The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-06-15

y = railway on the east
~! and the Peiping-
@ lss Suiyuan railway on
-, -. the west; for disso-
~....,s"s luton Of the Chi
nese volunteer corps
In this area and for resumption Of
rail traffic between Peiping and
Shanghaikwan.
Just before the signing Of the truce
the banner Of revolt against the
Chinese Nationalist government was
raised by Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang, usu-
ally alluded to as the christian
general" Feng denounced Gen.
Chang Kai-shek, the dictator, as
a traitor and announced himself as
commander-in-chief of the peoples
anti-Japanese army" He had been
recruiting large force at Kalgan
and it is believed he was acting in
close cooperation with the army
Of Canton, which was reported to
be moving to the northward. In
Tientsin it was thought that Feng
must have been receiving large sup
plies of arms and ammunition from
the Russians of Mongolia by the old
caravan route from Urga.
The Nationalist government is-
sued declaration that the Tangku
truce.is entirely local and of tenn
porary nature.
ut Is not incompatible with the
declared policy Of continuing sus-
tanned resistance and efforts for the
recovery Of lost territories" the
statement said.
1T is absolutely impossible for
the National government to agree to
an ignominious surrender since the
Manchurian issue is entirely out
side the sphere of the local military
truce with Peiping."
% EvERTING to the matter Of the
~ gold standard, dispatches from
Vienna tell of how, in the SEVENTEEN
congress Of the International Cham
Der Of Commerce, the United States
was bitterly denounced by Charles
Boissevain of Holland for what
he called it's Immoral monetary
course. He condemned the behavior
Of those nations which abandoned
the gold standard although unques-
tionably in a position to maintain
It." He condemned also what he de-
scribed as the Reputation" Of the
gold clause in contracts by the
United States.
In the transportation section, Ira
Campbell Of New York defended
United States shipping against what
he termed an international attempt
to rule it of the seas. American
merchant marine cannot exist with
out subsidy, he said, and an interna-
tional agreement to abolish subsidies
would mean the abolition of Ameri-
can ships.
w. L. Runciman Of Great Britain
objected to his argument that the
American marine is needed for ma
tional defense, asserting such argu-
ment is out Of place in a commercial
congress.
War debts also came up for dis
cussion, w. Ell. Coates, British del
egate, asserting that they must be
settled before it would be possible
to improve world economic condi-
lions.
r ANSING state penitentiary near.
- Leavenworth, Kan, was the
scene Of sensational escape of II
convicts who were led by Wilbur I'm
derhill, lifer and one OF the most
desperate outlaws of the Southwest.
During a baseball game Warden
Prather and two guards were seized,
used as shields and forced to accom-,
pany the fleeing convicts over the
wall. Other guards were disarmed
and the men got away In the car of
the prison farm superintendent,
keeping their prisoners with them
as hostages until hours later. when
they were released in Oklahoma. In
their flight they Communicated two
other cars and captured three wom-
en- who were set free near Pleas
anton, Kan.
OK bandits held up the State Ex-
y change bank of Culver, Ind, and
fled in an automobile with $4,000.
But the men of the town had been
trained as vigilantes and, receiving
word Of the crime, they modified
Immediately under command of
Captain Obenauf of the Culver Mil
itary academy and went into action.
Result: All six bandits were cap
tured. one of them being fatally
wounded, and the loot was recov-
cred.
9. 1888. western Newspaper Union