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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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may ultimately develop into the vir-
tual destruction of the city.
Last week President Roosevelt is
sued an order forbidding vessels
owned by the American government
to carry arms and munitions to either
Japan or China; while the presi-
dents authority was not extended
to comprise privately-operated ships,
suggestion was made to their own
ers that they refrain from carrying
war materials to the belligerent ma
tons; it was added that if they ignored
the suggestion, they would do so
at their own risk and could not ex-
pect the protection of the United
States.
Instantly the Chinese government
protested at Washington: The order,
it was said, would injure China, while
Japan would benefit from it by vir-
tue of the fact that it is, practically,
self-supplying in regard to arms and
munitions. But the American govern
ment made it plain to that of China
that it would not recede from the
position taken.
Mediterranean Patrol.
When one speaks about the nine
power conference held at the Swiss
town of Nyon not so many days ago,
one should not be taken too literally,
for although nine nations were rep
resented, all decisions were made by
two, namely, Great Britain and
France. AS already reported, an
agreement was reached that shipping
on the Mediterranean Sea was to be
protected against submarine piracy,
and soon after the signatures had
been appended, more than one hum
dred fifty war vessels under the Brit
ish and French flag moved into posi-
ton, under instruction to shell any
submarine which showed hostile in
tentions against any non-Spanish
vessel.
Italy, not taking part in the Nyon
conference, was assigned a certain
part in the Mediterranean, but was
dissatisfied because she was not given
the privilege of sending as many
war vessels as were Great Britain and
France, so-very peeved-refused to
take any part in the patrol service
The next move was British and
French: At Geneva these two pow
ers made two decisions; one was to
expand the Nyon agreement to COM
prise not only hostile submarines, but
all hostile vessels on the surface of
the sea, all airplanes which were
about to lombard non-Spanish ship
ping The other was a decision to
abrogate the non-intervention agree
ment entered into earlier in the year
by 81 nations. It seems that Is of the
participants were not asked-Great
Britain and France acted alone, and,
practically speaking, that means that
hereafter there will be no further at
tempt made to enforce neutrality
in connection with the Spanish civil
war. For that MATERIAL such at
tempts have been rather feeble and
wholly Intellectual. The non-inter-
vention plan had been reduced to
mere fiction. Now it isn't even that!
MussOlini and Hitler.
In his final speech before the Ma
tional-Socialist congress at Nurem-
berg, Germany's chief executive,
Adolf Hitler, last week said, among
other things: Germany will inter-
vene whenever Bolshevism appears
in Europe" Words to the same eff
feet have often been uttered by Benz
to Mussolini, dictatorial prime min
lister of Italy. Both men are fascists.
Both men believe that what they
agree on characterizing as Bolshevism
| is a menace to the world-although
their definition of Bolshevism &C
tually takes in all political doctrines
that are opposed to fascistic ideas.
This week these two dictators were
TO meet-for the second time; the