Evening star., 1928-12-31
FOREIGN

Great Britain pursued the even ten
or OF Its way, but was not in good
economic condition. The great num-
Der of the unemployed, especially in
the mining districts, led the govern
ment to try the experiment of help
ing many men to migrate to Canada
and Australia to engage in agricul-
tural work. This was successful to
limited extent, but did not especially
please the dominions. Early in the
year Parliament passed the woman S
franchise measure, known as the
"fiappers' bill," and thus about 5000
900 more women were given the vote
During the session of Parliament the
House rejected the prayer book reyi-
sion proposed by the authorities of
the Church of England, and Churchill
introduced a spectacular budgetary
scheme for reforming local govern
ment and relieving industrial depres-
sion. j. H. Whitley resigned as speak
or, and Capt. E. A. Fitzroy was elected
to succeed him. Attacks on the met
ropolitan police led to parliamentary
investigation and to the appointment
Of Lord Byng as commissioner.
King George contracted infiamma-
ton Of the lungs late in November
and his condition became SO alarm
ing that the Prince of Wales and his
brother, the Duke of Gloucester, hur-
riedly returned from a hunting trip
in Africa. His majesty appointed a
royal commission, headed by the
Queen, to act for him during his
illness.
Archbishop Resigns
DR.. Randall Thomas Davidson,
Archbishop of Canterbury and primate
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resigning in July, and DIR. Cosmo
Lang, Archbishop of York, was ap-
pointed to take the place. The Earl of
Birkenhead resigned as secretary of
state for India and was succeeded by
ViScount Peel. On February l James
Mcneil was installed as governor gen.
eral of the Irish Free state. Perhaps
the most interesting event in the en-
pire, outside of Great Britain, was
the decisive defeat of prohibition in
New South Wales and Canberra, the
federal district of Australia. In No.
vember the South African cabinet of
Premier Hertzog resigned and he
formed a new government.
France, as always, devoted an enor-
nous amount of attention to politics.
Premier Poincare held power through
out the year. In the elections on
April %, he won decided victory,
and when he resigned in November he
was persuaded to retain Office and
form a new ministry. The radical
Socialists were recalcitrant and Poin-
care left them .out of his government
The tenth anniversary found France
in a gratifying state of rehabilitation
Most of the farm homes and buildings
had been rebuilt, the flooded coal
mines had been restored to production
and factories had been restored and
all were busy. The franc had been
stabilized and the foreign trade show
ed a large increase. Unemployment
was almost non-existent. The Com
munists created disturbances during
the Summer in Limoges, Troyes and
Ivry, but were effectually suppressed
Several Alsatian autonomists were
convicted in May and sentenced tc
prison, but President Doumergue par
doned them. Scandals attending the
,, granting of divorces by the Paris
courts to Americans led to reforms
in the procedure OF those tribunals.
Germany ON Upgrade.
Germany, laboring under the burden
of the reparations payments, was said
| by her Ambassador to Washington t6
b, distinctly on the upgrade. This