between France of 1911. In the discussions to the

with its port of Duala. The history of the and Britain the only point at issue was the assignment.

of the Cameroon estuary. estuary is intimately associated with British enterprise and after the conquest tered by the British. But it was re of Cameroon, Duala was at first adminis cognized that if France was to administer the bulk of the country" she must also" passas its principal port of entry, and this was agreed to by the British negotia

The strike of cotton spinners has come man troops in the zone stretching east offence between, M. Millerand and Marshal Capital, "will be the scene of much statele Lime to time with the local Government. On France; including those regions of French

an end. The dispute was referred to the arbitration of a millowner and Mr. Gandhi, who will announce an award be More May Int

STRIKELS' DEMANDS.

AHMEDABAD, April 5th. The cotton spinners have struck and are demanding thirty rupees a month wage and a 10-hour day.

MONEY WANTED FOR WINDING

It was the intention that this Chapter Since then a deputation from the Con should see the installation of the Prince mitte waited upon His Excellener the of Wales, but the Australian tour has Governor, upon the subject of Constitu. made it impossible. It is probable, how.tional Reform on the 4th February, 1020, ever, that the green ribbon will be bestow- and found him sympathetic upon the ques

tiona of-

nomination, gad

(1). The principle of election as against

(9)--The principle of a vidor electorate, His Excellency the Governor has ad-

State upon the subject.. dressed & despatch to the Secretary of

tors.

Cameroon estuary and nine-tenths of the France therefore gains the whole of the

rest of the country, an area considerably larger than France itself and rich in all

jungle products. She obtains, too, a means of access to Central Africa, which, with a bold railway policy, should provo of great advantaga

the Rhine for a distance of 50 kilometres also received Sir George Grahame, British roch yesterday afternoon. M. Millerand These steps, therefore, are purely mea Charge d'Affaires, with whom he had a sures of coercion. It will be remembered long trendly conversations and Harr that the French Government proposed to upper, the head of the German. Pelce occupy, temporarily, as a guarantee for elegation, granting permission to Germans to entor

General Degoutte hab addressed to the population of the occupied towns two Pro the Rubr district, the towns of Homburg, cluations. Frankfort, Hanau and Darmstadt. Gerrench turnment, in view of developed upon Prince Arthur.

The art states that the

many first declined the offer, and then ents in the Kizhr Basya, binds itself Official arrangements are already being renewed the demand for permission to cliged to take steps, in order to bring made for the King's visit to the West, Ü.8, KAILROAD ADMINISTRA-send her troops into the neutral zone, but, the servernment to respect its when he will take a personal part in the

TIUN

before permission was given and despite signature. The other Proclimation says Clyde Fortnight and sail his famous cut- France's previous refusal, German troops I reach troops are not entering the won on which a reigning monarch has to the inhabitants of the occupied cities:- ter ritannia. This will be the first occas began an offensive through the prohibited territory as conquerors but merely as an raced his own yacht on the Clyde. Lust area against the Ruhr Communists.

occupying force. It assures the inhabit-year the Clyde was the only racing centre Yesterday afternoon the German repre-ants that they will be affected neither in in the country to carry out a yachting tion with the Hongkong. Government and sists of & strip of territory extending from Mr. Hines, Director of Railroads, has sentative in Paris handed the French person nor in property, on condition that carnival of any importance, and the has advocated the following measures, the sen to Lake Chad, along the border asked Congress for $420,000,000 to wind up Government a new Note declaring that the absolute order prevails the affairs of the Railroad Administration. Germina Government troops would not re-

The French Government has sent to its main long in the neutral zone.

representatives in foreign countries a COMBED COTTON YARN.

Last night M. Millerand received Mar-statement enabling them to explain the attitude adopted towards the Berlin PRICE INQUIRY IN AMERICA.

WASHINGTON, April 8th. The House of Representatives has order

The Petit Parisien states that the mili-based on any hostile feeling with regarder yachtsmen dwell on the glories of -ed the Federal Trade Commission to investory, measures previously foreshadowed to Germany, but has been arrived at pes tigate the causes of the increase in price were at once decided upon. Competent circles expressed the opinion that-their Lexecution would meet with no difficulty.

UP.

WASHINGTON, April 8th.

of combed, cotton yarn.

EX-GERMAN · ISLANDS,

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR CON- TRADICTS REPORT..

President has recently been in communica

Upon the Housing Reforma question the

king's Pisis comes as a happy reward of } the enthusiasts who revived the sport. THE KING'S TÁCHT.

ninely--

Until the ex-Kaiser lured the cream of

GREAT BRITAIN'S SHARE Britain's share of the Cameroon

сод

shal Foch with whom he had a long con Government in protesting against the un-/$achting craft to hiel by offering expensiv, /.(i).The development for building pur- British atrip is of distinct value. It is

ference, after which he had conversation authorised entry German troops into for the premier craft of Great Britain. prizes, the Clyde was a notable renderous the Ruhr valley. That attitude is not

with the Minister of War.

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M. Millerand, questioned, declared, according to the Malin, that the matter is now in the hands of "soldiers,

"

the great contests in which Britannia, cause the Lerman Government, despite recalled that in July 1894, when Valkyrie Vigskent, and Falkyrie il, gured. It is repeated declarations of French policy, nas yreaded to the pressure of the Military. met with dauster at Hunter's 'Quar Farty and intringed some of the most she was run down by the Satanita~-~~ Imperative ang most formal stipulations for the Versailles Treaty.

something like 100,000 spectators lined the Firth at Dunoon and Kirn to witness, the racing.

ng. That senson's contests with the Vigilant left a lasting regret in the minds of British yachtsmen that Britannia had not been the challenger in 1893, for then in the Soccer Amateur internationale might have seen a succession of Yankee match at Kouen, England beat France by sloops fruitlessly crossing the Atlantio to

goals to m

recover the lost Cup for Americă.

AMATEUR - INTERNATIONAL MATCH.

German Socialists from the Ruhr Basin WASHINGTON, April 8th." Mr. Shidebara, the Japanese Ambassa-have, it is understood, asked the French dor, denies the report that Japan has Socialiste to declare a general strike in the event (which seems quite unlikely) of fortified the ex-German lands in the

M. Millerand consenting to the Reichswehrave Pacific, or

that it contemplates fortifying

troops occupying the neutral zone. ther

IRISH DEMONSTRATION IN WASHINGTON.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY WARNS

"..WOMEN."

EARLIER CABLES.

TYPICAL GERMAN TACTICS.

ENGLAND DEFEATS FRANCE.

LONDON, April 6th.

UNËEST IN IRELAND, MORE SINN FEIN OUTRAGES,

LONDON, April 5th.

It is becoming ever more evident that the frish outrages are part of a great plan throughout ireland. Up to the present, 60 police barracks, mostly unoccupied, have been destroyed by fire and explosives which are in Dublin, have been raided, Twenty-two income tax offices, five of and all documents destroyed.

house very recently; saturated the docu- The Sinn Feiners attacked a custom

PARIS, April 4th The German Charge d'Affaires present WASHINGTON, April 8tb.: ed M.. Millerand & Note seeking to Despite rain, relays of women supporters diminish the importance of the German of the Irish cause visited the British troops in the Ruhr region, declaring that Embassy bearing banners draped in the numbers were exaggerated and assur-ments with petroleum, and set fire to them, black because they explained that they had ing him that the guarantees demanded by 'secret information of massacres in France were unnecessary, since the pre- sence of the supplementary Reichswehr The police arrested two women who were effectives in the Ruhr region would not be subsequently released on the instructions prolonged.

Ireland."

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of the District Attorney. They were warn ed that if they persisted in their action they will be prosecuted under a law making it a felony to insult diplomatic represento

tires at their official residences.

HELPING GERMAN SHIPPING

ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES

SHIPPING BOARD.

FRENCH TROOPS ENTER FRANK- FORT.

"Paris, April 8th,

A telegram from Mayence says that French troops entered Frankfort and

Darmstadt at five in the morning.

The Reichswehr troops left at midnight in order to avoid contact with the French, It is beloved in French official circles

LONDON, April 8th, despite German assurances, there are

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40,000 troops at present in the Buhr The Daly Telegraph's New York

region." correspondent writes: Despite the pro-

BRITAIN WATCHING EVENTS tests of the American shipping interests,

CLOSELY. It is stated that the Shipping Board has

LONDON, April 5th.. decided to place a greater number of its

British cfficial reports concerning the vessels under the control of the Hamburg-Rohr region are conflicting, but the latest Amerika Line, to be operated for the bene indication is that the question is capable fit of the German foreign trade over the of a solution. Extremist risings are company's router The vessels will be

sporadic manned by the former crews. They will be

of Nigeria, the new frontier being so (i),—The grant of loans at a low rate north, by way of Bare, Bamum, Banyo

drawe as to leave the hain road to the of interest to persons desiring to darux and Mora, in French hands. build houses

Though of inconsiderable extent, the poses of the whole of King's Park, widest at its two ends. In the north, by with the exception of the present Lake Chad, that part of the ancient Mos gulf hnks which would be left alem sultanate of Bornu which Germany an open space, " 1

a matter of much satisfaction both to the held is incorporated with British Born Nigerian administration and to the shehn of Borna, the chief non-Fula potentats of. Nigeria.

(iii).The abolition of farming in the case

of the European type of houses. (iv).The cheapening of the cost of houses by lessening the minimum heights of storeys in certain districts, and More interest attaches to the southern by inquiry as to the possibility of end of the British atrip, for it includes using ped. de terre or other cheap the whole of the great Cameroon Moun- materials for building. (v).The abolition of the rule whereby a square miles), its south-west base washed tain (covering more than seven thousand site in a Rural District has to be by the Atlantic, its summit 13,370 feet put to Public Auction, ao as to above the sea-the highest point of West allow of the sale of such a site to Africa. Called by the natives the Moun- the first applicant, desiring to build in of Thunder, it is an active volcano, a bouse for bis own occupation, at Its exploration has been largely the work the last great eruption occurring in 1909. (ri).-The release by the Government of a Richard Burton, Mary Kingsley, H. H

the Government upset price.

of pioneer Britons, Joseph Merrick, portion of the Pokfulam Drainage Johnson and Boyd-Alexander On its sanatorium, which was the beadquarters of slopes is Buea,, a well planned town and the German administration, while the port enterprise. of the region owes its existence to British The coast lands at the foot of Mount Cameroon were formerly British As long ago as 1837 a native chief ceded part of

liabed a station. Ten years later, on the the district to the British, and there in 1848 the Baptist Missionary-Society estab expulsion of the Baptiste from Fernando Po, Alfred Saker, the local head of the mission, founded in Ambag Baysa settle The Committee is a thoroughly demo Victorin, and this has grown ino a port ment for freed negroes, which He named

as also Ireland and the greet widang been recognized in Cameroon, Victoria of the Champion courses are represented, cratic and representative one. The whole of some consequence. And for three or four years after German sovereignty had and North of England districts. an immense advance on the composition people, whose common tongue is pidgin It is continued under British protection. The senting as it did a number of clube which connection and retain memories of the of the old Championship authority, repre: English, have never forgotten the British god work of the Missionaries Baker and son. The attribution of their country to Grenfell and of Consuls Hewett and John-

happier days, before the arrival of the Briton is welcomed as a return to the Germana.

area for building purposes. "During the past three months we have to The cutter Britannic has kept the royal report the acquisition of 12 new member colours to the fore in many stirring and the rejoining of a members, bringing matches. She is Clyde built, was ordered up the membership of the Association to by the Prince of Wales (the late King G. L. Watson Edward VII.), and was designed by Mr394. The Committes look to members them height of her form was phenominat. In and the Hor. Secretary will be glad to Her success during the selves to assist by enrolling new members five years he won over 130 prizes. record for speed is claimed for the Br tannia. It is said that going through the way to the Mediterranean Regattas" ahe Bay of Biscay on a winter day on her

measured mule at Simorale at a specs fact that on the lyde she covered the logged zu Knots in two hours; and it is a

of 12) knots..

THE KAIZER'S YACHT

A

supply application forms for membership.

the brigade. Ten aéreats were made. The raiders disappeared on the arrival of

The city of Cork is surrounded by `troupe has just arrived that the ex-Kaiser's were prominent at the time the Amateur By an interesting coincidence the news and the police are searching travellers. 163 POLICE STATIONS DESTROYED. racing yacht Meteor has been purchased Championship was instituted, but which by a Glasgow merchant, Mr. Vitali Behar. latterly counted for hardly anything at LONDON, April 6th. One Kindred and fifty-three Irish police tinent.

who is at present on a visit to the Con- all.

The ex-Kaiser had four yachts, stations have been destroyed. A strong all bearing the natue Meteor Thistle, party of soldiero, followed by an excited the American Cup challenger, was re crowd, raided, yesterday evening, Dublin named, and because the first. The second restaurant where the Irish flag was flying. was also from the design of the late Mr. Shots were fired from the restaurant. The G, L. Watson, the famous yachting autho: solchera fired a valley overhead. made; otherwise, there were no diatur- the fourth and last, is schooner of 355 tons

There rity, and was built on the Clyde. caqunities. Five arrests were third Meteor was built in America. And were no

The

was built at Kiel in 1914. It is under this vessel stood that the above purchase refers to

THE MURDER OF A V.M.C.A. OFFICE.

bances.

"

BOLSHEVISTS WANT PEACE. NEGOTIATIONS WITH FINLAND -

AND POLAND.

A STERN WARNING. ALTERNATIVE TO SPECTACULAR REVOLUTION

first round

mittee will save to tackle is the form of The most difficult problem the new Com the Qualifying Competition for the Ama to be subdivided, what is to be done about imperial flag, Nachtigal came in the sull

Searching for a spot along the Guines teur Championship-how the country is Cosat where he might plant the German the overseas entrants, and whether the

of restricting the entry for the Open spot between Cape Verde and the Niger or stroke play. Another problem is that had trading stations. It was the only method of qualifying is to be by match the Togo lagoon, where Bremen merchants mer of 1884 to that old haunt of slaversy.

Championship. It is an anomaly that an amateur who does not possess the quali- and it was jammed in between the Gold

not claimed by

some European power, fications to enter for the Amateur Cham Coast and Dahomey: pionship can compete in the Open, so long The Germans in consequence News of the tragic death of Mr. C. As he is willing to pay bis guinea for obtain for their new possession & coast line could only Fleming, an officer of the Y.M.O.A was his run; and though the privilege is not of thirty-two miles. They claimed a vost LONDON, April 6th.

received with many expressions of deep much abused by long-handicap amateurs, hinterland, but these claims were stoutly The Times correspondent at Abo, telegret by a large circle of his friends ins on record that Massey on one occa resisted by France and England, nad graphing from Moscow on April 4th, says years of age, had been serving with the amateur who took over 100 strokes for the ally an area about the size of Ireland was

Forfarshire. Mr. Fleming, who was 50 sion at Prestwick was partnered with an suffered a great reduction. that the Soviet considers Finland's armis YMCA in Egypt and Syria, and met the crowding of the Qualifying Competi- railways were built, and a fair trade. But eventu tice propceala unacceptable The Reds his death at the hands of bandite near

A more urgent problem is gained, a new port, Lome, was created, are continuing hostilities until the Soviet Deir oz Zor on the Euphrates. A son of has received a satisfactory reply

the late Mr Alexander Fleming, far for an annual holiday. A 296 entrance reasons

tion by rank outsiders of the protes developed, though the good will of the The Soviet has refused the Polish re-edyatt, Lundie, he graduated with bon-

sionals, who make the Open the occasion natives was never gained for good quest to cease bostilities during the peace ours at St. Andrews, and afterwards assuredly would confine the event to men the first month of the war, Togaland now negotiations.

les has been drastically suggested. That studied at Edinburgh University and who had a rest chance of winning, for formally passes into their control de man- Conquered: by Anglo-French forces in Cooper's Hill, from which he passed into the Indian Civil Service Mr. Fleming while any club would readily enough sub datories of the League of Nations. The good deal of service in India, parti-scribe the money to give their professional colony has been divided between France ularly in connection with the Govern would they be relucian to put up the third falling to Britain.

his chance if they thought he had one, so and Great Britain, something less than hent emigration work. He retired shortly before the war, and for some time money if they thought he had none. It Socialists at Glasgow, Mr. Philip Brow indosas engaged in the end aus, he them by other promotions to stand down of the once famous neutral zone" which.

LONDON, April 5th.

The lower Volta, part of the easterm At the annual conference of Independent covered be offered himself for war work, had consistently failed to do anything wholly British, together with the lower sifiered from it bealth. When he had re would not be unreasonable to sak men who bank of which was German, now becomes den, presiding, earnestly his munitions. of 1918,

in the opportunities so liberally

course of the Ots, while in the hinterland audience against the violence of reveln started for the East for voluntary service and make room for better men. But this after many disputes, was divided between tion. He declared that the firebrands bad with the Y.M.C.A. M. Fleming was shall have again, the old scramble for the

the new frontier gives to Britain that part learned nothing from the last five years of man of distinguished ability and attrac allotted places

is all too revolutionary and doubtless we Britain and Germany in 1808. slaughter, and urged recognition of the tive personality, and from his boyhood fact that though the alternative to was remakable for his generous and un- uninspiring, it was the only certain road CONTROL OF THE GOLF CHAMPİONERIPE. spectacular revolution may be dull and selfish nature,

Mr. Robert Dow, M.B.. Ch Ballpence, coma wholly under Briti to the final goal. question of joining the Moscow Inter S. Andrews have appointed the fellow sivil health administration, Meso-between the Gold Const und Absat

The conference lengthily debate the The R

graduate of Edinburgh University, has author ach to their satisfaction. Royal and Ancient Golf Club of been appointed a Government medical offi

Britain acquires Tendi, an im nationale, and then adjourned.

portant market town on the trade, route ing Committee to control the Open and appointment in the State of Johore; requented by Hates traders.

potamia Before the war ho beld an Amateur Championships: W. Newman turned to this country early in 1916; and

the NI

Niger regions, and a place much fre Boas (Royal and Ancient), H. M Cairnes (Royal Dublin), W. Herbert

saw service at Malta, Egypt, France, and of Togoland, with the ports of Lome

The French gain the whole of the Blown (Royal North Devon), Bernard italy. Darwin, Angus V Hambro (Royal St MAY BE BETTER EDUCATED,

"Chitherto George's) W. A. Harvey (Prestwick), H. Probably no one in Court enjoyed more ways, and a new route to the Nigar The settlement of the crisis was market Hilton (Royal Liverpool), Harold this retort of a Glasgow, witness. The caes linking up of the railway to Atakpame provisionally administered by the Gold Coast government), Segura and disturbariges in the site at Palate Jenkins (Troon), A N. Leo (Notte), J. car and lorry, and the driver of the enhance tho value of Lome,

Little Popo (Anecho); the existing rail Janion (Royal Liverpool), JL Carose out of a collision between a tram with the Dahomey railways will greatly were broken up by the Police. Several L. Low (Royal and Ancient), Robert Max lorry told the Court that he had chastised Tegoland has a population of something

of Communiste going to the were injured in collisions with the Polite well (Honourable Company of Edinburgh the motor man. It came out that what he more than 1 million. The attives bre, în is purely provisional, for the purpose of Gordon Simpson (Scotecraig), length of Banulting the motor-man, but agriculturalists and keen tradere. Falm The new Ministry is non-partisan, and Golfers), F. M. Richardson (Dalbousie), mean to say was that he had not gone the the north, mainly pastoral in the south, Lieutenants Parer and Macintosh, flying immediately the Germans withdraw to the carrying out the elections, but the Fisher Smith (Royal Cinque Porte), and bad merely told him off. Baid his kernels, palm oil, and cocon are the chief

Bocialiste claim a brilliant triumph of

HH. Spencer (Lytham and St. Anne's). Lordship, "We don't call that chastis exports. Togoland, already pays its way their anti-royal action and demand a Betalen (Royal and Ancient).

The Secretary of the Committee is Henry ing their election programme. public, which will be in the forefront ofContinued at foot of next column.)'

Ah weel," replied the witness, and its prosperity seems assured,The "Maybe you're better educated than trade of British Togoland will doubtless

gravitate to Acera and Acda.

The German Government has stated that

naturalised first, in order to work under it can restore sufficient order in a few days

the American Flag.

"Steamship owners have warned ship ping officials that as soon as Germany has re-established her foreign trade with the aid of this country's steamship,

the ships will be replaced by Germany's new vessels, but the Shipping Board adhores

to permit of the withdrawal of

troops

Meanwhile, Britain is watching events very closely.

FRANCE DETERMINED TO ACT... The French authoritatively declare that they have decided to occupy Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hanau and Homburg, because to the idea that, if the United States does they posseseca, proof that the German not seize this opportunity to get a hold on Government is the tool of the militarista, the German routes to South America, and that all the German military leaders South Africa, China and Japan, British steamship companies will do so."

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA

AIRMEN LEAVE RANGOON.

HANGGON, April 4th.

in the Ruhr District were behind the Kapp_coup d'etat ___Furthermore, France. is intervening in response to the direct appeal from the Rahr workers, but in no way intends making the occupation per- manent, and, will order & retirement

to Australia, left here this rping for neutral zone. «Victoria Point.

France solely desires help Germany to fulfil all ber obligations

to

THE DANISH CRISIS. BOOTALISTS WANT A REPUBLIO.

COPENHAGEN, April 5th

by

JOHORE DOCTOR FOR MENPOT:

provided

frontier now corresponds closely with tribal boundaries. The Dagomba fon who hitherto have owed a divided