Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30

that task, but not adequate to add
tional operations. such as recovery
of the lost concessions at Hankow and
elsewhere). As to whether or no the
decision taken was the wise one "only
the event will teach us in It's hour
| The British government was. OF
course, in peculiarly invidious po-
sition in the above connection.
Japan and the United States can
take their precautions" without ap.
pearance of "provocation.
We have available at Manila. within
easy steaming distance of Shanghai,
force about equal to the British ex.
peditionary force. and the things still
easier for Japan. Britain's precau.
tionary measures had to be taken with
undesired advertisement.
The week has been a rather quiet
one. Not much in the way of anti
foreign demonstrations Evacuation of
foreigners from interior points con-
tinues. The report of last week that
Sun Chuan Feng had cleared Che
kiang Province of the invading Can
tonese appears to have been exag-
gerated.
A later report tells of a reverse to
his troops at Lanlsi, only about 100
miles south of Hang .Chau. not an
important affair, but classifying last
weeks report, The situation at
Shanghai has been fairly quiet since
the 22d, when Nationalist agitators
tried to stage riot in the interna-
tional settlement, but were baked by
the very efficient municipal police.
United States of America. - The
Senate has rejected, 40 to %. the
nomination of Cyrus e. Woods of
Pennsylvania to be member Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
On Tuesday the Senate passed, 70 to
O, q resolution recommending arbitra-
ton of the controversies with Mexico
relating to the alleged confiscation or
impairment of the property of Ameri-
can citizens and corporations in
Mexico. The arbitration agreement to
provide for protection OF all Ameri-
can property rights pending the final
outcome Of the arbitration"
The resolution Is without binding
force; does not authorize or direct
merely recommends.
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the Dutch East Indies, especially
Sumatra, continue; suppressed with
some, though not very great, spilling
Of blood.
At last DIR. Marx has succeeded in
forming a German cabinet with a
clear Reichstag majority behind 1t.
1t is made up of four Nationalist,
three Centrists, two German Popuiists,
one Bavarian Populist, and DIR. Cess
Ter (of no party, having resigned from
the Democratic party, which refused
participation in the cabinet, in order
to accept the war portifoiio).
Further details next week.
The allies and Germany have reached
agreement on the question of Ger
man manufacture and export of war
material. and the prospects seem
bright of agreement in the very near
future concerning the German forti-
fications over against the Danzig cor
rider.
Comdr. Francisco de Pinedo, the dis
tinguished ItaliAns aviator. plans to
take Oft in a hydroplane from Rome
within a few days in an attempt to
circumvolate the planet to, Morocco
across the Atlantic to Brazil, clock
wise hugging the coasts to a jump
ing off point on the west of South
America to Oceania: to Asia, back to
Rome.
%ts befEFAue reports LnaE another 1nSur-
srection has broken out In northern
Albania, because OF Indignation
against the Italo- Albanian treaty.
This writer does not approve or that
treaty, but confesses to lending his
ears to twoscynical suggestions: one,
that there h nosinsurrection, but the
wish Ii father to the thought in Bel
grade; the ether that the insurrection.
such as 1t may be, does not entirely
lack OF Jugoslavian provocation.
lConyrirhf. 1927.