Evening star., 1925-12-06

On Friday the Senate passed the
Dill, 200 to 26. and it is now law.
1t Is obvious that Brands support
from the Chamber Right was none too
generous. and for this he has to thank
the Radical Socialists, who. by threat
enlns to withdraw their support. pre-
vented his broadening the cabinet as
ne wished. The new cabinet is fur
ther TO the Right than it's predecessor.
only by the inclusion of the veteran
Georges LeyEues as minister of ma
rine and Paul Jourdain as minister of
pensions. Patnleve is minister of war
ana reJolces in the opportunity to put
ti,iousn MS Scheme for reorga nization
of the army.
reports cause a doubt whether the
french made progress during the past
week toward getting insurgency in
syria under control or the opposite is
true. Another fiare-up in Damascus
seems to be feared. The new French
nigh commissioner for Syria, Henri de
1ouVenel, has reached his post.
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Spain.-On December 8 a royal de-
cree abolished the military directorate
which had governed Spain since Sep
tember. 1923, and restored civilian
government. The head of the new
government is Gen. Primo de Rivera
VINO was president of the military
directorate, and all the members are
drawn from the Patriotic Union. This
new political party is said to have a
membership OF over a million and a
quarter, all ardent supporters of Gen.
Primo de Rivera 1t was organized
by Primo de Rivera to carry forward
under "a restored regime of constitu
tfonal normality" the program of the
military directorate
What is that program? 1t may be
said to include the following:
(a) An end to separatism, but pro-
motion, within due limits, of com
munal and municipal autonomy and
"regionalism.'
(b) An end to communism. syndi-
calism. anarchism and such like
'isms."
c) Rehabilitation Of the fisc, finance,
industry, trade and agriculture.
I'D Satisfactory settlement of the
Moroccan question.
(e) Deracination of Caciauismo and
drastic purgatiOn of the body polite.
Notable progress has been made to-
ward realization of that program
more, l think, than the modest
Harques has himself claimed. But it
was only the other day that he rightly
declared: THE road of publication
stretches far ahead" We await fur
ther developments with extreme curl
osity.
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Germany.-The Locarno instruments
were signed on December 1 in the
superb great hall Of the foreign office
in London. On the previous day the
logical consequence of Locarno" be-
gan to be visible as allied evacuation
Of the Cologne area commenced. On
December l the civil administration
Of the Coblenz and Mainz areas was
turned over practically in totp) to
Germany, and a beginning was made
toward rendering the allied military
occupation Of those areas as nsarlv
J invisible as possible, this involving a
very great reduction Of the strength
Of the occupying forces.
One hears that 500 British Tommies
are taking German wives home with
them from Cologne-a logical conse-
quence Of the occupation.
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Greece and Bulgaria.-The League
Of Nations commission appointed to
investigate and report on the recent
row between Greece and Bulgaria
finds Greece guilty and recommends
that she be required to pay to Bull
garia the following sums:
The equivalent of S73, 1000 as indem-
nifty for killing or wounding of Bull
garian military, and the equivalent Of
$146,00 as indemnity for material