Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-26
BY HENRY w. BUM.


THF following Is a brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
l. seven days ended December
rs:
France.-A FRENCH court-martial
has found Lieut.. Rouzier of the
French occupying army innocent and
six German civilians guilty In con-
nection with the affair of September
at Germersheim, in which the lieuten-
ant attacked, as he asserts. and act
| ing in self.defense) killed one German
civilian and wounded two others. OF
course, the German nationalist press
challenges the verdict as purely polit.
ical and wholly unjust, and bases on
the affair a furious demand that the
occupation end at once. What's more,
the rest of the German press joins In
the challenge, and it is possible that
a serious check to Franco German rap
prochement may grow out OF the
business. This much seems certain,
whatever the fact in the Rouzier
case, that at the time it occurred
provocative agents OF the extreme
German Nationalist were trying to
create incidents" in the occupied ter
ritory.
Just as had completed the above.
the report arrived that President
Doumergue had pardoned the con-
victed Germans. 1t is to be hoped
that this action happily closes the
incident.
On December 8, after discussion
of only 81 days, the chamber voted
Poincare's 1927 budget, which con.
templates revenue OF 4O.0O0.OOO.0O
francs and calls for an expenditure
of 81, 1884, 000, 900 francs.
On the 18th the Senate passed it.
and it was enacted: the first French
budget to be voted before Christmas
since about 40 years ago. A very
great achievement, this of Potncare's.
And now what?
Italy.-It would seem that with
all uuietness the French government
! has made certain military and naval
dispositions against the possibility OF
+! embodiment with Italy. Character
| istically, the Giornale d'Itala. un'
derstood to be Mussolinfs special or
| gan. declares that France is the cause
| of Jugoslav artificial excitement" In
connection with the Albanian
| treaty. 1t claims. moreover, to have
proofs that the French and JugOslav
| general stats are in close cahoot
that France Is furnishing Jugoslavia
with arms and ammunition through
Belgium and more in the same silly
sort.
It will be recalled that the Italian
government recently fioated a loan
with both compulsory and voluntary
| features. But, volunteers not forth
coming, compulsion was applied as to
the voluntary" part, and this in q
manner which impresses some critics
as peculiarly irritating, peculiarly
ant to arouse resentment in a proud
people. One report declares that II
| has aroused resentment to a dan
gerous degree.
| There is a story going about to the
effect that Mussolini approached
Stresemann with the suggestion OF
an Italo- German treaty scarcely con
sistent with the spirit of Locarno, and
that Stresemann honorably rebuffed
the Duce.
Five hundred and twenty-five Ter
sons regarded as hostile to Fascismc
have been designated by the Fascist
Igovernment for forced domicile.'
The Fascist press finds in the small
ness of the number touching proof
of the Caesarian clemency and mag
nanimity of the Duce.
lin consistory at the Vatican the Pope
made this extraordinary importan
reference to Fascismo: I'VE again SEE
q conception Of State making head
way which Is not a Catholic concep
ton because IL makes the State al
end unto itself and citizens mer'