Evening star., 1923-09-16
The Story the Week Has Told

murderers and the legal proceedings, should
search bear fruit The commission must re-
port to the conference by September 81. BY
that date the Greek government will or will
not have satisfied the commission as to the
prosecuted measures looking to the bringing
of the murderers to justice, and in case of
satisfaction the chapter Of moral reparations
viii be closed on that date.
Strangely, the ambassadors proposals were
silent as to Italian evacuation of Corfu, and the
adjacent islands. merely noting the assur-
ance given by the Italian government that the
accepting the ambassadors proposals the Greek
government asked for immediate evacuation
matter. declared he would hold the islands
until the murderers had been punished. This
course. might mean the ides OF Aprii: as as f the
vously unsatisfactory. Finally. the 13th.
Mussolini consented to eVacante the ISLANDS on
should the committee mentioned above find
the Greek government in default in respect
Italy, in addition to the indemnity awarded
by the world court the costs of the occupation
of the islands and further indemnity OF
80, 900, 900 lire. Announcement of its adoption
of this solution" by the conference is presumed
whether or no Mussolini was moved in
yielding on the Corfu issue by the desire to
rid himself of other embarrassments before
trying conclusions with Jugoslavia on the
Fiume issue is interesting speculation.
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United states of fAmerica.-Twenty- three
listed men were drowned and thirteen were
badly injured when seven United States Navy
destroyers struck on the rocks off Point Ar
guello seventy-fVe miles north of Santa Bar
bara, Calf. on the night of September g.
About hundred men were rescued or
saved themselves The destroyers making
twenty knots in a dense fog when the leading
vessel struck. There was a strong tide, and
the other vessels piled up one after another
within two or three minutes.
The report of the board of inquiry will be
awaited with interest, pending publication OF
which may only conjecture why destroyer
squadron IL should have been so far off its
course.
or the wrecked vessels probably one--the
Chaunccy-can be completely salvaged: only
The squadron leadcr-the Delphy-is a COM
plete loss According to "A mysteriOusly belated
dispatch just received. the number of torpedo
boats which grounded was nine instead or
seven, hut two got off with comparatively
minor injuries and continued their course.
In commenting last week on the recent
trial transcontinentaI flights conducted by
the air mail service ] spoke though there
were transcontinental air mail service in
i'm operation for Il considerable time, and
markably efficient one, but confined to daylight
flights During the last twelve months 1t was
96.75 per cent and during July 1856 per cent
efficient. The recent tests were of continuous
day and night flying.
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MisceIIaneous.--Tho Irish Free State ad-
mitted to the league of nations on September
10. The British delegation led in the felicita-
tious President Cosgrove. who present.
Discussion of the German situation must g"
over to next week. Most people say Stresemanu
will some say he wont-that is. in the near
future, order cessation of passive resistance.
But until he does, absolutely nothing doing,
saws VI. Poincare.
The report cited in my last summary that
the German ambassador to Belgium, with
drawn at the beginning of the Ruhr occupa-
tion, had been sent back to Brussels, seems to
have been incorrect
The hunger phase in the devastated district
of Japan is happily past