Evening star., 1921-08-28
THE STORY THE WEEK. HAS: TOLD


tional economic life 1t 10 necessary to develop
free commercial intercourse between town and
country, and in particular to revise the none
tary system. Therefore, measures must be
taken not only to develop goods exchange as q
medium Of local trade. but also to inaugurate
within the limits Of possibility and expediency
the circulation and Of money a means
Of exchange" Section IL announces that
"henceforth. at least until economic restora-
ton is achieved the state Is unable to rehder
services free Of charge to anybody" (From
translation in the New York Times.)
Throughout the decree repeated emphasis Is
laid on the important function Of the labor
unions in the "remodelng Of the national life."
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.-The tax
revision bill passed the House on the goth.
Near the end Of trial flight the great
drigible ZR-2, which had been constructed in
England for the American Navy. buckled and
split In two over the river Humber. Terrific
explosions rent the two parts. and sixteen
Americans and twenty-seven Britons
killed; only five Of those who made the trip
survived.
On Wednesday night Congress took
cess. 1t will reassemble September 21
Final action on the conference report the
Campbell-Willis anti-beer bill goes over till
after the recess. but at the last moment the
Senate passed the bill extending for three
months the dye embargo and voted the confer
Finance Corporation act. which extends the
credit scope of the act in the agricultural in
terest.
picturesque episode which threatened
tragic consequences has happily been cut short.
The miners who were marching from Marmet
to Mingo. in West Virginia, to protest against
martial law. yielding to the persuasion of GER
tain mine leaders whom Gen. Bandholtz rep
resenting the federal government, had duly i'm
pressed have turned back Gen. Bandholtz has
reported to Washington that the situation does
not warrant sending Of federal troops. The
country would be gratified by a complete set
tlement Of the disputes in that section
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MIscELLANEoUs.-Th spaniards. now in
adequate numbers. continue to recover ground
In the Spanish zone of Morocco, defeating the
tribesmen. SO lately everywhere victorious.
According to Greek reports. the main Greek
forces have forced the passage of the Sakaria
river and pushing thence toward An
CORA; q Greek column crossing the Salt desert
> south Of the bend Of the Sakaria has hanked
the Turks and crushed their left wing: Greek
forces have been landed near EregM on the
Black sea: the Turks are offering desperate
resistance.
The Emir Fasal, son of King Hussein of
Hejaz. ascended the throne of Irak or Meso-
potamta, on August %. That very able man.
Sir Percy Cox. the British high commissioner
In Mesopotamia. read a proclamation announc-
sA6 OAAeASH ASSoSHitIOu O1 new KING This
piece Of ng-making is very displeasing to the
French. and will not help toward that entente
OF the British and French concerning the mid
die and near east. than which there are few
things more to be desired in the world today
dispatch from Harbin contradicts the re-
port Of last week of the overthrow of the Chita
government (the government Of the far east
ern republic). So. then. the negotiations begun
some time since according to dispatches). be-
tween the Toxic and Chita governments may be
still In process. a negotiation said to contem-
plate Japanese evacuation Of Siberia But
rumor never omits to vaguely mention large
concessions and binding guarantees as the price
Of independence"
The Hoangho. or Yellow river ("china's
sorrow" the old chronicles call it, has over
flowed its banks and flooded considerable dis
tricts OF the province Of Shantung. and thousands
OF poor wretches who p few months since saw
their crops destroyed BY drought now see their
promising new crops destroyed by flood.
Panama. bowling to the ultimatum of our
government, has ordered her troops out Of the
district Of coto. but bitterly protests our in
justice.