Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-09

most delicate refinements of American
plumbing, and that in respect of women's
fashions, Paris hasn't much on them.
And Madrilene bull fights aren't patch
on theirs. A sufficiently authenticated
feat is that Of q girl seizing the horns
Of charging bull, somersaulting over
its head and landing on her toes on
its back. And now It's proved that they
had humor. A miniature fresco recent
ly discovered shows ladies in the front
row Of the grandstand at bull fight,
acting together little series Of social
comedies Of q delicacy and Subtlety
comparable in literature to Miss Aus
tens" The world Is entranced to re-
cover the fresco Of the cat stalking
partridges and the beautiful ivory figure
OF the leaping boy-god. They did, in
deed, those Minoans, prepare the way
for the golden age of Greece, the worlds
supreme episode.
PERSIA.-It is now five years since
a Pension Constituent Assembly, no
doubt under suficient pressure, elected
Ria Khan to be Shah Of Persia, first
Of the Pahlavi dynasty. On the whole
he has made good: he Is certainly one
Of the most salient personalities among
living rulers. He has had, Is having.
very great difficulties. One Is the prob
lem Of disarmament of the nomad
tribes-the Kurds, the KaShgaiS and
others. The revolving Kurds and KaSh-
gals were by one or another means
persuaded to submit, but they were not
defeated in the field and they continue
to furnish problem.
The relations with Turkey, though, no
longer seeming to threaten war, are
precarious; those with IraQ, after q
dubious period, seem to be fairly salts
factory and similarly of AfghaniStan.
At least for the present, Soviet Russia
seems to have withdrawn horns that
once menaced. The relations with Great
Britain, which have passed through
queer phases, since the long-defunct
Anglo-RuSsian agreement Of 1907, seem
now to be in q fairly cordial phase
which promises permanence.
In 1929 Imperial Anyways edected an
agreement with the Teheran govern
ment, allowing it through service over
the Persian coast via BuShire, Bandar,
AbbaS and Jask.
Risa Khan has hustled himself about
communications, for, as Sir Percy Sykes,
who knows his Persia better than any
other European, points out, until very
recently communications in Persia had
not improved since Cyrus founded the
Persian empire, in $50 BIC; Persia was
still In the caravan stage.
A transperSian railway, from the Per-
sian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, has been
planned. Two sections have been COM
pleted; one $50 miles long, from Khor
Musa, an inlet on the Persian Gulf,
north across the tabled Karun River to
Dtzful; the other, shorter, from Bandar
Gag, a port at the extreme southeast
corner of the Caspian, southwest to
Sari. The latter section Is reported to
be working fltfully, but lot Of trouble
has been experienced with the former;
the foreign syndicate seems to have
done an imperfect job. Continuance
of the line north Of Dizful across range
after range Of mountains to the Iranian
Plateau and through q mostly sterile
country would encounter terrific engi-
neering difficulties (about LOO miles,
Dizful to Teheran), and filing of the
other gap of 800 miles, Sar1 to Teheran,
would call for some IS miles Of tun-
nels through the lofty Elburoz. Sir
Percy thinks that the cost OF realiza-
ton OF the entire project might reach
$3.50, 600, 900, and that, In view Of the
scanty population, the general aridity,
the meagerness Of exports Of the coun-
try, the completed project could never
be made to pay. He advises the Shah
to drop It. However, Persia communi-
Gates with the outer world through air.
lines conducted by the German 1rm OF
Junkers, radiating from Teheran to the
four quarters. Connection Is made at
Baghdad and Bushire with Imperial
Always.
Since 1927 Persia has been rid of the
capitulations, but 1t would appear that
the administration of her new judicial
regulations, based on French models
leaves much to be desired.
Though the Persian finances have
been very ably dealt with by American
advisers, finance 10 Persia's weak point,
as It Is Turkeys.
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