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SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN

GERMANY:

"PREFARATIONS FOR CIVIL WAR:

ANOTHER REACTIONARY COUP IN VIEW.

MORE

RAIDS IN

IRELAND:

MAIL TRAIN HELD UP BY ARMED MEN.

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AMERICAN STRIKERS FIGHT VOLUNTEERS

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) THE SITUATION IN GERMANY FRESH REVOLUTION IMPENDING.

BERLIN, April 14th.

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The Freiheit makes sensational -cleares as regards a fresh coup d'etat which is impending. The plan is to start.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PR 88, MONDAY, APRIL 19TH - 1920,

UNREST IN IRELAND. SIXTY-SIX PRISONERS RELEASED ON PAROLE.

LONDON, April 15th.

LIFE OF BARL KITCHENER. SOME INTERESTING REVELA- TIONS.

SERIOUS SITUATION IN AMERICA

STRIKE MAY EXPAND INTO A REVOLUTION.

NEW YORK, April 14th. The strike situation in the East is very cule but it appears to have generally improved in the West, where the strikers | in half-a-dozen cities and towns have re sumed.

Nevertheless, hundreds of thousands of men have now been rendered idle, owing to works closing down.

LONDON, April 14th.. In the House of Commons, replying to The Evening Standard is publishing Mr. J. b. Clyne, Mr. Bonar Law read extracts from Bir George Arthar's forth message from Lord French, stating that coming Life of Earl Kitchener" which following the precedent in the case of how that Kitchener correctly forecasted Alderman O'Brien (who was arrested on th

The German strategy. suspicion of implication in a conspiracy The French General Staff expected on for the murder of Royal servants of the invasion on the Meuse not on, Belgium, Crown in Ireland, and who hunger-struck but Kitchener anticipating a sweep of in prison and was sent to a nursing home) Belgium urged a British, concentia. the Governor of Mountjoy prison in Dubation at Amieris and not at Maubeuge, as lin has been authorised to liberata pri- he was convinced the latter would involve soners awaiting trial of deportation whom a retirement at the risk of the demoralis the doctors certified to be in imminent tion of troops. Mr. Asquith declined to donger of death and requiring treatment overrule the majority of the British and which could not be given in prison. French experts, including Sir Jobnfering with the mails.

Accordingly, sixty-six prisoners were reFrench, in favour of Maubeuge, and the German Government had apologised lensed on parole for periods differing Kitchener surrendered, with the result for the ill-treatment of Mr. Vaigs, the cor- according to ench particular case. respondent of the Wanchester Guardian,

Owing to a mistake by the prison autho- who was insulted and maltreated by Garrities, some of these of were convicted

MALTREATMENT OF ENGLISH

JOURNALIST.

LONDON, April 14th... In the House of Commons, at question time, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth stated thas

the Mons retreat.

A strikers' meeting at Jersey City unanimously rejected all overtures of peace.

There were no untoward incidents, but six of the strike leaders of New Orleans have been arrested on a charge of inter

The Department of Justice officials in Washington announce that they bave found evidence that the Industrial Work-

As regards Kitchener's persistence thaters of the World is inciting the strikes, Sir John French should conform to French and that there are signs of an attempt to tial to preserve Allied contact and co- movements, Kitchener considered it essen-

expand the railway strike into a revolu tion.

GOVERNMENT CONTEMPLATING

a revolution in the rural districts and man soldiers at Essen, and, had ordered & men, serving sentences, and who were in operation at all costa.

surround Berlin, forcing it to surrender.strict enquiry.

The Labour leaders will be given short shrift, and assemblies made impossible by the use of gas bombe. The date has not been fixed.

MORE GERMAN TACTICĖ. The Forsche Zeitung declares that the Government has addressed a Note to Paris urging the impossibility of carrying out the Naval Clauses of the Treaty. This is the sequel to the Reparations Commission, after investigation, summoning the Ger mans immediately to begin the transfer

of the ships.

FEARS CONFIRMED.

PARIS, April 18th. M. Millerand has announced that Lord' Derby has presented information tending to confirm the fears of a fresh reactionary -coup in Germany and asking France to participate with Great Britain in making strong representations regarding Ger- many's failure to carry out disarmament. FREPARATIONS FOR CIVIL WAR.

- BEELIN, April-16th. Junkers and Spartacists are openly pre- paring for civil war and accumulating war material, aeroplanes and gas-bombe.

The Junkers are planning to isolate and starve out Berlin and industrial cities. "Estate owners in Pomerania are already holding back produce.

•pert revolt.

Munich will, possibly, be the scene of the

DANGER STILL THREATENED.

BEELIK, April 14th.

In the National Assembly, Mery Mueller said that danger still threatened, especial- ly in romerania and bilesia, where the Baltic naval men - wore quarter-

He warned

rehation ed.

the eries that the general strike would be repeated 11 there was a reperition of the happ adventure, and condemned the ambition entertained by reactionary sup porters of the Officers' Corps to establish a military dutatorship, which was quite impossible in Germany.",

FEAR OF REACTIONARY COUP.

LONDON, April 15th.

The Government has brought in 18 tanks,

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ANOTHER INCIDENT,

PARIS, April 14th.

no way entitled to release on parole..

"Mr. Bonar Law emphasised that this was not to form a precedent. The whole antion, taken with regard to hunger A Havas messago" says:--

striking was based on a decision with re During the recent troubles, an English-gard to ameliorative treatment."

He denied that thore was any change man taking a film was roughly banded. in the Government's attitude: The same course was followed as in the case of The Burgomaster vendered an apology to

Alderman. O'Brien. the British Consulate. An indemnity will be paid.

REICHSWEHR TO BE WITHDRAWN.

· Paris, Apríl 14th.

A. Havas messagʊ saya;-- Information has been received in Paris to the effect that the German Government has at last given orders for the withdrawal

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The Government would be only too glad to change its Irish policy if the conditions changed, but they must take every precau lion to protect life.

TREATMENT OF UNTRIED PRISONERS,

LONDON, April 18th.

ACTION.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

THE NORTH WEST CAMBERWELL BY ELECTION

LONDON, April 14t5. The by-election at North West Cambe well resulted as follows:--

DR. MAUNAMARA (Coalitiog Lib.)..................

Miss Lawrence (Labour)

Mr. J. G. Carroll (Liberat) --- THE BASINGSTOKE BY-ELECTION"

The Basingstoke by by-election resulted as follows:-

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SIE A. HOLDBROOX (Coalition U.)...

Sir H. Verney (Liberal) lim Mr. J. H. Round (Labour)...... NORTHAMPTION. BY-ELECTION. In the by-election at Northampton, result was:- MR. C. A. McCunny (Liberal) MISS BONDFILLO (Labour)) AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LAW

PROTECTION FOR BRITISH SUBJECTS.

6,650

WASHINGTON, April 15th, President Wilson has signed the pro- In an article in the Evening Standard

clamation giving the American Copyright Sir George Arthur, author of the life of

New York, April 14th. Lord Kitchener, deals with the interview

Emulating Britain's example tae Govera- | Law protection to all British subjects Lord Kitchener had with Sir John Frenchment as contemplating the mobilisation of (now Viscount) on April 14th, 15, at 100,000 motor lorries for the conveyance excepting those in the Dominions. which, according to Mr. Asquith, Vount of food, 2. French assured Lord Kitchener that he The situation in the West has not More, trains are running. to had enough ammunition for the next ad changed Chicago. vancé

Sir George Arthay contributes a document quoting a letter written by Lord French on May 2nd, 1815, in which he says The ammmsition will be all right

.

Deling with the War Office record on the supply of munitions, Sir George Arthur says that Lord Kitchener com- plained off the absence of all machinery for producing munitions, and decinres that the Her Office, not Sir John French, fold-guns, but a hesitating reply was re- ceived from France, and Lord Kitchener called in Lord Moulton (Director-General. Explosive Supplies) who acquired and sterred to England the Toluol factory established by Germans in Rotterdam,

of the Reichswehr from tho Ruhr District had decided to modify the treatment of first proposed the use of high explosive

THE DUTY OF EVERY GERMAN.

PARIS, April 14th.

LONDON; April, pethy It is understood that the Government untried political prisoners in Ireland. Concessions are already operative.

The Irish Strikers, Executive has ap-al Unioniste pealed for the support of British Trade

A Havas message sayı: Herr Lerner, formerly head of the Ger- Peace Delegation, speaking at a

The military has decided not to prose- great meeting at Cologne, said that Germute the two Mountjoy prisoners who were many would full such wonditions of the discharged, including a hunger striker. Versailles Treaty as she could, but it was the duty of every German to demand the revision of the Treaty. DIRARMAMENT OF GERMANY.

MR. CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT IN

PARLIAMENT,

LONDON, April 15th. In the House of Commons, Mr. Chur- chill stated that the Inter Allied Military Commission has reported that the follow- ing German guns are available for des truction in accordance with the Treaty

the conditions of the Irish struggle are The Times expresses the opinion that wholly unfavourable to the Government The collapse of the hunger strike will scarcely prove a serious deterrent to dis order; while, if it continues, the Execu- tive will either be morally defeated, or, if the hunger strikers die, the Executive will be faced with an outburst of Irish fury,

NYASSALAND BUDGET. SIR JD REES' SUGGESTION.

The strikers have incressed in number

in the East. One hundred thousand are idle in Detroit.

The strike is holding up raw material One hundred students of the John Hopkins University have been permitted to replace the strikere in Philadelphia.

The liftmen in the fifty-four storey Wool- worth building have struck,

"BRITISH TREASURY BILLS.

Losnos, April 14th. British Treasury Bills are raised by one per cent to 6 per cent, for three months and twelve months' Bills. "OUTLAW OFFICIALS ARRESTS.

CHICAGO, April 16th. Six officials of the outlaw!! railway anions have been arrested on a charge of the violation of the law forbidding inter- ference with the movement of food and fuel supplies

Grunau, the President of the Yardmen's

Association, which started the strike, has also been arrested

LONDON, April 15th. the House of Commons Sir J. D. Reos suggested that the Governor of "Nyasa Land should be instructed to delay the imposition of an export duty on cotton until Parliament had approved of the levying of export duty on raw productsed idar British possessions.

Colonel Amery, replying, doubted the HUGE JUBILATING THRONGS IN donirability of Parliament discussing the

DUBLIN.

LONDON, April 1sth. Field guns, 6,500; Field-Howitzers, 2,500; "Indescribable, cheering, followed the heavy guns, 5,000; while another 3,800 announcement of the release of the prison. gans on the southern and eastern fortiers Women fainted and access to Mount- fications have to be handed over. Thus, joy Prison was impossible owing to the altogether 17,800 German guns are being huge jubilating throngs. destroyed by the Inter-Allied Commission

The Air Ministry estimates that Ger- many has 18,000 aeroplanes available for war purposes. These are now being listed with a view to taking over by the Com- mission.

Mr. Churchill declared that the work was being accelerated with all possible *peed. The German authorities were not controversial about the matter. He whe quite satisfied with the course being pur- sued by Great Britain and France Which was conducive to one of the most import ant objects they have in view, namely, the disarmament of Germany FLOATING DOOK TONNAGE TO BE

TAKEN,

LONDON, April 15th. The Council of Ambassadors has adopt and 20 motor machine-guns to guard pubod the Naval Commission's report as re- lia buildings in anticipation of a reaction gards Germany handing over floating dock tonnage. The Commission discovered 192,000 tons of it..

ary coup.

SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN. POMERANIA

BERLIN, April 13th In the National Assembly tue Defents Minister, Herr Gesater announced that he had ordered the crest of Major Ehrhardt, Commander of the Baltic naval detachment a portion of which was being

It is understood that General Macready was mainly responsible for producing the dramatic reversal of policy. He informed Lord French on his arrival that he at be given a clear field owing to his new. position as Commander-in-Chief in, Ire- land.

The release is viewed, as one of the most signal evidences in history of the pover of national solidarity.

TROUBLE IN LONDONDERRY STREETS.

LONDON, April 15

In attempting.lo rescue Sinn Fein pr Soners at Londonderry, crowds stoned the Polics, who made twelve bayonet class The stoning continued. The military, with an armoured car, were called out, and Brod forty rounds. Two civilians were wound.

ext.

́SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN LONDONDERRY.

LONDON, April 15th. Finece rioting took place this evening in

Unionists and Sinn Feinera..--

Budget of British Colonies and Protec torates before they could be approved.

A PRESS LUNCHEON IN LONDON.

SUCCESS OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE

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Losnos, April 15th, Imperial Press Conference of Canada, was Lord Athelstap, the Chairman of the entertained to luncheon at the Savoy to day, in connection with the British News paper Proprietors Conference.

Lord Burnham presided, and the gueste included the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Milner, Sir Edward Perley, Sir Thomas Mackenzie, Sir.. Andrew Fisher, and the editors and managers oft+ hundred British Dominions newspapers.

·LATERR

The arrests of other strike leaders are proceeding. Prisoners have been liberate

on a bail of $10,000 each, STRIKEES FIGHT VOLUNTEERS..

NEW YORK, April 16th. All reports indicate that the cismar of the railway strike has been reached and the return of the workers has begun, especially in the Middle West. The sprik. ers in the East gained some recruits. but Volunteers are helping to normalise cop ditions. The food problem in New York may be aggravated by the strike of truck. men who supply the markets. Police reserves have been culled out to protect the volunteers who are, temporaly, re famine. In the city many fights occurred. placing the truckmen in order to prevent

WASHINGTON, Apru 14th. President Wilson has nominated & Rail- road Labour Board to consider the grievances of the strikers. The Board com Prises three representativo, of each of the public railroads and the employes.

ARREST OF NEW ORLEANS LEADERS.

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Lord Burnham, toasting the guest of the evening, hoped that the Conference in

NEW ORLEANS, April 14th. Ottawa would continue the splendid work. As the Federal warrants have been issued of the Erst Conference, for the genere for the arrest of the leaders of the contem- bai plated strike called by the Railway Yard- good of the Empire...

Lord Athelstan, replying, said that men's Association, it is asserted that the Britain was best able to state how the men will be charged with attempting to Press Conference would beneft the interfere with inter-State commerce. Empire. He expressed the opinion that GOVERNMENT DISTRIBUTES it would be even more profitable if the Conference succeeded in increasing. emigration than in lowering the Press

New York, April 8th. cable rate

With a view, to checking the upward Canada, said that the war had witnessed the rise of a new trend of prices, in consequence of thu and great power destined increasingly strike, the Government is distributing to influence the Councils of the Empire 12,000,000 lbs. of beef at cost price.e and the world. The Press Conference was the strike is spreading among long- most valuable in establishing a community shoremen necessitating embargoes on of ideas, to which might be attributed the freights which is affecting export shipping. marvellous way in which the whole Empire So far no passenger fines have postponed Empire depended largely on the sucOSS THE AMERICAN MERCHANT

abeenoo of a common Council, the of the Empire Premi for evolving a common stock of ideas regarding future great, problems.

| BRITAIN AND SOVIET RUSSIA LA Anderry near the prison between Lord Milner, toasting

HITCH IN RESUMPTION OF COM.

MERCIAL RELATIONS.

The military police with fixed bayonets separated the rival crowds,

CROWD FIRES ON POLICE.

LONDON, April 15th The police and military in dispersing a

COPENHAGEN; April 14th. anxious to get to London, but refuses to

The Russian Trades Commissionisti dhe nga data

British refuse to admit.

conveyed to Muenster where the men would proceed without M. Litvinoff, whom the rowd, at Milton Malbay in Ireland, who Pued together in the hour of trial. In sailinga.

be disbanded and disarmed forcibly, if

necessary.

The news from Pomerania is of the most perious nature and he warned the Conser vatives that the Government will not per mit- fresh disturbances,

Government troops could not leave the Euhr area, he said, until all the arms had been sur- rendered.

PARIS, April 14th.

W

Havas mesange says Yesterday, in the Chamber of Deputies, M Millerand traced the development of events in the Ruhr region that led to the French occupation of Frankfort and other

towns g

The Commission is trying to exercise pressure by declining to do business with British commercial travellers visiting here.

were celebrating the release of prisoners in Dublin, were fired, on from the crowd The troops returned the fire..

It is reported that three men were killed

THE WAR ON BOLSHEVISM and others were wounded,

REDS OCCUPY ALEXANDROVSK.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 14th. The Bolsheviks are concentrating in the north of Crimes The Reds occupied Alexandrovsk in the course of a naval engagement in the Coepian Bea

RED NAPOLEON.

TRAIN HOLD UP IN CORK.

B LONDON, April 10th

Fifty armed men held up a mail train Kinsale Junction, in County Cork, and seized all letters to the Bandon Police Headquarters.

INQUEST PAPERS DESTROYED BY

RAIDERS.

LONDON, April 10th.4 The offices of the Crown Solicitor, repre-

He concluded amidst rounds of cheering

BADLY DEFEATED BY POLES. by a brief reference to the Franco-British incident," Im happy to tell the Cham

serating the Police, at the inquest of the ber," he said, “that after a frank ex

WARSAW, April 16th." Lord Major of Cork, were raided, and sil change of views between the Cabinets of Fallowing the heaviest fighting tin doonments concerned with the chewere London and Paris, they are now in agres Podolín with occasional Baccess the Baldestroyed, zaent and recognise more than ever the shoviet army, under the well-known Com necessity of maintaining a cordial agreemissar, Kanenefi, nicknamed the Red MILITARY RAID IN DUBLIN ment in the settlement of the grave ques Napoleon, has been badly defented. tions still outstanding in Germany and The 41st Division, constituting the the world"

vanguard, was amashed, losing two com-

LONDON, April 18th

A big military raid took place on my An allusion to Belgium produced a romanders, eight guns and quantities of many house in the poor quartor of Dallin markable demonstration of enthusisar in material. The next attack is expected a go'clock in the morning, and amber the Chambers

north of Eripet, but the Poles are press arrests were made, pared and confident wyg

A GERMAN DARE.

Paris, April 14th

A Havas message says

In the Nationa), Assembly, the Chancel- lor Herr Maåller, dared la nocuso France

king the TrestTÉ!

RISE IN BANK EATE:

NOW PER CENT

April 18th.

FUTILE ARRESTSPRA

Losnos, April 10th All but five of the ons hundred persOTUR arrested in the military raid in Dublin yesterday morning have been released un

Eleven more hunger stri word

SLOUGH DEPOT.

NAME OF FURCHASER-

LORDON, April 16th It was announced in the House of Com mons that the purchaser of the Blough Depot is Sir Percival Perry, the European, "representative of the Ford Company. PROFITEERING CHECK. BUR-COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDA

ATION

THE EX-KAISERIN,

IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITIONS

AMSTERDAM, April 15th.

A message from Amerongen says that the ex-Kaiserin's hears trouble is not dis quieting.

MAIL AIRSHIP AFIRE. FALLS BETWEEN TOULON AND

RABAT.

LowDox, April 18th. The Lloyds mail airship, flying from Toulon to Rabat, fell and was destroyed by fire

RUSSIAN TRADE. UNIONS:

FAITH IN MILITARY DISCIPLINE.

CHRISTIANIA, April 15th. The All-Russian-Trade Union Congress

has passed a resolution declaring the nece

sity of the workers to submit to military discipline during work, the necessity of campaign against attempts to avoid work and the adoption of a system for feeding workers in proportion to the economic and social importance of their work,

MINIMUM COTTON PRICE.`

ACTION BY AMERICAN ASSOCIA- TION.

MONTGOMERY, April 18th, The American Cotton Association has passed a resolution, fixing the minimam price of middling cotton of this yearʼm crop at 60 cents for pound,

· DAVIS -CUP,

RESULT OF RE-DRAW.

SYDNEY, April 8th, The following is the Davis Cup Re- Draw:

̈à First Round.—South Africa ». Holland; France v. America; Canada and British Isles, byca

Second Round.-Canada v. Winners of the first-named: British Isles v. Winner.

of the second-named. A

OBITUARY.

CAPE TOWN, April 15th. The death is announced of Major Bir Hamilton Goold Adama, G.C.M.G., who wan, at one time, Governor of the Orange River Colony and Governor of Queena land and had served in the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1884, in the Matabele Cam paign in 1893 and in the South African War

PERSIA

CASPIAN FLEET ACCEPTS DIE.

ARMAMENT.

TEHERAN April 14th. accepted disarmament and internment

The Caspian Fleet of fifteen ships has

Perio Admiral Sergeief, who registed internment, has been deposited at Baka, BIG PLANS IMMEDIATE FUTURE.couraged by the Germans, expelled the

The Democratic party at Tabriz, en

Swedish police officers.

MABINE

New YORK, April 14th," Mr. Benson, in an address to the Marine Jangan declared that propaganda was being ed against the American Merchant Marine in an endeavour to tear down

what we are bent upon making perman- entra Merchant Marine of ships built in America owned by American capital, snil- ing under the American flag, and carry- ing the products of the country to all parte of the world."

Haid that unity of action was reces sary in order that the United States may proft, by the Merchantmen; and take ar Losnow, April 18th vantage of the big commercial opportuni- The Profiteering Sub-Committee mooties resulting from the ward ends a system of fixing retail prices a between the manufacturers, the wholesaler, the retailer and the consumer, and finds that the firation checks undue infation of price in times of scarcit

EXPLOSION IN BELGIAN TOWN

TWO HUNDRED VICTIME

facto)

BRUBELLA April 14th occurred dings, chemical

ERIE ONTARIO CANAL FEDERAL ENGINEERS" "OJECTION.

SOVIET AMBASSADOR.

FOUND TO BE GERMAN SUBJECT.

WASHINGTON, April 18th. The Senate Committee considering the case of the so-called. Soviet Ambassador, Martens, found him to be a German sil ject therefore, an enemy Alien und stated that be should be dealt with by the Department of Justice,

BARLIER CABLES.

BRITISH MINERS

BALLOT DECIDES AGAINST.”

STRIKE.

LONDON, April 14t

The results of the miners”- ballot was

WASHINGTON, April 18th. The Federal Engineering Cups has | follows reported to Congress that it disa proved

The construction at present by Govt For Boeptance of the Govern of a camal connecting the Las Bre and Ontario, on the ground that ch

uld not justify the provided for