Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23


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France.-The recent elections TO MI
one third of the seats in the French
Senate resulted in gain oil
for the Left as a whole, negligible;
not appreciably affecting Poincare's
position. 1t is, however, signif1cant
that considerable gains were made
by the Extreme Left, largely at the
expense of the Moderate Left. The
Unified Socialists won 10 additional
seats without losing any and tor
the first time, / believe) a Cum
munist finds himself Senator. The
Radical Socialists won new seats.
but lost II old ones.
The distinguished De Selves, pres
ident of the Senate, was defeated Tor
re- election, and so was Millerand.
Barthou. Clementel and CaillauX
were reelected and Raoul Peret,
president of the Chamber, becomes
Senator. Louis Klotz, Clemen-
ceau's henchman, was defeated Ana
here is another significant fact. A
Unified Socialist, M. Bouisson, has
been elected president of the Cham
Der in succession to Peret, defeating
the Nationalist candidate, the re-
doubtable Maginot, 2S4 to 1856.
the past two years, and in that
capacity has pleased all parties by
his combination of dignity, tact and
good humor With some plausibility
the contest for the presidency of the
Chamber has been described as one
between Poincarists and the BRAND
lists ESQ aligned with respect of for
eign policy, the Briandists winning.
M. Bouisson is the first Unified So
cialist to hold his office.
The French senatorial term is 9
years. The eminent Paul Doumer
has been elected President of the
Senate in succession to De Selves.
Insurrection still exists in Syria.
Germany.-Dr Curtius of the Peo-
pies party having been defeated in
his effort to construct Bourgeois
bloc cabinet Democrats, Centrists,
German and Bavarian Populists and
Nationalists, Nationalist predominant
ing), DIR. Marx tried to form another
Little Coalition" cabinet Same as
above minus the Nationalists)5- which
should enjoy Socialist support without
Socialist participation. Having an
nounced failure, he was thereupon
requested by the president to essay
| the task vainly attempted by DIR.
| Curtius; namely, formation Of
| Bourgeois bloc cabinet. At the same
time the president appealed to the
parties concerned to compose their
| differences and get together for the
good of the Fatherland.
DIR. Marx is at work.
| China.-The Chinese situation is now
| of an interest and importance so great
| as to be almost exclusive.
| / remarked last week on the uncer-
tainty concerning the attitude of WI
| Pei Flu. 1t would appear that a de-
| tachment of his army has been assist
| ing Yen Hsi Shan, Tuchun of Shansi,
| in resisting the advance of Quomn-
chun 0he army headed by Feng Yu
| HSiang, the Christian General') into
| Honan Province, and that the allied
| forces have effectively halted that
advance near Wen Hang In the nofth,
| west corner of Honan. Troops or
WI Pei Flu hold the western terminus
of the Lunghai Railroad at Ling Pao,
a little east of Wen Hang.
Cooperation between WI Pei Flu
and Yen Hsi Shan known as the
model governor was to be expected;
they are men of the same kidney, of
the Confucian breed, gentlemen of the
old school. 1t was to be expected, too,
that WI Pei Flu would act against
Feng Yu Hsiang, who betrayed him
and China in 1924. There might still,
however, be reason to doubt whether
WI Pei Flu would cooperate with
Chang Tso Lin and Sun Chuan Feng.
But, though the matter is not clear,
am inclined to infer that he has de-
cided to do so. According to a late
report, troops of Chang Tso Lin are
well on their way southwark through
fIonan to cooperate with Sun Chuar
| Feng.
Counselor; 0xadalleN. -oDAths .Rritlak