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Mir i SECTION TWO SECOND MAIN NEWS TEN PAGES; EDITORIAL, SPORTS PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNpAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6 1921. GLIMPSES OF FAR EAST BY OREGON OBSER VERS CHNA HA HER TRUST IN AMERICA Portland Observer in Far East Impressed by Courageous Work of the Medical .and Teaching Missionaries. t Li. ILelaad I. HaklUi of INrlaiw1 wnr It Ms nl In Raifon, rmck lado-Ctitn. In this hnt latter to Tha Sunday Journal he reoordi pom of & oheerretiuae an roale to tte Orient. J By Lelsad L. Samlth Hong Kong. I recently arrived hr en rout to Half on, French Indo China, and 'my observations In China have been ' many and varied. There 1 one phase of th Chi nes at t u a 1 1 o n, however, which deserves our clos est attention and If we profit by the oppor t u n 1 1 y of -fered wa should retain, to our Ira mens commercial advantage. the food II will of China that l.elaae Smith w now nave, vo you realise that America la one of the lew powers that haa not her flag wav ing over soma part of helpless China's land? China haa seen one power after ar other exact soma privilege, some piece of territory hut net America : and she trusts us. Let us not mlsplaca that trust. The return of the Boxer' In demnity was a good beginning. Let us carry on I A COMFORTABLE VOYAGE 'The trip out was made on the maiden voyage of the Pacific Mall shipping board Vessel "Empire mate." She Is ona of the so-called "MS" class and the typa of vessels w are after for Port land. All I ran aay la that there should be no diminishing of all pressure pos sible upon the shipping board to obtain some of the shins for our city. They only drsw 10 feet when loaded and. after seeing one Of them maneuvered Into thtr-tmyport of Honolulu and up the river to Shanghai, the argument that they are too large for Portland Is absurd. A large proportion of the passengers were bound for North China ports and. as there Is no steamer line plying there direct; t feel sure that a line touching first at Japan 'and then rutting out Southern China and going direct to Tientsin, and Korea, would give Portland an exclusive field. 0ir.'H I-ELl.OW PASSEXGERS The first thing that anybody does, of course, after getting on board, is to slse up the passengers, especially 4a this so at the first meal before th seats are assigned. You see everybody looking at the captain's labia and wondering w ho are to be the lucky-guests. On all sides will be people talking about the prospective Invitees, saying: "No In deed ; you would not find them at the captain's table for anything ! It was too formal," etc.,' etc., hoping all the time that they would be asked. At that time. I thought that the crowd seemed of unusual appearance. As the steward went by. I hesitatingly asked him whether there was anything out of the ordinary with the crowd. . He THE LAY OF THE LAND IN THE FAR EAST mita MT j 3 'rri , i d.rt m V 'Jess , ;Jb . - S SHANGHAI AIRPLANE TIES TOWN GIVEN OVER TO EXILES SAGHALIEN, island province where exiles spent dreary days. Upper, church and one of the old houses at Alex andre vsky (in center) - Pinnacle on right is a memorial to Nicholas II. t Lower, main part of town of Alexandre vsky . WITH EASE Oregon Man Relates How En lightened Cantonese Employ Aircraft to Broaden Sphere of Influence in the Interior. 1 The teccmnanvinff aarniint nf a hum n.' 1. bloodless siesc in Chin was written tor The auiKuy journal By Herbert G Seoenck o( the UriiTer.aUr of Oreron. who is beck to the United 8tates after an uteoded r m uu iment. By Herbert G. Sthenek Wuchow, Kwane Si. China General Ngal Bong Fong, commanding the Can ton forces, entered Wuchow June 26, and scarcely a shot was fired except thou sands or firecrackers set off to welcome the Invading army. The reason for the invasion, briefly, is this : The provinces of Kwang SI and Hwang Tun (35,000, 000 people) for the past 10 years have been dominated by "war lords," with Governor Luk Wing Ting, ex-pirate, as leader. The province of Kwang Tung, "r wnicn canton la the capital, was taken last fall and is now ruled by the younger Chinese, most of whom hve been educated in the United States. These enlightened Cantonese desire to establish in China a real democracy, but it was Impossible to do this as long as the two Kwang provinces were gov erned as they were. So, in October of last year, an army of Cantonese in vaded the province of Kwang Tung and ultimately captured the principal city, Canton. At Ihe present, they (the Kwang Tung army) are driving the Kwang Si forces back into the interior. the fighting now taking place about 350 miles from Wuchow. AX A.MUSISG SIEGE From a westerner's viewpoint. capture of Wuchow in June was little -; - " .-J I l r ' t i pJTv . . t, . . . .u M ' . n ' ' " - : , " i ' V 5 .... .. . . L -v ; )tmMHSSSISHWSBMSaB -.net in 1 1 h i i mi tmmmammM MERCHANT COMPANIES H IN FAR EAST Aggressive Action in -Chinay Which Has Followed in Wake of Chartered Adventurersi Should Not Be Tolerated By rati S. Belaseh fwneer raitad States mlaertar a Caiaa aa4 widely reeagmiaed aatbontj ea poliuoe 4 the Far Veil Saghalien a Tough Island Province Had Bad Name By Frederick MeConnlck Saghalien province in East Siberia haa the I been abhorred by nations, races and civilization as a cold and gloomy place lfiHa than omiiolnff Tka ltv la avtvajt out along . the West river and la sur- of exi,e tor conspirators and criminals, rounded on all sides by hills, on the top So far'' as peopled it today is mostly of some of which are antiquated forts, Japanese, and to that race It Is a land supposedly to protect the city from at- promiaa, Thelse facts are a present have these roperaaauated' forts against T -urprtee; tb very word SaghaUen airplanes? The Cantonese invading I until Sow made the world recolL army possessed ' tour hydro-airplanes But at least 100,000 Japanese occupy that were operated by Chinese aviators the country where no more thsii 35.000 who had: been, tatned in America. One or 40,000 Russians lived before. And I day the townspeople of Wuchow and the predict that when America, and Europe soldiers in the forts were Startled to learn of this they will transfer Saghalien see flying 4000 feet above them a large from the frigid and forbidding, to the airnlane. The plan -circled around the temperate, if not to the torrid tone. For forts and seat down few compliments the West- believes that where Russians Washington. Nov. ..Will th rl and abiding Interests of the chartered cocopsvnies of England be reprsaentsd In the conference) of the powers at WaaV IngtonT England's position in th F"ar East was won by so-caned merchant adven turers originally chartered by Qxaeea Elisabeth under, the name of th East India company. These sea adventurers had the monopoly of British, trad with the Indies and Chins. They fought th Spanish and the Dutch, who originated rival com pan las. They usurped and Ifrv- ally ruled over an India until lS&t. when the mutiny of that vast domain caused them to hand it over to ths BriUsh government. BUTAIX8 CHAKTEB.ED COX PASTES Through such chartered companies the "Russia company," which annexed Spitsbergen for King James In MLS ; the Turkey company, th "East Land company"; th "Hudson's Bay company.'' th "East Africa company. th "South Africa company and so on down to th Cassell syndicate." now working or threatening to work In South China- Great Britain has eitended her col on Us over the earth and entrenched her trad. civillvation. It was beyond the pale, the very land of nowhere. To leave no doubt of its outcast character, the place taken nrZt, . w; : mmesTf i?-Tor Kara In Transbaikalia, worked by con- ""f vl - . 1 virm f whi-h n. V.n.. ..m that snch companies have Incited and fln- except for on solitary neighboring vale al -ret wars, When their in Uresis it had no equal as a cold and dreaded I h 11 wiu those of foreign pow. wilderneaa to th Rnuiu oil.. era. their "spheres of lnfleeac," gained iTinixiiiTnkTinv ivnrwiv by concesviona from na-Uv rulers have . , 8 ' regularly converted Into BrttUh The palaces also were tinder the ad- nratactaratea aiul colonies. inuiia.LriM.KMi si in. iDTemer general at r vi'aitve vrn Irkutsk. By admlnUtraUve denravity I TEAavS they have been brought to such a state I The East India company had - tha of inhumanity as to be the chief Indict I first. British trade with China through, ment in the possession of the world at 1 Canton. The hostility of the man dart oa. large - against Russia's exile system. I engendered by the company's opt am What they had been made to be was to I trade. Imperiled British commercial Id-" be extended and combined In Saghalien 1 U rests. Then the home government sent m the form of bombs, which did little I and Siberians live necessarily is dark "'7 ?"?rZ r ,IT.J7" ',p,r l? lA"e..cnrf 7 Ji icav EanitAOw actual damage Put clrtamlV duptei Ini iinoTtlble to everoody else unless by the ,urce which Russia's admtnl.tr a- and the war that followed 1 oriirofnhablta - e Sd L "ZTZZ diers so bravely manning me torts re- "r -'"- " vi..v, Tt. Notes on a Trans -Pacific Voyage them with their ancient rifles. These I ISLAND LIKE If EEDLE th. .st k. h.a i. aged rifles on their best behavior prob- saghalien is East Siberia's Rhode and done It In the same way as at ably would not carry 1000 feet Imagine i8iani the Western Pacific's Vancou- Kara. the consternation or trie soldiers wnen ver i,iani.- it is like a great arrow or .-But,", this gentleman continued, "the they saw that their shots had not the magnetic needle 00 miles long and If. I place itself is wilder and more solitary. .liwkfaet af ToAf rr f Vl A ft.imlB.nA I Thft I nt 11 V.wt. JK kn1ann at-Afl rrAJh I Tkla W U - a t-. - .J l.w Ollfel icai swvvi, ' I SM IVa U1HC UL ln. a eewva , wa-- l A W1UI UafJ pn(ieC VI UMV lADVr, Random Observations Aboard Ship I In Itt nwimmnvlnff lttr f r,n . 1 J rvh n answered that "he would tell the world ( Leeder of Portland reUtee. in his own way. hie experirncee and obeerration aboard thir en route to AnMreiia on a lecture tour. The letter was that there was,' they being for the most part missionaries on their way to China. THE MISSIONARIES I learned a great deal of th mission arlea on the trip and confirmed my Ideas about them as to appearance but certainly came to appreciate them very shortly. In no country In the world is superstition so Ingrained, and It will take many years and much hard work to overcome th existing prejudices. After years of toll with very litbK im pression being made. It was discovered that th hosDital did mora to break down this impenetrable wan than any thing els The first hospital established at Shanghai bad great difficulty In getting patients. The Chinese believed that they had sure cures for everything. For rheumatism, red hot needles were In rtd Into th affected part. If a per son was suffering from a hook worm. mailed at Honolulu. 1 By Colonel Jobs Leader Aboard If. M. S. Makura. Oct IS. So far the voyage haa proved uneventful, a'though the sticky heat makes one feel like a stick of chew ing gum . at the -a eieventn inning 01 a Dasehan game. We stopped for a few hours at Vic toria. Evidently an American boat had -ij shortly preceded us. a s wa n d e r 1 n g through the streets I met at different times several Aemr- leans or my ac- p u handles, through which she inspects us I white complexions, the latter are much John Leader . ii-. aw.. i. ii,. ... jt Iquaintance. I greeted them all court ..j i.j .v w ..lously and with one exceDtion thev ail m ,i v. i . I Clle1 for Cods sake where is the rov- ""-- """" - I .rnmint rilKnanaarv" Th. V, Kt- . -wa j . a ivs lltniyiAUirj exception was well known Methodist TVtrMTI ffrim SrtSk a ika ..i.i.. m.oud by youngster, and the unfortu- Ku;rh-"h, """" nate woman, who was raving crasy, I , J J The mis- I , kwiisci- vu wra is a very .... i. . wi.Kr..i .iiii.. tar ha k.r m th. haughty English lsdy going out to in pi Lai and a complete recovery was ,2ZZl Ti lT,u"" ene .. v it -i v.. i uioiu njj. on sDeaa iavt I . . " . me until It now ha. anntT.nuw.tlnn " " l OUI oi ner for 400 Patient, and l. not ne.r.y large SSSTZt1 "SL"! . J WW,im4 VICoUIC 'nuiiiu. ivimiiiiDvr inn ww I . ,-. w. a,..i..n.n. i .. . . ' ot wnich is enhanced by a pair of ouii ? rekln and other placw so that now ,,, ... wUlr ' VlolKrtS in grvat cry wr miaatonary sur geons site will dvote thrkr lives to the saving of the Chinese. Christianity has had a good beginning and these Institu tions should be assisted. TEACHEKS, TOO. AEE NEEDED The ' teacher missionary Is also in great demand. There is a widespread ' desire on the part of the young Chinee to learn English and to eventually come, to the United ptates to complete tseir education. There are several emi nent gentlemen who make It a business of lecturing In the various universities of the United States In Order to Induce young men to take; up this class of ork. It Is one of great hardship and denial. The sal arias are ' necessarily malt. One bright young man on. the steamer a aa en his way to Central Chin for the first time. He was tak ing Ms bride with Mm and faring lift I on the munificent sum of liK per an- eum. This sum would be Increased by . tK every tenth year and also by the (CfMuauded ea rase Tee, Tha Secfaea.) freely. You feel homehow like a. bu when under the scrutiny. She is not, of the uppish class, the uppish class. The Australasian girls on board are bright and attractive and dressed in the height of fashion. ATHLETES ON BOABD Kirkwood. the Australian golf cham pion, who has recently been playing in Canada, won the sweep the first day. The Ausralian tennis team joins us here. There is a dear old couple in the cabin opposite mine, who are apparently on their first voyage, and are very anxious, although the sea was like glass the first three days. They remind one forcibly of an old couple I once heard of. The old gentleman was feeling the choppy sea very much, and his wife begged a stew ard to tell her husband what to do. "He don't need me to tell him. ma'am ; he'll do it aU right," was the spirited re Joinder of the steward. OAJUES APLENTT I have the misfortune to be a mem ber of the entertainment committee. The duties are no sinecure. The commander of the ship personally supervises and directs all amusements. We have one deck entirely devoted to deck games, deck tennis, etc. another deck: is netted for cricket and hockey. We have con certs or dances every night, and a fancy dress ball once a week, also a weekly gymhana, or btidge tournament, and many other antidotes to the dreary monotony of a long sea voyage. Every one enters into the spirit of the thing and works hard to "keep that schoolgirl complexion." The Australians and New Zealanders are quite distinct, superficially ; the former are long and lanky, with very heavier built and have ruddy complex ions. They are more like the old coun try folk in appearance than are any oversea British. The Australians have the brogue peculiar to them, the New Zealanders are very Scottish, and use wild, barbaric words like "hoots" and "braw.' They herd very much by nationalities in the smoking room, and to all be peo ples fundamentally the same but sper iicially different, they rather get on one's nerves. Both nations seem to pro duce a .cheery, genial and unaffected class of both men and women., and one does like their extraordinary human- ness. AN INCIDENT I heard a story of an unfortunate incident that happened on the voyage out on another ship. At a fancy dress ball the deck was decorated with the flags of the allies, and a big New Zea- lander. who had looked too ardently on the wine when it was red, tore down an American flag and stamped on it- A little American present sprang fiercely at him, but before much damage could be done' the offender was rushed down to his cabin. The aftermath was what one likes to hear of. The whole of the male New Zealanders on board Ap proached the American group In a body next morning and made a public apology. In the old country we would have felt just as bad about an incident of that sort, and would probably have thought ft too silly and trivial to make a fuss about, and so the sore would have rankled. The Americans on board do not ap pear to be much handicapped by their prohibition statute. In their own coun ( Concluded Pace Two. Thai Section. ) i HE ookt nemo I"? T - V-Tr-1 A.. A m'n MiraLlSmtl I n .c. . ...I m ar- w . .. a.iik, . a- . a -. a aw . . a . rsr m I im kbt ttTTTH-x -a vi".. LX TTl,fy1fl-) wiu. Eeo tw oETaita?ss , "'r owe AttMJCSrrf EUSUtMl tBY VMTN . SOASEO. Mas av vc..A"o turn ri UVCK A T9U6- WHEM wwk eciiuniiv - a-f aviator would gracefully circle around, drop a bomb or two, and the soldiers In the old. old fort, armeo witn oio,, oia guns, would shake their fists at the air plane and heartily curse it. SCARED TO DEATH Perhaps not 60 people In this city of 100,000 had ever seen an airplane before the siege of the city. One old woman looked up at one of the planes one dsy while it was flying over wucnow. howled "ay-yow" and aroppea over dead. The invading army neeaea, in fact, little more than the airplanes to capture the city, so terrified were tne people. LASTS TEN DATS After a siege of 10 days, Wuchow feu. The people of the cltw during the fight ing were alarmed, to say tne least, ana sought whatever protection there was to ho had. The American flag looked good to them. It was flying over the Stout Memorial hospital of the South China mission. Southern Baptist convention. The Stars and Stripes meant to tne people protection against massacre and ill treatment of all kinds. Believing this, more than 500 Chinese sought shelter in the corridors and basement of the hospital, in the yard, even In the bouses of the- missionaries. And they camped there until the aay or. tne cap ture of the city. The victorious army has gone on into th. interior of the province, driving the army of the old regime before it When - . A. l.f V t-a aa? the forces were awacauni. .tuuu.s, their "gunboats" were in the river farther down stream, and, as Is natural, their bows . pointed towards the city, which in due time was captured. Later, another city more' than 300 miles distant was being besieged, me ooaia mm time "were pointed towards that place, and, sure enough,, it likewise was cap tured. ' Governmeiit Taxes Menace to Business, Banker Points Out (By United Seira) New Orleans. La Nov. 6. Howard F. Beebe of New York, new president of the Investment Bankers association f America, scored government taxes as a menace to trade in bis inaugural aa dress. -Taxation, narticularly federal taxa tion, is a menace to business today, and the makeshift revenue bill now being prepared by congress little reuer can cpme." he said. "I believe," continued Beebe, "that we can safely consider that conditions are Improving and will continue to im prove, but taxation continues tea menace business and to retard the return to a normal state of affairs. Certain members of congress also came in for an oral flaying. "Those men in congress who use their position for the furtherance of selfish political ends, to the detriment of the country. - are traitors to the cause of good government and should be sternly rebuked : zronv aoBte," he aecured.' , 50th parallel, which divides it, between makes the lot af a Saghalien convict a Russia and Japan, and pointing exactly very hard one. and one that corresponds to the North Pole. I have Just saiieo. more nearly with the punishment which nearly around it, coasted all Its soutnern i the law has In view." ana western iKiorai. vuuieu m " "" NAME SPREAD TERROR ArUnt iVtrtt on4 MoM l mknt ft And I r it. t..,w And the law bad In view a punish tu. V ,rr,A in s,,. I ment so terrible that to IU administra- halien before the great awakening of In aU e Russian empire. Sagha- the World war. It waited until jerked "J" ""uu f1"'"1"- n ,K. Cl..ita nt Tkrtarv hv tinftn 1 1 teiTOr. It had its loves for millions of years; Any place which made St. Petersburg, .n .1. .imni.t.A- an rtr Ru- Vienna, - Berlin and particularly Paris, sia made It known Saghalien was re- Inaccessible, was purgatory to Russia's served for Its last and worst sneer. It un .c-i .5 " , ... h T?.i..i.n and Siberians : fraternity of the intellectuals in Russls it ... nwH xv th rur: that was nd the world generally adopted this enough. It' became the world s best vlew of Saghalien thus fashioned. It was jumplng-off place. "e rooTr" ,Ruf l't, " of L nv varit maw AeaA." as Dostoievsky, Russia's great HOME OF EARLY SAJ novelist, called Siberia:- So insidious Science laid claim to Saghalien June, had been this damnation that today It i860, when two famous- men or the lm- pervades the farthest corners of crea periai Academy or bcience in at. rewrs- Uon. The worst of waste places, and burg, Schmidt and Glehn, came to study those most forgotten of God. became It and remained during two summers. I "better than thou" parallels to It In its What science haa naa to say oi oagna- degradation lien la based on tnetr wors. Science says that Saghalien had been inhabited In the neolithic stone age and later came those who spread to it from th Amur. Gilvaks. Oroks and Russians ; that It oenetrates the western reacn oi foggy Okhotsk sea which sends down immense ice flows m tne east coast in summer and thick clouds and an ocean current generally which gives its north ern part, and in fact most of the Island, a cold climate, un tne more xavoraoie west coast the mean temperature In a chosen district Is about S3 degrees ran Uncle Sam Makes Plans for Holiday Mail Across Seas (Br Uai venal Ben as) Washington, Nov. . 5. Uncle Sam and Santa Claus today announced plans for renhelt, with 2JJ days of fog and rain the delivery of Christmas mail "from m the year. I American vessels in EuroDean and Pa- SIX MONTHS Ol WUTtn , ciflc waters. The climate throughout la one of ex-1 The U. 8. S. Alameda will leave treme humidity in which snow figures I Hampton Roads about November 2. as the island's chief characteristic and especially assigned to carry the gifts unit of moisture. Soring, summer and I and season's rreetinr to the officers autumn' each have two months. At the I and men of the fleet. Mail Intended for end of October the coasts are beset witn this ship must be st the naval operate Ice; the narrow part or the btraiis or , 'base. Hampton Roads. Vs., not Tartary separating it trom tne mainiana i ater thart November 23. freezes over ; winter is six monins long . -Holiday mall for vessels in Pacific and the land is burled under six reel oi waUrs wUi be carried by the U. & H. snow until April. I Newport News, leaving Mare Island. If its original Inhabitants or tne neo- -p.ari uirixv. r.uim anil r. lithic stone age and all others down o on November 20. Mall for this ship the present aay naa aa uw i -- must be in San Francisco not Uter enoe In deter mining me tocauon oi ww t0 Xoveinber j ruture no me, mey proua-uiy uwr w .. c9.Kl..ll.M A . v . vaajl. nave wnw V" "' - i . . . , etSrespecna!.eln A HI Q X 1 C 2i U OperatlQ would healUU before becoming aa im-i f.. I - J migrant to Ito shores. Jet that expres- OUmUUStJI B ri UllliaoU sion is the best which our handbook vvu.vuuw www acienc and encyclopedic world knowl edge is able to do for It. up to the pres ent time. rOOfD KECEoSART ktil 'And what the Russian government and Financial Assistance (Br TTiaWanal Birtkel Chicago, Nov. . American composers IU administrators in East Siberia added. I of opera will have the aid of Mrs. Har- "absorbed as th Chinese say. tui ins i oia r . cMrmic w inuaf ur piv- vlces." - They looked upon Saghalien asjductions staged la the future. a neoeaaitv to Russia because It guarded I Mrs. MeConnlck made this known to- the entrance to the Amur valley, which day In a letter to The Opera In Our Uad to the interior. They bought out I Language Foundation. She made It Japan's claims tn it and made It a col- plain, however, that the works must ony for undesirable itassians wnora uiey i oe up to in SLanaara oi graoa opera put. here n front of the guns, in the I before they will late rest her. firms- line as it were, and intrusted It She said she would like to see one to the governor general of East Siberia 1 opera by aa American composer pre- at Irkutsk to administer. - I scnted this year and at least two each To Russia it. was Uta Ust outcsA- ol I aeason tberesXter- whli oy the treaty of 1142 th four additional ports of Amoy. Fu Chow. Nlngpo and Shanghai were opened to foreign trad. The India office succeeded to th mo nopolies of the East India company. To the India office Great Britain's repre sentatives will bave to listen during the coming conference. The British public Is not enlightened about the tremendous issues that are centering In China. These are Issues "up to the India office, the British think, snd dismiss them from their minds. The India ofQce, wbtch thinks chiefly of India snd of the fact that another great cataclysm like that of list Is threatening British rule and trade Is that empire is a sluggish arbiter of the Chinese situation. To fix surer Its own dominion' the India office would yield and trade barter on issues where the open door Is at stake. It looks with favor on the companies of merchant ad venturers who act traditionally In China to acquire "spheres of Influence." SPHERES OF I5FLCE5CE ' Through Its approval when efforts were made to aliocate special parts of China in behalf of Russls, Japan" Ger many snd France, the British, govern ment Indicated "that If this policy should go through It would expect ta turn to mak the Tang Ts valley, which lies at the very center of China, the seat of Britain's special Influence." Is there wonder then that Japan, which has been criticised so snarplr and so justly. In her dealings with dls- . credited Chinese "officials" should have followed the age-long exempt first set by the merchant adventurers of India? 1 The tactics of the concessionaires have done th good name of Great Britain: a bad turn. : in addition, the curse of the opium traffic which for four centuries has disgraced trade in the Far East, In fects the British Esst India office. To the Indian government what has existed so long seems sacred ; that it should get along without th opium monopoly Is unthinkable. So while It observes the letter of the treaties. Its attitude has been such as virtually to block tn efforts to rid the Far Eastern world of this evlL While Japanese smugglers and so- called merchants are flooding China with morphia, the India office In Ms conservatism obstructs every attempt to stop this vtl traffic at Its source, ' SPECIAL AGREEMENTS 0XI501S Aggressive action In China on the part of any power must no longer be tol erated- If the conference - can - show that It means this and If the United States snd Great Britain, but . without the need of express alliance the two to gether, or with others as may be reeded. wUl s tardily maintain that . attitude. then all need fay special agreements Lk that between Great Britain and Japan will have disappeared. But It the Anglo-Jspaneee political treaty survives th conference it wUl come very dose to meaning that the conference has tailed. . . . " CEXERA.L SELLIJO CIGARS London. Nov: S. The well known A astro-Hungarian ' soldier. Field Martha! Von Koevesa, the conqueror of 1 an ta red. Belgrade and Montenegro, has a cured a license from the Hungarian government to open a cigar store. ta Budapest. the . Roumanian government having taken possession oc Trans)- vanU. . . ., .. ' ' --- v A.;-'.. :' , '