Evening star., 1925-06-28
Current History.

hands overnight last week, when a
bloodless. or kid glove" revolution.
engineered by Gen. Pangalos. former
Greek War Minister. and several
others ousted Premier, r,Michalakopoulos
and his cabinet. Gen. Pangalos as
sumed the office of Premier, and set
about forming his cabinet immedi-
ately. The revolution went off quietly
and with no casualties. the revolu-
tionistS taking command of the navy
and good portion of the army. and
curtly demanding the cabinet in power
to get out" which was done after
short and unheated argument. Greek
refugees in Rome and elsewhere who
fled the country when Greece over
threw her king and became a republic
are hopeful that the coup d'etat may
be aimed at restoration of the mon
archy.
A week of rioting and bloodshed in
Canton and Shanghai was brought to
a climax by the dispatch of a note
from Great Britain to the Chinese
Foreign Office in Pekin formally pro-
testing against the action at Canton
last Tuesday in which British subjects
were fired upon by Chinese and sew
eral of them wounded. Dragon day,
which marks the festival of sprouting
seed in China and which was feared
because of promised disturbances on
the part of striking students, passed
quietly. with few disorders
Closely following the death of Sena-
tor La Toilette. Senator Edwin Free
mont Ladd of North Dakota died in
Baltimore last week, and the little
group of Progressives of the Senate
lost another member. Senator Ladd
eSpouSed the cause of Senator La
Follette in the last campaign, and,
with his chief, he was excluded from
the councils of the Republican party
and denied a place on Senate commit
tees. He was elected to the Senate in
1920. and was chairman of the COM
mittee which heard testimony in the
famous Teapot Dome oil case
To accomplish what is believed to
be better enforcement of the pro-
hlbltlon laws, the whole system of
prohibition enforcement in this coun-
try will be completely reorganized, eff
fectlVe August /, under plan an
nounced last week by Secretary Mel
Ion. The country. which heretofore
has been divided into State districts,
under the direction of IS divisional
headquarters. will be divided into %
districts, regardless of State lines. 1t
is believed the reorganization will
make the prohibition enforcement
force more wiedy.
President Coolidge left Washington
Tuesday for SwampScott, Mass. where
he will spend the Summer He was
greeted at the Summer White House
by throngs of native sons. who well
coined their former Governor back to
Massachusetts. The Presidents work
ing force has gone with him. and
while his tasks will be lighter than
those which usually demand his time
in Washington, he will transact the
routine business of his office without
IL break.
France has officially announced to
Germany that she would begin evacu-
alton of the Ruhr district within
short time. The announcement fol-
lowed approval by the council of min
listers of the steps taken by the Pain
leve government to bring the evacua-
ton about
Peru has accepted the conditions
and will participate in the plebiscite
ordered by President Coolidge as arbi-
traitor to decide the sovereignty of the
provinces of Tacna and africa. occu-
was conveyed to the State Department
last week by Peru which declared in
the note that she maintains her de-
mands that the plebiscite shall "ex-
press the true popular decision con-
templated by the Treaty of Ancon."
In the note Peru renews charges that
Chile has violated the status created
by the arbitrator's decision by "seques-
tering" Peruvians in the disputed
provinces to prevent them from vot-
ing in the plebiscite.
With the arrival of the Peary and
the Bowdoin, the two ships carrying
the Macmillan expedition, at Sydney
Nova Scotia, another step was COM
pleted last week in the progress of
this expedition toward the uneXplored
regions surrounding the North Pole.
The next step is from Sydney to Etah,
Greenland, which was to be accom-
plished this week. Some short lived
excitement was caused last week when
it was discovered that the Navy radio
equipment for the three Navy planes
on the expedition had been left at the
dock in Boston, the planes being
equipped with commercial wireless
sets. The Navy equipment was loaded
on a destroyer and sent to Sydney, and
the Secretary of the Navy ordered
Comdr. Byrd, in charge of the Navy
flyers, to see that the planes carried
the Navy wireless or refuse to go
farther. 1t was afterward explained
there would be no difficulty in putting
the naval apparatus aboard the planes
and that the equipment had been left
behind by mistake.
The Shipping Board has placed in
the hands of President Leigh Palmer
the authority to negotiate all sales of
ships. The move had the indorse-
ment of President Coolidge, and is ex-
pected to result in greater efficiency
by removing friction on the board
brought about by the apparent in
ability of some of it's members to agree
on policy.
The British Foreign Secretary, Aus
tin Chamberlain, discussing the Euro
pean security treaty in the House of
Commons last week, declared that any
move for a world conference on dis.
armament should come from the
United States or Great Britain, as
those two nations had already reduced
| their land armamentS to point where
they merely perform police duty. A
naval disarmament conference, he
said, should be initiated by the United
states, as tnlS country was RESPONSE
BILE for the first conference of the sort
ever held. The foreign secretary
sked for parliamentary support of
the European security treaty.
The city of Chicago and Cook
County, in which it is located, have
decided to secede from the State of
Illinois, and the City Council last week
unanimously passed a resolution ia.
voring such action and requesting the
corporation counsel to outline the
proper legal proceedings to bring it
about. The Governor of Illinois is not