Evening star., 1928-12-02
BY HENRY w. BUM.

(The following is a brief summary
of the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended De-
cember -.
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Great Britain.-The whole world is
deeply gratified to hear of marked i'm
provement in King Georges condition.
On November IA the Prince of Wales
started from point on the Uganda
Railway (Which runs through Kenya,
a British crown colony northwest from
MombaSsa on the Indian Ocean to
Lake Victoria) on a motor caravan
hunting trip which was to take him
south through Tanganyika territory
(under British mandate) to Broken
Hill Northern Rhodesia british crown
colony), where he was to board train
for Cape Town. But arriving at
Dodoma in Central Tanganyika, on the
railroad which runs west from Dar-Es-
Salaam on the Indian Ocean to Lake
Tanganyika, he received news by tele-
graph of King Georges illness. He
waited for five days at Dodoma, in con-
slant telegraphic touch with London,
and on the 9th telegraphed Pre-
mier Baldwin that he was starting
home. The Enterprise, fastest of Brit
ish cruisers, being at Alden, was ordered
by the admiralty to proceed at once to
-Es-Salaam, about 1,700 miles away.
The prince expected to leave Dar-
Es-Salaam today. The journey from
Oar -Salaam to London, by boat and
railway, should require about 10 days.
The birth rate of Great Britain in
1927 was lower than that Of any other
country in the world except Sweden.
The fall in the birth rate is partly due
to great extension of birth control, but
very largely also to the wars toll of
young marriageable men and the still
greater toll chow little is this realized)
taken of the same by the postwar
influenza epidemic.
AT last the British f1ivver has come
into its own, more than decade behind
the American flivver. The British fliv-
yer is much smaller contraption than
ours, but it is sturdy and admirably
suited to British conditions of terrain
and traffic, and is victorious over the
American flivver in the British market
being of low horsepower and so far less
| heavily taxed than the American fiivver.
But in the dominions and imperial de-
Tendencies the American f1ivver wins
being better suited to the conditions
No doubt however, in due course the
British manufacturers will challenge us
in the overseas markets.
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Spain.-Primo de Rivera, proposes to
| lay down in the very near future three
| 17,000-ton cruisers. to be armed with
| 10-inch guns. The idea cannot be
| pleasing to any Of the powers signatory
| to the washington naval limitation
| treaty, which have denied themselves
cruisers of tonnage above 10000 or
carrying guns greater than 8-inch. Why,
those three cruisers should be able to
sink the entire French merchant marine
and all the French naval surface ships
below the battleship class while showing
| clean heels to the battleShips. What
| troublesome people there are in the
| world, to be sure.
His eXcellency seems to have in mind
| Spanish maritime renaissance. Note
| how the other day a Spanish yard in
competition with British yards received
| the contract for building two large de-
| stroyers for the Argentine Navy. And
| recently Spain sent to the Grand Banks
of Newfoundland, the two largest steam
trawlerS ever built for the salt-fish
trade.
Hungary.-On November "a Arch
! duke Otto, eldest son of the late
Emperor of the Austro-H Hungarian En-
| pire and King of Hungary, became 16
years OF age, and so, according to law
Of that enaD1rs and thct kingdom. of