The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-10-28

party, but the convention almost
unanimously supported Mr.. Green's al
tentative proposal that I'VE work for
the friends of labor in both national
parties at the polls" The delegates
also rejected resolutions denouncingI
the governments policy in Latin Amer
lea and China, and approved the Mon
roe Doctrine.
NEEXICO'S latest revolutionary
AVA movement is, as predicted, effec-
lively suppressed and Gales is more
firmly in the saddle than ever, with
Obregon assured of the succession to
the Presidency. General Gomez and
his band of followers in the state of
Vera Cruz were attacked at Chualulco
by loyal troops under General Escobar
and utterly routed, bombing planes
playing considerable part in the en-
gagement. Gomez and his staff Off
GERS, seeing the day was lost, fled into
the hills. Felix Palavicini, journal
list who has been deported, lays all the
blame for the mutiny on General Ser
rano, who was caught and executed.
Obregon says that when he becomes
President he will follow Gales policy
in compelling Catholics and other re-
ligious denominations to respect the
laws, SINE this policy has the support
of the majority of the people of the
country.
VUGO-SLAVIA and Bulgaria have
practically settled their row over
raids by Bulgarian comitadjis or IT.
regulars along the border, but now
Poland and Lithuania are on the eve
Of break which may have serious
consequences. The Lithuanian gov
eminent has closed Polish schools and
contiscated Polish estates in Lithu.
ania, and plans to declare Wilma the
capital of the country, despite the fact
that that city was seized by Poland
seven years ago. Then, last week,
number of Poles were arrested in
Lithuania on charges of having plotted
the assassination of President Sine
tona. The Polish government sent an
ultimatum to Kovno threatening ac-
ton unless Lithuania should radically
alter its policy within one week. Mar
shall Pilsudski, dictator of Poland,
wishes to avoid the. use of force if
possible, but the British minister to
Warsaw reports that the situation is
fraught with danger.
NVER in China the pendulum has
~ swung back and the Shansi armies
that had defeated Marshal Chang's
troops and threatened to take Picking
have themselves been beaten in battle
and at last reports were retreating
westward in considerable disorder.
About 10000 of the Shansi soldiers
were captured and sent into Manchu
ria. The northern forces began opera
tions for the capture of Shansi prov
ince and against Gen. Feng-Yu-hsiang
in Honan province. Pekings feeling
of relief was modified by the knowl-
edge that il had been saved partly by
the calling in of a horde of $4,000
Mongol cavalry, reputed to be the
fiercest and most cruel fighters in all
Asia.
CPAIN began its return to consti-
~ tutional parliamentary government
last week with the formal opening of
the new national assembly by King
Alfonso. But it was only faint start
that way, for the assembly member
ship is picked by the dictator, Gen.
Primo de Rivera, and so seems certain
to do the bidding of the directorate
which he heads. Two of the women
delegates, the duchess of Parcent and
Countess San Luis, resigned just be-
fore the assembly opened
c ENATOR JAMES A. REED of Mis-
~ souri,, who stands ready 10 accept
the Democratic Presidential nominal
ton if Gov Al Smith cannot get it,
was endorsed as a candidate by the
Missouri state committee at Sedalia,
and then delivered to big assemblage
of Democrats what was considered the
keynote speech for his party in the
coming campaign. He denounced Re-
publican rule as no less corrupt now
than during the Harding administra-
ton and scored Mellon, Daugherty and
Fall Making a plea for unity, the
senator said:
"Let lis make our fight beneath BAN
ners proclaiming the right of each
citizen to regulate his own personal
conduct-chart his own course through
life-determine his own habits and to
control the affairs of his own house
hold, free from all restraints.
IF this people are to remain free.