Evening star., 1922-03-26
The Story the Week Has Told

reasonable security to considerations of ex-
treme economy; those who do not wish the
Important provisions of the national defense
act or the Navy reduced below the efficient
War for for
the summer camp training of 10000 reserve
officers <about haIf " the number commissioned
tc date) and 10000 men Of the enlisted re-
serve. The House appropriations committee
cut the figure down to s25oooo. and the House
be much training this summer. The $4,000
officers still required Or the organized reserve:
likely, under such policy, to be Forthcoming.
The anti-evolutionists in the Kentucky house
posed to prohibit the teaching of Darwinism,
Atheism. Agnosticisn. lnfidelity, and Evolu-
schools and colleges Of Kentucky. T Though
the liSins iSi Darwin vi was noted for his eauanim-
squeak and eibber" a little ~ no '''''0
The New jersey legislature. having ratified
the, the federal & pr prohibition % amsndment there re-
necticut. which have not ratified
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The British Emplre.-Field Marshal Sir
Henry Wilson. formerly chief of the imperial
general staff. now representing Ulster In the
house of commons. is bitterly fighting the gov
ernments proposals for reduction of the mill
tary forces. He contends. not without plausi-
bility. that the critical situations in Ireland
India and Egypt, and the menace of soviet
Russia quite serious as ever in his opin-
ion) cry out for policy of caution. for meas
of security. The government proposes
total of 215.0o0 men, including the Indian
colonial and mandate establishments
The disorders in Belfast and on the border
between the Free State and Ulster increase.
The southerners attribute the border situation
to the Belfast atrocities chief blame for which
There Is this much to be said in support of
that charge: That the number Of Catholics
than the number Of Protestants They say in
Dublin that 1t is only by way of just retalia-
of the twenty-six counties or Ulster Catholics
of the six counties), harry and snipe and
ever the cause or the rights and wrongs of
the situation. there seems to be a continuous
state OF petty warfare on the border and the
doings in Belfast are enough to disgust
kurd.
convention twas arranged for today. the 26th
and that Griffith. discovering behind that
singular proposal plot of extremists to seize
control of the army. forbade the meeting. The
extremists thereupon quite openly proclaimed
that the meeting would be held. Griffith. Col
standing: that they had so per cent of the
army behind them. and that the convention
would repudiate the army's allegiance to the
dali eireann and elect an executive for the
army: Then. as the song goes "whack for the
A dispatch just states that Lloyd George
has teiegraphed Michael Collins. head of the
r a@es rag OF he % sr
ing them to go to London to confer
with the British cabinet. with view to avert
ing real war, which obviously threatens.
Viscount Peel. grandson Of Sir Robert, sue
ceeds Mr.. Montagu as secretary of state for
India. Gandhi. the leader of the opera
tion movement in India, has been tried and
has been sentenced to six years imprison-
ment without hard labor The news seems to
have been received stolidly by the Indian
people, but the captain and crew of the Indian
ship of state had best have the vessel ready
for squalls.
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sent to the German government note de-
fining the measures of reform. etc. Germany
must set afoot prior to May 81. and the ma
chinery Of control and supervision to be set
up by the commission in connection with these
measures. continuance of the greatly reduced
schedule of German payments being condi-