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Show T : : : : News Review of Current Events the World Over ., .... ' Japanese Defeat Chinese in Bloody Battle While , League Council and Dawes Seek Road to Peace. Dy EDWARD W. PICKARD H)V to bring to an end the unofficial un-official war between Japan and China was the problem that was taken up again by the council of the Leaeue of Na- I: V- . 1 Hons at Its meeting meet-ing ln Purls. And, coin cl den tally, there was the job of extricating the league from the unpleasant un-pleasant situation created by Japan's flat refusal to obey Its orders. The distinguished dis-tinguished d 1 p I o-mats o-mats were aided In husband. It Is likely that the Arkansas Ar-kansas Democrats will nominate her for the special election to be called and In thnt case she Is certain to be elected to fill out the unexpired unex-pired term. -v The wet bloc In the house of representatives will gain another vote through the nomination-of Donald Don-ald McLean by the Republicans of the Fifth district of New Jersey to complete the term of the late Ernest Ern-est It. Ackerman. He will contest for the seat with Percy H. Stewart, Democratic nominee, at a special election December 1. Both the gentlemen gen-tlemen ore advocates of revision or repeal of prohibition, while Mr. Ack-t erman was a Republican dry. The district Is normally Republican. -. j PRESIDENT HOOVER announced that he had accepted the resignation resig-nation of Henry P. Fletcher as chair- r said In New York he would light extradition. ex-tradition. The author and Marie Bergain, one of the committee, already al-ready had been indicted for mlscon-' duct in a Kentucky hotel. MAlTATMA GANDHI Informed the British government that unless it did something for India by' December I he would sail for Bombay on ' December 4 to lead a new and greater civil disobedience movement In that country. In that case It is likely he will order a social, so-cial, as well as a commercial boycott boy-cott ' against r the British, which ; would mean that no Indians would work for. British individuals. British troops were sent to Kashmir Kash-mir recently to help put down a Moslem revolt In that Indian state, and the Russian government protests, pro-tests, considering the military movement move-ment as a distinct menace to Its frontier. ,' In consequence Moscow made threats against Afghanistan which led the Afghan' government to ask Turkey for the services of a military mission to reorganize Its army. And Sir llarl Singh, mahara-Jan mahara-Jan of Kashmir, objects to the British Brit-ish taking charge of bis country. XT ONE "of the "party; leaders In ' '"Washington" now seem to doubt that there will be legislation' to In- crease federal taxes, for the deficit at the end of the present fiscal year will be too big to be taken care of by further bond Issues. Senator Jim Watson of Indiana, majority leader of the senate, said a tax increase was "Inescapable," and as hehad Just been In "conference with -the President It was assumed this was the, opinion of Mr. Hoover. Senator Smoot of Utah,' chairman of the finance committee, admitted there would have to be further taxation and thought It might be possible to obtain passage of a sales tax. Senator Sen-ator Fess of Ohio said : "The budget must be balanced even if 'we are compelled to take drastic measures such as was done In England. One line of effort is reductions which are being mnde so as to reduce the outlay. The other must be increase In revenue. I also believe that there will be enacted excise taxes on -certain articles." Senator Bingham of Connecticut advocates restoration o'f nuisance taxes, especially on soft drinks. The "progressive" Repub . . . their task by Am-Ambassador Am-Ambassador bu8aiu,or Dawes, Dawes who wll n(trnct. ed to proceed from London to act as ambassador observer. While the council discussed, de-hntxt de-hntxt anil rnn furred trio Jnnimesn man of the federal tariff commission to take effect on November 30. Mr. Fletcher some time ago Indicated his wish to resign, but at the President's Presi-dent's request remained In office. He had served since the commission's organization, 14 months ago. In submitting his resignation Mr. Fletcher appended a report of the commission's work, showing that by November 30 Its docket would be cleared of all applications and senate sen-ate requests for Information. GERMANY and France, represented repre-sented by Secretary of State Buelow and M. Briand, reached an agreement on the formula' by which the Germans should call for a moratorium mora-torium pn reparations under the terms of the- Young plan, and the. text of the request was presented to .the world bank at Basel after the American and British representatives representa-tives In Berlin had been shown the letter. The German government asks the world bank and the International Interna-tional powers, to Investigate her ability abil-ity to pay the reparations and to help Germany formulate a piai to . pay, her private debts. The latest report of the Relchsbank shows that despite a favorable trade balance achieved by Germany In October, the Relchsbank Is still very short of foreign currency. DINO GRAND1, brilliant young foreign minister of Italy and the mouthpiece of Premier Musso-. tint, has had his three days of con- troops went right along with their program In Manchuria. Gen, Ma Chan-shun, commander of the Chinese Chi-nese army in ; Hellungklang province, prov-ince, was ordered by General I Ion Jo, Japanese commander, to wlihilriw his troops from Anganchl and Tsltsl-har, Tsltsl-har, the latter the capital of the province: Ma refused to obey and the Japunese opened a fierce attack with all arms. Including bombing planes which dispersed the Chinese cavalry. In, bitterly cold weather the battle raged for many hours ind the Chinese were finally forced out of both the cities named. In this operation the Japanese troops advanced ad-vanced 'within the" sphere of Influ. ence of Soviet Russia for the firs! time, and as Moscow had warned them against doing this. It was believed be-lieved the result might be momen-tus.- .In this -big battle along the Nonni ,rJ.yer,.both aides were reported report-ed to have sustained heavy .casualties. .casual-ties. .' ' "Anticipating ' a Russian protest1, Japan notified Moscow that It held the-Chinese Eastern railway partly responsible for1 the hostilities' because be-cause it had : transported Chinese roops., , ' . 1 IN PARIS General Dawes was . much more than an observer. Indeed, In-deed, he was the central figure and it was hoped that In his talks with Tsuneo Matsudalra, Japanese ambassador am-bassador to London, a compromise might be worked out. Dawes also had a long conversation with Dr Alfred r.e,' Chlrfese delegate, which both of them said was most profitable. profit-able. There were rumors that the. United States' had ceme to the con elusion that Japan's contentions should' be upheld, and the league officials were" worried. But these stories 1 were'- refuted ' by a stated merit from Secretary of State'Stlm son. to the eftect that the United States stood firmly on the question of . treaties and had not. thus far i committed Itself In any way. Dawes . arid the council were trying to gatb- llcans are calling for higher in-come in-come taxes tn the higher brackets, and there may be little opposition to thls.In either party. v" . . ; .. Democratic leaders had less fo say, for their program Is not yej settled. Anyhow they expect the ad-' ministration to recommend the tax Increase and thus shoulder the re sponslbillty, after which they ctin decided how they think the deficit Should be met. AMERICAN exporters, already worried by the seeming certainty certain-ty of British tariff legislation, were further dismayed by the news that the Turkish' government had Issued a deeiee- drastically limiting the importation of 1,000 articles,'- no consideration: being given to merchandise mer-chandise In customs or . en route. America Is hit by limits placed on such articles as automobiles, motion mo-tion picture films, camera films, automobile au-tomobile tires nd radios. Comparatively Compara-tively small amounts of these articles ar-ticles will be permitted to enter the country during November and De-. cember, and new quotas, will be. fixed for succeeding months. . MORE, trouble has come upon the bureau of prohfbitlori through the killing of a yottth In Eiigle-' wood. Colo., by Henry Dlerks, a'dry agent.. The - people,-. - f ll"-ipM!4"' iSiBUaBaal BBSBSaiaaP versatlons wit h President Hoover and departed from Washington, Well satisfied. The results re-sults of the talks have not been made public at this time of writing, but It Is known that the chief topic was disarmament. dis-armament. In which Mr. Hoover and II . ' Duce are deeply, in-u0usto in-u0usto RoMO terested. Grandr brought with him SIgnor Augusto Rosso as one of ills chief advisers,-because advisers,-because Rosso is an expert on naval affairs and Italy is especially concerned with the comparative strength of her navy. SIgnor Ilosso is .at present chief of the Italian foreign for-eign office division that deals with the League, of Nations, and there have been bints that he might be a future ambassador to Washington. Signor Grand! was gratified with the news , that . Aristide Brinnd, as head of the league council, had declared de-clared olIiefBlly that the one-year armament building truce Js in- effect as of November 1, for this, truce was the suggestion of Grandlthough out there are greatly great-ly aroused." and the bureau started an investigation of the affair. Dierks, in making a raid, found the young man, Mil ford Smith. In possession of a bottle of wine and In a struggle with him clubbed hfm to er the real facts In the controversy, and . Japan was asked to stut'e In "detail "de-tail Just what she denmnded from China, There was a report that Dawes and Sir. John .Simon, British foreign minister, were contemplating contemplat-ing Invoking the nine power treaty Signed at 'Washington In 1922. - Aristide Briand, president of the council;- though exhausted to the point of illness, -was as -busy as Duwes, especially In negotiations with Kenklchl Yoshlzawa, the Japanese Jap-anese delegate and his close friend. From Nanking came two Important Impor-tant Items of news. One was that the Kuomlntang congress had declared de-clared In favor of war on Japan In case the league should fail to settle the quarrel. The other was the statement of the nationalist government govern-ment that 'It' would 'regard any Man-churlan"- government- headedT by Hsuan Twng. former emperor, otherwise other-wise Henry Pu-yl, as a "seditious .Institution" and would repudiate all Its acts. Hsuan Tung was taken to Mukden by the Japanese, who presumably' Intended to make him a puppet' emperor of thnt country, but what' had become1 of him wasun--.known.---He was said to have declared de-clared he would commit suicide rather than serve. as a tool of Japan. WHE?f congress assembles there will be aga a woman member mem-ber of the senate, for Mrs. Thad-deus Thad-deus H. Caraw;ay has been appolnt- deuth. The city - . council of JSngle- Henry D.erks wood passed and sent to the bureau in Washington a resolution in which were set forth some of the Incidents In Dierks career: It charged that Dlerks, while acting as an undercover under-cover mun a few years ago, had employed em-ployed a seventeen-year-old girl as an Informer; that he had .got drunk collecting evidence In a raid and Hint In 1930 he had clubbed a helpless help-less prisoner with his revolver,. Howard How-ard T. Jones, nssistant director of prohibition, said this was all news to the bureau and that there was nothing lu Its records to the dis- he called It "an American-Latin Idea."- In his talks wlththe correspondents cor-respondents he said: "We. think In Italy that the question of disarmament disarma-ment is the most': Important ques- tlon existing now In the relations between countries, and ..that It Is high time for everybody to ' reach some practical result: , Askeoi. for bis views on war debts and repara- . tlons, he called attention to Mussolini's Musso-lini's statement In 1022 that war. debts and reparations were dependent depend-ent upon each other and should be scaled down. ' ed to - succeed ' her late husband tern I porartly . as semi- -' tor from Arkansas The only other woman senator we have had was Mrs Rebecca Felton of j Georgia, who held the office nominally and for but a short time. Mrs. Caraway, Cara-way, however, may Vv': i &aTTI . ; lafianllilf iiflV.'- THEODORE DREISER, eminent author, and the- other members of the self-appointed committee that went to Kentucky to Investigate the alleged 111 treatment of coul miners in Bell county got themselves Into a peck of trouble if the authorities of that state can get hold of them. The irrand Jury In Rell county Indicted Dreiser and his nine companions on charges of criminal syndicalism, accusing ac-cusing them of seeking to promulgate promul-gate a reign of terror and of sag Resting disorders and resistance to the state and federal governments. Conviction carries a penalty of not more than twenty-one years' Imprisonment Impris-onment a fine of $10,000 or less, or both. The commonwealth's attorney announced an-nounced ha won!d seek to extradite the alliced MTprulers, and Dreiser credit of Dierks. According to the Englewood police, po-lice, Dierks" fractured Smith's skull with a blow with the butt of his revolver and. then placed him In Jail where "he remained nine hours without medical attention. Smith died soon after being taken to a hospital. PHILIP SNOWDEN, who served ably In the house of commons for a quarter of a century and for two terms was chancellor of the exchequer, ex-chequer, has been created a viscount vis-count by King George and elevated to the bouse of peers so -that he may hold the office of lord privy seaV In the national government. He declined de-clined to run for re-election to the lower house because of III health. ia 1931 WcMtrra Nowtoapar Union.) be expected to be M an active member, r' ' for she was a close carawa" student of politics and government during the long public life of her |