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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. [WHROUGH BRUTER'S AGENOY.} BOMB EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO.

TEN KILLED; MANY INJURED.

LONDON, March 30th.

A New Tork telegram states that 10 persons were killed and many seriously njured by the explosion of a bomb in the so-called Bloody Nineteenth Ward, the Italian quarter, in Chicago, where many Irish also reside and where recently many political fuction Bghts have taken place...

NEW AIRSKIP, DÜTCH INVENTOR'S CLAIMS

LONDON, March 30th. According to the Tijnza" - aeronautical correspondent, a Dutch nirman, A. Boer nor, has invented a new type of airship, lich, it is claimed, eliminates the dan-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,

EARLIER CABLES,

THE IRISH TROUBLE. DUBLIN CASTLE OFFICIAL SHOT

DEAD.

LONDON, March 29th. Four armed men abat and killed Dublin Castle official, Captain Lees, out

MARCH 31ST,

COMMUNIST OUTBREAK IN FAR EASTERN CABLE

GERMANY. SUCCESS OF POLICE MEASURES.

BERLIN, March 20th

NEWS.

[BY COURTESY OF THE CHINA MAIL"]

BIG TIN FIND IN JOHORE.

ME GANDHI AND THE

'AGITATIONS IN INDIA, FANATIC AND IDEALIST.

BRITISH RAILWAYS' CLAIMS," COMMITTEE'S ADVERSE REPORT,

If the recqrumenilations of Lord Colwyn's Committee on the railway [HY PERCEVAL LANDON.]""

agreements are adopted, the, nunoașt of Yesterday I spent a long time in the compensation payable by the Government frankest conversation with Mr. Gandhi, to the companies will fall far short of The firm of Messrs, Sinie, Darby & Co. and at length succeeded in forming a com their claims. In their report, the Com plete, though almost incredible, estimate inittee, comment on the lack of precision

SINGAPORE March 29th.

report the discovery of tin in Johore and

any hitherto made in Malaya.

side his hotel, in Dublin, at 10 o'clock; big nitrogen plant at Louni, near Halle, claim that the and is more valuable than of his attitude to the campaign to which in the terms of the compact with the rail

this morning.

LATER

The official shot in Dublin was Captais Cecil Lees, formerly of the Chinese Labour Corps and a son of an ex-British Consul in France. Five shots were fired as he left the hotel for the Castle. He was killed instantaneously. The SEDEMDA

scaped through the side streets.

MALLOW COURT OF ENQUIRY-

FINDINGS.

A White Paper has been issued regard. 18 the report of the Mallow Court of Enquiry into the shooting of railwaymen, which finds that it was not the neces-

The communist outbreak which was already dying down was finished 'to-day, whan Government troops surrounded the

which the Communists had made their headquarters, and forced the insurgents to surrender. One thousand were taken prisoners. Large supplies of arms and

Ammunition were recovered. ...

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[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY... CHINESE CONSORTIUM AND NEW US. ADMINISTRATION.

WASHINGTON, March 30th.

NEW ZEALAND OPINION REGARD- ING JAPANESE ALLIANCE,

LONDON, March 30th.

er of explosion, and also does not need sary custom for railwaymen of duty to any Communist attack which might take Commissioner, interviewed, saw no reason and his strungth Tes precisely in the fact The bydrogen in the envelope is separat. hours; that the railwaymen who were fights between the police and the "Reds Conference in June, because it was never struction of the Golden Age bdaed upon)

brifast and is not subject to loss of gos

ed, fruin the atmosphere by a wall of aitrogen, which, it is claimed, will extin- guish flames if the outer envelope catches

Bre.

The airship is 950 feet long, of 6,400 horsepower, and with a speed of 72 miles

hour. On half its power it will carry

-300 passengers.

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PASSING OF WAR-TIME MINISTRIES.

EFFECT OF DECONTROL ON COAL INDUSTRY.

LONDON, March 30th. Three of the most prominent Depart mente in the nation's most anxious days df the war, namely, the Ministries of Fodds of Shipping and of Munitions, cease to exist after to-morrow,

Their colossal activities necessitated prolonged period of winding up. Hence forth practically the only remaining contral will be over railways, which ter- minster August.

the miners' crisis,

at Essen, yesterday.

ROUNDING UP REBELS.

BERLIN, March 30th.

Total

20.000,000

£150,000,000

he has devoted every faculty and every ways, and "assert that constructions are moment of his life. "No one under now being put on the agreements which stands Mr. Gandhi's, crusade," "said" a

are inequitable. An-aringement which sage man to me in Rombay, who does began as a temporary control of traffic pot know Mr. Gandhi. What I have for purely military purposes, with com to say, therefore, may probably seem impensation, under the Regulation of the "The Reichswehr, whose numbers in Ber

Mr. Hughes, Secretary of State, has possible to those who have never met this Forces Act, 1871, for purely military acts, lia were greatly augmented yesterday,

comprehensive are now stamping out the embora of informed Messrs. J. P. Morgan and Comazing and dangerous san, who in soli-has developed into

tade bestrides the field of Indiaa seli.financial transaction covering the whole volt, notably in Leipzig, the Rhineland, Pany that the Government approves of tion like a colossus. Li trath he is alone, area of railway administration, Further, of siege has the principle embraced in the Chinese He does not seem to need lieutenants the companies have been protected fai owing to the prolongation of control, and Westphalia. A state been declared in the districts of Macusterbanking consortium.

or councillors, who embarras bim with beyond the direct consequences of the their practical suggestions as much as war, and railway shareholders have bean Arnberg and the unoccupied part of Duck

spared losies suffered by those interested Mr. Gandhi bewilder them by his pure in other public utility undertakings. The Entente have restored

Utopianism. Whether they remain"or

It is estimated that the companies seldorf

desert him makes no difference his ap outstanding claims amount to about arms to the police in the occupied por

Sir James Allan, the New Zealand High peal is to the lowest of the population, 150.000,000, made up as follows:

Arrears of maintenance ...£ 00,000,000 tion of Dusseldorf, in order to repulao

Abnormal wear and tear... 40,000,000 Replacement. of stores................ remain in Mallow station, after curfawplace Fifty casualties were reported in for uneasiness as regards the Imperial that his teaching is a visionary recón. contemplated that it would raise the que universnt loving-kindness. He prenches tion of a political union with the United to the heart and despises the head. And, While unable to frame a reliable esti Kingdom or scheme of Imperial therefore, he has no parallel in the world mate, the Committee anticipate that, should their recommendations be accept Federation, which had already been dis- posed of, but there was no harm, and to-day, either in the semi-divine charteed, the amounts payable to the companies 44 an insignificant much good would result, in discussinger of his influence or in the magnitude will be reduced to

That charges for maintenance im excess of, the 1013 quantum should not the common interests of the Empire, of the disaster which will attend his figure. Briefly, they propose :-

Seated on the floor in a small, barely be allowed, and that the companies to furnished room, I found the mahatma, which payments in, respect of such excess clad in rough, white homespun. He charges have already been made should turned up to me, with a smile of welcome, refund the amount of the excess. the typical head of the idealist-the

That any company claiming to have skull well formed and finely modelled; incurred expenditure on making good the face narrowing to the pointed chin.jabnormal wear and tear properly charge His eyes are deep, kindly, and entirely able to Government account should sub- ane; his hair is greying a little over the stantiate its claim in accordance with pre- LONDOS, March 30th. forehead. He speaks gently and well, scribed conditions...

3- That darrent payments of recount The Naval Commander-in-Chief at and in his voice is a note of detachment Portsmouth announces that the Crown which lends uncanny force to the strange of arrears of maintenance other than Prince of Japan is due at Spithead on doctrines that he has given up his life proper renewals provisions should be

One could not imagine him discontinued. May 7th in the Japanese warships to teach Katori and Kashima. Arrangements are ruled, hasty, or resentful; not the feat That the companies should utilise being made for his reception, and also for part of the moral supremacy in his the funds already paid to them in defray- Well-informed Paris and Rome cura programme of entertainments for the crusade is his universally-known willinging the whole cost of overtaking deferred. crews of the two vessels, which will reness to turn the other cheek to the smiter, work, before receiving further payments respondents are inclined to discredit main in Portsmouth during the Prince' From it must be realised that consciously, on account of the additional cost of

his teaching has been influenced by that arrears overtaken. the reports, but details of the journey visit. are given both from Vienna and from Budapest, showing that Karl disguised reached the Austro-Hungariau frontier on Saturuny The Hungarian Premier Teleki, who was summoned, urged on the

taken to the barracks were not beaten or inhumanly treated or in any way abused, nor were they told to run and thon fired upon when released from their colla; that a party of railwayman was at fired upon when leaving the railway station for the barracks; and finally that the remainder of the allegations - made in the House of Commons were not sub- stantiated by evidence. The report men tions that the President of the Court, Colonel Cumming, was killed by rebela on March 5th, and that the remaining members of the Court heard the evidence of fifty-six witnesses

POLES ATTACK BRITISH TROOPS.

MERELY EBULITION OF FEELING

OF DISAPPOINTMENT.

LONDON, March 29th.

As regards the attack on British troops in Upper Silesia, Beuter understands the facts are that a band of Poles on March occasioned by 25th bombed a larry conveying British

The attack has no political significance, and it was merely due to an unreason

The authorities are busily rounding up the defeated rebels. At present, 1,10 have been taken prisoner in Central Germany.

COUP EMPEROR KARL'S

RETURNS TO BUDAPEST IN DISGUISE

LONDON, March 30th. The greatest astonishment Bas been caused by the sudden arrival of the Austrian Emperor Karl in Hungary. It is rumoured that he intends to assume the Crown.

notably defence. He thought New Zen;

land opinion favoured the continuance of the Japanese Alliance, though the Japantes "shipbuilding programme was not regarded favourably, since it appear ed, that it was intended to support an aggressive policy,

OROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN.

ACTIVITIES OF GERMAN SOUTH SEA COMPANIES.

LONDON, March 29th.

access.

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of Christ, for whom his admiration has.-That. except in special cases, no long been the almost dominating feature payments should be made in respect of of his spiritual life, and probably the arrears of maintenance outstanding at external character of his dai'y activity the end of the period of control.. has been modelled also upon Him. He G.—That camnaniew-should ́not ́enjoy made a curious observation during our revenue below the line, in addition to the conversation, which throws some light guaranteed het receipts, from assets that Teacher: la answer to a remark of mine period and have since been realised. upon his interpretation of the Galileun were revenue producing in the standard

fering in palties, Mr. Gandhi answered, ment of stores should be reviewed. There "I do not think so, but, if you are in no justification for the arrangement that the companies' should be, recouped right, the less Christ in that was He."

the increased cost of the stores held by them, at the end of control by an Ex- chequer subsidy.

decontrol, does not show, signs of im- troops. There were no serious casualties. Emperor not to carry out his interactivity on a great scale. The plans eam that Christ strictly abstained from inter. That the agreement as to replace-

Men and owners in some provement districts are discussing the question of re- à few essential men in the pits taining in the event of a stoppage on Friday, Hope at present centres in Sir Robert Horne's invitation to the miners' execu tave to meet him. to-day to discuss, the matter before taking irrevocable steps. SHIPYARD JOINERS' STRIKE. NO PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT

LONDON, March 30th

able anti-foreign feeling among Poles, owing to disappointment at the result of the plebiscito..

POLES PERPETRATE ANOTHER. OUTRAGE.

PARIS. March 29th.

A message from Oppeln reports an- other outrage in Silesia. A motor-car belonging to the Inter Allied Commission smashed into wire stretched in the road- way and was wrecked against a tree. The French chauffeur was killed, and two French officials were injured.

letters.

trong

Kari, however, proceeded to Budapest, and saw the Regent, Admiral Horthy,

who advised him to return to Switzer; land. Kari declined to leave the country, and is at present staying at Steinaman

gor.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, NO DISCUSSION, ON IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

LONDON, March 20th. Reater's enquiries in authoritative circles dispose completely of the sugges

A Berlin telegram states that the undertakings are preparing to resume prise fusions, increases of capital and invocation of American help.

A fusion has already been formed be tween two leading concerns, the Jalait Company of Hamburg and the German Trade and Plantations Company of South The achievement of an ideal world Sen Islands, which formed a new com built upon selflessness and governed by pany called the Trade and Colonisation loving-kindness alone, which has proyed Company Limited, behind which stand too much for the Christian nations, seems big banks and several important mer chants of the Hanse Cities.

AN IDEAL WORLD.

to Mr. Gandhi & self-evident possibility. Asked why, then, he opposed the reforms, The danger, the very real danger, of the he said that the justice they intended. The Jaluit Company formerly operated man lies in the fact that his belief is had been whittled away by those to in the Marschall and the Caroline Islands, exactly that best calculated to appeal to whom their application had been en- and had valuable phosphates rights in the Oriental, and most certain, if adopt trusted. He would not admit that ho Nauru. The Trade and Plantations Comed, to lead in India to internecine blood- could have carried on his campaign in- pany operated in Samoa.

AMERICAN WIRELESS STATION AT SHANGHAI.

There is still no promise of a settle ment of the joiners' strike in shipyards, which began in November. A number of

The members of the Commission con- tion that the question of Imperial Federa-menced on the erection of a wireless Gandhi explained to me the faith that civilisation as railways and post offices, shipowners being no longer able to post-nue to receive numbers of threatening pone repairs are getting work done abroad. Ten. large liners, including Cunardera and White Stars, are being repaired on the Continent, while an order to

a Chinese contract at Yarrows, executa o having cabin work on three steamers, bas gone to Shanghai

Several ex-German Zinors, recently purchased, are running without any alterations being made; the notices and inscriptions on the decks and cabins Are still in Gorman.

GERMAN COAL SALES. "BERLIN'S NOTE OF PROTEST.

BERLIN, March 30th-

A German Note to the Allies protek against their selling to other countries.

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ol supplied by Germany at engraÓUS trouble for reparations purposes, with out the German Government sharing in. the profit of the sales, and says that the sales are most extensive, notabl those to Holland.

MR. ESMONDEL

Mr. Esmonde, who wae

land in Australia, is

will not be permitted to

probably be sent to Seattle.

NO NAVAL CENSORSHIP.

WASHINGTON, March 30th..

The Navy Department arounces: the zemoval of all consorship on the naval

clear station.

VARSITY BOAT RACE. WEATHER AND THE PROSPECTS.

at Putney.

LONDON, March th

organisation.

in eighteen months, and enable direct hated civilisation and rule of England this matter suggests weakness in political wireless communication across the Pacific must go. I suggested the unprotected state of India should our work come to without relay stations. It is also pro an end. posed to establish stations at Peking, Harbin und Canton.

H

FICTION ABOUT ANGLO-JAPANESE

ALLIANCE.:

But what of the religious antagonism between Hindu and Moslem!"?

No trouble will come."

shed and disintegration and should our side the Chambers by sending deputies long patience become exhausted-toa remark which gives food for thought. Indian servitude to some other Power Either he believes that the intense cen- more willing than ourselves to keep the tralisation of the non-co-operative move.. sabre rattling in its sheath. It is prement would be destroyed thereby,,or he WASHINGTON, March 29th.cisely his idealism which makes him the wishes as yet to avoid a definite issue The Department of Commerce an worst enemy of his own people between himself and the moderates In nounces that work is shortly to be com Courteous, implacable, and refined, Mr. any case his famous justification of his use of such bad products of British station at Shanghai under agreement tion will be discussed at the June Cot between the Chinese Government and the was in him, and as he did so my hopes on the ground of helping the snuse

of an understanding between him and ference of the Dominions Prime Minis American Federal Telegraph Company...

The should apply here ao His policy in It is anticipated that it will be completed the English grew less and less. ters. It appears to be fully recognised

· STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. · that even if a definite constitution of

His Mitterness against modern civili sation is at once the strength and weak- the Empire found favour in Great Britain

If India has sufficient unity to expelness of his campaign Presented as the (which is in noway certain), the opposi.

the British, she can also protect herself protest of Hinduism against the Black The weather, which has become cold,tion to it in the Dominions will be such

against foreign aggression; universal love Age in which we are now living, it makes and soul force will keep our shores in a direct appeal to the country districts, wet and stormy, may be a decisive notor as to rule out even the hint of a con-

violate. It is by making armaments that whose antagonism to the large towar is war is made." LONDON, March 20th.

is one of the disregarded factors in the in the boat race, which promises to be crete proposal. The agenda of the con.

Reuter learns that reports regarding

present Indian situation. Ho frankly admitted that in two matters" sanitation one of the closest in recent years. ference, as far as Great Britain, is con- the development of the Anglo-Japanese

and organisation, he admired: British Cambridge still start favourites, but cerned will mainly consist of items pre. Alliance into a treaty are quite baseless.

methods, but he did not seem to realise The question has not yet been formally the odds are fractional as compared with viously cabled, although there is no doubt raised between Great Britain and Japan. I thought of the transfigured face of that, the latter covered almost the whole those laid when the crews first appeared that arrangements for the so-called con. The statement that a new draft of the certain distinguished Moslem follower of ground of our administration of India. treaty with certain modifications, has Mr. Gandhi, in the Punjab, and his eager Similar inconsistencies between Western stitution of the conference in 1922--such been drawn up is pure fiction. Japan, as anticipation of the day when the coast and Eastern standpoints account for Oxford improved " on every outing, as the venue, date, personnel, etc, will well as Great Britain, realises the neces would be clear, and Islam would crush much in Mr. Gandhi's teaching, but he sity of certain modifications in view of Hindu opposition and re-establish India seems to forget that India has already While Cambridge retain supremacy in also be discussed.

the requirements of the League of Na- as the Sovereign Moslem State and I attempted something like a Utopia and tions, but the main fact is that the Domin renewed the question:

found it unpractical. Listening to Mei style,Oxford showed staying. power,

fore.

Jons have the fullest right to be consider. If trouble should ensure I shall be Gandhi, one was again and again re casting a thrilling finish.

and it in perfectly well known that ready to accept it. If even all India were minded of the beautifulsion of a world nothing whatever will be done until the submerged in the struggle it would only of selfless kindness that Gautama, in- meeting of the Imperial Conference in he a proof that. India was evil, and it culated twenty-four intariengoa

would be for the best,"

world that never existed & vision which has left haman unture unchanged. His attitude rot unontaraly mnde mecoming to, eganatinis, 1, asked him nai what he thought about Len n. He directly whether he did not see that lis said that he did not know enough about campaign of apn-violence as he conduct- Bolshevism to British rule. Luleis what for which he must be held responsible. Lenin; but in any case he would prefer ed i must inevitably result ia viniczce,

has been said before is borne in mind, There will be no trouble unless the this answer might neem to justify much Englishmen begin it. This was so like that has been charged against Mr. the German contention that France Gandhi, bus. I am car need it began hostilities that I asked him if he idealism ancontrolled, and now uacon-¡ had said that be believed that the Gove trollable, is at the root of every extra erament at Bihar had recently provoked vagant view annointed by Mr. Gandhi'ence. He said he did not believe it. We agreed that Western and Eastern, and added, with a smile, that much was standards were irreconcilable, but I alleged of him that he had never said. ed him if he could find no good in Eng. Courteous and refined he rema ned to |lishmen and English civiliation. He way the end, but implacable be remained it was not against individual English 110, and could only sum up my im Fahmen and English civilisation. He saepression of my visit in the conviction admitted that several Englishmen had that a puro idealist whom the people of for India and instanced Bradlangh, the very qualit en which had enthroned -It is reported that the Grecks took Solly Joel endeavouring to finance in a willingness to work unselfishly. Indic reverenced as a god, must, through ught between Dempsey and Carpentier Jardine, Wedderburn, and Montagu, him, ond by delivering them over-to

··· DISARMAMENT · PROBLEM.

LEPS TAKEN BY UNITED STATES.

LONDON, March 29th.

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT'S

MERCHANTMEN.

SUCCESS OF SCHEME,

OTTAWA, March 30th, The Government's fleet of 47 'merchant

net

June.

TRADE WITH RUSSIA. STOCKHOLM MERCHANTS LAUNCH

SCHEME.

to reports from New men is being increased on April 7th by Authoritatively stated in 1e of whom seven will be oil-burners. that nothing is known as regards The cost of construction is hundred

STOCKHOLM, March 20th. stops on the part of the dollars per ton

The earnings last The biggest export concerns and some SEE | leading banke have formed an organisa approach the British

yeur amounted to 2) per cent, which is tion capitalised at a milliard kronor, informally on the question regarded as satisfactory, in view of the with the object of opening financial and

commercial relations with the Bovieta CARPENTIER FIGHT STORY.

RESULT OF ENQUIRY,

LONDON, March. th

igarmament.

HUF FAMOUS AMERICAN

NATURALIST-

NEW YORK, March 29th.

The naturalist Mr. John K. Burroughs,

abriormal conditions.

GREAT GREEK VICTORY. HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.

SMYRNAS, March 29th

died suddenly in a train at Ohio while do 1,700 prisoners-at- Ahun-

his way home to Wast Park, New York

Tosses on both sides were heavy.

The New York newspapar story of Mr.

proves a hoax. Mr. Jack Joel informa Heuter that the report is baseless.

(Continued at foot of nest column.) = -bloodshed and mistry Daily Telegra