Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25
BY HENRY w. BUM.

bx HENRI W. DUNN
1.-THE following is a brief summary Of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended August 24)
GREAT BRITAIN.-we are told that
the British government has decided to
begin in September withdrawal Of the
6. 900 British troops now stationed on
German territory. the operation TO be
completed probably by the end Of the
year; this independently OF any action
which France or Belgium may take
with respect to their occupying troops,
Young plan. We have here another
striking indication of the new British
policy with respect to France. The
genial Mr.. Henderson, the British for
eign minister may say that the entente
still subsists; that Is not what they are
saying in France.
The Mauritania arrived at Plymouth
on August 20, having made the east
ern voyage in 4 days II hours and
40 minutes, average speed. 27.22 knots.
beating her own best previous time
by about two hours, but still slower
than the Bremen's record by hours
and 20 minutes. Inviting attention to
the Bremen's bilge tanks as against the
Mauretania's bilge keels. Capt. Mcneil
remarks: If we took the bilge keels
of and thought less about comfort, we
would probably beat anything afioat
except a battle cruiser. That probably
would make difference of one knot. "
Last october Princess Mary blessed
the keel for a new White Star liner,
Oceanic, at the Harland- Wolff yards at
Belfast but work was soon thereafter
suspended pending the showing Of the
Bremen. The keel is now being de-
molished and we hear that funda-
mentally new plans have been adopted.
The new ship was to be 1000 feet long
and of $4,000 gross tonnage Bremen.
920 feet, $4,000 gross TONNAGE. The
new plans call for larger ship.
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FRANCE.-On the block bounded by
Central Park west, Broadway, Sixty
second and Sixty-third streets, New
York City, there is to be built, under
the patronage of the French govern
ment, a Palais de France of IS stories
hotel of 1900 rooms, to house the
French consulate and sundry Official
agencies devoted to promotion of French
thought, art, industry and commerce. "
two banks, retail French stores, etc.
Three stories will be used for permanent
exhibitions of French manufactures. A
projected feature Is an Academic Des
Beaux Arts" to include a photographic
department Sin charge of the most re-
nowned ballet masters Of Europe"
Paris DEGREES longer skirts.
hurrah.
RUSSIA.-The annual chistka, or
cleansing" of the Communist party
has just been taking place. There Is a
chistka for each yacheyka, or Cell
(the smallest Soviet unit, varying from
200 or so in great factory to as few
as 5 in a small village). Three
"cleanserS," officials from some other
yacheyka, seat themselves at a red
! draped table and in turn each member
of the yacheyka being cleansed Is
brought before the bar. He is called
on to give an accounting of himself as
| a party member over the preceding ~
| months. Charges may be brought
against him and II he cannot answer
satisfactorily to them or If he volun-
tarily confesses derelictions he Is liable
| to be "cleansed," or expelled, from the
party: Really, there's something to be
| said for chistka.
ARABIA.-It is extremely difficult to
follow developments in Arabia, but It Is
| highly reasSuring to be told In effect
l Wy 0t' OOAAl 1AAAby, WAAO PAOSoN@J ~~-N''S
his Arabia as well as any living nom
Arabian, that Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, Sui.
tan of Nejd, King Of the Hejaz ano
head of the Wahhabis, the fundamen-
talists of Islam, has proved himself the
best ruler that Arabia proper has known
since the days of the four khail1as'
! For chronic tribal war he has SUBJ
stituted what Mr. Philhy calls the pax
Wahhabica. He Is a mighty man OF
his hands and has brain to matcn'
and, what's more, perhaps heart:
Instructions there have been. but
swiftly suppressed; for, though 10th to
strike, when he strikes Ibn Saud strikes
hard. He is indeed Of the kidney OF
Abu Bekr and Khalid. And could there
/ be much higher praise?
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ABYSsINIA.-1hc Abyssinian Church
| has q new abuna metropolitan, or
spiritual head, an ONCE which has
existed since or almost since the intro
duction Of Christianity into the land