Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02
The Story the Week Has Told

| himself, but waited upon constitutional
processes. The new Constituent Assem-
bly, acted with extraordinary but not
altogether unseemly. not, at any rate
scandalous, haste to reform the consti-
tuition In monarchical sense. Not UNI
Gil yesterday was the crown formally
offered to Ahmed zogu. He at once
accepted and was forthwith proclaimed
King with the title of Zogu l. One
refuses to credit dispatches to the effect
that meantime anonymous proclama-
tons had been posted calling on the
people. in language which to call NINA
tory we're not exaggerative, to turn out
and demonstrate with vigor and without
intermission for the Ringing Of Ahmed
Tbs dispatches concerning this latest
Albanian development having been sew
eral times falsiied. the above Is little
shakily submitted subject to correction
in my next paper.
4 X ~
China confess that find difficult
ty in precisely placing Marshal Ii
Tsiin- .Jen, the Hankow commander
who Is said to command a larger body
OF men, with one exception, than any
other commander in China. Fe Is de-
scribed as AZ years old and OF a dapper
military bearing. He has been foremost
in Kidding out Communism. At any rate,
he takes we'll as quoted by the New York
Times. Witness. Something new has
come TO changeless China. but the lega-
tons of the treaty powers, most foreign
ers In this country. and even vast num-
bers OF Chinese do not realize the fact.
This new something Is sincerity on the
part OF most Of China's leaders. coupled
with the birth of patriotism and public
iy1 hA Nf k%f Nf a
millions
These who do not understand the
new China have believed that the Ma
tionalists would split asunder as soon
as they took peking They have ludg-
ed us by the standards by which they
correctly Judged the old type Of North
ern militarist for many wears. II has
been perhaps only natural for us to b@
regarded with skepticism. to expect us
to quarrel over division OF Spotls.
Scores Russia.
But a seeming miracle has come
to pass In that even II some Of us are
not sincere we realize that If today We
should attempt to follow the old selfish
system we would at once lose our sup
porters and most of our strength. Forces
that Self-Seeking men cannot control
have been let loose In this old land
Soviet Russia came to us three years
ago and told us she was the friend of
all weak or oppressed peoples For a
time we believed these professions of
friendship, but soon We learned TO our
cost that Russia intended merely to
use China Ia forward world revolution
on behalf of one class Of people. the
proietariat,
China decided that nroletarian
Il, late ~ ANt rJt he n
government which will mete out Justice
to all classes, and she does not believe
in the abolition of private property,
Russia is still continuing her propa-
ganda III other countries, II the world
powers do not adopt a friendly attitude
toward China soon the Communists will
tell these other peoples that the weak
and oppressed nations get no help from
the great powers when they try to
struggle out of their difheulties,'
Ii is Tor says he Isl for rapid de-
mobilization, for tax reform, for grand
measures looking to economic rehabilita-
ton and development Famine condi-
lions, while still very bad, are said To be
somewhat improving in Shantung Prov
ines, but to be getting worse In Chlhli
Many. Still find their chief subsistence
In chat leaves and an occasion al grass
hopper We are told that only $3.50 900
has been contributed In response 10 the
appeal 10 this country for 5000 600 to
be applied to Chinese famine relief.
United States, On August rs, the
bark City OF New York, Capt Fred
erick Melville, commander. sailed from
New York. carrying az members of the
Byrd Antarctic expedition and 900 tons
of supplies. hound for the Ross Sea.
base OF the expedition, on the shore Of
the Antarctic continent She II sehed~