Show NEWS RECORD OF 0 I 1 THE YE an n I 1 99 ii 8 summary of the le notable events of the twelve months in america 1 1 and abroad i ft it ia aw 1 10 I 1 I 1 HOOVERS BIG VICTORY tf 1 1 l th l rt J t republicans sweep the countryman Coun country tryAn in the presidential election ejection kellogg treaty to outlaw war signed si boned r by nearly all nati nations ons china won by the nation and the reparations by EDWARD W PICKARD Ll erbert coover wits tile lie dowidat ing figure of 0 life hie year IUs in I 1 thi united states tills this by reaul of tills weeping sweeping victory in the Prebble tila election elect lun at tile hie close ot of tile the in III te resting callip campaign algo the country had had badin in many years anti his bis good will tour of the latin american re publics until the verdict of uie the polls nas as rendered air houters rival for or the life presidency gov GOT at al smith of new york fork was almost alinosi equally la in the public eye and the pull pub lie mind economically anti anil financial tin uncial ly the country enjoyed a pro that has seldom been equal led not withstanding the tact fact that thai the arub lem jew of relieving tile the bleS of tin the agriculturist a remained unsolved internationally tile buist anding inding standing event of tile the year was as the alie itutti bi for ward of the hie so called kellogg auld lateral late nil treaty to outlaw war and its signature in paris by nearly all lie ilie civilized nations of the burld ef forts to accomplish a reduction iun of armaments by the league of nations and toy liy various statesmen had bad no definite results but the kel loss logg pact was looked on by roost most peo ale as a real step toward horld pence peace tile the tenth anniversary of the armis ties found the questions of german reparations alfuns unsettled but the governments cook arned were about to open a conference for tile purpose of fieret lini lin illy lilly and how the germans must pay the close of the baraso ea raso saw steps lip ting taken by president Co ollIes lid ad ministration for tile lie reopening of the lie question of american adherence to the court in the hope flint th nt tile the Euro european pend nations accept the american in the far kast east ct china lna prodded ded much of th the interest and to tile the rollet relief of tile its internet lintern eLitle ine warfare was ended with the victory of of the nationalists japan furnisher furnished if a spec incident in the formal coronation of emperor Empero jr latin america was rather more peaceful than usual a ith the exception of nicaragua vail and tit in that republic the he amerl american an I 1 lou louvines rines and anil dip bonats lo succeeded succeed pil in bringing an end to the civil wai warfare barf and in giving the little republic a real election of a arc president international early la in january president cool idge created a precedent by journey ing to havana cuba to attend tile the opening of tile the pan pall american confer er trice ence and to deliver no an address nil dress before that body tie de returned at rice once iena ing the Itte interests rests of lif the united states state la in tile side hands bonds f 0 charles hughes and his fellow delegates at al the instance of mexico it was decided that tile the anlon should not have power to con isder political questions though sone borne of if the deje delegates kates tried earnesta earn estl t t to make it virtually an american leagh of notions flo lo norlo don head of the argentina delegol tion insisted that llie file union adopt a declaration against as Hinst tile itlie of tariff walls wall between the american and when mr hughes would not listen to to tills this and it was turned down dovia by the conference redon resigned both from his delegation end and as an ambassador ambosi ador to washington before this occurred he and many others found occasion to deronnie de nonnie intervention antion by ohe one nation in the internal affairs of another the attack attach of course being aimed lit at the policy of the united states in the case of nicaragua As it was evident that a resolution these views could carried un unanimous aninious ly further disk discussion assiad of tile subject was referred to the seventh confer ence definite results of the skiR session sinni were the acceptance by twenty feltes of a code of lucerna elmul law adoption of resolutions thull disputes of a jur juridical bilk at nature be but matted to jo arbitration that ag gics gresslee gress sive lve war be outlawed find and the republics of america committed to td tile use of peace abito means nn ans for the settlement of all disputes between them the beginning of the clork of international low law the signing ofa convention on commercial attai arlah tion and tile putting into full effect earp of the ran pan amerlean sanitary code K in december there was a sellout garlou threat of warfare between belil find over the gran chuc region at the gann time a pun pan american conference ton on tion find arbitration opened in lugt n and its first efforts were fill df greeted toward 8 erving this ot of hostilities s the council of tile the league of nations luns also urged the two republics to settle quarrel with out resort to arms on february 6 the one hundred slid and fiftieth anniversary of the sign ling of V first treaty between the I 1 ifer ua JAVA I 1 11 I 1 r r r T united S states tes and Frn france nee the two nations signed a new arbitration pact binding earh each party not to go towar tah ahe lie olor tile the american government ov at the hie time suggested that a better be way would tie he to unite the c morts irons of tile two powers to obtain the adhesion of ill all tile hie principal pow e era or of the world to a declaration denouncing noun cing as an instrument ot of their national policy this was the inception of tile multilateral treaty shirli secretory secretary of slate kellogg inter lit proposed to the chief powers one by one lie hie nations accepted the HIP plan in ill principle colne of them with res enat lm and finally the pact was ap nil to soft all france thereupon invited fourteen other nations td to send representatives to voris to sign the treaty all responded and on august 27 1 7 the ceremony wits was pep fief formed the pact was loft left open tor for the nd hesion of other nations arid and within a few weeks most of the governments er ern of tile the civilized world had accepted it promising as tills this move I 1 mom toward general peace seemed it was by certain elements in ili snake countries especially the united states find anil italy with cynt cot derision approval App roial by tile the amer lenn senate Is necessary to give it effect and some of tile the senators bere were knevin to be opp opposed ivied to it senator imreh hoi all chairman of the foreign relations committee however gave the treaty his warm indorsement endorsement Indor evacuation ot of the rhineland and the fixing of tile total of t the reparations was still at insisted oo on by germany ry the terms of the dawes agreement slie she was paying largo large stinks sinus regularly on account but the time lime when the payments should end vins coming on no nearer the al lies at hist recognized tills this In toler alile able situation and in november it was agreed that hiat a congress of experts should be convened to revise tile the dawes plan pion and try to fix the total reparations france persisted in the 1 idea e eliat h the question of reparations should tie be tied up with that of her war debt to the lie united states sta tes but washington made it plain that this could not be john bassett moore american resigned on april 28 as a member of tile the permanent kent court of international justie just fe commonly known as the world court most host of tile the national I 1 groups nominated charles evans to succeed him and the as s embly and council of the league of N actions overwhelmingly confirmed the choice lilice on oil september 8 I 1 I 1 FOREIGN grent britain pursued the even Xen entrot en orlof its way but was not in good economic condition the great num cum I 1 her of tile unemployed especially in ae he mining districts led the govern ment to try the experiment of help an ng g ninny many men to migrate to canada I 1 and australia to engage in tural work this was successful to a limited extent but did not especially please the dominions early in tile the year parliament passed the franchise measure known as tile the ill flappers apers bill and thus about five million more women were given the rote during the sess session lork of parliament the house rejected tile the prayer hook revision proposed by the authorities of tile the church of england and churchill introduced a spectacular I 1 budgetary scheme for reforming local government anti and relieving industrial depression J H whitley resigned its as speaker and capt E A fitzroy was elected to succeed him attacks on the metropolitan pollee police led to a parliamentary investigation and to the appointment of lord byng as commissioner king george contracted Inda ninia tion alon of the lungs late in november Nov elisher and his gondi condition flon became fo fo f o alrin in ing that thai the prince of wales wale and his brother brot lier the duke of gloucester gloucester hur bur friedly returned from a hunting trip in africa nis ills majesty appold appointed ed a royal if I 1 headed by the 1 I queen to act for him during his bs 11 I 1 beks befrs dr randall nan Jill thomas davidson on archbishop of canterbury find and primate prin inte of copland Cn Fri gland created a precedent by rest resigning going in J july uly and dr cosmo chanto I 1 ang archbishop of york wits was appointed to tile the place the earl of birkenhead resigned as secretary of if state for india ano and BBS liv iv viscount on february I 1 11 annies allies mcneill was installed as go governor vernor general of if the irish free state per haps the most interesting P vent event in the empire outside of grew great britain was the derisive decisive defeat of prohibition in new south wales ant and canberra nn tile the of australia it in november the south african calif tiet 4 of f Pi premier emler re resigned sed and lie he formeca for meda new government france as 88 always an enormous amount of attention to ito pol itice tie s premier fire field power lower through throughout the year in the elections on april 22 he won a decided victory and when he resigned in boien her he wits to retain oilive nod form a new ministry the ithe radical socialists were recalcitrant and polo care left thein out of ills his gavern government 11 apt the tenth anniversary fauni france in fit a gratifying store state of nil flita tion lion most of tile the furm homes and buildings tind been rebuilt the ill IIii fied oiled coal mines hall been restored to pro diK tion anti and facto iles had been re stored attired and all were busy tile the aran had been and the aorl ign arnde showed a large larce Int renloe un ln eni was almost nonexistent the created freutel ills fro b olives during tile the sul liller in li iines troyes and ivry hut but were effee e ill suppressed Se severn verild Al billion were convicted in iday mid nd sentenced to pillion i ilson hut but pardoned them SHrida ls attending the granting of divo divorces reps by the parts paris courts to americans led to to I 1 I 1 N I 1 reforms in the procedure dur a of those tribunals tribunal a I 1 I 1 germany laboring under tinder the burden of the reparations payments was said hy by her ambassador to washington ton to be distinctly on the upgrade this notwithstanding rather unfavorable business conditions and an increase in life number of unemployed with premier mussolini still its dictator italy seemed to be making steady progress and the supremacy of the fascist party was wa confirmed and strengthened the duce put into tall full effect his plan for reorganization of the government to put practically all power in tile the hands of the grand council accomplished monc monetary reform and put through a law tor for ills his pet scheme of land reclamation and utilization rumania was torn by dissension tho the peasant party demanding a share in the government finally the hie revolt grew so serious that premier bratland Brat lano was forced by tile regency 0 o resign and cullu muffin maelu leader of the peasants came irto power as head of a coalition government ahmed bogul the handsome young dictator of albania decided that his bis country should have a king and promoted himself to that position taking the title of of Scander beg III soviet dussias Rus sias rulers nave have not yet solved the great issue of how bow to reconcile the conflicting interests of the industrial slid and the agrarian sections of the population 1 and during the year there were sp sporadic radle revolts of the peasants without result the goern government ment continued its earnest efforts to enlist financial aid from abroad and one ot of its successes was the completion of a contract with the international general electric company of new york for the purchase of worth of electric equipment in this country the exploitation of the count rys rich oil resources was carried on energetically the rules governing concessions to foreign business interests were radically modified in september generally speaking russia was in a healthier condition than at any ume time chace chii he revolution victory of the chinese nationalists was won after long and hard bard fighting and despite the opposition of japan marshal chang tso lin ala manchurian Manc ilc hurlan war lord wits was forced to abandon peking on june 3 and on his way to mukden his train was bombed and he be was fatally injured tile the nationalists established a complete government and constituted the capital of the republic chiang kal shek their generalissimo was elected president of the council the name of peking was changed to rel helping ping meaning northern peace the united states tools took the first step toward of the new government by negotiating a treaty granting china tariff i autonomy great britain germany france and italy all began negotiations with the government ern ment japan alone holding aloof because of her claim that her old treaty with china was still in effect gen alvaro obregon being bein the only surviving candidate tor for the presidency of mexico after the had been suppressed was elected on july 1 to take on december 1 cut but on july 17 its as he was attending a banquet in ills hia honor lie was assassinated by a young native named total toral the crime created a great sensation bensa tion and the cital of the murderer and his alleged accomplices was watched with immense interest in november toral was wai convicted and condemned to delith death link and a nun mother concepcion Concep clon who wits accused of being the intel author of the clivie was con damned to twenty years in arilon it ans up to the nat limal mill assembly to choose a provisional president Pres deni to serve fourteen months from 1 and PIt refusing the lot oh it was wag given to pradillo portes gil cil while Ante american rican marines were t ere try ing quite successfully to purify alca and quite unsuccessfully to welt catch sandino Sandl no the rebel cli leftin brig gen cen frank mccoy as a the of an american electoral was arranging for an honest tin ini partial fitial el election pellon this was authorized by a dource of lirt plaz the voters were properly teg in find alien dpn aliv v N i went to tile the pl pulls ils on november 4 I 1 pike I 1 man was requires required to in lip dip h Ms Is rh arkill in i A stain to irp prevent ant rell entina tile election was ir ot orf keiu and resulted in the choice of ecna josp inse marla I 1 mir in afla tile lie ciberaj allu ral rot abit rb It ills adolfo I iaia fin rd ld con tin Berv uthe the WEIS wait about sukio Sd iMiO I 1 DOME 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