Evening star., 1922-12-24

received the combined votes of the radicals
and non-Poles in the national assembly (the
delegates Of Polish race than did his nearest
were very angry. especially against the non
Poles and most especially against the Jews.
casion of the inauguration Of the new presi-
dent in which four persons were killed and
was brief order was e Quickly and Gus compieteiy ]
restored and there seemed little likelihood of
on the 18TH while he was attending an
exhibition Of paintings. Narutowicz was shot
dead by an artist. 1t turns out however. that
crazy, so that the assassination has no vivid
political significance. On the 18th stanislaus
member OF the so-called piast party, a party
Of moderate farmers.
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Turkey.-Little progress has been made at
Lausanne this week. Indeed, It might seem
that there has been retrogression, rather 1t
was widely reported that Ismet Pasha had
accepted the allied program for the straits
only triflingly amended from its original
forms. with certain reservations, to be sure,
but udmportant and offering no bar to a
definite settlement. But the reservations are
not unimportant Ismet demands that the
straits commission shall have no right Of
supervision over the demiltarized land zones
and he demands guarantees for the safety of
Constantinople of a rigidity SURPRISING that
Of pre-Giotto Italian painting the attitude
Of our Anti-Saloon League. Very likely 1smets
fresh intransigence is assumed in order to
wrest concessions under other heads of nego-
tiation: but IT is none the less important on
that account.
when Ismet Pasha announced the intention Of
Turkey to join the league Of nations upon
Turkeys willingness that the treaty should
embody provisions relating to the minorities
visions relating to minorities in the post
war treaties Of Poland. Rumania. Jugoslavia,
etc etc But as the work Of drafting such pro-
their fresh intransieence is probably assumed
jects Of capitulations. Mosul. etc
1t is understood that Ismet has received
Not impossibly Representations from MOSCOW
partly inspired those orders
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Miscellaneous.-The Roman Catholic Cathe-
dral OF Quebec (the "Basilicia of the I'm
maculate Conception") was destroyed by fire
on December %. Part of the building dated
back to 1S47. Much Of precious historical
interest was destroyed
- The French senate. by 1855 to 1884, has re-
jected the bill which proposes to give the
vote to French women. The chamber had
passed it.
Italy is consuming more wine than ever
oeiore, venice being the most bibulous of
Italian cities. The per capita consumption of
wine IN Venice last year was 14o liters.
There is new premier at Peking, said to
lave been nominated by President Lii Yuan
Hung. under pressure from the militarists who
are again asserting themselves, under the
leadership of that old trimmer Tsao Kun,
" whom rumor declares to be hand in glove with
hang Tsao-Lin. the super-Tuchun Of Man
churia- The most evil-smelling feature Of the
situation Is the fact that nomination of the
new militarist premier "a hitherto obscure
yeneral) was almost unanimously approved by
he reconstructed parliament Tsao-Kun is
reported to be backed by the military groups
n sixteen provinces. and he is believed to
aspire to the presidency.
Mr.. Hanihara has been appointed Japanese
ambassador to Washington to succeed Baron
hidehara; an appointment very agreeable to
Americans who know Mr.. Hanihara