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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH RAUTAR'S, ADENOV.)

BEER IS MEDICINE.

U.S. ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S

CONSIDERED OPINION.

NEW YORK, March 10th.

NEW YORK, March 10th.

"A half-a-million dollar fund, as a tribute, to Mr. Woodrow Wilson, is being or ganised. The interest will be awarded Annually by the ex-President to a person judged as rendering the greatest service

to humanity, on conditions similar to those of the Nobel Peace Prize.

FALL OF PETROGRAD. CLAIM OF KRONSTADT REVOLU TIONARIES.

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THE

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 11TB, 1991.

FAR EASTERN CABLE HIGH COST OF PRODUCTION. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. their principal demands. It is my pro- the make of war Indemnity. Should she

NEWS

(THNOUGH_XEUTER'S AGENCY.]

INDIAN.OPIUM FOR HONGKONG,

LONDON, March stb.

LONDON, March 9th..

from the Straits Settlement to China.

WAS

that the export was very heavy. This was taken up by Japanese merchants and taken to China. He urged the stoppage of the importation of opium from India into China in unnecessary, quantities.

Mr. Montagu agreed to the suggestion. Sir J. D. Kees suggested that the cul- tivation of opium in South China was so great that the disposal of this small surplus was negligible.

EFFECT ON FOREIGN TRADE.

HISTORY OF THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. INTERESTING MEMOIRS OF COUNT

WITTE.

3-We must be fair in our estimate of the situation, inasmuch as fairness is practicable in such cases,

I am convinced that, no matter what the outcome of the negotiations is. In conducting them thus I shall serve my Mouarch and my country as much as is within my powers, provided, of course,

.. In view

THE THAR'S COMMENT...

(Signed) TuzoDORE ROOSEVELT

NECESSITY FOR PEACE OYSTER BAY, August 23rd, 1905. Dear Baron Kaneko-In addition to what I wrote you yesterday I wish to bring the following to the attention of the Ambassadors of his Majesty the Japanese Emperor

It seems to me that it is to the interests of the great Nipponese Empire to con elude peace for two reasons, first, its own intorest; second, the interest of the whole

found conviction that we must so conduct do so, I believe that there will occur *" the negotiation as to win over to our considerable reversal of public opinion At the annual dinner of the Machine

side not only the Russian people but also against her. I do not believe that this tangible Tool Trades' Association, held in the Ed-

the public opinion of Europe and Ame- | public opinion could have a rica. Only in that case shall we be able effect. Nevertheless, it must not be alto- ward. VII. Rooms, Hotel Victoria, recent-

Moreover, I do not ly, the present industrial situation was

The Memoirs of Count Witte who was to overcome the enemy with God's help, gether 'neglected. In the House of Commons, replying to discussed, and the importance of reduc Russia's chief delegate at the Peace Con- if we are destined to become engaged in think that the Japanese people could If Europe and Ame attain its aims if it continued the war Mr. J. D. Gilbert, Mr. Montagu stated ing the cost of production emphasised. ference at Portsmouth, U.S.A. which a prolonged "war.

rica cease adering Japan (material assolely because of the question of an in- The Attorney-General of the United that the agreement for the supply of Sir A. H. Herbert (president of the brought the Russo-Japanese war to an

Indian opium to the Government of Housociation) scupied the chair his end, are boing published in the London sistance and side morally, with us, we demith, I think that Rugin will rufuse

Lord Weir, in propos.ng" The Machine

Daily Telegraph. The following lengthy shall come rut victorious. Consequently, to pay, and that the common opinion in conducting the negotiations three of the civilised world will support her States has given his considered opinion

in her refusal to pay the enormous sum that beer is thedicine... This means that beer kong has been renewed for five yeare, Tool Trades' Assoc.ation," said that in a

beginning from January 1st, with the narrow sense the present situation in in-extract relating to the Conference will be things are sbsolutely indispensable:

1.We must so uct na to be able, with which is being, demanded, or anything dstry evidenced itself to them in a short. read with interest:--

clear conscience, to publish all the docn- like that sura. Of course, if Russia paye can be brewed-and-sold in unlimited

modification that Hongkong will he supage of orders, coupled with a definite

AMERICANS HAVE NO CULINARY, TASTE. ́ ́. Describing a luncheon given to the dele- ments and submit the whole matter to that sum, there is nothing else for ms quantities to holders of a medical certi-

the judgment of humanity, in case peace to say. But should she refuse to pay, plied with ten chests of opium monthly approach of a very acute degree of un- employment, probably associated with

you will see that, having waged war for ficace showing that the nourishing stimul-

at a fixed price. The Government of serious financial difficulties. Along with gates by the port officials and their wives not concluded.

Count Witte says:-:

-We must let Japan have all those another year, even if you succeeded in ane is needed. Prohibition officers believe Hongkong is not obliged to take any found appareatly endless controversy in but the dishes were mostly cold. It ap good luck in this war and which do not spend four or five hundred more million

these phenomena they, naturally enough,

Literally dozens of courses were served, gains which she has obtained owing to her occupying Eastern Siberis, you would that the ruling will result in the dis-prescribed minimam quantity of opium.“-

Labour, industrial, and Socialist circles as that the Government had ordered injura either the dignity of Russia as in addition to those expended, you would the Press, in the Government, and among appearance of the demand for whisky.

PREVENTION OF OPIUM

to the causes and remedies. If he were hundreds of various luxuriously prepared Great Power or the feeling of the Russhed. an enormous quantity of blood, and

dishes and stored them in refrigerators. sian heart..

even if you obtained Eastern Siberia, DISASTROUS BOMBAY FIRE.

naked to define the outstanding characI soon noticed that one must be very

you would get something which you do SMUGGLING FROM HONGKONG.

teristic of these explanations, and pro-caraful with this food. Two or three

not need, and Russia would be completely posals he thought he would at once say days later I decided to refrain completely DAMAGE OF 25 LAKHS OF RUPEES.

anable to pay you anything. At any that it was the lack of sincerity and the from eating it, and for a time I touched

rate, she would not be in a position to BOMBAY, March 10th. In the House of Commons,-replying to regard of all sense of proportion shown thing bus bread and some vegetables.

pay your enough to cover the surplus ex- Gershom Stowart, Mr. Montagu by the different authorities in facing and Komura, the Japanese delegate on the

pended by you. Of course, my judgment The spinning section of the Sassoon Mr.

dealing with the vital factors of the situa-contrary, ate everything with great op

may be erroneous in this case, but it is

·Cotton Mills has been destroyed by a fire. stated that he had asked the Government tion. It was suggested that the main petito. On one occasion I called his at

my conviction, expressed in good faith, cause of the present difficulty was the tention to the danger lurking in our

I have the necessary support.

from the standpoint of Japan's interests The damage is estimated at 25 lakhs of of India what amount of "opium

impaired purchasing power of our foreign food, but he wanted to display his Japan Four days later I cabled the Foreign as I understand them. Besides, 1 con- rupees, and is covered by insurance. exported from India to Hongkong and the customers. It was perfectly apparent, so intrepidity, and said that he was not Minister, as follows:

sider that all the interests of civilisation however, that that was more un effect afraid, that he could cat everything-and

At present the situation is as follows: and humanity forbid the continuation of Straita Settlement in 1920. He promised than a cause (hear, hear) and that our kept on eating. As a result, while I left We have reached no agreement regarding the war for the sake of a large indemnity. AMERICAN NOBEL PRIZE.

to ask Mr. Churchill as regards the pre-own cost of production and the conse Portsmouth hale and hearty, Komura was the payment of indemnities, Sakhalin. This letter is, of course, strictly con AS TRIBUTE TO MR. WILSON.

vention of smuggling from Hongkong and quent high prices had virtually closed our takon ill at the end of the Conference, the reduction of the navy, and ships in Rdential, but I will be glad if you wire markets. If our customers were poor and developed an intestinal variety of neutral waters. On Monday or Tuesday it to your Government, and, I hope that surely we must provide for them products typhus, so that when I visited him before there will be the decisive session, after you can do it. If the message is trans- The Hon, J. M. Kenworthy declared at a price which they could afford to pay. my departure from the United States I which, if neither side yields, we shall have mitted at all it should be dene imme-

to break off the negotiations. What the distely.-Sincerely yours, It seemed to him that no remedial policy found him sick in bed....

At first we Russians dined at a separate Japanese think is not known to anyone, could hope to succeed which did not com- prise as its main objective the rapid re- table in the general dining rooms of the I believe. They are an impenetrable wall duction in the cost of production. (car able to have our dinner served in a of the infinite importance of the matter.

hotel. Later we found it more comfort even to their white friends. hear.) He, however, failed to find is day soparate room adjacent to my apartment. it is necessary, it sens to me, to gauge of the proposals which had been put for ward anything which would in any way he food was prepared by special order, the situation again and to take an immae fin accordance with our instructions, for dinte decision. I have not the slightest reduce the cost or improve the efficiency it is highly dangerous to eat the ordinary doubt that a continuation of our production. On the contrary, one food which is served in Amerion I have will be the greatest disaster for Russia. of the war could recali many proposals which di arrived at the conclusion that Americans We can defend ourselves with more or less tinctly tended to produce an exactly on have no culinary taste and that they success, but we can hardly defeat Japan. posite effect... (Hear, hear.) >**

can eat almost anything that comes in Provost W. B. Lang and Mr. H. G. their way even if it is not fresh, provided The Emperor's autographed rentark on world, toward which Japan has certain the food is properly seasoned and pro-the margin of this telegram: It was duties. You remember I am not speak- Williams responded.

said not an inch of land, not a rouble ing of the continuation of the war for Sir A. M. Duckham, responding for perly served.",

NO VICTORS; NO VANQUISHM).

of indemnities. On this I shall insist to the purpose of keeping Sakhalin, which: "Our Quests" (proposed by the presid

Those were strenuous and painful days. | the end.” ent), expressed the opinion that the great

would be right, but of the continuation On August 21st I cabled the Foreign of the war for the purpose of getting factor in the present labour situation was an enormous responsibility rested apon

which, not high or low wages, but whether the I understood perfectly well that Minister

should I return home with empty hands, believe that after the Conference, from Rusain a large sum of money wages paid were earned. If a man got the military operations would be resumed, when the world learns what happened course, it is possible that you may get in my opinion, would not be right. Of £1 per week and he only earned 158. per week he had a high wage; but if a man new débicle would follow, and the whole there, the peace-loving public opinion will was getting £10 per week and he earned fussia would curse me for not having recognise that Russia was right in it, but I am convinced that you would

obtained peace.

have to pay too dear a price for that On the other hand, ing to pay a war indemnity, but it will success. If you fail to obtain the money' £15 per week he was getting a low wage. patriotism made my heart revolt against not side with us on the subject of Sakha

no further humiliations and losses in- He considered that a great deal of the peace imposed upon us by a victorious lin, for facts are stronger than argu-dicted upon Russia would redeem your distress and industrial confusion of to-day fee "It teema to me and the whole menta. As matter of fact, Sakhalin was due to money having been paid which aivilised world will upheld my opinion is in the bands of the Japanese, and we had not been earned either by the work that I did all it was possible to do have no means to

1.-It is in Japan's interests now to OHINA'S COTTON TRADE.

Consi recover it.

end the war. She has acquired domina men or by other people

under the circumstances, by means of quently, if we with the failure of the Con tion in Kores and Manchuria; she has LONDON, March 9th. Sir Alfred Herbert, presiding at the diplomacy; in fact, I achieved more than ference to be laid to Japan, we must not doubled her own fleet by destroying the Nevertheless, it refuse to code Sakhalin, after having reRussian fleet; she has obtained Port In the House of Commons, in the course annual meeting of the association at the was expected" of me.

Manchurian the of a debats upon international trade, Mr. Hotel Victoria during the day, moved must not be forgotten that, after all, I fused to indemnify Japan for her war Arthur, Talienwan, R. Graham, Labour Member.for Nelson That no member of the association shall represented the defeated side, and that my expenditures. If it is our desire that in Railway; she has obtained Sakhalin and Coine, urged the Board of Trade to remely Britain's position in the Janan, be permitted to deal in German machine tuation had its inexorable logic," against the future America and Europe side with There is no advantage for her în continu-. ud, we must take Roosevelt's opinion into ing the war for money, for the continua- The manner of the Japanese at the consideration, in giving a final answer, SO,LET TROOPS REFUSE TO FIGHT.cc markets, part of which we were in tools. It was, he said, because his which I could do nothing.

tion of the war would absorb more money » danger of losing owing to the uncertainty porters, would suffer financially to some often interrupted the proceedings to hold as follows:

frin, being both manufacturers and in

sessions was correct, but, cold. They The following day I received his reply, then Japan conld in the and get from LONDON, March 9th. of our deliveries and high prices. He

Russia She will be wise if she will now declared also that China's cotton trade extent if it were carried that he was private consultations." In addition to Unfortunately, it appears from your put an end to the war with triumph and The latest British official news from was developing remarkably, and threaten moving the resolution himself. three secretaries on each side, the Confer- last telegrams that in spite of the readi- take bor place as a leading member in

Mr. J. H. Barker (Messrs. Greenwood ence was attended by the plenipotentiaries ness which you manifested in the Con- the council of nationa, Russia states that all is quiet at Moscow, ed the keenest competition..

Sir Robert Horne, replying, warned the and Batley, Ltd.). moved an amendment alone, that is, myself, Baron Rosen, ferences to come to an amicable agree- 2.--From the ethical standpoint it but many Soviet troops at Petrograd are House of the futility of anticipating to the effect that a similar embargo Komura, and the Japanese Ambassador ment on each point, the Japanese pleni- seems to me Japan has a certain obliga substantial results from the resumption of should be placed on American tools, ex at Washington. Most of the talking was potentiaries continue to insist on peaca tion toward the world in the present refusing to fight the revolutionaries, trade with Russia, although he was plaining that he did this in order that the done by myself and Komura, the second terms which, being incompatible with Rug- crisia. The civilised world expects from Trotsky and Zinovieff have taken up their anxious to make a beginning. Sir Robert meeting might fully appreciate the mean plenipotentiaries but rarely taking part sia's dignity, aro altogether inacceptable her the conclusion of peace; peoples be- pointed to the addition of 80 per cent. ing of the resolution. We have made in the debates. My tone and manner were In view of this his Majesty has ordered lieve in hors let her manifest her super- headquarters in the fortress of St. Peter of spindles, agreeing to pay sixpence per peace with the Boche, be said," and such that on one occasion Komura ex you to ceas further conferences with the fority in questions of ethics, no less than and St. Paul and have appointed General bale of cotton used in this country. The we ought to treat him, as far as possibleed the victors! To which I retorted: empowered to desist from the excessive to hor in the name of all that is lofty claimed: "You talk as if you represent Japaneso delegates, if the latter are not in military affairs. An appeal is made Government promised £50,000 yearly for however, difficult it may be to do There are no victors here, and there demands which they are now making. Brusilof Commander-in-Chief.

five years in order to develop the cultiva as a brother. It behoves us ne Englishfore no defeated. It was my desire to

and noble, and to this appeal I hope she tion of cotton within the Empire. The men to stand to our word. My firm is pre-

Thus the negotiations are being will not remain deaf. With profound MURDER OF SPAIN'S PREMIER Government also proposed to improve pered to deal with the Boche and to offer have the assistant plenipotentiaries, too, broken off because of the intractability respect, sincerely yours.

(Signed) THEODORE ROOSEVELT. guarantees under the export credit scheme, his goods, got furtively, but openly." If attend the conferences, but Komura, for of the Japanese as regards the question guaranteeing 85 per cent. of the mer the resolution were carried we should, reason, unknown to me, resolutely op- of indemnities; we must stop then and These letters en here reproduced are Under these conditions, the fur-retranslated into English from the trans he went on to say, be driven deeper and posed me. Some of the assistants attend there.

ed no more than one session, The ther discussion of the altogether inadmis-lation into Russian as they appear in deeper into the debt of America, to whom Japanese plenipotentiaries kept their sible ccasion of Sakbalin becomes unacces Count Witte's papers-The Editors.] we owed much more than we had My assistants in the rooms adjacent to the sary.

True, Sakahlin is at present occupied hope of liquidating for many years, and conference hall, and Komura constantly. Germany would be prevented from paying kept in touch with one of them, an Ame by the Japanese, and we shall not soon the buge debt she owed un

rican, a former lawyer in Japan, who be able to dislodge them from the island; Mr. C. Wicksteed, in opposing the re was attached to the Ministry of Foreign nevertheless, there is a great difference solution, said if German machine tools Affairs. Socially we Russians met the between a forceful occupation of this ter- LONDON, March 9th. were not allowed to be imported it would Japanese only in the course of the short ritory and a formal documental cession a brilliant The heads of the Allied delegations met increase the cost of production and the luncheon. I carried out the instructions of this island, which has at Downing Street, and considered the cost of living in this country, and make given to me by my Monarch fully and future.

THE CANDID FRIEND, " reports of the occupation of Duesseldorf, us less able to compete with the Germans strictly. The cession of Southern Sagha Duisburg and Buhrort, also that the abroad. later Allied Commission had seized the On a vote the resolution was negatived Customs on the frontier of the occupied by a large majority. territories.

The British bill as regards the levy on German imports has already been draft-

LONDON, March 10th. The Times' Riga correspondent says an official cummuniqué states that revolu- tionarios hava captured the whole of Petrograd, except two railway stations The report that the Reds suffered heavy iosses at Krasnoeselo and Gatchina is borne out by a Bolshevik wireless message, which is to the affect that the position of the Bolshevist army there is worse than that of the one at Oranienbaum.

EARLIER CABLES.

Was

REPRISAL BY SYNDICALISTS.

MADRID, March 9th. The plot to assassinate Senor Dato (the Spanish Premier) batched by

Spaniards in Paris as a reprisal for the repression of Syndicalist disorders in Barcelona. Senor Dato received a tele- gra of warning from Paris on March 8th. There were three assassins riding in a single motor-cycle and side-car. All fired Browning revolvers with both hand. Senor Dato was hit in six places and his car was hit with twenty-seven bullets.

Replying to Mr. Kenworthy, Mr. Mon- tagu stated that his information did not | boar out the statohent that there was 'no Poppy growing in China, except on a strictly regulated scale.

DEATH OF FORMOSAN

MISSIONARY..

LONDON, March 10th." The death is announced of Dr. James L. Maxwell, who founded the Presbyterian Mission in Formosa and built a hospital.

at Tainan.

chants' selling price.

15

.

ALLIES ENFORCING TREATY. GERMAN IMPORTS TAX BILL DRAFTED."

od, and submitted to British, French and

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1

BACK TO THE LAND.

a

expenditures in blood and treasure.

THE MEANING OF THE JAPANESE WORD "MARU.”

There are some

(writes Japanese correspondent in the Japan Advertiser) where there seems to be con-

"

CASES

The Foreign Minister, Senor Lema, bas Belgian experts with a view to drafting APPLICATIONS FOR MORE THAN As for President Roosevelt, at first he to inform you that on every hand I hear swer a foreigner's question. Why in

been recalled from Barcelona, where he should have presided over the Inter national Communications Conference,

INCENDIARISM | AT

POOL.

similar bills for other Allied countrica. FRENCH AIMS IN RHINELAND.

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LIVER

lien was the only infringement upon the President Roosevelt used his influence principle of no territorial ccasions, but with the Japanese delegates to restrain flict between the name of a thing, and for that stop his Majesty alone is respon them from pressing their demand for an the thing itself; for instance all Japanese sible. It was a correct step, for other-indemnity, as in witnessed by the two ships have "mara" in the end of the wise we would have, failed to obtain letters following, which came into my name. But "maru

means ball or circle. peace, but I would' probably not have possession :— taken it on my own initiative.

Oyster Bay, August 2nd, 1905. From what I observe, not a few gentle- MË. ROOSEVELT AND JAPAN.

Dear Baron Kaneko-I deem it my duty men appear to be perplexed how to an

tried to scare me into making consider-doubts, expressed by Japan's friends, as mara" in the end of a ship's name, in 820,000 ACRES.

able concessions by pointing out to me to the possibility of her continuing the spite of the fact that a ship is long in LONDON, March 10th. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fishe that otherwise the treaty would not be war for a large indemnity. One of the its shape, not round?" However, there In consequence of suggestive commentaries has issued a statement showing the concluded. But he met with a firm deter prominent members of the Senate Com is a certain reason why mara" is French newspapers regarding the ut position in regard to land settlement inmination on my part not to make any wittee on Foreign Relations, who abeo added to the end of the name of all

It ships.". come of the establishment of the new England and Wales. The numbers of such concessions. At that time there were lately sides with Japan, writes me:

two clashing parties within the body of seems to me that Japan is hardly in a Customs barrier in Rhineland, Mr. Lloyd applications received from ex-Zervice men the Tokio Government. One, headed by position to continue the war, only for a meant the male sex, and "koge" (noble. In ancient times the word "marn " George, at last night's conference, invited up to December 1st, 1920, were: Ito, advocated the acceptance of my con large indemnity. I would not blame her, men at Court) in old time added "maru" FIRES AT MANY FARMS.

M. Briand to endorse the assurances, pre-land, 43,603; Wales, 4,335; total, 47,94aditions; the other insisted on an in: if she should break the negotiations for to the end of their names as "Hitomare," viously given by M. Millerand and M. The total quantity of land asked for was demnity, and was ready to continue the the purpose of occupying Sakhalin. But Kiyomaru "Semimara," etc. LosDos, March 10th. Clemenceau that France did not contem-826,340 acres. Of the total, 10,435 appli war should we fail to accede to that de- if she will resume the military operations Until about the end of the Tokugawa Extensive incendiariams occurred in the plate annexation, of, or even the institu- cations from England and end from Wales mand. Then Roosevelt, scoing that Amie exclusively for the purpose of obtaining regime or near the beginning of Mein.

tion of autonomy in, Rhineland.

rican public opinion was becoming fav money, she will not obtain the money, Court nobles, called themselves" Liverpool district last night. Fires bursh

M. Briand, in so doing emphatically were rejected or withdrawn.

The number of applicants (ex-Service ourable towards Russia, and fearing that and besides she will soon lose the sym-with the same meaning as "maru out at many farms simultaneously. A

men and civilians) provided with holdings the unsuccessful end of the parley might pathies of this and other countries.

for first person,

"I" Some older names farmer at Roby was fired at Two men

since December 18th, 1018, was 10,800 for turn the sympathies of the people away deem it my duty to say that I do not were wounded and one man was captured

England and 703 fur: Wales; total 11,503; from him and from the Japanese, tele- consider her demand for an indemnity have the termination "hiko" having the near baystacks. Police at Seaforth cap.

and the quantity of land allotted to them graphed to the Mikado, describing the jast. She has occupied no Russian terme meaning. **maru "'in Japanese tured five fully armed men..

1€3,778 acres.

trend of public opinion in America, and ritory except Sakhalin, and the latter she As stated above, There are 16,547 ex-Service men whose advising him to accept my conditions. still has to retain.

language was a very noble word. DOWN WITH CHURCHILL"

Therefore, when castles were fortified applications have been approved not yet Kumurs was instructed to yield, but, as Your Excellency should understand, I

he personally was opposed to this here believe, that in America, among people they were named with "man" in the ALEXANDRIA SCHOOLBOYS"

provided with holdings,

quested a personal instruction from the who hitherto were well disposed toward end of the main part of the name a

"Honmaru."? "Ichinomaru,"

Nino- Mikado Hence the confusion and delay Japan, very considerable majority DEMONSTRATION,

éto. Demaru, which marked the end of the conference would share the opinion expreme in the maru,"

When" Gozalune" were built (vessels The course of the conference may be in above cited lines. The consent to restore ALEXANDEIA, March, 9th.

dicated by quoting the following inter-the north half of Saghalien gives Japan for use of the Shogun) they were a Mr. Churchill's arrival occasioned sporadic demonstrations, principally on FURTHER AREA OCCUPIED.

In the Ho Kom Tong handicap tourna changes of cablegrams and letters. On some hope of getting a certain amount floating castle and were named with the

August 13th I cabled the Foreign Minis of money in addition to the sums for the same name, a "the part of schoolboys, who shouted

Down with Churchill!" Two policeA Belgian cyclist company and devaliy

BERLIN, March 10th.

ment the results, yesterday, word:-utter at St. Petersburg as follows: Russian: war prisoners which are jurtly After that ship-owners followed thin W. G. Gerrard (~180) bạnt G. Thomas We have begun, the discussion of the due to her, but I do not think she can custom and at present all Japanese ships men were injured.".

have occupied Hamborn and the Hyssen (-100), 250-181,

A. Osmund (200) beat J. Taylor Japanese terme point by piont I think demand or obtain anything like the sum from the smallest to the greatest have

the Japanese are temporising, either ex which she set as indispensable, namely, mara" at the end of the name. WAGE-CUTTING MOVEMENT works and the coaling port without any

Ton know how A ship -in English is considered ́as. untoward incident. Martial law has been(150), 250-232,

To-day's games: Ho Bhaj Choong v. J; | Pesting-sama ovents to happen or far the six hundred million pussians to con- terninine but in Japan they may be con

the CHICAGO, March 9th. proclaimed.

purpose of manking arrangements with urgently I advised It is reliably reported that the large wags are preparing to reduce wages,

declared that responsible Frenchmen did pot entertain such a feeling.

Mr. Lloyd George expressed pleasure at the assurance" given.

WHEN PENALTIES WILL CEASE.

LONDON, March 9th. A conference of Allied delegates-bas settled the details of the enforcement of the penalties. It agreed that the penalties should cense when questions of indemnity, disarmament and fria) of war criminali have boen polved.

Wilson.

BILLIARDS.

I

T

Hamborn in a small village (population Guimaraes W. Tokio, or perhaps London. We adhere to clade peace. With equal firmness I ad-sidered as of the masculine gender fer about 3,000) in the Rubrori district.]

the opinion that they will not desist from vise Japan not to continue the war for this origin.