Evening star., 1925-06-28
Story Week Has Told
Comprehensive Survey of Latest Events i'm United
States and Abroad.
BY HENRY W. BUM

nese; the coastwise shipping centered
there is hard hit
But the outstanding development
Is at Canton. / remarked last week
that, the war of factions at Canton
being over, the victorious Reds
would have leisure to join in the
anti-foreign agitation and might be
expected to do their part. They are
doing 1t. Since the faction war be
gan most Of the foreigners remaining
at Canton have been cooped up in
Shamien, the British settlement on
an artificial island in the Pearl River,
separated by a canal from a suburb
of the Chinese city. On the 21st a
general anti-foreign strike was de-
clared, and, obedient TO guild orders.
all the Chinese employees in Shamien
left the island. On the 23d there was
a great parade on the bund opposite
Shamien. headed by cadets of the
Whampoa Military Academy, with
rifles and machine guns.
Suddenly the cadets opened fire on
Shamien, killing one Frenchman and
wounding three British subjects.
British and French marines returned
the fire and ended the little demon
stration. The next day Chinese
again fired on Shamien, killing sew
eral foreigners and wounding a good
many more. Chinese casualties were
heavy on both occasions, perhaps suf
ficiently so TO cool the Chinese ardor
for that sort of proceeding. Fortu-
nately most of the foreign women
and children and missionaries have
been evacuated to Hongkong. The
charge is made that the Canton gov
ernment authorities not merely sym
pathiZe with the strike, but even
brought pressure on the guilds or
like associations to make it effective.
If the charge be true the protestations
by the authorities Of regret for the
attacks signify little. All quiet at
Canton on Friday.
The provisional government al
Peking and the diplomatic corps give
each other the lie courteous, but abso-
lutte, respecting responsibility for the
unfortunate events at Shanghai; from
whatever motive or mixture OF mo-
tives funk perhaps, perhaps sym
pathy with the agitation and conVic-
ton of its righteousness the govern
ment without of course, approving
violence) indorses the claims of the
agitators In one of its latest notes
| 1t demands release of the Chinese
convicted by the Shanghai mixed
court in connection with the recent
disturbances, and cancellation of their
sentences; apology; reinstatement OF
| the strikers under improved working
conditions; participation of Chinese
residents of the international settle
ment in the government thereof, ana
more in like sort. Thence 1t sweeps
on to the grand questions underlying
the agitation; to open up which the
agitation was. one may scarcely doubt.
! ingeniously planned. 1t is time, says
the note, to right the wrongs suffered
| by China from the powers, TO revise
or cancel the unjust and uniliteral
treaties to end the impairments of
| Chinese sovereignty. When, says the
| note. China entered the World War
on the allies side, she was encouraged
to hope for a definite improvement of
her international status. Quite true.
Great, therefore, is the disappoint-
ment of the Chinese people to find
| China international status still little
| improved. in some respects inferior
| to that of the defeated nations. Extra
| territorial courts. leased territories,
externally imposed tariffs-the defeat
ed nations do not suffer these indig-
mites. China does. An international
rect these injustices is clearly in
dicated," says the note. The powers
are embarrassed, naturally.
United States of America.-In the
| opinion of the umpires of the grand
| Joint exercise 1000 men should be
added to the mobile garrison at Scho-
| field Barracks.
There is now a force of about Is 900
on the Island of Hawaii.
On June 25 negotiations began in
| Washington looking to the funding of
the debt of the Italian government to
our Government. The principal of
| that debt is approximate figures)
&
| S490 SIS 900. tSimilar negotiations con-
| cerning Italy's debt to Great Britain
have begun or will soon beGinD
A Belgian debt funding commission.
headed by former Premier Theunis.
| will arrive in Washington in July.
Belgium owes us Including accrued
interest) about SAT- 1924. 900.
Perhaps France will soon be sending
| a debt commission to Washington,
Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia like
wise. France owes us Gncluding ac-
| crued interest) about $4,137 600, 900.
Czechoslovakia about S115. 5.528 900 and
Jugoslavia about SIS 100000.
Altogether there is due us from 20
governments about $4,000, 200, 900.
The Paris fashions in Fall coats
have arrived. The patterns are very
| interesting, not to say nifty" and
all temperaments may be suited.
For the melancholy lover, for ex-
ample. "the broken trellis" is just the
thing; for the 100 per cent Nordic, the
"geometric, that typical Nordic de-
| sign, would be the ticket. The waist
line is not brutally represented: it is
| at most adumbrated or whispered
And, oh, the colorS,
| X X
They are just lovely-periwinkle
onion brown. willow smoke, eucalyp-
tus. clair de lune, peau de peche.
crushed strawberry: no end of choice
sweet chuck" The masculine and
feminine models are scarcely dis.
| tlngulshable, which is quite as il
should be under the new dispensation.
! This summary has too long neglect
I ed the interest of the dandiacal part
of mankind.
NOfeS.-On June II the international
| conference on control of the traffic in
arms and munitions ended its labors
| at Geneva. | hope to find space here
after for discussion, of the resulting
arms traffic convention and protocol
banning the use of asphyXiating gases
and bacteria in warfare.
| The third congress of the Interna
tional Chamber of Commerce opened
at Brussels on June 21 and ended on
| the 26th. The discussions of the
| Dawes plan and the war debts were
very interesting. Will or won't the
Dawes plan work when the time ar.
rives for the larger payments? Our
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