Evening star., 1925-10-11
The Story the Week Has Told

Of the Hejaz when Hussein was so
mad as to set up for .caliph. II tho
report as to the coming negotiation Is
correct, no doubt the British govern
ment has consented to participate
only at the urgency Of both parties
and after satisfying itself that such
participation will not afYront the gen.
eral sentiment of Islam.
United States. - The Shipping
Board has deposed Rear Admiral Leigh
c. Palmer from the presidency OF the
Emergency Fleet Corporation and
ley in his place. The sequel OF this
serious challenge to the administra-
ton will be watched, with interest.
Not the least important business or
the week was the convention Of the
American Federation of Labor at At
lantic City. The proposal OF Arthur
Purcell, q British guest. that the fed.
Grafton establish the closest fraternal
relations" with the workers OF soviet
Russia was not indorsed-quite the
contrary. Mr.. Purcell Is a member OF
Parliament.
On October 2 the airplane carrier
Lexington was launched at the Fore
River yards of the Bethlehem Ship
building Corporation. She is a sister
ship Of the Saratoga, launched last
April. both being converted from un-
completed armored cruisers, doomed
as such by the Washington confer
ence. Their displacement Is $4,000
tons length, 8Ss feet: speed, SO knots.
Each carries for main armament
eight S.inch guns. Each can accom-
modate 70 planes. They are far su-
perior to any other a1rplane carriers
afioat and apparently superior to any
others under construction or def
nitely projected.
Mfscella aneOus.-Auatole de Mohzie
has been appointed French minister
Of justice, succeeding NJ. Steeg, who
replaces Marshal Lyautey as resident
general in Morocco.
The French cereal harvest is almost
sufficient for domestic requirements.
The conference Of Locarno, looking
to British hFrench-Belgian-1 n Italian.
German security pact respecting the
frontiers between Germany on the one
hand and France and Belgium on the
other land perhaps. also. pacts re-
specting the German-CZechoslo and
German.P Polish frontiers), opened Oc-
toher 5. II will probably last sew,
eral weeks. Our information thereof
TO date is only vague and gossipy.
The overseas emigration from Ger.
many In 1924 amounted to only So
900 persons, as against 1l5 900 In 1923.
1t would seem that during his visit
to Berlin. Just completed. Chickerin
the Muscovite foreign minister, in
sured contamination Of the long
debated Russo-German commercial
treaty, secured German private credits
to a total Of one hundred million gold
marks to cover Soviet purchases OF
agricultural and industrial machinery
and made sure important German
collaboration toward realization OF
TTotsky's grand program Lenin' s
dream} Of Russian electrification.
I said. 1T would seem" 1t is just
possible that the reports cited above
are propagandishly exaggerative.)
The expedition to Palestine Of the
Musem of the University Of Pennsyl
Sania has unearthed at Beisan (the
scriptural Bethshan) the remains OF
temple cf the Goddess Ashtaroth
believed to he the very shrine in which
Saul hung his battle armour after
his victory Of Giiboa. The shrine is
said to contain an image of the god
dess, with bronze serpents, doves and
other sacred objects.