Evening star., 1923-03-18
BY HENRY ". BUM.
T HE following is brief summary OF
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended March II:

The British Empire-sir Samuel ~Hoare.
British secretary Of state for air. told the
commons on the 14th Of how greatly Great
Britain is being outstrpped by France in the
air. Britain, he said. has only 371 frst-lne
airplanes as against 1850 French. Last year
200 semi military machines were manufac-
tured in Britain. against $500 In France.
chimes were abroad While ali the French
machines Were in France.
France Would have s1s7 military planes and
Britain only SIS; that is, according to present
plans.
Seven more Irish irresTlars we're executed
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Germnny-On the night OF March TO-
country road near the town of Buer. in the
upon the dead bodies of second lieutenant of
the Chasseurs Alpins and of the French
civilian stationmaster Of Buer. They had been
shot in the back by revolvers.
Buer was at once placed under strctest mar
tial law. The burgomaster, the assistant bur
gomaster the chief OF police and two other
prominent citizens of Buer were locked up
as hostages. and the municipality was ordered
under threat Of heavy penalties to find the
assassins and turn them over to the occupying
authorities. The French officer commanding in
the Recklinghausen district proclaimed that
should another assassination in that
district the five Buer hostages would be shot
at once.
On the night Of the 11th, at Buer, a small
detachment OF French gendarmes arrested a
former member of the security police and
another German suspected of the murders of
the previous night. and took them to a guard
house. The following is the French account
OF what ensued:
considerable crowd had gathered about
the suardhouse and. as the prisoners reached
its doorway, they leaped into the crowd, hon
ing to escape under it's cover. But the gen
Gssmes darn Ts were so9 quick and shot and killed
emerged and tried to force back the mob
which surged against them, but they were
command gave orders to fire the heads
Of the mob and finally. the latter continuing
10 press forward menacingly gave the
mand to fire into II. Five Germans fell dead
The Berlin government sent to Paris a sharp
note or protest against the measures taken
by the French in consequence of the Buer
murders. And, indeed, to an outsider, ar first
unwise: but, on reflection, one is not so sure
promptly upon the heels of those assassina-
tons the German propaganda machine pub
ltshed with a fat wallet of alleged testimony
the charge that French soldiers were the
assassns. but the inherent improbability of
the thing. apart it has been proved that the
E IT is to be noted that sundry attempts at
assassination had previously been made by
shooting from distance without effect. except
for the wounding of sentinel.
But the above was by no means the only
untoward incident of the week. On the night
lacked at Dortmund by armed Germans and
one of them was wounded; on the other hand,
one of the Germans was killed and two Were
wounded. Not only has sabotage increased.
but along the railways 1t has taken a
sinister character.
on the night OF the 18th two sections of rail