Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
BY HENRY W. BUM.

ITHE following is brief summary
Of the most important news Of
the world for the seven days
ended February %:
THE BRITISH EMPTRE.-Another
woman, Laborite, has been elected to
the House of Commons, making the
ninth woman in the House. She is Mrs.
Hugh Dalton and her husband. DR..
Dalton, is also q member of the House.
He Is an Elton and Cambridge graduate,
has been soldier and man of business,
and has been spoken of for leadership
of the Labor party. Mrs. Dalton won
handiiy in a by-election, her predecessor
being the Laborite Ben Spoor. OF the
other women in the House, four are
Conservatives, three Laborites and one
is a Liberal
Prime Minister Baldwin has appointed
committee, comprising parliamentary
members of the three parties and ex-
perts outside Parliament, to study the
project of tunnel under the English
Channel to connect England and
France. The military and naval mem
bers of the committee on imperial de-
Tense are said to oppose the project,
but to the vast majority Of Britons their
deed they are. All the problems, engi-
neering and financial, relating to the
project have been worked out. The to-
tai cost is estimated in the neighbor-
hood of $50, 100000. An English and
French company have been organized.
The two Parliaments having blessed
the project, each of these two companies
would proceed to raise half the money,
and there's little doubt they could do
| it almost overnight. Construction would
then begin simultaneously from the two
shores. It is thought the job could be
completed within six years.
Thereafter in due course one should
expect tunnels under the straits Of Glib
raitar, the Bosporus and the Irish Sea.
The British Office of public works is
belatedly acting to save what is left Of
| Hadrian's Wall, built about 1870 B. c..
| from Carlisle at the northwest corner
of England eastward about 100 miles
| Tin irregular course) to New Castle-on-
Tyne, where was q great Roman camp
| The object of the wall was to keep the
wild Picts out Of fairly Romanized Eng
| land. Much Of the material Of the wall
has been removed for building purposes.
and Psychologists have done good deal
of damage digging for relics.
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RIOTS IN BOMBAY. violence
| in Ceylon, resulting from those i'm
memorial hatreds of race and caste
which the British Raj manages meas
urably to ailay, but which would, II
India should this way or that achieve
| independence, make of the country a
! ShambleS again. Some weeks ago the
Indian nationalist, melted thereto by
Mahatma Gandhi, who has taken the
field again, so to speak, sent an "ulti-
matum" to London warning that If do
minion government were not granted
India within year the Indian masses
would institute non-co-operation and
the boycott, possibly out and out re-
bellion. Thereupon Lord Irwin, the adj
mirable Viceroy of India, announced
that ultimatums were no go, that the
British Raj has not been even slightly
impressed by ultimatums.
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SPAIN-The Spanish artillery corps
has been dissolved and is being reor-
gantzed, "all disloyal elements being
eliminated" After the mutiny of the
Autumn of 1926 there was dissolution
and reorganization, but on that occasion
most OF the disloyal ones were taken
back. 1t is to be hoped that this time
the purgation will be complete and
permanent. The artillery units stationed
in Morocco and in the Balearic and
Canary Islands were not involved II,
the recent episode, and will remain in
tact.
4 Primo de Rivera again announces
that the dictatorship will continue until
the work proposed by 1t has been COM
rleted; that the old Cortes will not