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CPINON DFFERS ON STATEOF Vi League Commission’s Report on Far East Divides Authorities. By the Associa Pres Are China and Japan now actually &t war? The question, causing great discus- sion among authorities on international Jaw, finds conflicting answers The League of Nations' Shanghai Commision _reported to the League C a that “a state of open Shanghai Quincy Wr profesor of int national law at the University of Chi- Japan and . because neither } expressed an intention to make war. However, if hostilities reach suf- ficient magnitude, it would doubtless be in the competence of third states to regard war as existing.” Popular and legal definitions of war vary greatly and have changed and developed with through the centuries. Several Kinds of War, In fact there are several kinds of wais and the definitions of these aiso 2 A rfect” when tI ole states. Ai is on> which is lim- . persons and things war one b uggie at sense 1t or a “im- a war, At most it is an perfect” w “Declared and open hostilities” is one ©:i the definitions Webster's Dictionary gives for war. Another it gives is “the state or fact of existing violence or force against another, not only against a state or other politically organized body.” Under the second definition, which is in no sense legal, the Shang- nai fighting is war. According to Cooley, an authority on international I gaid to be that state in whick prosecutes force.” Another s recognized by legal auth: “'quasi” war. This type of war ed between France and the United States in 1 ‘The United States did not declare war on France, but American and French frigates made captures and finally ex- changed prisoners. standing “war is & nation Declaration Unlikely. In the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 many foreign nations sent troops against China to protect their citizens and prop- erty and there was a concerted military movement of these forces for the relief where the foreizn colonies siege for 70 days, War was red by any of the foreign powers, but the fighting was followed by a treaty. exactly as if there had been war. =nd China was forced to pay heavy indemnities for the losses suf- fered by foreigners As China and Japan are both mem- bers of the League cf Nations and de- sired to comply with the covenant of the League. or at least to appear to comply with it, there seems little like- lihood that either will formally declare war even if the struggle at Shanghai becomes a major military clash. Both rest on the claim they are merely fight- ing to protect treaty rights. A declaration of war by Japan in connection with the Shanghai trouble might result in even more serious com- plications with other nations interested in the foreign concessions at Shanghai. A blockade of a port like Shanghal, Jointly controlled by several nation: would offer endless possibilities for in. ternational disputes. — . MOTOR CARS FACILITATE JAPAN'S TROOP MOVES 10,000 Additional Landings Brings | Shanghai Invading Force to About 35,000. the As d Press SHANGHAL February 15.—Japan has made it easier to move her troops into battle here Many automobiles and motor trucks were brought by the new troop ships that landed, observers estimated, 10.000 more soldiers today to join the approxi- mately 25.000 already here. Like thousands that came yesterday on seven other transports, the new B troops swarmed off the ships and filled | all available space about the Japanese | awaited orders to | docks, where they march off to concentration centers. 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TOM MIX DUE TO WED Call | married | | USE OF FOREIGN ZONE | the Settlement. Boys Kept on Run ) By War Demands Serve as Clerks, Messen-]l gers, Guides and in Other | 7 ! | THE EVENING DIN PUTS ENVOYS' NERVES ON EDGE Under Windows Noise Day and Night Work. | Threatens to Rout Minis- By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL February 15.—The Boy Scout motto. “Do a good turn daily,”! might as well be “Do a hundred good turns daily,” so far as Boy Scouts of Shanghai are concerned during the present emergency, When the Sino-Japanese hostilities began some three weeks ago the Scouts were ameng the first to voiunteer their fervices to the Shanghal Volunteer Smee then they have been busy and night, sarving as messengers, guides, clerks, telephore orerators and orderlies, and doing light patrol duty. They have also sted in the relief of suffering refugee: 7 The local Scout Council, consisting of 150 boys. is unique inasmuch as it includes 20 nationalities. The 25 American Scouts are in the midst of activities, being concentrated in the municipal building, where they are pro- vided with living quarters. CATHEDRAL SCENE OF RIVES FUNERAL Services to Be Held Tomor- row for Sister of Bishop Rhinelander. Funeral services for Mrs. William C. Rives, sister of Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, warden of the College of Preachers, Washington Cathedral, will be held in the Bethlehem Chapel of Washington Cathedral at 11 o'clock to- morrow morning. Mrs. Rives, who died yesterday, had been ill for several weeks. A daughter of the laze Frederick Wil- liam and Frances Davenport Rhine- lander of New York, Mrs. Rives was the wife of Dr. William Cabell Rives, one of the leading laymen in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. They came to this city in 1896. soon after the conse- cration of Right Rev. Henry Yates Sat- terlee as first Bishop of Washington. in order that they might continue their association with him, which had begun when he was rector of Calvary Church in New Yo Active in Church Work. Until her illness Mrs. Rives had been active in the Episcopal Church of the | District and in the building of Wash- ington Cathedral. She was chairman of the Washington Cathedral Committee of the National Cathedral Association. of which Dr. Rives is secretary, and during the last year had given special attention to the Cathedral’s emergency employment program, being carried out by Bishop James E. Freeman and the trustees to help provide work for as many as possible at and about the Cathedral on Mount Saint Alban. Among her other intere: were th- Home for Incurables, where she serve on the board of managers and Execu tive Committee: the missionary work of the church, with special attention to home missions in the Virginia moun- tains, and various other church and philanthropic organizations. Conducted Bible Class. It was her custom to conduct a Bible study class during the Lenten season for a group of women who assembled each weck at her home. Her parochial | membership was with Ascension Parish, in the work of which both she and her husband have been active. Besides her husband she is survived by two brothers, Bishop Rhinelander | and Frederic W. Rhinelander of New | York, and two sisters, Mrs. Morgan | Jones, whose husband is canon of the| cathedral at Bangor, Wales, and Miss Alice K. Rhinelander of New York. AIRLINE ANNOUNCES STRIKE 1S BROKEN Most Schedules Resumed as Dis- | charged Pilots Continue to Picket With Planes. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, February 15—Officials of the Century Air Lines announced last night that its schedules, disrupted last week by the discharge of 23 pilots, who | threatened to strike. have been for the the controls. | Meantime the discharged airmen continued to accompany each arriving | and departing Century transport with picketing plane bearing the legend, entury is unfair to pilots.” Service between Chicago and St, Louis has been maintained almost without interruption since the “strike” last week over pay cuts and the schedule between Chicago and Detroit, the announcement said, was partially resumed yesterday. The company plans to reopen the Cleveland-Chicago line this week. . CIRCUS AERIALIST TODAY Daughter of Film Cowhoy Ex-| pected to Attend Ceremony at Yuma, Ariz. the Associated Press LOS ANGELES. Febrnary 15.- The Los Angeles Examiner said today in a copyrighted article that Tom Mix, screen and circus cowboy, would be in Yuma, Ariz, today to Mabel Hubbell, aerialist with' the Sells-Floto Circus. Miss Hubbell is known pro- fessionally as Mabel Ward. Mix recently toured the country with the Sells-Floto Circus as a performer. The newspaper said the cowboy would be accompanied to Yuma from Los Angeles by his daughter Thomasina and Mr. and Mrs. Monte Blue. AS BASE PROTESTED BY U. S. AND BRITAIN (Continued From First Page.) But the landing of forces by the thousands to be used in fighting the Chinese outside the International Settlement is considered quite another matter. The consular officers of Great Brit- ain, France, Italy and the United States have repeatedly called to the attention of the Japanese consul gen- eral what they regard as misuse of the International Settlement as a military base for outside operations. Consul General Cunn'ngham, on in- structions from the Stat~ Department. | A. Wilden of Franc-. | as | certain to fail co-operated with the Lecgue of Nations | Commission. which investigated condi- tions at Shanghai and reported to the League that a condition of war exists It is not known definitely that Cun- ringham signed this report, but it was assumed among officials that it was worked out with his full co-operation Consult | and approval. Miners' wages in Belgium were re- uced 15 per cent last year and coal prices dropped 10 to'd$ Aer cent. ters of Three Nations. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL Febraury 15— The peace- making efforts of the Ministers of the United States, Great Britain and France have been so smitten with the din of preparations for war under their windows, that they were considering moving their quarters to-ay The three cnvoys are Nelson T. John- son of the United States, Sir Miles W. Lampson of Great Briatain and Henrl Their conferences have been held in the office of Mr. Johnson in the Ameri- can legation, two blocks from the center of the business section. The office over- looks property of the English Church, which municipal authorities were using today as a place to construct barbed wire entanglements. Nerves on Sharp Edge. “Tons of rolls of wire were piled up like cordwood, 6 feet high, in front of the churoh, extending along the block across from the consulate, while at the other end of the block was a great pile of timbers. Chinese workmen with whanging hammers and squeaking saws pounded throughout the day, maxing entangle- ments, which were rushed to their places on the “front” as fast as they were completed. The din of the ham- mering and sawing, with the laughing and velling of the Chinese, reverberated through the peacemakers’ offices. ‘The British and French Ministers, their nerves whetted to sharp edge. suggested the next conferences be held in some more peaceful setting. Johnson at His Office. Mr. Johnson, who conferred with Chinese officials until Tong after mid- night, was at his office again at 8 this morning. The Japanese, however, apparently had given their last word, which in ef- fect was that the Chinese must wiitdraw at least 20 miles from Shanghai. al- though they had not yet delivered an ultimatum. i The Chinese official reply to the ulti- matum, if and when it does come, was expected to be that they intend to stick to their posts firmly “'to tne end.” CHAPEI IS SHELLED: ‘PUSH’ BELIEVED ON; 85,000 TROOPS MASS (Continued From Pirst Page) bombardment was directed against Chi- nese positions Japanese troops tramped through the | streets in a long procession, while Jap- | anese mill girls stood in the crowded doorways of the Yangtzepoo district, waving flags and shouting A detachment of mounted municipal Sikh police cleared the way for the pro- cession, which formed an almost con- tinueus line from the Japanese docks to their concentration district 2 miles ;. Tincups rattled a tattoo as they the green-helmeted sol- jers belts. Behind the infantry were the hospital troops and the horses drawing the rumbling big guns of the | artillery groups. Japanese Told of Error. Thousands of Chinese who lined the streets as the military power of Japan was paraded before them stared in awe- struck bewilderment. Japanese sentries posted evervwhere throughout the dis- trict scrutinized the Chinese crowds. Following the shelling of the American Marine sector, Marine headquarters telephoned the Japanese headquarters advising officials there of the error the gunners appeared to be making. After | a brief interval the gunners apparently corrected their range. bringing the in-| termittent shelling cf the American section to & stop. The gunners, Marine headquarters said. were badly over- | shooting their marks. The coming of bloodshed on a large scale appeared all the more certain as efforts of the three neutral ministers to | arrive at peace on some terms appeared wung_from The ministers had planned to go to Nanking todayv. but their trip was post- poned. This gave rise to a belief that all hope for a peace was not yet aban- doned, but officially it was stated no headway had been made. Influential Chinese also held numerous conferences trying to evolve some acceptable peace | proposal. ‘The Chinese, meanwhile, continued to dig into their positions and said they | would die before they would give in. Nantao Fears Attack. N At Nantao, another densely popu- | lated native quarter of the city like Chapei, inhabitants today said they feared they might be next. Business was at a standstill. Some families al- | ready have left. Extreme nervousness was noticeable on every hand. Sand-| bag defenses were being strengthened | along the river front. | French _settlement authorities ap- . peared to be worried about Nantao. New defenses were built along the boundarv of the French concession and additional machine guns were set up. Boundary streets swarmed with French troops. Establishment of curfew regulations, which forbid persons being on the streets between 10 p.m. to 4 am., have not entirely ghut out Shanghai’s night iife. Miany cabarets were Efltnz‘ around the curfew restriction by fea-| turing 10-4 parties, so patrons might | enter befors the regulation went into, effect and leave after it had been re- | moved again the next morning. CHINA RENEWS PROTEST NANKING, February 15 (A).—The | Chinese National government today again protested to the American and British governments against continued landing of Japanese troops in the In- ternational Settlement at Shanghai, claiming it constituted a violation of the settlement’s neutrality. Poem of Despair Written by Poe as Valentine Found| ‘Miss LouisaOliviaHunter’ Recipient of Lines After Death of His Wife. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 15.—A poem of despair Edgar Allen Poe wrote to a woman friend on lace-edged valentine paper 16 days after the death of his wife 85 years ago has been found by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, the latter said yesterday. Nothing is known about the woman ! except her 1:"me inscribad on the valen- tine, “Miss Leu‘sa Olivia Hunter." ‘The poem, datod February 14, 1847: 7 1 turn. T fiy not— 1 cannot depart: 1 would try. but try not To release my heart And my hopes’ are dying While. on dreams relying. T am spelled by art Thus the bright snake coiling Neath the forest tree Wins the bird. beguiling, To come down and st Like that bird, the lover Round his fate will hover Tl the blow is over And he sinks—like me. | persons have signed a petition asking | readiness as a duty. Monroe streets northeast, 8 p.m. STAR. WASHINGTON, District’s Heroes in the World War By Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. RSKINE GORDON, captain, 319th Infantry, 80th Division, Ameri- can Expeditionary Force. For extraordinary heroism in action with the enemy near Gercourt, France, September 26 and 27, 1918. After the assaulting companies had passed over three machine gun nests, which, not having been destroyed. opened heavy and effective fire upon our troops, Capt. Gordon reorgan- ized scattered ele- ments of his own company and of two others and, fearlessly exposing himself to the fire of these guns, as well as that of our own Artillery, per- sonally led the at- tack on the three nests and captured them with 50 pris- one{& kButtfor the uick ac this officer these enemhy posnmmi%xz‘i;g: have inflicted severe losses upon our troops. Now secretary-treasurer of the Washington Safe Deposit Co. Resides at 3013 Q street northwest. HINDENBURG SEEKS REELECTION AT B President for 7 Years, Who Led German Army in World War, Issues Statement. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, February 15.—President Paul von Hindenburg, who led an army in the World War, announced today that at the age of 84 he will obey the mandate of millions of Ger- mans and be a candidate to succeed himself when his term expires in May. He has been President of the German Republic seven years. There is every indication that he will be elected and it was generally be- lieved that if he had thought there was any chance of defeat he would| not have offered himself as candidate In recent weeks he has said that he would not continue in office unless the nation called him with an unmistaka- ble majority. In that time 2500.000 him to run. The old field marshal's formal state- ment of his candidacy read: “After serious consideration, I have decided, conscious of my responsibility for the fate of our fatherland. to place myself at the disposal of the people for re-election “The fact that the request to do so came to me, not from one party. but' from wide classes of the population makes me look upon my declaration of | “In the event of my election I shall continue to serve the fatherland faith- | fully. conscientiously and with all the | strength at my command in order to help it to achieve liberty and equality abroad. unity and revival at home. “Should I fail of election. then I will be spared the reproach that I de- serted my post at a serious time. “For me there is but one real na-| tional goal—Welding our people togeth- er in its struggle for existence, un- stinting devotion of every German in the arduous contest for preservation of the nation.” COOLIES OUST JAPANESE Bluejackets Attempting Landing | at Swatow Are Stoned. SWATOW, China. February 15 (#).— Tension here was somewhat eased to- day following the departure of a Japa- nese destroyer after a threat by the Chinese general, who threw up earth- works opposite the destroyer's an- chorage. A boatload of Japanese bluejackets who attempted a landing to purchase g;nd was stoned by coolies and with- ewW. UYEDA VISITS MARINES SHANGHAL February 15 (®). - Licut. | Gen. Kenkichi Uyeda, Japanese Army commander, with his < aff, paid a formal | call at United States Marine headquar- | ters and was received by Col. Richard | S. Hooker and his staff Because of the state of emergency the usual flourish by a rifle detachment as guard of honor and by the Marine Band was omitted. Gen. Uyeda also called formally on Edwin S. Cunning- ham, United States consul general. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Meeting. El Dorado Club, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m. Mesting. Circle Club. District Em- ployes’ Masonic Association, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m Meeting. Federal Bar Association, University Club, 8 p.m. Dinner, Catholic University Alumni, University Club, 7 p.m. Meeting, West End Citizens' Associa- tion. Btockton Hall. George Washington University Law School, 8 pm. Charter day dinner and dance, Uni- versity of Nebraska Alumni, Shoreham Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting, Lincoln Park Citizens’ Asso- ciation. Bryan School. B street between g‘hlmmth and Fourteenth southeast, pm. Meeting, Florida State Society, Carl- ton Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Card party, benefit of St. Teresa's Catholic Church of Anacostia, 1409 V street southeast, 8:30 p.m. Meeting. Progressive Citizens' Asso- ciation of Georgetown, Curtis School, O street west of Wisconsin avenue, 8 p.m. Valentine party, Delaware State So- ciety, Thomas Circle Club. 1326 Massa- chusetts avenue, 8:30 p.m. Meeting. Jefferson Davis Chapter, U. D. C., Willard Hotel, 3:30 p.m. Dress rehearsal, National League of American Pen Women, Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm. Meeting, Monday Evening Club, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m. Dance, National No. 2, Shepherds of Bethlehem, 808 I street, § p.m. Meeting, Brookland Citizens' Asso- ciation, Masonic Temple, Twelfth and Auction bridge instruction and prac- tice. Langley Junior High School, First and T streets northeast, 7:45 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, “Y'/ Men's Club, Hamil- ton Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30-p.m. Luncheon, Credit Men's Association, Raleigh Hotel, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Dance, Shoreham tomorrow, 9 p.m. | hai_affair?” D. LEAGUE SHOWDOWN C. DEMAND OF CHINA “Stockholders” Entitled to Know Where Council Stands, Says Yen. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. By Cable to The Star. GENEVA, February 15—"Stockhold- ers in the League of Nations have the right to know whether it is time to wind | up the business or whether it is still & | going concern.” W. W. Yen, leader of the Chinese delcgation to Geneva, de- | clared today in a special interview for MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 15, 1932. Will Rogers Had a fine day over with the Morrow. family in Jersey. The more . B difficulties pile up on us the more we realize what this coun- try lost when we lost him. ‘The Lindbergh baby is the cutest thing you ever saw, walking, talking, and disgraced the Lindbergh name by crying to come 2way with Mrs. Rogers and I in the car. Say, just left Ring Lardner—there is a man that has forgot more humor than all the rest of us try to write. He is working on a new base ‘the Star. The Oricntal statesman, who for the time being becomes the central figure | in the Disarmament Conference, thus explains his_determination to force a | meeting of the League Assembly for the purpose of discussing Japan's aggres- | sion in China. Yen is unwilling to| waste any more time seeking justice for China at the hands of the League Council. He insists upon a showdown before | . Now the only question | is when a meeting of the Assembly will | be called. The Council will sit agaia | tomorrow, but no matter what it de- cides, sooner cr later the Assembly must convene at_the request of China as a party to the dispute. Yen thinks a JAPAN 15 FAGING ball series. That's bigger news to America than if the Japs evacuated Chu-Chin-Chow. Had lunch and a two-hour chat with Al Smith yesterday. He took me up on top of his building. the highest in the world. He can pretty near sce Washington from there— well, as near as anybody else can, anyhow. meeting of the Asse;mbly midst the Dis- armament Conference not only logical, but necessary, because disarmament is impossible while guns are barking in the Far East. All World Interested. “The situation in China,” said Yen, “has ceased to be purely a question af- fecting my unhappy people. Events have converged into a_question wherein the world at large is inter member of the League of Nations, ever; signatory to the Kellogg anti-war pact, has been defied and flouted by the Jap- anese action in Manchuria and Shang- | hai. “Since last September stockholders in the corporation known as the League of Nations have permitted their board of directors to deal with the Far Eastern crisis. To date all the directors have done is to pass resolu- ticns, appoint commissions and discuss procedure. “Meanwhile more and more Japenese ships occupy Chinese waters, more and more Japanese troops land on our soil, more and more Japanese guns are shooting our inoffensive people. Patience Exhausted. “That is why our patience is ex- hausted and why we have decided to invoke our rights under the League covenant to call the Assembly without waiting any longer for the statesmen to quibble their way through proced- ural barbed wire. China doesn’t stand alone in demanding a meeting of the Assembly. Other small nations realize the hour has arrived to find whether the League is something or nothing. “If it is nothing—if it is unable to prevent destruction of the world’s laboriously constructed peace machin- ery—we might as well proceed to re- establish the supremacy of might over right. This is a basic point. “China’s plight is grave. But the plight in which Japan has plunged the rest of the world is graver.” “What has become of the Anglo- American joint protest over the Shang- Yen was asked “That's a mystery,” he replied When British Minister Thomas read his impressive statement at the Council meeting a fortnight ago. the roar of the British lion was heard around the world. But for some unaccountable reason the roar died down to a purr. Assembly Only Hope. “You in America must know better than I why the eagle ceased to scream, too. Idon't venture to criticize the ap- parent collapse of Anglo-American ac- tion. but may I be permitted to say, it is inexplicable. “Our principal hope now lies in the Assembly. If it fails us, China has no alternative, as I told the Disarmament Conference Saturday. but to reluctantly devote all her ies herceforward to buliding up her national defense strong enough to assure China that protection against external aggression which covenants and pacts have proved incapable of vouchsafing us." The League Council's reluctance to convene the Assambly under conditions adduced by China is understood to be due primarly to the fact it would create a precedent. The Council also is under the spell of Japan's thinly guised threat to leave the League if the Assembly “puts her on the spot.” ALEX:ANI)RI:A. ALEXANDRIA, Va. February (Special).—The Alexandria High School unit of the Parent-Teacher Association is to meet this afternoon in the school auditorium. The meeting will be in charge of the science department of the sckool. Lieut. Heber Thompson was car- ried to the Alexandria Hospital vester- day for an emergency appendicitis operation. His condition was reported as being favorable by authorities at the hospital today. Services for Obadiah Bruin Curtis, 78, father of Policeman Charles Curtis of the Alexandria Police Department. were held from the Cunningham funeral home this afternoon, conducted by Rev. John S. Sowers of the Del-Ray Baptist Church and Rev. Spencer of Mine Run, Va. He is survived by four daughters (and three sons, in addition to Policeman Curtis. He Spring. Md Thomas Higgs. 57. of 815 King street, sustained a deep head cut when an iron cellar door fell on him yesterday. He was treated at the Alexandria Hos- pital Struck by an automobile near Hume Springs yesterday. Miss Georgia Mae Carter of Hume Springs received cuts and bruises. Alexandria Hospital. The George Washington Birthday As- sociation will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Chamber of Commerce headquar- ters and every night this week at that hour to make final arrangements for the Washington parade here next Mon- day. died Friday at Silver J. A. Mollison plans to lower by at Jeast cne day the present England-to- Cape Town air record. She was treated at the | INTERNAL CRISIS Seiyukai Government Threat- ened With Downfall in Elec- tions Scheduled Saturday. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, February 15.—The situation at Shanghal, where Japanese troops are battling to wrest possession of the city from the Chinese, is secondary in importance to Japan’s internal condition, where the Seiyukai government faces an insufferable posi- tion in the elections set for February 20, according to Josef Washington Hall, better known as Upton Close, author and lecturer, recently returned from the Far East. Mr. Close, author of “The Revolt of Asia,” has spent most of the last 15 years in China and Japan as a Journalist. He has figured in a number of revolutions in China, where he was secretary to Gen. Wu Pei-Fu at the time the general was dictator of the Chinese government His pen name is derived from a cable- gram he sent when a correspondent for an American newspaper during a war when all messages were being strictly censored. In an effort to tell his office that the besieging army was pressing hard upon the defenders he signed an innncent message “Up Close.” “The present Japanese government | is ruling without any real sanction of the people.” Mr. Close explained today in his studio at the National Arts Club. “Defeated by a landslide in the elec- tions on September 17, and faced by a drastic reduction in the budget, the military clique. which is controlled. body and soul, by the MMsui interests, de- cided to spring a coup in Manchuria and gain the support of the country at large. “The house of Mitsui is the most powerful of the vested interests of _Japan, where 90 per cent of the incor- | porated wealth is in the hands of five families. The Mitsui wanted to wrest | from their opponents the control of Southern Manchuria and used the blocking of the railroad as an_excuse. | The military clique took over the gov- ernment within a week of their Man- churian sally. “But the Japanese. who are far less united than outsiders believe—in fact, Japan is a perfect mass of conflicting elements—are already dissatisfied with the results achieved by the Seiyukai government, which promised to end the Chinese boycott. get foreign loans, pro- cure world markets and genera et- ter the condition of the country, which is on the verge of economic collapse. “And the m can cap svmpat] some decisive vixory at Shanghai wi in the next week, faces a return of tl Minseito and their own downfall in the elections. The betting is now three to two against the Mitsui. with the odds based upon guesses regarding the ex- tent to which the political and military chiefs will dare go in bribery and po- lice interference with the balloting. “The assassination of Inouye by Jingo gangsters and the news that Baron Shidehari has broken down under strain demonstrates the desparate lengths to to defeat the opposition part: tiniied Mr. Close. that Baron Shidehari knows he is likely to be assassinated too unless he steps out of the limelight “There is an absolute censorship of all internal news in Japan. It is en- tirely possible that if their campaign of bribery and terrorism fails, the pres- ent military government will declare an open dictatorship until the next | Diet session in Jul [ (Cop AR AR “See Etz and See Better” Glasses worn in time | will often prevent the need of wearing glasses continuously im later life. ETZ Optometrists 1217 G St. N.W. 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February 15-—Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes of the United States and Ambassadors Lindley of Great Brit- ain and De Martel of France called at the foreign office late this afternoon on invitation of Foreign Minister Kenki-hi Yoshizawa. It was understood the for- eign minister explained to them the rca- sons why Japan deemed it neces: to send thousands of additional troops to Shanghai. | The foreign minister was also under- stood to have outlined why Japan be- lieves it necessary to drive the Chinese army back to a “safe distance” from Shanghai in case the Chinese refuse to withdraw voluntarily, | Official censorship on news of the troop movements to Shanghai was lifted | the government today, and it was known that Lieut. Gen. Ken- | kichi Uyeda, commander of the Japanese land forces at Shanghai, was e-nected to present an ultimatum to tie Chinese shortly, demanding that they withdraw. If the Chinese refused to comply with the terms of the uiltimatum, it was stated. Gen. Uveda was expected to launch an early renewal of the Japa- nese offensive, aided by the large rein- forcements of men and munitions landed | there today and vesterday. | The total Japanese forces at Shang- | hai were given here as now comprising | about 15,000 men. This included nearly two divisions of army troops, part of the 12th and all of the 9th. | Dispatches to the Rengo News Agency | from Changchun, Manchuria, said “zpec- tacular developments” were expected | there, including the establishment of an | independent state of Manchuria. Chi- nese leaders were assembling at Mukden, | the dispatches said, to arrange the final details for the new state. g FEDERAL PROJECTS GIVE 750,000 JOBS Doak Cites Employment Figures Through Building Program Since March, 1929. O] HASoothing, #ealing Oinlment for "ATHLETES FOOT” CRACKED TOES, RING WORM Slainlera . lornless FLLIEVES ITCHING IMMEDIATELY Labor Secretary Doak today made public figures showing that 750,000 per- sons had been provided employment through the Government's building pro- gram since March 5, 1929. His statistics revealed that more than 250,000 men have been employed di- rectly on 631 Federal bulldings. which will cost $400.000,000. He estimated that two men find work elsewhere for every one directly employed on a build- ing project. “The contracts during the three years from March 5. 1929. 1o date in the supervising architect’s office. Veterans' Bureau, War Department and Navy De- partment, aggregate,” Secretary Doak declared. “slightly more than $400,000,- 000. These projects are widely scat- tered throughout the country. “There are under contract now in the supervising architect’s office, Treasury Department, 451 projects and in other governmental architectural offices about 180 projects. In all there are 631 “Should the number of persons who were given more or less employment as It's Vactum Sealed BROWNING & BAINES the direct result of these projects be carried back to the mills and mines and the production of raw materials of every kind be considered, it would be virtu- ally impossible to estimate the great { 15 | which the Seiyukai government will go | benefit that has accrued to all our people because of this building pro- | a eram” Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. 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