Evening star., 1923-05-27
BY HENRY w. BUNN.
HE following is a brief summary OF
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended May 26:

for the seven days ended May 26:
The British Empirc.-On May 20, conf
PEELED thereto by Ill health, Bonar Law re-
signed as premier of Great Britain. Stanley
Baldwin succeeds him. Lord Robert Cecil en-
ters the new cabinet lord privy seal,
post In itself OF dignity rather than of i'm
portance, but it is obvious how important is
the inclusion of Lord Robert in the cabinet
in whatever capacity
Stanley Baldwin retains for the present the
post of chancellor of the exchequer, but 1t is
rumored that Reginald McKenna has been
offered it, and, having doffed his liberal coat,
He He is recovering from an Illness Except for for
Importantly differ from the old
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France.-On the cath Poincare and his
cabinet waited upon President Millerand and
submitted their designations for the reason
that the senate, sitting high court, had
refused to try Marcel Cachin and other COM
munist deputies for sedtion. The president
refused to accept the resignations and after
a long conference they were withdrawn. The
senate formally decided that the matter be-
rssSeryhed for its its saIain % 6Tt lbs is
eRpIaned % by the desre to avoid da the 20 great
political commotion that might grow cut of
The communists will be tried by an ordinary
court
nation followed shortly upon one of Poin-
cares greatest triumphs in the chamber. when.
his usual forcefulness, he restated the aims
of his Ruhr policy, and his resolution to
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Gcrmnny.-On May % the mark descended
to $1,000 to the dollar the previous lowest
was $4,000. 1t trails tho Polish mark
Five persons were killed and perhaps
seventy persons wounded May %
in conflicts in Dortmund and vicinity between
strikers. workmen and police when police
undertook to disperse mass meetings at which
crease of wages to meet the increased cost
Of living, The strike Is att attributed to n com
At Gelsenkirchen, on the 24th. eleven per
were killed and upward of seventy were
wounded in fighting between communists and
aided by the fire department Under direction
of a communist food control commission"
making so per cent profit. communist cen
turies' undertook to force a so per cent re-
gleefully proceeding take advantage of this
roe opee e e doo4s and %
trbuted the wares. Then the citizens self
ness once started the sequence is inevitable.
After long and desperate struggle the COM
occupying troops observed complete neutrality.
1t is to be remarked that there was no police
months ago. the security police were disband-
ed the occupying authorities authorized the
formation of municipal police force in Gel
senkirchen. provided they were furnished the
roster thereof This the municipal authorities
At last report the communists still lorded it
in the town At Essen, too. and Bochum and
indeed. throughout the Ruhr, the communists
agitating violently. 1t is reported that
the German government has asked permission
of the French authorities to send adequately
armed German police into the Ruhr. Unfor-
tunately, the communists have plausible
pretext for their activities in the cruel cost
of living. which is due mostly to profteering
with which vile crime the reich and Prussian
authorities have made earnest effort to
deal.
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Italy.-The other day the chief fascista lead
er at Naples resigned from the fascista party.