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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST,
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SURRENDER OF ARMS. BOUR'S PANACEA FOR IRELAND'S ILLS.
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NATIONALLABOUR CONGRESS UNEMPLOYMENT AND IRELAND
UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
GRAVE MENACE TO RUMANIA.
DRASTIC REDUCTION OF AMERICAN ESTIMATES
LATEST CABLES.
{THROUGH RIUTER'S AGESOY.] THE MILITARY. AND THE PRESS. COURT MARTIAL DEFYING THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY
LONDON, December 29th. Some feeling has been aroused among Proses over the stiff Court Martial sen- tences imposed spon the Editor and Dirse Bors of The Freeman", "Journal in view of the comparative sociality of the offences. It is pointed or that those sentenced are well-known Moderates. The Freeman's Journal has never been a Sinn Féin organ. It is anggested that the Military in Ireland are defying the Government's policy of leniency.
The destruction of The Cork Examiner machinery in attributed to Binn Fein extremists who disapproved of The Braminer's strong support of the Bishop of Cork's recens Pastoral against violencer NOTORIOUS IBISH WOMAN EXTREMIST:
TRAINING BOYS TO MURDER.
Lostos, Decomber 98th. The notoriour Frish extremist, Countess Markowics, has been sentehoed to two years' hard hour for criminal conspiracy. She took a leading part in the rebellion in Dublin su Easter, 1916, and was sentenced to death, but was released when a general mutesty was proclaimed.
JAPAN'S NAVY. STATEMENT BY THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR.
„DISCUSSED.
TREATY OF RAPALLO. ACCEPTED BY CITIZENS OF
FIUME
$1930
UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA
SLUMP IN THE OINEMA
New Yorr, December It is forecasted that the official survey now being made will show £130,000 un- employed in the United States
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LONDON, December 2018.
LONDON, December 29th. The National Labour Chogress, which is "A message from Rame states that holding its meeting at the Central Hall, General Ferrario, commander of the Westminster, to disenes the Irish and Italian troops surrounding Flume, agreed It is reported from Los Angeles that Unemployment questions, has animal to suspend Bring at the request
of dele 50,000 actors and other connected passed a resolution depleting the condition gates from Fiume, who met him at the Cinema industry are worklesa owing of affairs in Ireland and demanding Abbasis yesterday morning, but he in- to the financial stringency and to the judicial enquiry into the charges of resisted on » signed declaration of moon- policy of producing lower but better prisals, and the ponishment of those proved ditional acceptance of the Treaty of films. guilty.
Hapallo. The delegates returned to The Conference adopted by a larg9 Abbazia in the afternoon with the do- majority, a rosolution moved by Mr. Aclaration signed by the leading
citidens Henderson denouncing the Stan Fein with the exception of d'Annunzio, whe rages and reprisals, urging that peson
promised to sign if the declaration were accepted. argotiations be opened on the basis of the British Labour party's policy approved.at the All Ireland Labour Conference held on November 16th, namely
Boss, December 29th, The Corriere della Sero, of Abbazia, says that d'Annunzio handed over all to the Communal Council at
Fiume..
'ITALY: NOT WORTH DYING-FOR,”,
LONDON, December 29th. The Japanese Ambassador, Baron Haya- Firstly, the withdrawal of troops from author shin sa interview, declared that Japan Ireland must have for strategic purposes, oighe big" Secondly ammoning a Constituent battleships and eight big battle-ertisers. Assembly elected on the basis of pro-
▲ semi-oficial message from Fiume This programme will take several years to portional representation by free and secret states that the agreement may be regard carry out, and even when in is completed vote
ed ha concluded. D'Annunzio has issued the strength of the Japanese Navy will be
Thirdly, drafting by the Assembly of s
a proclamation declaring that it is not. less than half that of America. Japsa, he Constitution, subject only to two condi.worth while dying for Italy. It is stated. added, would welcome any proposal to tions, namely, affording protection to that be is leaving Fiume in an aero
reduce expenditure of armaments and mineritics and preventing Ireland from gladly co-operate in this direction with the becoming a military or naval menace. other great Powers:
JAPAN AND AMERICA.
THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
LowDor, December 29th. Reater learns that in the negotiations between Japan and America the former is asking for equal treatment of Japanese with other aliens in the United States and is prepared to guarantee that no Japanose shall be sent to America apon receiving assurances of equal treatment to those Japanese who are already in the United States:
The Conference also passed a resolution with regard to unemployment, arging the resumption of trade with Russia and outlin ing • scheme of temporary maintenazos of the unemployed by the Government at the rate of forty shillings weekly for men and twenty five shillings for women.
UNEMPLOYMENT AMONGST
WOMEN.
NO INCLINATION FOR DOMESTIC
SERVICE.
LONDON, December 29th.
The large number of unemployed mon
RUMANIA MENACED.
BY BOLSHEVIKS AND HUNGARIANS.
SHAREHOLDERS -DIRECTORS.
NEWHAVEN RAILWAY BUIT
·SETTLED BY COMPROMISE.
New Yons, December 29th The suit of the Newhaven Eailroad share. holders against the directors for the re- covery of one hundred and fifty million dolara, which has been pending since 1916, has been settled by a compromise, whereby the "directora two-and-a-half million dollars with costs.
AEROPLANE ACCIDENT
Pay
CAPETOWN.
FOUR PEOPLE KILLED AT
CHRISTMAS...
FAMILY SUIVIDI "BREEDING FROM WORST
THE WORKING MAN
髑
The Dean of St. Paul' lecture, arranged by the Eas Somery on Eugenior and Wigmore Hall on November that very Ettle interest was saker subject in religions circles, and
think of the physical, Inte that it was part of our duty to our moral
Gu
improvement of the human stock was still strange to the yast
majority. less, religious people tale wen
to accept sugenic principles provided they were fortified by long tradition
The prejudice against the marriage of Arst
cousing
what her wall or ill-founded, vas
Rocepted readily by religions as by irreligious persons, and if a similar tradition were established against the marriage of સત
mates
tes and spileptics
there, would be mo
on the part of the Churches, religion
were their enemy they would find an active enthusiam for eugenics in those: large sections of society which were not
would
Bod For axample, thap taking some interest in roeim But notoriously they took mane whatever. but the anti-scientific temper. A general re The enemy of eugenier was not religion, volt against the dictatorship of science modern thought been the most remarkable tendency
directly influenced:
ood by religious traditions,
In politics the
lentile temper was rampant. The Revo lution which more than hundred years aga 0 Lavoisier »Saving nơ need www proclaiming that it AT had no need of intellectuals of any kind., In Bussin they had been tortured and mas- mered; in our own country they were ignored and despised...
LONDON," December 291.
A Ospetown message states that a ghastly Beroplane accident marred the Christmas holiday. An aeroplane, making a plousure trip, crashed into a tall chimney LONDON, December 20th. Rumanis, is confronted with a grave and dropped to the grant, where i im- situation. According to an urgent telequel the conflagration proved unayading mediately burst into flames. All efforts to
-gram from the Foreign Minister, M. Jonescu, received in London, twelve Bolshevik divisions are massed on the Bessarabian frontier and Hungarian troops have occupied the neutral zone,
despite the decisions of the Inter-Allied Commission
The Bumanian Government has sent a Note to the Allies drawing attention to
until the Fire Brigade arrived. The fear occupants the pilot, Captain Hemming, two lady passengers and a child were killed. „THE BRITISH DEAD AT GALLIPOLI.
-WORK OF BURIAL PRACTICALLY COMPLETED.
LONDON, December 29th: The sad and diffiont task of collecting the
- BIG LESS MOSST (PENDING Political commenry had changed its char
soter.
*** The whale nation, and especially the Government, was behaving as if we had come fato a huga fortune by the war. We vote and spend money in utter reck leaness Desa Lage continued and the few articulate protests are not attended to ve It is a good inton, Lord Marley's ce
latration of what government
definition by
this
of democracy means in practica
Eugenista believed that, unless civilizat was guided on scientific principles, it must olection tion which the modern State would not allow come to disaster. Either national
nist take the place of the natura)" selec¬ to set, or we must go on deteriorating When they could convince the public of would soon
the opposition of organized
soon collapse or become effective,
megion A BLACK PROGFESTON Comparing the ideals of Christianity with those of the eugenists, Dean Inge said the latter did not forget that nurture wan neces- sary as well as nature, and that made them favourable to schemes for abolishing alams Since their inhabitants could not be got rid of it was better that attempts should be made to raise them to a position of self-respect in which they would probably not breed to fast.
for instance, gót
mar specimens, the imbecile
In the higher ranks a thoroughly de- was great beauty or wealth or a title to act generate stock tended to die ont unless there
a makeyeight
It is stated that Califomia is consider is only less serious in degree than is the this new menace, and assuring them of British dead in Gallipoli is practically comes only in the lowest strata that the worst:
ing countering this request by forbidding case of the unemployed men. There are
alk aliens to hold land, thus placing them on the same footing us the Japanese, who are already prohibited. If such a plan is contemplated it forms no part of the "negotiations with Ispai. The negotiations
have not reached a definite stage.
The cozspiracy for which the Countess Markievier was metenced was the pro
The Times New York mrrespondent re. motion of an organisation called Fianna
ports that, according to Julius Kahn, one Birtan, otherwise Boy Scouts. The proof the Californian members of the House produced documents showing that of Representatives the negotiations be the purpose of this was to train boys to tween Japan and the United States with become Irish Volunteers. It also glorifiedregard to the Californian decision to for the murder of the Polles and Military.
bid Japanese ownership of land are on the THE SINN FEIN FIRES IN eve of settlement on the basis of a proposal
--- LIVERPOOL.
WHO IS FINANCIALLY
RESPONSIBLE
LONDON, December 29th. The question of the Insurance Co
panies
*Ares, in
that the Californian Legislature pass a Land law forbidding all alien ownership In return for of land for any purpose. this concession Japan, sccording to Mr. Kahn, will prohibit emigration to the United States. Mr-Kahn declare that
numerous vacancies in domestic service bus the women, apparently, feel as increasing dislike fur housework, specially when it involves sleeping
There were 40,000 unemployed: women registered as the Labour Exchang November, but 11,000 ous of 28,000 vacant situations were unfilled.
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The Ministry of Labour is arranging s domestic training scheme for women de- sirous of learning, thereby meeting cases in which applicants for situations admit their inability to wash's cup and saucer or to boil the potatoes.
THE COAL TRADE, INCREASED COST OF PRODUCTION
AND REDUCED OUTPUT:/)
LONDON, December 20th. Coal mining statistics for 1990 show that
its own Pacific intentions, but declaring pleted and the trail of cemeteries la13 along that the remobilization of the Rumanian the Straits will overmors be visible to all
passing ships. Arme impossible until the situation is cleared up
Rumania has been informed that the matter will be submitted to the Ambas adors Conference in Paris.
1
It was
его
one class theum
GERMANY'S EVASION OF HER the Last Post sounded in all the Demo-ishwa vilin Until 1914, tile rountry was
PLEDGES.
INCREASING THE MILITARY
POLICE FORCE.
It is estimated that 34,000 were killed. The prospect for the immediate future was Sixteen thousand have been buried on the as black as it could be. We were breeding
from our worst stocks, and our best Peninsular, of whom only 8.000 have been being squeezed out of existence. The key to identified, and 12,000 have been buried in the hole situation, in his opinion, was the the neighbouring islands, in Malta and historical law
impor
taxes for, whene guy
another Egypt. The Burial Service was read and the result was reckless extra yea
to national bankruptcy general ruin. still very prosperous, and the rich still seemed to have more than enough, more than they deserved, and more than was good for them The wat brought to an end the possibilit of continuing uneconomic humanitarian legislation without damaging the zationst prosperity. The limit of taxations had reached merely already beeni
paying interest on the war debt, but beyond this the direct plunder of capital hid
"Nineteenth century
terios. Many instances have cocurred in which the Turks, have worn up and used As firewood the wooden eromes" erected in the temporary cemeteries.
WASTEFUL OIL-BURNERS,"
American Government may pisce restriction & thing, when Ba
Was a going
annnalit
L for the incendiary his version of the situation is authorits the workers received unprecedented wagen civilian Folice, the latter has already on the use of oil in shipping when other of paper on which the nation's debts of
on November 28th has heen temporarily solved by the Companies meeting the claims pending a legal decision na regards the liability of the community for outbreaks due to civil commotion and Riot The Companies will re claim from the City Corporation if the latter is held to be responsible.
The estimated damage to merchandise raluxivo of buildings, is £350,000
EFFECT OF THE ARMS PROCLAMATION.
·DUMPING IN BACK STREETS, AWABTE GROUND AND LETTER-BOXES.
tive,
was estimated in Augu
the disappearance of the tax-paying
MASALA such, vessels as the Olympic the Aquitania Cohenceforward the mass, who are in
LONDON, December 29th. A message from Berlin states that the latest kind of German evasion of pledges
LORD PIRRIES WARNING: is revealed in a Note to the German
Lord Pirrie, after 10 days spent at New |--
England Government from the Inter-Allied Hili-York in studying the oil dtuation, issued a concern, post-war England is a gone conce
grave warning to shipowners against the con- We have to face the certainty of Cary Control Commission pointing out struction of oil-barning ships on a large scale increasing deficits which, cannot be met by that instead of demilitarising the Security He states after consultation with the printing more Bank notes. The goose that American oil interests, that the situation is so lays the golden eggs is having its throat cut
There must before long :bs, g it with the serious that it is not improbable that the at this Polide and amalgamating
repudiation of the strapa
will mean, the been absorbed in the former, while the feels are available. As far as he can see, only honour are inscribed. This will annual pay, including that of the surface Security Police are still armed with and a few other similar express passenger
elsan.
men, averagod £220.
machine-guns and other firearms, con- liners can be secura in regard to their future power, will have to tax themselves The extent barbarized, but sentimentalisin, the The effect of the increase of wages is trary to the Government's disarmament of apples, and he therefore divises his country will be very poor and to a large stop converting ordinary cargo great enemy of smetice auf eugenics, will vessels into oil-burners. reflected in the high cus of production, pledges.
come to It is, in Lord Pirrie's view, a wrong princi be at a discount. Wastefulness will
an end because LONDON, December 29th. which is 34s. 3 d. por ton. Embracing all
there will be nothing left to ple to burn of merely as fuel. The develop sa
engenic ment of the internal combustion engine is the waste. I see's possibility for The Times correspondent reports that the crets, the average wage-cost works out si
only means of preventing the wasteful use the otherwise dismal prospect
has Toronto Globe opposes the renewal of the 266. 34. The recent agreement for an
of oil, but the Diesel engines, will requte because when the working misn
for the pducation This neighbour Anglo-Japanese Alliance, declaring that advance to wages will probably add two
Breat
ein uncle and their progress towards perfection
will
minded schools, hosp be very low to suppare p neither Power requires such an alliance for shillings a son to the waga cook.
ner adopting them for facurabl process. Any shipowner
find them useless if the oil supply and trade union principle of limitation of apply the mig inadequate proved
Lord Firie is leaving to day for Mextes to output to his neighbour's procreativ study, the question on the spot, sa, until come tics, especially if the output wern ditions in that country are more stable, the thoroughly bad quantan of comfort for
"I do not see a crumb of e Own.class, and I am afraid that many of our diappear from
ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY. CANADIAN VIEW OPPOSED TO ITS RENEWAL
There are now 200,000 ^more men and
dafensive purposes; pointing out the in creasing friction between the United Bate boys employed than and Japan over the status of Japanese ha xeded five million tons we ellers on the Pacific Coast, in which ing the past meath, but, despite Great Britain and the Dominions are not incron, the total ia md511 concerned, and declaring that Canada and under that for 1913. This is, due to the Australia are more likely to side with the tion of the working hours, United States than with Japan should a -SOCIALIST CONGRESS - AT
Loror, December 29th, quiries in official quarters in Dublin show that thera has been no big surrender of arms in response to the Proclamation choice be adossary. The Globe adds that which spec fed yesterday as the last day thee which the retention of sims in the aron under Martial Law would be punish.
uble by death.
TOURS.
LENIN'S DELEGATE'S APPEAL.
LONDON, December 9th. "message" from ours, Bath, mates that today's
Canada, Treaty or ao Treaty, will feel no obligation to help Japan against the United States. The statesmen of the British Em pire safeguarding Britain's inferests in the Far East doubtless understand that Canada can be no party to any international agres meat involving such a great ZIRKUS STRICTER CONTROL OF OIL interrupted, by
COMPANIES.
The Socialis
MERICANS AND POLAND..
CREDITS FOR INDUSTRIAL RECONSTRUCTION.
LONDON, Decembar 2014. Pas-American Benator McCormick has rived at Warsaw with the object of of large which can of Polish
Ame
be used, for the
and for assisting Polish farmers to increase agricultural produs
to
CZĘD
question of oil available for shipping mus remains matter for anxiety".
WHEN THE SAFE WAS
OPENED.
realize that it is to his interest"
best families wil 1957 Kently the duty of the face of the earth. the well-born, in the Galtonian sense, not to cut off their own families,
lies, however dreaTY the outlook for their children may be The temps tation to do so will be severe, and I have no doubt that in the professional classes especia A le shall have thousands of childices and
Bhich
tradition servantless household in which of cultura and refined living will be
be main
BREATHLESS STORY FROM THE WEST
ECONOMY IN AMERICA OTTAWA (Illinois), Nov. 11th-Acetylene torches and dynamite were used to free ESTIMATES REDUCED BY OVER 400 Mr. Francis Casey, a bank-teller, from tained at the heavy price of family suicide. I timelocked safe at the National Bank, in
Callbot bilaine" those who think that this MILLION DOLLARSA
which be waR locked by a
a bandit who secured" stcrifice has been forced upon them, but ar a 50,000, which be
dropped hen eugenist I plead for the preservation of those be eventually Warninerve, December 29th. frightened away.
would suffo-grafer part of its glory. It is just here that The public demand for economy is to It was feared thist the teller would stocks to which the country has owed the
may, find in religion a potent ally Moon waggin, my cate, as the time lock was set for Friday engenics lected in the treatment accented to the morning, the bank having closed on Armistice
Day. During the night the Warden of the 102 ous Estimates Bill by a Com-famous Joliet prison was requested to send
The epitaph of the Unknown Warrior of the House of Representatives, expert safe-blowers to extricate hir. Carey,
but he replied that he had only a few of buried in Westminster Abbey has been French Boolalists, should become divided so which approved total of 421 million the oldfashioned kind, who would be of no decided on The Laseription on the black LONDON December 29th na to ensure their ultimate anion by speer group of deputies have introduced ting rid of the Moderate. She added a dollars less than was asked for by the against a modern time-lock vault marhis lab which will cover the grave is
Judging, however, from happenings in Dublin, which is not within the area, it betiered thas the arms are being got rid of All kinds of weapons and ammunition have been picked up in Dublin back strenta- sad on waste” ground during the Phat month-mostly revolvers, many of which had been hammered to make them useless. There wore also queer weapons like speer heads and daggers One of the chief dumping wome, has been the River Liffey, here revolvers and ridged have fre- quently been found at low tide. Illoit
FRENCH DEPUTIES PROPOSALS
| Clara Zetkin, whom.
invictous speech dealar
das Lenin's delegata,
HIB EPITAPH
When the attempts to open the site at to be the same as that on the colin plate Bill into the Chamber providing for the it was time the proletariate "of: France,
argest
Last
ancoeeded the officials were astonished to ("A British Warrior who fell in the stricter control of all companies in France, Germany and Great Britain came to the reduction is that of 147 milli
find no one inside Thor were unable Crest War, 1914-1918 ?') with the addition whereby the companies must have their help of the Russian proletariateti
dollars in to give any explanation of the mystery," of the lines
Pa For King An tusigned, note found in the vault was thas the amount saked for by the Shipping the and let read you'd treated Groater love hath no man than this. offices and keep their accounts in French President Frossard pointed out territory and be subject to Government Zetkin herdolf admitted that the German
The question is from St. John, chap supervision At lens two-thirds of their proletariat was responsible for the war, but Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, ma right this would not have happened ong are also being deposited at the stock must belong to French holders and to hoped the latter would not be driven to Three hundred thousand dollars asked for The whereabouts of Ms Carey, who, it 15, the 13th verse of which runs residences of known Loyalists, inade the two thirds of the director and high phoists make now war by the Treaty of the enforcement of the Liquor Prohibiwas expected, would be found in the vaulter loys bathing man that this that
Kwas:pliminated allogether are not known.
lay down life for
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