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GREEK EX-MINISTERS

EXECUTED.

STATEMENT BY THE COURT. MARTIAL

Atays, November 27th. In a statement regarding the reasons for the sentences imposed on ex-Ministers and others, the Court-Martial, in effeck, declares that defendanta knowingly can wosled from the people the danger entail ‹ed by the return of ex-King Constantins, Athough Greece was departing from her alliances, they decided to do their utmost to consolidate the Thrane of Constantine, "in order to enjoy office under his argis. They stiffed, by terroristic methods, ail signs of public opinion contrary to them, and finally brought about the defeat in Asia Minor.

The statement adds that instead of arging upon ex-King Constantine the cessity for abdication, they arranged with General Hadjianestis the pretended fensive again Constantinople, which the latter undertook, and consequently brought about the enemy's offensive, which caused the collapse of the Greek front in Asia Minor, thus deliberately delivering to the enemy large portions of the army. | The defendants were therefore convicted of conspiring to commit an act of high treason, as provided for by several articles of the military and penal codes.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT SEVERS RELATIONS WITH GREECE.

ATHENS, November 98th.

The British Minister has notified the Government that Great Britain has broken off relations with 'Greece. He is leaving Athens to-night

Mr. Bentinck, member of the Financial Control Committee, will remain,

HEAVY FINES INFLICTED.

Aruna, November 28th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THUP DAT. NOVEMBER 30THA 1992.

ANOTHER APPEAL WHICH FAILED.

WARRINGTON, November 29th. Beyond indefinitely postponing the formal rocognition of the present Athens Government, American action in connec tion with the Greek executions is not likely.

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THE INDIAN OUTLOOK

COUNTRY QUIET AND CROPS.

DELIT November 26th. An almoas commadele lull exists in the Owing to his extensive humanitarian external and internal situation. The activities in regard to the Near East re-country is quiet, the Antumn crops are satisfactory, and the prospect for the fugees, Mr. Caffery, American Charge Spring crops is good. The political d'Affaires at Athens, personally appealed on behalf of the victims, prior to the situation is calm, and the Sikh situation is much easier, the police having been carrying out of the sentences.

withdrawn and arrests stopped. The CHIEF CULPRIT ALLOWED TO ESCAPE.

PARIS, November 28th. The newspapers declare that the chief culprit is ex-King Constantine, who wat allowed to doparo with impunity. They believe that serious consequences are likely to follow the Anglo-Greek tension

BARLIEB CABLES,

A. LAMENTABLE IMPRESSION.

CREATED.

LONDON, November 29th.

MOGRIGOR'S BANK FAILURE. THE GERMAN REPARATIONS

Lastnar October

ber 27th.

The War Office advancemens in conners tion with the suspension of bamineem by

pr'a Bank states that, until the fore the probable amount of the dividend, from da to s in the E was publish

PROBLEM.

STRICTER ALLIED CONTROL"“

TYROM TKK

FRENCH PLAN.

A PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION;

WHAT IT COSTE TO CONTEST

WWW.CONSTITUENCIADA

non-co-operation movement appears to whics to meet the immediate Doue impossible in any case to consent to such a the accounts of my own election I had a

be more or less, moribund.

THE COTTON SHORTAGE PROBLEM

BRAZIL HOLDS KEY TO THE SOLUTION.

Arrangements are being made whereby officers on half or retired pay, and pensioners for whom the firm has acted as bankers may chtain immediate advano for November of money due on the 1st December. For full pay officers a corresponding action by the How agents has been already provided

If there are in Hongkong any prospens tive candidate for Parliamens they will. doubtlesar ba kätermstock in the following ed by the Official Recurver, the War Office

CORRESPONDENT] had no knowledge of the extent to which the

| interesting little statement which sa M.P. PARIS, October 20th.

Faas contributed to a Home paper:---- bankruptcy might result in loss to individual officers

or their families The War Office,

The French reply to Sir John Brad The cost of a contested election to the relying on the status of the arm as Army bury's memorandums on the future of individual candidate is a serious matter. Agents, had left the pay or half

or prasion officers in their hands that the French delegation sece no ad- the State making itself responsible for pays retired reparations opens with the statement Despite the relief afforded nowadays by Detailed information is

is not yet available, but the hole position is receiving the antage in the Commission's anticipating the returning officer's expenses, the various items to be defrayed by the pathetic consideration of the Chancellor war tots, giving rise to a request for would-be MP make up formidable of the Exchequer and Secretary for War 1 and 1994 Moreover, it would be total. The chief sources of expense are moratoriam from Germany for the years

printing and advertising Referring to moratorium unaccompanied by escurities the former totalled £519. This sum was The restoration of order in Germany incurred over the issue of my election Baauces, the reparation of damage, and

return to healthy financial conditions dress to every elector in the constit in the countries of the Fowers which took ency, the three original posters I had part in the war are problems closely rehasten the decomature of my opponent, designed and scattered broadcast to SENIOR FARTNERS ESTIMATES. Iated to one another, as well as to the portrait cards for display in the If is likely that the dividend of Me question of Inter-Allied debts, and no windows of my supporters, quantity of Origor's Bank based on the estimates one of them can be satisfactorily and leaflets dealing with local conditions, and LONDON, November 28th

of the senior partner Sir James MeGrigor finally solved in isolation

the poll-card that told the electors the Brazil holde the key to the solution of reckons that the Bank's liabilities are cepted in principle the ammoning in the to record their votes Advertising cost

who

to the Official Receiver, sccording

The Allied Fowers, realizing this, so polling stations where they were entitled the cotton shortage problem, according to E600,000 and the

[Rasota" £250,000. He st the Lancashire cotton trade deputation, tributes the insolvency largely to deprod our future of an International Coofer me £130, which included the rent of which has returned from a visit of inspection in the value of securities and badence. The Reparation Commission will hoardings. Salaries, as might be expect

desire to do nothing to interfere with came to a substantial figure. For the tion. They state that practically the whole debts. He BRYS

says that although aprofit

Apt the work of this Conference, but it is central affice and the eighteen branch country is suitable for cotton growing, and loss, accurred unul last August within its aphere to examine from time to ones, on the efficiency of which the whole

no balance" and it is possible to get two crops when the Ent locations of trouble, arose time, the situation, and the Shaper are party organisation, depended 10, id yearly.

whole of the custumers securities held

Omcial Receiver believes that the sources of Germany. France much 10 subagenta recived

from this Conference for the satisfactory clerks 663 188. 7d., while messengers cost safe custody by the Bank are absolutely settlement of reparations, by which Ger- £40. In addition, my head agent receiv safe. A creditors meeting will be held many will not be the least to profit. But ed a special foe of, I believe, £100. on the 6th November.

that Germany should be relieved for a The Secretary of the League of Officers more or less long period of the burden While these were the outstanding in an interview before the War Office of reparations, and that all the waight charges for which my election campaīga atnouncement was issued, stated that of the restoration of the devastated reas responsible, they were not the only many customers of the Bank were in gions should be thrown back on hertelfons Public mestings, of which 34 were plight. The Longue is dealing with this Francs cammot script Postpone held at an average cost of 178. ed., wore an average number of 30 cases daily, and

M. Gounaris, who was Greek Prasier from April, 1991, to May, 1999, when M. Stratos succeeded him, was unable to visit, bankers and merchants are prepar It is reported that, as a result or are attend the later stages of the Athens trialed to give the scheme encouragement in of Cabinet Ministers in consequence of the State of San Paulo: his suffering from typhoid.

The pews of the sentences has created a lamentable impression, and in authorita tive circles in London" it is pointed out

was ever

in

** AMERICAN POLITICAL

• QUESTIONS. DEMUGRATS OBSTRUCT PASSAGE that the action of the military extremists

OF ANTI-LYNCHING BILLY.

is assisting the most necessitous cases. Urgments of reparation payments have given cheap enough, as was the hire of 28 com is hikely seriously to affect Greece, as it

ing the War Office not to adhere to negativo resulta, il only because they mitte rooms (15 on elsation day only) will alietiate the moral and financial sup

WASHINGTON, November 29th alleged repadiation of liability he con- show that Germany's good will cannot at 10 d. apiece. While the House of Representatives tends that the War Department is at losas be counted on. Other solutions are Compared with these modest figures, port of the Great Powers.

continues to wrestle with amendments to morally liable. The British Legion is makendary to solve the present financial £13 for telegrams was axorbitant. Twy

problem.m

intriguing items were 23 Bs. for plumbers LATERA the Ship Subsidy Bill, the Senate has ing similar representations The ex-Ministers Gounarias, Theotokis, become inscived in a complicated dispute. The first meeting of the Creditors of

LONDON, November 6th

THE GERMAN BUDGET.

and £276. ed. for the services of the Baltasis, and Protopapadakis, General three hours' obstruction of business, noti-was Beld in the Holborn Restaurant a balanced Buttget being essential toy personal expenses, comprising my on another issue. The Democrats, after McGrigor's Bank who were Army Agents absolute prohibition of further inflation, the victor after the declaration of the The Budget must be balanced by an police, presumably to act as escort ta

Hadjianestis and M. Stratos have been fed the Republicans that they proposed to day before a crowded sttendance. executed, by shooting."..

to hold up all business as long as the The Offeial Receiver stated that stabilize the mark. The French deleg

the majority persisted in their efforts to pass liabilities were approximately.

tion therefore requesta a rigorous super. hotel bill during the three weeks” cam- 2820,000 vision of the German Budget, a super-paign, amounted only to £34. the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Many of the The assets include £839,000 in overdrafts vision not limited merely to the right of The total cost of getting into the House

Toons; the balance the wrong

оп Democrats belong to the Southern States, 117,000. Ea very strongly condemned Borutiny. It should involve effective of Commons came to £1,400 odd, but

adde where the Negro population is large.

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THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE

TURCO-GREEK DISPUTE REGARD ING REPARATIONS.

LACSANKE, November 28th. ~ In the course of a discussion at the meet. ing of the Economic Commission, M. Venizelos said that if the Turks pressed their claim for damages, the Greeks would claim expenses for occupation, and also claim damages on behalf of the Greeks driven from Turkey. The latter

The Court Martial also inflicted the claim alone would far exceed the Turkish.

He suggested that, as neither would to able to pay the claims on both sides should be abandoned..

following fase M. Gounaris (ex-Prime Minister), 200,000 drachmae; M. Stratos (ex-Prime Minister), 355,000 drachmae; } Ismet Fasha appealed to the Confer- Protopapadakis (ex-Minister of Finance to recognise, in principle, that auce), 600,000 drachmae; M. Baltazzi Groce must repair the devastated areas: (ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs), 1,000,000 ALLIES PREPARED TO REDUCE drachmae; M. Theotokis (ex-Minister of War), 1,000,000 drachmae; M. Goudas, 200,000 drachmte.

CONSTERNATION AT LAUSANNE.

LAUSANNE, November 28th.

The news of the Greek executions has created consternation among the dele gates, including the Greeks. It is under. stood that the British Minister is leaving Athens forthwith.

BRITISH PRESS CONDEMNS EXECUTIONS.

:OCCUPATION CLAIM.

M Barrere (France), intimated that the Allies were disposed to consider a reduction of their claims for occupation

expenses.

Ismet Fasha accepted, in principle, the reparation of the Ottoman debt,

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ALLIES CONSIDER THEIR REPLY TO RUSSIAN DEMAND,

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LAUSANNE, November 28th. The Allied delegates conferred this morning with regard to the Russian note insisting on Russian participation in all the discussions of the conference equally with the other Powers

It is understood that they decided to refor the matter to their respectiva Gor-

It is reported that the Italian pleni- Russians to all discussions. potentiary, favoured the admission of the

DISCUSSION ON INTER- NATIONAL LAW.

AMERICA SUGGESTS THAT THE NETHERLANDS PARTICIPATE.

it

WASHINGTON, November 28th The State Department announces that the United States has suggested the parti cipation of the Netherlands at the meeting of the Commission of Jurists, to be held at The Hague on December 10th; to dis.

cusa international law.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.

STERLING ON NEW YORK,

Loops, Noranber with. of to-day's London Foreign Exchange strength of sterling on New York elf Market, the outstanding feature was the

reflected the growing confidence of America in the trade and financial posi- tion of Great Britain, N

Sterling touched 4/521, and closed at 1/531, French francs ware rather heavily sold, and went down to 71.60, closing at

·63,00; German marks" relapsed to 30,000.

GERMAN COMPANY'S INCREASED CAPITAL,

BERLIN November 28th- The Di Sconto Gesselschaft has increas ed its capital by 290 million marks to nine hundred million.

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GERMAN REPARATIONS.

PROBLEM.

COERCIVE MEASURES CONTEM- PLATED BY FRANCE,

WAR

Д

the absence of balance sheet. The action in connection with German Gov-while I scoured a tangible reward for the Committee of Inspection elected Mr. Russell ernment finances. It should involve the outlay involved, my defeated opponent, Kettle of Mears, Deloitte Pleader and right to limit, to suppress or to postpons whose expenses equalled mine, had no Company who was appointed Trustee. He specific items of expenditure, or to ire thing to show for his money. Such is the considered that he would be able to pay a pose an increase of receipts in the pre-irony of politics! dividend of a crown, in the pound towards paration of the necessary measures for the end of next week. PANGAN WAR OFFICE RESPONSIBILITY.

The meeting passed unanimously a re solution declaring that the War Office by appointing the firm its Agents without in- quiry into ite financial position was mo rally if not legally liable for the firm's obligations sad warged the absolute ne for the War Offos to make good cich were causing acute distres

partners Sir James McGrigor and Mr. Albert Bise were shent from the being ill. Sir

the execution of a well-defined pro-

gramme. The French delegation makes issue of gold obligations, the taking up the following proposals us regards super- of which might be facilitated by adequate vision (contrôle) :- faca privileges, such as &financial

The concluding provision of Article amnesty. 7 of the schedule of payments under Later who economia circumstances which the Committee of Guarantees is allow, Germany thould Issue foreign not authorized to interfero in German loans, the proceeds of which would be administration shall be interpreted by used to pay off the capital of her repara- the Reparation Commission in the sanaa tion debi in such a way as to convert it which it really bears, namely, as meaning into a purely commercial debt. It rests that the Committee of Guaranteen coquot with that Government to spare Germany,

2.—The seat of the Committee of

BeGrivor take the place of German services and measures, of coercion which will become a nervous The Official Receiver

Hir J. but it business was just solvent when he entered it, as preventing the Committee of Guarance, not to say concealed complicity, but no balance sheet was prepared, the profit antees from requiring or prohibiting the shows that these measures alone can en- War Office in 1991 but this was not sont to and loss account appeared in a private application by the German Government sure the settlement of a payment too long ledger An account was submitted to the of specific measures.

delayed.

that many temporary war staff

THE PROPOSALES” Official Receiver and debtors. He stated Guarantees will be transferred to The French Delegation places the

members were Berlin. incompetent. Cheques ware honoured which should not have been honoured, customers

following conclusions before the Repara were allowed to overdraw without authority supervision of receipts and expenditure 1 The public finances of Germany

3-The provisions with respect to the tion Commission :— A large number of temporary customers and the cessation of the evasion of should be immediately placed under the withdrew their accounts on demobilisa capital as well as the fabrication of supervision of Germany's creditors under tion. This was a heavy

drain on the re statistics, will be applied at once in their the conditions set forth above. sources of the Bank.

All the measures necessary for res The Chairman criticised the neglect to

entirety.d supervise book debts and mentioned the The supervising organization will toring and maintaining & Budget balance advance of £80,000 made 22 years ago to a be empowered to have information at all should be taken, and that part of re person who was now dead and insolvent in all details, as to the manage-parations, the payment of which cannot- which still stood on the books against the ment of the finances of the German be ensured by other means, as well as the few securities of small value.

Government and of the States; to fix the service of loans contracted for the paying The meeting requested the Earl of Derby minimum receipts, to be realized; to fix a off of the reparation debt, should be pro to grant an early interview with the maximum of expendituro and to prohibit,gressively introduced on the penditure · Trustees and Secretary.

ss it thinks necessary, any expenditure; side, za ka

IMPROVED PRICE OF RUBBER

SUPPORT FROM AMERICAN

·MANUFACTURERS.

Lexvox, November 28th. "Paris, November 28th. A rise in the price of crude rubber ta Stringent coercive measures against 134 Peace per pound, yesterday, is attri Germany, with a view to enforcing rebuted mainly to the support from Ameri. UNEMPLOYMENT IN GREAT parations, were considered by the Cabinet can manufacturers, owing to lessened

presided over by M. Millerand, at which pressure to sell forward Marshal Foch and M. Barthou, presidend

BRITAIN.

RELIER MEASURES UNDER CONSIDERATION

The Greek executions are unanimously con“ demned in this morning's newspapers, 03mments before replying, man being outrageous, brutal and mediaeval, though the newspapers are divided in opinion regarding the wisdom of sovering relations.

PRISONERS EXECUTED WITHIN FIVE HOURS OF SENTENCE.

Advicën from Athens state that the Court Martial's decision was unanimous, General Hadjianestis and five ex-Minis tera being shot five hours after the sen teneo was pronounced. Before they faced the firing party, General Hadjianestis was solemnly degraded, his badges of rank being out from his uniform and his sword broken,

Holy Communion was administered to all those executed and their bodies were subsequently taken to the cemetery, and handed over to the relatives,

LONDON, November 28th. Mr. Bonar Law, and the Ministers of the Exchequer, Board of Trade, Labour and Transport conferred at Downing Street with representatives of the railway companies, whom the Premier invited to operate in anticipating the construction and replacement of capital works with a view to relieving unemployment, UNEMPLOYED NUMBERS INCREAS.

LONDON, November 28th.

increased by 1,847,

The unemployed in Britain last week

FRENCH COLONIAL -

"GOVERNOR ILL.

present.

of the Reparations Commission, were WOOL AND COTTON COMBINE

AMERICAN INTERESTS FORM ALLIANCE

to prescribe at any time any increase in 3-The German Treanty should be receipts which appears to it to be pos forbidden to discount any bills with the able, with a view to permitting the Rei babank and required to submit pa gradual incorporation in the Budget of Inter-Allied supervision all issue of reparation expenditure. Should the Ger long-dated or short-dated Treasury loan man Government not immediately carry The Reichsback should be placed out the orders of the organization-respon under Inter-Allied supervision respon sible for supervision the default will atsible for seeing that the Reichsbank once be notified to the Powers under executes all measures imposed by the Paragraph 17 of Annexe II. of Part 8 of Allies which necessitates its intervention. 6. To the extent considered necessary the Treaty of Versailles.

-The German Government and the by the Inter-Allied body of supervision, German States shall have no recourse to more stringent measures should be taken credit operations except by means of to prevent the flight of capital abroad loans issued with the authority of the and the hoarding of foreign currencies in - supervising body and placed directly Germany, with the public; the direct placing of 6. As soon as circumstances permit, Treasury Bills with the Reichsbank ro. 4 start should be made with the issue of Government gold loans, the placing of mains strictly prohibited. " A close alliance has been formed between pression of all further issues of notessages, the proceeds werving exclusively When the Budget reforms and the amp which could be facilitated by fiscal advan- Consolidated Textile Corporation, which be restored, with the result that to strengthen the metallio reserve of the the American Woollen Campany and the have produced their effects, confidence on the one hand (to the extent necessary), control seven hundred thousand cotton capital will reture and the balance of Reichsbank, with a view to ensuring the

Schomes considered were. The 'altera" "an tion" of the Franco-German border by further occupation of Rhenish territories, and a guarantee of the due deliveries of coal and coke for French industries.

These measures are contemplated in the event of failure to secure an adequata reparations settlement at the coming Brussels conference

BRITISH PREMIER QUESTIONED.

LONDON, November 28th.

spindler.

NEW YORK, November 28th.

THE FATALE PEE!!

D. W. GRIFFITH AS AN AUTOR..

payments be re-established. It will then success of currency reform, and, on the he possible to proceed to currency, re other hand, to pay that part of repara Form. The gold resources necessary to tions which is not provided for in the In the Honum of Commons, replying to

carry out such an operation would be Budget RN

_7--The German Government should found reserve a question, My, Bonar Jaw said as had

present of all in the metallo rosaryononuo to leve in gold, or in sound French occupation of the Ruhr was producer of motion pictures, D. W. at the present time at a figure of apof the total value of German, exporta ne information justifying his saying that As the world's acknowledged master aduolary circulation in Germany staat orign enrrencies, at least 25 per cent. immingas,

Grifitha matural sphere is behind the proximately 350 milliards. To pay off The proouds of this levy, as well en He is unable to answer a hypothetical scenes of the films he makes and it is the Treasury Bills placed with the public will be paid into a special account open- of Customs duties and export - bures, question as to whether the British Govern but rarely that he has faced the camera(seventy-five millards), and to prides the harchsbank in the mant would morally or militarily support and acted a part. This happent, how for the deposits (eighty-five milliards) and specially controlled by the such occupation. (Ministerial cheers), ever, with The Fatal Marriage, which the Reichsbank could be called upon to LONDON, November 23th.

rumours by the Frese that occupation, was in Alm version of Enoch Arden Fatting aside any opening of new credits Goverment will be able to dispose

The questioner drew attention to the is being shown at the Coronet to-day. It issue an additional 100 milliards in all of Gonranters The Cket imminent. Mr Benar. Law replied that Tennyson's well-known poor, and Grinth in favour, either of the State or of prima standing to the credit of no steps of any kind in that direction had sustains the role of the father. Other vato individuale, the Reichsbank has to account so long as the Reparation Com yet been taken,

plending players in the caste with him are meet a payment of 510 milliards Government is fulllling the obligations.

L'han Gish and Wallace Bei A CATEGORICAL DENTAL BY

At the prosont rate of exchange the gold value of all this paper does not ex which have been, or may be invoed upon it by the Reparation Commige Dood: 800,000,000 gold marks (£40,000,000), a figure clearly, below the gold reserve any moment the Reparation Com proceeds of levies on real German capital, anters will take possion of the warms This reserve would be swollen by the mission considers that this conditionin

not fulfilled, the Committen of Gen and the proneeds of internal gold Joaning to ton otsit of this es Indeed, romarse might be hao, probably and of the provanda of detres levied

in chart Came to the contingating their regu

BRITISH MINISTER'S UNAVAILING M. Leng, the Governor-General of French Indo Chian, who is returning there frcan France, has landed at Colombo suffering from faver

EFFORTS. The British Minister continued his efforts to secure clemency for the -con- dczanexl men, right to the last. Ho visited the Foreign Ofica twice last night,- and want to the revolutionary chief, Plastiras, in the middle of the night, but his efforts word unavailing.

AUSTRIAN FINANCE,

LEAGUE OF NATION'S SCHEME ACCEPTED.

LONDON, November 28th, the Lague of Nations scheme for the The Austrian Parliament has accepted

financial rehabilitation of Austi

FRANCE

PARIB, November 28th.

The Chinese labourers at Macao, uzys yesterday's meeting discussed the possible strike as a protest against the unwilling Official circles categorically deny that the Canton Times, may call for another. occupation of two-thirds of the Ruhr, mess of the Portuguese annexation of the occupied territory of wounded last My including Emer and Bochum, and the compensate the many

cording" to locals

the left bank of the Rhine,

tion to shot-sad-

mission = shall : décm - that the Germani

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