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CABLES.

EARLIER CABLES. (THROUGH_REITER'S AGæser.]

*IMPERIAL“ · WAR

GRAVES

COMMISSION.

THE WAR ON BOLSHEVISM. POLES UNDOUBTEDLY FORGING AHEAD.

Lownde, May, 4th.: The fall of Kiaff lias not yet bear con- firmed. Nevertheless, the Poles are un-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY TH 1920.

THE EMPIRES OIL OUTPUT LIKELY CHANGES IN THE SHELL

COMPANY.

OOST FOR THE CURRENT doubtedly forging ahead very rapidly. Transport and Trading Company a purely

FINANOLAL YEAR.

LONDON, May 4th Mr. Winston Churchill states that the cost of the Imperial War Graves Commis sion for the current financial year is estimated at £2,787,000, of which £815,000 will be borne by the Dominions, Judia and

the Colonies.

The Bolsheviks significantly admit that after the ighting near Fastoff, they are retiring to new positions.

At prosat it appears that the Polish and Ukrainian objective is the line along the Drina, the Dnieper and Drinsk to Kbor son, with a view to reconquering the Ukraine and obtaining a satisfactory basis for peace discussions,

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF

It is stated that the Polish Army nüm. COMMONS.

bers 1,250,000 LONDON, May 4th..

Although ill-equipped, In the House of Commons, on the In- they are ired with patriotism for their perial War Graves Commission's vuta, a new Republic. They were recently largely Hospital discussion took place as to whether to clothed with American stores -adopt the Commission's proposal favour-arrangements are practically non-existant, BREACH OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS ing uniformity in headstones in the come teries in France or whether the relatives should be permitted to follow their own -designs.

The House generally supported Mr. Asquith, who advocated the former course, without distinction between officers and

men.

COVENANTI

Freas criticisms of the attitude of the Allies towards the Polish offensive were voiced in the House of Commons this afternoon by Capt. Wedgwood Benn, who auggested that the Government refer the question of the Polish advance to the League of Nations, "under Article 11 of

THE DENNISTON PLAYERS,

"The Unkissed Bride," which is being staged to-night by the Denniston Company is racy and screamingly funny The players have been so successful in larce that their presentation of "The Unkissed Bride" this evening is anticipated with the keennest pleasure by local theatre

LONDON, May ith. The Times understands that negotiations are in progress for the making of the Shell

British concern, with a view to enabling goers. The play enjoyed a run for some the Company more actively to participate months at New York. Upon Miss Warda in the development of the oil-feld in Howard's shoulders falls the brunt of the Mesopotamia and other parts of the work and there is scarcely a moment that

sho is off the stage. Empirs.

It says that the close alliance between the Shell Company and the Royal Dutch group has been a factor of the discussions, as well as the question of its participating in such a development.

It emphasises that, in view of the power fel interests involved and the great national importance of oil, these arrange ments must be very closely scrutinised pub licly

In connection with the above, it is nate worthy that the Shell Company claims to hold Turkish concessions in regard to the Mesopotamian oil-fields.

GERMANY AND THE TREATY

THE SPA CONFERENCE.

PARIS, May ith.

ROYAL ARTILLERY THEATRE ---

ENTERTAINMENT.

For to-night's entertainment at the Royal Artillery Theatre, Victoria Bar. racks, an excellent programme has been provided. Booking is at Messrs, Mautrie's The programme, is as follows:-1, Song (Sergeant of the Line), Mr. D. A. Green;

Colonel Cross as the piano; 3., Song (Tara the ages), Mr. Howard Freeborn

NEW FRENCH GUN,

150-MILE RANGE,

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS. PROFESSOR BODDY'S REMARK- ABLE STATEMENTS.

PARIS, Marob 19th. If during the war the Germans' bad "One of the leading scientific men of the

day, Frederick Soddy, FR.S. Lee's the type of gun which is now being er Professor of Inorganic and Physical perimented with by France and England Chemistry in the University of Oxford, they could hava bombarded London from

the Belgian coast as easily as they bo opens up a vision of the future, full both of promise and of danger, in an barded villages along the front line. Tha interview in the Daily Herald,

experiments and their results are for the "Natural force, which may change the present being kept secret, but following face of nature are becoming amenable an inquiry in the British Parliament cer to the use of man. We are already tain details as to tho construction of the justified in the expectation of a change gun have been allowed to leak out, in the standard of life incomparably beyond that brought by the harnessing of steam.'

The uses already made of science,' says Professor Soddy, show how necessary it is that a new social order bo develop ed before a million times more awful powers are unleashed by mah.

Either individualiam must give ways to Socialism and Co-operation or Science must stop. Common ownership of the acquisitions of Science is the only path of progress."

2.

Ten models have in all been constructed under the supervision of the inventor, Captain De la Mare Maze, and costs are being made with them outside Paris. No new explosivo or type of shell is used, but propulsion on a entirely new prin- ciple is introduced. Instead of being forced out by the pressure of gas enused by the combustion of a high explosive pro pellant, the shell is in some fashion wafted away on a gale of wind set up by the explosion.

The result is obtained in this "way; The propellant is contained in a special MAN AND THE ATOM.

chamber constructed to resist, high prea- progress Judging by the

already sure. Instead of coming directly to bear achieved the next decade may well see on the shall; the gas from the explosion advances in the field of scientific is carried along a tabe in which the pres- knowledge which will open the way to sare diminishes but the speed increase the true golden age of humanity. At the moment whers velocity is greatest, Already science, through the medium the gas impinges on the shell and literally of atomic energy, has laid its hand upon blows it out of the gun as a pen is blown a tool which, if controllable to man. from a peashooter. Two vents in the coula eliminate forever the nightmare side of the gun are used to carry suplus of existence prolonged from day to day gas near the explosion chamber, and this only by unremitting toil.'"

by giving a forward motion suppress the recoil of the gan. All the force of the explosion in this way reaches the shell

The first experiments gave an initial

Humorous Sketch (" George Robeyi "*), Mr. P. A Merrin, R.N. 5. Thought Reading, Mrs Philip Kilgour assifed by Mr. John Carrington; 0., Song (Selected), Mr. D. A. Green; Comic Trip,

This fascinating forecast was made to "Another Little Drink" (Lieut. I. B.

the Daily Herald by Professor Frederick Franks, R.N Alfred Lester, Mr. Soddy, F.R.S., when a representative of It is stated that M. Millerand will visit Howard Freeborn as George Robey and that paper had the privilege of calling velocity to the shell of 2,200 feet per London next week to arrange with Mr.Mr. Oliver s Violet Lorraine). Then on the famous chemist in his laboratory second, but it is understood that this has after the interval there is a musical sketch Oxford, and talking with him about been greatly increased and that a velocity

his latest book," Science and Life." of 3,500 feet per second can be reucked, In his collection of essays the possible With tha speed it is only a matter Lloyd George the Spa programme.

Le Matin reports that the French dele by Lieut. I. B. Franks, R.N., and thefect on everyday life of recent marvel- clevation of the gun to carry a distance fighting, on which the names of missing the countries adjoining Russia in regard gates at Spa will refuse to accept a fixed one-act play "The - Conversion of Nalous discoveries in the field of radio of 190 to 180 miles.

to their course towards the Soviet Govern-sam for reparations due to France, but ment, or accept responsibility for their will agree to a fixed number of annual

payments with an annual minimum.

BRITAIN'S REPARATION, FIGURE.

LONDON, May 4th.

Mr. Churchill said that the Commission the Covenint. was considering the erection of a inemorial in a cemetery nearest to the scene of

Mr. Bonar Law, repsing, emphasised that the Government was unable to advise

actions.

mon would be inscribed, or the erection of a Regimental memorial for a similar purpos. He estimated that the carrying

The Government as present was not out of the Commission's scheme would prepared to adopt the suggestion. He take on years, whereas independent bend-pointed out that this was not the begin- stones could not be completed in the pre-ning of a new war; there had been no ment grueration. The Commission anti-cessation of hostilities between the Poles preparing reparation claims, of which an cipated that the beadstones 'erected by and the Bolabevists." Article 11 laid down admitted amount must be notified to Ger- them would last hundreds of years. that the League should act if it thought

About 2,000 stones of remembrance, weigh- ing te tons, and inscribed Thy name liveth for evermore, would be erected in France alone. Certainly, they would exist for 3,000 years, hence preserving the memory of those who gave their lives for their country. The stones of remembrance #would undoubtedly excite the wonder and

reverence af posterity..

An mendment in favour of independent desigus vas negatived, and the vote agreed

it wise and effective, ...

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.“

DISCUSSION OF IMPERIAL CABINET ORGANISATION.

LONDON, May 4th. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Archibald Hurd, Mr. Bocar Law stated that there had been no development of the Imperial Cabinet organisation since the decision anounced on August 19th, 1918, in regard to the Dominion Prime Ministers communicating directly with the Premier of the United Kingdom and the The deep feelings aroused throughout Dominions being entitled to representa

London.

to and cheers.

LATER

The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, in the House' of Commons, that he was

of

Sterge in which Major Law takes the activity is discussed in simple, non-techni From the inventor the French military ware | authorities have taken over all rights of part of the Bishop of Minterweit, Capt. cal language. Two of the essays

In Belgium an experimental gun is Bristow of Nai Sterge, Mr.. E. H. Halford originally lectures delivered before the construction in this country.

independent Labour Party of Aberdeen. That which will bamper the scientist most being made at Liege and it is stated that of Raddles and Mrs. Bristow of Julia,

in leading mankind forward into a new the American military attache has saked era, Professor Boddy fears, is the well to be present when official tests are mado founded fear that under existing social within the next few weeks.

The most important fact about the new conditions new discoveries may be so mis handled as to create more millionaires and invention is that it can be adapted to

existing artillery.

THE FUTURE LINER. EVOLUTION OF THE MARINE ENGINE,

more'slums.

SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL ORDER. The uses already made of science." Sir James McKechnie director of be says, show how necessary it is that many by the Reparations Commission be-Vickers Naval Construction Works at a new social order be developed before a fore May 1st next, for discharge within Barrow-in-Famess, recently outlined the million times more awful powers are un- Bo far the pearls of possibilities of the great ocean liner of leashed by man. the future from the engineer'e point of science have been cast before those who have given us in return the desolation of view

scientific warfare and the almost equal desolation of unscientific, government.

30 years.

The Government would set aside from the Eras reparation received £5,000,000 for payments in certain cases to private, in- dividuals on account of losses for which they claim reparation, although no legal

claims exist.

STRIKES IN FRANCE,

SIGNIFICANT ANTI-STRIKE

MOVEMENT.

PARIS, May 4th..

In the world that is to come the con- trol of financzers, lawyers, politicians, and give place to a system in which the crea the merely possessive or acquisitive must tive elemente must rule.

IRISH AMERICANS.

A STRANGE NATURALISATION.

The Washington Correspondent of Speaking at a luncheon given after the

London paper, writing March 2nd. said: On Friday. Inat in Chicago Judga launching of the Cunarder Scythia, Sir

Kavanaugh, in naturalising an Irishman James said this vessel is so far the largest ocean liner daigned and built for buru-

required him not only to forswear allegi liness in bunkering and for avoiding the

This is the first time that this dual oathr to Do Valera and the Irish Republic. ing oil fuel. For rapidity and scan

ance to the King of England but also

vagaries and uncertainties of post-war

Quietly and convincingly, Professor has been administered. The Judge said. supplice, this form of fuel must be a great boon to sinipowners. During the Boddy predicted that the potential energy that, although the Trish Government had forty-five year which had passed since the latent everywhere in Nature will, na time not been recognised by other Governments, old Scythia was built, there had been goes on, be utilised more and more to re- he intended to take judicial cognisance great progress in 1873 one hundred tons place animate energy-the toil of man. of it Naturalisation is solely the Federal of cargo required the consumption of As primitive man froze to death on the prerogative, so that if the Washington seventeen pounds of coal to convey it one site of modern coal mines, so the majority Government permite Judge Kavanaugh's mile on its coran journey, whereas the new of mankind to-day drags out a miserably ruling to go unchallenged, it will have Scythia, travelling at the same speed as confined existence with the means of a tacity sustained it and by soquiescence the old vessel, would only require four life for which we have no standard all admitted the existence of the Irish Re- public and extended an invitation to pounds of coal or about three pounds of about him but still beyond his reach

Could the energy steadily diffused in other Judges to preach the propaganda As one the development of internal combustion be harnessed by man," he said, " and the The danger that may follow is obvious engines for ships, Sir James McKechnie rate of progress being made justifica the ing of fuel oil appeared as but another will see a transformation of the standards said even geared turbines and the burn. belief that some day this will be done, we stage, and not a finality, in the evolution of-life incomparably beyond that brought of the marine engine, and be hoped soony Control by, man of the atomic energy

the harnessing of steam. to see the day arrive when the internal

the country were expressed in the House tion at the meetings of the Cabinet in the Eastern Railway bas issued a mani-oil who had taken a small part in the transmutation of radio-active elements of the Irish Republia: from the Bench

of Commons, through the decision not to perinit, individual memorial, in many eloquent speeches. It was mentioned that that there would be 4,000 of these come teries, and that it would take ten years before the work, of erecting a uniform pattern of tombstones was completed.

The support of the House in this con-j nection was largely won by the powerful speech of Mr. Burdett-Coutts urging that there should not be left among the raia

treatment of the dead. He said that the poor people were too generous to begrudge individual memorials, but the House ought to act for the nation in mourning; so that. the woman in the tenement should not be left with any sense, although unexpressed, of her man who had made the greatest sacrifice and died the same death for the sama cause, not having the same beautiful monument, Finally, Mr. Coutts won the House by urging the wishes of dead officers, who would not have had a difference imposed by a solemn mandate of the country. He read a letter from Mr. Rudyard Kipling saying that the Kiplings did not have any, grave to go to na their boy, was missing and lost where the battered ground gave not the slightest

The whole matter would be discussed at the Imperial Conference which it was pro- posed to hold in 1991 to consider inter- Imperial constitutional relationships. In accordance with a resolution at the last

Imperial Conference, communications were maintained with the Dominions, and important papers of Imperial concern were forwarded weekly for the informa tien of Dominion Prime Ministers.

The reason why no Cabinet organisation

Imperial matters was that the Dominion Ministers did not think it suitable to have a represalative.

EX-ENEMY SHIPPING-

FINAL OWNERSHIP NOT YET

DETERMINED.

London, May 4th.

A significant feature of the strike is that, for the first time, there is a strong anti-strike movement.

The Union of Discharged Soldiers of festo condemning the strike, which, it says, is not aimed at trade advantages but is purely political...

The Government continues to arrest the principal agitators.

RUMANIA.

TEXT OF SUPREME COUNCIL'S, DECISION.

The following decision of the Supreme Council in regard to the union of Bessa rabia with Rumania has been transmitted, Prime Minister:

Even

The principal Allied Powers have tons of fuel in a single year, and was a hitherto found themselves unable to make most important consideration.

Sir Trevor Dawson said the Scythic was any definite decision on the Bessarabian the first Cunard liner to be built at Bar question both because they considered it a row, but Mears, Vickers have contracted part of the general Rumanina question of to build a good many more. |which difficulties with the former Buman, ian Government had impeded a settlement and because they had hoped that it would

load

LOCKED-UP ENERGY.

Socialism, communistic in its inheritance and communistio in the spirit of its ap acquisitions of science is the only path of plication. Common ownership of the progress, the only way in which the sum total of human happiness can be

augmented.

ANALYSING THE ATOM.

be found possible to bring about a friendly 20%. IN THE £ RATE AT POPLAR menrospect of converting lead into the election, regarded by physical science

arrangement between Rumania and Russia

There appears to the principal Allied

THE MAYOR EXPLAINS AND -COMPLAINS.

It is oficially stated that, excluding the captured prizes, 348 ex enemy merchent men, with a tonnage of over 1,500,000, has boen detrined in British ports or allocate have shown proof of their desire to bottle fign of a 20% in the pound rate next year, present value of energy it would be more tory, Cambridge,. into the constitution of

ed to Britain for temporary management since the Armistice. Final ownership has no yet been determined.

were no reason any further to delay a

settlement.

The Rumanian Govenment

a

UNION OF BESSARABIA WITH combustion engine will be regarded by thrown off by radio-active elements-in

shipowners as capable of application to manner similar to the way ordinary che high powered vessels of the ocean liner mical processes aneh as the combustion of type, with as full a sense of security on coal are now controlled-is the vital step

That is why I, as a scientific, its reliability as they had to-day in equip. which science has yet to take.”.

endorse the aspirations of the Labour ping the Sthin with geared turbines

movement of to-day; it alone stands for and oil fuel burning apparatus.

Professor Soddy explained that the pro-any ideal above the taxdry and offer a today the internal combustion engine was oss of radio-activity which has been going prospect of escape from the evil legacy capable of conreying one hundred tons of an in certain elements since the forma of the old unhappy days.""" tives say sense of differentiation in the in England was continuously considering with a covering letter, to the Rumanian lone represented a saving of millions of utilised. Atomic particles are thrown that the director of the Petergrad Ex-

cargo for one mile with a consumption of tion of the world releases & source of one and a half pounds of oil fuel. That energy immensely greater then any ye "A Moscow wireless memage announces

of the parent element, which slowly alters perimental Institute, Professor Rozbdest in nature according to laws in the die vensky, has discovered the constraction covery of which Professor Boddy himself of one of the simplest atoms, that of has played an important part. No lithium. The way to discover the con uranium, thorium, and radium are slowly struction of other atoms is now open. turning into lead, and if a way is found With the object of promoting researches to control the expulsion of these particles, with the full assistance of the authorities

mercury or other elements could be of the institute an Atomic Commission converted into gold or other desired, ele will be formed of leading savants. ***

at will

The atom was, until the discovery of gold is, however, a perfectly trivial and as the ultimate indivisible part of matter. illusory part of the full possibilities fore The discovery reported from Moscow is the shadowed by recent scientific achievement. more interesting in view of the researches Poplay will have the unenviable distinc Professor Soddy said Rather at the now proceeding at the Cavendish Labora making it the highest rated borough in profitable to convert gold into base metal in the interest of Rumania and Europe London.

provided control of the transformation the elementa sags the Daily News.

"It is believed that the secret of a cheap generally the outstanding question is a monstrous iniquity that such were poble.

method of harnessing the tides has been. igue and have submitted to the ruling of burden should be placed on the borough,"

In conclusion, Professor Soddy spoke found" stys the Daily Mail. the Sapreme Court on the question of the said Mr. George Lansbury, the Socialist of the responsibilities and opportunities Work is about to begin both on the withdrawal of their troops from Hungary: Mayor of Popular. I am convinced it of the Labor movement in respect to the Dee and the Severn; where power can be

new discoveries of science, saying that the relying on the nesurance of the principal will lead inevitably to tremendous dis ideals for which the Labour-Dormant produced, according to the estimates of Allied Power The Allied Governments,

The landlords intend to put stands are the only ones under which the the cost of electric power by cool

engineers, at two-thirds. moreover feel that in the best interest every penny or the rents. A no-rent strike farther great gifts of science can be More than this: a number of estuaries on both of Rumania and neighbouring coun- tries the Bessarabian question should no and I for one should support it. It is a tragedy," he said, to see the the cost of installation would be consider

in these circumstances is quite possible, safely entrusted to the world,

the west coast have been surveyed, where LONDON, May 4th. longer be left undecided.

This 900, zato is not due to extravag-splended achievements, both of brain and ably lower, The Westminster Gazette, commenting After taking into full consideration the ant expenditure in Poplar. It is due to brawn, of modern peoples squandered and Great on the Morning Post article, (stating that Bessarabia and the Moldavian character of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the spirit, and owing allegiance to the stan world, even if every ounce of cold

general aspirations of the populations of the fact that the London County Council, barned to evil by rulers, alien to their the greatest manufacturing centros of the Britain may remain aming the British Government has been beaten that region from the geographical and Education authorities have all increased dards of dead civilisations and dying appears Buch is the belief of one and all but deposed by the Sinn Fein), ethnographical pouits of view, as well be their calls. Our rateable value is to small beliefs. The cut-throat doctrines of the eminent foreign engineer who has studies

the historic and economic arguments, the says that until British Ministers are trazis principal Allied Powers pronounce them that a penny in the pound prodices only past have to be beaten out of the path the possibilities Mr. Moses Gaster, writing in the formed into Prussian Junkers they will selves, therefore, in favour of the reunion £2,000, while in the City'sad West End agro if the ideals of science are to Models have been set to work with

of Bessarabia with Ramania which penny in the pound rate yields tens of make good, MDR the last months, and they confirm the Under our present order a future estimate that power which now costs Id Standard, orges that the work of found never be the responsibility for the deat, now been formally declared by the Be A poor borough like ours, which must simply means that in the next war life The essence of the invention in thisg

achievement such as that foreshadowed

unit can be produced for d even sell-inflicted, of men most of whom sarabian representatives, and are desirous are untiled and unconvicted.

to conclude a treaty in recognition of this spend a considerable one of one of could be wiped off the globe by science as the tide works a turbius and makes 53 toon sw the conditions stated have been sanitation, is terribly handicapped by low completely as wiping off slate, and

power both at ita inflow sad its outflow, established the Colonics in the olden times, BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM carried out. They consider that, in this more have lower rated that spend from being is the mix cessing for a comparative flors being starved before the war, while during the period of half-tido. In Me reunion the general and particular in despite hardships, trials and fears, The DROP IN PRICES FORESHADOWED-terests of Besarabia should be enfocus is to make these great education, Foor of being enslaved by those who socle to great variation in the hour of the tide The one remedy for Poplar's a rate scienos is now in danger of a worse fate ona Cheshire and Lancashire district the ed, more especially as regards its relations LONDON May 4th. with neighbouring countries, and that Law, and other charges, which though possible very per Individuali rendered at neighbouring estuarice, makes passi Lord Blakemore, presiding atsitrade the rights of minorities in it should be local in character are beneficial to the TV way to Socialism and alum am thanks to an ingenious discos psible conference at Bournemouth, foreshadowed guaranteed of the same termes as those re whole community, national charges. The and external nation production of maximum energy the that cheaper food was coming, Including hiding in those parts of the Rumanian burden should be shared equally; instead between nations and with external, nature an almost continuous perio

on of being slowed to fall so heavily on must replace competition and war or Bill is about to come before a reduction of butter by 6d, lard by 4d Kingdom N

science must stop.

ment for the harnessing of a number of

Pari tinned beef by Cdly and sinned fruits by ad. The principal Allied Powers reserve the poor communities I have laid in my last book, and

Scottish streams, and the sum of available. ARRA DOSTAVAD MAN NG SUN P covered the dropping tendency. General might arise from either of those two.ques borough' may be short-lived. Leytonstone should be glad to have the Daily Herald power in Scotland proves on furt

Meanwhile, housewives have not yet dis right to refer any future difficulties that Popiar's claim to he the higher rated

vestigation to be bigger than Ceny prices, especially, dreperto

the arbitration of the League of rate for next year is empected to be even repeat, that science is an actual working

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THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE

PRIMITIVE EXAMPLE MUST BE

FOLLOWED.

LONDON, May sta

ing Palestine as a Jewish State should fol- low the primitive example of those who

presnt schemes for the development of

Palestine mean the establishment of a British Colony for Jewish people, where the latter shall work and be subject He arge that the future of Palestine must be decided and defined, and that there must be no exploitation ur philan

UNBEST, IN IRELAND.

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