Evening star., 1922-05-28

position at Kaifng and withdrew the REM
nant of his army across Che Lunahos Still
responsive. he retired precipitately north Of
the great wall. in his retreat tearing UP the
TientsIn- -Mukden railway, which American
troops repaired as far as shanhaikuan. There
is a rumor that dissatisfaction with Chang ts
showing itself in Manchuria; a feeling height
ened by the spectacle OF soldiers Of the beaten
army returning in sorry plight.
The Peking government. with wp.Pei-Fu,s
LOOKING to unity These
proposals are said to contemplate in chief:
M pssg Of a snd
, stitution Of the republic: and disarmament Of
the armies of the Tuchuns and creation OF q
small. but effective national army
WI Pe-Fu hesitates to make the sugges-
ing gentleman. but Hsu shih-changs retire
ment is necessary TO acceptance by Canton OF
5 constitutional The Importance Of the proposal
that the old parliament be re-established Is
seen IN the hs fact that tine nt0 psics 9sct is
based the claim of the Canton go"srnment to
be the constitutional government OF China
One report states that Sun Yat-Sen is invad-
ing kiang-S province Another report states
that Sun Yat-Sen is eager for an arrangement
be reconciied.s Doubtless Sun Yat-sen had a
violent impulse to extingssh that upstart WI
rne paro so pse is
on the doctors preserve. Therefore he set
his sorry legions marching north
But Suns cabinet includes several very
clever and sensible men tsuch as Wu Ting
fang and Tang Shao-YD. who are aware that
the only raison d'etre Of the Canton govern
dictionary elements in Peking for the revolu-
stated stat H above, we % the PeRine W government. % under
the inspiration of WI Pei-Fu. proposes to re-
aa and Indeed ,a Wn
i.,po Flu proposes poses to go farther and to bring to
grown fat through peculation.
Sun Yat-Sen perceives that his cabinet have
nouncement from Peking that Hsu shi-Chang
is TO go: and that. upon such announcement.
tude. He, therefore. draws in his horns: pre-
sumably he has halted the northern march Of
his warriors.
MisceilaneOus.-On the night of May 81, in
a dense fog off Brest. a French cargo steamer
rammed and sank the British Pacific and
orient steamer Egypt. and sixteen passen-
gers (out of forty "four) and eighty six of the
crew of the latter were drowned. 23o persons
being rescued The has made US ndffer-
ent to loss of life, but there is one circum-
stance of the disaster which deserves notice.
The Egypt did not sink until twenty minutes
after she was rammed. 1t should have been
possible to launch all the boats and save all
souls except the few killed in the collision.
but the lascars. who formed the great major
ty of the crew. fought for possession of the
boats as they were lowered by the whites. and
the latter, having to fight the lascars, were
prevented from lowering all the boats. The
whites seem to have behaved with gallantry.
After all. there are superior and inferior races,
aren't there, Mr.. Liberator?
The Austrian cabinet of Schober has re-
signed; an important fact, since it is due to
the pan-Germans.
commercial convention between Italy and
soviet Russia was signed at Genoa on the oath.
Apparently it goes no farther thSn the Russo
British trade agreement, though Tchicherin
was eager that the Italians should break their
negotiations by accepting concessions