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Hongkong Telegraph.
ESTABLISHED 1881).
69249 壹拜畫 號四月十英港香 MONDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1920.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
IS THE SOVIET COLLAPSING ?
SENSATIONAL REPORTS FROM RUSSIA.
CONSTERNATION IN GOVERNMENT CIRCLES.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE COU, CHRIS
MINERS POSTPONE' STRIXL
London, October 1. The MinenDelegate Conference has decided to postpone the strike for a fortnight.
SOME OUTPUT FIGURES.
London, October 1.
BEBA SINGLE COPY: 19 Ors.
838 PER ANNUM,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE HISH CRIMES.
REPRISALS FOR MURDER OF INSPECTOR.
London, Cetaber 2 It is reported that” medky's murder of Inspector Brady at Tubbaroarry brought quick reprisals at Tubbercurry, where fouf bonacs and two creameries were destroyed and fourteen houses damaged by bombe and rifle fire. The Sinn Fainers fired, on pólles reinforcements.
Inspector Brady was aged 21 yours and was a nephew of the former M.P. Mr. Brady, of St. Stephen's Green. He served in the Irish Guards during the war and acted as King's Messenger, sarry ing Haig's despatches. His party was ambushed by man lying in were used.
BRUTAL MURDERS.
KILLED BY ROBHERS,
Raports from Pantin Islaní which is situated in an isolatad Escoltir aff Tai China brutal murders.
by a gang of bantiinde who is the tenant of the matsb tim to a relative of a fishi which, the rabbers, sirteen number, broks into on Friday night. +
London, October 2. Raporis from widely different sources, all inclining to the same The weekly "tatistics of the coal output for the United Kingdom viewpoint, are seriously raising the question whether the Soviet this year to August 28, issued to-day by the Board of Trade, show regime in Russia is not on the verge of collapse.
that on no fewer than 24 occasions did the weekly output exceed the Two-hundred French, prisoners who have just arrived from Amount necessary to produce a yearly tomage at 252,000,000 tons, wait on the romisida behind a loop-holed wall. Expanding bullets could furnish and in their dia- Moscow significantly report that present conditions cannot last the datum line suggested by the coal-owners. The highest weekly gach longer and that the conclusion of peace will probably cause a output was 4,989,666 tons on April 24.
dcŭlapso ei. Bolshevism; while the latest account from Narva, s. hundred miles west of Petrograd, states that employees on the
› North-West Railway bave strook sud serious disturbances occurred at the Semenov factories in which two Commissaries were killed.
THE OWNERS' NEW DATUM LINE,
London, October 1.
while the workmen in nearly all the factories in Petrograd are on The postponement of the strike is until October 16. The miners strike, ostensibly on account of the price of bread, but their real will vote on the owners' new proposals on October 11 or 12 and
object is to overthrow the Soviet regime.
| Conference will consider the results on October 14.
REPRISALS CONDEMNED,
necessary
Co
sequent incidents that a cal
It would appear from the end- culation had been made by the robbers for a larger hand than the contents of the roatabad
appointment the robbers took to ̈ committing murder. One of them, Hifted his rifle, a weapon carried |by_every member of the gang. and fired a shot which killed the fisherman's relative." In torear of his life, the fisherman then ran up the hillside and raised that alarm which set the robbers on
London, October 2. A circular issued from Dublin Castle to Police edicials in Ireland, says the Press reports of reprisala by the Police and Military are generally misleading and often represent acts of justif sable salf-defends as reprisals. But there are cases where unjustle- able action bas undoubtedly been taken and these are being Darefully investigated. Meanwhile it IN
the retreat. Therb was nothing ppphasise that reprisals cannot be countenanced
stolen from the malabed, it was anthority. The
by. men suffer who see their comrades and friends foully murdered is
great provocation under which subsequently discovered. fally recognised, but the Police are urged to maintain, despite pro- vocation, the self-control which has characterised the Force in the past. The Police exista to restore and maintain order, and the destruction of buildings and institutions cannot bat impoverish the country and increase want and disorder.
Meanwhile, disaffection is widespread in the Western Red Army
The owners' new proposals proviča for shifting the datum lice where large meetings are being held demanding peace, similar to those which helped the downfall of the Kerensky regime. Twelve to 240,000,000 tons, for a daily increase in wages; if 244.000.000 soldier delegates who went to Moscow to arge peace were summarily tons are raised then 1/6d. and if 248,000,000 tons then 2- shot.
Reports from Moscow declare that consternation reigns in Government circles, that Badenny is to be court-martialled and that 3. Kameneff has been received with disfavour by the Council of Fire owing to bis withholding in London a number of Russian
peace terms.
TROTSKY REPORTED WOUNDED.
THE TRIFLE CONFERENCE
London, October I. The Conference between the miners, owners and Government opened this morning with the remark by Mr. Smille to Mr. Lloyd: George that the scene was almost like three dogs quarralling over a bane with a bit flesh thereon and is would seem as if the two best fed dogs were combining against the unfortunate dog that requires
the most.
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SIR EDWARD CARSON DENOUNCES LORD GREY'S SCHEME. London. October 23.
AWANGHAI MURDER.
Another most brutal murder took place in the 'Wanchai, dis- trict last night when 's Chinese was shot and stabbed by thrüs assailants who hate since madu thair escape.
The details of the murder, as says they bluntly mean to abandon all Loyalists to the Crown and before his death, which took Sir Edward Carson, replying to Lord Grey's Irish proposals, given by the victim himself leave them under the mercies of Sinn Feinism Let the Irish place some hours later in tāfe murder each other and exhaust themselves Mr. Hodges then recapitulated the miners arguments for the He saks if the murder of British officers in India and Egypt to the affect that, whilet walking in slaughter. Government Civil Hospitač, vrača datom line which they had submitted. He pointed out that the are to bave the same result He declares that while Ulster doen in Taong Street, which was starting point of the difference between the miners and owners not want the Home Rule Bill it is far preferable to Lord Grey's true inclutade at this hour, WEL that the miners were asking for a 2- advance now and proposal. Therefore Ulster is ready to receive and work the Bill was fired at by one from July 4 on the basis of the September output.
which the Government, pledged would be placed on the Statute withdown wrodeur; *the "bull My Boobs: He did not doubt that the pledge would be kept.
piercing his back. At the sa biss and inflicted fatal wounds in time two other men sprang on
severe pain which his interien his abdomen. In spite of the
must have given him, the victim for a time maintained a cham after his assailants, who wEN, however, able to escape.
London, October 3. The French Foreign Office attributes the greatest importance to the reported disorders in Russia. Their semi-officials indicate that the Soviet is exposed to the most serious danger yet experienced.
(General Brossilaf, for the Soviet, is calling on former Tsarist -aficers to rally to the Red Army, while massacres of commissaries attached to the armies are occurring daily. Two hundred have valings in Germany, including the notorious Bangman, Peters,
The Premier, who followed, said he could not see any advande It is reported that Trotsky has been wounded in street conflicts. upon the original position taken up by the Miners' Executive and
the position which Mr. Hodges now Look up. It was not Meanwhile. Wrangel is gaining fresh successes owing to his promising. Referring to Mr. Smillie's reference to dogs, the Premier policy of winning confidence with the peasants by granting title remarked that there was another dog whom the Government repre- deeds to land. Wrangel has surrounded the Soviet cavalry in the sented and that was the general public who would get very little moest Volovaka district. The prisoners counted number 1100, and and hardly any bone if a struggle occurs. Mr. Lloyd George then Nogaisk and Pedianak, ports in the Sea of Azof, have been ouptured. went on to appeal to the two parties to come to closar gripe with the
The Russian peasant leader, General Makhno, who has thrown in his lot with Wrangel, announces the capture of Marefa, in Donaiz Vallpy, and the sumibilation of a Red Division.
30,000 PRI50NESS CAPTURED,
Warsaw. October 2
A communique says: We are continuing the pursuit of the Bolshevist Divisions. The Second Polish Army has taken 30.000 prisoners and 100 gues. All action has been suspended in the region of Bowalki as a result of the agreement reached with Lithuania.
BOLSHEVIK ATMS IN INDIA.
figures on which they differed and suggested it was impossible for large assembly to discuss figures. He therefore proposed the appointment of a small Joint Committee teerplore the matter. The mine-orgets and miners agreed and a Committee of eight was then formed,
Sir Edward Carson says as regards Lord Grey's scheme that statesman, and adds that the next step would-be to allow the Irish more hopeless suggestion never emanated from the brain óf a
■ Republic.
MR. BALFOUR AS PEER!
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
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London, October 4
TERRITORIAL FORCE SUGGESTED.
Whilst in Hospital under treat-'
DAY BY DAY.
One fatal case of cerebro-spinal fever was Dotified on Saturday, the victim being a Chinese.
adhere to the main feature of the Home Rule Bill, namely the ment, the injured man died. He
The Observer declares that the Government bas resolved to
Finked by joint Council. It opines on this point that the House of ship's watchman Nomotives were establishment of two parallel Legislatures in Dublin and Belfast, gave his occupation as that of a Lords in its present mood is likely to wreck the Bill, therefore, it is given for the attack except that not impossible that Mr. Balfour will be urged to make the greatest of revenge. After the meeting the joint negotiating Committee of the Coacrifice of patriotism by going to the House of Lords in the in- Conference re-assembled. Mr. Even Williams, on behalf of the terests of Irish policy, owners, announced that they had failed to find any ground an which they could join in a recommendation to the Prime Minister. The owners found themselves up against the same difficulty they bad had from the beginning, namely, the immediate advance of 2-daily. The owners were exceedingly anxious thất an incesase of wages should be given as early as possible, bas shat it must be an increase Justified by a clear indication of increase London, October 1. ia output actually materialising. Owners firmly believed that they The real aims of the Sovint with regard to India and Afghanistan | Would abiere results far more effectively by making an increase in are much salightened by news which has reached London vis the output, than by making an increase of wage preliminary to an Caucasus from a reliable authority, giving the actual proposals increase of output.
There were renewed - disturb. which the Soviet representatives submitted at Kabul. Recently the
The creation of an Indian Territorial Force as a measure of night, when a mob of about three shoes at the Praya West Inst Mr. Lloyd George remarked that he did not know what the education is recommended by a Committee presided over by hundred attacked a number of Bolshavik envoy there was authorised to propose to the Amir Government could usefully say after the experts on both sides had Viscount Esher, appointed by the India Office to enquire into the Northern a formal agreement wherein the Soviet undertook considerable failed to come to an agreement. The Government was concerned administration and organization of the army. The Committee does not impression that they
mem .. under the military and financial assistance to Afghanistan, demanding in for the whole of industry but was naturally more concerned for the think that this will impair the regular army efficiency or the recruit retum facilities for transporting rifles and ammunition to the tribes general plic. The Premier pointed out that the depreciation of meat thereof. The new force ought to be co-ordinated with regulars and through the Colony from Canton. wera the
soldiers North Wes!
Kwangsi Frontier of India and also for the sover. was largely due to the fact that until we make enlistment should be voluntary between the ages of 18 and 30 for We learn that three arrests were agents to manufacture propaganda nomolested and imports at sports balance we ste.nes in the same position four years liability for general service in India. It is suggested that made by the Police who came, úp to pass freely therewith to India. He further demanded as we other would have been in the trading markets of the twelve units be started of which four be exclusively university corps in time so prevent & serious the right to establish representatives in such places as might be world. Thet, of food was attributable largely to the fact that and four university and general. Sir Umar Hayat Khan, one of the maltreating of the victims by the selected and a written pledge that the Amir would not conclude we had not been able to keep exports up to pre-war figures. No Indian representatives on the Committee, in comments, advocates infuriated crowd. a Treaty Agreement with any State other than Bolshevik Rassis settlement at the coal conference would give greater satisfaction to drastic action against all agitators attempting to spread disaffection without the latter's prior consent. The Intter stipula-the general public than one based on increased output. The Premier and favours their rigorous exclusion from cantonments or districts tion is doubtless intended to make abortive Alshay-Indian asked the Miners' Federation to pursue the path of peace.
whare their activities would be likely to cause possible contamin- Begotiations or to entrap the Amir into a betrayal of the Emir of Bokbara. whose overthrow the
ation. accomplished.
on
the
Bolsheviks have since
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
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At the Delegate Meeting, Mr. Smillie said that he did not chok there was any use in meeting minaowpers again and the Executive would go to the Delegates Conference and report on the position.
The Conference then broke up.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
London, October 2.
Galveston, October-1.1
pawing
TO-DAY'S "EXCHANGE,
The closing rate of the dollar, demand, to-day was 45./13⁄4ád.
THE WEATHER...
2 p.m. Barometer perature: -85. Humidity
BIG AMERICAN FIRE.
The damage caused by the fire yesterday is now estimated at two million dollars.
(Other Early and Special Telegrams on Pages & and 3)
DON'T
FORGET
APPEAL FOR. NEW PARTE.
Capetown, October 2. General Smuts is suing a momentous appeal for the formation of a new Moderate Party in South Africa with a view to maintain- ing the Constitutio and combatting the movement for the secession of South Africa from the British tommonwealth. The appeal! follows, on the failure of Congress on September 27, which, it had been hoped, would result to the fusion of the Dutch parties.
BRITAIN SUBMITS ADRESMENTS.
London, October 1.
League to be open to players from all classÉS –
"No school may enterős fears also enter a team for the for the Intermediate unless they
Britain has lodged with the League of Nations for entry in its SCHOOL FOOTBALL. [enough entries are received. This gigantic register, sixteen International agropments which she has concluded since the ratification of Fesce. They include engagemente of the Empire as a whole and specific agreements of South Africa, General Santa, in the course of his appeal, describes the Indis, and Cadeds covering widely different subjects. Lord Curzon Nationals, secessionist policy as a breach of good faith and of the bas inticoated to the League that all future International engage. understanding under which both the European races formed the ments concisded by Britain' will similarly be submitted. Other Union. He deals that now that the Nationalists have decided to Governments have submitted Treaties, Paru, with sugaging frank.
dit propaganda for driving the European races apart into ness, not only filing those contracted since her entry into the Les
el conflict there is no alternative but for the but all binding regardless of date.- ements to coslasce, and keep the danger of lawles
which are threatening the old world, in check
the position of Edrogézus as a civilised com-
October
G. WELLS IN RUSSIA
LEAGUE RULES.
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