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News Review of Current Events the W orld Over Luij^u Revolution Collapsing \fter Blooily Battle at (riliara ? -Oil 'Wells of East Texas Are Closed Down. By ED\T \RD VT. PICKARD W' jrv IIKN G^n. Mario | Menocal and Col. Curl"< Mendieta were captured by the Cuban ' government troops , ??v* and l? \?"J up in C?l* ? bunas fortress. it ap pe? red to ?l?sfrvTrs on ? the i>!and that the 1 revolution ! n ? 1 col- | j lapse*! Indeed. Pres- I ? ident Macftado s:arted i off the we* villi the Gen. Menocal. i riri??iic:> -*-r; :? :.t t b a t j the revolt was over, that the rebels were surrendering everywhere and that tb-re would be p?;.ce throughout ! Cuba within a few days. The most j imparl ant "f the remaining ?? aders were *:>?'] p. be in Santa ? prov ince with rather small bands of fol- I lowers. \\ . itors were sent out to fly ov.r rebel territory dropping leaflets Hurioui;' i 1 1 ir that Machado wou d grant amnesty to ull who surrendered im mediately. But the revolutionists had n??t yet reached the end <?!" their r*--?ur?-es. A filibustering expedition landed men from b.-ilf a dozen countries and quan tities of arms and ammunition at (Jibara, near the eastern en?i of the island, and that port was captured and fortified. The government Imme diately moved against this force, and there followed one of the bloodiest battles ever fought in Cuba. The gun boat Patria destroyed the Glbara fortress an . a land army in", ?ed h crushing defeat ??n the rebel troops and the filibusters. Meanwhile planes dropped bombs on the town, which was badly shattered. It was reported that about r.m? revolutionists were killed and that the federal casualties were heavy. Lifting of the censorship revealed that the rebels also had suffered severely In tierce engagements in Santa Clara province. . Despite these defeats, the revolu tionary leaders si ill nr large were in sistent that their cause was not lost. General Mennctd managed to stumble out of his cell a proclamation urging his followers to continue the struggle, and there were ind > .itions that Macha do's troubles were not over bv any means. In Washii _i??n. though the Stale department would make no comment on the situation, it was the general opin Ion of officials that the only way Machado can prevent renewed upris ings is to enact speedily the reforms along democratic lines that his admin istration promised. Certainly the American government hopes be will adopt this course, for it fcas no desire to intervene in the affairs of the island republic and will not do so un less developments bring on a slate of virtual anarchy there. Political observ ers in Illinois saw, in the latest sode of the Frank L Smith case. Indication that the man who wua elected to tin United States senate by Illi nois and was twice denied a seat in the upper house because of Samuel Insull's contributions to his campaign fund, might seek again to represent his state in the senate. What has happened is that Mr. Smith has made public the fact that Julius Rosen wa 1(1, Chicago financier, between the primary and the election of 1026, offered him stock in Sears. Roebuck ?& Co., then worth | $553,000. to withdraw from the Repub- 1 lican nomination. Mr. Kosenwahl is too ill to be Interviewed but his inti mate friends admit the truth of the Story and uphold the purity of the financier's motives in thus seeking har mony within the Republican party. Mr. Smith, at his residence in Dwight, said : "I did not issue the statement for political purposes. If I intended to use it for such. I would have used it in my two campaigns for the senate and again last year. I issued it be cause others saw fit to write a book about the case and because they did sot give the people all the facts. "As to my future action politically. I shall be governed by conditions." TEXAS has taken its stand beside Oklahoma in the fight against ruinously low prices for crude oil, and it was expected that Kansas also would adopt measures for curtailment of production. The net result, it was believed, would be higher prices for mldcontinent crude oil and possibly ] the stabilization of the American oil | industry. Following action by the legislature. Gov. Ross S. Sterling ordered the i '-omplete shutdown of the 1 /*?<*? pro ! -lucing oil and wells of the u*r?*at ?\-tst Texas area, and then sent about ;t thousand National Guardsmen into four counties to enforce the order, martial law being proclaimed No re sistance was met. the larger com panics closing Their wells before the soldiers arrived. Governor Sterling, himself an oil man. predicted higher crude prices and estimated the Texas and Oklahoma ; shutdowns would take about one mil l "?i barrels a dav off the market. He said mart:.: I law in ?*ast Texas will not l?o lifted until the state railroad com mission has issued proration orders. Governor Mirraj of Oklahoma, who originated the 5d?-a of dealing with overproduction by declaring martial law. sent a nn-s^are of congratulation I to the Texas executive. Most of tii" iperators in the oil re gions planned to care for employees 1 during the shut down period. Prilling was continued as usual for there was no ban on bringing in new wells pro vided they were shut down immedi ately. giSU d us?E dent emeritus of the ~ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in the nuuual report of the foundation makes t tie bold assertion that the leaders of the American Legion "in tend to raid the treas R. T. O'Neil. "P , L',,iU"1 states. And lie ques tions the patriotism of war veterans who ask pensions or bonuses when un injured. Under the subheading "Pa triotism, Pensions and Politics," Doc tor Prichett says: "There lias come about in our coun try a complex of patriotism, bonus seeking, and politics the like < f which can be found in no other nation on earth. Organizations that started in pure patriotism have lent themselves to pension lobbying on such a form as to demoralize both the veterans and congress." "Krrotieous and unfair*' is what Ralph T. o'Neil, national commander of the American Legion, says of t lie Prichett statement, adding: "The American Legion never has in the past or, in mv opinion, never will in t lie future, ask anything that is un fair or that will place an unjust tinan Icial burden on the country." lie says the real objective of the vet erans' organization has been to get disability compensation, bur that it never lias asked a pension for able bodieu men. RRCURIUNG reports that President Hoover would call a special ses sion of congress to deal with the un employment situation were declared at the White House to he without foun dation. The President feels, too. that it is unnecessary to call congress ear lier than December to organize in time to consider the reparations-war debt plan. lie believes this can be hau dled in the regular session. The President appointed Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telegraph and Telephone company, head of a national organization wldch will be charged with the task of mobilizing national, state and local relief agencies of every kind in meet ing the unemployment crisis during the coming winter. Jouett Shouse, executive chairman of the Democratic national committee, came out with a statement demanding of President Hoover "more positive action and less theoretical investiga tion." He asserted that the President is ^pending more time ascertaining how many persons will be out of work next winter than he is in taking meas ures for their relief. FROM a preliminary treasury state ment is derived the unpleasant in formation that the government suf fered u drop of more than $*500, 000,00(1 in internal revenue collections during the fiscal year 1931, the first full year during which taxes were effected by the economic depression and the fall ing stock market. Total collections for tnat year were $2,428,228,700. In come taxes yielded $1,800,040,400, a decline of $550,000,000, while miscel laneous internal revenue accounted for collections of $568,188,200, a drop of $61,608,246. Corporation income taxes n* ivU the government SIAOVJIC.' a decline ??; $?37.021, 70i?. and Individual tax?s $83I5.<547.7"(!, tt decrease 01' $31". I - 1*X>. reflecting the dfi ?re ? ? i conditions in the business world and the wide va riations of collections in iau*s <-f pros perity and in times of depression. I While both corporation and individ I ual income taxes were catting a deep j swath in government revenues, miscel j laneous taxes showed only u small J loss despite the business slump. QD I T K recently Rafael Largo y Herrera. noted Peru vian political leader and former minister of foreign affairs, ar rived from Lima by airplane, lie has now been nominated for the p r e s id ency i f ponj Ky the Econo mist parly, and it Is said stands a., ?. w- Rafae| Largo ient chance of being elected. So Stiior Largo started bark home the other day to participate li the elections, and :> i he traveled by the air route. Ik- thu< was toe first passenger to m :o a r??uud trip by plane between I'e: and >? -w York. During his brief \i-.t t? ? this ?<>un try he spent a day --r >?? in Washing ton, where he has n.any friends and admit ers. ! npilKKK cannot be : . ; ,y general re I vlval of prosperity until the na tions of I' 11 rope settle their political disputes and the German reparations have been revised. S i? h is t!?e opin ion of the Wiggin cotiinilU.ee ??f inter national bankers at Basel which was appointed to study Germany's finan cial needs and capabilities. The (.Jer man government was greatly encour aged by the report, and one of its offi cials said that a new conference on finances, politics and reparations must he called immediately and that all Eu rope hoped it would he called bv Pres ident Hoover. JOHN E. RAKER. American relief expert and adviser to the Chinese railway ministry, sends word that the flood In the Yangtse valley is China's most terrible disaster in the present century. About thirty million people have lost their homes and a third <?f them are destitute. The loss of life, already terrific, was increased when a great dike protecting part of Han kow gave way and several hundred persons were drowned. Typhoid, chol era and dysentery are epidemic, and industry 1? paralyzed. All foreigners were reported safe. The Chinese government has made an offer to the federal farm hoard for part of its surplus wheat to help feed the refugees, and the Idea Is favorably considered by officials in Washington. L . ON0E mighty but now fallen like many another. Prof. Augustlnas W a 1 d e maras, former dicta tor of Lithuania, was put on trial before a court martial at Kaunas on charges of plotting a revolt a year ago to over throw the present .. ... . . joint dictatorship of M.Waldemaras ' . , . , , . t. President Anthony Smetona and Premier Jonas Tubelius. Twenty-four of his followers were his fellow defendants. The plot was be trayed to the authorities by several of Waldemaras* adherents, all members of the Iron Wolf organization, and it was expected their testimony would result in severe sentences for those accused. Professor Waldemaras. who returned to Kaunas from his place of exile near Memel to attend the trial, said the charges were exaggerated, which sounds like a weak defense. There won't he any sympathy for him in Poland, for when he was in power he was the bitter foe of that country and of its dictator. Marshal Pilsudski. Developments in the New York legislative investigation of the administration of New York city may bring about a political feud between Governor Roosevelt and Tammany Hall that would have a decided effect on the governor's chances for the Dem ocratic Presidential nomination. Some of his friends believe a break with Tammany might help rather than hin der his cause in that matter and would bring him support from ovher states where the leading Democrats have been holding aloof from the Roosevelt boom because of fear that he was too closely allied with Tammany. These friends think tnat even If Tammany should turn hostile. Roosevelt could carry New York state against Mr. Hoover unless there should be a great improvement in the economic situation within a year. Leading members of Tammany would not discuss for publication their attitude toward Roosevelt because the Tammany policy apparently is to avoid an open break with the gov ernor so long 88 he has the state patronige at his disposal and remain* a decided Presidential possibility. ?&. 1931. WMtirn Niwrnow Union.) FOOCWOW COM m<5 BACK \ M i " ~ Crowded Shipping on the Min River at Foochow. (Pr? pared ty the National 'ic"k:r?phlc Society. Wish In Eton. D. C. > FOOCHUW. which once ranked among the* tea ports of the world and then, two decades ago, bowed to Ceylon and Japan, is staging a comeback. The steep slopes of Fukien province, of which Foochow is capital nnd leading city, again arc covered ui.ii thriving tea bushes; big-hatted men. women and children throng the plantations, picking tea leaves from dawn to dusk : tea-laden porters form an almost endless parade from the plantation to the *ea warehouses, and boats on the Mln piled with packages of tea recall the days when Yankee clipper ships cleared Foochow with cargoes of fragrant leaves, destined to American teapots. Foochow port is really not In the ?*itv's suburbs. The nearest gate in the city's five-mile, vine-clad wall is more than three miles from the north hank of the Min. about miles from the sea Few travel, rs visit Foochow. To reach the port, one must go bv boat. f??r rain*oads and good roads are not to he found in this region. Ocean going vessels from Shanghai and llong Kong make regular t rips up the Min which penetrates the Chinese coast opposite the north end of Taiwan (Formosa). The vessels may steam up the river as far as Pagoda Anchor age. There passengers are trans ferred lo launches which, after nine miles of dodging matting-covered sam pans and grotesquely carved, high pooped Junks, deposit their human cargo at the city's suburban docks, if one wants to "go native." however, he may board a native boat with the own i ers" family, fowls, dogs and pigs and travel in the un westernized atmos phere of the Min. The river's obstruction at Pagoda Anchor:. ge is artificial, formed when stone-laden barges were sunk there to prevent a French fleet from reach ing the city during the Franco-Foo chow troubles in 1NS4. It is the char acteristic of the Chinese love for things as they are that Foochow husi ness men have waited so long to take steps to clear the channel and thus j avoid the endless annoyance of re loading of cargoes. From River to City. The Journey from the river to the cltv may he made by bus, jinriklsha sedan chair. Frequently travelers prefer to he landed on the south side of the river where they get a glimpse i of the most modern portion of Foo chow? the foreign settlement. On a i small hill are foreign consulates, western churches, hospitals and hand some residences which constitute a community almost independent of the Chinese city, while below is a busi ness district with streets lined with foreign and native-owned shops where eastern and western merchandise is on display. Commodious clubs wide sweeps of grassy lawns doited with Dowering gardens, a race track, tennis courts and pleasure craft on the Min tend to keep the small foreign popula tion contented. The visitor should not hurrv into Foochow proper, even If he could, for to do so would be to miss the physical beauties and fabled history that ac centuate each step of the journev from the ocean to the port. Along the Min cue may see pearl divers. Should a diver be drowned his fellows stoically conclude that he has fallen a victim to the sea-turtle. Chinese equiv alent for the legendary sea-serpent of th? West. Near l'agoda Anchorage rises Sharp peak, capped by a tower built by a wife to welcome home an oriental fcnocb Arden who. when he saw it. thought he had mistaken the river, and sailed away again, never to return A mandarins footprint in a rock com memorates the summary punishment "f quarrymen who kept rii.!,r ping away iis companion . 'u spite the How of blood tli;,i out ut each stroke. When .... to a place in a bridge It r. , protest by kicking its hearer". . river. s<i the companion was ? lested. IU" Inside the Foochow wall a it-w ni<Mj eru siliuols and government s have punctuated an otherwi (?, sk.v line of rutlier dlt.gv t,. Telegraph ke\s click in i,:._ (ices, electric lipids are in.,, ' those who can afford them. , w tonmhiles may be seen on i ... aiaui streets, and western fashions vie wiU thi'-e of the Orient. Hut if tlie traveler steps IiiIm Kuo chow side street, he steps in;.. ,u m seveial centuries past. Sir.. ?. ttat twist iniii turn und come t.. i.rupt stops were marked feature- . f too chows early city planners, tor ?. :<niplc. the tortuous route of one striis ntlshl be visualized by draw ,ii?. gram. It begins by ruimin^ < ... ward and then northward, eastward, north* Ward, eastward, northward, c.isiwarj, southward, westward. southward, southeastward, southward. westward, southward, eastward and southward. Travelers Use Sedan Cha.rs. The whole course of I his i : u^h fare is equal to but a few A r., an oily blocks in length and n re is it wide eiiough for even a Jinrikwha io ik:ss without driving phi ckil dren and their playmate?- iii . . ilu^s and pips ? into bordering <1 ways. 1 he sedan chair is used hy trav elers to penetrate the Kaochow |us ?-?leeways where (lie odors pt-r: i-'itiug the atmosphere are so overwhelming to foreign nostrils that chair bearers are urged on io the nearest Urea tiling spaces. Ancient as Foochow seems I u be to the westerner, it is a sort of wild west "I China to the natives of Canton and Peiping. in the days of Conl u< ins all ? hiiia looked upon the region that now is Pukien province as the ba;i:v.;.-k barbarians. The wall that eno'Uipasses the city did not rise until tin1 Alius period which covered the y? a: - that America was discovered ami oolon ized. W hile poor transportation facilities for reaching Foochow have constituted an important factor in keeping the city truly oriental, cholera and the bubonic plague have also caused outsiders to give it a wide berth. Perhaps the pleasantest portion of a Foochow tour is a visit to tlie tea factories and warehouses where tea leaves, scented with jasmines, roses and chrysanthemums are sorted from dawn to dusk by Chinese women anil children. Last year Foochow export ed more than 7,000.0(K> pounds of Fu kien tea and re-exported an additional r),000,CK>0 pounds which were shipped to its "tea perfumeries." There are m?re than forty tea factories in th* city. The open shops along the Foochow streets reveal thousands of natives eking out an existence in various in dustries. Before one's eyes a.tisans make wooden pillows and images of gods and odd-looking beasts; cabinet makers turn out fancy furniture; pot ters shape and fire handsome vessels; brick makers fashion their products in all shapes, sizes and colors; both men and women sit silently embroider ing, or weaving the dark cloth usually worn by peasants ; and dyers, with inky hands, seemingly turn old gar ments into new of a different color. Trade with 27 cities and many small villages above Foochow which are reached by river boats accounts for much of Foochow's commercial activ ity. It was not until ISfil when tha Min was opened to foregn shippiofi that the city's "suburbs" spread our along the Min banks and Foochow merchants beckoned to world trade.
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