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Show NEWS REVIEW OF GUIfflT EVENTS Secretary Kellogg States Administration Policy in China Mix-Up. By EDWARD W. PICKARD AMERICAN lives and property in China will be protected by the government of the United States so long as the Chinese authorities fail to protect them, and Admiral Williams, In command of the naval forces sent there, has broad instructions to act either alone or in co-operation with the forces of other powers. Out" government, gov-ernment, however, feels sincere friendship for China and looks with sympathy on the efforts of the Chinese Chi-nese to reorganize their government, and is ready to negotiate new treaties treat-ies with tliem as soon as conditions are right. Such, briefly, is the administration's - policy as set forth by Secretary of State Kellogg in a public statement which was cabled to China and other countries. "The government of the United States," says the secretary, "has watched with sympathetic interest the nationalist ic awakening of China and welcomes every advance made by the Chinese people toward reorganizing their system of government. . . . "The government of the United States expects, however, that the people peo-ple of China nnd their leaders will recognize the right of -American citizens citi-zens in China to protection of life and property during the period of conflict for which they are not responsible. re-sponsible. In the event that the Chinese Chi-nese authorities are unable to afford such protection It is, of course, the fundamental duty of the United States to protect the lives and property of Its citizens. It is with the possible necessity for this in view that American Ameri-can naval forces are now In Chinese waters. "This government- wishes to deal with China in a most liberal spirit. It holds no concessions in China and has never manifested any Imperialistic Imperialis-tic attitude toward that country. It desires, however, that its citizens be given equal opportunity with the citizens citi-zens of the other powers to reside in China, and to pursue their legitimate occupations without special privileges, privi-leges, monopolies, or spheres of special spe-cial interest or influence." Great Britain has recognized the growth of Chinese nationalism and the necessity for revising the unequal treaties now existing, but she is determined de-termined that the British concession at Shanghai shall not be taken from her by force. Therefore 15,000 or more troops are being sent there from England Eng-land and India, the forces including airplanes, tank corps, hospital ship and nurse nnd medical units. The first of these troops to arrive in Shanghai were the royal Indian Pun-Jab Pun-Jab troops from Hongkong. A thousand thou-sand marines led the movement from England, and they were followed rapidly rap-idly by other detachments. The foreign for-eign concessions a( Shanghai were surrounded by strong barbed wire entanglements, en-tanglements, at! approaches were covered cov-ered by heavy artillery and machine guns, great stores of munitions were laid in and warehouses and public buildings were turned Into barracks. The foreign settlement authorities planned the establishment of a neutral neu-tral area live miles wide about the city, and the conservative leaders of the Chinese nationalists indorsed this idea, asking I'nited S'ates Consul General Causs to undertake establishment establish-ment of such a zone. They said the landing of British troops was likely to precipitate nnti fnrelcnism and that the Canrotiese v.vrc ready to agree not to advaeoe their (roups nearer to Sh.ingi'u: than "o miles in order that peace might be preserved there. BY A unanimous vote 70 to O the st-na.te adopted t ltobinsnn resolution reso-lution imh'i-sieg crVtrnticii of th" dipu'e with Mexico iivit the ri.-ht of tr '!,'!: 'J'ivi'i;:!i ::J tn evpropr': re the pro; ci ' ii-s of American eirlzin-; icqiiiivl t(-fn:e tie Mexican consr. tutioti of 101" went Into effect. Thus the senate Is on record as opposed to the policy of the administration, which has been in effect that the right to confiscate those properties without compensation is not subject to arbitration. arbi-tration. Should the President carry out his implied threat to withdraw recognition of the Calles government he presumably would not be backed up by the senate, and the house might follow the example of the upper up-per chamber. Though they all voted for the resolution, reso-lution, some of the- senators expressed doubts of its wisdom, among them being be-ing King of Utah, Democrat, and Len-root Len-root of Wisconsin, Republican. Hefiin of Alabama broke loose again, advocating advo-cating the measure, attacking the Catholics and Reed ot Missouri and giving the discussion a political and personal color that was not warranted. war-ranted. It Is generally understood that the adoption of the resolution was brought about largely by the extensive ex-tensive campaign of propaganda carried car-ried on by Protestant church organizations. organi-zations. It is a re-affirmation of the national desire of America to settle quarrels by arbitration rather than by arms, but its practical benefit in this particular case is doubtful. Probability Prob-ability of war with Mexico was and is most remote, nnd even in Mexico the government authorities seem to think their government will not accept ac-cept the conditions laid down by the American senate as necessary for arbitration. ar-bitration. What effect the senate's action may have on American politics and the next Presidential campaign is a matter of conjecture. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg appear ap-pear to have been willing that the senate should relieve them of the responsibility re-sponsibility of selecting a course to be pursued by the administration in dealing with an exceedingly troublesome trouble-some controversy. Insurgent Catholics In Mexico have been defeated In numerous engagements,. engage-ments,. nnd now the rebels are putting forth statements seeking to enlist the sympathy of Americans and other foreigners. for-eigners. tTOUSE and senate conferees agreed on a new radio bill whose passage seemed assured. It creates a radio commission of five members, one from each of five zones Into which the country is divided. They are appointed ap-pointed by the President nnd receive a salary of $10,000 each for the first year and $30 a day thereafter while engaged on the work of the body.' The commission during Its first year Is given power to classify radio stations, sta-tions, prescribe the nature of the service to be rendered by each class of licensed stations nnd each station within any class, assign bands of frequencies fre-quencies of wave lengths, determine the location of classes of stations or individual stations, regulate the kind of apparatus to be used by stations, make such regulations as It may deem necessary to prevent Interference between be-tween stations, establish areas or zones to be served by any station, nnd make special regulations applicable to radio stations-engaged In chain broadcasting. broad-casting. After the first year the commission com-mission becomes an appellate body, the Department of Commerce assuming assum-ing original Jurisdiction ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ANDREWS and Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair reported to the senate concern lag the activities of "under cover" agents of the prohibition unit. They admitted and partly justified three outstanding Instances of the methods of those agencies, but disavowed the adoption of a noiley of "enforcement by entrapment." The report revealed the fact that Federal Judge Frank Cooper of the Northern district of New York had suggested one entrapment entrap-ment scheme to catch liquor smugglers smug-glers on the Canadian border and later la-ter bad infii'-ted the maximum penal-lies penal-lies on violators brought before him. Reprc.1 'dilative!" Cellar and La Cuar-(lla Cuar-(lla of New York Introduced resolutions resolu-tions for im investigation of .Tndce Cooper's nerion which may yet lead to his Impeachment. T T IIII.F. the army's good will flight V aviator.-- are making their way gradually end felrly succ-ssfully , down tie v.'i-.- t co-is of Smith Aner- ' lea, another q'tad ' on of our f a ; lias been en a similar though much j less ambitious excursion into Canada- Twelve scout planes from Selfridgn field, Michigan, flew up to Ottawa and gave a line exhibition to admiring thousands. Thence they went to Montreal, Mon-treal, and from there down the SU Lawrence river and across I,nke Ontario On-tario to Buffalo, and back to Michigan, Michi-gan, passing north of Lake Erie. Major Ma-jor Lnnpliler was in command of tha squadron. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S nomination nomina-tion of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania to be a member of the Interstate Inter-state commerce commission was rejected re-jected by the senate by a vote of 28 to 49. Confirmation was opposed by boih Republicans nnd Democrats from West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky, which states are arrayed ar-rayed against Pennsylvania In a pending pend-ing coal cargo case. A petitioner In that case is the Pittsburgh Coal company com-pany with which Mr. Woods formerly was connected. lie also admitted that he holds more than $200,000 in securities of railroads and coal concerns. con-cerns. The insurgent Republicans voted solidly against Mr. Woods. It was said at the White House that the President would accept the senate's . action as final. BEX P.. LIXDREY, founder ef th . juvenile court of Denver and u national figure, was ordered ousted from the bench of that tribunal by the Coloi-ailo Supreme court, which decided de-cided dial he was defeated In the 1024 election by Royal It. flrabam, who died more than a year ngo. Judge l.indsey declared he would continue in office until the next general election elec-tion produces a qualified successor. Other authorities thought the decision left the position vacant until tilled by appointment by the county board. OF THE several sensational court cases current last week, one came to a close when Rev. J. Frank Norris, militant pastor of Fort Worth, Texas, was acquitted of tha charge of murdering D. IC. Chlpps, friend of persons whom the minister had been attacking In sermons. The jury accepted the theory of the defense, de-fense, that Norris shot Chlpps because he thought the latter was about to kill him. The verdict was expected. Efforts to have the separation stilt of "Peaches" Browning ngalnst her millionaire husband heard In private were frustrated, so the newspaper-reading newspaper-reading public is being regaled with the unsavory details of the married life of the New Yorker and his child bride. These were bad enough In all conscience last week, and worse was predicted. The Chaplin divorce case Is for thn present a contest between the government govern-ment and Mrs. Chaplin for possession of the screen comedian's discovered funds, with Uncle Sam seemingly holding the winning hand. Mrs. Chaplin Chap-lin wants to collect the alimony allotted al-lotted her, but the government tied up the money by claims for Inoonw taxes. Charlie was allowed to post a bond and get the money he had In i New York hank, but the funds fa California remained under a lien. DATU TAMIL, a More chief, in I several hundred followers, ha been Intrenched In a fort on So i Island for some time, defying 1:1 members of the Philippine coiislrilci lary. This Is not an unusual occurrence, occur-rence, but Is made especially Interesting Interest-ing by the fact that one of the I lain' i wives Is Princess Tarhata Klrani. daughter of the sultan of Srilu and not long ago n coed In rhe I'nlvcrsitv of Illinois. She sought to ilb'suaito her husband from revolt log. j nd. faM Ing, cast In her lot ith 1:1s. T'' constabulary commander delayed hU attack on the rebels because he feared fchc would be killed and that thli would cause a genera) uprising t tills wrl'lng the outcome of the Ta!r Is not knoivn. LYMAN .1. HACK, secretary of tin-treasury tin-treasury mirier presidents McKh,. ley and Roosevelt and for many years a leading banker In Chicago, is dead at his home in point Loma, Calif., at the age of ninety. One of his notable achlever.ients was the popularizing of i the American war loan during i'ie Slianisli-Amerlcari war In ISilS. Tlie entire loan of Si'On.oofi.rvKi was soli cribed In amounts of less than .?..Vkj I by more than .TJO.OOO persons. |