Evening star., 1924-11-09
The Story the Week Has Told

The negotiations looking to a trade
agreement with Germany have been re-
newcd.
Spnin.-There was a meeting in
Madrid the other day of sundry Span
iards high in place and influence
prior to the regime OF the military di-
rectorate, at which meeting most violent
speeches were made against the di-
| rectorate. But the police broke in, ar
rested the protestants and put 'em in
Quod. According to the report of this
matter. almost every one of consequence
in Spain who has evinced disapproval
of the military protectorate is now in
agitation for a republic Unfortunately,
we get little news of Spain, as the CEN
sorship is clapped down hard
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Turkey.-A plausible dispatch, con-
fr-matory Of previous reports, reaches
US, the which declares that opposition
to Mustapha Kemars policies is making
head in Turkey menacingly; opposition
in chief to his economic policy which,
its critics allege. is resulting in the eco
nomic isolation of Turkey. the whiting
of her foreign trade, the withdrawal of
foreign interests and consequent lack of
the capital essential to the reconstruc-
ton of Turkey. 1t may, indeed, be, as
one often hears, that GhaZi kemal
Pasha does not possess genius for the
tasks of peace at all. comparable to his
brilliant genius for war. The leader of
the opposition appears to be Raouf
Bey, one-time premier.
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ArAbia.-It was thought that on
| the abdication of old Husein of the
throne of the HejaZ and of the khali-
| fate (the assumption Of which latter
dignity by Husein stunk in the nos
trils not of the Wahhabis only, but of
most Islamites) Ibn Sa'ud, Emir of
Nejd, and his Wahhabis might be
persuaded, on receiving a ransom, to
| return to their cases. But they have
| turned deaf ear to the terms offered
by Ali, Husein's son and his success
sor as King Of the. Hejaz Having
taken Mecca (and dealt with it one
knows not howl, they are now on
their way to besiege King Ali in
Jidda, the port of Sacred Mecca.
One hears that H. ST. J. B. Phillby,
the renowned explorer of Arabia, and
now political adviser to the Emir of
| TranSjordania, King Ali'S brother, has
just arrived in Jidda, with the hope
Of persuading Ibn Sa'ud to have a
! heart"
Phillby is an old friend OF Ibn
Sa'ud. The latest from Arabia is that
Ibn Sa'ud has summoned a pan
Islamic congress to be held at Mecca.
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On November Wu Pei Flu, with a
cred the inadequate force left by wu
Pei Flu on the Manchurian border of
| Chihli to hold him and sent a portion
of his army to the assistance of the
| traitor Feng Yu Hsiang, the Chris
| tian general" The combined forces
of Feng Hsiang and Chang Tso Lin
were quite too much for WI Pei Flu
whose army melted away.
!. CSina.-Chang Tso Lin overpow-
small detachment, took shipping; pre-
sumably for some Yangtze port. If ii
| be true, as one hears, that the
Yangtze tuchuns are heartily loyal
to Wu Pei Flu, he is by no means
done for, and may retrieve his fallen
fortunes. They tried to send him re-
Inducements, arrival of which might
have enabled him to handle Feng Yu
Hsiang, but railroad approach was
blocked by the latter. 1t is interest
| ing to, learn, and n fact of impor-
tance, that the Chilli troops were
most reluctant to give up the strug-
gle on behalf of WI Pei Flu; we hear
moreover, that the Chinese navy has
remained faithful to him.
Some kind of provisional govern.
ment Of an ostensibly legal bouquet