Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24

reports are to be received with the
caution properly applicable to all re-
ports of Chinese military operations.
Great Britain has voluntarily returned
the Chinkiang concession to China.
Julian Arnold, our commercial at
tache at Peiping, informs us that
American investments in China approx
innate the following: Commercial in
vestments, 5000 100000; missionary and
other commercial undertakings,
SIS ,000, 900; secured and unsecured obi
cations of the Chinese government, be-
tween $50, 600 900 and $40 900 600.
He invites attention to notable de-
velopment of transportation by motor
bus and airplane; to construction on q
substantial scale of roads suitable for
motor transportation.
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BRAzL.--BraziI has been celebrat-
ing the fortieth anniversary Of the
bloodleSS coup detat by which Emperor
Dom Pedro II was depoSed and the re-
public of Brazil established. Dom Pedro,
the Magnanimous," had reigned for
So years; amiable, broadminded, scholar,
emancipation, no mean economist. He
yielded to the spirit of the age, made
no fuss about it, showed no rancor.
His memory Is universally revered in
the country which dethroned him. A
rare fate.
:. Brazil has 1878 miles of railway
trackage among the component states.
Sac Paulo leading, with 4,795, and
Minas Geraes following close, with 1905.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
On November % the special session of
Congress was adjourned. The Smoot-
Hawley tariff bill goes over to the reg
ular session.
James William Good, Secretary of
War, died on November Is at the age
Of "a, Of peritonitiS ensuing upon an
emergent operation for appendicitis.
The nomination of ex-senator Wal
ter E. Edge of New Jersey to be AM
baSSador to France has been unani-
nously confirmed by the Senate.
Two hundred and ninety persons paid
Federal taxes in 1923 on 1927 incomes
Of million dollars or more, as against
23l in 1927 and 207 in 1926. The total
of the incomes of these 290 was $780,
40,846, and their taxes totaled $685.
657,2S7. OF the 200, IL reported in
comes OF $5,000,000 or more. A total
Of 33,695 persons reported net incomes
OF $4,000 or more, including l1,l22
who reported net incomes of 100000
OF more. The individual net incomes filed
totaled $22, 545, 090,553, upon which
$3.50 ,639, 434 in Federal taxes was paid.
while a total net income of 1891 ,884,-
261 was reported by corporations, on
which the total tax was $1,130,674,128,
Nelson TruSler johnson is to be our
new Minister to China in succession
to Mr.. MacMurry, resigned Few Amer
leans know their China as well, and he
talks Chinese that would not shame a
Chinese literatus. He entered our for
elgn service in China % years ago and
served in Sundry consular capacities
there until 1918, when he was called
home for duty in the Far Eastern Sec
ton OF the Department of State. He
was an expert assistant at the WASH
tngton arms conference. At its conclu-
sion he returned to the Orient as con-
sui general at large, that is, general in
spector OF the consulates in the dis
tr1ct of Eastern Asia" He returned tn
Washington in 1927 to become Assistant
Secretary OF State for Far Eastern az
fairs, which post he has since held.
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NOTES-0f the 10 members of the |
German cabinet, are Socialists (the |
chancellor and the ministers of finance. |
the interior and labor, 8 are of the
German Peoples party or its cogener, |
the Bavarian Peoples party; 2 are
Democrats and / Gen. Groener. min |
ASCCE Va uc1cIlSeJ Is a nOn-parTy man.
In opening new session of the Turk
1sh National Assembly the other cay.
President Mustapha Renal assured the
delegates that the government would
continue to devote itself strenuously to
economic rehabilitation. He announced
that nearly 800 miles of railway had
been completed within the past year
and that construction Of about the
same additional mileage was in con-
temptation. He remarked proudly that
capital OF the new commercial enter
prises established within a year exceeds
SGT 100000, proving that Turks can
succeed in the domain of business"
Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King
Of the HedjaZ, has to deal with an
other serious revolt, led by that in
rebel, Feisal Ed DawiSh.
The Japanese government has issued
a decree abolishing control over the
expectation Of gold, effective January
IL, next.
On November II, Pascual Ortiz Rubio,
candidate of the National Revolution
Try party. was elected President of Mex I
Co by an overwhelming majority. His
opponents of the Anti-re-electioniSt
allege much fraud and intimidation by
he Rubio party. There were Sundry
clashes, involving perhaps a dozen dead I
Ind score or so wounded.