Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-12-31

The League of Nations, which held
its annual meeting in Geneva in Sep
TENDER with Senator Raoul Dandu-
rand of Canada as president, received
Great Britain's protest against viola
ton of the Mosul frontier by Turkey
and referred the dispute over that
rich oil region to the World court. The
court ruled that the leagues council
was competent to decide the matter,
and in December the council awarded
all Of the vilayet except a worthless
strip to Irak, at the same time extend
Ing the British mandate over Irak to
twenty-five years. Turkey protested
angrily, but was somewhat Modified
by Britain's offer to negotiate a per-
manent peace on the Irak frontier,
with hints of compensation for the
Oil lands. The council of the league
was called on to prevent one war.
ana did SO. Greece and Bulgaria were
ready to fight over some trouble on
the Macedonian frontier, and the
Greeks went so far as to invade Bull
garlan territory and occupy several
towns. The league council ordered
that hostilities cease at once, saw to
II that the order was obeyed, and sent
mission to settle the dispute. Greece
was found at fault and was ordered to
pay damages to. Bulgaria.
Abd-el-Krim's attempt to drive the
French from the Riff and establish an
independent government 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 land
ing in Alhucemas bay in September
krim was virtually surrounded and
was driven into the mountains. A
group of American aviators formed
an escadrille and helped in the fight
against the Moroccan chieftain.
Strikes in the Shanghai cotton
mills, fostered by Russian Bolshevist
agents who sought to stir up civil war
in China, resulted in fatal rioting in
May and the anti-foreign threats made
necessary the landing of American and
European bluejackets and the arming
of force of foreign volunteers. This
only enraged the Chinese the more
and the government at Picking was
utterly unable to straighten out the
tangle. On August 5 the Washington
treaties relating to Chinese customs
and the open door went into effect,
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 it
this not later than January /, 1929.
provided that in the meantime China
should abolish the likin.
Great progress was made In the
settlement of international debts. In
August Great Britain granted exceed
ingly liberal terms to France, but
with the provision that if France OBJ
tanned less favorable terms from the
United States the British would In
sist on the same terms that the Unit
sion 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
parliament In December, when
BRAND became premier again M. Ber-
anger was appointed ambassador
to Washington for the purpose of re
opening negotiations. The American
debts of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Italy
and Rumania were arranged satisfac-
torily to those countries.
President Coolidge, to wnom the
long standing dispute between Peru
and Chile over Tacna and africa
provinces had been referred, sent Gen
eral Pershing down there to arrange
and conduct plebiscite of the in
habitants of the region The Chileans
protested when he deferred the date
Of the pIebiscite until April Is, 1926,
and appealed to President Coolidge.