The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-06
OUR FOREIGN LETTER
Whats Going on in Other Climes
 Tersely Told Here.

lcTS0ly IOlO dcrc. Shanghai, June 6.-Chao-chu Wu, son of Dr. Wu Ting Fang and the most brilliant man of the younger generation of Chinese, has issued what he calls "A plea for Prompt Recogni- tion of the New Republic" Tt is good sense as we'll as good law" he says, 'that a principal may change his agent without affecting his own position. It is not new state that we want recognized but the new agent of an old state, to the end that normal intercourse may be re- stunned between ourselves and the for eign powers.
 '"The excuse. most usually given for delay in recognition is that the Chi nese have yet to prove themselves ca pablo of self-government, The good people who say this are mainly those who at the commencement of the rev. olution doubted the capacity of the Chinese to establish a republic at all and have now fallen back on skepti- cism of their capacity to establish a republic permanently,
 'Is such an opinion to offset the fact that an acknowledged govern ment has been established? The Man chus were not driven illegally from the throne but abdicated and with their last act legalized the republic. self recognized the new government, what reason is there for other gov ernmentS to delay?
 Even consulting their own inter ests the powers ought to recognize the republic,
 ment of the status quo. Foreign mer- chants have certainly suffered as much if not more than the Chinese and full recovery from the depression due to the revolution. is impossible without recognition of the new govern ment.
 There is another danger connected with delay. Suppose a power more ambitious than scrupulous seizes on some pretext for the advancement of its ambitions. If there were a rec Ognized government it would be le- gally necessary for the power to act through the proper channels. With no proper channels and there is noth- ing to prevent the power from taking irresponsible action. Should such a thing occur, what dreadful possibili- ties may follow.
 "In the past certain powers have ernment in this country. Yet wher China has at last with one bound reached the, goal she finds nothing but hesitation and inactiOn. The friends who urged her on are holding back as much as those who regard her change with suspicion and uneasiness, and those who in a mercenary spirit, expect some .quid pro quo for a mere act. of international comity. which costs them nothing. Frankly, we are disappointed"
 Dresden, Germany, June 6.-General Booth, the famous S2-year-old blind chief of the Salvation Army, is the de- fendant in libel action which will come to trial here in a few days. The Association of Dresden Bar, Cafe, and Saloonkeepers complain that the "War Cry'' libelled them in tits bitter crit icism, of the conviction here of Dr. Burk, the German Temperance preach CT, who was found guilty of labelling some of the Dresden brewery and sa- loon proprietors. They have brought suit against General Booth and the War Cry'' editors.
 Berlin, June 6.-The passage of a bill by the Prussian Diet appropriat ing $25,000.0O0 for ''Germanizing' the strong Polish districts Of east Prus- sia, is arousing much bitterness among the Poles. A part of the money is also to be used in strengthening the hold of the Germans in upper Schles-s wig Holstein, formerly part of Den mark, where the Danes have lately greatly increased in number and in commercial and land holdings. The Prussian government feels that the nationalism of Prussia is endangered in those sections. Property is to be bought by Germans, the government to loan money for the purpose, and the deeds to provide that in case of change of ownership, it can only be sold to a German.
 The KaiSar'S fiarco 1ookiuc cha rnlv upturned mustache is dropping. For years he has set the style in Germany for the hirsute ornament on the up- per lip. The sharply turned perpen- dicular angle of the Ward Lords mustache has for a decade been the sign of the Son of Mars. When per- sons in civil life and the common people" began to sport this style, the army officers began to neglect it. When the angle of the Empefor's mustache began to droop somewhat, army off, cers took the hint and either crop ped their hirsuitical appendage or went farther and initiated the Arneri- cans by clean shaving. This has spread so rapidly that now virtually only the non-commissioned officers and the police are wearing the up- turned mustache. Among the higher army officers there is now a decided preference for. the clean shaven face and what promises to be the style of the German Mars for some time to come.
 Essen, Germany, June 6.-More than 200 persons, many of them children, in Essen, are under medical Urea tment for their eyes as a. a.result of looking at the sun during the recent total eclipse, without the protection of smoked glasses. According to loca. physicians the injury to the eyes of some of the patients, may be perma- nent.