Evening star., 1928-04-08
By HENRY w. BUM.

% HE following is a brief summary
OF the most important news OF
the world for the seven days
II ended April 2.
The British Empire. On
Thursday the Ameer Amannllah OF
Afghanistan, his beautiful consort, and
his brilliant suite Of 25. ended their
three-week visit to England, The
Ameer was 10th TO go. He has mad
glorious time. had been tremendously
Impressed. Il feel" said he, that We
tthe British and Afghansl have come
TO know each other" He made hit
with the British.
Since the Conservatives returned 10
power in Great Britain, they have won
10 bye-Parliamentary election contests,
the Laborites have won IL, and the
Libsrals 4. This as Of date February
I51
Construction is soon TO begin (prob-
ably at Browns shipyard on the Clyde,
where the Lusitania was bu1lD OF a
Cunard liner 1000 feet long. ITO feet In
beam, of $4,000 gross tons, maximum
speed Of % knots, and an ordinary
cruising speed Of 26 knots. the motive
power to be turbo-electric. The keel
was laid the other day at the Harland
IL Wolfe shipyard at Belfast of ship
for the White Star Line OF approx
mately the same size as the Cunard
liner above mentioned; estimated cost,
$25. 200, ,000
Not the least notable OF flyers is Lady
Heath, who arrived at Cairo the other
day In a 30-horsepower plane, having
flown thither from Cape Town. She
is said to have established three records:
The first woman to fly the length of the
African continent: the first person 10 fly
the length of that continent alone: the
first person to make IL In light plane
Not alone quite all the way. however,
for the British authorities insisted on
sending an aviator. Lieut.. Bentley. TO
escort her IN another plane over the
dangerous Sudan region.
We are getting practically no news
OF how It fares with the British parlia-
mentary commission. which is investi-
eating the workings of the Dyarchy
system in India. Our last substantial
| information of some weeks since was
discouraging, even those Hindu leaders
best disposed toward the British RAJ
refusing cooperation with the COM
mission because Of misconception OF Its
program due 10 clever unfriendly propa-
ganda Let us hope that no news Of
late means good news. This Is one of
the most important pieces OF current
business.
II
France.~-T presume that the reader
| duly noted the speech of Premier P0in~
| care at CarcaKsonne on April !. A
speech which the future historian may
refer To as epochal The matter Is too
complicated for presentation here
may only observe that poincare fore
sEadowed land Poincare always speaks
| by the card new definitiye settle
meTt Of the German reparatiOns qliee-
| ton, and that his tone was msgnani-
nous and conciliatory
| The parliamentary elections campaign
Is proceeding merfly Twenty-four
hundred candidates are contesting 612
chamber seats
II is tfuism that some Of the most
important things going on In the world
make the least noise In 1920 A French
naval program was set afoot. calling for
construction OF 100 vessels, aggTegating
400 900 tons. as follows: Nine cruisers,
2i fiotilla leaders. SO destroyers SIS sub
| marines 2 aircraft carriers and auxil-
inrieg The construction Is going for
ward according To schedule, and will be
comDleted In 1882 My understanding
Is that the submarines are mostly
ocean~going craft of wide radius, This
renaissance Of French sen power h
peculiarly irritating to Mussolini
Here IL q development fantastically
illustrative Of the ineorFgibie meanness
and cupidity Of man. II appears that
In connection with payment OF German
fepsTstions IN kind, French and Ger.
man business men have heen oollaba-
rating tn cheet the French government
10 the tame of about $500. 900.
IL is exDected that under the new
naturalization aet. So much more lib.
eral than the Law IT superseded, 100 00f
aliens will yearly be added to ihf
French eitizenry and that thus the ter
Fible war losses yill gradually be offset
and the more surely 80 since the ifillii.
RFsnis ere prolific
Tlls war losses we're indeed tfigatful