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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 8, 1922
AW BLOCKADE
1 ATLANTIC DEFIED
Liquor Exports From Isles
of Bahama Increase.
RUM RUNNERS ARE BUSY
Steady Streafta of Whisky Pours
Into United States Despite
Kfforts of Government.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 30.
(Special.) Business involving the
exchange of American dollar for
Scotch, Irish and all other sorts of
liquor temporarily stored In one
place or another in the Bahama
islands is picking up again quite
rapidly after a period of compar
ative dullness and the expectation
of some observant and thoughtful
inhabitants of the British archl
pelago is that it will not be long
before the Bahamas have at least
as many millionaires as' the United
States can show by its income tax
returns.
Meanwhile the United States gov.
eminent is making no move to shut
off the inward flow of liquor trom
Nassau and the outward flow of
dollars, waiting patiently and in
full accordance with diplomatic
" usage for the British government to
reply to the note Secretary of State
Hughes sent last July, calling at
tention to the existing conditions
and suggesting a reciprocal agree
ment by which, for search and
seizure purposes, the three mile
limit should be moved eastward
either seven or nine miles.
Smuggling On Increase.
Smuggling into the United States
from an imaginary line drawn be
tween Halifax and Nassau goes
merrily on daily and is increasing,
according to officials of the pro
hibition unit, while the British
government is making a deliberate
and probably a very careful investi
gation into the exact conditions
with a wealth of correspondence
pasing between the foreign office,
with which the United States has
to deal, and the colonial office,
"which naturally has the last word
hi anything affecting either Hali
fax or the Bahamas. How soon
. the correspondence and the investi
gation by Great Britain will end
no one attempts to guess.
Occasionally the newspapers con
tain reports of schooners picked up
here and there along the American
coast and of seizures of a quantity
of liquor, but in one week recently
not fewer than 20 vessels left Nas
sau, all having the same object, the
peddling of liquor to dry America.
Many were bound ostensibly for
Halifax, although carrying Scotch
to Halifax is very much like carry
ing coals to Newcastle. Somewhere
along the coast of New Jersey or
New York the skippers of the ves
sels knew they would be relieved
of all further responsibility as far
' as their cargoes were concerned.
. Fleet Operates Safely.
The fleet out of Nassau differed
in no way from other fleets that
have sailed during other weeks, but
business is brisker than it was, according-
to all reports. A rough
estimate made at Nassau puts at
40,000 the number of cases aboard
the vessels. Some of the craft have
made the trip many times, but there
' are always additions being made to
the "wet" fleet.
There is little or no concern
among the Nassau liquor merchants
over The activities of the prohibi
tion navy. They have little or no
trouble really. In disposing of their
stocks as fast as they can ship
them out. The group responsible
for the fleet referred to has two
commodores whose business it is to
see that the cargoes are disposed
of in New York or New Jersey, and
they are wonderfully efficient men.
Seizures are more frequent at some
periods than at others, but on the
whole the amount of interference
is not great enough to keep the
get-rich-quick residents of Nassau
awake at night.
As for profits, they continue as
great as ever. The size of the flood
of American dollars that is still
flowing Bahamaward may be
judged by the experience of one of
the most successful of the island
bootleggers, whose yacht recently
made an outward trip from Nassau
and returned with a clear profit of
$100,000 for the owner. Hence the
belief that before long there will
be many millionaires in the islands.
Bahama Profit Are Large.
The Bahama government derives
a revenue of about $6 a case and
its Income is naturally increasing.
Exports of liquor, inasmuch as none
Is made in the Bahamas, necessarily
implies imports. The figures show
that Imports have increased. So
true Is this that the Ntissau gov
ernment has found it expedient in
fact necessary to erect a number
of bonded warehouses to supple
ment the storage facilities afforded
by the many private warehouses
erected since the United States went
"dry."
How the Bahama government Is
expending some of its income
through the great harbor deepen
ing project and otherwise, has been
told, as has the story of the great
new hotel, the electric light plant
and the lending of money to the
sister British colony. New Zealand.
Banks in the Bahamas are reap
ing their share of the harvest bv
lending money. The bootleggers
have to be financed, and while
many of them have reached a state
of affluence, there are newcomers
in the game all the time. So luc
rative and comparatively free from
hazard has the business become
that former heads of the police de
partment, government officials and
even ministers have relinquished
positions paying fair salaries to
share In the profits Incident to sup
plying the thirsty Americans with
liquor.
American Government Concerned.
While the text of the Hughes
note to Great Britain has never
been made public it is understood
that besides explaining the exist
ing situation it suggested that
Great Britain agree to a reciprocal
arrangement whereby search of ves
sels would be permitted to a speci
fied limit of ten or twelve miles
from the coast, it being understood
that the agreement was simply be
tween the two countries and did
not in any way vitiate the generaly
accepted interpretation of "terri
torial waters."
It is quite freely admitted that 1
Great Britain has the whip hand
and can refuse to consent to any
variation of the international1
agreement regarding "territorial i
waters" on the theory that such an '
agreement would be an interference I
with sovereign rights on the high
seas, of which she has invariably I
been jealous. But the delay and
the fact that the British govern- j
ment is making an investigation
may mean that some action will be
taken.
It -may be said that the United
States government feels that cer
tain abuses or common practices
greatly aggravate the situation and
may well be taken cognizance of
by the British without any possibil
ity of interfereing with the three
mile limit arangementr One of the
things that might be taken up and
which possibly was referred to in
the Hughes note concerns the is
suance of clearance papere at Nas
sau and Halifax. ,
Kaai-RuBurrg Are Bold
Liiquor vessels, according to dis
patches, enter Nassau without pa
pers and, . laden with liquor,- are
cleared as their owners may desire.
Many of the rum runners,' craft
clear from West End, Grand Ba
hama, one of the islands lying near
est the coast of this country. There,
for the customary good sized fee,
ship masters can get as many
clearance papers as they wish and
oe supplied against almost any
emergency.
For instance; one set of papers
may show the vessel is bound from
the Bahamas to Halifax and an
other set may show that, she is
bound from the Bahamas to New
York in ballast. As the particular
occasion may require, at time of
interference, either set of papers
may be flashed. If the vessel is
inside the three mile limit, after
the cargo has been disposed rof
outside that limit, then the New
York papers are in perfect order.
If she is outside the limit the first
set of papers is clear enpugh evi
dence that she is not bound for an
American port. Nine times out of
ten the prima facie evidence may
show the smuggler to be just ex
actly what he is, while his clear
ance papers show him to be inno
cent of even the intent of wrong
doing. Traffic Not Concealed. " -
This is the phase of the situa
tion which the British authorities
may take cognizance of. Should
the practice of issuing more than
one set of papers be stopped the
rum runners would have more dif
ficulty than they have now, but
their difficulties would only be in
creased in direct ratio to the ac
tivities of the dry navy of the
United States.
While the public may not gener
aly realize it, the officials of the
prohibition forces here, and many
others, know full well that ever
since the Volstead act went into
effect there has been a well defined
and much used Bhip lane between
Halifax and the Bermudas and Ba
hamas. Ships have been leaving
Halifax with great regularity,
laden with Scotch whisky for the
Bahamas, . and on the other hand
ships sometimes the very same
ships have been leaving the Ba
hamas, laden with Scotch whisky
oound for Halifax.
EEFEGT OF BREAK
S
French and British Blamed
for Turkish Situation.
POLITICS TO BE BARRED
ECONOMIC ISSUES ASSIGNED
FOR PAN-PACIFIC BODY.
Commercial Congress to Be Held
in Honolulu Will Confine
Itself to Trade.
HONOLULU, T. H.. Oct. 7. Only
economic questions and no political
matters will be discussed at the
Pan-Pacific commercial congress
which will hold its sessions here
October 25 to October 31, according
to a statement issued by the Pan-
Pacific union, sponsor of the con
gress, replying to a special dispatch
to the Nippu Jiji, Japanese lan
guage newspaper here, to the effect
that the Japanese delegates would
ask the conference to recommend
abolition "of the discriminatory
laws of the United .States against
foreign shipping."
The dispatch, from Toklo, was
taken here to mean that the Jap
anese delegates would ask that the
congress' recommend repeal of the
present coast-wise shipping laws
permitting only vessels of American
i. -gistry to engage in traffic be
tween two American ports.
"It is the settled policy of the
Pan-Pacific union not to discuss, in
the conferences held under its aus
pices, matters which should prop
erly be left to established govern
mental agencies," Dr. P. F. Bunker,
executive secretary of the organi
zation said in commenting on the
dispatch.
The programme for the congress,
announced by the union, provides
for an address on "Significant Pan
Pacific Commercial Problems of My
Country," from one representative
of each nation represented, on the
opening day. ''Transportation and
Communication," divided Into three
subjects on the second day, and "De
velopment and conservation of nat
ural resources," the general topic
for October 27.
Finance and investments will oc
cupy the congress on October 30.
The closing day will be devoted to
inter-nation relations in the Pan
Pacific area, including the discus
sion of the arbitration of commer
cial misunderstandings and the need
for co-operation among the various
agencies interested in Pan-Pacific
problems. Reports of special com
mittees and the consideration of
resolutions including recommenda
tions for legislation will close the
congress.
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Menace Believed fo Have Been
Revived by Possibility of '
Return of Trace.
BY ANTRE TAiRDIEU.
Former French HiKh Commissioner to
the United States.
(Return of the Turks to Europe means
a revival of the dangers of ten years
aso, sayg M. Tardieu in denouncing the
differences now existtnjf between the
allies. He declares the victors of the
war have no common doctrine while the
vanquished have, and this Is llkery to
make serious trouble in 1923.
(Copyright, 19122, by The Oregonian.)
PARIS. Oct. 7. (Special.) While
both the British and the Turks de
sire to avoid hostilities because of
the divergence of their views on the
fundamentals of the problems under
consideration at Mudania, reconcilia
tion will be difficult. The Turks
want to occupy Constantinople and
Thrace immediately. The British
mean to maintain, through and after
the conference, the present guaran
tees of freedom of the straits and
are unwilling to allow the Turks to
occupy Thrace until the entire east
ern problem has been settled. These
views eventually may be reconciled
through a series of compromises, but
it is much to hope.
Looking beyond the local inci
dents, whose gravity I do not deny,
it is certain that even if a peaceful
solution is obtained the allied vic
tory in the eastern theater will have
received a lasting setbacK. wnen
the allied war aims of 1916-17, en
tirely indorsed by Wilson's 14 points
in 1918, declared that the Turks
must be ousted from Europe, it was
not purely for sentimental reasons
but was justified by the massacres
and atrocities and to prevent repro
duction of the situation that pro
duced the Balkan war of 112.
Menace Held Revived.
The return of the Turks to Thrace
and Constantinople will restore the
situation as it existed ten years ago.
with the additional fact that the
Christian states have Russia as an
enemy instead of a friend. One must
have a poor memory and little fore
sight not to see the dangers of such
a situation.
Worse still, thin latest crislfj has
revealed to Angora and Moscow how
sharply the allies are divided. This
division has been apparent many
times but never so forcefully as at
present. Lloyd George's imprudent
pro-Greek policy resulted in France's
imprudent pro - Kemausm. it only
aided Angora with large supplies
and arms so that when England,
overcome by the suddenness of the
Greek collapse, sought allies to help
check the Turk at the straits she
found herself alone at Chanak, the
Italians, and French having with
drawn to Europe. v
Effect Declared Lasting.
Whatever we do toward counter
acting the effects of this conflict of
Interests it is certain to leave pro
found traces not only in the orient
but in the Occident. France and
Italy have done for Turkey what
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England has done for Germany dur
ing the last two years. England has
thought It expedient to spare Ger
many at the risk 'of hurting France.
Italy thought it clever to spare the
conquered Turk at the risk of grave
ly wounding British sentiment. Just
as after the last London conference
Lite papers laiKea or a xsniina vic
torv they now talk of a French vie-
tory.
I notice- furthermore, that the
very moment the Turks were can
celling the allied victories on the
battlefield Wirth cas elected to re
open his campaign abont responsi
bilities and reviving the legend of
Germany's innocence. Whereas 40
years of European history shows
Germany ever ready for war to pre
serve at any cost her military hege
mony which Bismarck established.
The German government now brings
up secondary documents to prove
Germany was aggressively attacked.
This action presages another cam
paign against the. treaties; not only
againet their reparation clauses but
against all of the military, terri
torial, political and economic de
mands. Can the allies expect their
ready abandonment of victory In the
orient not to have repercussions on
their occidental demands?
For all these reasons 1923 seems
likely to prove harder than Its pre
decessor. The victors have no com
mon doctrine but the vanquished
have. This is a great truth which
for months past statesmen have per
sisted in ignoring and It is to be
feared it will have its revenge.
JAPANESE WDlViErJ
. RISING IF. REVOLT
"Three Obediences" Under
Fire in Empire.
Postmaster in Coos Named.
THE OREGONIAN" NEWS? PITT.
REAU, Washington, D. C, Oct. 7.
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SOME MEN CONVERTED
Law Forbidding Feminine Par
ticipation in Politics Is
Kepealed by Diet.
TOKIO. Sept. 20. (Special.) On
May 10 a law was promulgated in
Japan. It wasn't much of a law
and not even new, for it was noth
ing more or less than the revision
of a scandalous legal stupidity of
which a third-rate nation should
have been utterly and heartily
ashamed.
Article V of the old Japanese
police law, christened by some legal
humorist as the "peace preservation
regulation law," classed Japanese
women as political nobodies that
is, with the minors. It forbade
them to take part in any political
organizations, meetings or activities
of any sort. It did not allow them
to promote them. It forbade gen
tlewomen from attending even
political meeting. It told women to
sit with the feeble-minded and
criminals, so far as their political
i rights and privileges went. The
law insulted the dignity of the
state by Insulting at one and the
same time its womanhood and Its
intelligence.
Law Declared Absurd.
The law was aosurd to start with.
The actual administration of it made
it paradoxical as was pointed out
by Mme. Makoto Sakamoto In her
able statement published In the Ja
pan Times; for the-'Japanese women
are free to read any books on poll
tics and on government; they enjoy
the same privilege with men In pur
suing political pages of a news
paper; they are privileged to attend
the diet." Our police, as a matter
of fact, did not prevent our women
from doing all these things. The
grave guardians of the law evi
dently thought that the sessions of
the imperial diet with all its polit
ical squirmlngs and backbiting
were not political meetings.
"The anachronism of It," ex
claimed Mme. Sakamoto, "Is simply
beyond our comprehension." It was
and had been for years beyond the
comprehension of everybody, except
perhaps those gifted with the Intel
ligence of the metropolitan police of
Toklot -
' Statute Is Revised.
It became even a little too much
for the understandings of the men
of the Imperial diet. After gravely
discussing the matter for many a
weary year they at last decided to
revise the statute. The house of
peers approved the change at the
last session -of the diet. And after'
an incredible delay this moan-coated
libel on Japanese womanhood was
wiped out of the law book.
The change was promulgated May
10, 132Z.
At 7 o'clock the night of the same
day at the Y. M. C. A. hall In the
city of Kobe, about 1500 person met
under the auaplces of the Kobe
branch of the New Women's asso
ciation.
That was the first political meet
ing held by the women of Japan In
national memory.
Mine Ryo-ko Ishlwara, who pre
sided over the meeting, opened St
with this statement:
"The political gatherings of men
are one-sided. Always you can tell
Just where they will end up. Our
is different. Each and every one of
us voices her own red hot senti
ments. Ours are the real political
speeches."
Customs Are Deaonneed.
The first political gathering of
the women of N'lppon. therefore. ws
a scathing Indictment or masculine
and machine politic. The firm
speaker. Miss Asako Sural, minced
no words, launching a fiery attack
on the time-honored gospel of the
three obediences. "For some 20 cen
turies." she declared, "the women of
Nippon have been doomed to pros
trate themselves to parent, to hus
bands and to their own children In
the name of the beautiful virtue of
the three obediences. They have
been robbed of their social rights
in the name of the good-wtf e-and-wie-mother
doctrine."
The holy doctrine of the three
obediences of women obedience to
their parents when young, obedience
to their husbands when they are
married, and obedience to their own
male children when old Is the
foundation upon which the ethical
system of the oriental woman is
hunt. There 1 a bonk culled Onno
DaleskB the elementary leexBlrsT
(not tne arut learning, es H
always translated! for women. "'
years It h been the Bible for li e
women of Japan. The w hole etbtcaJ
system of the book Is based the
three obediences.
A new woman ef America, at a a 4
ing on rtroadway. denouncing the
BIbl a the chief obatael le wom
an social right. I imot un
thinkable. Mis ftugafs denuncia
tion of the three obediences
amounted to something like that In
It daring and In It effect en the
old-rahioad piety ef the people
Five day after the Kobe nt!tt7
the new women of Toklo gathered
together In the Central Buddhtet
hall m Kanda, Toklo. The meeting
ws under the auplces of the w
Women aeeorlatinn of Tokks, and
some loos women atterdeav
Heal.le thote at Kobe and Toklo
meeting were held t Ngna and
other centers. end averrwher
women apt-akera battled their way
harolcallv through an uproar of
Jeer. ratralla and interruption
from men In tha audience.
Hy and by th men even the un
educated and political momrfl
became a bit ashamed of themaelvee.
And above th din wer heard male
voice raised In defense of the
women.
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