Evening star., 1925-06-07


gently in the Using Tau business and
seems to have held almost completely
aloof from the Shanghai business.
The true Interpretation is what II
may be.
The general howdy-do has OBJ
scured the local industrial dispute
On this may only be said the Chinese
industrialism has taken over the
ugliest features of Western indus
trialism, and then some. The subject
is soused with horrors, present and
prospective. Perhaps the Shanghai
episode Will lead to some alleviation
of those horrors; perhaps ii won't.
Chang Tso Lin, Super Tuchun of
Manchuria, is carrying on a bitter
controversy with the Russian govern
ment over the management of the
Chinese Eastern Railway. 1t is pre-
sumed that Chang has the moral
backing of Japan.
United States of America.-Thomas
Riley Marshall Vice President of the
United States during the eight years
of Woodrow Wilson's presidency and
suddenly on June /, at the age of II.
Charles B. Lawlor, author of the
immortal song The Sidewalks of
New York" is dead Any New Yorker
who does not thrill to The Side
walks of New York" is fit for treason,
stratagems and spoils.
/ noted last week that impaSts of
rubber into the United States during
1924 was valued at S185,000,000 and
that the same quantity at the present
price would cost $400.000,000. Con-
sidering the Importance of rubber in
our scheme of things, and that the
price thereof seems destined TO rise
still further, it is not surprising that
the country should be perturbed over
this situation. There seems to be a
general disposition among us to "cuss
OUT the British colonial office. in that
the latter (the British planters CO.
operating) has effected a reduction
on export from British plantations in
the East Indies. One answer to that
is that people who live in glass
houses should not throw stones.
Another is that. if such policy is
ever justified, the policy of restric-
! ton IN this instance was certainly
! justified at its inception by market
conditions. whatever may be said of
| its continuance today. And q third
| is that the restriction is not the main
| cause of the soar in price. The main
cause is the increase of consumption
| in the United States due to the intro
duction of the balloon tire.
| About four-ffths Of the worlds rub
ber supply comes from British or Brit
! iSh controlled plantations.
| OF that supply we take about three
| fourths, and almost four-fifths of what
we take goes into tires. Only per
cent of the worlds supply comes from
South America, where only the rub
| ber tree is indigenous.
Some of us who are perforce pedes-
| irC tn do
chuckling.
| The Moroccan War-On Friday
| Abd-el-krim attacked vigorously at
several points along the Wergha
River, attempting to get across. He
was beaten back and badly punished
1 failed to notice last week a curl
Gus detail. The Socialists exacted pay
ment for their support OF the Painleve
government on the issue of the
Moroccan war in the form of agree
ment by the government TO dispatch
of a preliminary commission to MoroC-
co, empowered apparently to poke
their noses everywhere, poster all sun
dry with their inquiries, and send
Parliament their findings and recon-
mendations. The arrangement is said
to be very displeasing to Marshal
Lyautey. A leaf, one might say, of
a discredited chapter of the first re
public.
Germany.-At last the allied note
on German disarmament has been
completed and dispatched to Berlin.
1t states the German sins of omission
and commission in respect of the dis
armament clauses of the Versailles
treaty, sets forth the measures .fndi-
Gated" by way of correction and re
demption, and declares that when
these measures have been consum-
mated the allies will evacuate the
Cologne area. 1t states that Germany
has fulfilled her reparations obliga-
| tions to date under the Dawes plan.
The chief German sins are as fol
lows: Re-eStablishment of the general
staff, camoufiaged military training of
considerable numbers in addition TO
the authorized Reischwehr force OF
100000; possession of material of war
not allowed by the treaty, incomplete
transformation of munitions plants to
innocent use of peace and militariza-
ton of the state police.
Miscellaneous.-The report of the
American C:'amber of Commerce in
London for April shows an alarming
II
ing that month; imports less in value
than those of March by $500 600
pounds, exports less by 1900, 900
pounds. re-exports less by 800. 900
| pounds.
One hundred and thirty-nine thou
sand three hundred and seventy-five
British miners are idle There is fear
of serious trouble when the miners
wage agreement expires this month.
Report persists that NJ. CaillauX
proposes to revalorize the franc in
the not distant future, probably at
| one-fourth its present value.
The French holders of French gov
ernment securities are not, there
fore, displaying any excess of jov
On Friday the paper franc was
quoted on New York market at 4.65
Camille Flammarion, the distinguish.
ed astronomer and investigator of
| psychic phenomena, is dead at the age
of S3- He is perhaps the most pop
/ ular of writer's on scientific subjects
The Italian Chamber has approved.
261 to 4, the commercial treaty be-
tween Italy and Russia.
A new insurrectionary movement in
| southern Albania is reported The
| negotiations between Greece and the
| kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and
| Slovenes looking to renewal of their
treaty of alliance have. been broken
! off. This is important