Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
BY HENRY w. BUM.

-HE following Is brief summary
of the most important news Of
the world for the seven days
n ended September %:
X X X X
The British Empire.-The Prince Of
Wales and his brother, the Duke OF
Gloucester, are in Africa, ostensibly to
hunt extensively in sundry African de-
pendencies of the United Kingdom. But
the quidnuncS will have 1t that the
chief object Of the trip is to whip up
interest Throughout the United King
dom in those dependencies as fields for
British enterprise and investment, and
we hear that the British press is to
publish, along with accounts of the ex-
PLOTS of the nimrods, descriptions OF
the areas so honored-to be plain,
economic publicity stuff. On the 18th
the princes arrived at Cairo, visited the
museum there to glimpse the reliques OF
and pertaining to Tut-ankh-A Amen and
paid their respects to the Pyramids and
the Sphinx. The next day they TOOK
steamer for MombaSsa, chief port and
largest town of the crown colony OF
Kenya. Kenya has an area OF 223,O00
square miles and a population OF about
Lord Cushendun has given an inter-
esting explanation of the so-called
Franco British agreement respecting
ornaments. He said that an impasse
having arisen in the preparatory dis
armament commission over the draft
conventions severally submitted to that
body by the French and British gov
ernments, the French and British gov
ernmentS undertook to reconcile the
differences. The agreement reported a
| working compromise not fully Satisfac-
| tory to either party, but acceptable in
| the interest of harmony as basis for
| facilitating the work of the commission.
The Mauretania, which is always
breaking records, has just broken two
more She made the trip from New
York to Plymouth in days and 6
minutes and the trip from Cherbourg
| to New York in 5 days hours and "a
minutes. She is % years old, the oldest
of the great liners. Capt. Mcneil, her
skipper, has been at sea A years and
in the Cunard Line service 81 years.
France.-Senator Henri Cheron has
been appointed minister of commerce
and industry In succession to the late
Maurice BokanoWski. He had been re-
porter Oh CIlS OGIdC6 llIld1lCG COIIlIIllS-
sion since 1925 and very active in that
capacity. He was once minister Of
agriculture.
Laurent Eynac has been made head
of the new ministry of aviation, an
appointment highly applauded. He had
been undersecretary for aviation in
eight cabinets.
Great religious celebrations. under the
auspices of the Bishop of Rheims, were
held recently at Epernay (the cham
payne center Of France, not far from
Rheims) In honor of the Monk
Perignon, reputed to have put the
sparkle into champagne 200 years ago.
Perignon was the cellarist of Haul
villiers Abbey, and who will deny that
he was one of the worlds great bene-
factors?
ItaIy.-We are told that Premier
Mussolini Is about to submit to Parlia-
ment bill which provides for making
the Fascist grand council a permanent
feature of the machinery of state, with
functions curiously resembling those of
the College of Cardinals. More of this
most important evolution as exact in
formation comes to hand.
Italy has made a new commercial
agreement with Russia. The report
however, that three-cornered 1talo-
Greek Turkish agreement has been con-