The Holbrook news., 1921-05-06
young democracies, from oppression and tyranny"

young democracies, from oppression
 and tyranny"
 The government of the United
 States has decided that Gen. Alfredo
 Zayas, candidate of the conservative
 popular coalition party, was elected
 President of Cuba last November and
 that nothing should be done to prevent
 the island congress from proclaiming him President. Boaz Long, American
 minister to Cuba, communicated this
 decision to the Cubans and it was ex- pected they would abide by it.
 Our government also took further action in the Panama-Costa Rica dis pute, letting both those nations un-
 derstand that the refusal of Panama
 to accept the White boundary award, insisted upon by the American govern ment, must not be made the basis for the renewal of hostilities. Both these little republics, it is understood, are mobilizing their forces and breathing fire. Salvador, Honduras and Guate- mala, comprising the new Central American union, have assured Costa Rica of their support.
 According to the Tokyo newspapers, the Japanese cabinet has decided that there is no reason to change Japan's policy on the Tap mandate because of the recent American note on the subject. Public opinion in Japan is increasingly against any yielding in the controversy, and no one in the United States believes our administra tion will give an inch. Official infor nation has reached Washington that the conscription and universal mili tary training laws of Japan are being applied more rigidly, and that all Japanese officers stationed in the Pa cific islands south of the equator and in the East Indies have been recalled to Japan, and all Japanese between the ages of twenty-one and thirty seven without previous service have been ordered to return to Japan for military training. Former Secretary of the Navy Daniels. in an address at Memphis, said: America cannot surrender the Tap cables even if 1t wal Wlll Odp0As No matter what 1t may cost, and that may be war, I cannot imagine that peaceful settlement of the Tap situ- ation with Japan will be found"
 All of this sounds rather warlike. But the allied powers in Europe seem inclined to side with the United States in the controversy, and reliable observers believe that if they do consent to exclude Tap from the Jap anese mandate. Japan will be forced to bow to such decision.
 Fighting has broken out between the armies of north and south China, and it is feared in Peking that 1t is the precursor of renewed civil war. The eight military governors of the Yangtse valley have combined against Gen. Chang Tsoling, war lord of the northern government and alleged ally of Japan and Semenoff. Chang is sus- pected of a scheme to restore the mon- archy.
 Premier Lloyd George held a con- ference during the weekend with | Premier Briand of France concern ing the further coercive measures against the Germans to be adopted in | case they do not comply with the | demands on May las | they almost certainly will not do. | What these measures will be is not | yet known, but it is reasonably sure that Great Britain will support France | in the occupation of the Ruhr district. | The reparations commission ordered | Germany to transfer the gold holdings | of the German imperial bank to it's Coblenz and Cologne branches as se- curity for payment of reparations. This Germany refused to do.
 Berlin last week pleaded with Presi- dent Harding to act as mediator in the reparation dispute. promising to pay what he might determine was just. The president declined to act, but said if Germany would formulate new proposals he would consider bring ing the matter to the attention of the allied governments.
 Premature, to say the least, was the report of a week ago that the federation of Great Britain had called off the strike. The story was based on a false cablegram. The transport and rail workers, indeed, did change their minds and decided not to quit work in sympathy, but the min