Evening star., 1925-08-09

," HE following is a brief sum-
mary Of the most important
news Of the world for the
i seven days ended August 8:
The British Empire. - On
Thursday the Commons, by 351 to IS.
voted a subvention of ten million
pounds for the coal-mining industry.
The trend of British trade grows
more and more unfavorable. Official
statistics show the adverse balance
for the fist half of this year as
207. 500 900 pounds. against 135, $780, 900
pounds for the first half of 1924.
The pessimists predict that ere long
the invisible exports" will cease to
bridge the gap between visible i'm
ports and exports; that Britain will
soon be living on her capital.
The pig iron output of Britain in
June was $4,000 tons. as against
574700 in May, 1925, and 900 in
June, 1924. The steel output in June
was 585, 400 tons. as against 651,500
in June, 1924. There were 148 fur
naces in blast at the end of June, as
against 1877 at the end Of May and 1s7
a year previous.
The Commons approved by a ma
jority of 127 the naval replacement
program of the admiralty. That pro-
gram calls for the construction of
seven cruisers of not more than 10000
tons each within the next two years,
and thereafter of three such cruisers
annually; and for the annual con-
struction, beginning with 1927, of nine
destroyers and six submarines.
Great Britain has now In all 1875
destroyers, but it is claimed that at
least half of them are obsolescent.
She has fewer submarines than either
the United States or Japan. The
British designer will be- hard put to
1t to surpass the new French and
Japanese destroyer designs and
Japanese cruiser designs.
Christ Church College, Oxford, has
Just celebrated the 400th anniversary
of it's founding by Cardinal Wolsey.
King George, in his capacity of wis
itor of Christ Church." presided over
the chief ceremonies. The chapel
dts tower designed by Sir Christopher
Wren and containing the great bell
Tom" dedicated to ST. Thomas Of
Canterbury and originally cast at the
time of that worthy's martyrdom) is,
of course, one of the most beautiful
things in the world.
The Earl of Reading, viceroy of
India, home in England on leave, has
for many weeks been in close consul.
tation with Lord Birkenhead, secre-
tary of state for India, concerning
India act of 1919, which established
the dyarchy system, granting a
measure of self-government to India
and contemplating an extension there
of in 1929, should the experiment
have justified it. AS all the world
knows, the experiment has not proved
successful In the central provinces or
Bengal, thanks to the Swarajists.
But Lord Reading seems to entertain
strong hope that within the next
four years the Indian Liberals or Mod
crates will gain the upper hand and
so make possible not merely continu-
ance (the wisdom of which has been
bitterly challenged), but also discreet
extension of the experiment.
Sen Gupta Das has succeeded the
late c. r. Das as leader of the
Swarajists and appears to be no less
intransigent than his predecessor.
For quite sufficient reasons the
to January, 1927. Rumor has it that
Lord Reading has converted Lord
Birkenhead from very skepticel to
a moderately hopeful attitude toward
the "dyarchy."
any.-"Liquidation" of the
SHINES industrial empire proceeds
apace. One hears that British and
American capitalists are buying heav-
lily. The great SHINES combine
started from Muelheim-on-the-Ru
on its career of economic conquest:
shorn of it's conquests, it returns to
Muelheim- -on-the- e-Ruhr and the origi-
nal business of coal, iron and
Rhine transport, business great
enough u be sure. but modest in the