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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy and continued watm tonight and tomorrow, thunderstorms. 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Temperature: est, 88, at noon today; lowest, 71, at followed by High- Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 \‘ Entered as sec No. post_office, 29,630. ond class matter Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1925—FORTY PAGES. RIOTERS DEMAND CHINA QUST BRITISH AND RECALL ENVOY Seizure of Hankow Conces- sion Urged in Monster Peking Demonstration. MACHINE GUNS MOUNTED AT FOREIGN LEGATIONS ‘Wire Entanglements Erected and Guards Held Ready for Instant Call to Duty. Br Catie (0 The Star and Chicago Dails News SHANGHAL June 15—An armed band of Chinese attacked a car on the Municipal road outside the for- eign settlement, near the American Country Club, shot dead a British engineer and wounded his lady companion twice. Coprright. 1925, by Chicago Dally News Co.) i PEKING, June 15.—Chinese stu- Meents, merchants, shopkeepers and workmen in the largest demonstra. bmn made here during the present roubles, today went to the foreign toffice and demanded that the Chinese 'government sever relations with Great Britain and instruct the tuchan of Hankow forcibly to take possession ©f the British concession there. Fearing violence the foreign lega- tions mounted machine guns and pre- pared wire entanglements for use in an emergency. Legation guards were held at their quarters for instant mvallability. The monster demonstration in the streets occurred in spite of official orders canceling the proposed strike for today. Inflammatory speeches were made at a mass meeting preceding the pa- rade, which was held without dis- turbances. British Deny Blame. The British legation has sent a lengthy reply to the Chinese note of protest over the shooting of a number of Chinese last week during an at- tack on the British concession in Hankow. The reply declares the Chinese im- ion that the laws of humanity disregarded by the British is ly ~erroneous; v ‘the British were defending ves against a murderous mob invading their settlement after having already killed one foreigner, a Japanese. Refusing to admit that any re- sponsibility rests on the British authorities, the reply cites a previous warning against allowing the anti- British agitation to go unchecked and asks that energetc measures be taken to _check such agitation. The note concludes with an ex- pression of hope that the Chinese foreign office will issue a statement &iving a correct version of the inci- dent and thus dispel the atmosphere ©f prejudice which it says has been created by exaggerated and men- aclous stories. No confirmation has vet been re- \belved of yesterday's report from Kai- Ceng, Honan province, that the Italian priest of the Roman Catholi¢ church there had been killed, when his church was burned. However, lotters written at Kaifeng Saturday and re- ceived here today said the situation was extremely serious and that all foreign residents were leaving Kai- feng. Chang Guards British. TIENTSIN, June 15 (®.—The Brit- 4sh consulate general continued toda: to be gucrded by special troops of Chang_Tso-lin, the Manchurian war Jord. These troops were brought into the British concession yesterday after 25,000 students had conducted demon- strations in the native city as a_ part of the special arrangements made by the Chinese authorities and the Bri 1sh municipal council to prevent pos- sible trouble in the concession. BRITISH WARSHIP ARRIVES. Gunboat Gnat Reaches Chinese Guard Foreigners. SHANGHAL June 15 (#).—A wire- less dispatch from Klu-kiang says the Chinese authorities, co-operating _in the measures for defense of the for- eigners, have sent 100 selected troops to Kuling. where there are more than 600 foreigners, mostly women and children. The dispatch adds the belief that there is no reason to feel anxiety for the safety of these people. The British gunboat Gnat rived at Kiukiang from Hankow, Following outbreaks at Kiu-kiang, the British concession wa invaded the British and Japanese consulates attacked; other buildings, including the Branch Bank of Taiwan, were looted and burned by striking mobs. Messages received here today said 500 persons residing at the famous mis- €on at Mount Kuling, uverlooking Kuikiang, were menaced. Forty-five Ships Tied Up. The mission bodies have made rep. resentations to consulates of the ne- cessity of dispatching war craft of suf- ficient strength to send landing parties to_guard the removal of the Kuling (Continued T2 ntinued on Page 2, Column 1.) RUSSIAN WOMAN BANDIT IS SENTENCED TO DEATH | Mme. Marusa Teyko and Seven of Her Band Condemned togBe Shot. By the Associated Press. KIE Russia, » June Marusa Treyko, 15.—Mme. for her activitiesas head of a notorious group of anti-Soviet bandits who ter- rorized the Ukraine for more than two years. Seven of her band were also condemned to be shot, others received long prison terms. The indictment against Mme. Treyko 1id she personally led assaults against Soviet factories killing and robbing the Communist emploves and also murdering agents of the Cheka or political police. Her husband, who led another anti- Soviet band. allegedly in conjunction with the Ukrainian commander Pet- lura, and under orders from Polish general staff, escaped Foland some time .go. into that on the; Kiu-Kiang. | has ar- wife of a Russian| colonel, has been sentenced to death | and 13 nd other institutions, | the | Noted Writer Dead. N. 0. MESSENGER DIES AFTER STROKE Veteran Political Writer of Evening Star Staff Victim of Apoplexy. As a distinct shock to his countless friends, notably members of the news paper profession, was the death early this morning of North Overton Mes- senger. a member of the news staff of | | The Star for the last 35 vears and an | | outstanding journalist of national| | repute. The death of Mr. Messenger was as unexpected as it was distressing. He was stricken about 5 o'clock Friday afternoon by apoplexy, while ini his apartment at Hammond Court, | ! Thirtieth and Q streets, where he had | resided for several yvears. Although he did not sy after the stroke, he attempted to serve dinner. He was: unable to do so, however, soon lapsing into unconsciousness, from which he did not recover. The end came at 4:15 | o'clock this morning. Mr. Messenger had not been in good | health for the last year or two. He was under the care of his physician, | who advised during the Winter that | he go South. He proceeded to Florida | in January and after a stay of several | weeks returned to his duties here, ap- narently. much improved in health. Since the death of his mother, about four years ago, Mr. Messenger had made his home with his only known relative here, a cousin, Miss Annie Teel. Funeral services will be held in St. John's Church, Sixteenth and, H streets, Wednesday afternoon at 3| o'clock, Rev. Robert Johnston, the rec- | tor, officiating. _Selections will be ren- | dered by the Gridiron Club Quartet. Interment will be in Glenwood Ceme- tery. H 1 Known by Thousands. While very few persons know North Overton Messenger,” hundreds of thousands of newspaper readers were well acquainted with 0. M. and hardly a newspaper man, nat | of Washington or assigned to the | Washington bureau of an out-of-town | journal, but knew and loved *Jack’ | Messenger. Mr. Messenger was born in Tuscum- | [bia, Ala., on the 12th day of May, | 1865. His father was North Allan | Messenger, who was a newspaper ed- {itor. His mother was Lillian Teresa | | Messenger, whose maiden name was | | Rozell. She was also engaged in new | paper work. so that her son came by | | his professional instincts naturally. | | Mr. Messenger’s mother was the first | woman to be elected a member of the | State Press Association of Arkansas | Moving to this city, she engaged in | worls_as a correspondent and in gen eral literary work. She was a charter | { member of the Daughters of the | American Revolution and a well | known author having published a | number %f vo aes. For many years | she resided at the Hotel Fredonia in | this city. Coming here when he was a young | ! boy, Mr. Messenger was, to all intents a native Washingto- educated in the public | schools of the District of Columbia. | In 1921 he was awarded the honorary | degree of master of arts by George | Washington University. | With Star 35 Years. Joining the news staff of The Star "ah'\ul 35 years ago, Mr. Messenger soon gained prominence as a writer | on political subjects. He was assign- {ed to “cover” the United States House | of Representatives, and from that day i to the present had been prominent in | | the journalistic field, notably as a | writer and expert on’ political, finan- | | cial, congressional and national af-| fairs. He was probably the best known of the newspaper men on duty t the Capitol, having been on his as- | ignment there almost daily for nearly twoscore years. ‘For man: ears past he was head of The Sta: Staff of political writers and in charge | of such staff assigned to duty at the | Capitol. The deceased was Washing- ton espondent for various news- papers since 1885, and for many years | represented the Wall Street Journal here. He married Miss Eudora Alden Goldsborough of Easton, Md., June 22, 1892. Mrs. Messenger died in 1917 | Mr. Messenger was Republican in | his political affiliations apd attended | | the Episcopal Church. He was a mem- | ber of the Sons of the Revolution, of the National Press Club and for many years an active and enthusiastic (Continued on Page 5; Column 2.) { thority to chase liquor offenders out | ducted in this wa MOTIVE IS SOUGHT | home and that she had slapped him | York, the relatives said. AR ONRUM TRADE OF CAPTAL BEGUN T SEERET MOV Activities Will Be Directed Against Supply Sources, Fenning Explains. CAMPAIGN TO BE BIGGEST | EVER STAGED IN DISTRICT Setting of Invisible Cordon to “Starve Out” Runners Is Ex- pected First Step. Under cover of utmost secrecy, the Police Department today launched a new and intensive drive to enforce prohibition in the National Capital Detailed plans are being withheld by Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning, in personal charge of the campaign. The mysterious move to “mop” up the wet spots of Washington was un- derstood, however, to center on the channels of supply. “If we can cut off the supply of liquor we have virtually won the bat- tle.” the Commissioner explained sig- nificantly. Disclosure of the opening of the new dry war came on the heels of a eries of conferences held today by Commis- sioner Fenning with police officials, including . Acting Supt. of Police Evans. The latest campalign, it was in- dicated, is to be the most pretentious of any ever conducted here since the enactment of the prohibition law. It will undoubtedly embrace not only the | “rum_ runners' responsible for bring- ing the liquor into the District, but | will ferret out and endeavor to break up the entlre system of distribution which has been built up here by an efficient bootlegging organization. Proceedings Secret. Where the first blow would fall re- mained a carefully guarded secret this afternoon. In fact there was no as- surance that any step further than a preliminary investigation of the situa- tion and marshaling of the prohibi- tion forces would be taken today The commissioner, it is understood will confer personally with the polic vested with special prohibition en- forcement powers and work out with them the program of “attack.” These officers, attached to the municipal police department, have au of this jurisdiction—a valuable asset in a drive such as began today. Probably one of the first moves on the part of Commissioner Fenning's | forces will be to lay down an in visible but alert cordon around the limits of the District. In this way the rum runner is expected to be ap- | prehended before he has a chance to get rid of his supply. A compre- hensive “starving-out” process con v should effectually ruin the pocket bootlegging business | in Washington, it is believed INYOUNE MURDER Police Searching for Will Slain Woman Is Said to Have Made. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 15.—Con- vinced they have completed a chain of evidence to prove that Dr. Thomas | Young. Los Angeles dentist, killed his | wife, Grace Grogan Young, widow of the late Patrick Grogan, known du ing his lifetime as “the Olife King independent of Young's confession, representatives of the district attor- ney's office concerned themselves to- day with establishing a motive. The first object of their search was a will which they had been informed Charles Patrick Gregan, 18-year-old | son of the slain woman, had made in | favor of Young within the last forth- night at the request of Young. Younsg | irogan, who was the principal heir to his father's estate, had continued to live with his stepfather up to the| moment he learned the latter had | confessed to Killing his mother and contriving to have the son unwittingly | aid in sealing the body up in a cistern. | Young has insisted he killed his | wife by administering an anesthetic | because of resentment over the fact| that she insisted from the day of their marriage on “being the boss” in their | in the face during a quarrel in a cafe. What investigators regarded as the last link in their chain of evidence connecting Young with the killing was vesterday near the scene ng of a rubber cone which Young sald he used in administering the anesthetic. The possibility that Young had an | accomplice to aid him in concealing the slaying and supporting his story that Mrs. Young had voluntarily dis- appeared after a quarrel on the night | of February 21, last, was also under | consideration by the investigators. According to relatives of Mrs. Young, the son continued to receive letters which he believed to be from his mother up to within the last few | days. These letters were from New | EARTHQUAKE.IN FORMOSA. “Romance and Sally Byrd" By Ellen Glasgow One of the series of best short stories published in America dur- ing the past year—beginning on page 26 of Today's Star The story will be concluded in about four days. Buildings Damaged, Inhabitants Terrified by 79 Shocks. TOKIO, June 15 (#).—Dispatches from Karenko, Formosa, report severe earth shocks beginning Sunday morn- ing at 2:30 o'clock and continuing into the afternoon. Extensive dam- age to houses and buildings was re- ported and the inhabitants were ter- rified. Seventy-nine shocks were noted. No casualties were reported. La Follette Shows No Change. The condition of Senator La Fol- { flights here. The expedition arrived |impressed, at | watching the unloading of the planes | flights. lette of Wisconsin, who is ill at his | residence here with bronchial asthma, last week was forced to return after Was Aay repor.ed unchanged. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. ~AN'| JusT: —— Teecen’? ————— oNeWorh: TESTOUTPLANES FOR ARGTIC SEARCH Airmen to Seek Amundsen Give Machines Trials at Spitzbergen. By the Associated Fress ADVENT BAY, Spitzbergen, June 15.—The two seaplanes of the Nor- wegian government’s expedition to search for the Amundsen-Ellsworth North Pole explorers have made trial here Saturday on the steamship In gertre. A veteran pilot of the Arctic seas, Ole Olson, navigated the Ingertre through the drifting floes at the mouth of Icefford into the clear waters of Advent Bay, where one of Amundsen’s auxiliary ships, the Farm, was anchored. It was thought the relief expedition would continue quickly on its way, but changes in the arrangements inter- vened. It was several hours before the Ingertre moored at a little wood- en jetty and began unloading the planes and spare parts and a Cargo of dvnamite she had brought for use in_Spitzbergen mines Meanwhile most of the population of Longyear City, which is the name | of the iocal settiement, managed to scramble aboard and gazed, vastly the seaplanes. Longyear City belongs to a large Norwegian coal company. It is a straggling village of wooden houses, surrounded by snow-covered moun- tains, with great black scars in their sides where mining operations are under way. There is constant daylight here 24 hours around the clock at this season. | Undisturbed by the passage of time, all residents of the camp spent hours and their testing. It was noon Sat- | urday when the Ingertre came into the | harbor, and it was midnight before the planes were ready for a trial flight. Lutzow Holm piloted one plane and Harold Styhr took charge of the other. They soared in the brilliant midnight sunshine, the Norwegian colors, a blue and white cross on a red fleld, painted on the planes, | glistening in the light. This spec- | tacle gave delight to the patriotic Norwegians, who form a majority of the local populatilon The machines behaved excellently during about two hours of trial It was 2 oclock in the morning when they descended, but the sun was shining and the fasci- nated crowd watching them from the shore had no thought of bedtime. Transfer to New Ship. The searching expedition will trans- fer to the Norwegian patrol ship Heimdall, it_has been announced. Comdr. Hagerup, who has had charge of one of Amundsen’s auxiliary ships, the Farm, will command the Heimdall relief expedition and the Farm will be taken over by the an- nual scientific expedition, under Prof. Adolph Hoel of Osio, the Norwegian capital. The Heimdall, §40-ton boat in the fishery protection service of the Norweglan government, is ex- pected to arrive at AdventsBay at any hour from Finmarken, northern Norway. Lieut. Lutzow Holm, control officer of the fying squad which arrived here with two seaplanes on the Norwegian steamer Ingertre, conferred today with Comdr. Hagerup aboard th_e Farm. The plan has been for the avi- ators to reconnoiter along the south- ern edge of the Arctic ice pack in an attempt to locate members of the ‘Amundsen party, which started from Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, in the fl)k( ing boats for the North Pole on May 21. However, Comdr. Hagerup re-! ported to Lieut. Holm that mounmm:. of jce have now formed in the ice| pack, making it extremely dangerous to fiy over it. He said it would be preferable to employ more patrol ships rather than use airplanes in the search. Nevertheless, the present plan | is for the Heimdall to cruise to the north and for the fiyers to attempt to reconnoiter as they originally intend- ed. In this way the Heimdall will be available for relief to Lieut. Holm and his companions if necessary. SHIP TO FIGHT ICE. Will Make Another Attempt to Find Amundsen Party. NOME, Alaska, June 15.—The motor ship Charles Brower, which was ordered by her owners, Liebes & Co., San Francisco, to search for Amund- sen on the northern coast of Alaska, will make another &l!emgt to make her way north this week. The Brower so far has been repulsed by ice, and reaching the Dimede & oup. Daring Exploits of Air Mail Flyers Told by Star Reporter Daily Routine of Pilots Thrilling—Serv ice Braves All W eathers and Operates With Clocklike Precision. Editor's Note—I'ncle Sam’s Air Atlantic and the Pacific America today. is one of The story of its operation, its thrills and its trials never Mail Service operating between the the most colorful undertakings in has deen chronicled by any writer from first-hand erperience. Frederick R. Neely of The Star staff undertook to fly the complete “air mail route” in an_Army plane, piloted by Capt The Star might mail pilbts in their daily tasks. St. Clair Streett, that the readers of be informed of the tremendous hazards confronted by He has ended his adventure and the following story is the first of a series of siz. They will appear daily. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY. The morning of July 1 will mark the completion of the first year of 84-hour service on the other commercial aviation venture in Transcontinental Air Mail, and unlike this country, the dawn of a new any ar finds this organization leagues ahead of the goal established for it and ready to take more Nation's progress. steps forward in the interest of th The airplane service between the Atlantic and the Pacific no longer is an experiment— he metropolis transportation Postage, U. S of adventure brought. The Air gies or excu: CAPT. STREETT. have realized that surrounding that 8, 16 or 2 stamp in the corner of the envelope marked cannot be comprehended by each little stamp could tell recipient of the letter, it seems, would regard it of | equal if not more importance than the message it|1q Neither snow nor rain because its pilots and plan; daily duties need no qualific s j| by all competitors in the postal system, and in a | certain area it is feared and respected in (he friendly | - contest forever enduring among the a; move the mails. it is an iron-bound institution, here to stay. Day after day, night after night, since last July of the East and the metropolis of the West have been separated by only 32 to 34 hours, and between the two oceans cities and towns north and south of the airway have profited by the fastest!them away of the age. Few, if any, cent is an invisible atmosphere romance and thrills which the ‘“ground man.” If s story of the flight, the Air Mail' hazard, or heat nor gloom of night ¥s these couriers From the swift completion Of their appointed rounds. ail unofficially has adopted that slogan in the pu tions, concessions, apolo- The Air Mail is to be reckoned with gencies that An ample appreciation for the air mail is held by those along the main line, but those cities and towns scattered too far out of the airway to be (Continued on Page 4, Column LANGLEY PLANE OF FLYING, SAYS AIR EXPERT Backs Dr. Walcott in Dispute With Wright—Says | FIRST CAPABLE Latter’s Machine, Though First to Succeed, Was Wrong Aerodynamically. The contention of Dr. Charles Wal- | cott, secretary of the Smithsonian In- stitution, that the Langley airplane was the first capable of flight. is up- held by C. G. Grey, leading aeronauti- cal publicist of Great Britain and editor of the Aeroplane, Who, in the June 3 issue, just received here, de- | clares that “Dr. Walcott and__the Smithsonian Institution and Prof. Langley have proved their case.” Mr. Grey said the “actual facts of the case appear to be that though the Wright machine was the first to fly, it was not a practicable flying machine, and although the Langley machine did not fly in 1903, it was in fact a practicable flying machine when made sufficlently strong—that is to say, the Wright machine was aerodynamically wrong but mechan- ically good enough, whereas the Langley machine was mechanically wrong but aerodvnamically good enough. And as flying i8 a matter of aerodynamics, into which mechanical structure enters only as a component part of success, one believes that Dr. | Walcott, the Smithsonian Institution and Prof. Langly have proved their case. * POLAND BACKS FOREIGN CREDITS TO $40,000,000 Action Is Coincident With Visit of American Financiers—Will Aid Industries. By the Associated Press. WARSAW, June 15.—Coincident with the visit to Warsaw of Clarence Dillon, James A. Logan and other representatives of the banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co. of Néw York, the cabinet yesterday introduced a bill in the diet proposing to establish Gov- ernment guarantees up to $40,000,000 for foreign credits offered Polish economic_enterprises. The American visitors left Prague, Czechoslovakia, yesterday. for “One hates to be rude to the first man who ever flew, but one can only characterize Mr. Orville Wright's re- moval of his machine from America as a plece of childish spite. Of course a good many people in this country who set store by velics and so forth will be quite pleased to go to South Kensington and see the first aero- plane which ever flew. But the in- terest of the machine is purely senti mental and it has no educational value whatever, for the good reason that students of aviation who want to know exactly how an aeroplane ought not to be designed or built can learn quite as much by looking at the photographs and models of the same machine which have existed in this country for years.” “Personally,” concludes Mr. Grey, “one cannot help thinking that Mr. Orville Wright would have earned the respect of his countrymen far more if he had been able to get away from the atmosphere of Dayton, Ohio, and had swallowed his little provincial pride and had forgotten his pre-war quarrel with the Smithsonian In- sti,ute and had sent his ancient relics togrepose in the museum of his coun- tris Capital.” TWO FLYERS ARE KILLED IN SECRET TEST FLIGHT Neéw Engine Stalls in Midair as Experiment Plane Passes Through Fog Bank. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, June 15.—Antone Pauli, 25, and Maurti Devos, aviators, ‘were killed yesterday while making a secret test flight through a dense fog when the engine of their plane stalled when it was several hundred feet in the air and crashed into a Penn- sylavania freight car in the company’s yords. Both men came here from Chicago and were engaged in a local aircraft company as aeronautical en- gineers. They were trying out a rotary engine recently invented by ' Devos when the accident occured. . | Gene and Tom were to cros The Star’ every city b tion is delive: “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- red to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. turday’s Circulation, 91,328 Sunday’s Circulation, 103,271 (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. Drops Dead When Informed Son Is Killed by an Auto Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., June 15.—Mrs Mary Lang of Goochland Count Va., dropped dead last night when told that her son, Gerald C. Lang of this city, had met death under an automobil Lang was mother was v ears old, and his iting at his home here. He was run down while crossing a street. A double funeral will be held in Goochland County tomorrow. FIRE HORSES DASH T0 LAST ALARM Barney, Gene and Tom Led Away to Spend Remaining Days at Rest. Garlanded with roses and with the joyous clang of the fire bells still ring- ing in their ears, faithful old Barney, Gene and Tom, the last veteran team of Washington's once-petted battalion of fire horses, went to their hard- earned rest in the pastures of Blue Plains today, there to spend the re- mainder of their days in peace and | safety. They were given their last run, a | spirited sprint down North Carolina avenue to Lincoln Park, batteries of | cameras clicked photographic records | of their passing from active life, and {when they came back William J. Fay superintendent Feeble and Infirm, led them off to the |big farm below Congress which is to be their future home “When a fireman has served the | department with loyalty, he is pen- { sioned and retired to the rest he has earned in the twilight of his life, Commissioner Fenning told Mr. F: as he handed him the reins of the three grey veterans. ‘‘These old fel- lows are no less men of our department, and it is only right and fitting that they. too, should be protected now that their service is Commissioner Fenning and | George 5. Watson, chlef e {the Fire Department. many | ficials of the District government ! honored Barney, Gene and Tom on their last day in the service of Wash lington. and more than | cheered them as they dashed out of | their old home at No. § engine com 1pany for the last time. But no person {took a more deep-hearted interest in | the ceremonies than Frank J. Wagner, | former chief of the department. It w Chief Wagner, who was retired himself five years ago, who bought Barney he was the last to stroke thelr necks just before Supt. Fay To the former rong led fire however, | chief also went the honor of present. | rze wreath | ling each horse with a la | of roses and holding their haiters a the motion picture machines and | cameras clicked records of the pass- ing of the National Capital’s last fire | horses The ceremonies began promptly at o'clock. A dozen policemen guard the intersecting street: Barney on their ilast run and another squad had their | hands full keeping the crowd from running along with the horses in [ their eagerness to pay them tribute. | Nearly every one, it seemed, had [ ed uit of their | some sort of a camera and before the | cans in Mexico and their | program was completed hundreds | miniature pictures were snapped. The gong _sounded tim thre ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) of 'FRESH MINE RIOTS HALTED BY POLICE Troop Train Rushed to Scene of Nova Scotia Strike After Robberies. By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, N. S, June 15.—Local police, assisted by special constables recruited from the ranks of the United Mine Workers of America, to- lay frustrated an attempt to loot a warehouse of the British Empire Steel Corporation at Glace Bay. A squad of 30 rioters, who had effected an entrance into the building, dis persed without resistance when the police appeared A tropo train from St. Johns, Que bec, is expected here this afternoon. During the night | owned stores were looted by mobs e: timated at 1,000 persons. small coal pocket with little damage. Liquor Blamed. Smuggled liquor is blamed for much tof the violence that has attended the strike of 12,000 coal mine workers of the British Empire Steel Corporation in the Cape Breton district. John W. McLeod, district president of the United Mine Workers, in saying that liquor was responsible, stated that Ilnrge quantities of intoxicants had ’heen landed recently at New Water- j ford. Nova Scotia is one of the three | maritime provinces which retained the war-time Canadian dry law. | Rioting broke out afresh early to- day. At the Sydney mines a private general store was raided by 1,000 men. Both the provincial police and d minion troops, rushed into the ar last week, were caught unawares There were no clashes with the authorities. The police and haif of the troopers were in training at the steel plant, while the remainder of the soldiery had been moved to the New Aberdeen Power Plant a mile away. Labor Minister Coming. James Murdock, Canadian minister of Jabor, is on his way here from Ottawa in an attempt to settle the strike now going into its fourteenth week. In the disorders that started last week one miner has been killed, scores have been injured and more than $100,000 worth of the company's property has been damaged or stolen. The strike started last March from a wage dispute and withdrawal of miners’ credit at company stores. | | | was extinguished Radio Programs—Page 22. of the Home for the| Heights, | firemen than the | reer of | 00 persons | Gene and Tom, and | three privately | Fire in a | HELLOGE 70 AVDD DEBATEON UL - SEEN BY CALLES Formal Note Expected to Cover Points in U. S. Statement. | OFFICIALS SURPRISED AT TERMS OF ANSWER Mexican President Saw “Threat” in Announcement After Sheffield Report. By the Associated Press Washington officials gave no indica tion today that a public reply would be made to President Calles’ objection to the administration’s Mexican policy but it was indicated that specific ques tions underlying Secretary Kellogg's position would be made the subject of a formal communication to the Mexican government A series of communications and rep. resentations have bheen sent to Me: City from time time recently arious c: in which this Govern | ment is interested, none waich has been made public, and it was sdi- ed that other matters cited by &1r Kellogg in his statement Friisé on the Mexican situation would M@ the subject of a formal After the re 108z to his desk t for the present at no object in engaging in a 1 | debate with the Mexican over a situation about which offic here are not in any doubt. Calles View Surprise. It was with manifest sur high offic arned Calles had chosen to vie: sult” Secretary Kellogg tement of last week, warning against fur ther invasion of the rights of Amer icans in Mexico, but the C | statement was n diplomatic paper 11t is not in the class of promounce ments of which the Government is | forced to take official cognizance Some of the language used by the Mexican president, if embodied in a formal note, would, of c con tute g cause for prompt and decisive | reply | Since the statement in was addressed only to the public through the news papers, however, the American Gov- ernment, under the practices of diplomacy, can ignore it if it so de- sires. Mr. 1 Kellogg spent vesterday last night aboard the yacht Mayflower with Mr. and Mrs Coolidge, and did not return to Wash ington until this morning. The text of President Calles’ sharp reply did not reach him until he came to his desk at the State Department Administration officials tak sition that in_ view of the Washington of Ambassador and his prolonged conferences both with the President and Mr. Kellog the American public was entitled to knowledze of the true situation in Mexico with which those conferences | had to do. This feeling is said to have prompted the issuance of Mr ! Kellogg's statement of last Friday | warning the Mexican government and | advising the American people that | Washington support of the present Mexican administration could be con- | and presidential i 1 the po- visit_to Sheffeld tinued only if that government I up to its obligations so far as Ameri. property | concerned. i Situation Unchanged. | The fact that President pressed resentment in his ar | statement has not changed tk tion, and the Washington Government is concerned more with what Mexican {authorities do in the way of protect- {ing Americans and indemnifying them \for property expropriated than it is | with what they have to say for publi- | cation | President Calles' answer. through the Mexican embassy | vesterday, declared Mr. Keliogg |nouncement embodied a “thr | against the sovereignty of Mexico. and {he deemed it “a duty for my govern- { ment to rectify said statements as re- | quired by truth and justice.” Secretary Kellogg had declared the administration would support the | Mexican regime “only so long as it | protects American lives and American |rights and complies with its interna- tional engagements and obligations.” | It is believed here that the discus- !sion, which has been conducted through the press, will rest for a time, lat least, unless President Calles de- sires to continue it through diplomatic {channels. Secretary Kellogg is not | expected to add to his own statement {and it is believed he will not take of- ficial cognizance of the reply. issued here | Statement Cautious. Officials here who knew of the re- | ports which formed the basis of Mr. | Kellogg!s statement were surprised at | President Calles’ interpretation of it as a threat and ar insult. The wording jof the Secretary’s pronouncement, in {their opinion, was both cautious and | moderate. Mexico, President Ca ‘does not accord to a foreign the right to intervene in her domestic affairs, nor is she disposed to subordinate her internal relations to |the exigencies of another country.” | The President expressed regret that Mr. Kellogg made mention of reports | of impending revolution in Mexico be | cause it “tends to cast some alarm in | the world" regarding conditions there. Mr. Kellogg’s statement was based |on much information placed before him by his aides, some of it alieging that property owned by Americans in | Mexico had been seized by so-called |agrarians without legal proceedings. The labor situation in Mexico and that | government’s suspension of service off her debt contracted with bankers of this and other countries also have caused Washington officials some anxiety. ‘Application of the agrarian laws, President Calles said, “cannot be i subject of complaint because Mexico has issued them in the exercise of her sovereignty.” President Calles’ Reply. President Calles’ reply to Secretary Kellogg's statement follows: “Declarations of the State Depart- ment_have been published by which Mr. Kellogg, answering some ques- tions relating to the visit of Ambas- sador Sheffield to said department. affirms that some properties of Amer- (Continued on Page 5, Column 3