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A2 NAVY GROUP HOLDS CHARGE UNREFUTED New Broadside on Hoover Economy Policy Fired by W. B. Howe. J +(Continued From First Page) London treaty ratios and that the present efforts toward disarmament and economies would not interfere with the attainment of those ratios, the Navy lfl'gle board chairman returned swiftly to_the attack. He recalled that the American naval policy was stated to be the maintenance of & navy second to none and repeated publican platform, reading: “We pledge ourselves to round out and maintain the Navy in all types of combatant ships to the full ratio provided for the United States by the Washington treaty and any amendment thereto.” Mr. IIUWE quoted Mr. Hoover's tele- | gram to the Kansas City convention ac- cepting the nomination, in_which ne declared the victory of the Republican y would “assure national defense.” e contrasted the naval policy of Presi- dent Coolidge with President Hoov :'s, robably the first time the twe have n compared publicly by & spokesman for a national organization. Turning to statistics, Mr. Howe de- clared the American Navy had only 69 | per cent of its auxillary quotas as against 88 and 102 per cent for Great Britain and Japan, respectively. Where- as it will cost $190,000,000 & year to build the American Navy up to treaty strength by 1936, President Hoover, he said, allowed “merely $53,000,000" for construction this year and $57,000,000 for next year. In the three years Mr. Hoover has | Been in the White House, he continued, many ships have been going over-age without the President making *‘a sin- gle move” to replace them, “not to mention upbuilding in categories where We are under treaty levels.” Every ton of construction mow under way, Mr, Howe charged, was “inherited from jous administrations” except the lve new destroyers. The administra- tion, he added, permitted the Navy Department to send a $91,000,000 treaty construction program to Congress last Winter and then permitted it to die without exerting any “effective efforts on its behalf.” “Such has been Mr. Hoover's uncon- structive record as to naval building since he has been President,” the Navy League chairman summed up. “Does it accord with the naval pol- fey officlally promulgated for the | United States? “Does it accord with the Republican platform that he specifically acceptéd and upon which he was elected? | “Does it in any way meet the situa- tion in the Armistice day address of his immediate predecessor in the Pres- idency, delivered after Mr, Hoover was €lected?” Mr. Howe, contrasting the naval policies of President Hoover with those of his predecessor, selected President Coolidge's h on Armistice day, 1928, in which the then President said the Nation did not need a large stand- ing army, but that “when we turn to the sea the situation is different.” With obligations to defend the Panama Canal and distant , Mr. Coolidge held that “it is obvious, based on needs, we are entitled to a large number of " than & nation with the ad- vantages of naval bases and merchant ships capable of being converted into FORESTRY AWARDS T0 BE PRESENTED Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle and Dr. Alexander Wetmore Chosen for Ceremonies Tomorrow. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice presi- dent of the Board of Education, an tary of the Smithsonian Institution, will present the American Forestry Associa- tion awards at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to the public school children who earned them in the exhibition of notebooks on forests. The presenta- tions will be made at the National Museum Auditorium. The children who ‘will receive the as- Jan Rus, 8, John Quincy Adams School, and Janie Belle Bradford, 9, West 8School. In tomorrow’s exercises, which will be presided over by Henry W. Draper, . supervising principal, Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders, president of the D. C. Col gress of Parents and Teachers, will an- nounce the winners. The contest involved a competition in which 4,000 notebooks were entered for awards. The judges were Dr. Gil bert Grosvenor, president of the Na- tional Geographic Society; C. Powell Minnigerode, secretary and director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Dr. ‘Wetmore. The contest was directed by Miss Esther Scott, director of elementary science in the schools, and Mrs. Saunders of the Parent-Teacher Associ- ation congress. Form;r Minister Is Buried. PARIS, November 26 (#).—The fu- neral of Louis Loucheur, former French minister of munitions, was held today with the simplicity for which he had asked. The service was held at the Church of St. Plerre de Chaillot, which was crowded with mourners. Burial Supports Gardine: WALTER BRUCE HOWE. -—Underwood Photo. Must S;nllow Ball And Retrieve It Once Daily to Keep Alive North Carolinian Mu Repeat Process to Keep Esophagus Open. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C., November 26.— Ear]l Lanford, Charlotte business man, must undergo an operation a day to keep himself alive. er, famous bronchoscopic surgeon of Philadelphia, to be the only one of its kind in the world. Every morning Lanford must swallow & heavy 1-inch metal ball, attached to a string, and then pull it back sgain. Thus his esophagus is kept open. Years ago Lanford found he was rap- idly losing weight and a physician in Greer, 8. C,, told him his lower esopha- gus had closed and that he was starv- ing to death. Lanford then went to Dr. Tucker who performed an unusual operation. An Incision was made in Lonford's stomach and he was fed through a rubber tube for six mnoths. Then his esophagus was opened by hydraulic pressure—by the weight cf water—and later Lanford ;‘:lsl started to swallowing a small metal of slightly over 1 1-32 of an inch in diameter and each morning Lanford goes through his torturous routine of swallowing the ball and pulling it back. If his esophagus should close entirely as it did two years ago, it would prob- ably mean Lanford's death. BRIDEGROOM FINDS BODY OF BROTHER Francis F. Poore Victim of Gas. Suicide Certificate Issued by Coromer. Returning to receive the congratula- tions of his family after his wedding yesterday afternoon, Willlam E. Poore, 21, found his brother, Francis F. Poore, 25, dead from asphyxiation in the kitchen of his father's home, 5509 Nevada avenue. Coroner Joseph D. Rogers issued & certificate of suicide, maintaining the youth W taken his own life by opening the jets”of the kitchen stove. ‘The body was discovered about 2:30 pam. and apparently had been lifeless for several hours. The Fire Rescue Squad made a futile effort to revive ‘William Poore, a Philadelphia golf professional, was married to Catherine L. Calvert. 20, by Rev. P. J. Begley. Other survivors of the dead youth are two brothers, Wilbur and Wade; a sister, Bernardine, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Poore. MAN HURT IN CRASH FACES DRUNKEN CHARGE Robert Morris Meets Disaster on Way Home After ‘‘He-Man’s Night” at Alexandria. Special Dispatch toThe Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. November 26— After colliding with another automobile and a telephone pole and receiving in- juries which required 18 stitches in head, neck and chin, Robert “Mugg: Morris of 1712 D street southeast, Washington, was charged with driving while drunk and colliding here early today. | Morris, who is a brakeman at Po- tomac Yards here, had been one of the referees at the “He-Man's night” held at the old Portner Brewery last night for the benefit of the Elks' charity fund. The crash occurred on the Alex- andria-Washington Highway. The automobile driven by Morris first | collided with the car driven by Thomas | Starks of 1159 First street, Washing- | ton, according to police report. Neither | Starks nor his wife, also in the car, was hurt. Morris' auto then plunged was in the historic Montparnasse Cemetery. into a telephone pole, breaking it off ‘and wrecking his car. His case is said by Dr. Gabriel Tuck- | This was increased to its present size | THE EVENING STAR, W FARM BOARD PAPERIU. S. PLAYS MAJOR || Scemes of thie L0 1S §177,000,000 . Chairman Stone Refuses to “Admit Wheat and Cotton Investment Is Lost. By the Associated Press. On paper the Farm Board has lost $177,000,000 of the $500,000,000 given it by Congress to stabilize prices of wheat and cotton. Actually Chairman Stone of the board refuses to concede that this or any similar amount should be wirtten off. The board still has enormous hoards of both commodities. If prices g0 high enough the loss might be re- duced to the vanishing point. Still it was the loss figure as of present values that Chairman McNary of the Senate Agriculture Committee wanted and obtained. It was furnished him yesterday as his committee heard demands from the big national farm organizations for the old, oft-vetoed remedies of export debenture and equalization fee. Urge Stronger Board. These farm aids should be approved, the farm leaders contended, by way of strengthening the Farm Board. They did not suggest the board be done away with, as a good many have urged since the Federal money started plung- ing into an apparently bottomless abyss of sinking wheat and cotton prices. Lovis J. Taber, master of the Na- tional Grange; Edward A. O'Neal, president of the Farm Bureau Federa- tion; John A. Simpson, president of the Farmers' Union, and Ralph Snyder of the National Committee of Farm Organizations were those who forgot old differences in demands for stronger aid to the farmer. The Senators, a dozen of them, lis- tened intently ‘as the talk swung to silver, waterpower and other favored ideas of the agricultural rehabilitators. They intend to hear more before de- ciding what to do with the Farm Board—continue it as it is, abolish it, strengthen it, or change its functions. Stone Submits Figures. Senator McNary read to the com- mittee statements from Chairman Stone showing stabliization wheat which has cost $222,000,000 would bring only $120,000,000 at present, and that the cotton, representing a $120,- 000,000 investment, is worth $45,000,- 000 at today's market prices. | “It would be impossible to sell all the holdings on any one day or in any short period without seriously breaking the price,” Stone's statement said. “The disposal of stabilization wheat | may extend over several years into the | future; if prices should rise significant- |ly during that period, the final cost of | stabilization . might be materially less than it would appear from an estimate there might even be & gain.” Another witness at yesterday's hear- ing, J. W. Garrow of the American Cot- ton Shippers’ Association, bitterly at- tacked the Farm Board's stabilization operations and demanded a congres- sional investigation. 31 RIOTERS RELEASED BY DETROIT MAYOR Unemployed Allowed to Spend Thanksgiving Day With Families. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 26 —Thirty- one persons, arrested yesterday in & brush between police and 500 unem- ployed, who attempted a demonstra- tion at the City Hall, were free today, under instructions from Mayor Frank Murphy that they be permitted to spend Thanksgiving with their families. Only those who assaulted policemen will be prosecuted, the mayor said. ‘The police used tear gas bombs to disperse the demonstrators and said two gas bombs were thrown by the demon- strators. One policeman was slightly injured. Among those arrested was John Schmies, Communist candidate for mayor in last month’s primary. He was charged with disturbing the peace. Ray Walasky, 26, will be charged with felonious assault. Police said he felled lxpnmlmln with a brick, then kicked m. | BAKER FUNERAL RITES Held for Prominent Winchester Canner. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., November 26— Funeral services were held today for Daniel C. Baker, 70, member of a fam- ily long identified with fruit and vege- table canning interests, whose death Bervices Are health. He was a son of the late Daniel Baker, elder of the Brethren Church, who established the first canning plant in the lower Shenandoah Valley, a busines maintained by his sons until within recent years, He was unmar- ried. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. L. R. Dettra, Stephens City, Va., and Miss | Effie Baker, Tampa, Fla. He was & | member of the United Brethren Church. MEXICAN IS APPOINTED MEXICO CITY, November 26 (#).— Andres Ortiz, who resigned yesterday as Governor of Chihuahua, was named chief of the Mexican section of the International Boundary Commission, succeeding Gustavo P. Serrano, new secretary of communications. Since most of the commission's work is along the Rio Grande, Ortiz will live at El Paso, Tex. Procession at Pan-American Mass ARTICIPATING clergymen in the annual Thanksgiving day Pan-American mass accom; nied by prominent diplo- ‘mats and American Government officials are shown here as they filed into St. Patrick’s Church this morning from the rectory at Tenth and G streets. The line of the procession was marked by the 8t. John's College b mm«nmaumm “ Corps, —Star based on_present market prices, and | Tuesday evening followed a year of ill* Photo. jand SHINGTON, D« THURSDAY ROLE N FAR EAST Kept League Calm While Winning Asiatic Nations to Arbitration. __ (Continued Prom PFirst Page.) up against the powerful medieval- minded military caste which is a strong believer in the slogan might is right. It took & good deal of patience and at times “straight talking” to induce the Japanese military to give in. They have mentalities which do not quite fit in with the New World policies of set- tling everything by arbitration, but they are intelligent, and when it was brought home to them that in spite of the re- luctance of the American people to en- force a boycott they might be driven into such an action, the Japanese gen- eral staff, Tokio reports say, decided to vield. How sincere their yielding is re- mains to be seen. The League of Na- tions resolution and the venality of some of the Chinese generals may give them a chance to change their attitude again. However, for the time being they have yielded, and Japan has accepted the principle of arbitration, even when it is g;lp;nlled to her other Oriental neighbor, a, Start Off on Wrong Foot. Our dealings with the League of Nations Council were equally difficult. The League started by making a mis- take. It was impulsive when it ordered the Japanese out of Manchuria by No- vember 16. The result of the uitima. tum surprised nobody in Washington. The Japanese told the League in dip lomatic language to “go to the dev The Council of the League got an- noyed and immediately began discuss- ing ‘“‘forceful methods” and ‘“block- ades.” We were as much interested in the peaceful settlement of the Sino- Japanese dispute as the League. ‘The Japanese disregard of interna- tional treaties such as the Kellogg pact and the nine-power pact affected us Just &5 much as it affetced the mem- bers of the League, but the Govern- ment of this country did not see any reason why forceful methods should be applied before all the other methods were exhausted. It would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to convince Congress of the necessity of applying an embargo on Japan if the country could not be convinced there was & vital reason for doing so. We hed to preach patience to the impatient League. accused the Government of this coun- try of cov. > and of putting ma- terial intcrests ahead of the moral is- sues which were involved in the Japa- nese-League of Nations controversy. It accused the Government of this coun- try of playing into Japan's hands. Tokio reports indicate the State De- partment has been sending in the last 10 days some strong notes. Plain Talk in Notes. According to these reports, the notes contained some pretty straight talking. It appears that we pointed out to Japan that the assumed lack of interest of the American people in the Manchurian dis- pute was illusory and that at any time there may be a tremendous reaction against Japan in this country. Am- bassador Debuchi, who knows America well, is said to have reported to his government the same thing. The League Council did not see our point of view at first and wanted to rush us into action. We were com- pelled to give them a fair warning by indicating that in spite of our col- laboration with the League we would maintain an absolute freedom of action should the League desire to apply sanc- tions. The Council of the League realized that a boycott applied by Eu- rope alone would have no effect on Japan and decided to follow our line of diplomatic action. The State Department gave a sigh of rellef when Ambassador Dawes re- ported the Japanese and Chinese were willing to accept the League's resolu- tion. The situation seems improved although it is by no means certain that Ppeace in the Far East has been assured. Too Many Loopholes. There are two weak points in the | situation. One is that there are too many loopholes in the League’s reso- lution. The general idea is that Japan cannot negotiate with China while Japanese troops are maintained in Chinese territory. The Japanese are reported to have agreed to withdraw their battallons into the railway zone. There {s no time limit to this with- drawal, but it is understood it will be- gin as soon as possible. It has been admitted, however, that in places where there is a lot of banditry and the Chinese authorities cannot guarantee the life and property of Japanese citi- zens the Japanese should be allowed to maintain their troops. as military police, until a Chinese police force can be_organized. It happens, however, that the entire Manchurian territory where fighting has taken place in the last few weeks is in a chaotic state. On arriving in towns the first duty of Japanese troops was to disband native Chinese police. Consequently it may be that the Japanse will find it necessary to maintain, under the name of police, an army of occupation in Manchuria. This force may remain there for a month or even years before to guarantee the safety of the Japanese citizens. The other dlmeu]g is that the League has requested the Japanese and the Chinese governments to order their commanders-in-chief to refrain from any hostile act during the pending negotiations, Strange Case of Gen. Mah. ‘The strange case of Gen. Mah is vivid in the minds of most diplomats. This Chinese general commanding the tropps massed at Tsitsihar is reported to have been appointed last Monday by the Japanese government as governor of the province. According to diplomatic sources, which know the ‘inside story” of the Tsitsthar affair, it appears that Gen. Mah had agreed to blow up the bridges across the Nonni River so as to give the Japanese a pretext to push north. He made a pretense of resistance when the Japanese ordered him out of Tsitsihar, fought a losing battle and then, un- expectedly, is reported to have been appointed by the Japanese governor of the district whence he had been routed. Those who know the methods of Ori- ental diplomacy find this thing quite natural. For this reason, however, cer- tain diplomats are somewhat uneasy about the situation at Chinchow. + It is not impossible that another Gen. Ma should be found in command of the Chinese troops around Chin- chow. An “unexpected” attack against ,the Japanese would jeopardize com- pletely the peace efforts of the United States and the League of Nations. For this reason our diplomats, while hope- ful that the Sino-Japanese conflict would be straightened out, are not too optimistic. The ways of Oriental di- plomacy are too devious to expect an early settlement of the dispute. | NIBLO’S SON RECOVERING Motion Picture Director’s Son { Operated on for Appendicitis. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, November 26 (/)—Fred Niblo, jr., screen writer and son of the motion picture director, was reported well on the road to recovery yesterday after an opefation Tuesday for appendicitis. It was r?ofled at first that the pa- tient was Niblo, sr., but he is in Eng- to direct a picture, The European press | the Chinese authorities are in a_position | NOVE Japanese Advance in Manchuria [}|V|l WAR FEAREI] MBER 26, 1931. Japanese troops crossing the Nonni River railroad bridge in North Central Manchuria, after the recent three- day battle during which they crushed the Chinese forces and sent them in disorderly retreat northward. | occupled the Chinese city. A division of Japanese soldiers during a rest period in the public square of Chanchun, Manchuria, shortly after they -—A P, P oto. PEACE DEAL SEEN NEARING SUCCESS for Settlement of Asiatic Dispute. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 26.— Negotia- tions for a settlement of the Man- churian conflict appeared today to be moving toward success with the ap- proval of the United States behind the Council's resolution asking the Japanese to evacuate the territory as soon as security conditions permit. The approval of the American Gov- ernment was announced yesterday by Ambassador Charles G. Dawes. The agreement of the United States and the 12 neutral members of the Council means that China's request for 8 fixed time limit for the troop with- drawals is likely not to be granted and it indicates an accord with the Jap- anese contention that such a time limit is not practicable. It was learned, however, that Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese spokesman, prob- ably will continue to insist on the time limit, although Dr. Sze himsel!, asked whether he might modify his demands in the face of the American indorse- ment of the resolution, answered de- jectedly, “I don’t know.” Dawes Announces Decision. Gen. Dawes announced the decision of the United States Government in a statement to newspaper correspond- ts. “The United States Government ap- proves the general plan of settlement embodied in the proposed resolution,” the statement sald, “and has so inform- ed both China and Japan. It urged upon them acquiescence in the general ifl:‘n embodied in the proposed reso- ution.” Gen. Dawes declined to amplify that statement. The resolution, in addition to stipu- lating Japanese withdrawal without fix- ing a time limit, contained provisions for China and Japan to order their commanders in the field to refrain from belligerant activity and for both na- tions to take every means to avold further aggravation of the situation. It has not yet recelved formal ap- proval of the Council, however. New Instructions Asked. Dr. Sze telegraphed his government at Nanking for new instructions in view of the United States' attitude on the resolutions. U. S. Backs League Formula| fully resisting the resolution seems to lie in the reported objection of some of the delegates of smaller countries on the council to what they say is fore- ing the resolution on the Chinese. Spain, Norway, Poland and Jugoslavia are said to have such an objection, but observers were doubtful they would persist in it in the face of the United States announcement. Another meeting of the neutral mem- bers of the council was tentatively fixed for 4 o'clock this afternoon. In League quarters it was said some features of the resolution ought to please the Chinese. It provides for a.cessa- tion of hostilities, for a mutual inquiry, and for information from the neutral observers on the spot, a proposal the Japanese rejected in September. Telegram Dispatched. ‘The text of a telegram sent to Tokio and Nanking by Chairman Briand was | published today. It read: “The council is striving to achieve a peaceful settlement of the Manchur- ian dispute, but its efforts would be in vain if fresh engagements were to oc- cur between the Chinese and Japanese forces. “The council particularly calls the attention of the two governments to the situation existing in the Chinchow region. Certain governments already have decided to send observers there, [ but it is up to the two parties to give | |the commanders of their respective | forces the strictest orders to refrain from any action which might lead to further engagements and further loss of human life. » “My colleagues and I rely upon the two governments to take all the neces- sary measures for this purpose as soon as posisble.” NO DESIGNS ON CHINCHOW. Note to Tell League Japan Is Doing Its Best to Avoid Clash. TOKIO, November 26 (#).— The Japanese government was understood to be preparing to reply to Chairman Briand of the League of Nations Coun- cil today that it is doing everything possible “under the circumstances” to avold a clash with the Chinese at Chinchow, Manchuria. M. Briand had expressed particular solicitude about the Chinchow situation in a telegram to Tokio. It was understood the government would say that if trouble occurs now it will be the fault of the Chinese, be- | cause the area west of Liaoho and| east of Chinchow has been cleared of bandits and other disturbing elements by the Japanese operations. In official circles the view was that the Chinchow situation has eased ma- terially. No reports of new concen- trations of Chang Hsueh-Liang's forces there had reached here. One report, moving southward. It was authoritatively stated the military and other departments of the government realize a major operation at Chinchow would change the face of the whole situation because of its near- ness to the Great Wall, and because of British interests in the Peiping-Mukden Rallway and the British-leased In informed qubiters 1t was believed the only Mflw China’s success- | halkwan. mine at Kallan, southwest of Shan- on the contrary, sald the Chinese were | Cap |LUSITANIA SALVAGE EXPEDITION GIVEN PERMIT BY BRITAIN ____(Contini Page.) Liverpool and London War Risks Insur- ;nc]e Association, Ltd. Signed, H. H. ailey.” Will Not Raise Ship. “We are not at liberty,” Capt. Railey sald, “to sign immediately a contract secured by the expedition 'some weeks 2go from the War Risks Association at Liverpcol. Under the terms of this agreement the ultimate disposition of 2ll net values from our salva; - tons rests with (hé. sasociation’ N attempt will be made to raise the Lusitania and we are not equipped to :Sget:rn ‘m;l;‘lll n&\‘i of the ves- 80, Wwhich, intrinsically, woul barely justify the cost, i “We propose rurekv as a demonstra- tion of the revolutionary aspects of the Lake submarine salvaging tube merely to bring to the surface the ship’s safes and other miscellaneous articles of ac- lu_;lh or hdl:wflc worth.” e undersea photography at depths ngver before achieved is, apart frompthe demonstration of Lake's tube, the next most important objective of the expe- dition. Thes experiments recently cone Cucted in the United States under ad- verse circumstances warrant the “con- fident belief,” in the opinion of Capt. Ralley, that “the expedition will sue- ceed in taking motion pictures and still photographs of the condition of this sion. The important research in sub- marine lighting will bs conducted in co-cperation with the Westinghouse Lamp Co. of New Jersey.” Working on Apparatus. Denying there is any likelinood that the wreck has collapsed under the pres- sure of the sea, David Xidd of Milford, Conn.,, hull engineer of the expedition, revealed that work on a section of the expedition’s apparatus is now under yl{ nfirifh{t‘l}&mu. Eu::mlmd‘. hMm.m. acturing of er equipment Eng- lish llebuflflerl will be Dluthofl.fiyd im- mediately. According to Mr. Kidd, the construc- tion of the new equipment and the se- lection and chartering of a surface vessel to which the tube will be at- tached may consume at least eight weeks. It is therefore not anticipated that actual work on the Lusitania will be attempted before February. Appointment of the law firm of Breed, Abbot & Morgan of New York and London as counselors of the expe. dition was also last night by t. Railey. The formal application for the establishment of the base of th> expedition at or near the head of Old Kinsale was made 10 days ago by Capt. Railey to the high commissioner of th- Irish Free State in London. Favorabl action has been assured. Dui of 47 years from iring period coal [ April, 1815, uptil April, 1862, cays of national uunk&ln' ‘were unknown in the United Stat AFTER CANTON ROW Martial Law Declared After Leaders Split on Alliance With Nanking. editorial in which it charged that anti- Soviet agitation is continuing in Man- churia and that Japanese are attdmnt- ing to use the “whites” to attack the Chinese Eastern Railway. PROTEST MADE TO JAPAN. China Says Tokio Will Be Blamed If Fight Is Waged at Chinchow. By the Associated Press. NANKING, November 26.—The Chi- nese foreign office protested today in a note to Japan against a reported threat of a Japanese attack on Chinchow, and warned that Japan will be held respon- sible for “any untoward incident” there. “According to latest reports” the note said, “Japanese troops are busily concentrating at various points south and west of Mukden and are preparing an attack on Chinchow and other places in Southwest Manchuria. “At the same time false reports are being circulated by the Japanese alleg- ing that China has sent reinforcements to_Chinchow, creating thereby a criti- cal situation, and that a Chinese attack on the Japanese forces seems probable. “Moreover, on November 22 Ja troops assisted bandits in attacking Hsinmin. These activities of Japanese troops are similar to the tactics adopted by them previous to their invasion of gl(sluno-xhn( Province and other cen- ers. “The entire world is amazed at the persistent pressure Japan has brought on China in execution of Japanese ag- gressive plans. The government must shoulder a heavy responsibility should any untoward incident happen in the neighborhood of Chinchow or Hsinmin, YUNG CHEN WILL RESIST. Will Fight to Last Ditch If Japanese Attack Chinchow. BY GLENN BABB, Associated Press Staff Correspondent. CHINCHOW, Manchuria, November 26.—Faced with continual reports which, he said, indicated the Japanese are advancing on this, the lest remai ing _center of independent Chinese rule in South Manchuria, Gen. Yung Ch:n, Chinese chief of staff, told me today he gllnl to defend the city to the limit of his power. We talked in the principal inn of the town, where he received me and where last night he gave a dinner in honor of Lieut. Col. Nelson Margetts, American military attache, and the British and French attaches, who ar- rived yesterday from Peiping to observe the expected Japanese drive. With Gen. Yung was Gen. Mi Chung- Ling, acting chairman of the provisional government here. Gen. Yung is chief of staff for Chang Hsueh-Liang, Manchurian governor, who was criven from Mukden at the beginning of the present trouble. Denies Offensive Planned. He denied reports that the Chinese have been preparing an offensive in this area to attempt to regain lost por- tions of the province. “The Chinese forces north of the Great Wall,” he said, “do not number more ln';an 20.00'2 :’ 30,000 men llnd no reinforcements have ved . from the South since tb& confiics : gan. Some brigades dre actaally’ within the Great Wall” - The Great Wall tou! u‘ufio“ line at the southern tip’ uria. “Tahushan,” he , . “marks the Chinese forward position in the direc- tion of Mukden, except for a cavalry brigade stationed along the Tahushan- Tingliao Railway for the purpose of guarding the road and suppressing bandits. This unit in no way threatens the Japanese.” Orderlies came and went as we talked. One brought word that the Japanese had occupled Hsinmintun and taken over the civil and military control of the city. Another came, a little later, with news {hat a Japanese force was move ing westward from Liaoyang and had reacined a point east of Tah Military Law Grips City. Liaoyang is about 150 miles to the north, not far above the neck of the peninsula, on the tip of which is Chin- chow. It is a short distance south of Mukden and a principal town on the r;flmd connecting Mukden and Chin- chow. A few minutes later another brought a report that telephone communica~ tion between Hsinmintun and Tahu- shan is disrupted. Gen. Yung drew from these reports the conclusion that the Japanese pos- sibly were preparing to advance, and this conclusion was concurred in by Gen. Mi. “If the Japanese attack is made,” famous wreck after 16 years' submer- | ¢! Gen. Yung said, “the main Chinese stand will be made a few miles north of Chinchow, although the line there lacks trenches and other defense work.” This city today is in the grip of stern military law. Sentinels are chal- lenging pedestrians every few and troops patrol every street. Crowds of persons attempted to board the train at many stations between here and Mukden during my journey down the peninsula. Hundreds of them, wa.en by fear of a Japanese offensive, are seeking refuge south of the great wall, which thousands of years ago sheltered their ancestgrs from ravages from the north. (Copyrisht, 1931.) SESSION ENDS IN FIGHT Rumanian Parliament Suspends. When Fists Are Used Freely. BUCHAREST, Roumania, November 26 (#).—Yesterday's Parliament session broke up in a fist fight between anti- Jewish and Soclalist Deputies. The trouble started when one of the anti-Jewish Deputies criticized Minister of the Interior Argetoinau, and soon was so much uproar it was neces- sary to suspend the session. CORRECTION Health Officer Fowler Not Legio: Official, as Stated in Star Repdrt.: A spokesman for the American Legion erroneously advised The Star yesterday that Dr. William C. Fowler, District health officer, was head of the Executive Subcommittee of the Legion, handling the matter of the dispute with the Community Chest over relief ac- tivities for former service men, Instead the head of this group is Dr. M. M. Fowler, a Veterens’ Administra- tion dentist, who is chairman of the Legion Welfarc Advisory Couacti. ., Health Officer Fowler has no cone nection with the Legion.