Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

Il ended September %:
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GREAT BRITAIN.-After nearly q
week of conversations in London be-
tween M. Dovgalevsky, Russian Am
bassador to France, and Arthur Hen
derson. the British foreign minister. on
September 81 the British foreign ONCE
announced that agreement had been
reached on the list OF subjects TO pe
settled by negotiation on the resumption
of full diplomatic relations. including
the exchange of Ambassadors. TINS
is vague, but the general inference Is
that the British government has yielded
to the Moscow governments tnsiStence
that exchange of Ambassadors must be
unconditional, whereas London has been
insisting that it must be conditional on
prior Muscovite assurances as to propa-
ganda and debts. The world Is agog
for fuller information.
AUSTRIA.-The Austrian government
headed by Chancellor Streeruwitz hav.
ing resigned, a new government headed
by Herr Schober, former chancellor,
succeeds. DR.. Streeruwitz would not
yield to pressure from the so-called
Austrian FascistS for action repressive
of the Socialists. Herr Schober has his
work cut out for him. A main demand
of the Heimwehr (the militant organ
iZation of the FaSciSts) is that Vienna
be reduced to the status Of part OF
the province of Lower Austria, instead
of being a province by itself, with, con.
sequently q Socialist provincial and
municipal government. The Streeruwitz
government was one OF conclllatlon:
The word Cancellation" is not included
in q Fascist vocabulary. Herr Scnober
Is reputed a non-party man.
CHINA-Dispatch after dispatch ar
rives telling of alarming development
of q new military revolt led by the
famous "Ironsides' division OF Can
tonese troops, stationed at or In the
vicinity of Ichang on the Yangtsze ana
headed by the redoubtable Gen. Chang
Fa-Kwei. Marking, however, declares
that the numerous reports OF successes
of the mutinies against Nationalist
troops are propaganda; which Is as 1t
may turn out. (Of reports just arrived,
one announces a notable rebel success,
while another declares the revolt
crushed.)
There are rumors, also, Of fresh
activity Of the Kwangsi outfit, with
Canton as objective.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
One suspects that the future chronicler
will find that the most important de-
velopment of the past week was the
institution of a new faculty" namely.
that Of Blind Flying" by Lieut.. James
II. Doolittle, man already famous for
aerial exploits. For about year Lieut..
Doolittle and Prof. William Brown OF
the Massachusetts, Institute OF Tech
nology had been carrying on researches
under the auspices Of the DAME!
Guggenheim Fund for the promotion OF
September "a, when Lieut.. Doolittle,
his cockpit covered with opaque cloth,
his new instrument his only guide.
took of from Mitchell Field, new q
course. and made a perfect landing.
Undoubtedly, in the words OF an
eminent aviator, IAN achievement OF
inestimable value to aviation" Fogs
be hanged, henceforth.
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THE LEAGUE ASSEMBLY.-The
tenth League Assembly came to an END
on September IS.
Definite action looking to the linking
together of the pact of Paris and the
League covenant was not taken by the
Assembly. A committee Of IL was
appointed to meet early in the coming
year to frame amendments to the
covenant in the sense indicated by the
resolution offered by Mr.. Henderson.
the British delegate. The result OF the
committees work will be submitted to
next years Assembly.
briefly alluded in last Sundays
issue to resolution submitted to the
disarmament committee of the Assembly
BY Viscount Cecil of Great Britain. The
resolution was withdrawn by Lord Cecil,
but It's proposals are certain to be dis
cussed either by the Preparatory
Disarmament Commission or by the
disarmament conference should the