The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-21
KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWELL DENNY

!
w the multi-lateral "anti-war"
treaty negotiations completed and
Mexico apparently peaceful follow
ing assassination Of President Elect
Obregon, the State Department was
confronted today with the Chinese
problem.
Immediate revision of the So
called unequal treaties with China,
involving United States recognition
of the new Nationalist government,
was demanded today by Represent
alive Stephen G. Porter, chairman
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee.
Though the State department and
President Coolidge are pledged to
treaty revision and are friendly to
the new government, they are NOV
ing more slowly than Porter and a
congressional group desire.
Porter emphasized that the last
session of Congress had passed his
resolution calling for treaty revision
and remuneration of special extra
territorial and jurisdictional rights
under which American troops and
courts are maintained in Chinese
territory.
ut is clear that recent events in
China have mode it easier for China
to meet the requirements of the pro-
posal embodied in this resolution;
namely that, for the purpose of re-
vising the present treaties, China
should present to the American
Government duly accredited agents
authorized to speak for the people
Of China" he said.
'It seems to me that it is now
| desirable that the American Gov
eminent should formally invite the
Chinese people to appoint agents to
negotiate with us and draft new
treaties which, while preserving all
! proper American interests, will sat-
isfy those desires Of the Chinese
people which they have legitimate
right to entertain.
Such prompt action taken by our
Government, independently, and in
advance Of possible similar action
by the other powers, will increase
the prestige of the American Gov
eminent in the eyes of the Chinese,
and give further evidence Of the
true friendship Of America for the
Chinese people, who under tremen-
dous difficulties are seeking to estab~
| lish upon a firm and unitary basis
a democratic system of govern
ment.
XNTH1LE Porter was making his
| w appeal in Washington for
| treaty revision, the Chinese Nation
alist government at Marking for
mally was notifying the japanese
that the similar unequal Chinese
Japanese treaty had lapsed. There
fore, said the Nationalist note, Jap
anese in China are henceforth under
native jurisdiction.
At the same time were reports Of
renewed fighting between National
ist and Japanese troops at Tsinanfu,
where alleged mistreatment Of Jap
anese officials last spring led to Jap
anese military occupation of that
districts and its important railroad.
With friction occurring again be-
tween japanese and Chinese, there
are reports that the Chinese prov
inces Of Manchuria, north of the
great wall, which are dominated by
Japan, are preparing to recognize
the Nationalist government.
1t is indicated that the Manchur-
ians are ready to end the war start
ed by their late dictator, Chang Tso-
Lin, who was driven out of Pekin
by the victorious southern Nation
alist armies.
IN addition to recurrence Of the
Il Chinese-Japanese conflict, old
disputes are breaking out on the
Danube, in the Balkans, and on the
Nile.
The League of Nations today was
considering a formal threat by
Premier Bethlen of Hungary that
his country will withdraw from the
Geneva organization if it persists
in side-tracking the Hungarian
Rumanian land dispute.
Hungary will use this break in an
effort to throw over the Trianon
peace treaty under which much of
her territory was divided between
Rumania and the new states of
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugoslavia, if
the League refuses to carry out the
treaty provision for a hearing on
the land conflict, Bethlen intimated.
Strained relations between Bull
garia and Jugoslavia have resulted
from civil war and border raids in
Macedonia. The frontier has been
closed and censorship imposed.
n u
EURTHER south popular govern
Il ment in Egypt has been ended,
and Great Britain, ruling through
British officials and ''puppet" ma
tive king, is all powerful again.
The experiment in limited
autonomy is over for an indefinite
period. The king yesterday suspend
ed the native parliament for three
years, or longer if desired.