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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Colombia Treaty Ratified by the Republican Senators With Reluctance. MUCH GIVEN, NOTHING ASKED "resident Says We Will Fight to Maintain Main-tain Monroe Doctrine Japanese Cabinet Refuses to Yield on Yap Allies Preparing Further Coercion for Germany. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Ratification of the Colombia treaty, by a reluctant senate, did not evoke many loud cheers In the United States. Democrats for years had urged the adoption of the pact as a virtual repudiation re-pudiation of the acts of Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay in connection with the separation of Panama from Colombia. The Harding administration administra-tion urged it, not on that ground, but because it believed this sop to Colombia Colom-bia would help to restore amicable feelings toward the United States on the part of the Latin-American peo-plesi, peo-plesi, and also because Americans wish to develop oil fields in Colombia. All but four of the Democratic senators voted for the treaty, presumably for their old reasons. Forty Republicans obeyed the behest of the admlnlstrar tion, most of them because they hesitated hesi-tated to break with it' on an important issue so soon after the beginning of Mr. Harding's regime. Fifteen Republican Repub-lican senators refused to turn so squarely against the policy of their party and voted against ratification after putting up a strong fight, in the course of which they tried to amend the pact by provision that nothing In It should be regarded as a confession of wrongdoing by Roosevelt in the acquisition ac-quisition of the Canal Zone. Colombia will now greedily seize the gifts made her $25,000,000 and valuable privileges In the use of the Panama canal and gives practically nothing In return, not even assurance of fair treatment for our capitalists who may invest in her oil fields. If most of the money does not stick to the palms of the grafting politicians of Colombia there will be a complete reversal re-versal of custom. More important, there Is little reason to believe this treaty will lessen the hatred of the United States which Is the prevailing sentiment throughout most of Latin-America. Latin-America. This statement is based on the opinions of men who are thoroughly thor-oughly familiar with the Latin-Americans. In pursuance of his policy of conciliation con-ciliation President Harding delivered a happy address on Tuesday on the occasion oc-casion of the unveiling, in New Tork, of a statue of Bolivar the Liberator. The day was the anniversary of botli the Battle of Lexington and the opening open-ing of the final campaign which resulted re-sulted in the Independence of Venezuela. Vene-zuela. Naturally the Monroe doctrine was ihe subject of the main part of the President's speech, and of It he said: "The doctrine proclaimed under Monroe, which ever since has been JeiUously guarded as a fundamental of our own republic, maintained that these continents should not again be regarded as fields for the colonial enterprises en-terprises of old world powers. "There have been times when the meaning of Monroeism was misunderstood misunder-stood by some, perverted by others, and made the subject of distorting propaganda by those who saw in it an obstacle to their own ambitions. "The history of the generations since that doctrine was proclaimed lias proved we never intended It selfishly; self-ishly; that we had no dream of exploitation. ex-ploitation. "On the other side, the history of the last decade certainly must have convinced all the world that we stand willing to fight, If necessary', to project pro-ject these continents, these sturdy J young democracies, from oppression and tyranny." The government of the United States has decided that Gen. Alfredo Zayas, candidate of the conservative-popular conservative-popular coalition party, was elected President of Cuba last November and that nothing should be done to prevent the island congress from proclaiming him President. Boaz Long, American minister to Cuba, communicated this decision to the Cubans and It was expected ex-pected they would abide by It. Our government also took further action In the Panama-Costa Rica dispute, dis-pute, letting both those nations understand un-derstand that the refusal of Panama to accept the White boundary award, insisted upon by the American government, govern-ment, must not be made the basis for the renewal of hostilities. Both these little republics, it is understood, are mobilizing their forces and breathing fire. Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, Guate-mala, comprising the new Central American union, have assured Costa Rica of their support. According to the Tokyo newspapers, the Japanese cabinet has decided that there is no reason to change Japan's policy on the Yap mandate because of the recent American note on the subject. Public opinion In Japan is increasingly against any yielding In the controversy, and no one In the United States believes out administration administra-tion will give an inch. Official information infor-mation has reached Washington that the conscription and universal military mili-tary training laws of Japan are being applied more rigidly, and that all Japanese officers stationed in the Pacific Pa-cific islands south of the equator and in the East Indies have been recalled to Japan,, and all Japanese between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-seven thirty-seven without previous service have been ordered to return to Japan for military training. Former Secretary of the Navy Daniels, In an address at Memphis, said : "America cannot surrender the Yap cables even If it should mean war with Japan. . . . No matter what it may cost, and that may be war, I cannot imagine that a peaceful settlement of the Yap situation situ-ation with Japan will be found." All of this sounds rather warlike. But the allied powers In Europe seem Inclined to side with the United States In the controversy, and reliable obeservers believe that if they do consent to exclude Yap from the Japanese Jap-anese mandate, Japan will be forced to bow to such a decision. Fighting has broken out between the armies of north and south China, and it is feared in Peking that It Is the precursor of renewed civil war. The eight military governors of the Yangtse valley have combined against Gen. Chang Tsoling, war lord of the northern government and alleged ally of Japan and Semenoff. Chang is suspected sus-pected of a scheme to restore the monarchy. mon-archy. Premier Lloyd George held a conference con-ference during the week-end with Premier Briand of France concerning concern-ing the further coercive measures against the Germans to be adopted In case they do not comply with the reparations demands on May 1 as they almost certainly will not do. What these measures will be is not yet known, but it is reasonably sure that Great Britain will support France in Ihe occupation of the Ruhr district. The reparations commission ordered Germany to transfer the gold holdings of the German imperial bank to Its Cohlenz and Cologne branches as security se-curity for payment of reparations. This Germany refused to do. Berlin last week pleaded with President Presi-dent Harding to. act as mediator In the reparation dispute, promising to pay what he might determine was Just. The president declined to act, but said If Germany would formulate new proposals he would consider bringing bring-ing the matter to the attention of the allied governments. Premature, to sny the least, was the report of a week ago that the miners' federation of Great Britain had called off the strike. The story was based on a false cablegram. The transport and rail workers, Indeed, did change their minds and decided not to quit work In sympathy, but the min ers, though somewhat disconcerted by tliis split in the triple alliance, are still standing firm at this writing. New proposals were made by the mine owners, but the federation declared de-clared they were too vague to form a basis for negotiations. The miners assert as-sert that their own present proposals are entirely clear a national wage board with a national tonnage levy to enable the poorer pits to pay the rates of wages agreed upon out of funds contributed through the levy by the miners and mine owners. The government, It is said by well-posted well-posted persons, Is confident that It will be able to keep the nation's coal needs supplied even if the strike continues. There Is enough coal on hand in England to last for three months, and plenty more to be obtained ob-tained from other countries. Twenty leaders of the British Protestant Prot-estant church recently sent to the premier a memorial protesting against the disorders in Ireland. In replying to them Lloyd George made an important im-portant declaration. Firar; answering their allegations in order, he denied the existence of irregular forces which had no discipline ; that there were unauthorized reprisals, and all other charges against the crown forces. He quoted figures showing that police and soldiers were punished for breaches of discipline and appealed for public support for the "sorely tried men who are trying to preserve order In a country given up to anarchy." He then dealt with the Sinn Fein in this manner : "The Sinn Fein rejected home role and demanded In Its place an Irish republic for the whole of Ireland. The Sinn Fein went further. It deliberate ly set to work to destroy conciliation and constitutional methods because It recognized that violence was the only method by which It could realize the republic. "If I thought there was a different policy, which would lead to a solution solu-tion of our difficulties, I would not hesitate to adopt it, however different it might be to the course the government govern-ment now is pursuing. "The government of which I am at the head will never give way on the fundamental question of secession. So long, therefore, as the Sinn Fein demands de-mands a republic and refuses to accept, ac-cept, loyally, membership In the British Brit-ish commonwealth, coupled with the fullest home rule compatible to conceding con-ceding Ulster the same rights It claims for Itself, the present evils will continue. con-tinue. I do not wish there to be any misunderstanding on that point." The Greeks and the Turkish nationalists nation-alists have resumed operations in Asia Minor. The former, having reorganized reorgan-ized their army, are carrying on an offensive on the Brusa front with Eskishehr as their main objective. The Turks are making a show of resistance re-sistance without really giving battle and meanwhile are using most of their forces in an advance on Smyrna. At last reports they were only 00 miles from that city. The Kemallts, however, how-ever, are not entirely happy, for they are beginning to realize the perfidy of their allies, the Russian Bolsheviki. The shamelessly faithless Reds are not giving the aid promised in the treaty, and are demanding from the Turks further concessions with regard to the settlement of Near Fast questions. ques-tions. The bootlegging industry of the United States was dealt a severe blow last week when the Canadian province of Ontario, by a majority of more than 150,000. voted for the application of the Dominion law prohibiting the Importation Im-portation of liquor from any province, state or country. There has been a steady stream of liquor smuggled into the United States from Canada, the amount brought In across the Detroit river alone being estimated at 1,000 cases a day. Much of this will now be stopped, and what Is brought across will be much more expensive. New York city Is In agony these days because the new state prohibition prohibi-tion law Is being enforced In the metropolis, which had come to consider con-sider Itself exempt from such laws that the rest of the country was supposed sup-posed to observe. The police there are feverishly active and great quantities of liquor have been confiscated. |