Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-31

" ClluC0 NAdAN AA OOs
GREAT BRITANNIA party of IS
business men representing 1856 British
companies with an aggregate capital OF
about $4,000, 10000 Is in Russia to
investigate opportunities for British
trade in the Union Of Socialist Soviet
Republics.
Of five recent by-elections to Parlia-
ment the Conservatives lost three, all
five constituencies having previously
been strongly Conservative. Their two
victories afforded little consolation to
the Conservatives, as the pluralities were
dangerously small. The Liberals won
two seats and are correspondingly
cockered up. The victorious Labor cam
didate is Miss Jenny Lee, rs years old,
pretty, a graduate In law of Edinburgh
University, school teacher and
daughter of a miner. Alanson B.
Houghton has retired as American
Ambassador to Great Britain. British
emigration fell of very substantially In
1928.
FRANCE-Poincare is winning out
in Parliament in the bitter contest on
the foreign missions" issue, but the
government may ultimately come to
grief on the cost of living issue. The
cost Of living is near the high point
of July, 1926.
one could wish to witness the Joan
of Arc pageant to be held in Paris,
April IL and 10. Some 5000 persons
will participate, dressed in costumes CT
the saints period, 500 years ago. The
grand feature will be tournament OF
knights armored. armed and accoutered
as then. The lists will be set up and
the joustS conducted precisely accord
ing to the ancient rules. Imagine the
competition to break lance as OF old
for st. Denis and ones lady.
On Palm Sunday the body OF Marshal
Toch lay in state beneath the Arc de
Triompfe beside that of the unknown
soldier. In the evening it was taken
to Notre Dame, whence on Tuesday.
after a funeral service, 1t was conveyed,
with unexampled obsequious pomp.
down the Rue Rivoli, through the Place
de la Concorde, up the Champs
Elysees and across the Pont Alexandra
III to Les Invalides, its final resting
place. The coffin rode upon the car
rage Of French IS; very properly, as
Foch, like Napoleon, was pre-eminently
an artilleryman, and seeing how large
part Of the credit for the victory
Marshal Foch assigned to the rs.
The guard at Metre Dame consisted
of officers with drawn swords and four
little Boy Scouts, representing France Of
the future. What memory for those
ladsi
At Les Inyalides funeral Grafton
was delivered by Premier Poincare,
probably the finest orator living. II
was IL years before to the very day that
Poincare, then President Of France,
presided at the conference which made
Foch generalissimo. The Grafton was
worthy of the occasion. It was followed
by the concluding ceremony OF the
grand review very appropriately LED
by Gen. Gouraud and requiring an hour
and half for its completion.
Gen. Maurice Emanuel Sarrail is dead
at the age of IS. His most distin-
guished service was as commander OF
the Sd Army In defense Of the sec
tor Of Verdun during the Battle Of the
Marine. Says the citation: During the
decisive hours of the Battle OF the
Marine he repulsed on two fronts the
| furious assaults of the German armies
and by his courage and tenacity was
able to hold Verdun and the height OF
the Meuse, participating greatly IN the
victory"
There is, and probably always viii be,
controversy as to Sarraips conduct Of
the Army Of the Orient. with headquar-
| tiers at Saloniki, and as to his conduct
Of the ofice Of high commissioners for
Syria,s controversy, intensified and
vitiated by the fact that he was ex-
| tremely radical In his views. 1t Is best
J to forget ell that and allow his face TO
rest on his conduct ct Verdun, as TO