Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-31
The Story the Week Has Told

! view to the fixing of a low total for the
German obligation. Vaguely hoping
that postponement would help them.
they have postponed proposals, appar-
| entity it has virtually been agreed that
| Germany shall pay to the allies the
total of what they must pay to the
United States plus sum to compen-
safe for damage to property, and APP
parently the Germans would reduce the
| latter sum to a figure far below the
most modest allied valuation Of the
damage wrought, far below the aggre-
gate of what has already been spent for
restoration which is by no means yet
| complete.
The burden of the German song is
German Incapacity to Pay to which
| the allies especially the French, the
chief sufferers of material damage
retort that they are still less able to
forego payment
On March %, just before adjourn
ment Of the committee over Easter. Mr..
| Young. the chairman, told the German
members that the other members ex-
pected definite proposals from them
| Immediately on reaSsembling OF the
| committee on April 4, not necessarily
final, but implying an offer high enough
to furnish a practicable basis Of dis
| Observation-Disclosures the committee
might as well adjourn sine die.
| Our information to the above effect
| Is not perfectly authenticated, as the
committees proceedings are behind
! closed doors, and only one official COM
munioue (that regarding the proposal
of an international bank has been
issued, but almost certainly the cabled
| dispatches respecting the proceedings
are very trustworthy. (The communique
referred to exactly bore out prior
dispatches)
~ ~
ITALY.-The so-called election for q
new Chamber of Deputies, the first Of
the new model, was held on March "a.
Only one ticket was presented, /. e.. a
list of 400 candidates chosen by the
Fascist Grand Council of $3.50, 900
registered voters, 8,650,00 or nearly 80
per cent, of whom went to the polls.
They were to vote yea" or may" to the
lists as q whole. All but 5000 voted
yea" an astonishing business. Prac-
| tically all the anti-Fascist voters were
| cast in northern cities, Milan leading
the southern provinces, going almost
solidly Fascist. This reverseS the sit
uation of the early days Of Fasciamo,
when the south was cold to the move
ment.
CHINA.-Civil war seems to have been
definitely joined between the central
government and Wuhan Kwangsi fac
| ton. It is reported that Gen. Chang
Kaishek, civil head (under whatever
nance of the so-called republic. has as
sumed command of the forces of the
central (Nanking) government, with
headquarters at Kiukiang (extreme
north of Kiangsi Province, on the
/ Yangtze). On March % the Third Ma
tional Kuomintang Congress (hand-
| picked, it Is charged by the Marking
| government), ended, with what accom-
F! plishment to its credit beyond denun-
citation of the Wuhan Kwangsi outfit,
does not appear 1t is feared that Can
| ton will throw in its lot with the Wuhan
! group.
The redoubtable Gen. Ii Chat Sum,
! governor of the Canton area, at Man.
king as q delegate to the Kuomintang
! Congress, has been placed in arrest by
(, the Marking government, charged with
/; reasonable intrigue. One Gen. TeEg
mander of the forces at Canton in
Ii Chai Sums absence, telegraphs Nam
king, demanding an explanation OF LIS
arrest. Zone dispatch says that he re-
fuses to take orders from Marking
pending satisfactory explanatory It
i is rumored that mis- troops are all for
| Ii, and even that some part Of them
| have joined insurrectionary levies in
Kwantung and Kwangsi provinces,
which are starting north to fight Man.
| king. Communist bands are raising
cain In Fukien and Southern Kiangsi.
At Picking the authorities Of the central
government have no rest from dealing
with huggermugger plots. In Sham
tung, that flower OF infamy Chang
Tslihg Chang has captured Chefoo.
That professional traitor Marshal Feng
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