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WEATHER. (U. S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow; gentle to mod- erate. westerly winds. Temperatures: Highest, 99, at 4:15 yesterday; lowest, 71, at 5:45 today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class matter Washington, D. C. No. 29,620. post_office, HOT WAVE FORCES | SHORTER HOURS IN MANY U. 5. OFFICES No Hope Is Held for Relief From Torrid Heat in Two or Three Days. NATION’S DEATH TOLL FROM WEATHER IS 139 Official Temperature of 100 De- grees Forecast—Today to Break Records. With the temperature here today pearly two hours ahead of yesterday, the Weather Bureau gave up hope of relief from the present heat wave for £t least three more days, and in the face of an ever-growing death list from all over the Iust, has fssued a warning that the people must cease sll but essential activities to fortif themselves against the drain on phys- fcal stamina they must endure until cooler weather arrives. Already Washington has begun to slow down its activities in many line of endeavor, and an order went ou to the principlals of all schools in the | city today to arrange the studles so as to tax the vitality of the children as little as possible until the torrid| spell has passed. Two schools began holding open-air classes this morning pupils housed in portable build-| U. S. Offices Close. The internal revenue section of the Treasury Department. which occupies the temporary buildings on Fourteenth street between B and © streets, closed down at noon today, and before 3 o'clock hundreds more Government workers employed in the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Treasury and the Post Ofce Department will be dismissed, it was announced A number of business houses, t00, are preparing to wind up business for the day at the same hour. Although Washington has been among the three hottest cities in the country since the hot weather set in late last Sunday, no deaths have re- sulted here which can be attributed | to the heat. Elsewhere throughout | the Kast, however, reports of fatal | prostrations are coming in rapidly, und news dispatches from Chicago this morning showed that the toll- from sunstroke has already reached 139 in States reaching from the Atlantic sea- board to the Mississipp! River. Samuel Gaylor, 44, 810 Sixth street, was overcome by the heat in front of 1625 H street about noon today. He was taken to Emergency Hospital, where physiclans said he was not serfously affected. Many Fatalities. Chicago tops the list with eight fa- talitles due to the heat. Other places reported heat deaths as follows: New | York City 7; other points in New York State, 4; Pittsburgh, 7: Boston, others points in New England, 12; New Jerse: Michigan, 4; Ohio, 4 Kentucky, 2; Missouri, 2; lowa, 1; In- diana, 1, and Minnesota, 3. This list is still incomplete and it is feared that the figures will grow considerably be- | fore nightfall. The sizzling “Bermuda high,” which is causing the East's unprecedented week of torridity and has been steadily sweeping up over the Atlantic coast line since last Sunday, had consoli- dated itself today and finally forced | the cooler atmosphere that has been | trying to slip down from the North- | west out into the Norhern Atlantic by | way of the St. Lawrence River Valley. | As a result the high pressures have definitely dug themselves in and con solidated their positions. The official temperature here at § o'clock this morning was 82, five de- grees hotter than the same hour yes. terday. A few minutes before 11 o'clock it was 95, a point the mercury did not reach until nearly 1 o'clock | yesterday. While the observers stood watching the thermometer the needle rapidly climbed to 96% Forecaster Predicts 100. The forecaster declared there is prac: tically no chance for a_thunderstorm today, and expressed a belief that the | temperature in Washington would surely pass 100 degrees before sun down, which would constitute a new high record for Washington at this time of the year. The highest ever ¥nown for ary day in June here was 102, in 1874, and the forecaster said | he would not be surprised to see tha i mark reached today. Seaplane observations above Wash- ington this morning showed that the heat is steadily climbing. At a height of nearly two miles above Washington thie temperature was 49 degrees. This, the Weather Bureau declared, \'|rlu~| ally precludes the possibility of relief | from thunderstorms. Between 800 and | 1,000 feet above Washington the tem- | perature was 90 degrees, or § degrees higher than it was on the surface at the same hour. Although the thermometers at the Weather Bureau registered only 96% degrees at 11 o'clock, the kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue had registered an even 100 by the same hour. In view of the fact that it is this heat that pedestrians feel, it might be saig that the street temperature here had | passed the high mark predicted by | the Weather Bureau even before the prophecy was made. Crowds of swel- tering pedestrians stood and watched the thermometer in the kiosk as it | climbed toward the summit. Although only four heat prostra- tions were reported by local hospitals up to noon today, scores of per- sons who were made sick by the heat found relief at their homes or from drug_stores and were never brought to the attention of the authorities. All of those taken to Emergency Hospital last night and today were colored persons. Water Use Increases. In the meantime water consumption has increased steadily, despite appeals from officials for conservation. Con- sumption for the 24 hours ended at 8 o'clock this morning totaled 79,228,000 gallons, an increase of 300,000 gallons over yesterday's record-breaking total. As a result, Maj. Joseph C. Mehaffey, acting superintendent of public build- ings and grounds, has ordered all New Solicitor Geaneral WM. D. MITCHELL OF ST PAUL NAMED SOLICITOR GENERAL Prominent Attorney Appoint- ed by Coolidge to Succeed James M. Beck. William D. Mitchell of St. Paul, former law partner of Associate Jus- tice Pierce Butler of the Supreme Court and one of the ablest attorneys of the Northwest, was today appoint- ed solicitor general of the United States by President ¢ onlidge. Mr. Mitchell succeeds James M. Beck, whose resignation was announced several weeks ago. Mr. Mitchell has served in the Army in two wars, the Spanish- American and the World War. His appointment to be solicitor general, however, is his first public office. In politics, like his father, the late Judge Willlam Mitchell of the Su- preme Court of Minnesota, Mr. Mitchell has been a Democrat, al- though, like many other Democrats in his State, he supported the Cool- {idge-Dawes ticket in the last cim- paign. The Democratic party almost vanished in the State last year. ac- cording to the record at the polls, many of the Democrats voting for La-#Follette .and many others cast- ing their ballots for President Coolidge. Mr. Mitchell may come to Washing- ton immediately fo take the oath of office. In that case he will be pre- sented to the Supreme Court at its session Monday, the last before the Summer recess. He has two sons at Princeton, one of whom is to graduate this month, and he probably will go from Washington to Princeton for the sraduating exercises. Restored Order in Strike. Mr. Mitchell is very highly regard- ed, and has a reputation for hard work, _ability and accomplishment. During the street rallway strike in St. Paul in 1917 he was in command of the National Guard and by his firm, vet quiet, measures, and without fir- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 500 U. S. WORKERS WILL LOSE PLACES Temporary Employes to Be Af- fected Principally by Cut Before July 1. Between 500 and 600 more emploves in the Federal departments here will be dropped from the pay roll before the end of the fiscal year, June 30, according to an estimate by those in close touch with the Personal Classi- fication Board. The executive order iesued by President Coolidge vester- day affecting efficiency ratings, will be used in arriving at selection of those {to be dismissed. The veductions, it was said by an uthority today, will largely be in the Veterans’ Bureau, the prohibition en- forcement unit_and the public debt service of the Treasury Department, and it is natural to expect the large percentage of the employes to lose their places will be temporary employes, particularly those in the Veterans’ Bureau, where a large force has been at work on adjusted compensation. The President's new order, which gives employes certain credit rates for thelr length of service and for their dependents, went into effect after its promulgation yesterday. The require- ments provided in this order will be closely followed by those who are to make up the lists for separations from . the Government. It will be necessary for the personnel officers to make changes and corrections in efficlency ratings where their clerks are affected by the terms of the new order. It is stated that temporary clerks of the 30, 60 and 90 day classes will not be affected by the order, although it applied to all other Federal em- ployes. iEgg Is Fried on Hot Paving of Avenue In Nine Minutes by a Stop Watch “Hot enough to fry an egg on Pennsylvania avenue today.” Probably thousands of Washing- tonians sald it at one time or an- other. Its as bromidic as the one about the humidity. Only one known person actually did fry an egg on the Avenue today, but he reported perfect success. At the corner of Fourteenth and the Avenue, surrounded by an admir- public fountains closed down here during the period of heavy strain on the water system. J. 8. Garland, superintendent of the Water Department, explained _that " (Continued on Page 15, Column 1) ing and interested crowd of spec- tators, Daniel Sweeney Ring, jour- nalist and investigator, of 4427 Third street, placed an egg care- fully on the asphalt at 12:42 o'clock. With an accurate stopwatch he carefully ‘checked and \itnessed ch WASHINGTON (0L F. A FENNIG TARES H OATH A3 0. COMMISSINER Brings the. “Washington Vision” to New Office, Rudolph Says. HEARTILY WELCOMED BY HIS ASSOCIATES Meets Police Heads Today and Will Take Up Duties of the Late J. F. Oyster. Before an audience of several hun- dred District officials, business and professional men, leaders in civic or- ganizations and a host of personal friends, Col, Frederick A. Fenning took the oath of office of Commission er in the board room of the District Building at 10 o'clock this morning. In a brief address to those who as- sembled to wish him success, Commis- sioner Fenning said he realized fully the responsibility placed upon him to help direct the affairs of a city that is not only the home of half a million people, but the Capital of the Nation. “It is no small thing to occupy an | executive position in directing the business affairs of a city of practically half a million people,” the new Com- missioner said. ““The obligation in this regard is highly intensified when that city is the Capital of a great Na- tion. The problems that might other- | wise be purely local assume a na- | tional aspect. i “The responsibility of the executive | heads is not a local responsibility, but { they are under obligation to all the| people in the country to rightly ad-| minister the business affairs of the, Capital City. However, in taking this | responsibility, I am not embarking on | an unchartered sea.” i As soon as the ceremonies were over | Commissioner Fenning attended his| first meeting of the Board of Commis-} sioners, at which Commissioner Ru-| dolph was re-elected president of the! board. | In presenting Col. Fenning to the assemblage in the boardroom, Com- missioner Rudolph paid tribute to the ! memory of the late Commissioner James F. Oyster ard announced that the new Commissioner would super- vised the same departments, which, he said, were so ably administered Capt. Oyster. Has Washington Vision. “‘Like his distinguished predecessor,"” | Commissioner Rudolph continued, | *“Col. Fenning is a real Washingtonian with the true Washingtonian's vision and imbued with the genuine spirit of the native son. Our President, with that rare s.gacity and understanding which has characterized his selection of men and women for public office | i long before he became our Chief Ex-| executive, has selected Col. Fenning from a long list of very able men of | this community, and the future will, I | am sure, prove he has chosen wisely. | Firmly established in the confidence | of the President and assured of the good will of the people of the Na-| tlonal Capital, you may_ enter upon; your duties unafraid. We welcome you, sir, most heartily to.the ranks of District officialdom.” Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of | the District Supreme Court then ad- | ministered the oath of District Com- | missioner, after which Morgan H. Beach, clerk of the District Supreme | | Court,” gave the mew ~Commissioner | the oath of the Public Utilities Com- | mission. | Maj. Raymond A. Wheeler, acting Engineer Commissioner in the absence from the city of Col. Bell, pinned upon Col. Fenning the gold badge worn by members of the Board of Commis- | sioners. In beginning his address Commis- sioner Fenning said: Thanks Many Friends. “Two subjects are uppermost in my mind this morning. 1 am thinking how deeply I should appreciate and how deeply I do appreciate the action | of the President of the United States In selecting me for this high office. I| appreciate the cordial reception that | has been accorded me by my assocl- ates on the Board of Commissioners. My thanks are due to the press of the city of Washington, for it has come to | my notice that every newspaper pub- | lished in this city has greeted my ap- pointment with cordiality. I am in- debted to Mr. Beach, clerk of the-court, who is here in his official capacity, and particularly to my friend of many vears, the learned chief justice, whost legal acumen has challenged the re- | spect and admiration of the bar, and whose gracious manner has won him | the affectionate regard of all the peo- | ple of this jurisdiction. My thanks | g0 out to the very large number of | friends and wellwishers who have | written me messages of congratula- | tion, and who have so expressed them. selves as they have met me in the past few days. These messages have come from persons in all walks of life, and have not been confined to the District of Columbia, one having been received by me by wire from St. Louls, Mo.. from my friend—who at one time held this office—Mr. W. Gwynn Gardiner. And, finally, T thank vou, my friends, who, by attending these exercises this morning, have indicated not only your interest in the exercises, but that you wish me well in the duties that 1 now undertake.” After telling of his realization of the responsibllity facing him as a Commissioner, Col. Fenning concluded his remarks as follows: “For nearly 50 years citizens of “(Continued on Page 2, Column 7. the product of his impromptu cul- inary art. At 12:44 o'clock the edges had begun to sizzle. At 12:46 the yolk began to cook and at 12351, exactly 9 minutes after the laying of the egg, it was fried to the queen’s taste, done to a turn, and palatable enough looking for any epicure. To date, however, it had not been eaten. This was because, it was reported, when the egz was picked up a thick layer of melted :x?om‘ was clinging to the under Several persons who witnessed the . egg-laying were reported to have clucked loudly when the re- sults were made public. Others cwed. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B4, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1925—FORTY-SIX PAGES. e —————— 13 PACTVILATIONS OTED BY ALLED NOTE 10 GERMANY Demands Police Reduction From 180,000 to 150,000 and 100.000 Army. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 4-—Germany has failed in 13 conditions to comply with the disarmament requirements of the Versailles treaty, declares the allied | note to Germany, the text of which was given out here tonight. The disarmament note also is un derstood to include a demand for the reduction of Germany's police force from 180,000 to 150,000 and to require the abolition of the present system of housing German police in barracks. The note also contains regulations | governing the co-operation of German factories and other works capable of producing munitions. The covering letter delivered with the note runs 1,200 words while the amendments outlining the allied d mands and pointing out Germany's defaults contain 15,000 words. In order to obtain the evacuation of the Cologne area, Germany must, among other things, suppress the pres ent “general staff and reduce the number of German police from 180,- 000 to 150,000 The strength of the German army must be reduced to 100,000 fghting men. “The military character presented today by the German security police must entirely disappear,” says the note. Demands Factories Be Altered. The note demands alteration of cer- tain factories in order to make impos sible the manufacture of war mate- rails. Al existing munitions in ex- ! cess of amounts to be stated by the allied control mission must be sur- rendered including spare parts for small arms, bomb-throwers, machine guns, blank cartridges also must be surrendered. Legislation must be enacted to do away with short-term enlistments in the reichswehr, the training of reserve cadets, military activities of associa- tions, and the import and the export of war material. The note specifies the following as Germany's defaults: Organization of police, faflure to carry out certain required destruc- Itions and tranformations of factories and workshops, deliveries of certain surplus war materials, and failure to change the organization of the Ger- man army as laid down by the Ver- sallles treaty; failure to regulate re- cruiting and military training, and failure to control the import and ex- port of war material. Germany has also defaulted in the possession of and traffic in and in the fllicit manufacture of war material; she has engaged in wrongful activi- ties in the forbidden zone and has (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) U. S. VICE CONSUL ATTACKED IN ITALY F. C. Gowen Is Victim of Fascist. Probe Ordered—Apologies Are Made. By the Associated Press. Ambassador Fletcher, at Rome, ad- vised the State Department today Vice Consul Franklin C. Gowen,|at Leghorn, Italy, had been attacked by a member of a Fascisti delegation on May 24 “without apparent reason,” being twice struck over the head and stunned. The information came in response to inquiries directed to the Ambas- sador by the State Department. The Ambassador said he had made appropriate representations to the for- eign office and Premier Mussolini had ordered a thorough investigation. Leg- horn authorities were said to have of- fered apologies for the attack and to be endeavoring, though apparently without success, to apprehend the as- sailant. The attack occurred during an as- sembly of several thousand Fascisti from various parts of Italy, while Mr. Gowen was crossing a public square. Consul Gowen was born in Flor- |shire, workmen yesterday discovered ence, Italy, in 1895. He was first em- ploved as a clerk in the American consulate at Leghorn. i | at |ury bonds will mature on these dates, TRYING IT OUT. Rum Row in Furs While U.S. Swelters, Due to Ocean F reaki By the Associated Press NEW YORK, June 5.—Some freak ocean current is giving rum row a cool, snappy spell of Au- tumnal weather while the landlub- bers, especially in the East Atlantic States, are sweltering under a rec- ord heat wave. Two transatlantic liners arriving today reported their passengers wore overcoats and furs until almost in sight of New York. The steamship Arabic logged “a rough and cold passage,” with steam heat in all cabins until she neared Quarantine, and the Lapland recorded that the crew, as well as the passengers, wore their Winter apparel up to the sighting of Nan- tucket. FRENCH SOCIALISTS CROWD CALLAUK Financial Crisis Is Averted| Only by Modification of French Program. Br the Associated Press PARIS, June 5—The cabinet crisis, apparently threatened earlier today. seemed postponed later when Finance Minister Caillaux partially surrender ed to the Soclalist attacks upon his| financial program. The attacks were conducted by for- mer Finance Minister Louis Loucheur and by Socialist leaders at a “peace conference” with the government and | the left bloc of the chamber, called | by Premier Painleve to harmonize op- position to the Caillaux financial pro- gram. At first the attitude of M. Loucheur and the Soclalists seemed irrecon- cilable with that of M. Caillaux. The impasse was maintained during the greater part of a three-hour discus- sion, but finally when M. Loucheur | took the floor the finance minister weakened somewhat and compromised. Balks at Capital Levy. M. Caillaux insisted that the bal- ancing of the budget came first, while M. Loucheur and the Socialists main- tained that financial reforms must precede a budget equilibrium. M. Caillaux, however, emphatically re-| jected the Socialists’ demand for a capital levy. One of M. Caillaux’s main argu- ments was that “the United States is just now greatly interested in our situation,” and that the best way_to secure a satisfactory settlement of France’s debt to the United States would be for France to balance her budget, and even to make her receipts exceed expenditures. M. Caillaux, after hearing the argu- ments of M. Loucheur, agreed to at- tempt to balance the budget and to “rehabilitate” French finances simul- taneously. This “rehabilitation,” al- though described In general terms, was taken to mean the inauguration of various measures leading to the refunding of the internal debt and the stabilization of the franc. Faces Big Paymeiits. M. Caillaux told the cabinet that he expected the French treasury would have to pay on July 1 in cash 1,600,000,000 francs to holders of treasury bonds maturing then. Simi- lar payments of 3,500,000,000 francs on September 1 and of 4,000,000, 000 francs on December 1 would' have to be made, he estimated. A total of 22,000,000,000 francs of treas- but the figures M. Caillaux gave represented the amount of cash pay- ments that will be required by the holders of the bonds, according to M. Caillaux’s estimate. He made no explanation of how he arrived at his figures of the cash proportion of payments, but it was supposed he made an estimate based upon the proportion of cash pay- ments required by holders of treas- ury bonds that matured last Febru- ary. In discussing the situation with the cabinet, M. Caillaux criticized "(Continued on Page 4, Column 8.) King Ethelbert’s Cofin Found. | LONDON, June 5 (#).—While exca. vating in_preparation for the restora- , Who died in 865, tion of Sherborne Abbey in Dorset- a stone coffin identified as that ef Ethelbert, King of the West Saxons, * ¢ Foening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier’ system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes UP) Means Associated Press. as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 97,915 TWO CENTS. MACFARLANE TIED WITH JONES IN 18 HOLES OF PLAY-OFF | Each Gets 75 Playing SecondE 18 in Golf Title i Clash. By the Associated Press. WORCESTER, Mass, June 5.—| Willie Macfarlane went into a tie with Bobby Jones, Georgia amateur, | when the Tuckahoe, N. Y., Scotsman missed a 3-foot putt on the eight- eenth hole of their match to decide the open golf championship of the United States here today. They each turned in cards of 7. As a result of the tie they will be forced to play 18-holes more this after- noon. Cards of Contests. Their cards for the first nine holes: Macfarlane— Out < Jones—out Par—out Their cards for the Macfarlane— 4 4 h 2 A tie at 291 for T: the play-off today. First Hole in Par. Jones' first drive was straight down the fairway. Macfarlane’s was 5 vards longer—and also straight. On his second Jones was on the green 15 feet from the pin. His putt was 1 foot short and he dropped the next for the par 4. Macfarlane’s second, a mashie shot, | landed in a sand trap to the right of the green. His third brought him out beautifully and he was on the| green 5 feet from the pin. He sank the putt likewise for a par 4. As the match proceeded the same broiling sun that had made the weather almost unendurable for two ays again sent the mercury mount- ing toward 90 A thermometer in the sun at the Worcester Country Club registered 118. Jones took & 5 and Macfarlane a 6 on the second hole. Par for the second hole is 5. | Jones' drive was long and low. The | ball was in thick fairway grass. but | he took a brassie for a long shot to| the rough at the right of the green. His third, a chip shot, overran the cup 7 feet. His putt missed by 2| inches and cost him his chance of | a birdie, but he was down in par on | the next. Macfarlane Drops Back. | Macfarlane's drive was 10 1y ! shorter than the Southerners 4 | brassie, stroke was trapped 20 vards short of the green. He pitched be- yond the green to the rough near a stone wall. jof his REVEALED 'CONQUEST OF CHINA AS SOVIET AIM IN GREAT WAR Violent Civil Strife Looms With Russia Arming and Support- ing Anti-Japan General. TOKIO BELIEVED AIDING CHANG IN MOVE TO THWART RED PLOT Officials Here Anxious as Reports Indi- cate Conflict May Break ai Any Moment. By the Associated Press Information has reached the Associated Press pointing to drect R sian Soviet participation in an impending armed struggle for the control | of all China. The preparations already made contemplate a civil war of major pro- portions, centering in the northern provinces and dwarfing in importance the present sporadic disturbances in the south The ultimate political consequences can only be conjectured. The area of probable operations is in the sphere of greatest interest to Japan, and the aid of the Soviet is being thrown behind the standards of Feng Yu Hsing, leader of the faction least friendly to Tokio Opposing Feng stand Chang Tso Lin. the Manchurian war lord, reported to have the mora not the actual physical support of the Japanese government In its last analysis such a struggle might easi approximate a war between Japan and Russia, .with the actual campaigning carried on by Feng and Chang and the supplies furnished by Moscow and Tokio. Russian Arms Dispatched. Already considerable quantities of arms and ammunition have been sent across the frontler from Russia, and Russian army instructors have gone into inner Mongolia to co-operate with the officers of Feng In some places steps have been taken to mobilize railroad equipment in Mongolia for Feng's troops, while at other northern points railroad facilities have become a prize for ac tive but inconclusive maneuvering. The Russian Ambassador at Peking, Karakhan, has given open encourage- ment to the forces of unrest in a man. ner which has incurred the strong dis- pleasure of the envoys of the great world powers.” Russian propaganda has been increasing in volume not only in the north but also at Canton and other centers in the south. United States Officials Anxious. Information of these developments has been placed in the hands of the American Government, which views the situation with an absorbing in terest not unmixed with anxiety. Its officials are withholding comment. The precise relation to the current southern outbreaks to the threat of an overshadowing war in the north is not vet entirely clear, but it would appear that Soviet influence in the south, while of admitted potentiality, is largely incidental to other factors of unrest In all parts of China there has been increasing agitation of an unorgan- ized character to divert the foreigner long-standing _extraterritortal rights. This movement, which re- cently has led to serious outcroppings at Shanghai, fits in naturally with the aims of the Soviet. Red Hand Seen at Canton. At Canton the recent troubles ap- pear to be rooted in fractional quar- rels among those South China leaders who formerly were united under the banner of the late Sunt Yat-Sen. But there have been open evidences of aggravation by Soviet sympathizers and one faction at Canton ha charged that the party now in the saddle there is receiving regular financial support from Moscow. There is little doubt among those informed of all the circumstances that once the situation in the North comes |to fruition a soviet and anti-soviet cleavage will traverse China like an earthquake from North to South. Feng at Chang Near Strife. The possibility of a war between Feng and Chang in the North has been foreseen for some months by military observers, but only recently {has it assumed startling magnitude because of the news of Russian arms shipments ‘to the armies of Feng. On one occasion, according to ad- vices reaching the Associated Press from authoritative sources. 80 motor | been cars loaded with military came across the Russian one convoy. Since the beginning of the year mething like 25,000 small arms and scores of machine guns, with thou- sands of rounds of ammunition, are said on the same authority to hgve gone from Russia into inner Mon for Feng supplies border in Feng Inspect§ Munitions. The Feng leaders rte declared to be relying on the delivery to them in the near future of enough machine gun to bring their total equipment of that arm up to 000 pieces. __Late in April a mobilization of rol ing stock was ordered by the Fen, troops at Shan Haikwan. Meantime the Soviet authorities have been tightening daily their pressure for con trol of the Chinese Eastern Railway, in which Japan has a direct interest The sympathy of Japan for Chang is regarded here as manifest. Upon the war lord’s ability to maintain stability in the north depends in large measure the carrying out of Tokio's desires r. garding the Chinese Eastern, as we as the general maintenance of her in fluence in that important region Chang Aided by Japan. Some reports reaching Washington say that Chang not only receives sup- plies of various kinds from the Japa nese, but that Japanese instructors have aided openly in the reorganiza tion of Chang's armies. Formerly Feng and Chang belonged to the same faction. but a rift between them been widening appreciably for months. It was Feng who, in 1922 deserted the camp of Wu Pei Fu and captured Peking for Chang. The Chang party still controls the capital and carries forward a vistage of na tional government, but without any real control over the country as a whole. On May 23 the central committee of the Kuomintang. in power at Can. ton, declared its independence of the Peking government and its sympathy with the Russian Soviet. There have other important defections in other provinc and in some of them also the influence of Moscow has been manifest Chang Force Formidable. Until recently it had been the be lief of military observers that Chang would be sufficiently strong to with- stand without difficulty any offensive movement on the part of Feng. Ap parently under Japanese tutelage, the Chang armies have been consolidated into a really formidable military force along the Mukden-Shanghai line, and holding Tientsin and Nanking But with Russian aid pouring over the border to Feng in an uninterrupt ed stream, he is becoming a power of constantly growing magnitude mot only in the affairs of China, but in the broader field of world politics. |Orient and Occident Settle Down For Grim Struggle in Shanghai SHANGHAI June 5 (P).-—A force On his fourth he cut|of American saflors with bayoneted through the grass to the green, § feet | rifles herding a number of cows down from the pin. putt by a foot and took a 6. | Score end two holes—Jones, 9; Mac- | farlane, 10. Jones took a 4 and Macfarlane 3 on the par 4 third. Score end three | holes—Jones, 13; Macfarlane, 13. Jones was over the hill with a beau- He failed to make his | the ancient batoir; American women combining households when their trusted i nese servants shuffled away; foreign society women becoming telephone operators and accepting all forms of employment—this was the picture titul tee shot and a high mashie took+ presented in Shanghai today as the him to the back edge of the green.|Celestial City settled down to a seem- He missed his putt by two inches and was down for & par 4. Macfarlane's drive, with a bound, reached the top of the hill. His second was dead on the pin, but 40 feet away. He sank the putt from the edge of the green tor'éa sensational hirdie 3. nes was 3 and Macfa the par 3 fourth hole: Seme s ena fou? holes: Jones, 16; Macfarlane, 16, | Jénes used his spoon and wi the green, 30 feet from the pin. His put} fell a foot short and he sank the thirl for a par Mble. Macfarlane also usell the spoon and was beyond the cup; by 25 feet. He took a bad break whn his long putt bounced out of the cup. but sank his next. % Macfarlane Gains on Fifth. tme the par 5 fifth, Jones took a 5 an# Macfarlane a 4. Score end of five hoits: Jones, 21; Macfarlane, 20. Jones was'straight down the fair- wa' with his drive. His iron shot wa#t trapped to the left of the green; he’zot out and onto the green with his niblick. A 35-foot putt failed by ansnch, but he was down in 5. Mac- farZane’s drive found the rough to the right. His mashie approach fell 40 yafils short of the green. Another | ontinued on Page 2, Column 1.) ———— Rédio Programs Page 34 ingly grim struggle—the Occident against the Orient—while Chinese strikers attempted without outward disorder to disrupt foreign activities in a campaign calculated to starve out and drive out foreigners. Money changers in the streets re- fused to take foreign bank notes. Chi- nese banks are closed and the cash supply is disappearing rapidly. Strike Continues to Spread. The strike of Chinese workers con- tinued to spread today. A tense sit- uation loomed in the French conces- sion, where__ thousands of students red peacefully, wearing con- T oun moarning bands, whils alert policemen and French officers, heavily armed, were patroling the main thor- es. O mectings were held across the boundary from the French concession, in Chinese territory, but only petty outbreaks were reported. Sharp distinctions were emphasized by Chinese in favoring American firms and homes, although_ all foreigners were disfavored, particularly the Jap- anese and the British. Those Chinese shops ‘during_business refused the potronage of British customers, while favoring Americans. Mrs. Milton Purdy, wife of a judge of the United States Court here, and the wife of Consul General Cunningham . combined household forces for the anking, road to an ab-| i- | | emergency today when the servants in their respective homes left Many Ignore Threats. | Many of the Chinese servants re | main loyal, however. Some old sery- ants have remained with their mas ters despite death threats involving their familles quartered in Chinese ter- ritory. The threats have been voiced directly by student canvassers Those foreign firms, hotels and in- stitutions which continue to function are doing so through the aid of volun- { teer foreign woman workers, who have stepped into the places left by the stfikers. It became known today that a tur- bulent faction in the Chinese student ranks was striving to effect another conflagratioh by urging the constabu- lary in Chinese territory to become an armed force supporting the anti foreign movement. An unghnfirmed veport say is element is {#riving to induce Gen. Chuan-Fang to move his troops from Hangchow o Shanghai Forelgn forces were confronted with posters reading: “Assassinate foreign police and assassinate foreigners con nected with law courts Student Plot Uncovered. Among the documents seized by police in raids on Shanghai Univer- sity was a letter from a Chinese in Berlin to a professor at the college saying: “It has been decided that stu- dents of three countries—China, Ger- many and Russia—will start an or- ganization which will unite the na- tions of the world in the cause of the revolutionary party.” The letter was signed Yu Hankao, “Yahu Kant street, 52, Berlin,” and was malled from’ Charlottenberg April 5 and received here on May 15 by Prof. Klang Szsung. The letter reveals efforts of Chinese " (Continued on Page 4, Column 2)

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