Evening star., 1923-09-02
The Story the Week Has Told

fouted the league. The comment of Pari-
sian newspaper seems to me to hit the case
That ..1lussolini allowed his emotion. JUS
tifiasly tina aroused by the assassination to 20
Corfu. 1t is to be noted. would make ideal
naval base for Italy, and at the peace confer
canese for that island. Can 1t he possible that
such consideration (subconsciously. let us
cedure?
Japan.--Admiral Count Yamamoto has been
invited by the prince regent to form a cabinet
According to the Associated Press dispatch
Prince Hirohito acted on the advice Of the
genro. But when Premier Takahashi resigned
Niscount K!youra president of the privy
ell, was associated with the genro In the selec.
ton OF his successor. Admiral Baron Kat"
ana probably though not certainly Count
Yamamoto were also consulted: the idea being.
it is plausibly asserted. to indicate the char
acter of the institution for selecting
preniers which must ere Long supersede the
council OF gezro. For there are only two OF
the genro Observation-Disclosures. who is nearing
ninety and Saionji, who. though somewhat
younge~, is feebler. Presumably one or more
persons were associated with the genro in
the selection Of Count Yamamoto.
The new institution WIN certainly include
the president of the privy council. and the
ably be ez-premierS, or persons OF Ike dis
tinc.ion.
;,ry 1s1s, to April, 1914 Ills ministry fell in
consequence Of what is sonnet times called tn"
navy scandal and sometimes the ''Sicmen's
;tffgir."-an obscure business.
That Court Iamamoto's personal honor was
not crmprtnised therein is sufficiently evi
Inited states oT America.--I think 1 may
properly assume that my readers have follow
ed closely the anthracite controversy. ] lack
space TO discuss it. The efforts of Gov. Pinchot
to prevent a strike fruitless, and The
rfly Gf midi nigbf 81 nj
Der I.
Our government has acknowledged the Oh
regon government OF Mexico. To be more pre-
else. August 81 the governments Of the
United States and Mexico simultaneously an
nGunetd tnetr c I" renew new
taking steps TO accredit formally their resper-
rient OF ambassadors. Here cndeth very in
tcresting chapter.
transcontnental relay flights conducted by thu
air mail service during the week ended August
@ fran ash aye sssed the r aa4
General of the feasibility Of rermanent
rapid of these flights made in &c hours
II minutes. beating by thirty-stx minutes the
Lieuts. Kelly and Macready of the Army in
nonstop flight. 1t is said: moreover that the
the civilian aviators were not.
OF course, complete conquest of meteorolos
cal obstacles to regularity. especially fog. IS
way ahead
Misc~IIan~ous.-The war with the tribesmen
in the Spanish Of Morocco continues -
absorb the youth Of Spain. That il is not pre-
cisely popular is proved by 4 mutny Of 1900
troops they were about 10 be embarked
at Malaga for Melilla.
The mutny quickly suppre essed and the
lnutineers we're forced aboard. At last il seems
that Spanish ralor is about to be rewarded.
The Spaniards now beginning to
and as the Moors have gas masks the gas
attacks are proving enormously destructive"
The evacuation of allied troops from Tur-
key, pursuant ratification by the Turkish
national assembly OF the Lausanne treaty. be
gan on August "A