Evening star., 1928-09-30

note was made public on September %.
1t sets forth our position ably and
lucidly. The Government of the
United States feels that no useful pur-
pose would be served by accepting as
a basis of discussion the Franco British
proposal"
Apparently the only definite accom-
plishmsnt of the Assembly was to in
dorse the reports of its health, humani-
tartan and economic sections. This, to
be sure, was something. as the work
carried on by these bodies is In the
highest degree salutary; but it was not
enough.
Oh. yes-it was decided to appoint
an expert commission to reconsider
German reparations and allied mat
tiers. Strictly speaking, indeed. that
was on the side, but probably the de-
cision would still be of the distant
future, for the assembling at Geneva
of the Bigwigs. who should make it..
The League housing plant is to be
moved from the lake front to a park
several miles from the center of Geneva
Owing chiefly. We are told, to the
churlishness of an American property
owner "a womanl the League could
not acquire on the lake front the
ground required for secretariat offices
HhncCiuUly anu LlOrdTY,
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The Antarctic.-On September %
the redoubtable Sir George Hubert
wilkins took shipping at New York
for Montevideo, en- route to the Antarc-
tic. With him were his Plus Achates"
Lieut.. Col. Ben Eielson and Joseph
Crossan and William CASTOR, relief
pilots; and Oliver Porter, mechanic
With him also went two lockheed-
vega planes. From Montevideo the
party will voyage southwark on a
some 600 miles north of Graham Land
Island the party will fly to the An
arctic continent and set up a base
there. whence they will make a num-
ber of flights. with the main pur-
pose of surveying the land and de-
termining the possibility of establish
ing meteorological stations. They pro-
pose, this work. completed. to fly to
Ross Sea, where Comdr. Byrd will be
operating and establish a new base
there for further flights. 1t is under
stood that Sir George does not con-
template flying over the South Pole.
Notes.-The press has of late been
flooded with lumors imparting very
serious and widespread disaffection in
Spain, even to the point of menace of
revolutionary upriSingS. London is in
clined to regard these rumors as men,
dacious propaganda stuff with only
the flimsiest basis. Says Dictator
Primo de Rivera: Not more than
per cent of the subjects of Spain are
disposed to rebellion" 1t Is probable
that the marques speaks by the book.
Bulgaria produces IS per cent of the
worlds supply of altar of roses There
are in Bulgaria $4,000 rose gardens. the
sale of whose buds furnishes liveli-
hood for hundred thousand persons.
The buds are shipped to distilleries.
about 1000 buds yielding / pound of
altar. which sells in the United States
for $3.50.
Venizelos has begun his new premier
ship by signing a treaty of friendship
and conciliation" with Italy. He hopes
tn follow up with similar treaty with
the Kingdom of the Serbs. Croats and
Slovenes. After that ditto with Tur-
key If possible Venizelcs Is now on
a tour of the capitals of the greater
European powers
AS feature of the weSternization
movement. Turkev is about to go In
vigorously for athletics. beginning with
state-superviSed gyn1nastic training.
after the Swedish and German models,
Report hes it that the Constituent
Council of the Syrian National Assem-
bly, has decided on republican form
OF government for Syria and that the
draft of constitution in this sense will
soon be submitted to the National AS
sembly.
The Wahhabis of Northern Neid are
reported on the rampage, threatening
the borders of Transjordan and Irau.
fired with mixture of religious zeal
aud desire of plunder.
One hears on respectable authority
that conditions in the famine districts
Of Chill and Shantung are as bad as
ever. with the prospect of their getting
much worse over the Winter.
Sarwat Faslla, not long aao prime
minister Of Egypt, Is dead. He was a
moderate and Egypt has much cause to
lament his loss.