Evening star., 1923-10-28
The Story the Week Has Told

government, which stated that 1t was willing
resume res m deliveries in kind but that. owing owing to
the effects of the Ruhr occupation, 1t was un-
has SO to o
the appearance Of a representative of Strese-
detail the position of his government.
VIII the commission grant Stresemann a
care accept such s desl.ons u It is a critical
situation, with most delicate nuances.
the situation in the Ruhr. ''' II unempioyment M @ me mt
Is as great as some reports aver. and IL Strese-
provision by the reich government of doles or
free food for the unemployed since the Goth
a helrs cauldron unless peradventure there are
municipal relief arrangements. adequate to
stave off disaster for the present There is
great conflict in the dispatches as to how fare
the negotiations between the occupying au-
7 In must na,sH wait for more Light on the Rphr.
1t noted, outside the reich.
Whatever the present condition: of the enter
has been managed without intelligence it OBJ
viously engages little popular support. and the
able may be the attitude of some local COM
manders, are not for 1T. The higher author
if established. could have but Brief @ life Il sand and
that its establishment would completely 'fbaIl
up the reparations problem and. ALLEVIATE the
British and Italians. I state the above eau
tio%siy; %say the IL latest accounts are fantas.c
In the Rhine palatinate. an appanage of
A palatinate republic has been proclaimed;
whether to be within without the reich. and
what what may be the present status of this ad-
There are a thousand other details of the
fdr nese ssh in
burg, Bremen and >northward. bloodily sup
Of the
tory recent attitude of red Saxony and red
the appontment of fosd al detstGr the bn peen
pears to be setting about his task with inter-
lfgence and firmness: the inexprsssible de-
moralization of the finances; much else.
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sPAIN-one hears without dissatisfaction
that Capt. Gen. Primo De Rivera, having dis
covered that he cannot carry on officially
without the aid of civilians with experience
of the intricate machinery of civil admins
tration. is about to alter his government ac-
cordngly.
De Rivera is said to be a man of common
sense and of a pretty humor 1t does not yet
appear whether he is merely the servant of
movement and by no means his own man, or
whether he is, so to speak, the movement. or,
at any rate. the prime mover: whether. in
simple language. he is the tail the dog
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TTALY-On October 81, the anniversary of
the contamination of fascist control in Italy,
there will be tremendous celebration in
Rome. Five hundred flying machines: incIud-
ing seapianes and airships. will evolute above
the sacred city, while thousands OF fascist
march past the tomb Of the unknown soldier.
At night the aircraft will enact an air raid
while anti-aircraft guns crackle multitude
nously.
The most interesting feature of the cele-
bration will be bonfire the Capitoline
hill of government securities sacrificed by the
holders TO the necessities of the state.
Whatever Mussolini's extravagances in the
foreign field. there Is denying that he has
accomplished splendid results in the domestic
economic field 1t looks as though he might
make the budget balance for the year.
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CHINA-"Alas." as Joseph Vances father
might have said, there is always "hinseck"
in the amber. 1 told last week of how Tsao
kun's new government made the whole
satisfactory" reply to the diplomats notes of