Evening star., 1924-08-10
The Story the Week Has Told

naturalized British subject, he was born
in the Ukraine, the son of a Polish gen.
tleman. The story of his career at sea
is one of the most romantic among the
lives Of literary men.
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Germany.-On August the London
conference reached agreement on the
essential points of the procedure to put
man government was invited to send a
delegation to join the conference. The
Germans arrived in London on August
5, and all hands are now hard at it.,
clarifying. adjusting, getting the ma
chinery of application of the Dawes re-
port into final shape.
Exigencies of space forbid me to dis
cuSS details prior to the end of the buSi-
ness. The most important feature of
the understandings reached to date is
dominance of the principle of arbitra-
ton. A very serious difficulty is pre-
eented by German insistence on early
military evacuation of the Ruhr and
German objection to retention (as pro-
posed by the French and Belgians for
obvious reasons) Of several thousand
French and Belgian railway men in the
occupied territory. These issues are
technically outside the purview Of the
deal directly with them). but apparently
satisfactory agreement anent the Dawes
plan presupposes their settlement and,
indeed. interest is centered in them at
the present. M. Herriot has gone to
Paris to consult the other members of
his cabinet and President Doumergue,
no doubt about these issues in par
ticular.
On June l., 1924, the German mer-
chant marine consisted of 1900 vessels
aggregating 2,600. 600 gross tons.
/ The ratio of unemployment in Ger
many is only one-tenth that in Great
Britain.
Greece.-In the palmy days of an
town north of the Euxne (now the
Black Sea) was Olbia. 1t is colony of
Miletus, fiourishing and rather fast" !;
situated near the mouth of the Borys-
themes (now the Dnieper). The site of
old Olbia ('Happy") is being explored
by Russian archeologists. They have
turned up many interesting things; not
least interesting. a vanity case complete.
with mirror, rouge stick. charcoal PEN
Gil, etc. The more women change the
more they remain the same. The archie.
ologists are recovering the past COM
pleteiy for US l expect that some day
they will turn up Ewes vanity case.
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Russia.-On August the negotia-
tions between the representatives OF
the London and Moscow governments,
which had been dragging out in Lon
don, for four. months, were broken of
on what ground or grounds does not
surely appear. The next day
through the personal Intervention OF
Premier Macdonald, they were re-
sumed, and that, evening Mr.. Poin-
sonby, British undersecretary of state
for foreign affairs, announced to the
Commons that agreement, had been
reached and that two treaties-a gen.
eraf treaty and commercial treaty
(to supercede the famous trade agree
ment)-wouid be signed on the 8th.
His disclosure of the main terms
of the treaties drew a violent and
contemptuous attack, not from
conservatives only. but also from
Lloyd: George, represeting the lib
erals. Lloyd George declared the
treaties "grotesque," no important
point in. issue being definitely settled
the liberal party would not ratify
The honorable gentleman" quoth
Lloyd George, sis going to sign some
thing: tomorrow, but he has not a
ghost Of an idea tonight what it is
The principal features of the gen.
eral treaty seem to be as follows:
While not proposing to repeal the
pudiated the debts of the czarist re-
gime, the soviet government excepts
from its operation the obligations to
British bondhoIders.@ The Soviet gov
ernment will negotiate with the bond
holders. This piece of information