Evening star., 1924-08-10

-HE following is brief summary
of the most important news Of
the world for the seven days
ended August 8: &.
The British Empire.-Sir James
Craig, premier Of Ulster. is still pros
trated by illness and the Marquis Of
Londonderry is acting premier. Mr..
Thomas, the British colonial secretary.
having failed to persuade the latter Gin
specting appointment of an Ulster men,
Der for the Irish boundary commission,
went to Dublin for conference with Mr..
Cosgrave, President of the Free State.
What happened at the conference has
not been disclosed. Mr. Cosgrave has
been pressing for immediate execution
of Article XII Of the London treaty of
1921 (Which created the Free State),
which article provides for determina-
tien Of the boundary between the Free
State and Ulster by a boundary commits
sion. (The reader is reminded that the
Ulster government refuses to appoint
an Ulster member Of the commission as
prescribed by the treaty. -.---
Mr.. Cosgrave has been urgent for
prompt action on the general grounds
that delay in this matter is jeopardizing
the life OF his government, and that fall
Of his government might completely un-
settle the -Anglo-Irish settlement. The
British government has equally valid
reasons for wishing to postpone parlia-
mentary action-its preoccupation with
the German question, hope for subsi-
dence, after an interval, Of passion on
the issue Of coercion Of Ulster now at
white heat in Parliament and the coun-
try, and hope that, II an interval is al
lowed, the Ulster government may in the
course Of it change it's mind.
Apparently Mr.. Cosgrave agreed not
to press for immediate action. On Au-
gust 6 the British government intro
duced a bill in the Commons providing
that, Subject to confirmation Of an
agreement by the British Parliament
and the Dali, the Northern Irish govern
ment's power to appoint commissioner
shall be- transferred to and exercised by
the British government. and for the pur.
pose of. Article XII Of the treaty any
commissioner SO appointed shall be
deemed to be a~oommissioner appointed
by the Northern Irish government"
(AsSociated Press.). .
Parliament is to reassemble a month
ahead Of the scheduled time-that is, on
September 80 instead Of October 2S-to
consider tho bill above cited.
1t Is all over with the gallant adven-
ture Of MacLaren, the British birdman,
who, flying eastward from London in
Vickers-vimy amphibian with two COM
panions, was contesting with our flyers
the honor of being the first to circum.
violate the globe. On July 80 MacI1aren
hoped or from Petropaviovsk, in Kam-
chatia, for Nikolsh on one Of the Com
way between Petropavlovsk and the
westernmost Of the Aleutian Islands
Forced to descend in a heavy fog, and
moving at the speed Of a hundred miles
per hour, he escaped hitting a rocky isle
by margin of only two feet He then
decided to make a. forced landing, but
in the process both .wing-tips and the
tail Of his machine were Smashed He
then taxied~ on for q bit. when another
little island, which proved to have a
sandy beach and to be inhabited, hove
in sight. The, plane was soon beached
and the adventure was ended, since,
though hull and engine Of the plane
were saivaged,. there were no spare
parts available. Had MacI.aren been
aided by the British government as our
world Myers have been aided by ours
he might have succeeded, He was more
beholden for help to our Navy, the Japa-
nese navy and the Canadian govern
ment Zone Of whose trawlers was fol-
lowing him UP from Petropavlovsk)
than to his own government.
Joseph Conrad, the great novelist,
died on August ut the age: Of 81. A