Evening star., 1926-09-26

/ Feng has dispatched a force with the
mission of cutting Chang kai Shek s
communications with Canton in the
vicinity of Chang Sha.
| The affair of Wan Hsien IA Yang
| tie River port in SZechuan province,
| some 2oO miles above Hankow), has
| been smoothed over. the two British
| merchant vessels seized by the Chi
nese military comma nder in Szechuan
/ having been relea sed by him. Had the
threat of a British punitive expedition
been carried out. there's no telling
what ii might have led to. The re.
mote Szechua nese are reputed the
least friendly to foreigners of all
Chinese, and the lives of the 500 Brit
ish. and indeed of all the foreign resi-
dents in the province. would have
been desperately jeopardized.
| One hears that as it is, the
foreigners are clearing out as rapidly
| as they may, which means not very
rapidly. as only small craft can ply
in that reach of the great river be-
cause of rapids.
The following seems to me of great
Importance. The central executive of
the Kuo Mintang at Shanghai tthe
kuo Mintang is the radical party of
which the South China Republic is
the child has issued from it's safe
retreat in the international settlement
a manifesto, as follows:
THE kuo Mintang is not Bolshevik
Ii does not propose a Communist
regime. but it follows the doctrines
i of the late Sun Vat Sen, who was
above all else anti-militarist. The
kuo Mintang is. to be sure. immov
| ably resolved that the unilateral
treaties shall go Though, if possible
by anicable arrangement, hut it is
of friendly disposition toward foreign.
! ers and foreign governments. The
canton sovernment-i.e.. the true
national government, as it's ad
herents have always claimed-must
be transferred from Canton to Han.
kow. and so transferred must (if the
| foreign powers wish to do business
WIN Ch1na be recognized by the
forelgn powers as the government OF
all China in place Of the pra racticallv
defunct Peking government"
Presumably the Kuo Mintans com
mlttee speaks for the Canton govern
ment: and If so, the manifesto would
seem surely to indicate a desire in
that government to conciliate the
treaty powers. 1t is in keeping with
the manifesto that the Canton GOV
efnment has announced the intention
TO llft the anti-Hongkong boycott or
! or before October 10.
United States Of America.-Relie1
ls being provided efficiently. AND
on the generous scale character
lsuc OF our people, for the sufferers
from the terrific Gulf hurricane. As
usual, and happily. the early reports
\ OF casualties were eXaggerative. but
the total of dead Is several hundred
The Sikorsky plane tragedy drove
nome at frightful cost the lesson OF
the supreme importanc of the safet,
factor in aeronautics
MAI. Gen. Charles P Summeral
mas been designated chief of STAFF ot
the Army In succession to Mai Gen
John l.. Hines, whose term Of fou,
Years service as a member of thu
Iehersi stan expires on December 5
Misceiiane0us. - Mussolini's orde
10 tne blackshirts, communicate,
through the minister of the interior
10 aostaln from "reprisals" agains
enemies of Fascism on account Of RI.
NTH attempt against his life, has b,
no means been strictly obeyed Their,
has been violence against the Der
sons, good deal against the pron
erty, OF anti-Fascists.
Finland has no floating debt. He,
funded debt is about $s2, 900 900.
The national wealth is estimated a,
So, ,ooo. .00o, 900.
The currency has been. on a golt
basis since the beginning Of this year
The population of Finland is about
i3,332.000. the area about 10000
square miles. AREA of New Yorl
State. $4,000 square miles.)
1t is reported that a group of Amer
ican capitalists and engineers are
considering an offer by the Russia
Government Of a concession to involve
the construction and financing Ito the
tune Of $60,000.00O Of a great hydro
electric plant on the Dnieper. which
should serve a great mining and In
dustrial district of the Ukraine.
One hears that Great Britain and
Italy have saved themselves the
humiliation Of An airing of their dis
pute with Abyssinia before the
League (Abyssinia having all the right
Of it) by settlement on the side
The report goes that they got what
they wanted in return for q loan
but one awaits With ouriestty- full IN
Observation-Disclosures