The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-23
TROOPS MASSED
May DRAW ALL
into CONFLICT
Danger of Attack on
Soviet Union
By C. P. WILLIAMSON.

Wars, rebellions, revolutions and
military, naval and air activities, in
volving five continents and score
of nations, is the situation in which
the world finds itself today-less
than a week from the time the KEEL
logg anti-war pact will be signed in
Paris in an effort to outlaw armed
conflicts for all time.
In no period since the end of the
Great War has the world been in
volved in such host of warlike, or
threatened warlike, activities.
Great Britain has just concluded
the greatest air maneuvers the peo-
pie of England have seen since the
world war. British army maneuvers
and artillery have now begun in
Wiltshire.
In Paris yesterday Premier Poin-
care announced there can be no re-
duction in taxes for the coming year
since the new budget must provide
for expenditures of more than
$160,000,000 for reorganization of
the army and construction Of vast
system of fortresses and trenches
along the eastern frontier. Cruisers
will be modernized and the most
modern air force possible for both
defensive and offensive purposes
will be built.
Maneuvers Near Italian Line.
France is now carrying out vast
military maneuvers along the
Italian frontier, in the Pyrenees and
ir the Rhineland.
Charges and counter charges Of
vast troop movements along the
Polish-Lithuania frontier have
been filtering into the capitals of
Europe for weeks from both Kovno
and Warsaw.
Anti-Italian demonstrations in
Jugoslavia, which have frequently
overshadowed quiet periods in
Europe since the war, have broken
out again, and Jugoslavia has again
been forced to offer Satisfaction"
to Italy for the attacks on Italian
subjects in Dalmatia.
In her African provinces, where
the native tribes have been carrying
on minor war against Italy for a
long time, recently forty-three ma
tives were killed in an engagement
with Italian troops. The Italians
lost twelve killed and thirty wound
ed.
French Suppression.
From Jerusalem it is reported
that sixty persons were killed in a
recent clash between Druse noun
taineers and French troops in a
mountain stronghold in Syria, but
this report was denied by the
French Foreign Office. The actual
political situation in Syria has been
somewhat questionable for some
time. Aside from the minor war
which has been waged by the
French Foreign Legion ever since
France accepted the mandate for
the country the French are having
difficulty with the Syrian consti-
t,ent assembly.
British Suppression.
The British are having their trou-
bles apparently, for, according to
Arab sources, the situation in
Trans Jordania, and particularly
along the eastern boundaries, is cri-
teal, due to the continuance in Of
flee of the premier of one of the
provinces despite the request Of the
Emir Abdullah that the government
resign. 1t is alleged that the Bri-
fish are supporting the usurping
premier.
The French and British minis
tiers recently made representations
to the Bulgarian government en-
phasizing that energetic measures
must be taken Immediately against
the revolutionaries in Macedonia,
whom the two nations consider "a
menace to the peace of neighboring
nations and the world" 1t is fire.
quently remarked that some minor
activity of theirs might very well
inflame all the Balkans.
In Spain there is a movement
entirely political in character
against the government of Dictator
Primo de Rivera. Political condi-
tons in Spain have been quiet since
the disruption of the Catalonia Sep
aratist plot last year.
While Europe, Asia and Africa
have been occupying themselves
mainly with questions of interna-
tional ramifications, revolutions
are occurring or have just been sup
pressed in North and South Amer
lea. In Mexico, rebel attacks, few
of which could hardly be called SER
ious, have taken place in many Sec
tons.