Evening star., 1923-09-23
BY HENRY W. BUM.

HE following is brief summary
OF the most important news of the
world for the. seven days ended Sep
tember %.
The League of Nations.-The league as
sembly must be a little disappointed at having
received only two applications for mem
bershp in the league-those of Ireland and
Abyssinia. 1t was hoped that Mexico who
should now be considered to have the entree to
the very best society, would apply But Turkey
to fall all over herself applying for admis-
sion. At the commencement of the negotiations
of admission to the league was held out to
Turkey as tempting bate in the hope that
tensions. 1t didn't work. 1t concevabiy might
be questioned whether Turkey. a member.
would greatly add to the moral prestige of
the league but there's no doubt she would
appreciably raise the average of pedal tenn
perature.
The other day the Persian chief delegate
told the assembly that the people of the east
is it earnest. they ask themselves. Especially
are they. perturbed by the attitude of the
spurn league jurisdiction of the disputes in
which they are involved? BY discreet circum-
Corfu but his meaning was clear. The league
champions showed great nervousness; their
weird accompaniment to the honeyed speech
Every few minutes Augustin Edwards of
has much to learn from South America, which.
he says. really believes in arbitration and real
The time Of the assembly is largely taken
up in debating one by one the articles OF the
proposed treaty of mutual assistance" which
is going to end war and (no doubt this time)
bring in the millennium
x x x X
The British Empire.-After all. the British
government has decided to inform the soviet
government that Rokovsky viii be acceptable
Russian trade agent in London. The capacity
of the gas bags of our ZR-1 falls short
of at of RokoVsky hV several thousand cuhic
feet
>' The new parliament of the Irish Free State
was opened on September 10. None of the
forty-four republicans elected eighteen are in
jaiD appeared to take their seats.
One hears of more and more clashes some
bloody, between Hindus and Mohamm edans.
and between Shiite and Sunite Mohammedans.
profess Hinduism in another of it's
many varieties The shiites and the sunites are
members of the two great divisions OF Mo-
hammedanism. There was seemed to be.
only the other day. something in the nature
Of a rapprcchement between Hindus and Mo-
hammedans. children of common hatred
Oargely blind and whipped up by agitators) of
religious sentiments are far stronger than the
sentiment of common nationality. and that
the ancient hatreds of rival religions and sets
asserting themselves again, and the more
vigorously for having been unnaturally held
the British. but. since the British very
human. one doubts that it does
Germnny-I again postpone discussion of
the German situation Stresemann is isn't
about to order cessation of passive resistance
To this the dispatches boil down.
X x x x
spnin.-The new government is sailing along
serenely etesian gales and clear navigation
The national directorate consists of nine gem
erals (each of the nine regiones of Spain is
represented), and the admiral of the navy.
Capt Gen. De Rivera represents Catalonia and
is president Of the directorate and boss of
the show. The king. however, is allowed to sit