Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-26

cere. But perhaps, after all, a king is
the ticket for Albania in her present
stage of evolution. Politically Albania
has everything to learn.
And now we hear, responding
promptly to the vox populi and without
waiting for action by the Constituent
| Assembly, yesterday Ahmed Hogu as
sumed the crown
Il u n
Grecce.--In the general elections Just
held in Greece the reorganiged Liberal
party, headed by Venizelos won 22a of
| the $50 seats in the new Chamber. The
| Royalists won Is seats: the Pangalos
party, the Progressive. 3. and the In
dependents. 3. Excepting Tsaldaris, but
including Metaxas all the Royalist
leaders were defeated for election and
| Metaxas has announced his retirement
from political life IT the elections were
held honestly and there was no serious
Royalist boycott, the result is astonish-
ing beyond precedent even in Greece
where politically the astonishing should
not cause establishment In the late
Chamber 1877 seats were held by Repub-
licans, ZIG by Royalists
The Belgrade press comments COM
| placently on the VeniZelos victory. as
3erting that VenizeloS Is pro- French and
by the same token anti Italian. whence
"Mussolini's Balkan aspirations are
nipped in the bud" Moreover. Venizelos
| has a conspicuous record for concilia-
tory effort toward inter- Balkan har~
mony. II will be recalled that in 1912
he united the Christian Balkan peoples
| against Turkey, One of the blanks In
his recent election platform was good
| relations with JugoslaVia and friendly
settlement OF the vexed Saloniki aues-
| ton, II will be recalled that lust be-
fore Gen Kondyes overthrow Dictator
Pangalos. a Greco-Jugoslav general
| treaty involving settlement of that
| question was at point of contamination
| the which, with the institution of the
new regime. went into the discard.
China. Extreme caution Is indicated
| III undertaking to interpret the new
development immediately involving In
ner Mongolia and the northern most of
the three Manchurian proVinceS~~-name~
~. the Province OF Heilunchiang Tor
the Amur ProvinceD. The other day II
body of Mongol cavalry from Inner
Mongolia raided into western Heilung-
chang and cut the Chinese Eastern
Inner Mongolia is regarded by Nam
king as IL territory of the Chinese Re-
public. 1t Is regarded by Japan as II
Japanese sphere of Influenza sort of
outer Manchuria; IT. Is regarded by
Moscow as n future member OF the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republic OF
which union Moscow considers the So
Wet Republic of Outer Mongolia tn be
In effect though not as yet formally a
member Report has 1t that the raiding
cavalry Is headed by Russian to wit,
one Gen SulkotfSky. and the report is
probably correct.
Foreign Aid Seen.
1t is now long ago that the Mongols
of Mongolia ceased TO show any initla-
tive, IT they are on the Warpath, 1t Ia
natural inference that It's by foreign
| Indictment and under foreign leader
| ship. The Russian commander of these
| Mongois might be a Muscovite agent
| working on the understanding that he
will he duly rewarded II the project
| succeeds, repudiated II 1t tailsl aiming
al union of Inner Mongolia with Outer
Mongolia MS the Soviet Republic of the
| Two Mongolias. In which case the OBJ
leet In cutting the railroad would be
obvious Coneeiyahly the Joining up of
| Heilungehiang with the two Mongolias
| might be part Of the seheme),
Or the Russian commander might
| be White Russian agent Of Toxic
| stirring up trouble Of Red aspect
! which khQuld requlSe Japanese lnters