Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19

boys are being sent to European schools
at the expense of the state. Important
cultural contacts have been established
with Berlin, and German technical
experts have been engaged to assist in
development of the national economy
which consists almost entirely of stock
breeding. industry being practically
non-existent and the total area of
land under cultivation piddling. Prob
ably Outer Mongolia will continue pres
emily paStural country, but no doubt
its agriculture is destined to an i'm
portant future and industry will have
an appreciate role. Not imposSibly the
mineral deposits will prove important.
There is good hope for Outer Mon
golia if she will sack the lot of Lamas
and will by the most drastic methods
supervised by European or American
experts, proceed to eradicate diseases.
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CHINA-I told last week how Cam
ton. capital of Kwang Tung Province
which has owed allegiance to the Nam
king government was threatened by an
invasion from Kwangsi Province, which
is in rebellion against Marking. Invad-
ing columns were at the gates, resist
ance seemed hopeless. But the KwangSi
leaders have bowels. In return for an
immense indemnity they agreed to draw
off their forces and leave the city I'M
ravished. 1t is not clear but apparently
they imposed military terms implying
practical demilitarization of Kwang
Tung Province and institution there of
a kind Of Kwangsi military commission
of control.
Now at the last moment the negotia-
ton fell through. Canton is desperate
ly threatened by approaching Kwangsi
columns. against which resistance is
being vigorously made. No doubt we
shall soon know the false and the true
The very latest reports indicate that
the invaders have been badly threShed
and sent flying pell-mell homeward
Later dispatches may bring them back
to the Pearl. Truly Kaleidoscope is the
Chinese scene. RumorS are rife i'm
porting the likelihood Of a knockout
struggle between Chang Kai-Shek and
Feng Yuhsiang in the near future.
Chang is reported to have sent to Feng
a peremptory demand for an explana-
ton of alleged acts of violence of troops
of the latter against troops of the Ma
tionaliSts government on the Honan-
Hupeh border.
The Marking government has ordered
abolition of the decapitation mode of
execution. 1t does not appear what
mode has been substituted. Why isn't
And so picturesque, and with certain
dignity.
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TACNA-ARICA. - The compromise
agreement settling the 46-year-old
Tacna africa question awards TaCna to
Peru and africa to Chile. To be sure.
the business is not quite contaminated
yet: the terms of the agreement must
be embodied in treaty and the treaty
must be ratified by the legislators of
both countries; but contretemps
seems highly unlikely. The City of
africa goes to Chile. but Peru Is to have
free port facilities there. The area of
the district SO long bone of contention
is about 5000 square miles, the popula-
ton about $4,000. Economically It is
scarcely worth serious controversy;
but national SuSceptibilitieS were
desperately engaged.
X X r
UNITED STATES.-On May IA the
Senate farm board bill, embodying the
debenture feature was passed by the
Senate, 81 to 33. Mr.. Dwight F. Davis,
Secretary of War in the late admins
tration, has accepted the offer of the
governor generalShip of the Philippines.
An offer of the governorship OF Porto
Rico has been cabled to Col. Theodore
Roosevelt He is in Tibet with his
brother on a hunting trip.
An almost inconceivably hideous
tragedy occurred in Cleveland the other
day, when about six score persons (pa-
tents. doctors, nurses. attendants and
rescuers) were killed by explosion.
poison gas and fire mostly by poison
gasl at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.