Evening star., 1922-06-04
The Story the Week Has Told

three wounded. Republican army detachments
f"dissidents'') continue to raid across the
border. numbering and running.
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tsermaay.-on May 2s the German govern
ment dispatched note to the reparations
commission. accepting the commissions latest
terms without. 1t would seem. significant
reservations.
& The reparations commission has formally
declared the German note to be satisfactory
and there should be no danger of "ruction"
out of the reparations question during the re-
mainder of the calendar year. The commits
sion, however, In it's note expressly reserves
the right to take appropriate action should
Germany not fulfill the engagements she has
subscribed and declares that failure of the
project OF an international loan would not be
accepted as excuse for default.
The partial moratorium for the year 1922,
hitherto only Professionally conceded, is
confirmed. on condition that Germany comes
up to time.
Presumably the bankers committee will now
arrange for an international loan to Germany
The general opinion seems to be that the
great difficulties. An announcement by the
committee that a very great reduction of the
prove insuperable difficulty
Italy, Gabrielle D'Annunzio entertained
Tchitcherin at his villa on Lake Garda on
May %. in great state An escort of legion
aries attended the great Russian. a guard of
honor of Arditi, drawn up on the lawn, pre-
sented arms on his arrival; from fagpole
waved the banner of the regency of Quarnero
In a crimson field. golden serpent encircling
the polar constellation. Tchitcherin stayed
the night and left at am
DAnnunzio is president of a shipping COM
pany which is looking for trade with Russia
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Hungnry.-Elections to new Hungarian
assembly were held in part of Hungary on
May 2s. and in the rest of the country
June l.
OF the eighty-one districts in which voting
was held on May %. the Horthy candidates
carried seventy four and the legitimists (the
supporters of the claims of Prince Otto. the
eldest son of ex-king Karl. recently demised)
only two. which is, of course, absurd: If the
elections were intended to register the peo-
Piles wishes. But the elections were not So
intended by Horthy. They were intended by
him to return parliament packed in the
elections. Regent Horthy displayed boldness
and ingenuity hardly paralelied In these latter
DAYS. The new assembly is to frame a con-
stitution and settle the question of the sue
cession to the throne: the the Hungarians lung ian, want @
farther-Horthys their man. the real thing
of the old school.
China.-Hsu Shih-Chang has resigned the
presidency and has retired to private life.
The acting premier. Mr.. Chow Tzu-Chi (an
old hand in politics), is temporarily perform
ing the duties of president
The ajority of the old parliament are now
assembled at Tientsn and expect to move to
Peking shortly. They have urged the mem
bers of that parliament who form the rump
parliament at Canton to join the main body
at Peking. They have notified Gen. Lii Yuan
Hung. who (under pressure) resigned the
presidency when the old parliament il
legally dissolved by Tuan Chi-Jui in 1917.
that he is their choice for president AS soon
as they established at Peking they will
formally elect him. These doings have :ke
approval of care doubtless inspired ty) WI
Pei-Fu, who. however, declares that
as the re-established parliament has things
well in hand. he will willingly "efface him
self" If that is desired.
Sun Yat-Sen. president of the Canton
public. is behaving foolishly. He has been
urged to efface himself. in the interest of Chi
nese unity, by the Peking government, by