Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-29

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 ~proclaimfng
him President. BOaz Long, American
minister to Cuba, communicated this
decision to the Cubans and it was ex-
pected they would abide by 1t
Our government also took further
action In the Panama-Costa RIGA dis
pute, letting both those nations I'M
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
RIGA 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 zap 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-
ton will give an inch. Official infor-
nation has reached Washington that
the CONSUMPTION and universal mill
tary training laws Of Japan are being
applied more rigidly, and that all
Japanese officers stationed in the Pa
ciic islands south of the equator and
in the East Indies have been recalled
to Japan, and all Japanese between
the ages of twentyJone 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 zap cables even If 1t
should mean wal with Japan. .
No matter what 1t may cost, and that
may be war, 1 cannot imagine that a
peaceful settlement of the zap stu
alton 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 zap from the Jap
anese mandate, Japan will be forced
to bow to such a decision.
Fighting has broken out between
the armies Of north and south China,
and it is feared In Picking 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 q con-
ference during the weekend with
Premier BRAND of France concern
ing the further coercive measures
| against the Germans to be adopted in
case they do not comply with the
reparations demands on May las
they almost certainly will not do.
What these measures will be is not
yet known, but 1t 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 its
Coblenz and Cologne branches as Sc
curity for payment of r%eparations.
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
miners federation of Great Britain
had called off the strike. The story was
transport and rail workers, indeed, did
change their minds and decided not to
quit work in sympathy, but the min