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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. -SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 8 1919.

"OVER THE TOP" IN 1919.

REPULSE BAY HOTEL

HONGKONG HOTEL

"BER TAG."

STORY OF THE REFUSAL TO FIGHT.

It is to be hoped that the letter does not get into wrong hands. Great things have happened in

our Imperial Navy. All the ships

of the line sadi red cruisers are

mutinying. Perhaps something

the matter has reached your

acd if

we

ears, but I will here tell you about it clearly and distinctly. the British. As the commander would follow soon.

of S.M.S. Thuringen said, "We will fire our last 2,000 rounds, and will go down with flying colours."

in

any

THE CZECHO-SLOVAK ·

REPUBLIC.

INTERVIEW WITH PRO- FESSOR MASARYK.

D

especially hope for a reunion of the Ukraine with Russis."

Concerning the programme for his new State, "I hope," he said, "We shall not have any troubles.

8OMMERCIAL NEWS.

and

Įvice-Minister and Mr. Chang Hu, vice-Minister, will probably re- present the Ministry of Finance

WOOD OIL.

Under the stimulus of war de-

times with the British and had The soldiers said to him that he buttel or on the Kaiser Wilhelm of Central and South-Eastern" the reports about our Germs (ese official circles that enemy/sales of wood oil to the United

In the Helgoland they took anything definite. Suddenly it possession of three guns. was said that the Fleet Comman

in all the squadrons had refused not fire on our comrades we had to obey. When the fleet should trained on us three 15cm. (in.) have put out to sea the men had guns, and if only one shot bad

GERMAN INTERESTS IN CHINA, with a couple of councillors and used

fire-extinguishing been fired from our guns there' the

the Ministry of the Interior to Office will probably represented According to a despatch from secretaries while the Foreign apparatus and extinguished all would have been not a splinter the boiler firex. They had done the left of B 97. I shall never in my

All our parties are united, the, the Minstry of Finance, the by Mr. Philip Tyau, Mr. Chen Lu, Social Democrata included, just Chinese government is going to rice-Minister, is acting Foreign The Hague, November 14-ame at every order to make ready life forget October 31. It was a

Professor Masaryk, President] The Bergische Arbeiterstimme pub forses, and consequently prevent- thousand times more terrible than

as our army in Siberia is united, renew the activities of the Sino-Minister during Mr. Lu Tseng. lishes a letter from a German ed the feet from putting out. at Oesel and in the Channel.

of the new Czerho-Slovak Re-though it is composed of all foreign commission for making siangs absence in the European In the Helgoland and some marine containing disclosures They were asked their reason for

among them Social, thorough investigations of Ger-Peace Conference in France.

man and Austrian interests and concerning the recent events in this conduct, and they answered other vessels the tumult had public, who was in London again parties,

somewhat abated. recently, spoke in at interview Democrats. the German Navy. The letter is the: they would disobey no other meanwhile

representative of the

Austro-German-Chinese commer- We are anticipating eagerly addressed to the father of the order, but would in no circumst They had indeed attained their with

anees put out to sea. They would end. The Best will not put Obsercer, some of his hopes and the foal arrangements of thecial relations in this Country so as mand, there has been a revival in marine, and says:-

Sea in the near future, plans for the immediate fature: Peace Conference and the settle-to liquidate or expropriate such the wood-oil trade of South Chine not take part in the German feet's to

case D his personal plans, he saidment of boundaries.

enemy interests by the Chinese with the United States. In spite battle of desperation.

Those in high quarters said to must also suffer by it our time is he will be spending a few course, shall keep the Bohemian of the Allied

We, of government with the assistance of the blighting effects of high Paris and

Rome countries

American exchange, exports of this product themselves. "Let us, rather than nevertheless coming soon or peace days in

Bohemia, Moravia, governments as soon as posible. to the United States during the surrender the fleet, stake every-must come scon-otherwise we after leaving London, for he and Silesia-in their historical Detailed regulations are to be first half of the current year thing on one card; let us blow shall make peace ourselves. The everything to smithereens rather Navy will take no further hand-wishes to make the necessary boundaries, and Slovakis. North drawn up by the Chinese goven valued at G. $443,276, you were ment with the concurrence of the pared with nominal shipments in than surrender our âne fleet to if only the army and the people arrangements for the representa-Hungary, must be added."

tion of his county at the Inter- Touching upon what he re- British, American, French and 1917, and a value of only 860,450

Peace We still lie in Wilhelmshaven Allie

Preliminaries gards as almost the most essential Japanese Legations which are in 1916. Since the middle of the We with our flotilis had been

To-morrow we go to Conference, and to place his own point, Professor Masaryk uttered represented in the commission by current year shipments increased for some time in the North Sea,

to-day.

their Chinese secretaries and by in volume, and last year's record and had been in touch several

another station, probably Bruns special knowledge of the affairs

sword of caution concerning this way is belived among Chin-will be far beyond any former Earope st, the disposal of the minorities, especially in Bohemis. interests and propaganda in the States. The total shipments for observed from various signs that would have to go out alone, and Canal

So, dear father, that is what I Allied Governments. Afterwards They must be received," he said, Republic of China will be uproot the year to September 1 were something was going forward. As then the bust-up started. In the So wanted to put is for a few First Squadron it was worst in can tell for the time being. Dont he will travel as quickly as pos with great reserve. There of ed thoroughly. Any pro-German 5,143,727 lb. valued at G. $761,943, daya, we saw the whole German the Thuringen and the Helgoland. be uneasy if things are turned sible to Prague to assume his

some propaganda going on against Chinese subjects can be prevented the shipments for the first quarter feet, with all the big ships and The mutineers had barricaded topsyturvy. During the last day Presidential office.

us. This, of course, we had to from co-operating with Austro-being valued at $82,658; for the torpedo-boats, lying at anchor, themselves in the forepart of the we are not going to allow our

selves to be shot dead any longer.will be to get our troops home

"The first thing," he said, except.

Germans in future commercial-second quarter at $360,618, and we had also to lay to. Every ship.

JAPAN'S BALT SUPPLY. one was amazed; no one knew

"We created the Bohemiany, industrially and otherwise from France and Italy. That State, and we have the right to

under pain of severe As a means of increasing the. has been already arranged, though keep it. The Germans had been this, many prominent Chinese believed that the encouragement penalties. On account of salt supply of Japan, it is now" I cannot give a full report of

there is a difficulty with regard admitted by our kings as colonists. merchants and officials who have of salt industry in Chosen and der wished to manoeuvre in the out half-flotilla commander's German Bight. Naturally, no speech. He told us straight that

Mr. Winston Churchill was to food, for they will have to Under the Hapsburgs' miarule close connections with the Ger. Kwantung Leased Territory will

the come through a territory where they temporarily became one was taken in by this obvious when ordered to do so by the com-perfectly correct, saya

the mans or Austrians are greatly ex-greatly relieve the situation. absurdity: but imagine the mander of the torpedo-boat ap- Merchant Service Recine, when he there is no food, and consequently masters of our State, but by the cited and plans are being made Both in Chosen and Kwantung. stupidity of undertaking great pointed for that purpose, in case declared that, "We were within they must bring it with them. fate of history and the justice of to convert Sino-German and Sino- the salt industry is promising, as naval maneuvres in the "middle"duty" should demand it, we must an ace of the greatest victory the Then, of course, I should like history we are the masters of our Austrian concerns into pure

the supply in Japan will continue of a crisis.

train our guns on our own com-world had ever seen."

We were, our troops in Russia and Siberia State agaío.

Chinese enterprises in Peking, short on account of the develop- The first order to be ready for rades. I cannot relate to anyone but it was prevented by to return home. They deserve

of various chemical "The German minority will be Tientsin and other treaty ports. ment see. was fixed for. Wednesday what we were required to do. We

Some Chinese papers have ex-industries. It is hoped in many night, and then it was postponed got our machine-guns, guns, and cargo steamer named Freshfield, it, for they have been there now secured by all the rights necessary pressed the fear that the step will circles that the policy hitherto till Thursday. We who were in torpedoes ready, and proceeded to This vessel,

carrying many four years, under the most horri for their free development. They probably do damage to Chinese followed with Kwantung salt, the ships lying at a little distance perhaps some 200 yards from the thousands of gallons of water, ble conditions, and they are tired will be equal citizens with "as. cobably do damage t

on the restricting its workable market eway did not know what Was Thuringen. Meanwhile a steamer was sent to supply the troops out, having been obliged day and

at the Surls Bey night to watch and fight. But it minority cannot be given, because numerous wealthy Chinese mer-only a limited amount, will be of this ground that previous to the war, practically to Japan, and that taking place. We beard, indeed, with 250 marine infantry had with water some whispering of mutiny and arrived to remove the rebels, landing. She accompanied the will depend on the Allies and of the insufficiency of official stat-chants, officials and others had replaced with a more liberal one, uproar, but did not believe it should they refuse to go aboard troops to Suvla Bay from Mudros, whether and how soon they will istics. Not the nationality as has commercial and other connec and the area of the salt gardens Yesterday the order was issued B97 must intervene with her guns. When she arrived somsons told agree on a common plan for been stated by these statistics, tions with their Austro-German will be increased as far as the by the commander of the First Dear father, if you know how I the captain to clear out, he was Russia. Such a plan has not yet but only the knowledge of friends and that it will be very conditions permit, throwing the Squadron that B 97 and B 112 felt when we had aimed our guns not wanted. The captain of the been shaped. For Russia, it is what the Germans call umgange German concerns from pure other capitalists than the Japan difficult to distinguish Binofield open for the tapping of and no other ships of our half- flotills were to be at his disposal rage filled me. But what were we Freshfield obeyed orders and vital to have an agreement with sprache (the language of com- Chinese concerns because chiefly Salt Manufacuring Co. at 8 o'clock.

Mudros

"Do you think," he was askod, tend to more than 30 per cent. of break of the disastrous war grant- a part of German Austris, and went alongside 8.M.S. Ostfries-understanding with other ships, the world knows, the troops land, and the commander of the no one to back us up. But we still landed-they were between the "Russia will emerge from the our total population, Dared long terms of credit to their more so of Germany, they would. First Squadron came aboard us continued hoping that the matter Turks and Constantinople. In present chaos?"

statistics gave about 20 per cent. Chinese customers or lent them their natural market, but the We did not know what to make would end satisfactorily the blazing hot sun they wan- "The regeneration and recon- I suppose our statesmen are right, money to start commercial houses separation of the so-called Ger- of the whole business, until the Ultimately after an hour therebels dered over the peninsula, and struction of Russia," he replied, for the German Government aid in interior cities as was done also man territory is imposable, commander of our half-flotilla had

gave in and displayed the Red

the Dardanelles. They "is a very difficult task, but it is German communal magistrates by the subjects of other foreign because there is a great inter- the whole crew summoned on Cross flag. They then quietly could not advance and make a not hopeless. My conviction is lid all in their power to have Fowers who have commercial misture of both nationalities, and deck, He then delivered a speech allowed 600 men to be brought

treaties with China so that it we cannot and will not escrifice which shall never forget during aboard the steamer.

surprise attack on Constantinople that Europs needs Rassis, and big numbers.

No doubt our Germans will is feared there will be serious our people to German method the rest of my life.

A weight fell from our hearts. they had no water. Exhaust by Russia I understand a federat Something, teplorable had hap- We were within a hair's-breadthed and parched with thirst, they ad Republic of all the parts which prefer the economic station complications in future. The of Germanising as "methods

Ministry of the Interior will be of late tried to be independent. given to them in our State. As represented by Mr. Yu Pac-hsien, thera pened. The crews of various ships of destruction, for even if we did were obliged to withdraw.

VICTORY LOST BY THIRST.

at our comrades-what impotent

At that hour we

to do? It all came so suddenly-no returned

up

AEG

to

"

The exact number

the Allies and the United States. munication). The Germans pre- the Germans previous to the out-