Evening star., 1921-10-09
BY HENRY w. BUNN.
'opyr,sht, 1921. by, The Washington star.)

copyright, 182l by The washington start
~ HE following is brief summary of the
most important news of the world for
the seven days ended October 8:
THE BRITISH EMPIRE.-Lord
Northcliffe, who has been dining, golting and
talking around the globe. the other day urged
the Australians to set on foot measures to in
crease the immigration of European whites into
Australia; else they might not expect (ther
passionate hope) to keep Australia a white
mans country. Already the teeming millions
of Asia gazing hungrily across the bar
advice. r. So
The plot thickens in India. The Moham-
meden brothers Ali have been put in quod for
porting Gandhi.s movement for non-co-opera-
tion with the British. have been urging their
fellow Mohammedans to refuse to serve m the
British army. Or course, cooperation between
Mohammedans and those of the Hindu faith
is unnatural and can only be temporary If
warlike Mohammedans would make life hideous
for the pacifst Hindus as they used to do.
trated in Malaber tsouthwest coast of British
lndia), where the Mohammedan Moplahs con
of a say 'hs is that the ne B
authorities will immure Saint Gandhi at last.
Perhaps. having to choose between two evils
that of leaving this. pestilent saint free to
agitate and that of locking him up and SO
making d martyr of him--the British may
choose the latter. but they are quite aware of
the danger in that choice. The worst of it is
that Gandhi really is a saint and much
respected by the British, FOR all that he is such
IL stupendous nuisance. We get cnly the most
meager details of developments in India. than
which developments there are none more I'M
portant anywhere.
The Irish delegates to the London con-
ference left Ireland Friday. Outrages con-
tinue in Belfast.
Lloyd George and his cabinet are wrestling
desperately with unemployment problems.
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GERMANY.-The agreement drawn up seve-
r,I ES hy Rat min.
lister of reconstruction, and NJ. Loucheour,
French minister of the liberated regions, Is
under consideration by the French parlia-
ment and the German reichstag. approval by
the reparations commission. we'll ratifica-
ton by these bodies, is required make the
agreement efectivc).
1t is agreement methods intended 10
hasten reconstruction in the devastated French
area. by substitution for reparaton gold marks
of German materials, German manufactured
articles. etc. Optimists have thought that this
agreement might be broadened into, or lead to,
large commercial understanding. Under it
Germany would engage to make deliveries to
the value of seven billion gold marks during the
credited at the price paid by the big German
industries (ending a long controversy. The
in Germany for French rolling stock would be
withdrawn. Sundry other causes of friction
would be removed.
\ proposal of first importance. against
whose adoption irreconclables in both France
and Germany will make a fight. with cries of
little doubt of ratification. The French and
the German press are favorable.
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THE BURGENLAND.-The Hungarian gov
ernment so far responded to the ultimatun OF
the council of ambassadors withdraw its
regular troops from the Burgenland and to
formally over the district to inter-
allied commission of control. It, however
declares that it has been and is unable to deal