Evening star., 1927-10-16
BY HENRY w. BUM.

TIME following is brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
Il seven days ended october Is:
The British Empire.-On
Friday four British flying boats
started from the harbor of Felixstowe,
England, for cruise, to include In
dia (the shores to be skirted), Singa-
pore and Australia. The craft are
''supermarines, with all-metal hulls,
each fitted with two Napier-Lion en-
gines of 400 horsepower. The enter
prise is regarded as the first formal
step toward creation of an empire
wide seaplane service.
On Tuesday Mrs. Dorothy Logan,
a London physician. swan the Eng
lish Channel in 13 hours IL minutes,
beating Miss Ederle's time (the previ-
Gus woman's record, and finishing
"fresh as lark" Mrs. Logan is the
fourth Of her sex to swim the ditch,
the others being the Americans, Miss
Ederle and Mrs. Carson, and Miss
Mercedes GleitZe, a London typist,
who did the trick on the 7th of this
month.
Bobbed hair has been forbidden to
maid servants of Buckingham Palace.
The issue will be watched with in
terest.
Edward S. Hardness of New York.
already sufficiently known for other
great benefactions, has given $780,
600 to st. Andrews University, Scot.
land.
The new Dali Eireann, sixth Dali in
six years. assembled on Tuesday in
Dublin. There are 1873 members. Mr..
CosSrave was reelected, 76 to 70, presi.
dent of the executive council. The new
cabinet Is the same as the old with
one exception, namely. Fitzgerald Kin
ny, the new minister of justice. 1t is
reported that practical merger has
been effected between the government
party and the farmers party.
At Calcutta the other day. In the
presence of Sir Ronald himself. Lord
Lytton, governor of Bengal, unveiled
gateway commemorative of the dis.
covery by Sir Ronald Ross of the mos
quito transmission of malaria. Above
the arch Is a bronze medallion of Sir
Ronald To the left is an inscription
stating that in a small laboratory near
the gateway Sir Ronald made his
great discovery. To the right is in
scribed the poem, (of a singular poign'
ancy) Sir Ronald composed the day
he clinched that discovery. In a
speech of acknowledgment Sir Ronald
| paid due honor to the Frenchman. AL
| phonse Laveran, who discovered the
malaria parasite.
| This years Canadian wheat crop
promises to be the second largest of
of record. and crops of other grains
promise correspondence or better.
Canada is the leading wheat-exporting
country in the world. Last year she
exported 322. .000. 900 bushels as against
the United States. 10000 900, ~Argen-
| tina, 48. 1000, 900; India. II 900 900; Aus
tralia, 10000
The estimate Of this years crop is
about 459 900 900 bushels tan average
Weld per acre sown of 20.4 bushels)
!, as against the 1923 record crop of 474,.
100000.
France.-Our Government has dis
patched another note to Paris in the
Franco-American tariff controversy
Its contents have not officially been
disclosed. but the following digested
from an alleged summary in the
press, will probably be found to ap.
proach accuracy. 1t reiterates the un.
willingness of our Government to ne.
gotiate on the reciprocity basis toward
a commercial treaty, but states the
willingness OF our Government to