Evening star., 1927-05-08
The Story the Week Has Told

king governments. Apparently Chang
Kai Shek has not yet completed his
CIVILIAN government; though one hears
that DR.. WI. son of the late Wu Ting.
fang. has accepted to be foreign
minister. The Hankow government
which only a few weeks ago was
about to head the world revolution
and create a red. red world, is now
talking very small, trying to placate
the foreigners, to persuade them to
resume business, moving to lay the
tempest of its creation. The present
going is very bad for the Hankow
crew; but let us not too eagerly as.
sumo that they are about to be re.
sumed into chaos and old night.
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Japan.--On May S, the Japanese
Diet convened in special session to
deal with the financial crisis There
is good ground for confidence that
effective action will be taken.
The general economic situation of
japan is peculiarly complicated and
difficult. BY consequence from the
war there was great industrial over
expansion. There enSued inevitable
a serious slump of industry and trade.
Recovery, following salutary defiation,
was well in train, when the earth
quake of 1928, wiped away the gains
and then some.' Matters are com.
plicated, economically and also social.
ly and politically by the recent ac-
QUESTION by labor of class-conscious.
ness, involving the dislocations and
other consequences which are an old
story in the West, but a novelty in
Japan, where the industrial revolu.
ton is, after all, in its infancy. In a
general estimate one must take ac.
count. moreover, of the defeat of ex-
pectations of grand exploitation of
China, (the which expectations found
expression in the policy Of Japan
toward China, prior to the Wasing-
ton conference) of the considerable
disappointment of expectation regard
ing Korea and Manchuria (where, for
sundry reasons. the Japanese coloniza.
ton has been comparative slight
and OF the more recent Chinese devel.
opments, which have had disastrous
effect of Japanese trade with China.
1t is said that the japanese invest
ment in Manchuria is about equiva-
lent to $1,000, 900 900 Manchuria s
population of 22.000,000 Ghe increase
in the last 20 years has been about
10000. .000) includes only about 200
Japanese. Manchuria has proved in
no sense the solution to the problem
presented by Japans uper-saturation
of population. The Chinese coolie is
in a class by himself; competition with
him is vain.
Egypt.--The political complexion of
Sarwat Pasha, the new Egyptian
premier, is scarcely to be differentiated
from that of ABLY Pasha, his predeces-
sor. lie will probably find himself as
unhappy in his position as ABLY did.
The situation is anomalous. The
general elections of May, 1926. re-
suited in an overwhelming majority
for the Nationalists, headed by Zaghlul
Pasha The British government would
not consent that Zaghlul or any other
Nationalist should be premier. An
arrangement was reached whereby
ABLY Pasha of the minority liberals,
took the premiership, while Zaghlul
contented himself with the presidency
of the Chamber of Deputies, promising
kindly attitude toward the govern
ment. The other day ABLY, because
insupportably weary of the unsatisfac-
tory arrangement, and chose to con-
strue defeat on an insignificant issue
as a vote of want of confidence and
Sarwat patriotically stepped into his
place, no doubt in turn to become
insupportably weary.
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Chile. characterization of the
latest development in Chile as an insti
tuition of a Chilean Fascimo does not
seem so greatly amiss. Gen. Ibanez,
the premier, has assumed the, vice
presidency and appears to be sure
enough dictator. He has declared
vacant the Office ,of president of the
Supreme Court, and has placed in it