Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
ISLAM IN GROWING REBELLION
AGAINST RULE OF CHRISTIANS
Twelve Months of Civil War i'm China Recorded.
AbdeI-krim Brings Strife Against France and
Spain i'm Morocco-Druses Revolt

tiCe that she would not abide by Il de-
cision that gave Mosul to the British.
The council of the league was called
on to prevent one war and did SO.
Greece and Bulgaria were ready TO
fight over some trouble on the Mace
DOMAIN frontier, and the Greeks went
SO far as to invade Bulgarian terri
tory and occupy several towns. The
league council ordered that hostilities
cease at once, saw TO il that the order
was obeyed and sent a mission to set
tie the dispute. Greece was found at
fault and had to pay damages to Bull
garia.
Krim Causes Trouble.
Abd-el-Krim attempt to drive the
French and Spanish from the Riff
and establish an independent gov
eminent in that part of Morocco
was not successful, but caused the
two European powers much trouble
and expense. They Joined forces
against the Riff leader, and after
the spanish effected q landing in
Alhucemas Bay in September hr1m
was virtually surrounded and was
driven into the mountains. A group
of American aviatorS formed an es-
cadrille and helped in the fight against
the Moroccan chieftain.
Strikes in the Shanghai cotton mills
who sought to stir up civil war in
China. resulted III fatal rioting i'll May,
and the anti-foreign threats made
necessary the landing of American and
European bluejackets and the armlng
of q force of foreign volunteers. This
only enraged the Chinese the more,
and the government at Pehlng was ut
terly unable TO Straighten out the tan
gle. On August the Washington
treaties relating to Chinese customs
and the open door went into erect,
and in October the international con-
ference to carry them out began It's
sessions In Picking. China demanded
autonomy In the matter of the tariff,
and the conferees agreed to give 1t
this not later than January l, 1929,
provided that In the meantime China
should abolish the likin.
In May conference on the control
of the international trade in arms,
ammunition and the implements of
war opened in Geneva, and six weeks
later the representatives of is coun-
tries, including the United States,
signed q convention regulating and
restricting that traffic. The same ma
tons and nine others then signed
protocol relating to chemical and bac-
THEOLOGICAL warfare. binding them
selves TO accept the prohibition of such
warfare within their respective limits,
10 the end that the prohibition may
become a part of international law
Sallatvala Exclusion.
More than 400 delegates, represent
ing Al nations attended the confer
ence of the nterparliameutary Union,
which was held in Washington in DC
tober- Secretary OF State Kellogg re-
fused Il passport visa to Shapurji SAX
latyaIst a Communist member of the
British House OF Commons, who had
been named u delegate. The radicals
here and elsewhere protested bitterly
and the British delegates We're mobbed
on their arrival in New York.
Great progress was made in the set
tiement OF international debts. In Au-
gust Great Britain granted eX-
ccedinsly liberal terms to France but
with the provision that ii FRA nee OBJ
tanned less favorable terms from the
United states the British would insist
on the same terms that the United
States eXacted. The French mission
spent some time in Washington, but
was unable TO satisfy the demands of
The American Debt Commission. and
went home with a temporary plan.
which was rejected by the French Par
lament. In December, when BRAND
became premier again and Loucheur
finance minister. ii was announced
that negotiations would be resumed.
The American debts of Belgium
Czechoslovakia, Italy and Rumania
We're arranged satisfactorily 10 those
countries.
President Coolidge, to whom the
long standing dispute between Peru
and Chile over Tacna and africa prov
inces had been referred sent Gen
Pershing down there to arrange and
conduct a plebiScite of the iIiha bitants
of the region. The Chileaus did not
approve of his methods, and in
document filled with the League OF
Nations on December ] they asserted
thai he was uuWittingly playing into
the hands OF Peru.