Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27

holidays will be outside the calendar"
Each worker will get one day of each
week; lie. shifts will be arranged SO
that one-fifth of the workers will be
resting each day. The months will
receive new names, as Hammer"
Sickle" etc, and the year one will
be the year Of the revolution.
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SYRIA.-The French high commits
sioner in Syria is planning two new
lines of railway; one between HONS
and Palmyra CTadmur), the other to
connect Nisibin Tin Anatolia, near the
Syrian border), the present terminal
of the Badgad Railroad, with DER eS
Zor on the Euphrates. A HomS-Pal-
myra line would give complete rail con-
nection between Tripoli, on the Mediter-
ranean, and Palmyra, proposal very
interesting to the American tourist.
Zenobia, Aurelian, LonginuS; their
shades squeak and gibber amid the
ruins of Palmyra. AS to LonginuS, an
essay by Churton Collins Is heartily
recommended.
AFGHANISTAN.-N Kahn is
definitely established as King OF
Afghanistan. The usurping Habibullah,
the water boy, has surrendered to him,
with a remnant of thousand or so
loyal adherentS, on the promise OF
amnesty. Ex-King Amanullah, resident
in Italy, telegraphed congratulations to
Nadir.
Some days after Nadir captured Ka-
bull he caused a thorough inspection to
be made of the citadel, and in locked
chamber thereof four dead bodies were
found, including those of a brother and
half-brother of Amanullah. Appa-
rently the hapleSS souls had been con-
fined by Habibullah as hostages and,
when he precipitately fed the citadel,
they were forgotten and left to starve.
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CHINA-The world in general is in
clined to credit the charge by Chang
Kai-Shek, civil chief and generalissimo
of the Marking government, that the
chief motive of the rebellion is the de-
sire to kill the rehabilitation scheme,
in order to maintenance of the feudal,
regional, war-lord conditions, and con-
sequent lining of the pockets OF the
war-lords and their immediate Satel-
lites. The world, by the same token,
is inclined to discredit the charge by
the rebelliouS officers that Chang Kali
Shek aims to concentrate the power in
his own hands in order to the lining OF
his own pockets. To what extent the
rebellion was inspired and is being
fomented from Moscow Is a pretty
question.
The Marking jisc is in desperate
condition; the treasury has been
emptied to satisfy the Matchmaking i'm
portunities of the war lords. But
should Marking suppress the rebellion
it might dispose of the credit neces-
sary to save the situation. On the
other hand, should the rebellion sue
coed, 1t Is very doubtful that new
central government set up by the VIC
torious rebels could find credit at al
adequate 1t seems doubtful that II
could carry on at all without degree
of extorition and squeeze which even
China has never known. AS the ancient
saying goes, ineXhaustible Is the fount
of Chinese woes.
According to latest reports the threat
to Canton from Kwangsi Is not formi-
dable after all. Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei
did succeed in reaching Kweilin, but
apparently with only negligible rem
nant of his forces. Report has 1t that
the 10000 picked troops (the very
flower of Markings forces) dispatched
to the defense of Canton have beer
recalled to the Yangtze theater.
It's a question of loyalties. Car
Chang Kai-Shek retain enough to give
him the victory? The affair at Wuhu
was only one Of several recent mutinie'
in each case crushed by q preponder'