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News Review of Current Events the World Over Japanese Defeat Chinese in Bloody Battle "While League Council and 1 >awrs Seek Soau to Peace. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LJOW to bring to an end the nnolli * cial war hHwwn Japon and China was the problem tluit was taken np again by the council of the League of Nations at its meet ing In Paris. And. co Incldentally, there was the Job of extricating the league from the aupleasant situation created by Japan's flat refusal to ohev its orders. The distin guished diplomats were aided in th?*ir task by Ambassador Dawes, who was in Ambassador Dawes *ro?? Loudon to act us American observer. While the council discussed, debat ed and conferred, the Japanese troops went right along with their program In Manchuria. Gen. Ma Chun-shan, commander of the Chinese army In Heiluiigkiaug province, was ordered by General Hon jo, Japanese com mander, to withdraw his troops from Anganchi and Tsitslhar. the latter the capital of the province. Ma refused to obey and the Japanese opened a fierce attack with all arms, including bombing planes which dispersed the Chinese cavalry. In bitterly cold weather the battle ra^ei! for many hours and the Chinese were finally forced out of both the cities named. In this operation the Japanese troops advanced within the sphere of Influ ence of Soviet Russia for the first time, ami as Moscow had warned them against doing this, it was be lieved the result might he momen tous. In this big battle along the NonnI liver both sides were reported to have sustained heavy casualties. Anticipating a Russian protest, Japan notified Moscow that it held the Chinese Eastern railway partly responsible for the hostilities because It had transported Chinese troops. IN PAUIS General Dawes was much * more than an observer. Indeed, he was the central figure and it was hoped that in his talks with Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese ambassador to London, a compromise might be worked out. Dawes also had a long conversation with Dr. Alfred Sze, Chi nese delegate, which both of them said was most profitable. There were ru mors that the United States had come to the conclusion that Japan's conten tions should be upheld, and the league officials were worried. But these stories were refuted by a statement from Secretary of State ritlmson to the effect that the United States stood firmly on the question of treaties and had not thus far committed Itself In any way. Dawee and the council were trying to gather the real facts In the controversy, and Japan was asked to state in detail Just what she demand ed from China. There was a report that Dawes and Sir John Simon, Brit ish foreign minister, were contemplat ing invoking the nine power treaty signed at Washington in 1922. Aristlde Briand, president of the eonncil, though exhausted to the point of illness, was as busy as Dawes, es pecially in negotiations with Kenklchl Yoshizawa. the Japanese delegate and his close friend. From Nanking came two Important Items of news. One was that the Kuomintang congress had declared In favor of war on Japan in case the league should fail to settle the quar rel. The other was the statement of the Nationalist government that it would regard any Manchurian govern ment headed by Hsuan Tung, former emperor, otherwise Henry Pu-yi, as a "seditious institution" and would re pudiate all its acts. Hsuan Tung was taken to Mukden by the Japanese, who presumably intended to make him ft puppet emperor of that country, but what had become of him was un known. He was said to have declared be would commit suicide rather than eerve as ft tool of Japan. GERMANY and France, represent ed by Secretary of State Boelow and M. Briand, reached an agreement on the formula by which the Germans should call for a moratorium on repar ations under the terms of the Young plan, and the text of the request was presented to the world bank at Basel after the American and British repre sentatives Id Berlin had been shown tbe letter. The German government asks the world bank and the Inter national powers to investigate her ability to pay the reparations and to help Germany formulate a plan to pay her private debta. The latest re port of the Reich^bank shows that de spite a favorable trade balance achieved bv Germany in October, the Iteichsbank is still very short of for eign currency. D RESIDENT HOOVER announced ? that he had accepted the resigna tion Hon?? P ~ man of the federal tariff commission to take effect on November 30. Mr. Fletcher some time ago Indicated his wish to resign, but at the President's request remained in office. He had served since the commission's organi zation. 14 months ago. In submitting his resignation Mr. Fletcher appended a report of the commission's work, showing that by November 30 its docket would he cleared of all applications and senate requests for information. II7HEN congress assembles there ? \ will be again a woman member of the senate, for Mrs. Thaddeus H. Caraway has been appointed to suc ceed her late husband temporarily as sen ator from Arkansas. The only other wom an senator we have had was Mrs. Rebecca Felton of Georgia, who held the office nominally and for but a short time. Mrs. Caraway, however, may be expected to be an active member, for she was a close student of politics and government dur ing the long public lite of her husband. It Is likely that the Arkansas Demo crats will nominate her for the spe cial election to be called and in thut case she is certain to be elected to 511 out the unexpired term. The wet bloc in the house or repre sentatives will gain another vote through the nomination of Donald Mcl<ean by the Republicans of the Fifth district of New Jersey to com plete the term of the late Ernest It. Ackerman. He will contest for the seat with Percy II. Stewart, Democrat ic nominee, at a special election De cember 1. Both the gentlemen are ad vocates of revision or repeal of pro hibition, while Mr. Ackerman was a Republican dry. The district Is nor mally Republican. Mrs. T. H. Caraway DINO GRANDI, brilliant young for eign minister of Italy and the mouthpiece of Premier Mussolini, has had his three days of conversations with President Hoo ver and departed from Washington, well satisfied. The results of the talks have not been made public at the time of writing, but It Is known that the chief topic was disarmament, in which both Mr. Hoover and II Duce are deeply In terested. Grandl Augusto Rosso brouSht wlth ? "? Signor Augusto Ros so as one of his chief advisers because Rosso is an expert on naval affairs j and Italy Is especially concerned with the comparative strength of her navy. Signor Rosso is at present chief of the Italian foreign office division that j deals with the League of Nations, and there have been bints that he might be a future ambassador to Washington. Signor Grandl was gratified with the news that Aristide Briand, as head of the league council, had declared offi cially that the one-year armament building truce is In efTect as of No vember 1, for this truce was the sug gestion of Grandl ? though he called It "an American-Latin idea." In his talks with the correspondents be said : "We think In Italy that the question of disarmament is the most important question existing now in the relations between countries, and that It is high time for everybody to reach some prac tical result" Asked for his views on war debt* and reparations, he called attention to Mussolini's statement in 1922 that war debts and reparations were dependent upon each other and should be scaled down. Philip snowden, who served ably In the house of commons for a quarter of a century and for two terms was chancellor of the ex chequer, has been created a viscount by King George and elevated to tbe house of peers so that be may bold tbe office of lord privy seal in the na tional government. He declined to ran for reflection to the lower bouse be cause of HI health. MAHATMA GANDHI Informed the British government that unless it did something for India by Decem ber 1 he would sail for Bombay on December 4 to lead a new and greater civil disobedience movement in that country. In that case it is likely iie will order a social as well as a com mercial boycott against the British, which would mean that no Indians would work for British individuals. British troops were sent 'to Kash mir recently to help pnt down a Mos lem revolt In that Indian state, and the Russian government protests, con sidering the military movement as a distinct menace to its frontier. In consequence Moscow made threats against Afghanistan which led the Afghan government to ask Turkey for the services of a military mission to reorganize Its army. And Sir llari Singh, maharajali of Kashmir, objects 10 i iie onu&u utkiiig Llfi | country. HpIIEODORE DREISER, eminent au thor, and the other members of the self-appointed committee that went to ' Kentucky to investigate the alleged ill treatment of coal miners in Bell coun- ; ty got themselves Into a peck of trou- ; hie if the authorities of that stale can gel hold of them. The grand Jury in !5ell county indicted Dreiser and his nine companions on charges of crim inal syndicalism, accusing them of seeking to promulgate a reign of ter ror and of suggesting disorders and res'stance to the state and federal gov- J ernments. Conviction carries a pen alty of not more than twenty-one ! years' imprisonment, a fine of $10,000 or less, or both. The commonwealth's attorney an nounced he would seek to extradite the alleged offenders, and Dreiser said In New York he would fight extra dition. The author and Marie Ber gain. one of the committee, already had been indicted for misconduct io a Kentucky hotel. MORE trouble has come upon the bureau of prohibition through the killing of a youth in Englewood, Colo., by TTetiry Dierks, a dry agent. The people out there are greatly aroused, and the bureau start ed an investigation of the affair. Dierks, in making a raid, found the young man, Mil ford Smith, in posses sion of a bottle of wine and In a strug gle with him clubbed him to death. The city council of Engle wood passed and sent , to the bureau In Henr>' D,#rk* Washington a resolution in which were set forth some of the incidents In Dierks' career. It charged that Dierks, while acting as an undercover man a few years ago, had employed a 17-year-old girl as an informer; that he had got drunk collecting evidence in a raid and that in lltfO he had clubbed a helpless prisoner with his revolver. Howard T. Jones, assistant director of prohibition, said this was all news to the bureau and that there was nothing In its records to the dis credit of Dierks. According to the Englewood police, Dierks fractured Smith's skull with a blow with the butt of his revolver and then placed him In jail where he remained nine honrs without medical uttentiou. Smith died soon after be ing taken to a hospital. NONE of the party leaders in Wash ington now seem to doubt that there will he legislation to increase federal taxes, for the deficit at the end of the present fiscal year will be too big to be taken care of by fur ther bond issues. Senator Jim Wat son of Indiana, majority leader of the senate, said a tax Increase was "inescapable," and as he had Just been in conference with the President it was assumed this was the opinion of Mr. Hoover. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the finance committee, ad mitted there would have to be further taxation and thought it might be pos sible to obtain passage of a sales tax. Senator Fess of Ohio said : "The budget must be balanced even If we are compelled to take drastic meas ures such as was done in England. One line of effort is reductions which are being made so as to reduce the outlay. The other must be Increase in revenue. I also believe that there will be enacted excise taxes on cer tain articles.** Senator Bingham of Connecticut advocates restoration of nuisance taxes, especially on scft drinks. The "progressive" Republicans are calling for higher income taxes In the higher brackets, and there may be little opposition to this in either party. Democratic leaders had less to say, for their program is not yet settled. Anyhow they expect the administra tion to recommend the tax Increase and thus shoulder the responsibility, after which they can decided how they think the deficit should be met. (A 1M1. Wntwa M?w?p?pw Union.) i GANG METHODS IN MILK WAR ADOPTED Illinois Farmer# Resort to Fire and Bombing. Chicago. ? City racketeering tactics, bombs, incendiarism and hired sang- ! sters bave been adopted by farmers near Chicago in a stubborn fight for {possession of the profitable milk sale rights in the metropolitan area. This was revealed at<?oliet in the investigation by State's Attorney iljalmur IJehn and Deputy State Fire Marshal P. K. Bertram of the $50,000 tire which killed forty-four cows and leveled a model dairy barn on the farm of Isaac Lantz, Plainfleld inde pendent distributor, who has been openy opposing the farmer members of the Pure Milk association in the Juiiei-Auiolu uiMiivi. The milk struggle in northern Illi nois, rich territory for one of the ready cash products of the farmers, has been in progress for months. State's Attorney Itehu Aid. The "war** is linked with the more openly desperate one in the St. Louis area of southern Illinois, where numerous barns have been burned in the past month in the deadlock between farm er members of the Pure Milk associa tion and the farmers who refuse to join the association. "The farmers near here." said Itehn at .Toliet, "held two indignation meet ! ings recently in protest against this man Lantz, whose place was burned, j Lantz, they said, broke with the Pure ' Milk association last spring, and has j been selling his milk independently ' in Aurora, bucking the association, j and getting a good price for his milk. I The farmers who went along with the ! association, and sold their milk 1 through the regular channels didn't | like what Lantz was doing. | "There was some talk about the farmers wanting to burn Lantz' place to make him quit or join the associa tion. I know the farmers refused to go so far as to set lire to Lantz* barn. I think the next step wns that some one h!red some city hood lums and that's the way the fire resulted. We're calling in a lot of milk dealers, farmers, and others and trying to get at the bottom of this. "The milk war has been going on for some time here. Two milk dis iributing places here In Jollet that had been buying from nonmenibers of the association were bombed re cently." LaGuardia May Force a Vote on Prohibition Washington. ? A house vote on pro hibition at the coming session was called for by Representative LaGuar dia of New York. The Republican Independent said that if the J GO anti-prohibitionists there would "stick on the floor we can tie up legislation so hard that we can force a vote." He advocated a filibuster as soon as the house is organized to compel a roll call on the issue. 'Til show the wets how to force n vote,** he said. *'If all wets agree that unless we have modi tt cation they would support the farm debenture plan, cash payment of the soldiers* bonus, the building of every ship au thorized and increases in pay for the army and navy and refuse to ratify the Hoover moratorium, they could aot only get modification but the adminis tration would be glad to give them light wines and champagne." Heroine, 16, Awarded Carnegie Hero Medal New York. ? Because she risked he.* life to save a little boy from drowning. Jane T. Cavanaugh, sixteen, of Los An geles, Calif., tcday has two shiny med als and $500. Two years ago, with Mrs. Say dee A. Stout and W. J. Hooper of Glendale. Jane was swimming at La gun a Beach when a big wave swept four-year-old Junior Coe out of her grasp. Although dashed against a rocky cliff and almost helpless in the angry sea, the girl managed to get the boy ashore while her companions were saving them selves with difficulty. She received the Girl Scout medal at the time. Now the Carnegie Hero Fund commission has awarded her its medal and the money to be used for educational or other worthy purposes Stills in Po? toff ice; Postmaster Is Cited Leonardtown, Md. ? Postmaster An ton I-ang of Jarboesvllle, near her*, was cited to appear for a hearing on liquor charges. A raid on the post office, officers said, netted two stills. ? quantity of rye liquor, mash and nearly 200 bottles of bi>er. The stills, one of 250 gallons and l the ot^er 150 gallons capacity, were destroyed. The agents held 235 gal lons of liquor and 102 bottles of beer as evidence and destroyed 1,500 gal j Ions of mesh. STOP YOUiTcoio5 hours with. DAROL Break? a cold In 6 hourj^ Drtvei it away Jn" 12 houri'-' Relieves Headache^? Neuralgia Pjinr Are We Created Unequal' ~ "The biological discoveries of , half-century or more," l-r,.f Ham J It. 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