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Show 11 f Ik II l(L r--- , 1 Demonstration of anti-aircraft guna with remote control, at tee ADeiaeen proving grounds. 2 Tannenberg national war memorial dedicated by the Germans and accepted by President Von HIndenburg. 3 Shooting of a big oil well near Jacksonville, III., where the precious fluid has been found at a depth of 330 feet. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Opponents of Obregon in Mexico Lead Revolt One Is Executed. By EDWARD W. PICI'ARD REVOLT flared up in Mexico last week, the anti-re-eleetionists in many parts of the country taking arms against the government, which supports Obregon for the presidency. Parts of the garrisons of Mexico City and Torreon and troops in the state of Vera Cruz mutinied under the leadership lead-ership of many of their officers, and there were uprisings in other towns. Gen. Arnulfo Gomez, one of Obregon's rivals for the presidency, was at the head of the entire movement, and Gen. Francisco Serrano, the other opposition opposi-tion candidate, was declared to be in full sympathy with the revolt The mutineers from the capital were soon defeated by loyal troops and Serrano, with a dozen of his aids, was either captured in Cuernavaca or seized in Mexico City and taken there secretly. The prisoners were immediately tried by court martial and shot, and the same fate was meted out to many other oth-er oflicers who were caught. Gomez, however, for a time eluded the Calles tr.oups and at this writing is reported at the head of a considerable consider-able force and marching to attack the city of Vera Cruz. lie had been joined by Gen. Hector Almada, leader of the Mexico City mutineers. Federal troops were advancing on a part of the rebel forces at Perote. unci the strong Vera Cruz garrison, commanded by Gen. Jesus Aguirre, was reported ready to meet the attack of Gomez. The prospects pros-pects at this time are that Gomez will be defeated, and if he is captured It is almost certaiu that he will be executed. exe-cuted. President Calles is apparently so strongly supported that there is small chance for the success of a rebellion. re-bellion. The greater part of the army is- loyal to him, as is the navy, and the Mexican Federation of Labor is pledged to support him. This attempted revolt- has at least cleared the presidential situation in Mexico, for since Obregon is supported support-ed by President Calles and his only two rivals are now eliminated, the election of the former president seems an absolute certainty. Immediately after the start of the uprising 25 deputies dep-uties who opposed Obregon were expelled ex-pelled by the congress. PRANK O. LOUDEN received at his " Sinissippi farm several thousand central Illinoisans who urged him to announce his candidacy for the Republican Re-publican nomination, supporting the plea already made by delegations from . Nebraska, Iowa and other states. Mr. London entertained his guests handsomely but the most they could got from him concerning his candidacy was a reiteration of his previous statement, namely : "1 know of no man in all our history who has run away from the Presidency, and no one who appreciates the solemn responsibility of that high ofliee will run aftir the Presidency." Mayor Thompson of Chicago has let it be knot, n Hint if Lowden enters the preferential primaries In Illinois, he will present himself as a candidate, and his friends said if lie did this he would capture large numbers of Southern delegates in the national convention. An immediate result of the Thompson announcement was the almost complete elimination of Chicago Chi-cago from the list of cities seeking the convention. San Francisco and Cleveland now seem to he in the lead, with Minneapolis unci Detroit still in the running. The Republican national nation-al comnrttce will decide on the location lo-cation IVceirber 0. according to Chairman lUitler. That gentleman and other members of the committee were tl e guests of President Coolicliro at a breakfast and obtained the hit-pro-si. 'ti that he was sincere in his determination not to accept renomina-lien renomina-lien ( ',,r. iVroia-os of t leaders in V,'ai::i ;:o:i I -- i : : h T out llie opinion that Co.v.r wi'll' I run heller than ii'l :l in ll e V, ! and South. tho'.:'i I lie la. tor wo ' ' have the hot ter chance to defeat Smith In New York. Frederick I. Thompson, Democrat and the publisher of five Alabama newspapers, in an Interview in New York, said the Republicans could break the solid South by nominating Hoover, providing the Democrats name Al Smith. The campaign for Smith has been actively opened In several Western states, notably Kansas Kan-sas and South Dakota. CABINET members, high army and navy officers and hundreds of other oth-er persons, gathered at the Aberdeen proving grounds, near Washington, Thursday, and witnessed demonstrations demonstra-tions of the newest things in weapons and automotive equipment, the most elaborate display of the kind since the World war. Tanks, tractors, bombs, smoke curtains, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, Held artillery, weapons and rifles were exhibited and tested. Many of the models shown have been available for some time but lack of funds has prevented their adoption. It Is hoped this condition will soon be remedied. Ordnance officers state that In the field of artillery new weapons have been produced which are far superior to the old in range, accuracy, and breadth of the field of fire. In some cases, notably that of the newly perfected per-fected 75-millimeter pack howitzer, ordnance experts say the new weapon is so far superior to the ones it was built to replace that there is virtually virtual-ly no comparison. Another example disclosed was that of the new American Amer-ican 75-millimeter gun, which, ordnance ord-nance experts say, has a range almost - twice as great as the famous French 75-millimeter gun used during the war. The newest anti-aircraft gun automatically auto-matically sights its target. It is controlled con-trolled by a sensitive instrument which detects the position of a moving mov-ing airplane by sound waves. At night a huge searchlight throws Its beam directly upon the airplane simultaneously si-multaneously with the discharge of the gun. FRANCE'S tariff increases continue to be the subject of official notes, semi-official statements and unofficial arguments and protests, and a settlement settle-ment of the controversy Is not in sight. Meanwhile our Treasury department de-partment announces the assessment of countervailing duties on certain French products, as a direct result of the higher French tariff rates. The action was mandatory under six paragraphs of the Fordney tariff act, which makes provision for countervailing coun-tervailing duties. Under these paragraphs para-graphs the articles affected bear specified rates of duty or are on the free list subject to a proviso that If any nation imposes a higher duty, imports im-ports of the particular commodity from that nation shall be subject to that rate. The same action has been taken in the case of a few German products. DESPITE the rigid censorship imposed im-posed by the Peking government, the correspondents in China have sent over enough information to prove that Peking Is in grave danger of capture cap-ture by the armies of ShansI province, prov-ince, which are allied with the southern south-ern Nationalists and are led by Yen Hsl-shan, military governor. Yen took Kalgan and the Manchurians withdrew before his advance, planning plan-ning to make a stand at the Great Wall or at the Nankow pass ahout forty-five miles northeast of Peking. Marshal Chang sent his aviation and heavy artillery units from Peking to Tientsin and it was thought he might be preparing to evacuate the capital. The situation caused considerable concern In Washington and London. Dispatches from Tokyo said the Japanese Jap-anese government was seriously considering con-sidering the sending of troops from Manchuria to Peking and Tientsin if matters in China grew worse. V losniff Ignored two friendly 1 notifications from Paris that the Se iet ambassador, Rakovsky, was pi-rsoi.a non grata, so the French gov-en:in gov-en:in nt last week formally demanded demand-ed I is recall. This step was forced b the violent press campaign against tie eor-itiikd presenee of Uakovsky. Rns-ia had made efforts to smooth I oxer the filiation b"- Increasing Its offers of debt settlement, but without avaiL DR. V. N. POLOVESA, a woman, Soviet representative of the Ru-sian Ru-sian Red Cross in London since 1921, was expelled from England by order or-der of the home office. She Is th first woman to be denied the privileges privi-leges of the country since the raid on the Russian Trading company's headquarters head-quarters by Scotland Yard men In search of propaganda. THIRTY persons, who were said to be members of a Communist lobby, lob-by, were detected trying to "bore from within" at the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in Los Angeles. One of them, Sid Bush, was arrested and booked on suspicion of criminal syndicalism. The police said Bush had In his pocket a letter from William Z. Foster, secretary of the Communist party of America, Instructing In-structing him to obtain the Introduction Introduc-tion of certain resolutions in the convention con-vention and naming the Communists with whom he was to work. One of the most important developments develop-ments at the convention was the with- -drawal of the building trade department depart-ment of the federation from association associa-tion with the national board for jurisdictional juris-dictional awards in the building industry in-dustry on the grounds that the board had failed to render definite decisions. COAL miners of Illinois and Iowa ended their long strike and went back to work, having reached a compromise com-promise with the operators whereby they are to receive temporarily the same wages as under the Jacksonville agreement A joint board is to take up the wage qeustion in each state. It was believed a similar agreement would end the strike 111 Indiana mines. THREE German aviators and an actress from Vienna started from Berlin In a huge Junkers plane to ny to America via Lisbon and the Azores. They were not after a record, rec-ord, so they stopped first at Amsterdam Amster-dam for fuel. Then, flying southward, the plane was forced to descend Into the sea off Cape Roca, -Portugal. A tug was sent to the rescue and It was announced that the plane was uninjured unin-jured and the flight would be resumed. re-sumed. William A, Yackey, war-time ace,--president of an aircraft company and a close friend of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, was killed at Maywood, III.," when a plane he was testing crashed and burst into flames. The son of a St Louis business man, Yackey was a member during the war of the Italian Ital-ian flying forces and later of the American army. GEORGE REMUS, ex-convict and former super-bootlegger, is in the limelight again. Last Thursday, as he and his wife were on their way to court in Cincinnati to settle their domestic difficulties, Remus fired a volley of bullets iuto the taxicub in which were the woman and her adopted adopt-ed daughter. Mrs. Remus sustained several wounds and died in a hospital. hos-pital. Remus had accused the woman of "framing" him and having him railroaded to the Atlanta penitentiary four years ago, and after his release she filed suit for divorce, charging cruelty. LAST week it was the turn of Great Britain and King George to entertain en-tertain the American Legion tourists known as the "good will party." and the job was well done, tin their arrival ar-rival in London the Legionnaires fon..ed in procession on the Embankment Embank-ment and, led by Tlovard P Savage, retiring commander, marched To the Cenotaph, where Mr Savage deposited depos-ited a wreath. They "then proc eeded to Westminster abbey, where another wreath was laid on the grave; of the Unknown Warrior. The tirst entertainment enter-tainment was a luncheon given by the British I.ogion and presided over by the prince of Wales, who assured t!:e Americans that they wore as weh-i me as they were ten years ago. 1 o. lowing tills was a series of fum-'.ii ns including a reception by the i;-;:g ar.d queen. Before going to England the Legionnaires Legion-naires visited Belgium and wcr warmly received by King Albert an' ijueen Elizabeth. |