Show news review of current events the world over japanese defeat chinese in bloody battle while league council and dawes seek road to peace by EDWARD W PICKARD HOW hein OW to bring brine to an end the unofficial war between japan and china was waa the th problem that was taken up again by the council of the league of nations at its meeting in pirla and coincidentally dentally there was tho the job of extricating the league from the unpleasant situation al t created by japans flat refusal to oboy its orders the distinguished diplomats were aided in their task by Anibas ambassador dawes who was ina instructed strutted ted to proceed ambassador Ambs k from london to act as aa dawes r american observer while the council dIn discussed cussed debated and conferred the japanese troops went right along with their program in manchuria gen ma ila chan shan commander of the chinese army in province was ordered by general alonjo japanese commander to withdraw his troops from and TsI tilhar the latter the capital of the province ma ila refused to obey and the japanese opened a fierce attack with all arms including bombing planes which dispersed the chineth cavalry in bitterly cold weather we the bottle battle raged for many hours and the chinese were finally forced out of both the cities named in this operation the japanese troops advanced within the sphere of influence of soviet russia for the first time and na as moscow had warned them against doing this it was believed the result might be momentous in this big battle along tile the river both sides were reported to have sustained heavy casualties anticipating a russian protest japan notified moscow that it held the chinese Tn eastern stern rall railway wily partly responsible for tho the hostilities because it had transported transport pd chinese troops N PARIS general dawes was much I 1 IN more than an observer indeed b he e was the central figure and it was hoped that in his talks with tsuneo matsudaira Matsud alra japanese ambassador to london a compromise might be w worked out dawes nago had a long convers conversation nilon with dr alfred sze chinese delegate which both of them thein said was most profitable there were rumors ors that the united states had come to the conclusion that Ja japans contentions should be upheld and the league offie officials fills were worried but these stories were refuted by n statement from secretary of state St linson to tile the effect that the united states stood firmly on the question of treaties and had not thus fur committed itself in any way dawes and the council were trying to gather the real facts in the controversy and japan was asked to 6 tate state in detail just what she demand ed from china there was a report that dawes and sir john simon british foreign minister were ere contemplating invoking invoicing the nine power treaty signed fit at washington in 1022 aristide barland president of the council though exhausted to the point of illness was as busy as dawes especially ally in negotiations with Kenk lehl the japanese delegate and his close friend from came two important items of news one was wag that the congress had deel declared tired in favor of war on japan in case the league should fall to settle the quarrel the other was ans tile the statement of the nationalist government that it would regard any manchurian Manc lanc hurlan government headed by filsann former emperor otherwise henry luyi lu pu yi as a seditious institution tind would repudiate pul linte all its acts hsuan tung was taken to mukden by the he japanese w who ho presumably intended to make him of that country r n t puppet emperor hut but what had become of him was unknown lie was said to have declared be would commit suicide rather than berye as a toot tool of japan congress assembles there will be again a woman member of the senate for mrs hrs thaddeus 11 II caraway has been appointed to succeed ce edher her late inte hufhand temporarily as senator 3 from arkansas 1 the only other oilier woman senator we have i find bad was mrs airs Ite rebecca becca j felton of G cong la who held the oance e nominally and for hut but ti t i C a short time mrs airs caraway however may be expected to he be an active hie member as for she was a close M lra ra T H student of politics les caraway and government dur dor ing the long public life of tier her husband it Is likely that the lie arkansas democrats atil nominate tier her for the special alef akon to lie be called and in that lint case slip U i certain to he be elected to I 1 ill out the tin expired term terin nip wet net woe bloc in the house of cepro wali gain geln anellier ani illier vote through the nomination atif if donald mclean by the republicans of the fifth district nf nv new jersey lo 10 com the term of the late ernest 11 ackerman lie ile will contest for th the seat with percy n H stewart democratic crat nominee nomIne 6 nt it a special election of december 1 both the gentlemen are advocates of revision or repeal of prohibition hibi tion while mr ackerman was r n republican dry tho the district la is normally republican IDENT HOOVER announced PlIES PRESIDENT that lie he had accepted the resignation of henry 11 pletcher fietcher as aa chairman of the federal tariff commission to take effect on november 30 mr fletcher fietcher some time ago lall anted ills his wish to resign but at the presidents request remained in office he had served since the commissions organization 14 months ngo ago in submitting his resignation mr air fletcher fietcher appended a report of the commissions work showing that by november SO 30 its docket would be cleared of all applications and senate requests for information and france represented ged GERMANY by secretary of state buelow and al briand reached tin an agreement on the formula by which which the germans should call for a moratorium on reparations under the terms of the young plan and the text of the request was presented to the world banu bank nt at basel after the american and Bri british tishi representatives senta tives in berlin had been shown the letter the german government asks the world bank and the international powers to investigate her ability to pay the reparations and to help germany formulate a plan to pay her private debts the latest report of the shows that despite a favorable trade balance achieved by y germany in october the Is still very short of foreign currency I 1 DINO deign INO GRANDI brilliant young foreign minister of italy and the mouthpiece of premier mussolini has had his three days of conversations with president hoover and departed from washington well satisfied the results of the talks have not been made public at the time of writing but it is known that the chief topic was disarm disarmament amen t in which both mr hoover and 11 II duce are deeply interested te grandl brought wit with h him 1 in arguto to rosso signor augusto auguste rosso abone as one of his chief advisers because rosso is an expert on naval affairs and italy is especially concerned with the comparative strength of her navy signor rosso Is at present chief of the italian foreign office division that deals with the league of nations and there have been hints that lie he might be a future ambassador to washington signor grandt grandl was gratified with the news that aristide urland briand as head of the league council had declared officially cfall that the one year armament building truce bruce Is in effect as of november 1 for this truce was the suggestion of grandl though lie called it an american latin idea in ills his talks with the correspondents he said we think in it italy aly that the question of disarmament Is the most important guest question lon existing abw in the relations between countries and that it Is high time for everybody to reach some practical result asked for his views on war debts and reparations lie he called attention to statement in 1022 that war debts and reparations were dependent upon each other and should be scaled down THEODORE T ll EODORE DREISER eminent author and the other members of the self committee that went to kentucky to investigate the alleged III treatment of coal miners in bell county got themselves into a peck of trouble if the authorities of that state can get hold of them the grand jury in bell county indicted dreiser and his nine companions on charges of ealm flint syndicalism ac accusing accusia cusin them of seeking to promulgate a reign of terror and of suggesting disorders and resistance to the state and federal governments ern ments conviction carries a penalty of not more than twenty one years imprisonment a fine of or less or both the coin commonwealths attorney announced he would seek to extradite the alleged offenders and dreiser said in new york lie he would tight fight extradition the author tin and d baarle be bergain r one of the committee already had been indicted abr misconduct tn in a kentucky hotel SNOWDEN who served P PHILIP ahlf in the house of commons for a quarter of a century and for two terms was chancellor of the exchequer has been created a viscount by wrig king george and elevated to the house of peers so that lie he may mar hold the office of lord privy seal in the national government ile he declined to run for reelection election re to the lower house because of ill health baill informed thit th M british government that unless it did something for india by december I 1 he would sail for bombay on an december 4 to lead a new and greater civil disobedience movement tin in that cob country in that case it Is likely he will order a social ns as well ns as a commercial boycott against the br british which would moan mean that no indians would work for british individuals british troops were sent to kashmir recently to help put down a moslem revolt in that I 1 indian state and the russian government protests considering si the military movement as a distinct menace to its frontier in conie consequence quence moscow made threats against afghanistan which which led the afghan go government vern ment to ask turkey for or the services of a military mission to reorganize its army and sir harl hari singh maharajah mah arajah of kashmir objects to the british taking charge of hla his country ORE trouble hag baa come upon the M MORE bureau of prohibition through the killing of a youth in englewood colo by naury dierks a dry agent henry the pe people ople 0 out u t t there h e r e are gr greatly batly aro aroused u s d and the bureau started an investigation of the affair clerks in 2 making a raid found 1 lq tile the young man milford smith in possession 4 of a bottle of wine and in a struggle with him clubbed tk ik him to death the city council of engle wood passed and sent henry dierks to the bureau in washington a resolution in which were set forth some of the incidents denta in dierks career it charged that dierks while acting as an undercover man a few years ago had employed a 17 year old girl as an informer that he had got drunk collecting evidence in a raid and that in 1930 he had clubbed a helpless prisoner with hla his revolver howard T jones assistant director of prohibition said this was nil all news to the bureau and that there was nothing in its records to the discredit of dierks according to the englewood police dierks fractured smiths skull with a blow with the butt of his revolver and then placed him in jail where he be remained nine hours without medical attention smith died soon after being taken to a hospital between the united ned negotiations states and canada for the development of the international section of the proposed st lawrence seaway reached the stage of first form formal at exchanges relating to the allocation of costs and engineering structures and it Is hoped a treaty will be ready tor for senate action early next year the state department announced that the representatives of both countries proposed to keep in touch with the respective spec tive provincial and state authorities in the consideration of the power features of the development this Is of immense interest to new york and gov franklin roosevelt who has of opposed the views of the federal administration concerning power the discussion so far has dealt with the 48 mlle mile international section extending from ogdensburg N Y to a point opposite cornwall ohio secretary stimson and canadian minister herridge Herrl dge made arrangements for reconvening of the joint engineering board which will attempt to agree on procedure in the international section ONE of the party leaders in washington hington NONE now seem to doubt that there will be legislation to increase 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 ohp senate said a tax increase was inescapable and as he lind had just been in conference with the president it was assumed this was the opinion of mr Ilo hoover oer 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 fess of ohio said eaid 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 made so as to reduce the outlay the other must be increase in revenue I 1 also believe that there will be enacted excise taxes on certain certain articles senator Bing bangham liam of connecticut advocates restoration of nuisance taxes especially on soft drinks the progressive republicans are ca calling fling for higher income taxes in the higher brackets and there may be little opposition to this in either party democratic leaders had less to say for ther their program Is not yet settled anyhow they expect the administration to recommend the tax increase and thus shoulder the responsibility after w which hleb they cnn ann decided h how 0 ff they think the deficit should be met ailed A MERICAN exporters already wor XA aled by the seeming certainty of british tariff legislation were further dismayed by the news that the turk ish government lidd had issued a decree drastically limiting the importation of 1000 articles no consideration being given to merchandise in customs or on en route america Is hit by limits placed on such articles as automo lilies motion picture flims films caf camera fiera nima automobile tires and comparatively small amounts of these articles will be permitted to enter the lie cou counti ritty during november and december and new quotas will be fixed for succeeding months 0 1931 western newspaper union |