Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

Guglielmo Marconi, waiting in room
of disused barracks on Signal Hill.
st. Johns, Newfoundland, received
the first wireless signal transmitted
across the ocean. ut is" says the
great scientist, "a pleasing coincidence
that almost exactly on the twenty
fifth anniversary of the transmission
of the first wireless transoceanic sig
nal have brought to fruition an
other far-reaching development in
long distance wireless communica-
ton by the establishment of short
wave stations, which practically
constitutes a revolution in wireless
communication" And now, good peo-
pie, for television.
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Lithuania.-Dispatc state that
Lithuania has a dictator in the person
Of ex-President Smetana, who on
Friday, supported by the army, or the
greater part thereof, seized the pow
err, casting Premier SleZevicius and
his cabinet into quod. Explanations
differ as to the motives impelling
Smetana to this course. but the most
generally accepted one is that the
chief motive was detestation of the
Muscovite orientation Of the SleZe-
vicius government. Further comment
on this business had best be post
poned until the dust has subsidized and
the fact can be isolated from the mass
Of rumors.
Geneva.--So another obstacle block.
ing the path to the millennium has
been leveled. The Council Of the
League OF Nations met at Geneva on
December and adjourned December
IL, having spent the interval almost
exclusively in discussion Of two ques-
tons; should date be set for with
drawal from Germany of the Interal-
lied Commission of Military Control,
and, If so, what date? What should
be the nature Of League supervision
to supercede that by the Interallied
Commission, when or If the latter
should be withdrawn? The Council
found an answer to the latter ques-
ton, deciding that a standing commit
tee Of experts headed by a French
general should hold itself in readiness
to enter Germany and make special
investigation whenever ordered to do
so by the Council upon Judgment of
specific allegation Of German offend
ing under the disarmament provisions
of the treaty. See article 213 OF the
treaty."
The Council or Ambassadors at
Paris, acquiescing in representations
by Marshal Foch, informed the
League Council that it could not
recommend withdrawal Of the Interal-
lied Commission, seeing that German
fulflllment of the disarmament clauses
of the treaty was lacking in two i'm
portant particulars; two instances of
fragrant positive offending. Namely,
certain Notifications lat Koenigsburg,
Kuestrein and elsewhere" over against
Poland had been greatly added to and
improved, and Germany had been
and was exporting very considerable
quantities of partly finished war ma
terial-especially to Russia and
Sweden-the latter obviously a
species of evasion with unlimited pos
sibilities unless effectively dealt with.
The League Council, as a council,
threw up their hands in despair and
adjourned, but the most important of
the Council members, namely, the
representatives of France, Great Brit
ain. Germany, Italy, Belgium and ia
pam" stayed on at Geneva in confer
ence, and within "a hours had
achieved a settlement as follows:
The Interallied Commission of Mill.
tary Control will be withdrawn from
Germany on January 81. next. from