Show plews review of current events sha shanghai fears plague cholera adds to death toll chinese chine se planes bomb american liner britain protests attack on envoy EDWIN W PICKARD summarizes the worlds week nack DL death ath in m shanghai 5 IF there were not horror A enough in shanghai the ill abed ted city found itself face to face with a new pern peril bubonic plague the ite outbreak of the disease first recovered te covered in the french conces where most of the american non on opu pu lation lives was traced in large wt itra to the sanitary difficulties in removing the ibe bodies of hongkee civilians vill ans killed by bombings artillery belling and machine gun fire sanitary officers in the ca conces aces lion on and the international settle nent nt fought frantically to check the IP pread read of the dread cholera they r ere hampered by japanese mill mili 9 ry forces which insisted upon emping closed areas where there till remained bodies to be buried admiral harry yarnell commander 11 ander of the united states asi tic itic fleet canceled all shore leaves and ordered chinese tor D r tailors sailors lands ads off american ships with the kirt rt of shanghai closed to arneria ameria an shipping thip ping other than warships ec suse cause of the ever increasing dan e r of bombs and artillery fire imeri in cant who had intended to keive ate on the next liners out of port frere e stranded making a total of 1000 wo american inhabitants who re ened I 1 exposed to the double dan ten as ef cf warfare and cholera announcement by the japanese hit it they had perfected a plan for abing every air base in china rat as regarded as a warning to for ign agn nationals throughout the square miles of chinese terri cry ry that they had better evacuate they were to be sate safe evacuation of americans from anghag was difficult with the ban shipping warships appeared e logical means of rescue but ire ere were few in the shanghai area pable of taking aboard large lads ads of passengers accordingly a cruiser squadron of six ships was being be sing prepared to leave the united tales states steam to shanghai and love those stranded there the japanese embassy warned nations that they had bet ter r advise the japanese navy of movements of ships into the vast blockaded cockaded locka ded area lest these be taken for chinese supply ships the embassy intimated that cargoes of ammunition nm and military supplies might ight be denied admittance and ad aed foreign ships that it might be i good idea to permit japanese authorities au iridies ties to inspect their cargoes before ore entering the blockade international crises 0 NE grave international crisis v 7 followed another in the new sino japanese war britain was still waiting awaiting reply to her protest over the tbt wounding of his Maje ambassador bas to china by a japanese i linnan airman when lour four airplanes didenti fid as chinese swooped down upon the american liner president hoover flagship of 0 the dollar line dropping bombs which killed one peron sm aboard and wounded eight the he president hoover having de posited a load of refugees in mava na was nearing shanghai to pick vp UP another load when the bombs bruek lc tearing 25 holes in the ship bove above the water line the ship immediately Inedia tely notified admiral harry E yarnell commander of the arneri ameri janfleet can neef fleet who took command of all american shipping in the emergency CY he ordered the president hoover to continue to japan and radioed other vessels that they must not enter hostile waters off the woo anig lung and yangtze lightships it was only a few days before the president deat lincoln another dollar liner had had to run a gauntlet of artil aeu fire anre to get Ama american rican refu lees on their way to manila chinas cainas ambassador in washing ton n chanting Ch enting T wang wane lost no time to a making his bit complete apology for in the dollar liner incident to secretary of state cordell RUIL hull he said the president hoover ahad had been mistaken for a japanese transport by a chinese aviator he offered to make full financial redress immediately it was indicated that a court martial was in store oribe for the erring airman more spec spectacular ta cular but only be cause came of the importance of the per on it involved was the shooting of sir hughe montgomery khatch bessen ees sen british broush ambassador to to china britain note to tokyo was couched ed in stringent terms it said in part toe the plea should it be advanced that at th the e flags carried on the cars arc re too small to be visible is ir relevant evant there would have been 0 o justification cabon tor for the attack even bd b aw d the all cars carried no flags at the ille foreign and even the diplo roaul c status of the occupants is also irrelevant levant the real issue is that th ey were non noncombatants combatants such A events fan are inseparable aa ni lz the practice as illegal as it is 3 all of 01 failing e to draw that alear distinction between combat int and noncombatants combatants non comba tante in the con dt ci 01 hostilities which s 11 wounded by japanese airmen sir hughe montgomery hu gessen Is center of strained internal in terna dional relations 1 law no less than the conscience of mankind has always enjoined his maje government must therefore request FIRST A formal apology to be conveyed by the japanese government to his majesty maje government SECOND suitable punishment for those responsible for the attack THIRD an assurance by the japanese authorities that necessary measures will be taken to prevent recurrence of events of ucb such a char 1 acter reply was wa temporarily withheld pending a comple com tg in vesti gation trouble ahead for ford JOHN OHN L LEWIS magic touch ef fectea a compromise between warring factions of the united automobile workers of america sufficient to permit the election of officers but that failed to cover cover up the fierce dissension in the C L I 1 0 af mates milwaukee convention several times only a fortunately timed adjournment saved a days meeting from breaking up in a riot the clashes were between the progressive gres sive faction of the union headed by president homer martin and the unity faction containing most ot of the left members who opposed martins program in the end the lewis compromise forced martin to retain several unity group officers he had apparently been anxious to depose new officers added were however chiefly adherents of martin and it was believed his faction still held control of the executive board of chief importance in the convention was the decision to go ahead with the campaign to organize the employees of the ford motor company A special tax of 1 per member which would bring in a net of something like was voted for the purpose lewis predicted some day henry ford is going to be so very tired he will be willing to accord to his employees the rights that are due thern them K war may soon be luxury 0 ONE NE good argurn argument nt for peace is that the rising costs of raw materials are making war more expensive than ever this was demonstrated when london financial circles revealed that parliament will be asked to vote supplementary funds to carry out great britaina Brit ains armament program for the present year in february experts figured the cost of armaments at over a five year period NO it is apparent that many more millions will be required the cost of antimony has increased from to a ton copper from to heavy scrap steel from 1875 to 2250 tin from 1135 to 1295 and zinc from to steel ship plates a year ago cost a ton now they are 57 jersey kids picket mayor HE next thing you know babies twill THE will be picketing their cradles tor for more milk spurred on by frequent accounts of industrial strike picketing or by the encouragement of disgruntled politicians politician s several hundred boys between the ages of seven and thirteen years rose in revolt against the city fathers of jersey city N J shouting their war cry we want playgrounds playground st the youngsters tied up traffic with their parade they dug up cobblestones from the streets sprinkled the pavements with broken glass built barricades of boxes and stones which made driving hazardous for automobilists the boys directed their campaign against mayor frank hague and united ignited states senator A harry moore upbraiding them with placard mottoes condemning their alleged failure to provide sufficient playgrounds for the safety of chil dren police dispersed them gently at first but when they feori reorganized anizel and resumed the picketing the officers were forced to seize 16 15 |