Evening star., 1925-10-18
The Story the Week Has Told

the native princes of India he was per
haps the most ardent In loyal service
to the British empire during the great
war. He furnished two regiments and
transport corps, which did fine work
in France. East Africa, Egypt and
Mesopotamia. He furnished the main
contribution to the equipment and
maintenance of the hospital ship 10y
atty, and made several other magnifi-
cent donations for promotion of the
allied cause and relief of the wars
victims. He was highly educated and
accomplished and most excellent
ruler, improving communications. eX-
tending irrigation. enforcing sanitary
measures. attending in every way the
happiness and prosperity of his sub
jects. He was d mighty man on the
polo field. Both oxford and Cambridge
conferred on him the doctorate of
laws. King George sent his personal
physician to attend him in his last
illness. The population of Gwalior is
about 1900, 900.
France-Another serious fiscal crisis
impends. The franc is falling, dropped
below % to the dollar on October IA.
The fate of the Painleve government
may depend on the decisions taken by
the Radical Socialist Congress, which
opened at Nice on the 18th. The Cham
ber reconvenes on October 21.
The Communists of France sched-
uled for October IL an uprising which
was to have for instant result boil
shevization of the country, but they
however, especially in the St. Denis
quarter of Paris, they made things
nasty for some hours. the total casual
ties being two Communists killed and
several score persons Communists and
police) more or less injured.
The fiasco was a bitter disappoint
ment to Zinoviev, and the Deputies
Cachin and Doriot. The latter two
gentlemen are now in quod.
The prolonged Franco Russian nego-
tiations regarding the Russian debt to
France have been vain. Russian Of
fers have been grotesquely inadequate.
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MOrOccO.-The rainy season is def
nitely on in Morocco. and earlier than
| usual. The French have advanced in
some force Gnfantry and artillery fol-
| lowing cavalry to within II miles, as
| the crow flies, of Ajdir, but despite
some dispatches it seems doubtful
that, in conjunction with the Span
| ish, they have made. or can make, the
! blockade of Abd-el-krim on the east
effective for the winter. one neaTS
| of a Riff attack, on the 18th on the
French position nearest Ajdir. beaten
| off, to be sure, but gloomily suggeS-
| tive. The Riffians continue to shell
| Tetuan from time to time.
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| Italy.-Mussolini wisely decided to
punish those responsible, whether by
| commission or omission, for the out
rageous affair in Florence of a week
or so ago, both the perpetrators of
| the Fascist "reprisals" and the au-
| thorities who failed to take the proper
| suppressive action. The prefect and
! the chief of police at Florence have
| been retired, the chief Of the Fascist
| organization at Florence has been dis
| missed from Office, a number of Fas-
cists have been expelled from the
party. the public prosecutor has been
| directed to prosecute with utmost
| severity those against whom there is
evidence of participation in the out
| RACES. etc.
The Ira took a slump on October
| IA on the London and New York mar
kets, falling to 25.05 to the dollar.
Russia.-Trotsky Is on sick report
again and has gone to the Caucasus
| to recuperate. His previous illness"
was largely POLITICAL; he was, in fact.
banished to the Crimea to do penance,
but this time he may well be really