1920-08-26 — Page 1

EDISON

LAMPE

FROM

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED 1891).

69216 MM EXTJAXBT THURSDAY, AUGUST

26, 1920.

日三十月七

BINGLE COPY: 10 CTB.

$36 PER ANNUM,

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

Bameric

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET.

GROSS BREACH OF FAITH."

OUTSPOKEN ANGLO-ITALIAN NOTE.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

STRIKE AGAINST HIGH RENTS.

CLYDE INDUSTRIES AT A STANDSTILL.

London, August 23,

IRISH TOWN-AEMOST BURNT DOWN.

EGYPT'S INDEPENDENCE.

HONGKONG HOUSING

PROBLEM.

THE GOVERNMENTS London, Aug. 23. The "Timas" publishes a summary of an agreement reached in BUILDING LOAN SCHEME. London between the Milner Mission and the Egyptian Mission, headed by Zaghlol Pasha, whereby Britain recognises the inde-

With a view to seeking in- [pendence of Egypt and guarantees Egypt's integrity against outside formation as to the progress of

Valley of the Nile and agrees in case of war to girs Britain every lending money to those desirous- aggression, and Egypt recognises Britain's privileged position in the the Government's scheme for facility of access to Egyptian territory. Britain maintains a garrison of building houses, a repre- in the Canal Zone, most probably based on Kantara. Egypt regains sentative of the Telegraph yester. control of foreign relations subject to her not making treaties at day called on the Hon. Hr.. A.G.M. Fletcher, CBE, Colonial variance with British policy and will have the right to have her own diplomatic representative abroad. Capitulations will be abolished.

Secretary.

In reply to the anquiries made Teta on legislation affecting foreigners will be vested in the High abolished but a British official will be appointed to take over and cher said "Satisfactory carry out the operations of the Public Debt Commission and another gress has been made.

An Jou British official will look after legislation affecting foreigners. Their know, one million dollars have been ear-marked for the purposes advice will be available to the Egyptian Government.

of building loans, including the

PIO-

The great Clyde industries are practically at a standstill as the result of a novel 24-hours" strike against high reats.

In ode shipyard employing 7,000, only 350 have turned out, and [in other large yards the stoppage is complete.

At Glasgow 100,000 are idle, as are 300,000 throughout Scotland. London. August 23,

The tramway service at Glasgow is suspended, and thousands have A communique from Lucerne, emphasising Anglo-Italian had to walk to business.

Processions are marching through the streets with banners completa agreement as regards the need of the re-establishment of declaring that higher rents will not paid. No disorders bare Commissioner. Adviserships to the different Ministries will be by our representative, Mr. Flat world-wide peace and the steps which the two Governments bave occurred. taken to restore communication between Russia and the outside) world, declares that Mr. Lloyd George and Signor Giolitti heard; kly profound regret that the Soviet Government had, despite repeated official assurances to the contrary, sought to impose on

The rights of British officials will be safeguarded.. Any whose original loan to the Humphreys Poland conditions incompatible with nations independence. The

services are dispensed with or who are wishing to resign will be Estate Company; and of this sum communique says:-"The Government of Poland is based on the

generously compensated. All British officials, retained or appointed $925,000 has been allocared, and choios of the whole adult male population of the country, without

in the future, will be responsible to the Egyptian heads of the the Government is in negotiation distinction of class, and this so-called Civil Army, to be drawn from

respective departments. The final agreement which will be negotiated as class only, which is referred to in the fourth condition of the

between the representatives of the two Governments, will begarding the allotment of the Soviet term, is only "an indirect method of organizing a

balance of $75,000. submitted to the British and the Egyptian Parliaments. Probably. force to overthrow by violence this Democratic Constitution:

the latter will be asked to pass an organic law embodying the newto parties who are prepared to The policy bas been to lend And aubstituting therefor the despotism of privileged

agreement and laring down the future Constitution as regards the build on a large scale, in order to faw who may have absorbed the doctrines of Bolshevism.

It is officially announced that a great portion of Lisburn bas relativa responsibilities of the Ministers and the Sovereign. The provide as much additional sc We apprehend that when the detailed conditions of the composition and direction of this force, kept back as they are now until been burned down, over forty houses being destroyed. The situation anal details will be worked out in a treaty of allianca which will be commodation as possible at the negotiated as soon as the Egyptian Mission report that local opinion earliest possible date. The terms Poland demobilises her Army, are revealed later on, they will be Belfast is very uneasy.

Lisburn is a Unionis: town of 12,000 inhabitants, situated eight

in Egypt favours an agreement on these lines. found to be moulded on the plan of the Russian Red Army. For one nation to insist, as a condition of pesce, that a force organised for miles from Belfast the protection of life and property and good order in another conn- It is stated that practically all Roman Catholic premises have try shall be drawn only from one class of its citizens, to the er. been gutted. The Fire Brigade worked unceasingly but was powerless. The four men who murdered Inspector Swanzy apparently clusion of all others, is an unwarranted infringement of the liberty. independence and self-respect of that countrs. To have added such taxied from Belfast and kept the taxicab within the outskirts of condition after M. Kamaneff's pledges to the British Government Lisburn, afterwards returning thereby. But when halfway back

A sensation has been caused by the shooting dead in the street that nothing which was not of a secondary nature was omitted from they paid off the driver and decamped in private cars. his summary of terms, is a gross breach of faith, and negotiations o:p the chase towards Belfast and overtook the murderers taxicab of Count Villar by Colonel Vieira Rocha, director of a gunpowder factory. The latter's wife, who was accompanying Count Villar, was any kind with a Government which so lightly treats its word be only after the men had decamped. corns difficult, if not impossibl-..

The murder is one of the most daring in the history of Irish wounded. The lady was instituting divorce on the ground of cruelty,

...

"The Soviet Government has rejected the suggestion made by the British Government for the making of a truce under conditions whic!! woul-I have guaranteed Kassian territory against any acts of aggression. and has continued ig career. of invasion oa ethnographical Poland with a viez to con- quering tha: country by force of arms for Soviet instita- tions.

the Soviet Government, notwithstanding the punishment which its aggression is encountering, still refuses to withdraw this sinister proposal, but continues the war inside Polish territory in order to force its acceptance on the Polish people. the Governments can neither acknowledge cor deal with the Soviet oligarchy.

crimes.

UNEASY SITUATION AT BELFAST.

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London, August 23

THE POLISH VICTORIES.

HUGE HALL OF PRISON ERS.

Taxis took

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A PORTUGUESE SENSATION,

A 'CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE,

Lisbon, Aug. 22

Santiago de Chile, Aug. 22. An earthquake has occurred between Chillan and Several towns were damaged but there are no deaths.

SEVEN IRISH POLICE MURDERED.

London, August 23.

bare not been uniform, but, generally speaking, advances have approximated to half the sam required for building, no advances being made in respect. of the value of the land. The private occupation, has not been small man, wishing to build for disregarded, but in the case of the one or two who have been interviewed the Government's terms have not been acceptabla. Several persons have asked, in somewhat Indefinita terme, whether the Government will provide a sire and build for them. The question of security for Concepcion.repayment has also proved a difficulty. It is the policy of the Government not to advance money in respect of a bouss costing more than $23,000 in all to build. Since the date of the Warsaw, August 23,

| announcement in Council By grouping the Polish forces, two Army groups have been formed, the aorthern ander General Haller and the centre under Altogether seven policemen were murdered in Ireland during arrangements have been made

to advance What has befallen in this short war to invaders of national Marshal Pilsudski The latter is attempting to cut off the line of the week-end, making a total of 65 since the beginning of the year.

money for the construction of A number rights, whether in Russia or Poland, ought to teach wisdom to the retreat of four Red Armies, and a aming movement is being carried Tae assassins of Inspector Swanzy were armed with Service rifles.

of Bew Jals and Swanzy

also aggressors. The world, East and West, is crying for peace, but it is on under highly satisfactory conditions. Up to the present 35.900 Bystanders who tried to arrest bim bad a narrow escape. only obtainable on a basis of full recognition of the liberties of prisoners and 200 guns have been taken.

was walking with his mother and sister, but fell at the first shot, and for the building of 32 bouses for nations. The British and Italian Governments are alarmed' at the

then he was riddled with bullets. Angry crowds later looted and Chinese in the neighbourhood of

Shanshuipo. indefinite prolongation of the present state of conflict among the

burned several Catbolic buildings, despite the efforts of the Police

"The Government is making nations. To the peoples engaged in these antagonisms these "ra

and the Ulster Volunteers.

considerable progress with the bring nothing but ever-increasing misery to the poples of the world at lange they involve continued 'unrest.

provision of new accommodation Until the conßicta ceaSA,

for Government officers, and the betterment of agricultore and industry and the interchange of

Ac official message from General Wrangel's Headquarters,

various private firms are building the commodities of the different lands, on which the economic dated August 15, says the third attempt of the Rads to drive

General

or are about to build on a larza life of the nations depends, cannot come into full operation, hack

Wrangel TC Ferekop has failed. General

scale oa their own account. The and scarcity and high prices, with their attendan: privations and Wrangel has taken 6.000 prisoners. 34 guns and 100

housing

bas problem which perils, are an inevitable resul Civilization itself, shaken and Dachine-guns,

the whole left bank of the Dnieper)

arisen since the weakened by five years of incessant warfare, is menaced by the has been freed from the enemy. The Black Sea coast has been

war is not pacoliar to this Colony, and it is prospect. The British and Italian Governments are therefore united occupied from Adler to Sotchi, while troops have been landed in the

perhaps tha C233 that the io urging that every oñort should be made to bring to a conclusion Kuban region and at the mouth of the Don.

methods which are being adopted the existing conditions of strife between nations.

{locally for its solution will not be lars effective in their resalt than methods which are being tried in other places

PROPOSALS TO FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

London, August 23.

WRANGEL MAKES PROGRESS.

London, August 23.

while

General Wrangel has issued a Proclamation declaring that be will not abandon the struggle until Russia is freed and the All Russia National Assembly convoked.

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10,000 REDS ESTER GERMANY.

A communique with reference to the meeting of Mr. Lloyd George and Signor Giolitti at Lucerne during the week-end states that Mr. Lloyd George and Signo: Giolitti have made proposals to A message from Koenigsberg says so the French Government for Allied action for the purpose of securing retreated into German territory, and the for Poland full rights under the Treaty of Versailles to the free use bourly. and unrestricted service of the Port of Danzig and its communica. tions.

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MUNITIONS FOR POLAND.

FRENCH PROTEST AGAINST 312 REGINALD TOWER'S ACTION.

Londos, August 23. The action of Sir Reginald Tower in refusing to allow monitions for Poland to be unloaded at Dantzig has caused considerable resentment in French official circles, and the French Government has notified the Council of Ambassadors that it regards the action! as a violation of the Treaty of Versailles. According to a newspaper report, the French Foreign Office is likely to demand Sir Reginald Tower's recall.

It appears that Sir Reginald Tower asked the Allies to send 20,000 troops to Dantzig, without which he did not feel justified in permitting the unloading of munitions, whereas the French are of opinion that 5,000 troops are ample. Sir Reginald Tower is now awaiting instructions from London."

„MRS." LLOYD GEORGE, G.BE.

OLYMPIC GAMES.

A BRITISH VICTORY.

Berlin, August 23.

far 10,000 Reda hare number is increasing

Antwerp, August 23.

In the final of the 16,000 Metres Relay Race, Britain was first and South Africa second. The time was 3 min., 22.1/5 se09.

In the Tennis Singles fioul, Raymond (South Africa) beat Kumagae (Japan by 5-7, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4.

SAFE IN ENGLAND.

London, August 23, With regard to the capture of Mrs. Buchanan, whose husband child, who was at first believed to be with the captured lady, is als (an Irrigation Officer) was killed by Arabs, it now appears that their

in England.

"PRINCE NOT TO VISIT

EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Own Correspondenta, I

AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT.

Singapore, August 25. Lieots, Parér and McIntosh will fly from Sydney to Melbourne in a few days.

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POPULAR PENANG MERCHANT DEAD.

Singapore, August 25. The death is reported, from London of Mr. A. S. Anthony, a very popular Penang merchant, from influenza.

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Shanghai, August 25.

Tam In-bol, Tachun of Hunan, has shown that he is prepared to assist Yunnan troops to attack Kwangsi, on Chan King-ming's forces having captured Wsichow.

Li Han-chi, Tuebun of Foochow, in reply to a telegram from the State Department, states that thecause of the fighting in Walchowand Chinchow, in eastern Kwangtung, is that the Kwangai troops have prevented the Canton troops from returning to their native places, while the Foochow troops strictly obearve neutrality, but are taking necessary precautions to guard the boundaries.

Owing to Chan Jok-lin refusing to support the appointment of Li Shun as Inspector of the provinces of Kiangsu, Choking and Kiangai, the latter has applied for leave.

After a discussion with Tso Kwas, Chan Jok-lin, and the Pre- provinces, before the abolition of Tuchuns is carried out mier, the President has decided to appoint five inspectors in all the

DAY BY DAY.

Amongst the passengers who left by the Empress of Russia to- Biggar, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Moller. day were Mr. and Mrs. D. M.

Capt. H. 8.McGrath and Mr. J. J. Cunningham.

F. T. Hutchisan, charged with being drunk and incapable in the public streeta, did not appear in Court this morning when his case was called. His bail of $4 was accordingly estreated order of the Magistrate.

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TO-DAY'S - EXCHANGE.

The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 4x13)4d.

THE WEATHER.

2 p.m. Barometer:-29.77; Tem- Patre-78. Humidity —

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAT Catanet Theatre...

A permanent agreement has been made between the President the acting Premier, Tso Kwan and Chan Jok-in stipulating that the administration and the appointment of officials in the provinces of Fengtain, Kling, Hailung Kiang, Chill, Honan and Shantung, are p.m. within the secon of Frola kach Eusa's influencé ; that Tso and Chan -- Hougkong I

Cars The con chay provincial authorities disobey and 9.15.

aid that a concurrence, must Brat be obtuffed

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