Evening star., 1928-10-28
BY HENRY w. BUM.

The following is brief summary of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended october q.
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A French Blue Book and British
White Paper-A French blue book and
British white paper of practically
Identical content were on October %
simultaneously published in Paris and
London respectively, setting forth the
considerations and spreading out the
exchanges which led to the recently
concluded Franco-British agreements.
Evidently the documents were published
in order to prove to the world that
the conversations, correspondence, ETC.,
and resultant understandings, repre-
sented sincere effort to end the
impasse of the preparatory disarma-
ment commission and pave the way for
substantial measures of disarmament
and to demonstrate that no secret
bargains or understandings we're in
volved.
The documents contain Srndry ref
erences to the position of the United
States Government respecting ex-
tension of naval reductions, and
declarations that the two powers had
in view formula that should be
satisfactory to Washington.
The documents land this is very
importantly definitely show that Great
Britain acquiesced in the French posi-
ton respecting trained military reserves
in return for French general acqui-
escence in the British position respect
| ing naval classification and restrictions.
The question asks itself, whether or
l'not the agreements are now to be
considered defunct. If yea, presum-
ably France returns to her advocacy
of global naval limitation, Britain is
again for reckoning trained military
reserves in any general scheme of
disarmament.
On the strength of the blue book and
the white paper, the Conservative Lon
don Morning Post denounces the long
! sustained violent Liberal attack on the
understandings, prior to publication of
essential evidence in the case, as "cruel,
even criminal, panic-mongering," and
! the London Times reprehends Lloyd
| George for articles casting "unwar-
ranted aSpersionS" on British foreign
policy written for the foreign press.
| THE government" says the Times,
might have been negligent in permit
ting suspicious of its good faith to con-
Glnue, but the former prime minister
might at least have refrained from add
ing to the confusion by encouraging
| international suspicious"
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The British Empire.-The Prince of
Wales is hunting elephants in Uganda.
Sir Alan Gotham is vigorously at
work in a London office planning a
commercial and tourist air service be-
| tween Cairo and the Cape, with appro-
pirate branch lines People are fed up,
he thinks, on the pyramids. the re-
| liqueS of Tut-ankh-A Amen, Luxor and
the rock -tombs. They want to see the
windy plateaus and lovely lakes and
valleys of Abyssinia, the obeliSks of
Auxume, the rock churches of Lalibala,
| the kuSsa fields af1ame with takaSSe in
| Spate and the source of the Blue Nile;
| they want to see the White Nile, the
| Mountain Nile and the Victoria Nile,
| the ultimate source of the Nile: they
want to see the Uganda cotton fields in
| flower, the noble pile of Mtelgon, snowy
AuWenzori and Kilimanjaro and the
mountain Tarns of Toro, lovely beyond
Shelleyan dreams; they want to trace
the chain of Lakes-Albert Edward,
Victoria, Tanganyika, NyaSa-through
20 degrees of latitude; they want to
see the whole works and the way to
do 1t is by way of airplanes, in part
hydroplaneS, in part land planes. He
| is an empire builder, Sir Alan, with
already no mean record in that sense.
A referendum in Australia on the