Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-31

asked for a vote of confidence. After
| four days of debate he got it by the
narrow margin of 10 votes; the Demo-
Gratis. Centrists. PoDulists peoples
| party and Bavarian PopuliSts (Ba-
| varian Peoples party) voting for the
| government; the Nationalist. En-
| treme Nationalists Ludendorffs fol-
| lowing) and Communists voting
against it, and the Socialists and
| members of the Economic Union
| (about II in number) abstaining in
| pursuance of a benevolent neutrality.
The vote was 100 to $50, those alb
staining numbering 131. The pre-
| seriousness of Luther's position is
wildly illustrated by the fact that of
| 81 absentees 10 are of the opposition,
only IL supporters of the government.
Perhaps the government was saved
by StreSemann'S last moment an
nouncement that the allies had def
| initely decided on January 81 as the
| date of termination of occupation of
| the Cologne area, and his reading a
note from the council of ambassa-
| doris, which, as the Germans inter-
pref. and l think rightly, practically
gives assurance that the number of
allied troops in the second and third
| zones will be reduced to $4,000 Cor a
close approximation thereto), as in
sisted on by the Germans Chat being
| the number of German troops gar
risoned there i'll pre-war days., "as
soon as the Locarno treaties come
| into effect"
Those treaties become effective on
German entry into the League of Ma
| tons. Germany has not yet applied
| for such entry; the hint is obvious.
Owing to the industrial depression
| railroad profits have markedly fallen
| off of late. For the same reason Ger
man revenue receipts are falling off,
| not exceeding calculations SO hand
somely as a while back.
Italy.-Count Volpi, the Italian
| minister of finance, and Winston
Churchill, British chancellor of the
exchequer, have signed an agreement
| fixing the terms of settlement of
| Italy's debt to Great Britain. Though
| a precise comparison could not be
| made without a very elaborate calcu-
| latlon, it seems fairly apparent that
| the British concessions are more gen.
erous than those made by us to Italy.
Apparently Britain stands to recover
considerably less than the principal
of the obligation contracted, whereas
we recover the full capital amount
and even get a trif1e of interest.
Some of the French journals OBJ
serve that the united states ana BTU
ain are more generous to the auto
cratic Fascist government than to the
genuinely democratic government of
France.
| China.-Latest advices seem to JUS
| tify the Interpretation / submitted
| last week of the recent Manchurian
development.
1t would seem that Moscow manu-
featured a major issue out of an in
| cident of friction between the Rus
sian officials of the Chinese Eastern
Railway and the Chinese authorities
| in the zone of the railway (subordi-
mated to Chang Tso-lin. super tuchun
| of Manchuria). the which difficulty
was capable Of easy adjustment. 1t
would seem that Moscow SO acted in
order to prevent Chang from prose-
cutting his plan of invading Chill
| probably in cooperation with WI
| Pei.fu, moving from the South. de
stroying the Kuominchun National
Peoples army, and ending the con-
troll by extreme radicals of the Picking
government, the which control has
been effected through the Kuomin-