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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH,

MURDERS IN DUBLIN:

SIMULTANEOUS RAIDS BY SINN FEINERS

MANY OFFICERS KILLED.

TRADING WITH RUSSIA

BRITISH AGREEMENT HANDED TO

{THROUGH

AGENOT.]

DUBLIN MURDERS,

KRASSIN.

GRAPHIC DETAILS.

LONDON, November 22nd,

Graphic details are related of a murder at Mount Street. A party of 17 Royal

TWELVE OFFICERS SHOT DEAD IN Irish Constabulary cadets, in a lorry, were

„DUBLIN.

LONDON; November 21st

A dozen men said to be ex-officers and

offerrs living out of barracks were shot dead in Dublin this morning. Two were killed in Gresham Hotel. Captain New berry was shot dead at his residence. Three men were shot in another house, two of whòm nre dead and one is dying. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN DUBLIN

LATER.

ad

It now appears that according to official statement 14 offers were killed and 8 wounded in Dublin. The dead include two court-martial officers. The Auxiliary Police have captured three amassins. Te members of the Auxiliary force were killed while going for reinforcements.

Major: Fitzgerald was shot in bed. Great excitement prevails in the city, Military cars are patrolling the streets, Bring in the air in order to scatter the crowds

SIMULTANEOUS ATTACK.

LATER

A simultaneous attack was made on Army officers living in lodgings outside the bat racks. Four ofcers were shot; one in the house, three in another and two in stil

another, while a retired officer, Major Fitzgerald, was shot dead in his own house by three men, and another officer was kill. ed in the street.

passing the house when a woman screamed through the window that, an officer had been

murdered.

The party surrounded the house and sent off to the barracks for reinforcement. A number, entered the house where three officers were living who declared that the murderers entered the bed-room, where two officers wore sleeping, by a bogus story about a letter. Immediately, they fired four

EATEST CABLES.

FBENCH FOREIGN TRADE. MATERIAL, IMPROVEMENT IN EXPORTS

PAXIB, November 90th

LATEST CABLES.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

EW APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSIONE.

November Sind

A Havas mossaga saya :-*

question of new admissions. Official statistics of the French foreign worship of the League of Nations was trade for the Brat ten months of 1920 show discussed by a special commission charged very material improvement over the same with "examining the applications. M period of 1019, although the balanes is still | Xiviani (Franos) remarked that the com on the debit idle, owing chloßy to the mission would pronounes on ludividual cases necessity of importing large quantities of } after the examination of facts. grain and coal to make up the deficit resulting from the devastation of the rich agricultural districts and the destruction of mines by the Germans............

The importations were of the nearly £1.900.000,000, st. par, being augmentation of about £80,000,000, but the exportations exceedel £700,000,000 being an augmentation of nearly £440,000,000, duo chiefly to the vigorous impulse to the exportation of manufactured articles.

INDIAN JUTE MILLS. TO WORK SHORT TIME.

CaLoutri, November 21st.

The Indian Jute Mills Association has

shots, killing one. The other escaped. The decided that, for six months from January murderers then went to the room of the next, jute mills will work only five days third officer, who jumped out of bed, know-

Long-week, owing to scarcity of coal. ing what to expect, and remained behind the door. He dropped on his knee as he pulled the door open. The murderers fired twelve "shots into the bed and, then, de camped.

FALL IN PRICES.

CONDITIONS IN FRANCE.

PARIS November 21st.

A Havas message says ******

It is stated that the cadets arrested a man». The papers are giving vent to satisfaction inside the house and three in the vicinity, over the steady decline in the prices of the all of whom are carrying revolvers. Mean-chief commodities, such as sugar, coffee,

vegetable, oils, butter and wine. while two cadets sent for reinforcements

Clothes and footweur are now following were killed, evidently by the rest of the h gang watching the hona..

RESULT OF ARRESTS

LATER.". The appalling series of cold-blooded mar- ders in Dublin has caused the greatest horror

consternation and tension in the city ever experienced since 1916”

The murders occurred at 9 o'clock on

Buit.

NITROGEN FROM AIR.

FRENCH SCIENTIST'S NEW

PROCESS..

PARIS, November 1st

Havas message says?

A. commission of prominent scientists Sunday morning. All were accomplished have investigated and ascertained the prac within the space of half an hour, simultan- ticability of a French physicist's, new Badenton

escapes.

יו་.

Mr. Millen (Australia) and Prizes Ranjitsinjhi (India) urged that the com madon must be guided by the sentiment of justice and the interest of the State re- questing admimion. Three mmisions were appointed to consider applications from the viewpoint og stability.

The most important sub-commission will be presided over by Lord Robert Crail

(South Africa) and will include M. Brant-

ing and M. Feriani, und will deal with the applications of Austria and Bulgaria.

SUGGESTION FOR UNIVERSAL DISARMAMENT.

GENEVA. November 31st.

At a meeting of the sixth committon of

LATEST CABLES.

MO.C. IN SYDNEY.

DEFEATED BY NEW SOUTH WALES.

BYBKIY, November 22nd." New South Wales has defeated the Marylebone Cricket Club by 8 wie

Hobbe made 119 runs in the first innings.

EARLIER CABLES.

TO HELP AUSTRIA,

Losbox, November 91ab, The Obferver's: Vienna Correspondent†

learns that the British and French Govern- ments have agreed to help Austria to get on her feet again..

MILES OF FLOOD WRECKAGES BALMON CAST UP ON SCOTTISH GOLF LINKS

After four days of incesant rain the River Des to-day barat, ita banka, five miles àbore Aberdeen and inundated the countryside (wrote the Aberdeen correspondent of the Daily Expressom Opt. 8th).

The torrent carried haystacks, sheaven of corn, wooden buildings, telephone poles, and uprooted trees past this city to the sex. As the floods rose families began carrying their furniture from the farms to the main roads but several households were marooned,”ami parents and children had to be taken ashore by motor-boats transpí, exi from "Aberdeen on lorries and launched in the river.

number of farmers suaded to the edge of the food carrying their wives, ant children on their backs

Most of the grain crops on the Deesicle had not been taken in, and have all been NEW BOLSHEVIK ATTACKS. wept away from the Belts Hundreds of fowls and many horses, cattle, and sheep

been JESSA PONIES DROWNED.

ON GENERAL, PETLURA AND GENERAL BALAHOVITOH

Losnow, November Mah. Having anihilated General, Wrangel's forces the Soviet armies are turning their attention to the two other anti-Bolshevik forces led by General Petlura and General Balahovitch

A Moscow wireloss records that the

An attempt was made to rescue seven- teem Shetland

ponies grazing on an island island in mid-stream. When the pasture became submerged the ponies were panic stricken, but watched with mimoes human intelligenes the efforts made to take them on board a number of coble boats,

They had to be left to their fate, and only two succeeded in swimming ashore. The other Afteen were drowned

The masonry of the bridges has been demolished, and long stretches of the

the river banks torn away.

The fonds surrounded a bleaching factory

and the clerka rowedt, over the faraiture floating about upside down. loquently gf gel-universal and simultaneous-cacia border General Befatories The electrical plant has been destroyed and

the wooden

atoresheds and their reduction of armyorests.

Contents Boated down the river w

Near Banchory wild rabbits were

more famed by terror, and sought ref ge on the tops of the corn stooks in the-Helds, and workers were able towade over an

and capture them with their hands, b

the League Assembly M. Lange (Norway) former has received a bad "drubbing and caused 10,000 damage. When the who, with Dr. Wellington Koo (China), has The Reds have captured Proskuroff, an

been charged to report on disarmament, important town to the east of the out in a mail bost they found the

men in the region north-west of Kisff who Dr. Koo-in a speech on the practical had pressed forwards towards Pripet have kasares to be taken with a view to diabeen repulsed, losing 1,440 as: prisoners, armament, declared that a commission eight to formulate solid and concrete pro- posle which may be acceptable to the

Governments, concerned. He was of opinion

that it would be better sch to create fresh organizatio Bus to utilise those already existing.

ARMENIA IN EXTREMIS.

PREMIERS CONFERENCE IN LONDON.

PARÍS, November 20th.

The Franck Premier, M. Leygues, skinetly to

00 2 FAR EASTERN CABLE meeded

NEWS

Itzzouen kauYER'S AGRICY.]

UNITED STATES DECLARATION ON CHINESE CONSORTIUM.

WASHINGTON, November 20th. “ The State Department has issued a state ment saying that the Chinese Consortium has been organized with the full approval of the Government of the United Stater,

were found on the golf course and

m front of a house when the water.

Cru SAYLOAT IN A KENNEL.

In

river opposite the village a complete Sawmill and a dog kennel floated side by side- the dog being still attached to the kennel by hix chain.

There are no records of a previous food of such dimensions, the height of the grent Morsy floods of 1829 in the historic "Mackle Spate (Great Flood) having been exceeded by two feet.

Afternoon two

fishing vessels broke

from their moorings in Aberdeen Harbour, and after drifting out to sea were cast nabore by the inflowing tide. One of the ships les high and dry the beach, but the other was broken to

on

For three miles a

along the shore there is for London on a visit to Great Britain, France and Japan in the continuous line of |eously, by several gangs. There were night invention for producing fertilizers from Mr. Lloyd George when the situation ari belief that the Chinas people, thus, would of animala wakatRage and the Booding also took place on the attacks at eight separate addresses. Most nitrogen extracted directly from the airing in the Near East from the Greek cribo enabled to procure capital for improv. Biver Don, and at Fitraple, some tiles. The procedure is the other raids was very

ing transportation, and with the hope that had to be takozz from the village to the

out of Aberdeen, railwaymen and passengers": similar, but in the case of the Greshamof the victims were shot in bed without a by a process less wasteful and cheaper than is to be discussed

greater unity and wider economic develop station in a small boatho Hotel, where two officers were murdered second's warning. Several had miraculous the so-called Haber process.

Le Temps, in expressing satisfictive over

K| monk would result to the Chi people, the impending meeting, writes that the

aiso a greater understanding in Far Pacifying of the Near East in certainly Eastern matters among the Powera con- an urgent problem whose solution, how- ever, is to be found only in agreement be tween the Allied Governments at on side CHINESE GATHERING IN LONDON. issues but on the whole of their policies.

KEMALISTS IN RETREAT

CONSTANTINOPLE, November stat

fifteen armed, men held up the hotel staf with revolvers and forced a porter to take the party to the officers' bed-rooms.

In another case three men were taken to the backyards and shot there. Sometimes the gang interrogated their victims first and ransacked the rooma, destroying what under,tood to be incriminating evidence against Sim Feiners,

POLICE RAIDS THROUGHOUT CITY.

LATER

Following the murders there was intensi-

fied

ed military activity. An aeroplane flew over the city, and troops and police sur- rounded the sports ground at Croke Park, where a football match was in progress and arched for arms. Sinn Fein pickets fired and the troops, who returned on the police and the the fire, killing and wounding a number of

FRENCH IN SYRIA.

RECONSTRUCTION WORK PRO- CEEDING SATISFACTORILY.

PARIS, November 21it.

A Havas message saya General Gourand, the French High Com missioner in Cilicia and Syria, stabed be fore a Parliamentary Committee that the

-cerned..

LONDON, November Fist,

A representative gathering of the Chinese community in the United Kingdom, pre-

HEAD MOVED. IN COFFIN. ESCAPE FROM BEING BURIED ALIVE

Once again the difficult question of the proof of death is raised. In a recont num- ber of a German medical paper {“ Deutsche Med Wochenschr) there appears an ac count by Dr. E. Rantenberg of an exceed-

alive. Happily the coffe was reopened for purposes of identlication,

The following of the Medical Research Committee. are the circumstances as geven in the organ

Medical Science

people. A man and a woman were also French work of re-organization is proceedog The Armenian paper report that Armer Bented an flaminated address on a silver ingly narrow "escape from being buried

ing very satisfactorily with the co-opera- tion of Christian and Moslem notabilities.

It appears that 11 officers were killed and the recent relentless pursuit by men wh The Governorship of Aleppo has been en

Swounded-g

The polico and the military are conduct ing raids throughout the city and holding

up motor-dary and motorcyclists. Grave unessiness prevails, the citizens fearing

ian forces have re-occupied Alexandrapel, and the Kemalists are retresting towards" KATS. CRUSHING TURKISH. CONDITIONS.

LONDON, November gist The Armenians are in a terrible plight,

killed in the consequent stampede.

The murders are regarded as a soquel to

captured documents had shown to be the At least a score of such persons were arrest. inner circle of the Republican murder gang. mostly officers engaged in the preparation The efficiency of Kemal's troops, he said, although the capture of their capital city

trusted to a Turk. Elections are to take place in Lebanon next Spring. The General

ed in Dublin last week, and the victims are eulogized the Turkish soldiers, chivalry.

of evidence against them.

OMINOUS SILENCE.

It is officially stated that the Lord Mayor CAPTAIN'S PLUCKY FIGHT. of Dublin bas applied for police protection. He is at present being guarded by Black LATZE and-Tana. There is an ominous silence. The officers, killed in Dublin to-day in regarding the events happening in Dublin during the night. Not a word has been alude one Major, five Captains, one ex-received in London since the message Captain, and one Lieutenant..

announcing that a good deal of shooting was going on. Two Black-and-Tang” were The wounded include two Colonels, ene ambushed in County Cork. One was killed

and the other seriously wounded.. Captain and ono Lieutenant.

JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD BY The hands, who carried out the murders, MILITARY.

The well-known sporting journalist Mr.

ranged from a dozen to twenty-four. Maas Cowley was shot dead be the military, na

of the victims were still in bed when they were attacked.

Captain Newbury was shot in the bed. room in the presence of his wife. He made a good fight, wounding one of the raiders who was subsequently captured.

REPRISALS IN DUBLIN.

in

„LONDON, November 22ad. There is great military activity Dublin

At midnight shooting was going on and a number have been reported to been killed,

HOW ASSASSINS ENTERED

DUBLIN

«LONDON, November 221d. persons were killed and atwounded.

he failed to answer a challenge He was 62 years of age and somewhat dest.

ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST MURDERED."

is decreasing, because he recruited now under compulsion.

MAIL VAN ROBBERY,

LARGEST IN POST OFFICE

• HISTORY.

OMAHA, November 211k, Bobbers who attacked a mail vadhat Council Bluffs, Iowa, burned bonds valued at over $5,000,000. It is believed that the robbery was the largest in the history of the Post Office. The lose falla homvily on twa American companies which, had nớt. insured their bondsi

TRADE WITH RUSSIA. ITALIANS TRADING WITH

RUSSIANS.

The body or Michael, Griffin, kidnapped. on November 14th was found buried in

CONSTANTINOPLE, November 91st boggy land near the roadside at Cloughs The re-opening of Italian trade with the kellad miles from Galway, with ballet Bolshevists was marked by the granting of wounds in the temple. The deceased, the Italian request for permission to a mer, though an extreme Binn Finer, strongly charitman to proceed to Novorossisk for the preached against the Binn Fein methods. purpose of general trading,

Michael Griffin was a Roman CatholicYURA priest, who the cash members of Parlia soldiers, which Bir ment alleged, had been kidnapped by Which Bir Hamar Greenwood

This is the first case in Ireland of a pricab being murdered johnnyen

GALWAY DEFIES REPUBLICANS.

LONDON November 210

EARLIER CABLES.

BRITISH AGREEMENT HANDED

OVER TO M. KRASSIN

LONDON, November 21k

Erivan, has not yet been confirmed. The Turkish Nationalists, doubtless encouraged by the news from Greece, have denounced the previens armistice and presented ap other containing impossible conditions.

Lord, Robert Cevil has promised to bring the matter urgently before the League of Nations at Genera

ORISIS IN GREECE. PLEBISCITE POSTPONED.

ATmass, November 22nd. The plebiscite to ascertain the wishes of the populace as regards the return of ex King Constantine has been postponed.

M. VENIZÉLOS AT MESSINA

MESSINA, November 21st, M. Venizelos and party have arrived, but they have nos disembarked.

EARLIER CABLES.

VEILED HINT TO EX-KING CONSTANTINE

LONDON, November 21st The Grock Premier kas telegraphed to Mr. Lloyd George has handed o Mex-King Constantine at Lucerne saying which, the Sunday Times understands, M Kinssia the draft of the trade agreement that Greek Princes may renter Greece Krassis will shortly sign. No new clause like other Greeka

A significant change of attitude towards Sinn Fein has occurred in Galway, so far has been included in the July, agreement Fronelt dipkownido circles consul one of the stronger Stun Fan aistricts in

tion of Russian gold. It is understood that moment, in decided officially to repudiate the authority the only olame with which M. Kroosin is return, bus

plate to the Chinese Minister and Madame 820,“ as a tojen of respect, affection and gratitude." The Chairman of the meeting also handed the Chinese Minister a cheque with the request that it be sent to Peking for Famine Belief in North China. JAPANESE WARSHIPS IN SOUTH 13.5 per seat, eintich of morphin, and

AMERICAN WATERS.

Un October 27th, 1918, & hospital nurse, aged 23, bought from a chemist in Charlot tenburg for 20 marks a small quantity of also ton powders, each containing 0.5 grammes of veronal. She went into the Grunewald, and at about 4 pm. swallowed RIO DE JANEIRO, November 21st,

1.7 grammes of morphin and 3 grammes of Two Japanes, training ships have-arrivod veronal. She became dated, and wandered here.

about until she lost conscious.

The Potperature was low and the atmosphere

damp and chilly

FALLING PRICES.

Next day she was found, and taken to the mortuary. A doctor saw her, and found her deathly pale and pulmeless, nor

LORD BEAVERBROOK'S VIEW OF Va she breathing. He dropped some seal.

THE FUTURE.

ipg wax on the skin, and no reaction took place. He pronounced the body dead, and Lord Beaverbrook, who recently returned placed in a coffin, milf in its wet from an extensive tour in Canada, and the (clothes. E United States, discussed some of his im Bome 14 hours later, on October 23, pressions with a Fall fail Gazette repre- the coffin was reopened so that a lawyer sentative in a special interview.might identify the body. It appears that Canada be declared, is abounding in the undertaker's men say that the cheeks prosperity and has had the biggest crop were blue, and that the head moved slightly. in history bumper crop, as it was de. The samo doctor was recalled, and now scribed on all hands, and, as a consoquenes, herrit faint heart sounds, but there was wheat prices, are declining. The outlook is still no pulse and no breathing moss promising in every way

As to the United States, the stabilisation at 10 am on October 27th-48 hours after was inken to hospital, and

The ne

The

of prices, he says, is coming rapidly. There the swallowing of the polson-the limbe is a tremendous drop in sugar prices and and truck became partially stiff smarked decline in the great American patient was still unconscous, and showed to ceres crop, Indian corn. The bottom is reaction to stimuli. The heart Sounds out of the motor car market and there is could now, however, be head over the » slamp that must have important refulte..

Lord Beaverbrook's investigations into minute. then still no pulse and no

breast bong the

the heart beating at 30-40 për the supply and prospects of newsprint, that breathing The non and lips were deadly all-important essential to the production of pale, but the cheesy bluishy newspapers, show that the Canadian manu

fectaring capacity has considerably in Active treatment for morphin, poisoning creased, and further extensions are being began. The stitness: prased away carried out to the already greatly developed ours, and consciousness was

Octcher 30th. On November As to prices, Lord Beaverbrook is conant was corralescent Sha vinced that they are bound to be reduced

in the near future. The presoot price in The case, adds the medical corre this to New York for newsprint for the last three of the Tines is clearly has exceptionel

11 seriously daring the raid 16 the Croke Ireland, The Galway County Council has And Hemera to the importation and exporta- be a thinly voiled, suggestion that the months of the year is 130dois, -n short ton. Esture, and leads' some support to the view

Park football watch,

rable, for the of Dau Eiregon and to comply with the likely to disagree relates to the payment of states that Constantico has The assassins gatered the town in the requirements of the Local Government Kurs au debts, which, he contends, is an will was the rule of the

Beard in defiance of the Republican Parlia. izternational matter for how Penca CuNDI MARAS

November 28th before retur

-King's The London price is very much higher that alcop and hibernation hava points in odent Ko! But it is perfectly clear he continued, common That the human body can that he that the New York price must decline, suspend its most vital activities iscite which, and with that fall the English mannfno also som to be suggested, though she: ovi

reductions