Evening star., 1922-04-23
He is returning last years visit Of the Japa-
nese Crown Prince Hirohito to Great Britain.

nese m Grown Prince Hirohito to Great Britain.
PortuEni.-on the 18th the Portuguese avi-
ators accomplished the third stage GOO miles)
of their flight from Lisbon to Pernambuco.
leaving one Of the Cape Verde Islands at $50
an and arriving at st. Pauls Rock (where
there Is a pena. colony at pm. The Por-
tugese cruiser Republica awaited them with
gasoline. Unfortunately, the hydro-airplane
was too badly damaged for further use while
being moored In the little harbOr In q high sea-
Another plane Is being sent oy A Eovsfnmens sf rent
next hop (50O miles} Will be to the lslsnd of
Fernando Noronha, about $50 miles from the
f. China.-Our minister to China, Jacob Gould
Schurman, was In Mukden, lfanchuria, the
other day and called on Chang Tso-Lin. In
spector general of Manehuria, who whispered
the following In his earl
That he was sending 10000 Of his valiant
Manchurians down into Chilli not to promote
his personal ambitions, but to insure the
= execution of a benevolent plan for China. That
he would summon to convention At Ttentsin
the civil and military leaders of China, to re-
and elect new president. That no would
invite that difficult fellow. Gen. wu Pei,Fu.
should do anything toward obstructing tho
convention or the execution Of Its this) pro-
that he is. the chief obstacle to Chinese unity.
One should like to have Mr.. Schurman's i'm
The forces of Chang Tso- Lin and Wu Pei-Fu
are now face TO face In Chilli VIII they
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United States Of America.-On Wednesday
the House. by a vote of 2e7 to 14s passed an
amendment to the naval appropriations bill
authorizing an enlisted naval personnel of
$4,000. and voted corresponding increase of
the appropriation. The bill SO amended was
passed. 279 to 49, and went to the Senate. The
appropriations subcommittee had proposed
only $1,000 enlisted men. It was convincingly
argued that the effect of such reduction
would be to put our Navy into third place. The
debate was peppery.
MiseelIaneous-ar. Goodrich, after a tour
Of the Russian famine districts, reports that
the death rate Of children in those districts
is nearly normal. Two hundred and ninety
thousand tons of American supplies have been
landed at Baltic and Black sea ports 100000
tons still awaiting railroad service.
The dispatches dealing with the situation in
dispatches from that quarter. cloudy. One dis
patch has it that the Japanese have driven the
of viadivostok and are pressing them north
ward. Says Trotsky: I'VE note this in our
we shall present it at Genoa or some other
place"
The negotiations at Dairen between repre-
sentatives of the Toxic and Chita govern
ments have been broken off. each side, of
course. charging the other with responsibility
for the rupture. 1t is reported that orders
have been issued for dispatch Of more Japa-
nese soldiers to Siberia. Serious disturbances
in Syria are reported, the natives insurrecting
against the French
Even though by SO doing one would lose our
glorious American spring, is tempted to
take shipping instanter for Syracuse, Sicily.
to witness the performances of Greek plays in
place. Open your Thucydides. reader. and read
again the most poignant passage in historical
literature. the account of how certain per-
formance of one Of Eurpdes' plays affected a
Syracusian audience. One might stop over a
day or two at Genoa. But Genoa is of only
secondary interest: the plays the thing.