SCAPA FLOW OUTRAGE

Evening Star, Issue 17086, 3 July 1919, Page 3

SCAPA FLOW OUTRAGE

GERMANY TO PAY. Press A.soeiation —By Tele-graph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 28 (delayed). Mr Keith Murdoch, writing from Paris, says: Tho Council of Three are mous that punishment must be inflicted on Germany for sinking the fleet and burning the 1870 war flags. It is not believed that monetary compensation is feasible, as Germany's future financial resources are already abundantly ear-marked. The Council will seek a dramatic penalty, likely to impress the German mind. The French Minister of Marine states that France is requesting in tho form of warships or money with which to build ships. The newspaper s Le Temps’ demands that Germany be compelled to pay tho values of destroyed warships, tho Allies dividing the money in the same proportion as they would have divided the warships. SHIELDING WAR CRIMINALS - BERLIN, July 1. A multitude of leagues and committees are being formed in Germany, with the object of preventing the handing over of war criminals to- the Entente Powers. PEACE PROCLAMATION. LONDON, July 1. The officers of the Heralds’ College, accompanied by tho Trumpeters of the Life Guards, will read the King’s Proclamation of Peace mi Wednesday at St. James’s Palace, in Trafalgar square. Chancery ■ana. Wood street, and at tho Royal Exchange. THE NEW ZEALAND SEAL. LONDON, June 23 (delayed). Mr Massey searched Paris for a seal suitable for signing the treaty. A seal bearing his own initials was unobtainable, but he at last discovered in a pawnshop a heavy ancient seal bearing the letters X.Z., and with this the treaty was stamped. AUSTRALASIAN PREMIERS. MR MASSEY PRAISED. Reuter’s Telegrams, LONDON, June 23 (delayed). The ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ in an editorial on Mr Massey's return, says : Tho appointment of New Zealand as a mandatory for Samoa is merely one instance in which Mr Massey has done splendid service at the Peace Conference, where lie played the role everybody expected from so staunch a patriot. The journal hopes that if Mr Massey emerges safely from the election ho will be one of the first appointed Resident Ministers in London able to attend 1-heTmperial Cabinet. The ‘Daily Telegraph’ concludes with a tribute to the New Zealand soldiers, who won golden opinions from all. MR HUGHES’S SPEECH. LONDON, July 2. Mr W. M. Hughes, responding to the toast- of his health at a farewell luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, said neither the Dominions nor Britain would surrender one jot or one tittle of their political independence. The idea of an Imperial Parliament is a vision which will never take substantial shape, for it is incompatible with the status of sovereignty which the Dominions joyously prize; but we must hope that means will somehow fce found by which a confederation of free nations can work in line and develop. RUSSIA. BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, June 28 (delayed). Refugees from Omsk who have arrived at Orenburg state that the “Red” terror is rampant on tho east front. The Bolsheviks nightly shoot a t ~en people on suspicion, including women an... .schoolgirls. The men’s prisons are full, cr people are literally dying of starvation. EASTERN GALICIA. POLES LOSING GROUND. Reuter’s Telegrams. BERNE, June 27 (delayed). A Ukrainian communique claims tho recapture of Stanislau, Brzezany, and Nizniov, three Galician towns, from tho Poles. OUR EASTERN EMPIRE. GERMANY FOMENTS TROUBLE. LONDON, July 1. The ‘Daily Chronicle's’ Geneva correspondent states that Germany -has placed funds at the disposal of tho Oriental League, which is a vast conspiracy founded m Switzerland by Moslem and Hindu Nationalist societies in Europe to prepare joint revolutionary post-war action in JCj3)yptf. ’lndia, and Afghanistan. Tho chief organiser in Baron Wesendonck, %Hier director of -the Berlin Foreign Office’s Oriental Department. Other organisers include Talaat, Enver, and Djemal Pashas. THE BALLOOX HOAX POE’S TRANSATLANTIC- JOKE. Tho expectation (since fulfilled) of an -aerial crossing of the Atlantic 3ms reminded someone (says the ‘Christian Science Monitor’) of how Arnoruau citizens were astonished, about 75 years ago, by the “ news ” that the feat had been accomplished by Mr Mason, Mr Robert Holland, Mr Harrison Ainsworth, and four others in the steering balloon Victoria. Edgar Allan Foe wrote the story, which was for a short time accepted as a truthful narrative, and has since been famous in newspaper history as tho “Balloon Hoax.” Combining a remarkable imagination with a close adherence to the style in which newspaper copy was then written, he descrihecl the journey with convincing detail, told of the operations of the “ steering balloon.” tho impressions of the travellei's, and the surprise of the natives of an island where the Victoria “made a landing.’’ It was a harmless enough hoax, provided one admits that anv such publication of a falsehood can be -altogether harmless.