Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-01

the war Office, the air ministry, the CO.
lonial Office, are all abustle. Here is
another rebuff to the millennium were
it well, in view of such menaces, seri-
ously to reduce the fighting establish
mentS. The very briefeSt delay of
efficient dealing with such a develop
ment as the Palestinian one might
mean infinite peril to the empire.
To restore outward order for the time
being in Palestine is probably simple
enough, but permanent harmonization
the Jews calls for super Solomonian
wisdom in the British authorities.
The extent that the recent millennial
gesture of the new British Labor gov
eminent toward Egypt may be respon-
sible for the Palestine development is
matter of curious speculation.
The 1922 census showed sol 900 Mos
lens, $4,000 Jews and $4,000 Christians
in Palestine. There are probably now
about 100000 Jews.
THE HAGUE.-On August 26 the
delegates to the conference at The
Hague of France, Italy, Belgium and
Japan made another offer to the British
delegates, which, like its predecessors,
was rejected. deliberately analysing,
Ter "a matter of intricate calculation)
to be equivalent to increase Of the Brit
lsh share of the German annuity pay
ments as proposed under the Young
plan by only 81 per cent of the British
demand the latter, 100000 marks
annually of 81 years, not over So years,
as the early reports seemed to indicate).
But at last, after an eight-hour session,
shortly after midnight on the morning
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compromise by which Great Britain
should get Cor so it is calculated) an
annual increment of 100000 marks,
ie.. about 80 per cent of his demand
Apparently Mr.. Snowden won out
completely at the same time on two
other demands, namely, ~ that 3d.
100000 marks annually of the British
share of the German payments be
transferred from the ."poStponable" to
over the 81 years of the life Of the lat
ter category, and (2) that Italy en-
gage to take certain amount of British
coal annually chow much and for how
long is not made clear by the dis
patcheS). Apparently he also obtained
substantial yielding to his demands on
the head of deliveries in kind "a mode
of payment rightly claimed by him to
be prejudicial to British trade), but here
NAos'AA VAC NlAoHdOC1ICo dIC 4IlduCAudbC.
So the conference canoe was clear
OF the rapids, escaped from the rocks,
with assurance Of a safe navigation
ahead. But no later on the very day
that agreement was struck, as related
above, the channel was found OBJ
Structed again. The changes proposed
within the framework of the Young
plan could not be effected without Ger
man concurrence, and the alert Strese-
mann is not the man to miss an OPP
portunity. CuriouSly enough, no pro-
vision is made in the Young plan
respecting payment of the costs of the
Rhineland occupation subsequent to
September 1, the experts merely recon-
mending that the governments arrange
one matter. DR.. Stresemann now de-
manded pledge that Germany would
not be required to defray such costs.
M. BRAND chided DR.. Stresemann
rather mildly, but Mr.. .Snowden once
more startled the conference by fierce
ly assailing the Germans claims.
Deadlock once more. The world was
inclined to sympathize with DR.. Strese-
mann because at the time Of publica-
ton of the Young plan the dispatches
from Paris whether rightly or wrong
ly, one may not say conveyed the
impression of a tacit understanding
among the experts that Germany was
not to be required to defray the afore-
said costs.