Evening star., 1925-02-01

Bizerta, in Tunis. The report was in
correct.
Poincare declined to turn the fleet
over TO the bolshevist government
and the question OF its disposition is
now the subject of renewed conyer-
satlon between Paris and Moscow,
Gen. kuropa tkin, Russian com
mander-in-chief in the Russo-Jap-
anese war, is dead
q y X
Japan-1t IS reported that among
the chief provisions of the Russo.
Japanese treaty signed the other dav
arter negotiations which had heen
carried on intermittently over more
than three years, are the following:
Japan gets 45-year lease of so
per cent of the oil. timber and coal
properties of northern Sakhalin.
Russia expresses regret for the
Nikolaievsk affair.
3-The Portsmouth treaty is recox-
nized
Japan will withdraw her troops
from Sakhalin by May 15 of this year
o-The two countries agree to re-
frain from propaganda against each
other.
United States of Amerfca-Four
| more murders in Herrin, Williamson
County, Ill.
On January 80 the postal pay and
rate bill was passed by the Senate.
20 to 8. 1t calls for wage increa ses
annually totaling s6s,ooo, 900 and pro-
vfdes for postal revenue increases to
meet the increase of expenditure, but
the highest estimate of the total of
| those revenue increases is only s4s,-
600 hot
1t now Is before the House.
January 80 Federal jury in Chi
| cago found Col Charles r. Forbes.
formerly director OF the United
States Veterans Bureau, and John
w. Thompson, a wealthy contractor
| of st. Louis. guilty of conspiracy to
defraud the Government in the allo-
cation of contracts for veterans hos
pitals. The case will be appealed
NJ. Emile Daeschner, the new Am
bassador from France to the United
States, was formally received by
President Coolidge January 80.
In his speech accompanying the
presentation of his letters of cred
| ence NJ. Daeschner said, among other
things.
History has demonstrated that
France and America have in turn
extended to each other, at critical
| moments In their existence, mutual
and eflcacious assistance, thus pay
ing to each other their debt of graft
tude, just as they are firmly solicit
tous whenever the case arises of pay
| ing their material debts"
| In his speech Of reply President
Coolidge, glancing at the above
quoted passage, said significantly
enough:
81 appreciate your reference to the
uninterrupted friendship which has
existed between our countries since
| the birth Of the American nation.
The kindly suppEt which was re-
| ceived in our struggle for independ-
| ence developed into permanent
friendship, and it was the privilege
Of millions of young Americans to
fight side by side with the heroic SOL
diers of France in defense of lib
erty. Thus was paid the debt of
gratitude, and, as you SO rightly OBJ
| serve, both governments should ex-
perience deep satisfaction in their
solicitude that material debts should
! also be discharged. Friendship based
| upon clear understanding must and
will endure always"
Miscellaneous.
|
| eve on developments in the kingdom
| of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes,
| where Premier Pachitchs' very severe
manner of dealing with the political
opposition is of questionable wisdom.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of the
| Greek Orthodox Church has been ex-
PEELED from Constantinople, a matter
| of some Importance.
| In the fighting in the vicinity of
Shanghai Lu Yung Hsiang continues
to win. Both sides knocked off for
two days to celebrate the Chinese new
year.
Costa Rica has resigned from the
League of Nations, apparently be-
| cause Of irritation caused by criticism
Of her failure to pay her dues.
More rather fantastic political COM
pltcations in Chile.
The International Opium Conference
| at Geneva Is now getting on more
smoothly, and substantial accomplish
ment is in prospect.
An English professor has devised
an instrument whereby he can regis
ter the heat received from a girls
cheek three quarters of a mile away
| and the heat from candle four miles
away. The former il the more inter-