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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1881).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1919.

FROM ELECTRICAL DEALERS

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REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

COMMON-SENSE LABOURITES.

ADVICE FOR THE EXTREMISTS.

London, September 9. At the Union Congress, Mr. J.R. Clynes, M.P., who was given a good reception,speaking before the vote cabled yesterday, emphasised that direct action" would paralyse industry and the poorer classes would suffer first. He marvelled that men, so sane in counsel and courageous otherwise, should repose such child-like faith in the absolute success of "direct action." He appealed to the delegates to go to law so long as there was law, and to support the Labour.M.P.'6 who were attempting to work constitutionally, and not to introduce violence into the country.

Mr. Hodges, of the Miners Federation, said the object of the vota was to find out how far the rank and file were with the executive of the Triple Alliance in the matter of “direct action."

The result of the vote was received with cheers. The dockers' delegates, representing 99.000 votes, were absent when the vote was taken.

THE IRISH TROUBLES.

SHOPS WRECKED BY SOLDIERS.

London, September 9. The wrecking of shops at Fermoy," cabled earlier, was carried aut by soldiers led by the Shropshires and supported by women and rowdies attracted by the prospect of loot.

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The crowd, who were led by a soldier who gave whistle signals, used hammers and pieces of iron. Hundreds of pairs of boots were stolen from a boot shop, while a jeweller's shop belonging to the foreman of the jury which declined to return a verdict of murder in 'connection with the tragedy cabled on the 8th inst was given special attention. The disorders, which apparently were a sequel to that tragedy, lasted for two hours, the police being powerless. A picket finally restored order.

PARIS THEATRICAL LOCK-OUT ENDED.

London, September 9. The Paris managers have declared the theatrical lock-out ended. The theatres re-open, to-morrow, pending conferences between the Artistes' syndicate and the managers.

DUTCH LIMBURG.

PROTEST AGAINST BELGIAN PROPAGANDA,

The Hague, September 9. Correspondence has been published showing that the. Minister for Foreign Affairs has protested to the Belgian Government regard- ing & secret note to the Belgian Military Headquarters concerning propaganda in Dutch Limburg with the object of influencing the latter in favour of annexation to Belgium.

BOLSHEVIK MASSACRES.

TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE MURDERED.

Stockholm, September 9. According to a message from Helsingfors, refugees report that the Bolsheviks, on the first day of the re-occupation, murdered 2,000 inhabitants of Ekaterinburg.

The Red Guards committed widespread sacking and destruction, the Magyar and Chinese detachments being particularly brutal.

THE SILESIAN QUESTION.

Copenhagen, September 9.

The Allied Mission to Upper Silesia returned to Berlin. after General Dupont had conferred with a German General Staff Officer with regard to the number of Allied troops required to occupy Upper Bilesia.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

THE RUBBER MARKET.

Shanghai, September 12. Great interest is centering in the rubber trade in Singapore, the ribbed standard rubber showing an advance of 2812 cents. on the week.

EXPORTING RICE.

Shanghai, September 12.

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

London, Sept. 9. The preliminary organisation of the League of Nations is proceeding. A committee representing all adherents to the League will hold its first meeting in London after the German peace treaty has been duly ratified. The first business will include the appointment of a Government Com- mission for the Saar Valley within a fortnight of the Lasgue's official birth, also a high commission for Dantzig as speedily as possible. The Committee will also confirm Mr. Eric Drummond's appointment sa Secretary General and prepare the agenda for the public inaugural meeting of the Assembly of the League at Washington, which is improbable before March." A number of appointment will be provisionally made to the secretariat and will include ten different nationalities.

UPPER SILESIA.

London, Sept. B."

The Allied Mission to Upper Silesia, consisting of high military representatives of Britain, the United States, France and Italy, has arrived at Sosnowice. After hearing considerable evidence, holding loug conferences and visit ing various towns and camps of fugitive insurgents, General Dupont, the French representative, ordered the insurgent fugitives to be informed that he is telegraphing to Paris urg-. ing the necessity of despatching Allied troops to occupy Upper Silesia. Bach occupation for technical reasons could not be carried out until Sept. 90.

BOLSHEVIK PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

London, Sept. 9."

A Moscow wireless message states that the Soviet Go-" vernment has accepted Esthonia's proposal to hold peace' regotiations at Pakot The Soviet has arranged for tafa sonduct for the delegates on September 10th. It is reported from Warsaw that the Bolshevik and Lithuanian, peaco negotiations start immediately on the former's initiative. The Lithuanians will sent representatives to the front.

THE TRADE UNION CONGRESS.

London, Sept. 9.

Included in the passage referred back to the Parliamentary Committee by the Trade Union Congress was a record of......... the refusal of the Committee to comply with the request of the Triple Alliance to call a special Trade Union Congress to discuss whether direct action should be taken to enforce the abolition of conscription. the discontinuance of military intervention in Rusia and in Trade Union disputes at home.

THE LATEST GERMAN SHUFFLE.

Paris, Sept. 9.

The French delegation has strongly urged that unless.. Germany agrees to suppress the clauses presaging union with Austria without further delay. the area of occupation on the Bhine should be extended at the expiration of the ultimatum, no further reply being necessary since the note sent last week was the real ultimatum and failure to comply with it carries immediate sanction.

AMERICA AND THE TREATY.

Omaha, Sept. 2.

President Wilson, referring to the reservations cabled on September 5th.. said the United States must take or leave the Treaty as it stood

AUSTRIAN COLONIAL CONVENTIONS.

Paris, Sept. 9.

The Supreme Council has approved the text of the Colonial Conventions for Austria's signature. The conven tions relate to the sale of spirits, traffic in some and abolition of clauses of the Declaration of Brussels of 1890

YORBECK'S ASSAILANT.

Stuttgart, Sept. 1. The youth who fred at General Vorbeck only used toy pistol

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EARLIER TELEGRAMS

THE IRISH, TROUBLE.

London, Sept. 9

& crowd wrecked fity shops at Fermoy last evening."

TODAY'S EXCHANGE. The closing rate of the dollar an dentand to-day was 45/- 15-16¢

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

Corones Thestre—5.15 and 9.38 Victoria Theatre-9.75 pun......... TO-MORFOW

PERSHING IN NEW YORK.

New York, Sept. 9. General Pershing has arrived and was ceremoniously received, being popularly ovated. “

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FRENCH EXCHANGE.

Paris, Sept. 9.

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An assembly of Presidents of Chambers of Commerce of France and her colonies will take place in Paris on October T. The meeting is of first importance, the mat ters for discussion being the French commercial balance and the drop of French exchange.

The most interesting development on the Beese is that French Government Stocks took a jump. Rubber Of and Bank stocks also gained.

STRIA

Paris, Sept. 9.

Marshal Allenby has arrived in Paris. He denied the existence of conflict between the French and English Go vernments, France is to reseive a mandate for Syria. Complete men of views is shared by the French and English concerning Syria. Marshal Allenby will stay two days in Paris..

FRANCE'S. FISH

Paris, Sept. 9.

A Bill will shortly be introduced into the French Par lisment to encourage the construction of trawlers and improve arrangements for landing fish at French ports.

EARL GREY,

London, Sept. 9. Earl Grey sails by the Mauretania for Washington on Sept. 20.

THE ST. LEGER.

London, Sept. 3. Probable runners for the St. Leger are Old Bill (Whalley) and Cheap Popularity (Reason).

Coronet Theatre-515 and 935... Victoria Theatre 9.15pm

guilty men go free rather than punish one innocent, so it is bet ter to allow many false and malicious scandals to be printed rather than to allow one real scandal to escape without ex- posure. The result is that things here do get put straight, and men who have made their money as our peers grabbed land dare not put up for office.

The American editor works an the absolutely correct principle that there must be something that is concealed. Between the Republican and Democrat parties there has never been, and there never can be, the kind of con spiracy of silence by which our front beaches mutually agree to suppress the sums received for selling honours. You may do al- most anythingin America, provid ed that you are frank about it. They would not particularly object to buying baronetcias. Indeed, they would probably sat up an agency for the re-sale of the same. What they do despise" is our elaborate pretence that baronetcies are given for merit.

Similarly, the American cor respondent, say, at Paris, con- siders that the public has an absolute right to know accurately, and even inaccurately, what is going on. He does not admit that politics, or commerce, or the next fashionable. marriage is merely a matter for the persons particularly concerned. Just as there are no walls to my garden, so there is no reason why a Lord and Lady, since they are Lord and Lady, should not brought under the searchlight. Also there was no spasm of surprise when it was learned that Lady Diana. Mariners, before her marriage, intended to become a movie star. She belongs to humanity, and must recognise the claim of her kind.

It is true that Mr. Ford claimed a million dollars damages from the "Chicago Tribune," which called him an Anarchist. But the action was intended. to ad-

THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER, player, so that you put in a filmvertise the libel and not to sup-

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by Bernard Shaw and it is ham-press it. Until I read the pro- mered out to any required length ceedings, it had not occurred to with all the necessary expression. me that Mr. Ford was an Anar- But for the old-fashioned type-chist. And even now I doubt it. Mr. P. W. Wilson,. the former bicycle of journalism as used follows the case with the eye. writer what I may call the push-But in the picture palaces one Praliamentary correspondents of by "T. P." and President Wilson. The lawyers on both sides display the Daily News, writes from New there is this to be said. It is very their frowns and smiles. The York as follow

hard to go back upon what you judge walks sedately past the American newspapers are des- have once written, and however camera into the courthouse. cribed by Euclid as length without how go on with it until it comes that a sentenze begins you must some-And breadth. The great idea is to con- to an end. I am told that the ling were to visit this country, he 130 doubt tinue every articleouthe next page, judgments of the supreme court could add considerably to his Justice, Dar which means that people in the at Washington became in a mark judicial income by addressing train are constantly turning over ed degree more fluent when Chautauquas and selling his a new leaf. I never quite under-typewriters were introduced as an exclusive picture to Mr. McAdoo. stood why Americans of all aid to shades of opinion, if shades is the caligraphy of lawyers.

the always difficult. right word, combined to deport obscurity which there may have less that it is provincial. It has Don't suppose that American Northcliffe, until I realised that been in the handwriting is now its light side, but in the main it Any journalism is irresponsible. Still, his particular virtue as a journ-transferred to the grammar. And is an attempt to wring the truth i alist was an instinct for reducing there are novelists who can waiz Lout, of human hypocrisies and importance to a paragraph To about a room dictating at one and scientific mysteries. It contains & profession largely by space, that was fatal, and the taries a musical comedy, the retort to mendacity, which paid the same time to various secre- mendacity, but it also contains American reporter, who knows tragedy of the South Seas, and means that in the end everything except shorthand, can- the latest religion which they is beaten. Erezy not explain our plan of valuing a journalist according to the amount Britain, with a small area and I cannot get

may happen to have discovered makes my head achs, becauRO of his stuff which is unfit to print. crowded population, gets on mind the old British The correspondent who achieves with few newspapers, but the that one ought to read an immense reputation by reserv- United States has about 25,000 than the beadlines, But I ka ing himself for a big piece of news Unless it be 2,500, of which I am much more about Russia har is to them inexplicable. What not sure. This means that the ever I learnt in England and they like is the correspondent forests must ultimately he torn-possibly more than Ishould learn who can be unreserved without the big piece of news, and those into brain pulp. But it also if I were to live in Hassia. newspapers have the largest syndicates you do get variety. It has become a new

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Four Malays and two Chinese, charged with attempting to export 39 hage of rice to Dutch territory from the Straits of Johore, were each fined $100,

THE ARTISTS LOCK-OUT,

Paris, Bept 9

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