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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Shanghai Riots Start Anti-Foreign Anti-Foreign Movement That Spreads Over China. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CHINA Is again the cause of acute worry for the foreign powers that Interest themselves particularly In that vast and distracted country. The trouble this time is located at Shanghai, Shang-hai, and as. Is so often the case these days, it Is laid at the doors of Bolshevik Bol-shevik agitators. Starting with a riotous riot-ous demonstration by Chinese students, It has brought about the landing of armed forces from the warships of several foreign nations. This has resulted re-sulted In a great outburst of antl-for-elgn sentiment In all the large cities and It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that some of the scenes of the Boxer war may be repeated. The Shanghai students were demonstrating demon-strating against the sentencing of some of their comrades for their part In a strike in Japanese-owned cotton mills and came into conflict with the British Sikh police, who guard the International Interna-tional settlement. The police arrested the leaders of the parade and the crowd stormed the police station. Thereupon the Sikhs opened fire, killing kill-ing ten students and wounding many others. This gave the rioting a fine start and there was continual fighting for several days In which the local defense de-fense organizations of the international settlement took part. American, British Brit-ish and Italian blue Jackets were landed land-ed at both Shanghai and Canton, and Consul General Cunningham asked that more war vessels be sent. Native Red agitators were active In the cities, stirring up the coolies, and they induced thousands of workers to strike. In Shanghai the foreigners looked after the food supplies and the necessary Industries, such as telephone, tele-phone, light and power. All banks and shops were closed. While the students stu-dents there quieted down, those In Peking formed a huge anti-foreign parade and marched to the residence of Tuan Chl-Jul, provisional president, where they demanded the resignation of the minister of education. They went next to the foreign office and presented pre-sented eight demands, Including the revocation of treaties, the abolition of extra-territorlallty and the punishment of the Sikh police. The government already had protested to the diplomatic diplo-matic corps against the action of the Sikhs and sent two commissioners to Shanghai to investigate the affair. Correspondents thought It was seeking seek-ing to unite all political factions against the foreigners. .They said It was probable Chang Tso-Un, the Man-churian Man-churian war lord, would now recognize I the government, considering the present pres-ent cabinet Incapable of handling the situation. It was believed Liang Shi-yl Shi-yl would be made premier and Dr. C. T. Wang foreign minister. While the whole atfair may blow over, there Is the danger that when the news of It reaches the Interior there may be a wholesale massacre of foreigners who are beyond the reach of Immediate protection. LIQUOR smugglers of the Atlantic coast are resorting to desperate measures since the rum row off New York was dispersed hy the coast guard. They have given out the announcement that they will have a large number of very speedy power boats and that these will he armored and equipped with machine guns. This probably Is largely large-ly bluff, designed to frightpn the coast guardsmen into quitting the sen-ice. and it Is snid a giod many of the force Is resigning or declining to re-enlist. Meanwhile a new rum row of fully z score of vessels hns fornvd 22 miles off Boston harbor and Cape Ann. and Commander Vberroth, division chief of the const guard, has railed on Washington Wash-ington to send him reinforcements.. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews. reading vi:li satisfaction Admiral Ad-miral r.illard's report on what has been eeeomplished to date, said the const guard hni net yet reai'.y begun to fi'itt and th; as ye: there had be,.p only "a ' preliminary skirmish to uncover the j strength nnd resources of .Uie enemy." Dry forces In the Illinois legislature scored a double victory over the wets. They defeated a bill to repeal the state prohibition law, with provision for a referendum, and then advanced a bill to create a state prohibition bureau bu-reau in the attorney general's office. WITH the expiration of the two weeks specified by Captain Amundsen before he started on his attempt at-tempt to fly to the North pole, the Norwegian government put into operation opera-tion its plans for relief expeditions. It was announced that an official party in two hydroairplanes would patrol the districts north and east of .Spitzber-gen .Spitzber-gen ; that a French party headed by M. Charcot, a noted explorer, would search the east Greenland area, and that the Norwegian Aero club also might send out an expedition. The three expeditions were to co-operate. A tragic incident of the polar adventure ad-venture Is the death In Florence, Italy, of James W. Ellsworth, the wealthy American capitalist and art collector, whose son Lincoln went with Amundsen. Amund-sen. The elder Ellsworth financed the North pole expedition. It was thought his death was hastened by anxiety over his son's fate. AMONG the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States last week were two of vast importance to business. In reversing re-versing decrees of lower courts directed di-rected against the Maple Flooring Manufacturing association and the Cement Ce-ment Manufacturers' association, the court held that the gathering and dissemination dis-semination of information by trade associations as-sociations on costs, prices, production and stocks do not necessarily constitute consti-tute a restraint of trade in violation of the anti-trust laws. This, as was pointed out by Justice Stone who wrote the decision, Is provided the associations do not reach or nttempt to reach any agreement or concerted action ac-tion with respect to prices or production produc-tion or restraining coippetltlon. Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices McReynolds and Sanford dissented, believing be-lieving these specific cases "disclose carefully developed plans to cut down normal competition." Criminal Indictments In-dictments against members of the flooring floor-ing association, voted two years ago In Grand Rapids, Mich., are still pending. pend-ing. About six hundred trade associations asso-ciations are affected by the Supreme court's ruling. IN ANOTHER decision the Supreme court declared unconstitutional the Oregon law prescribing that children between the ages of eight and sixteen years must be educated In the public schools. The fight against the law was made by a Catholic educatlonnl Institution Institu-tion and a military academy. The decision of the court was unanimous and said In part : "The child Is not the mere creature of the state. Those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right coupled with the high duty to recognize recog-nize and prepare him for additional obligations. We think It Is entirely plain that the Oregon act of 1022 unreasonably un-reasonably Interferes with the liberty of parents nnd gunrdlans to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control. "As often heretofore pointed out, rights guaranteed by the Constitution may not be abridged by legislation which has no reasonable relation to some purpose within the competency of the state. The fundamental theory of liberty on which all governments In this Union repose excludes any general tiower of the stnte to standardize Its children by forcing them to accept Instruction In-struction from public teachers only." OF GREAT Interest to the flnnnclnl world, and so Indirectly to everyone, every-one, is the plan announced for the reorganization re-organization of the Chicago, Milwaukee Milwau-kee & St. Paul rallrnnd, which has been in the hands of receivers since March IS. The -plan, which has been approved ap-proved by the several protective committees com-mittees representing the holders of the bonds and stocks of the company, provides for an exchange of more than $!', b Ni.rx h) in securities, makes possible pos-sible the liquidation or funding of nil the short term debt of the road Includ-ing Includ-ing government loans and involves n assessment of $28 a share on the preferred pre-ferred stuck and S'!2 a share on the crani'-H stork. The reorganization will not distttri the general mortgage bonds of the railway company, the divisional di-visional mortg.)g''st the equipment 1 trusts ; or the guaranteed Issues, namely name-ly those of the Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railway company (operated (op-erated under lease) and of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary Railway company. According to one expert, the program pro-gram "will enable prompt reconstruction reconstruc-tion of the property, relieve the road of pressing obligations and prevent a prolonged receivership, with the consequences conse-quences of controversies and loss of business because of Inadequate resources re-sources and constructive policies. Bat the plan will not greatly alter the capital cap-ital structure and It does not bring the prospect of dividends any nearer to the stockholders. In this respect, the reorganization managers appear to be willing to let the future decide." ? THOSE who have been seeking to use the President for advertising purposes, and they are many, received a setback last week when Mr. Coolldge declined to be starred In a film that la being made with the co-operation of the navy authorities. It was planned that the President should be photographed photo-graphed In the act of handing a diploma diplo-ma of the Naval academy to a movie actor, but as has been said he refused. re-fused. However, he was present at the graduating exercises at Annapolis and made an address to the class of 1925. lie made a strong plea and argument ar-gument for national defense and preparedness, pre-paredness, asking that every citizen be a potential soldier to back up a comparatively small army and navy. At the same time he denounced Jingo-Ism Jingo-Ism and declared there was no Justification Justifi-cation at this time for assertions that other specified powers are armluff against us, thus arousing national suspicion sus-picion and hatred. . GERMANY has received the note from the allies specifying the Instances In-stances In which she has failed to comply com-ply with the disarmament clauses of the treaty of Versailles, as a result of which the allies declined to evacuate the Cologne bridgehead. She was not pleased with the note, of course, but It was said the government's reply would contain a promise to keep all Ita pledges. France also answered Germany's Ger-many's proposals for a security pact, her note being conciliatory but firm In the matter of protection for her allies on the eaBtern German frontier. PROGRESS toward the funding of the Italian debt to America Is reported re-ported to be quite satisfactory, though no details of the suggested terms have been mnde public. It was announced that J. P. Morgan & Co. have extended a loan of $50,000,000 to Italy to stabilize stab-ilize the lire. This Is a step of great importance and had Its effect on all bourses. Finance Minister de StefanI told the Italian chamber that the national na-tional budget was safely balanced, despite heavy appropriations for the army and for public works THE crisis In the war against the Indians has not yet been renched. and both sides seemingly put In the week preparing for more decisive operations. oper-ations. Abd-el-Krlm, It was Raid, wan planning to concentrate all his effectives effec-tives against the French, withdrawing from the Spanish zone. Both the French and Spanish are using boml-Ing boml-Ing planes with telling effect. SELDOM has there been such general gen-eral and spontaneous mourning over a man's death as In the case of Thomas It. Marshall of Indiana, vice president of the United States during Mr. Wilson's two administrations. He passed away during a visit In Washington, Wash-ington, and wns hurled at Indianapolis. The President and Innumerable other government officials nnd members of the diplomatic norps attended the services In the national capital. Aside from IiIb admitted ability, Mr. Marshall Mar-shall was notable for the genuine affection af-fection In which he was held by all who knew him. His keen sense of humor, his sparkling wit and manner of plain speaking, his kindly philosophy and his fidelity to his friends made hhn for years one of the most Interesting figures In American public life. Always Al-ways he held to his simple Christian faith, SK'-KKTAIIY OF WAR WEEKS underwent un-derwent an operation In u Boston hospital recently, and since then hu condition hns caused a great deal of anxiety. The physicians admit It N not satisfactory, though they declare there Is no Immediate cause for alaria. |