The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-06-24

| standard as her European neighbors.
Germany notified the ambassadors
council that the forts on its eastern
| frontier had been demolished, as re-
! quired, and demanded that the Rhine
land occupational forces be reduced
accordingly. France agreed to this
provided Marshal Foch be permitted
to examine the forts and found the
German statement to be correct.
VX7HILE negotiations for COM
| wv promise between Chang Kali
Shek, Chang Tso-lin- and the governor
of Shansi province were proceeding, the
Marking Nationalist army continued its
advance toward Peking and captured
the important city of Hafcllow near the
Shantung border. The southerners,
according to reports, committed rob-
berry and outrage in wholesale fash
ion." Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang has pledged
allegiance to the Hankow faction of the
Nationalist and has been given COM
mand of its drive on Picking. Roger
! Green of the Rockefeller Foundation
at Picking, accompanied by 20 physi-
clans and nurses, has gone to Han
kow to help in the care of some 12,-
600 wounded soldiers gathered in hos
| pitfalls from the Honan battlefields.
Antagonist against the Japanese is
steadily increasing in southern China
and it is still feared they are plan
ming to reoccupy Shantung province
in order to prevent the Nationalist
from driving out Chang Tso-lin. Rep
! resentatives of the Japanese communi
| ties in Manchuria have sent to Tokyo
demands that the government prevent
| the civil war from entering Manchu-
ria and Mongolia and that all JAP
anese investments and nationals there
be protected.
IN THE recent elections in the Irish
l Free State the government Sc
cured 46 seats, net loss of Z, in the
Dali Eireann ;. Fianna Fail Ode Vale
ra's partly, "A; the Sim Fem, s; La
Dor, q; Farmers, IL; Independent,
IA; National league, 8, and INDIE
pendent Republicans, 2. President
Cosgrave will have only seven fewer
seats than at the dissolution. 1t is be-
lieved he will annex ten members
| from the farmers and independents
and be stronger than before the cleo
ton. canon De Valera says his A.
will refuse to take the oath of allie
glance to the king. If they hold out.
another election is probable.
"WEDNESDAY was busy day for
| w Andrew Mellon, secretary of the
treasury. He took in almost $400,000,-
600 in income and other tax pay
ments, due on the completion of the
second quarter of the calendar year.
He took in about $S9,000,00O, paid by
the debtor nations of Europe on Amer
lean war loans. He sold $249, sos, 300
| of new treasury 3ss per cent bonds.
Then he paid off maturing short term
securities aggregating $37S,000,OO0 and
paid $7O,O00,00O in interest on various
issues of the Liberty bonds.
The receipts went to swell the $780,
100000 surplus for the fieal year ex-
piring June 80, next, and the retire
ment of Liberty bonds and refinancing
involved in the transactions means the
reduction in the annual interest on the
public debt many millions of dollars.
Great Britain turned in $67,575, 900.
which was it's ninth semi-annual pay
ment of interest. France paid $10,-
100000 ION account" Italy paid $5,-
100000, and smaller payments were
made by the other debtor nations.
" cred in great numbers at At
lantic City for their annual meeting,
and 100000 wearers of the fez took
part in mammoth night parade along
| the five-mile Boardwalk that was said
to be the finest procession ever seen
in the resort city. Clarence NJ Dun
bar of Palestine temple, Providence,
II. l., was elevated to the office of I'M
perial potentate to succeed David NJ.
Grassland.
THIRTY-EIGHT of the 203 cadets
i graduated from the West Point
Military academy last week have re-
Quested service with the air corps, the
War department has annourNed I'm
der department Interpretation of the
air corps act, commissions cannot be
granted in time of peace to any per-
son not qualified flyer and the 3S
cadets, therefore, will undergo train
ing before receiving the second lieu
tenant commissions bestowed upon
them at graduation.