Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

(The following is brief summary or
the most important news Of the world
for the seven days ended March l6)
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE. - Several
weeks ago q demonstration was held
in Trafalgar Square, London, by the
few hundreds who reached the metrop-
oils of the many thousands OF unem-
nloved who had started to march on
The CITY. converging from the uttermost
parts of the Isle, Drawing the grimmest
of Winters. The business went OIL
quietly enough, with speeches demand
ing effective action by the government
in relief of unemployment.
Here Is a curious thing, Gwilym ROW
lands is the new chairman OF the coun-
ell of the National Union OF the Con-
sentative and Unionist Associations. In
that capacity he will preside over the
next general conference OF the Con-
servative party. Mr.. Rowlands began
his career as pit boy in the Welsh
mines, and until lately he has been an
active trade unionist. working In the
Rhondda Valley, where he was born ana
still lives. Apparently he turned Con-
sentative in consequence of the develop
ments contaminated by the great strikes
of 1926. He says: Il consider my cleo
ton as indication of the democratic
tendency Of the Conservative party
today"
A little in that, perhaps, but one sus-
poets that in preferring him to this
position the Conservatives are making a
clever play, a show Of democratic SEN
timents not in fact profoundly enter
tanned. But the wonder remains that,
| with his background, Mr.. RoWlands
should be found suitable for such pre-
! ferment, no less a wonder than the
case of Disraeli. Mr.. Rowlands must
be an extraordinary man. man to be
particularly noted with reference to the
| future. i,
The British colonists up Kikuyu way
| in the British crown colony of Kenya
are not friendly to the Hilton Young
report, which proposes a close asSocia-
| ton between Kenya Tanganyika ter
ritory (Which is under British mandate)
and Uganda, which is British pro-
| tectorate. apparently on terms too fat
| tering to Grimaldi man to suit the
whites The report frequently uses the
| expression native rights" an express
| sion ineffably distasteful to the settlers
of the Kikuyu.
British aircraft, using bombs and
machine guns, successfully defended the
shaikdom of Kuwait cat the northwest
/ corner of the Persian Gulf from a
raiding force of 600 Wahhabis. / take
it that Kuwait is In effect a protectorate
of Great Britain. Kuwait has popu-
lation of about $4,000, of whom about
half live in the town of Kuwait. 1t
| exports wool. horses, pearls and dates.
Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian Nation
alist leader, was arrested the other day
in connection with a riot at Calcutta.
Pursuant to characteristic agitation by
Gandhi for boycott on foreign cloth
a little demonstration was arranged in
| one of the city parks. Preparations
were made for a bonfire. One of
Gandhis henchmen mounted a plat
form and told the concourse that the
police had declared bonfires in public
squares to be illegal. Gandhi then ex-
citedly shouted that the police order
was unjustified and that he would take
the responsibility should bonfire be
made Thereupon bundles of foreign
made cloth were piled up and set afire
Arrive the police and attempt to extin-
guish the flames, missiles from the pop
ulace, a police inspector knocked I'M
conscious. Gandhi arrested. FINS for