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Show HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Relations With Japan Becoming Badly Strained Though There Is No Danger of War. TOKYO LEARNS U. S. SM Disclosures of Crookedness in Organized Organ-ized Baseball Arouse Indignation and Grief Poles and Baron Wrangel Still Driving the Reds Moscow Eager for Peace. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Despite the undoubted fact that the governments of the United States and Japan are earnestly striving to arrive at an amicable settlement of their differences, dif-ferences, the relations between the two nations are becoming more strained daily. This does not mean that hostilities hos-tilities will ensue such an eventuality eventual-ity is almost out of the question but the situation is giving undesirable opportunity op-portunity to the alarmists and the Jingoes of both countries and is really real-ly worrying the statesmen and those directly interested In International commerce. der wrote: "The nature of the discrimination dis-crimination is iu almost every case so subtle, notwithstanding its effectiveness, effective-ness, that it is almost impossible to take formal action. The best solution of the matter seems to-be direct transportation trans-portation of American goods in American Amer-ican ships wherever possible." The proposed California law, it is held by its proponents, would deny to the Japanese in this country no rights or privileges not denied to Americans in Japan by Japanese law. It may be as well to give here the following summary sum-mary of the chief features of the proposed pro-posed law. It says : That aliens, ineligible to citizenship citizen-ship in the United States, companies, corporations and associations, the majority ma-jority of whose stock is owned by such aliens, are authorized to own and convey con-vey land only as provided by treaty and not otherwise. That such persons, companies, corporations cor-porations and associations shall not be appointed guardians for estates consisting wholly or in part of realty, but that the public administrator or other "competent person" shall act for the minor heirs of such estates. That ownership or leases, acquired in violation of the law, shall become and remain the property of the state of California. That evasions of the law governing conveyance of property shall be punishable pun-ishable by fine, not exceeding $5,000 nor more than two years in jail or both. Governor Stephens says of it: "The hill Artao f: n el will n ff ing four nations may have been premature pre-mature or over-enthusiastic. Lithuania Lithu-ania and Poland, which were actually fighting, have not ceased yet, though they probably will before long. As for the dispute between Sweden and Finland over the Aland islands, the former nation protests that there never nev-er was any danger of hostilities, as she always settles international disputes dis-putes peaceably. Swedish officials said the quarrel with Finland would be amicably ended, though they added that Sweden never would give up the Aland islands. Both the Poles and General Wrangel continued their successful warfare on the Russian soviet forces. The former for-mer at last reports had captured the important cities of Llda and Pinsk, and were steadily advancing northeastward north-eastward toward Vilna, whose fall was expected soon. Llda is the place where Trotzky was said recently to have established the headquarters of a new Bolshevik army of 90,000 for a fall campaign against the Poles. The Ukrainians, who are operating on that front, have recovered Kamanetz-Po-dolsk from the Bolshevik! and are said to be planning a drive to form a junction with Wrangel's forces and to sever the soviet line of communication communi-cation between Kiev and Odessa. Wrangel, who is now well to the north of Alexandrovsk, is being aided by Makno, the independent Ukrainian leader, and Is taking large numbers of prisoners. The soviet government has had more fl,nn anr,icrVi uritli "Pnlnnrl nnfl nt The administration at Washington has sent to Tokyo a communication stating just how far it is willing to go to meet the desires of the Japanese, Japan-ese, and this proposition was taken under consideration by the Japanese cabinet. At neither capital was any information given out as to the contents con-tents of the American note, but it was reported in Washington that one of the fundamental considerations insisted insist-ed upon by the administration is that Japan shall give a new guarantee against immigration, in the form of an amendment either to the existing treaty or to the "gentlemen's agreement" agree-ment" under which since 1907 Japan has undertaken to prevent the emigration emigra-tion of laborers to America. If Japan agreed to accept an;1 sut'h amendment, it probably would be to the gentlemen's agreement, for the Japanese people would scarcely stand for a formal treaty by which they, almost al-most alone, would be set apart as undesirable un-desirable Immigrants into America. If Japan cannot bring about a definite settlement of the trouble at this time, she desires at least to reach an understanding un-derstanding that will quiet the talk of Japanese domination In California and Induce the people of that state to reject, at the coming election, the proposed pro-posed new alien land law which is the cause of most of Japan's protests. The adoption of that law was prevented pre-vented last year by the administration, but whether this could be done again is problematical. We have thought In America that the Japanese people wore considerably considera-bly wrought up over this question, but according to Marquis Okuma, former premier, they are not sufficiently aroused. It is now announced in Tokyo that Okuma is going to devote himself to awakening the Japanese people against "the unlawful attitude of California Americans," and that he will call a meeting of 100 leading statesmen and other prominent citi- cause the state legally cannot, prevent Japanese control of our soil nor can it stop further immigration. The full solution of this question cannot be had short of an exclusion act passed by congress." Hot Indignation and genuine grief have been aroused all over the land by the revelations of crookedness in organized or-ganized baseball in the grand jury investigation in-vestigation In Chicago. That here and there might be found one or two players who would sell out would not be surprising, but that eight members on one club should be guilty of such shameful if not criminal conduct would be unbelievable were it not attested at-tested by the confessions of some of the accused. These men not only sold their ho;ior and the respect and admiration admi-ration of the American people, but they sold out for petty sums and to cheap gamblers, who "double-crossed" thvm, and now they have nothing left but bitter reflections and the remnants rem-nants of their bribes. The grand jury voted true bills against eight men, seven of whom are still members of the Chicago White Sox club, the eighth having been suspended sus-pended last spring. They are accused of "conspiracy to do an unlawful act." State's Attorney Iloyne was doubtful whether any crime as legally defined had been committed within the jurisdiction juris-diction of the courts of Cook county, but the attorney for Charles Comiskey, the broken-hearted owner of the White Sox, says there are at least two couuts on which each of the players named In the true bills may be prosecuted. He says the public paid admissions to see honest baseball played, and the conspiracy to throw the games thereby there-by cheated the public. Also be asserts as-serts the men conspired to injure the property of Comiskey, consisting of contracts worth more than $200. (HN) and the drawing power of the team and other good will estimated at $.'ii)0,-OOO. the Riga conference is seemingly making mak-ing every effort to arrange an armistice armis-tice that shall lead to peace. According Accord-ing to a dispatch from Warsaw, Adolph Joffe, head of the Russian delegation, delega-tion, received Instructions from Moscow Mos-cow to accept all the conditions laid down by Poland, however hard they may be, except those compelling Russia Rus-sia to partly or wholly disband her Red army. So far the chief matter in dispute has been the line of demarcation demarca-tion between Poland, White Russia and Ukrainla. There has been no cessation of the guerrilla warfare in Ireland. Nearly every day one or more members of the British police or army are murdered mur-dered by Sinn Felners, and in almost every instance reprisal is swift and bloody. Towns and villages are raided raid-ed and the homes of well-known Sinn Feiners are burned, and often they are taken out an, shot to death. The British government, though it has started an inquiry Into the killings, seems rather helpless in the matter Mayor MacSwiney of Cork Is still alive, and a London paper says It has learned he is being given food in concentrated con-centrated form. Though the effort to communlze the Industrial plants of Italy Is admittedly admit-tedly a failure, the disturbances there are increasing. The workers and owners own-ers in the metal plants are approaching approach-ing some measure of agreement, with the aid of the government, but the employees in other lines and the peasants peas-ants In Sicily and other districts are yielding to the efforts of radical trouble-makers. Seizure of lands by armed peasants, beginning in Sicily, spread to the north during the week and threatened to become nation-wide. The best development of the week was the way In which prices In the United States began to decline. In most rases manufacturers and dealers zens to exchange views on the subject. The marquis says his fellow countrymen country-men are becoming weak and cowardly, coward-ly, like the Chinese, are indifferent to grave questions affecting the nation's interests, and that a strong, unified national opinion must defend the Interests In-terests of the Japanese in California. He predicts that unless somothins is done to check the Californians, there will arise a similar state of affairs in Canada. Australia. New Zealand and other British dominions. That the Japanese already are retaliating re-taliating in such ways as are open to them is Indicated by correspondence between Secretary of Commerce Alexander Al-exander and Chairman Person of the shipping board. Mr. I'.i r.s..n called to the attention of Mr. Alexander instances in-stances of Japanese procedure at Kobe amounting to discrimination against American shipments t" the far East. In reply Secretary Aiexan- It Is believed that if the state does not take definite action against the players the government will prosecute those who received bribes for their failure to schedule the same on their income tax reports. Official word to Ibis effect has been received in Chicago Chi-cago from the internal revenue department de-partment in Washington. The White Sox. which were only half a game behind the Cleveland team In the race for the American league pennant, were of course badly wreefceil when the seven players were suspended, suspend-ed, and the chances were small indeed in-deed that they could win the honor of phiyins for the world's rti;imi":itiip against Brooklyn, which already has captured first place in the National league. Cheers for the League of Nations council on the ground that It had stopped or averted hostilities Involv- wlio offered the reductions tried to make it clear that they were based on expectations of future conditions, in order to free themselves from the suspicion sus-picion of having profiteered at the former for-mer price. Economists called attention atten-tion to two things: First, that safety demanded that t'dcos decline gradually gradual-ly Instead of tumbling: second, that the people must not let the lower prices lead them into another orgy of buying, lest the result be another rise. America met with defeat in the airplane air-plane race for the James Cordon I'.en-tiett I'.en-tiett trophy In France. Cme of her entries was thrown out by an accident and the two others did not get far, owing to defects of construction In their engines. The race was won by a Frenchman, Sad! Lecointe, and the trophy now remains permanently In France. |