Evening star., 1923-09-02

IreI4nd.-lrish parliamentary elections were
held on August %. The votes have not all been
counted. but there seems no doubt that the
government party will have a handsome plu-
rality of seats and that they will have enough
support from independents. laborites and farm
ers to give them two-to-one majority on es-
sential issues the anti-treaty republi-
cans should the latter take their seats, which
they have sworn not 10 do The following well
known republicans elected De Valera.
the Countess Markiewcz. Miss MacSwiney.
Dan Breen and Mrs. Charles Burgess. Robert
sated and is now III jail) defeated. Cieorge
Gayan Duffy another signer Of the he. !reat{
the Free state. but who resigned AND became
anfaitpd an The only one Of the five signsrs Of
the treaty who Will be a member of the
parliament, is Edward Duggan. government
candidate.
German..--TAe attention properly given
the Greco italian situation compels post
pone thorough discussion of the weeks de-
velopment Of Chancellor Stresemann's pro
gram OF rehabilitation 1t looks ct may not be
su) as though Stresemann had tackled job
too big for him. Spite Of his tall talk. Herr
uilicrding. the finance minister, does not
to be able to extract from the bloated capi
talists the gold he needs for importations Of
food and raw materials. They are 'passivel>
resisting"
Without the gold equivalent gold values
thereW be no carrying on. Gathering fresh
speed, the mark has tobogganed to the value
OF one-twelve- -milionth of dollar. one hears
that unemployment is increasing by awful
strides, that factories are closing down by the
hundreds. that strikes multiply. that the gap
between the wage received and The minimum 1!.I
family subsistence wage Is ever widening MI
ferding ''s engaged on the problem Of the is
sue of a new stable currency" Quick about It.
Herr IIiferding. The Leipzig fair opens III
deepest gloom.
doings all over Germany today. Sedan da!
Hitler of course, leader OF the Bararian fas-
istic coup "if in MIA all over the
reich others of the same kidney were busied
and ready-to strike III the general situation
strate with heaven--kissng oratory. multitudt-
nous bla-e OF brass and infinite potatons. To
troops modified for counter demonstrations.
A good deal Of water has passed under the
bridge since that little affair at Sedan
y = x Z
Greece-On August %, they motor
ing from Janina to Santi Quaranta in Epirus
(former Turkish villa, yet Of Janina), the five
italian members, including attached persons
of the interallied commission for the delimi
taticn OF the Albanian frontier G.e. the from
tier between Greece and Aibania), were shot
dead from ambush AS the bodies not
d.spoiIed it is a reasona bic Inference that the
motive of the deed was insane nationalisrn II
was committed Greek soil. but very near
blood between the Greeks and the Italians,
especially over the question Of northern Ep-
rus. 1t cannot be said, on the other hand. that
the Albanians entertain any especial affection
the Italians But a powerful reason toE
suspecting Greeks rather than Albanians of
the deed lies in the fact that II was circulated
abroad that the interallied commission had de-
cided to modify to the disadvantage Of Greece
the frontier established by the London con
ians, moreover, aliege that the Greek govern
ment has been spreading through northern