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i t starving on 3 meals a day? ‘The amount of food you eat has little to do with the state of your health as:Dr. Harvey W. Wiley proves in January Good House- keeping. In the same big number,7 wonderful stories and 57 other features. GOOD HOUSEEEFING out to-day Up to Date ° Don’t insist upon up-to- in your home and still cling to a worn-out, old-fashioned heating apparatus. True progress is shown in the main essentials — install HOT-WATER heat or VAPOR system. Biggs Heating Co. “Found Reliahle for Over Thirty Years” ._H. GOTTLIES, Pres. HUNTSBZRRY, Vice Pres. H. €17 H Strest NW. Phone Main 4886 LR AT LT TR LT LR THTTRR L FLORIDA BY SEA JACKSONVILLE (Via Savannah) From BALTIMORE Ton $55.73 dditional until Jan. 1, et e daticns in- Extra charge for Promenado Deck Rooms. Tickets Eood to recurn until May 31, Automobiles carried. (Closed cars excepted.) Merchants & Miners Trans. Co. for ihe purp. ch other by e the meeting. the minute, 1922 furnishings | - o of electing @ board of directors amd for the transactior| U. S. INVITED BY BRIAND TO BE REPRESENTED ’AT CANNES PARLEYS By the Associated Press. PARIS, December Briand has invited _ the British, American, Italian, Japanese and Belgian governments to be repre- sented at the international finan- cial an@ economic conference to be held at Cannes, January 6. The program will include questions of reparations and the calling of an international conferenc The reparations commission is to examine immediately the measures to be adopted toward Germany in SUBMARINE STAND APPROVED IN PARIS French Cabinet Unreservedly 0. K.’s Demand Here for 90,000 Tons. 27.—Premier By the Associated Press. | view of a new breach by that PARIS, December 28.—The French| country concerning the deliveries cabinet, after consideration of the| Of industrial coke to France. The reduced amount of the deliveries is said not to be due to. unavoidable circumstances, but to the reluc- tance on the part of German man- ufacturers to supply coke for aid in_the mineral industry in Lor- raine. submarine question, has unreservedly | approved the attitude of the French delegation in Washington in firmly standing by the figure of 90,000 tons, says the Excelsior today. PARIS, December 27.—France's de-| termination to have a powerful fleet and objections to the limitation cf-|a question of national independence | forts of the Washington conference the r f legitimate de- is at ak The re: i were vigorously voiced in the senate adopted in conncetion W today during a discussion of thel AL marine section of the government's|the naval commission’s report on its budget. {program. bused on two principles: That Senator Henri Berenger, who re-jihe Irench nu fIRETE vorted the marine budxet, said France | PErior o the Germany mavy aag ol St funingipo nean to safeguard French interests France still independent in as in her army?”’ he asked. “Has the old principle’ of sovereignty been sacriticed somewhat in those confer- ences wherein we have been promised a sort of internationale of happiness?” Defends the Submarine. r navy in north Africa and the near east. The naval commission’s report cred- its France with having forty-nine submarines, of which fifteen, it'is de- clared, will be obsolete by 1925. These are to be replaced only by twelve pro- vided in the present program, al- ed the|though twenty-four others are sched- Senator de Kerguezec defer thou | submarine as an defense, but w Lo military use plied for the on indefinite future. two groups of to be composed he other of long- the ential we The shed it to be ead of being & commere and t to torpedoing | n conference,” he s hediducen ‘:.:I;P sed to the French o enel o i demand 0 ton and of light capital ship when rance docs n H ldesire to carry war into foreign| waters. Francé desires no imperia, proposal strange there are, neve less, limitations which we cannot ac- cept.” Senator de Kerguezec declared it impossible that the Freuch del- egation at Washington had said that submarines would be used to destroy { the enemy’s commercial fleet. He ex- | plained the necessity of submarines in defending the coast and in trans- portation of supplies for troops. Minister of Marine Guisthau, plying to Senator de Kergueze WOULD HAVE U. 3. GANGEL WAR LOANS Br the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 28. —That the war loans made by the he was greatly affected by the re-|United States to the allies should b marks about the Washington con- |, .o ° 1 oy s e ference, but he asserted: othing i P and wholly canceled s been proposed that reduces vged Dby Justice Jokn H. France's powers.” Morcover, he d Hiotithe | Supsae Cone 8 Lo ed. no decisions re d at Was P ejsupreme (Conrt o the i on would be effective until the ates in an address at the 1 ueh parliament had approv | week luncheon of the Cleveland Pthem. He explained that the naval! chamber of Commerce. i was reduced through lack < i Dut that a defensive pro- | stating that the loans ag- s prepared providing for the ted ahout 9.500.000.000 and | utilization of commercial feets. interest now amounted to | 0 : $11.000,000.000. Justice Clarke said he | Urge Naval Reform. _lwould consider the proposal to can- | Senator Berenger severely eriti-io. tiem first as a matter of friend- . ana | in Be- cised the condition of the nav ! other senators joined with him {urging speedy reforms. Senator irenger described the cer {agministration as being “in a of what I term arterio solerosi Preceding the debate over the naval | ship which for and justice to the natlons risked all with us and sacri- ficed much more than we did in sup- port of the great common cause, and, second on the basis of cold, siness polic figure: Quoting many he asserfed Budgst - the Snavull commision Bafiistiour of men were less than published a resolution urging the | (hat our losses of men wer a { minister of ma to e the ost by the allies and that even if we will be four {the aliies” loxs in money should cancel the 1a jtimes as great as our. a jnumber of submarines i quately defend the co: of the present weakn which was stressed during the d cussion in the senate. The concluding paragraph of the ission’s resolution was as the debt these United States and that it ulant to siness of the world if the debt celed at once. for cancellation included the several : “One cannot conceive. therefore, i that France's efforts in this direc! should be obstricted or limited Re :| de of the our own countries twith which we were associated in SPECIAL NOTICES. _ |iih hieh e wore asworlated 1S HERERY GIVEN THAT THE AN- | rendered in the cause of humanit meating of the stockholders of the Capital | long before we entered the struggle: Tractiou Company for the election of u b of directors for ion of such broughit before the mcetin: arlithe great debt they had already i helcurred, the immenge loss of life each jof the European countries sustained {in maintaining a war that eventualty e our war as well as theirs, and finally its robable immediate incentive to revival of world trade and its consequent good effect upon our own industrial life. uatil 12 o'clock no i SRAMPTON, Secrota 1 _HEREBY NOTIFY EVERY ONE THAT from this date I will ot _be respousibie for any debts contracted by any one but mysell. Observato RY GT RITY AND TRUST COM. «d a regular dividend of 3 E t TAL MEETING OF THE STOC HOLD . compan of directors for the en. tation of the annua perls come office of the D. C. JANU and the polis o'clock p.m. £ the company h. “inclusive, President. TNSURANCI orgetown, 7th —The stockholders fance ‘Company of Wash- will meet at the office on Monday, Tanuary for the purpose of electing thirteen ors for the ensuing open from 11 a.m. to 12 roon. LBERT W. HOWARD, Secretary. CHAIR_CANING, $1.30 UP: SPLINT CAN- fog, upholstering parlor sultes. fireside chairs, dining_room chizirs. ~Call, phone or drop pos- tal; will brinz sampies. CILAY A. ARMSTRONG, Fraoklin T 1233 10th n. S WAXED, $2; CLEANED OR FLOORS refinished by electric machine, R. E. NASHL 403 S st. n.w. Nor‘h 3600. _ja2¢ R e hat b 22 Fixes Roofs ik ferie We W Furnish Stock, 706 10th n.w. 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Even as the Old Testament prophets were continually harking back to Egypt as an example to the chosen people, so the broad-visioned mem- bers of the peace conference may re- mind all persons interested that in the present situation in Egypt is wis- holders of the Hugh Reilly Company, Ia be held at the offices of the Company, 1 Y. ave. n.w., at noou, Wednesday, January 1922 IRA G. BLUMER, Sccretary and Tres urer. NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE| aurval meeting of the stockholders of the neral Auto Truck Company for the eleetion of trustees and any_ other business will be|dom for statesmen who would deal held at it offi 21st street and Virginia i avenua niv.. Washigton, D. C.. on Jaruaty | With the problems of this inextricably 18, 1022, .m. _ S'gned: WILLIAM H. STAPLES. Secrets THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOC holders of the National Tribune Company w'll § be held on Thursday, January 5, i o'clock p.m., at the offices of the co and 44 G st. n.e., Washington, D. purpose of electing & board of tru: ensu‘ng year and for the transac other business as may be properly brought be- fore sald meeting. M. D.” ROSENBERG, Secretary. WB _RENOVATE 'ROX SPRINGS, MAT- TRESSES and PILLOWS, and are prepared to handle anstiing fn Cushions for church or ome. ELL'" 'ORY, LW, Main 3621, il The Gordon-Van Tine Company | is now located in i Room 418, Metropolitan st £ p. intertangled world. The deep, sullen, resentful attitude of the newly-uni- fied land of the Pharoahs is not merely a disturbing portent for the future peace of the east; it is, in part, a direct result of an earlier Egyptian movement which has been an impor- dnt factor in all the recent turbu- tence of the Islamic world, which stretches from the Adriatic’ to the Yellow sea. Traceable to 1919 Outbreaks. Because of the censorship thengex- isting, even the authorities upon “ori- ental affairs were generally unaware of the fact that the present virulence of the Pan-Islamic movement is di- rectly traceable to the Egyptian out- breaks of 1919. The unholy alliance THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, EGYPTIAN DISORDERS RESULT OF OLD MOVEMENT OF ISLAMS Traced to 1919 Outbreaks and Re- sulting Campaign of Hate. FIGHTING RESUME INEASTERN SIBERIA Changed Situation in Mari- time Province Likely to Have Effect Here. A tentative draft of an agree- ment with regard to Chinese tariffs was laid before the subcommittee of the Washington conference considering this subject by Senator Underwood, chairman of the sub- committee. This tentative draft, which is said to represent a compromise of the views of the various nations, provides that China may levy an import duty of an effective 5 per cent for the present, and that a BRIAND CONFIDENGE VOTED BY DEPUTIES {Premier’s Government Given New Lease of Life by 177 Majority. CHITA LOSES KHABAROFSK Expedition Sent Out From Vla- divostok Reported to Have Met With Successes. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. Fighting has been resumed at this bitter cold season of the year in the Maritime province, along the east coast of Siberia, according to reports which have just reached here. The changed situation will have an important effect when the Siberian phase of far eastern problems comes before the conference, possiby in a few days. As It Is genel ally understood that the policy to which [ By the Assoclated Press. the American State Department is com- PARIS, December 27.—The chamber mitted for a solution of the troubles of deputies today gave the Briand in Siberia Is diametrically opposed to|government a new lease of life by the ich Japan is carrying out,|substantial majority of 177 at the the one w! ] it is expected that a thorougl scu. = vo-day debate over the D follow not only as to the re. | close of & two-day d = causes | failure last summer of the Industrial ance and Bank of China. “d,,“&‘;m The vote of confidence was given in a refusal to appoint a commission to l!n\'esth:a!r- alleged irregularities in that or- | this connection. in addition to the anized hostilities had been resumed | pending court procedure. X Shile. the conference actually was in| At the opening of the second day of Session came to the State Department | this debate today, with the question from David B. Macgowan, American, of the government's responsibility for consul_at Vladivostok, quoting reports | the bank's suspension of payments that Khabarofsk, which had been held { under consideration. Premier Briand by the Chita government since the|was aggressively attacked by the op- Japanese evacuated in October, had | position, and as aggressively defended becn captured by an expedition nhi’uhlmxns«m i was armed and sent out from Vladi- vostok. Another cable to the same effect L sl Was received yesterday from Spiridon | The premier declared that a baltlt Merkuloff, president of the Vladivostok | between different groups of banks ha local government, by Josef K. Okulitch, | obstructed the measures contemplates 113 Lincoln street, Boston, who has been | for putting the bank in question ou appointed to represent the Merkuloft | its feet again, and that if the obstru government at the conference. tions continued the measures cou Though cables also were received [not be carried out. ‘ vesterday from Chita by the delega-® The premier explained the ejrcum {tion hera from the Far Eastern re-!stances under which Philippe Bert public. no mention was made of the|lot, genwral secre of the | fall of Khabarofsk or of any fighting ! office, whose resignation which must have preceded. 1t is pos s precipitated by the previo sible ti ation {bate in the chamber on this subjec:. of the sings | had intervened to aid the bank. whic in Siberia, which have been systemat- | was headed by Andre Derthelot. hi ically circulated since the beginning ! Lrother. The pr r said he regret of the vear, chiefly to detract siten-!ted deeply that M. Berthelot | tion from the real disturbances fos-!fit to r e ahsolved M. Berth tered in the area of Japanese o¢ i v. but conceded that if he pation and to justify a continua en it he probably would not of the Japancse expedition at Viadi sent in the same form of tele- vostok. Coming at thls time it may {gram M. Berthelot 5 o) seriously influence the conference. | (aisenave in the United States i Expedition Quietly Organized. | him to ingervene with the Ameri For several weeks reports have|banks e the checks of the In- been received that an expedition was | dustrial Bank of China protected. quietly belng .rganized at Viadivostok | Forty-Two Informations Filed. to invade the portion of the Prov-| inister of Jus =iy ince under control of the Chita BOV-|nounced that forty-two informations ernment. The area of the Japanese|p2qfie forl, POV WO ndre Berth expedition extends to Evanievka sta- joaf Jetn e ARE S T bers tion, about 120 miles north of Viadi- | 1t chalrman of the board: members vostok. According to the agreement | Of (1 bank's board and otncr o 3 between the Japanese and the Chital2h VAriQuS ¢uvses Tegu government a neutral zone. twenty | jouse of confidence ai i mlics wide, is beyond that into whivch | J“"“‘;: Aol 2 i eheab e armed forces must not enter. The ngUer Snianedithe el prosecution {inqui rges would . sion w & R e fon of fighting, but to it. & far n have not openly their position, though they are | interested. Cables Bring News. The first cables indicating ~ladivostok expedition thus would be | free from attack until it from the neutral zone, and with a reverse could again retire toi V¢ Vigorously pre: safety behind_the Japanese lin 1 The other Japanese expedition is occupying the north half of Sakhalin island and the adjoining mainland ound the mouth of the Amur river. 1t is north of Khabarofsk, which also ik on the Amur. By capturing Kha- ofsk the Vladivostok government, which was created by the Japun expidetion, will extend its jurisd to the northern boundary of the far castern republic and Japan will con trol the entire Siberian littoral in- if it met stead of merely the river and rail i ports as at present. Valuable Concessions Held. The valuable timber and mining ons which Chita has refuscd nt Japan at the Dairen con- will then be within the juris- n of the Merkuloff government. vo and Osaka banks hav advanced 5.000,000 yen to Merkuloff. After the flight of Semionoff from Chita by aeroplane last December the remnants of his Cossacks werc Jbrought into the limited area under Japanese proteciion around Vla of the Kappe the longest re- march, treat in history, wito were given a 1 < as to Sullen Resentment of Land of Pharoahs|piin."s bt i e Kalmikoff bands, which later were added. made a force of 15000 men available for any fighting. A portion { of them were armed and used to oust jthe Chita_local representatives in } Viadivostok when the a »fused to acqui e in the J ministry’s de cision to evacu Wrangel Soldiers Transported. In the last few weeks more than! 1,000 of the former Wrangel soldiers ! have been transported from Con- ! stantinople to Vladivostok, while an ., equal number of the desperadoes who followed Baron Ungern have been | brought in from Mongolia. Under the regulations enforced by the Japanese | expedition, all firearms must be; placed in custody of the Japanese | troops. The only Russians permitted : to carry arms are some 1.500 militia- ! men, to whom the Japanese have is- | sued rifles for doing police duty in the different cities and towns. How- ever, the expdedition has abundant arms and ammunition of its own, in addition to the surrendered equip- ment, und there is never any dif- ficulty in securing all the weapons of | warfare necessary by any revolution or expedition which is sanctioned by the proper authorities. (Oopyright, 1921.) BANS BOYS’ WAR TRAINING | CHICAGO, December 28.—A nation- wide campaign against military train- | Igyptians, both Moslems.and Chris- tians. Carried Message of Hate. So when the “strong” measures of the government, and the fepeated out- breaks, were accepted as meaning war between the foreigner and the Egyp-: tian, these El Azhar students—all grown men, of course—scattered far and wide to carry their message of nationalism and revolution, and hatred of the empire that for a hundred years had been accepted as the guide and tutor and protector of the backward peoples of the entire orient. In that simple, ominous fact lies the key to the mystery of the anti-British ave that has swept the east. fanned into flame the caliphate rections in India. Egypt had mos do with the outburst of fiery zeal in Turkey and with driving the British out of Persia and giving Mesopotamia its own government. Egypt's messengers in Afghanistan were largely instrumental in the changed relations between that fa- natical land and India. Even Felt in Morocco. Palestine got from Egypt much of D. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921 DRAFT FOR CHINESE TARIFFS COMPROMISES NATION’S CLAIMS Red Cross ll’und and medical stations in the fam- }ine area of southern Russia, under an agreement signed here by the pres- ident of the organization Vorovsky, soviet representative. 715 per cent duty may be levied in the future. This means an increase in the customs duties for China. China, however, has asked that she be permitted to increase the rate to 12% per cent immediately, and that tariff autonomy be granted her in the future. The Japanese, it is understood, were unwilling to have the duty advanced to a higher rate than 5 per cent. The British were will- ing to accept 7% per cent, and the United States stood for the Chinese proposal of 121; per cent. WILL ASSIST RUSSIANS. Italian Red Cross to Open Food and Medical Stations. ROME, December 28.—Tke Italian is to establish eighteen and M. A mission, under supervision of the Red Cross military staff, will start for Russfa in February. It is planned to supply food to 16,000 persons, in- cluding 4,000 children. The government has contributed 6,000,000 lire for the work, and is also supplying the medicines and bearing the cost of the mission's transporta- on. Washington. Upright Pianos as Iow as.......... Knabe (mahogany case) like new. .. Chickering Grand .. Petk & Son EXCLUSION OF JAPANESE HOMELAND IS PROPOSED Tokio Delegates May Informally Suggest This Interpretation to Other Nations. The Japanese delegation to the Wasi- ington conference may suggest informal- Iy to the dclegates of the United States, Greut Britain and France that the new four-power treaty relating to the Pacific shall not be interpreted to apply to the homeland of Japan. The inclusion of the Japanese home- land in the scope of the treaty (the in- terpretation put upon tie pact by the delegation to the conference) has caused opposition to the treaty both in this country and in Japan. Cablegrams from Tokio assert that the Japanese press strongly opposes the inclusion of the Japanese homeland in the application of the treaty, while the mainlands of the other signatories to tae treaty are not included. GOES HOME JANUARY 13. Prince Tokugawa, Japanese Dele- gate, to Sail From San Francisco. Prince Tokugawa, a member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington conference, is to leave Washington in time to sail for home from San Fran- cisco January 13. He expects to visit New York, Chicago and Los Angeles be- Prince Tokugawa is president of the Stewmway Duo-Art Dazolas Don’t Miss the Big Values in Our AFTER-XMAS Pianos, Player-Pianos and Phonographs The last week of the old year will prove remarkable for value-giving. The After-Xmas Sale will enable us to re- duce stock to the minimum before :tock-taking, January 1st. 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The story is a sobering one and as iInteresting as many of the tales from the “Thousand and One Nights.” Immediately the struggle between the Egyptians and the British as- sumed national and bloody propor- tions, in March, 1919, the Egyptian leaders established their headquarters in El Azhar University, which is so unlike a western institution of learn- ing that it seems but a huge, sprawl- ing mosque, on the rugs and mats of which groups of students sit cross- legged around their teachers. ‘The re- |ligious character of the building gave [it a sanctity which insured it against |being fired upon by the military. Street barricades extended right up to its gates, and only heavy artillery gave hoped for success in at- tacking it—and that no British officer for the King of England bears political rule over more Moslems than any other potentate on earth. Center of Islamic.World. El Azhar is more than a mosque or a school, with the Koran for its prin- cipal text book; it is the intellectual center of the entire Islamic world. The greatest theologians of the faith of the prophet from every part of the orient are on the faculty of El Ashar. The students are from China, Turkey, India, the Philippines, Morocco, Al- geria, the Dutch Bast Indies, Arabia, Persia, Mesopotamia, the ‘Balkans— literally from every part of the far- flung realms of the prophet. Such a concentration of leaders of the faith- ful and of trained propagandists could be found nowhere else in the wide- spread domain of Islam. Not only were these men, born and trained fanatics, eye-witnesses and participants in the regretable events of those early weeks of the Egyptian troubles, but the center of their Cairo life and interest, El Azhar, was the scene of daily and nightly meetings of the nationalists, where inflamma- tory speeches were eagerly heard every day by tens of thousands of its zeal against the British-protected Jews, and from the same source a strong_tinge of anti-Zionism, which bodes ill throughout the east, was im- parted to all Islam. Even Morocco's deadly outburst against Spain par- took of an Egyptian flavor. The fire- brands scattered from the home- hearth of EI Azhar have kindled blazes in strange and distant places, from not all of which has the world yet heard. Egypt’s part in the present unrest of the entire orient has been greater than any man could foresee. It now proclaims to all the world, and es- pecially to Washington, that there are other and deeper and more important considerations in every political situ- ation than those usually reckoned with by professional diplomacy. Home sentiment, religious zeal, public-opin- fon, student agitation, popular boy- cotts—all may mean more to the suc- cess or failure of this conference than the shrewd plans of any delegation. (Copyright, 1921.) | Mrs. Henry W. Cheney, ing for high school boys has been started here by the headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers. The first organization to pledge co-opera- tion with the teachers is the Chicago League of Women Voters, of which Mrs. Harriet Treadwell Taylor is pres- ident. A close second is the Illinois League of Women Voters, whose ex- ecutive board, throuzh its president, has indorsed the movemen! 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