Evening star., 1924-08-03

the new admiral of the British fleet.
He served in the battle of Jutland.
Once more anxiety is felt about
Stuart MacLaren, the British world
flyer. On July "a he flew from Para
musir Island in the Kurilcs to Pet
of him since he jumped off from
PetropavloVsk date thereof not
given in dispatches).
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Gcrmany.-A dispatch informs US
that the interallied commission of
military control in Germany has
broken off relations with the German
government, and has reported the
many reasons therefor to the repara-
tions commission. The following rea-
son would alone seem sufficient
Namely, that Gen. Won Seeckt, Ger
man minister of war and head of the
Reichswehr, demanded that the COM
mission give forty-eight hours notice
before inspecting any military plant
or organization. and further demand
ed that the commits post a state
ment wherever they might inspect
that the general inspection in process
is the last allied inspection ever to
be made. The commits SSion reports that
the German war department has been
in the custom of granting long leaves
of absence on full pay, on the grand
scale. to officers and commission
ed officers. the places of those absent
being filled by Others; the old Stein
Scharnhorst scheme.
BuIgaria.-If certain reports are to
be credited, agents of the Communist
International are furiously plotting
organizing and propagandizing in
Bulgaria, with a view to great
communist-peasant uprising against
ting up of a Bolshevist government
at Sofia: Sofia then to become the
center, whence Boishevist blessings
shall radiate to the rest of the Bal
kan peninsula. Being in doubt myself,
l refrain from advising the reader
as the amount of salt "indicated' for
seasoning such dispatches.
The Bulgarian brigands seem to
have transferred their attentions
from the Serbian to the Greek bor-
summary execution of nineteen of
these gentlemen by Greek troops pa
trolling the border. and rumor has 1t
that Athens threatens the march of
a Greek army on Sofia, unless Sofia
takes the proper steps.
Persia.-The incident of the murder
at Teheran of Robert w. Imbrie, vice
consul of the United States in. that
city, has perplexing side issues
which have yet to be cleared up. 1t
seems established that Maj. Imbrie
with companion Malvin Seymour
who escaped with painful injurfes)
was attacked by a fanatical mob. One
familiar with the religious atmos-
phere of Persia quite understands the
action of the mob, if reports are cor
rect, as to their suspicious of our
countrymen. But who put the idea
in their added pates that Maj. I'm
brie and Mai, Seymour had poisoned
a sacred fountain or committed some
other horrible sacrilegious deed, and
what motive could he have for so act
ing? A more important diplomatic
aspect of the matter is presented as
follows in the note on the affair from
our government to the Persian gov
ernment: THE facts before the
United States Government do not in
dicate that the police or military au-
thorities made any adequate effort
to protect the American consular rep
resentatiyes, and there appears, in
fact. to be evidence that certain mill
tary elements participated in the
assault
The incident, is, of course, very en-
barrassing to the Persian govern
ment, which, under the very able
premier, Ria Khan, is trying to
guide the country through an acute
ly critical period. and which is above
all else anxious to stand in we'll with