Sioux County pioneer., 1922-10-12

n CCOhDlNG TO- an agreement
4 \ about completed between the
United States and Japan, the interna-
tional technical control of the Chi
nese Eastern railway by the Stevens
commission will soon be terminated.
1t is provided that the commission
shall cease to function upon compile
tion of the evacuation of, japanese
troops from Siberia. The Chinese
government is to be made RESPONSE
BILE for the continued operation and
protection of the railway, and If it
fails in, this, there will be resump-
tion Of international control. The
other allied powers are in accord with
this plan. That is the news that
comes from Washington. From Peking
come reports that put another face on
the matter. The president of China
has suspended the Russian Boxer in
demnity Of about $5,OOO,OOO annually
and the soviet government, in it's re-
ply of protest, intimates that it will
seize the Chinese Eastern railway.
John F. Stevens, the head of the COM
mission, according to correspondent.
is convinced the line is lost to China,
REAT BRITAIN has offered to
~ pay S5O,0OO,OOO of interest due
the United States, and the World war
debt funding commission has been
considering the proposition. At the
rate Of 8 per cent, the interest due in
tthe next two installments, October IS
and November Is, amounts to 500, 5,OOO,-
600, but the funding law authorizes a
rate of AZ per cent, so it is suggest
ed that the S5OO0O.OO0 be paid Oc-
tober Is and adjustments be worked
out with Sir Robert Horne, who is
coming over soon. Congressman Bur
ton of Ohio. who is a member of the
funding commission. is in London, and
at luncheon attended by prominent
financiers he said plainly that the
United States expected Great, Britain
to pay in full. He pointed out that
the loans made by America were not
given out of an overfowing treasury,
but were raised sometimes with dini
Guilty, by loans from the American
people, who had no reason to expect
that they would not be repaid. He
also drew attention to the American
suspicion that if the loans were for
given the money thus released might
be used in new wars. g.
CONRAD r. sPENS, railway Off
~ cial of Chicago, who was appoint
ed federal fuel distributor under the
act passed by congress, started in by
warning the various states that his
powers do not extend to coal mined
and sold within a given state and
their officials must look afters that
end Of the proposition. He then asked
eight leading railway executives to
serve as an advisory committee in the
fuel transportation emergency and
named 13eprominent business men as
members of an advisory committee for
industry, to, keep in touch with the
distribution Of fuel supplies for in
dustries in their respective districts,
Large industrial consumers are asked
to confine their purchases Of coal un.
der present conditions as closely to
4 current needs as safety permits; ia
suspend accumulation of advance
stocks Of coal until the present emer
/! gency pressure on production is re
lieved; to unload coal cars immedi
ately and return them to service and
! ! to promptly furnish material required
for new railroad equipment or repairs
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EH[E grand jury in Marion, III.
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