Evening star., 1925-06-21

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mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended June 20:
Amundsen.-Theg great news
item of the week Is the arrival back,
| on June Is. at Kings Bay, West Spitz'
bergen Zone of the Spitzbergen Island
groups) of all six members of the
| Amundsen party. who just four weeks
| before had hoped off from Kings
Bay. pointed for the North Pole.
The following is the barest outline
of their experiences, pieced together
from the earliest reports.
Either because bearings had been
| lost in a fog or because, through
retardation by head winds, almost half
the gasoline supply had been ex-
| hausted. The planes were dropped
| without mishap) on a lead" twater
| lane through drifting ice) at a point
| later ascertained to be 50 degrees
| 80 minutes N. or about 100 miles from
| the pole. Then a terrible mishap oc-
/ Cured. A sudden shift in the wind
froze the lead and both Of the fragile
! crafts were threatened with destruc-
| ton. 1t was decided to abandon one
There followed a period of terrific
| labor-smoothing a surface for taking
| off from the ice, a hazardous business
| at best. But at last Amundsen S
| famous luck came to the rescue. A
| lead opened by great effort. the saved
| plane was launched and of flew the
| overloaded craft. 1t descended of
| North Cape, northeast land, an is
land of the Spitzbergen group. east
of West Spitzbergen. A sealer took
| the party aboard with the plane in
| tow and carried them to Kings Bay.
1t is doubtful that with leadership
less resourceful or intrepid than that
of Amundsen the party could have
escaped destruction.
BY this adventure Amundsen has
not enhanced-that could scarcely be
his reputation s hero. but he has
fully sustained and justified 1t.
| United States of America.-Senator
La Toilette is dead. President Cool
idge leaves Washington on Tuesday
for his Summer White House" a,
Swampscott, Mass.
The two ships of the Macmillan
Arctic expedition left Wiscasset, Me.
yesterday.
One hears with pleasure that young
Mr.. Scopes has turned down offers
Iaggregating $150,000 from moving pic
ture outfits and syndicates. But real
ly, the devil Is not playing fair.
Daniel Guggenheim has given $500.
600 to New York University for the
establishment of a school of aero
nautics. Mr.. Guggenheim thinks he
foresees a mighty economic future for
aeronauticS.
The other day Miss Gertrude Ederle
aged II, swan the 81 miles from the
Battery. New York City. to Sandy
Hook in hours IL minutes 80 sec
onds, beating the mems record, anc
finishing fresh and jolly, a most
notable physical achievement.
IreIand.-The Irish Free State min
lister of commerce gives the lie direc'
and absolute to reports alleging fam
inc conditions in the Free State.
| He says there is no famine and tina
the crop prospects are first class. He
would likewise have it known tina
there is no longer any shooting re
gardless" in Ireland. the country i!
entirely at peace. Moreover, the rail
road service is as good as the con
tinentaI ones. False tales about Ire
land, he says, have diverted large par
of the expected tourist stream.
The Moroccan War. - Not much
fighting. apparently during the past
week between the French and Add -el
Krim's followers, less than in the
Spanish zone between the Rifenos and
the Spaniards. Painleve, the French
by airplane on the 11th and left Rabat
by airplane on the 18th. Meantime
he inspected the war front and con
ferred at length with Marshal Lyau
tey, the Sultan of Morocco and others
Appearing before the French chamber
on the 10th, he merely stated his salts
faction with Marshal Lyautey's dis
positions and his resolve to push the
war vigorously with such collabora
ton as the Spaniards might give. He
would, he said. unbosom himself fully
to the interested" chamber commits
sions pledged to secrecy. He refused a
vociferous Communist demand for ar
Interpolation, and his refusal was
sustained, 436 to "a. But on this oc
casion only 25 Socialists voted for the
government. "a not voting.
The Socialists are. In fact, debating
!. whether or no they shall finally an
noOnCe WITHDRAWAL or their support
of the government.
So shattering the Left bloc which
} came into being in May, 1924. dissent
ing as they do from the governments
J Moroccan policy and in party from 1t:
, financial policy they still. for exam
pie. banker for a capital levy, which
is anathema TO Caillaux). Should tn,
Socialists decide to disrupt the bloc
would the Painleve government carry
on?
, Apparently they have decided not t.
, break with the government on tn,
Moroccan issue, at least for the pres
I ent.
: A conference on Moroccan matter,
between representatives of the French
, and Spanish governments began a
Madrid on the 18th. 1t is reported
! that a joint Franco Spanish nava
, blockade to prevent further SNUG
Cling to Abd-el-Krim of the enginer1
OF war is already on.
| \ X X
Germany ct al.-The French renI,
to the German proposals of Februar-
3, for Rhine security pact, was de