Evening star., 1922-05-14
The Story the Week Has Told

RSts v yet
s Soviet Has Ths
Of fascinating uncertainty.
In consequence of the Russian note. all hope
Russia re or of a a. non-assress,on % Compact has
been abandoned: @ but the Russian m PROPOSE af
italy, Of mixed commission Of experts win
probably be adopted. provided the Russians ans
on the basis Of he existing FROM
tiers between Russia and other European
o np also NTH
sia during the life Of the commission. which 6
e ofa to neW n 1l
on the commission. should one be appointed,
will doubtless be offered to the United States
Near and Middle East.-King Faisal Of Irak
(Messpotamia) has submitted to the Genoa
conference a memorandum protesting against
the French occupation (under mandate) of
Syria. and demanding independence for that
country. The memorandum alleges that the
French are trying to colonize Syria in the
same manner that they have colonized Algeria.
Moreover. adds the memorandum the British
are trying to do the same obnoxious thing
in Mesopotamia and Palestine. The Syrians.
says Faisal, "are quite capable of governing
themselves as they have proved in the past, past,
1t would De interesting II hlHS diSdI "ouio
explain when and how the Syrians ever gov
ssned themselves II s Is o
!aas Arabstsn ssa' eaS or PanArabs a1' AsnSoSneo MS
Certain British ha ade .de
nse tseasy s2s wish h. the s Angera ToRernmsn.
hind Britain's back" The recent withdrawal
Of Italian troops from n, Asia Minor & ewhich asnn IN
was. SO the story ran. made under the terms
Of Of that tn The Gee ef @
the Turks. who knew. got the jump on them.
1t now turns out that the Italians made no
treaty with Angora, but did make an economic
agreement with Constantinople. Of which Lord
cur7on was duly advised. and ,vhi which is per-
1t appears also that the Turks have a griev-
ance against the Italians. in that. SO they al
plans to the Greeks. but left them tthe Turks)
in the dark. SO enabling the Greeks to get the
jump on them
China-Reports of the early part of the
week gave out that all of Chang Tso-Lin's
men had been dispersed or rounded up and
disarmed by WI Pei-Fu's pursuing detach-
ments. but. according to later report Chang.
with a remnant of his defeated army (of what
size does not appear). reinforced by 10000
troops arriving by train from Mukden has
trenched himself at Kai-ping on the Tientsin-
Mukden railroad, about seventy miles north
of Tientsin, and there awaits the attack of
detachment of Wu's army which is almost
1t is dificult to reconcile this report with
certain others, as that the Chinese navy has
Of the railroad in the neighberhood Of Pei
Tai-Ho (near where the great wall comes
down to the seal and by disarming Chang's
men as they arrived by train at the break.
Now. II the Chinese admiral cut the railroad.
how did Chang Tso-Lin's reinforcements reach
him? And II he didn't cut the railroad, why
is not Chang now in Manchuria, recruiting his
strength and putting himself in the best pos
sible posture of defense? That willy celestial
is not the man to challenge the future too
rashly stung by the shame of defeat to
NhoLl <Lo%
he kept together a larger remnant of his
broken army than reports had indicated and
that a reinforcement Of 10000 Joined him Just
too late to participate in the great battle.
And 1t seems probable that the railroad is cut