Evening star., 1922-06-04

Wu Pei-Fu. by the parliamentary group az
by his former lieutenant. Gen. Chen Kwang-
Ming. until lately governor of kwangtung
Sun holding in nh hand a de- devoted body Of troops
somewhere near Canton. II Sun delays his
him close look of cold steel and start him
on his travels again. With the resignation OF
Hsu Shih- Chang there is longer any justi-
fcation for the existence of the Canton gov
ernment.
Chang Tso-Lin is qualifying as a long dis
tance runner. On his heels. hot-foot. are wu
Pei-Fu's pursuing columns But. alas, before
star of that super-bandit seems to have set.
Altogether the outlook for Chinese unifica-
ton, ton and d favorable fresh start of the re,
optimism is the ticket.
Six million Of the s7;ooo.coo people in the
cording to reports of missionaries, and hum
dreds of thousands will certainly die before
not quite SO bad as it has been in some parts
OF Russia; for there is good deal\of grass
to eat There is some cannibalism, neverthe-
less Malthus, Vous avez raison.
United States OF America regret that the
great situations abroad have crowded out from
last weeks summary and this one consider
alton of domestic matters not lacking in i'm
portance such as: The decision of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission ordering reduc-
tions in railroad freight rates; the decision of
the Railroad Labor Board ordering reduction
by 1872 per cent of the wages of railroad
maintenance of way employees, and the rail-
road crisis induced thereby; Mr. Hoover's in,
genious and mostly successful extra-legal
btuminaus Ieni ee coal pa the aequittal Of William
Blizzard charged with treason in connection
with the march of armed minors on Logan
county w. Va. last fall. and the McCumber
bonus bill.
MixceiIaneoux.--Poincare will be in London
in June having accepted invitations from
county and city committees to attend a cele-
braton in observance of Verdun day You
imagine vain thing, Mr.. Garvin and Mr..
Sidebotham: The entente is not dead
The eX-kaiser has almost completed his
memoirs He is holding out for s1,ooo.0oo for
the foreign rights of publication, something
from Germany since the revolution, and is
pretty likely to get it. A complete self-rev-
cS of that san snEniar would be worth
During intervals of conference business the
Italian and Jugoslav delegates to the Genoa
conference were In negotiation respecting
Fiume. 1t is said that sensible understandings
were reached; If real honest to goodness,
at Genoa, that by-product alone justified the
conference.
A peasant congress of delegates from Bull
garia. Jugoslavia. Rumania and Poland was
opened in Sofia Bulgaria. on May IS Fifty
snme snDusanr 900 turned up Nevertheless' watch
that green tpeasant) movement.
The agaran I hic OF od HnisariS is
lawyers and professors from the sobranje or
national assembly. A worse law is imagin-
able
The council of the league of nations has. at
the request of the Tirana government decided
that the league shall assume financial and
economic protectorate over Albania.
The>famine in the Crmea and the Ukraine is
said to be getting as bad ever it was in the
Volga Nansen's agents in Russia declare
that 100000 people will die in Russia this
year. Cholera and typhus, they say, slay
ing those whom hunger spares.
The Pope has sent another protest to the
league of nations against the Palestine man
date. on the ground that is is prejudical to
religious equality.
1t is the opinion of the members of the
league of nations temporary mixed commission
on armaments that the Russo German treaty
and the Genoa conference have given a serious
setback to the chances of important
ductions Of land armaments, especially the
former.