The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-11-27

emorial to Dr. Sun Yat-Sen on Purple n
out and get storm risk data'-that is
all right" the admiral testified. IF
the motive is to pass over fair grounds,
it is all wrong"
"In view of the loss of the Shenan-
doah, what is your view Of the motive
in that case?" he was asked.
"It did not seem to me correct at
ALL"
Capt Anton Heinen, the Zeppelin
expert from Germany, was asked about
the reduction Of the Shenandoah's au-
tomato safey valves from IS to 10, and
replied: "If had known that before
the Shenandoah made her fatal fight
everybody may rest assured that
would have kicked up a hell of row.
The effect of the reduction of the
valves was to reduce the safety Of the
ship from 100 per cent to zero. It
made the Shenandoah absolutely I'M
SAFE"
DREMIER MUSSOLINI, now more
L than ever the master of Italy,
opened the new session Of parliament
with remarkable address in which
he presented his budget Of new laws
which, he frankly declared, were in
tended to do away with the present
parliamentary form Of government,
inadequate for modern life," and to
replace 1t with FaScism. He said it
was impossible to hinder Fascism
from the interior, and he warned all
other nations that If menaces to his
planned regime came from abroad the
Italian nation would arise as one man.
The deputies were given the tip not to
waste much time in discussing the
proposition because Fascist discipline
would not tolerate it.
Chief Of Mussolini's new measures
are these:
1. A law to establish the ancient
podesto instead of mayors, which gives
the central government control even
of the local political machines.
2. A law increasing the powers of
the premier not only over every
department of the government, but
even not allowing the order of the day
to be discussed in the chamber with
out his approval.
8. A law providing for confscation
Of property and deprivation of the
citizenship for Italians abroad "calum-
nizing' Italy or its government.
4. A law creating cooperative
boards of arbitration between capital
and labor.
The premier also has called on all
the Italian people to subscribe toward
the payment Of the debt to the United
States, the funding arrangement for
which was signed in Washington.
American bankers evidently approve
of Italy's condition and prospects, for
group Of them. headed by J. P. Nor
gan g. Co., last week arranged loan
to the Italian government of 500, OOQ,-
600 to assist in the restoration Of the
gold standard and to retire the $780,
100000 credit extended by Morgan to
three Italian banks of issue last June
for sterilization of the lirae The loan
will take the form of bonds bearing in
terest at the rate of per cent.
CONDITIONS in Syria are going
~ from bad to worse, from the French
standpoint for the rebellious Druses
are growing in strength and last week
shifted the scene Of their greatest
activity to the Lebanon region. The
French had armed a large body Of
Christian volunteers there, but these
were badly defeated by the Druses,
who captured number of towns and
q vast amount of loot. Sidon, on the
Syrian coast, was threatened and the
American missionaries there asked
that a warship be sent from Beirut.
PRACTICALLY without opposition
the British house of commons rati-
fed the Locarno treaties. Mr.. Cham
berlain, in opening the perfunctory de-
bate, dissipated the fear that Great
Britain would be committed by the
pacts to so to war against its wishes.
Replying to the charge that Russia
had not been brought into the League
of Nations at Locarno, he said the
fault, if any. lay with Russia and not
with the western powers. 'The Rus
sian government" he continued. SIS
not prepared to join the league on any
terms whatever, its fundamental OBJ
lection being that the league is a So
ciety of nations based on a system
which is not compatible with the view
Of the soviet government of what the
world should be-"