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almadge Pardons Leland Harvey And Aubrey Smith
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ey Once Had 110
Years Sentence and
Smith 145 Years
ARE NOT KILLERS"” l
vernor Examines Rec
«ds of Two and De
cides on Pardon
TLANTA, Ga—(#-—Governor I
adge Friday pardoned Leland |
ey and Aubrey Smith, two ofi
eia’s most notorious prison}
pes. :
ey at one time bad 110
s to serve and Smith 145
s. Both had participated in a
¢ of robberies and Smith had
, boasted that he “will never
papture alive’” but was return
o prison each time he got away
out much trouble.
wernor Talmadge, in announc- l
the pardons, said -that sinco‘
visit to the prison farm at
cdgeville a yvear ago, when hel_
muted ' Harvey's sentence to|
| vears, he had seriously con
red a pardon for both men. ;
By had those boys down
B i 1 the death cell about t‘our’
séven feet right next door to}
execution chamber,” the gov
r said, recalling his wisit to
farm
jarvey has tuberculosis and!
ked pretty pale when I was[
s, The guards told me he
t himself in pretty good shape
standing on his head and ex
sing in other ways.
“Are Not Killers”
B 0 boys are not Killers. Be- |
en them they stole about 8800.!
en I talked with Harvey a|
6 ago I asked him why I\6?
't change his ways since he|
got such a reputation as an |
ppe artist He said: ‘Well,|
grnor, they gave me about a.l
dred and ten years and I just|
B make it out. If it was cut to |
pre I could make it I wouldl
nge my way’.” {
overnor Talmadge said that |
irsday he redquested from Sup-{
tendent Lawrence the record |
the boys and that the superin- |
dent said their conduet had !
n good. “I am immediately!
ling pardons,” he announced. i
he governor said he was moti- |
d partly by comparison of thei
Bords of the two men with those :
several bankers who "hadl
ten widows and orphans out
their money and then drew
i sontences or no sentences at
hese boys,” he continued, “had!
R "others, were only waifs you
Bt say, and the sum total of
g thefts was only a few hun
d dollarg,”
o in peace and sin no more,” |
;-‘wa.,.;qm;- avised both Ha.rvey‘
fl Smith in sending them theirl
dong
farvey's term of 110 years was |
conviction of five highway rob- |
18 In Bibb (Macon) county.‘
h“ar‘.uf':m“npfid to 20 years on[
' charge., Another five yc«ars(
F added on conviction ‘of lar- |
V. of an automobile in t'hei
| ounty and an additional |
[ ears for the same offense in
N (Atlanta) county. I
:,fw convictions = were f(’ri
; crimes ranging from theft|
, dutomobile to a npumber ofi
.. lshway and public rob-i
‘C: 'gr,,‘v of armed robbery, a |
| “nience offense in Florida, is |
- 28ainst Harvey in Miami.
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1 1923. They were armed |
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Full Associated Press Service
Fiery Interview With Kaiser,
Lost 25 Years, Is Published
Says That “‘Yellow Peril”
Makes War With
Japan Inevitable
(Editor's Note: The Kaiger
gave an indiscreet interview
to an American newspaper
man in 1908. The German for
eign office, according to the
story, blue penciled much of
the dynamite. The expurgated
version was announced for
publication in the December
1908 Century magazine. Before
it appeared, however, the for
eign office requested suppres
sion, and sent a cruiser to New
York to pick up the pages and
consign them to Davy Jones’
locked. When the crates con
taining the sheets failed to
sink, they were fished out and
the copies fed t, the flames.
The “lost interview” is now,
published for the first time.
By HOMER McCOY
BOSTON—(#)—What the Kaiser
said to William Bayard Hale,
journalist, that night back in 190§
—an international mystery for a
quarter of a century—was revealed
Friday.
The famous “logt’ interview,”
which caused s, many headaches
and so much speculation, is pre
sented lin the May issue of the
Atlantic Monthly magazine by
William Harlan Hale, son of the
man to whom Emperor William I 1
of Germany spoke so freely, and
as his country thought, so indis
creetly.
This is the gist of the views
expressed by the Kaiser:
The inevitable world crisis was
a clash bhetween Japan and -Occi
dental nations: TFEast and West
must meet, and the West must
conquer.
Great Britain was guilty of a
sort of political miscegenation in
allying herself with Japan.
War was necegsary. War was
Mrs. T. H. McHatton Named
Head Of Ga. Garden Clubs
CGLUE HOPE DIMMED
IN LINDBERGH CASE
Gold Belt Buckle Found
On Suspect Rejected by
Investigating Officer
NEW YORK—(#)—The gold belt
buckle found on William Lardner,
37, inmate of Leavenworth priscn,
was rejected Friday as a clue to
the Lindbergh kidnaping.
Police Lieutenant James Flinn,
why has been connected from the
start with the kidnap investiga
tion and the search for the ransom
money, said:
“None of the money went sos
any belt buckle.”
The buckle was purchased ir
Switzerland, and the police lieu
tenant said that none of the $50,-
000, tossed over a oemetery wall
by “Jafsie,” has turned up in
Europe.
Lardner, a former resident of
Boston, is serving a three-year
sentence for attempting to pass a
counterfeit SIOO bill at the Boston,
Mass., Airport.
Enroute to Leavenworth, Lard
ner tried to bribe his guard to per
mit Him ‘to make a call to mem
bers of Roger Touhy's gang in
Chicago. The prisoner produced a
gold belt buckle, saying ‘“they’ll
only take this away from me here,
so you’d better have it. I bought
it in Switzerland and it cost $30.”
United States Marshal John J.
iMurphy. at Boston, said federal
agents had followed clues in the
‘Lindbergh case to Switzerland.
Records of Lardner's arrests
showed he was in or near New
York at the time Dr. John F.
(Jafsie) Condon, Bronx educator,
passed $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh’s
lmoney to the purported kidnapers
lef the Lindbergh baby.
Marshal Murphy said Thursday
la. photograph of Lardner will be
| sent by mail to Dr. Congdon, wheo
had said he could identify the pur.
Iported intermediary.
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HARRISON, Neb— (# —Twins
lare the rule in the family of Mr,
and Mrs. Tvan Sayer. Mrs. Sayer
recently gave birth to 2 twin son
and daughter—the . fourth pair of
twins to be born in a family of 13
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mer. Kaiser William of Germany
taken shortly after the famous in
terview which has been found af
ter 25 years.
Christian. The Bible was full of
fighting. = The greatest . .soldiers
were Christians. - : .
Theodore Rocsevelt, then presi
dent of the United States, was his
hero—the dominating, militaristic
leader he hoped he himself was.
The course of history was large-
Mrs. Jarnagin Named Cor
responding Secretary;
Mrs. Monroe Wins Prize
ATLANTA—(®M»>Mrs. T. H. Mc-
Hatton, of Athens, Friday was
elected president of the Garden
Club of Georgia at the closing ses
sion of its annual convention.
Other officers named are: Mrs.
Lansing B. Lee, of Augusta, first
vice president; Mrs. James W.
Woodruff, of Columbus, second
vice president; Mrs. Dan D. Hor
gan, Macon, third vice president;
Mrs, Walter Doreyloss, Savannah,
recording secretary; Mirs. Milton
P. Jarnagin, of Athens, correspond
ing secretary and Mrs. Richard
Johnston, of Atlanta, treasurer.
‘Macon was selected as the site
of the 1935 convention.
Mrs. John F. Monroe, of Athens,
won the poetry ©prize and the
Perennial Garden Club of Colum
bus and was given the scrapbook
award. The Marguerite Garden
Club of Columbus won the year
book prize,
A memorial flower garden in
front of the Athens General hos
pital dedicated tc the memory of
the late Mrs. BE. K. Lumpkin, at
whose home the first Georgia gar
den club was founded during the
‘nineties, is being planned by the
Athens eclub, the oldest in the
United States.
Mrs. T. W. Reed, of Athens, sl
member of the organization for 37
years, recalled Friday that the |
club was the first to demonstratoi
to the city that it eould have vege
‘table gardens in the fall. She said
‘the club used to have rose shows
on the city hall lawn in the spring,
The whole community would be
Einvited and an orchestra hired to
[play for the guests.
. Fourteen garden clubs of Col
umbus will co-operate in sponsor
ling a mammoth flower show to be
' Held at the fairgrounds |May 3,
Mrs. George Burrus, Jr., said. Each
iclub will have three 'projects—an
iexhibit or *“glimpse” of any one
flower, a still life picture or “ghad
!owbox.” and a table arranged with
‘flowers for a special occasion such
as adinner, lunchean or birthday.
i An annual camellia show in
{ January Wwhich attracts visitors
i from many states was reported by
{ Mrs. [Lansing B. Lee, of Augusta.
i The old Medical college buliding
{has been taken over by Augusta
lclub women and the grounds are
‘ being developed, the building itself
! o
; (Continued on page six.)
Athens, Ga., Friday, April 20, 1934
Cerman Cruiser Sent to
Prevent Publication
25 Years Ago
ly determined, not by the clash
ing of social forces and economic
trends, but by the deeds of great
men and personalities.
Thus the Kalser spoke. It was
one evening in July, 1908, (Wit he
consented to the interview by
Hale, cloge friend of Theodore
Roosevelt. - The meeting was on
the imperial yacht, Hohenzollern,
at anchor in the fjord of Bergen.
In the Atlantic Monthly, Hale
‘writes that the emperor voiced
“the most amazingly indiscreet
statements ever uttered by the
head of a great nation.”
The world situation was precari
ous at that time. The first-rate
powers were in a fine state of
balance—like a mixture of chemi
cals, ready to explode with the
addition of some catalytic sub
stance—g rash speech for exam
ple.
The Russo-Japanese war was
three years past. Germany had
come to a cross-roads and was a
little off the path. She was carry
ing on a naval race with Great
Rritain, a military race with
France.
The Algeciras conference, at
which England, Russia and Italy
had opposed the fatherland in
agreeing to recognize the priority
of French interests in Moroco, had
left her somewhat of an Ishmael
among nations. :
So, the German foreign office
evidently believed that the Kaiser
had spoken too freely.
The Hale interview was to ap
"pear in the Century magazine, De
cember 1908. The German foreign
office gave it a thorough editorial
scouring, removing most of the
dynamite.
~ Then, it was decided that the in-
(Contlnued on Page Six)
ACTION RUSHED ON
HOUSING PROJECTS
Administration Orders
New Vehicle for Use on
Road to Recovery
WASHINGTON-~ (#) —Adminis
tration orders were out Friday for
a new vehicle to use on the road
to recovery,
The projected wmachine would
make available ag much as $1,500,-
000 in lumps of from S2OO to $2,-
000 for the renovation of small
homes throughout the nation.
The program was approved at a
White House conference Thursday
marking abandonment of a previ
ous proposal for heavy government
spending in mass home bhuilding
and slum clearance.
Blueprints of the program call
for nationwide publicity through
regional committees to persuade
home owners to repair their homes.
(Continued on Page Six)
“Y” CURTAILMENT
FUND NOW $470.50;
BALANCE $1,009.50
o
A total of $470.50 of the
$1,480 needed by the Y. M. C.
A. to meet obligations which
must be paid this month, was
reported at the Thursday night
meeting of the board of direc
tors finance committee of that
organization.
The next report meeting will
be Monday night at 6 o’clock,
when the entire board of di
rectors is expected to be pres
ent. The meeting will be a
short one and supper will not
be served. The directors will
select a few names each of
friends of the association to
contact and will hear the third
report of the finance commit
tee.
The $1,480 is needed to make
the annual curtailment in the
building mortgage of SI,OOO
and to pay S4BO interest. All
friends of the association
who desire to help in the finan
cial stringency may do so by
contacting any member of the
finance committee, composed
of E. R. Hodgson, E. E. Lam
kin, M. G. Nicholson, Sam
Nickerson, T. F. Green, Jjr.,
Abit Nix, Tate Wright, Mor
ton S. Hodgson, George H.
Thornton and N. G, Slatgh
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BIOT SQUAD CALLED
FAOM ATLANTA FOR
KILLER DEFYING MOB
Police Kill Slayer of 10-
Year-Old Boy at
Experiment, Ca.
CHIEF BRAVES FIRE
Criffin Officers Send For
Help After Crowd
Is Threatened
EXPERIMENT, Ga.—(P—W. M.
Ward, a mill nightwatchman, was |
fatally wounded Friday by ma
chine gun fire from Atlanta offi
cers who were called here after
the watchman had killed a 10-
vear-old boy .and then defied po
lice who tried to arrest him.
Ward was, shot down by the
Atlanta officers after they: h\d
routed him from the house with
tear gas where he had defied lo
cal police for several hours, hold
ing them at bay with pistols, a
shotgun and a rifle.
A detachment of Atlanta police
headed by Chief T. O. Sturdivant,
armed with machine guns and gas,
regponded to the call for help.
Sturdivant got out of his car in
front of the home where Ward
had barricaded himself and im
mediately let go a gas shot.
Officer Bailey of Atlantd was
standing beside the chief with a
machine gun.
Ward retreated into the house
and lecked the door. Chiet
Sturdivant went to a window and
used the gas gun twice. Ward
then ran out of the hack door and
leveled a gun at the chief who had
gone ta the back of tlie house.
Officer Bailey, who had accomi
‘panfed the chief, then hrought his
' machine gun into action and Ward
fell with several bullet wounds in
his body. He was taken to a Cirif-
I’fin hospital where he died 45 min
utes later,
. 'HOLDS OFF POLICE
FXPERIMENT, Ga—(/—Hold
ing a ecrowd Bot bay with two
pistols, a shotgun and a rifle, W,
M. Ward, a mill nightwatchman,
Friday morning defied police seek
ing to arrest him for the fatal
shooting of a ten~year old boy.
Terrified citizens of this com
munity, ‘which is a- suburb of Grif
fin, telephoned police for help.
Ward had gone to the Butlet
home and, firing through & screen
door, had shot Fred Butler. The
boy died a few minutes after ar
rival at a hospital,
Griffin and Spalding county po
lice, rushing to the mill suburb
found Ward standing on the front
porch of his home, blood covering
his face, daring a crowd to come
get him. Ward was armed with
(Continued on Page Two)
KILLER ADMIT PART
IN LED FRANK DEATH
Confessed Slayer of Lou
isiana Girl Identifies Self
With Famous Case
SHREVEPORT, La.—(®— Fred
Lockhart, saved three days ago
| from death at the hand® .of an
llnfuriated mob, identified himself
' Friday as a participant in the sen
sational Leo . Frank lynching In
Georgia in 1915.
Lockhart, held for attacking and
killing }ls‘year-old Mae Giffin,
turned from reading the Bible to
tell that he drove the automobile
which carried Frank from the
Georgia prison at Milledgeville 110
miles to be hanged at Marietta, Ga.
| “I know mow how Frank felt
| when he was taken from the Geor
| gia prison and hanged,” gaid Lock
| hart.
Leo Frank, a young man and a
college graduate, whose home was
at Brookiyn, N. Y. was lynched
’Augus; 7, 1915, after his death
| sentence for the slaying of Mary
Phagan had been committed to
life imprisonment.
Member of Mob
Lockhart said he was a member
of the mob <which battered f{ts
| way int, the Milledgeville prison
to get Frank. The mob took
Frank to Marietta in order to hang
him near Mary Phagan's grave.
Asg Lockhart told his story, four
{ companies of national guardsmen
| patrolled the Parish courthouse
grounds. The troops were called
out Tuesday night while an angry
crowd was storming the court
tiouse: battling unsuccessfully to
Ireaoh Lockhart in the rooftop jail
| Lockhart, who said his real
| (Continued From Page Two)
Gay Crowd Pours Into City
For Brightest Week-End On
University Social Calendar
Mrs. McCurry Made
Vice - President of
National D. A. R.
WASHINGTON —~(#)— Mrs.
Julian Benson McCurry of
Athens, Ga., former state re
gent of the Georgia division
of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, wasg elected a
vice president general by the
Daughters at their national
convention here Thursday.
Mrs. McCurry was one of seven
vice presidents general chesen,
Other vice presidents general
named were Mrs. William P.
H. McFaddin of Beaumont,
Texas; Mrs. Frederick F,
Gundrum, Sacramento, Calif.;
Mrs., Bessie Carroll Higgins,
Spencer, Towa; Miss Minnie M.
Dilley, Northfield, Minn.; Mrs,
Henry | Zoller, Baltimore, and
Mrs. ‘Roscoe’ C. O'Byrne. of
Brookvillg, . Ind.
Attorney General Cummings
and secretary Roper addressed
the D. A. R. at their session
Thursday. ¢
UNIVERGITY R.O.T.C
GIVEN HIGH RATING
Inspection |s: Completed
Thursday With Record
S 5 Percent Perfect
Military inspection was com=-
pleted yesterday for the current
year at The University of Georgia,
with 95 per cent perfect record,
Colonel H. E. Mann, in &arg®h of
the University R, O. T. C. sgaid
here today.
Major Wilson Spann, of the
Fourth Corps area, stationed at
Fort McPherson, spent Monday
and Tuesday inspecting the infan
try division and Col. B. L. Burch,
a former University of Georgia P.
M. S. and T. went over the cav
alry division in detail.
Colonel Burch said that the
University’s military department
shows very high rate of efficiency
in every detail, and praised the
fine work done by the regular
army officers and enlisted men on
duty here. Both Dr. 8. V. San
ford and Col. H. E. Mann ex
pressed themselves as gratified at
the successful outcome and the
inspection.
“All the credit,” Colonel Mann
gaid, “is due to the hard and pain
staking work of the officers work
ing with me, to the fine spirit of
cooperation and conscientious work
of every member of the cadet
corps, and to the good will and
continual support received from
Dr. Sanford and the faculty of the
University.”
Highest mark on the indlvidual
tests given members of the eorps
was made by Marion Allen, Mil
ledgeville, grandson of Mrs. Toombs
Dußose of Athens,
The inspection included public
reviews of both cavalry and In
fantry, theoretical classroom work,
field maneuvers, practical prob-
I"‘m’~ and an inspection of the
' stables and other government prop
erty used by the R. O. T. C.
unit.
Cadet officers are: Colonel of
the Cadet Corps, W. W. Buchanan,
Athens: executive lieutenant col
oney, R. A. Stephens, Atlanta;
adjutant captain, Frank Killing
heck, Morganton,
Cavalry regiment: Colonel, Lus
trat Winecoff, Atlanta: lieutenant
colonel. Marion H. Allen jr. Mil
ledgeville; ecaptains.. R. E. Snell.
ing, Athens; W. T. Ezzard, Dal
ton; E. W. Tucker, Athens; H.
B. Walker, Conyers.
| First Squadron: Major W. A.
, Fuller, Atlanta; adjutant captain,
'E‘ M. Hodgson, Athens; captains
:of troons, R. H. Hodgson, Ath
{ens: Emmett Mitchell, Thomas
| ville,
| Second Squadron: Major, W, B.
| o
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'Local Postal Employes
»
; Receive Refund on Pay
i Toeal rnostoffice emploves have
received a total of $555.70 from the
government under the recent bill
‘passed by Congress refunding 5
iper cent of the 17 per cent cut for
iFebruar_v and March, it was learn
jed today.
The pay-roll for the subsequent
tmonths, it was shown, will be in
{creased by approximately $75 over
| that during the cut, while the cut
‘ia $550 under the uew bill in com
| parison with the SBOO under the
{ls per cent reduction, e
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Little Commencement
Begins This Afternoon
With Baseball Came
HOLD THREE DANCES
All Fraternities Planning
Varied Entertainments
: For Visitors
Crowds of laughing girls and
boys began to pour into Athens
today to begin the gayest and
brightest week-end of the yeayr—
Little Commencement week-end at
the University.
Festivities will begin this eve
ning with various affairs at the
different fraternity houses, while
the week-end proper wiil open
with the first Pan-Hellenic dance
of the week-end tonight at 9
o'clock in Woodruff hall. Mal
Hallett and his orchestra, on their
first Southern tour, have been se
cured by Pan-Hellenic Presidemt
Jot Thomas, Jesup, to play for
the three dances—the one tonight,
the tea dance Saturday afternoon,
and the concluding dance Satur
day evening. J
Woodruff hall is to be decorated
with the Okefenokee swamp in
south Georgia as motif. Cypress
trees and Spanish moss are
painted around the dance floor,
with a canopy of solid blue over
‘the dance floor. The decorations
‘have been prepared by the Land
lscape Architecture club, Richard
Dupree, Athens, president, under
the direction of Hubert B. Owens,
associate professor of landscape
architecture, and Pan-Hellenic
lcouncu faculty advisor,
! Following the Georgia-Auburn
bassball game this afternoon,
which was to officially open the
week-end, the Pelican club will
hold a dinner-dance at the Geor
gian hotel at 7:30 with Jack Dale
)and his Bulldogs furnishing the
'music. Fraternities will hold buf
fet suppers and open houses fol
lowing the dance tonight, and
’other affairs have been arranged
‘fur Saturday and Sunday.
Girls who wilr attend the vari
ous house-parties being held by
fraternities over the week-end are:
| Pi Kappa Phi /
Edith Taylor, Athens; *a‘deline
Harlagn, Tampa, Fla.; Martha Lee
Allan, Athens; Dorothy De Klyne,
Atlanta; Mrs. Aubrey Stoudenmire,
Athens; Ida Hardman, Raleigh, N.
C.; Rosolyn Walsh, Garfield;
Louise Stephens, Forsyth; Clara
Hargrave, Thomasville; Reia Ran
dall, Atlanta; Mary Wallace, De
catur; Virginia Holbrook, Corne
lia; Jane West, Atlanta; Gladys
Helberg, University of Alabama,
and Elsie Peace, Athens.
Chaperons: Dr. and Mrs, J. A.
McClain, Athens; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard ¥. Harris, Athens, and
Mrs. Maude Warner, housemother
Sigma Chi
Mary McCormick, Thomasville;
Eulalia Miller, Baconton; Rosa
(Continued on Page Six)
Services for Dr.
J. C. Bennett to
Be Held Saturday
Friends in Athens of Dr. J. C.
Bennett were sadden to hear of
his sudden death in Jefferson
Thursday.
Dr. Bennett was well known in
Athens and throughout this sec
tion, having been engaged in the
active - practice. of medicine for
some 45 years. He was 65 years
old and had been in ill health for
the past year.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday morning = from the First
Baptist church, *of - which - Dr.
Bennett was a deacon. The ser
vices will be conducted by Rev.
R. M. Rigdon, pastor .of the
church. Interment will be in Jef
ferson cemetery.
Dr. Bennett is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Lizzie Dixon Ben
nett; daughter, Miss Miriam Ben
nett, Jefferson; one son, J. C.
Bennett, jr.; brothers, George D.
Bennett, ?oyt Bennett and Mor
gan Benneétt, Athens, and Dr. Joe
Bennett, Gray, Sam Bennett, Sar
asota, Fla., Emory Bennett, Ken
tucky; sisters, Mrs. Ned Pender
grass, Grifin, and Mrs. J. M.
Nix, Commerce, and Mrs. Sarah
Mahaffey, Athens, half-sister;
step-mother Mrs., Hannah Ben
nett; and one grandchild, William
ißennett Dye, Jefferson.
_ Dr. Bennett formerly was wor
shipful master of the Jefferson
lodge of Masons and a member of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia. He
had also served as secretary and
treasurer of the District Medical
association. ;
HoYE
LEAGUE FOREGASTS
ORAMATIC DECISION
ON ARMS MAY 2
Showdown on Disarma«
ment Expected at
Ceneva Conference
UPSET BY JAPANESE
Stand Revealed in Note
Almost Disturbing as
Franco-German Talk
TOKYO—(#)—The world as rep
resented by foreign diplomats in
Tokyo seemed dazed Friday by
Japan’s ‘“restatement of policy” to
ward China and what the diplo
mats regarded as her audacity in
issuing it. \
The representative of other pow
ers, still wondering at the. exact
meaning of the declaration, labelled
it variously a “white-hands-off-
China” statement and an “Asiatic
Monroe doctrine.” .
Japanese officialdom appeared
bewildered by the world’s hostile
reception of Tokyo's declaration
which, in part, holds Japan is sole
ly responsible for maintaining: »tho‘
peace of east Asia. ;
There is almost unanimous con
curréence among the diplomats on
two points: .
First, that Tokyo's staternent
constitutes the most startling and
most ambitious declarations of pol
icy the orient has witnessed since
Japan's 21 demands to China in
1915; and
Peace Depends on Japan
Second, that how far Japanese
doctrines menace world peace will -
depend entirely on how Tokyo in
terprets and applies them. .
/On the latter point,»authorities
do not believe Japan intends to at
tempt to expel Maj, Gen. Hans Von
Seeckt, German chief miliatry ad
viser to the Chinese nationalist
government. y
Nor, in the same connecticn, de
well-informed persons believ Nip
ponese attempts may be «xpected
to expel the American aviators
now in China or to hold up ship
ping carrying Amrican airplanes to
China. Rather, it is believed
Japan desires to post a warning
for the world to read against inter
ference in Japan's determination
to dominate China’s destiny, when
in the “restatement” she says she
objects to other nations supplying
China with military airplanes and
instructors.
In a new statement Friday, a
foreign office spokesman attempt
ed to somewhat allay the fears of
Washington and London tha; Ja
pan plans to flout the nine-power
and other treaties, but the note of
defiacne to white nationg still is
dominant.
“Japan shares responsibility for
maintenance of the peace in East
Asia only with asiatic powers, par
ticularly China.” P
GENEVA— (#) —League of Na=
tions circles forecast Friday &
dramatic showdown on disarma
ment on May 23. :
That is the date when represen
tatives of the nationg in the world
disarmament conference will re
turn to Geneva in full session to
attempt to catch and pull together
the flying strings of the many sided
problems of arms control, kIR
There are even unconfirmsd ru
mors that France may insist upon
an investigation of German arma
ment before consenting to nego
tiate any sort of a disarmament
treaty. -
Bu¢ the differences of France,
Germany and Great Britain form
but one section of the problem as
a. whole. 5
Japan Disturbing
Friday a tendency was seen in
Geneva to link what one official
called the “disturbed” disarmament
situation with developments in the
far BEast growing out of the newly
stated Japanese policy that - -west
ern powers must keep hands off -
China. s
l Some progress was seen by well
informed sources here in the Brit
;ish “white paper” revelation at
!London Thursday that Germany
'had expressed a willingness to
Epostpone reductions of armaments
by other powers for flve years.
’ This stand, taken in a previously
‘unrevealed note to Gre2; Britain,
it was stated here, may reduce the
iapprehensions of France regarding
Germany’s arms.
Unexpected: and disconcerting,
but probably logical. was the opins
jon expressed concerning France's
memorandum to London in which
the French, assuming bilateral ne
gotiationg were “rendered vuh"‘g
Germany’s defense moves, demand
ed that a full disarmament con-
R _—
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