Evening star., 1922-11-19
"It's thoroughly does it." thinks Mussoltni,
but conceivably one might be too thorough

tHQTOuBuly QOe8 II, luiuhe
but concevably one might be too thorough.
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Turkey.-Having asked for British protec-
tion and conveyance away from Constan-
tinople, where he feared attempts on his life,
Mohammed vi (ex-sultan Of Turkey. but still
CaIiph of Islam) was received on board
British warship and taken to Malta on Fri
day. Mohammcd declines to consider him.
self deposed as sultan. but even the Brit
ish imagine. accept the actions OF the An
CORA assembly regarding. the sultanate. APP
parently the Angora assembly considers him
still technically caliph. pending the selection
made soon and despite the fact that that
body has ordered his trial tpresumaby s stdy.on as
servience to Britain: Mohammed took with
who may some day become Turkish Bonny
Prince Charles It is to be hoped that the
wife. Wife a circassian beauty. who has been his
chief consolation In these latter days.
tom They have See never en- an refused asyum to
political refugee. and, besides this general
claim has partieular claims ms
do but accord him asylum. On the other
hand the act of mercy doubtless has enraEed
situation at Constantinople, which had grown
calm after the Angora government, continu-
authorities there. found itself up against a
stone wall. There is Paris rumor that the
British propose to set Mohammed up in style
as caliph in some Islamic center. in opposi-
tion to Angora's appointee. in the hope of
ing with fire, for It might wen work out just
AS I remarked above the week at constan-
incident of consequence. except the flight of
aso ahs has r been calm
and in eastern Thrace. All eyes are now fixed
on L1sanne' where the gease conference is
Poincare and Mussolini are to meet before
the opening Of the conference. with view to
the allies will agree and hold loyalty by their
pledges is devoutly to be wished. but, in view
of the past, seeing is believing.
Exypt-The Zaghloulists and the even more
extreme nationalists in Egypt have, it is
ported. insisted on a program which contem-
plates in chief the following: Dethronement
of King Fuad. denial to England of any re-
served rights in Egypt return of the ex-
khedive. Abbas Hilmy: the Sudan to be under
Egyptian rule. naturalization of the Suez
of the dissertation of temporal power from
the conception of the caliphate.
MiscelIane0ua-Not only has the date of
opening of the proposed Brussels economic
conference been Indefinitely postponed, but it
is even doubtful whether the conference will
be held at ALL 1t was planned, the reader
will remember, to thoroughly re-examne at
the proposed conference the entire reparations
problem in connection with that of interallied
debts.
Chopin's Funeral March has been synco-
pated to fox-trot time for the delectation of
the mad Parisians
Another Portuguese cabinet has quit-but
the country is placid this time.
The American Relief Administration is re-
suming work in Austria. chiefly for the relief
of the professional and middle classes.
The national assembly Of the Far Eastern
Republic has asked for union with Moscow.
No doubt the request will graciously be
granted. So ends the long g-drawn-out farce of
the independence of eastern Siberia =.
At least 200 lives (perhaps many more)
have been lost on the chilean coast through
earthquake and tidal wave. There was great
damage and destruction to shipping, towns
and countryside.