Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
BY HENRY w. BUM.

BY HENRY w. BUM.
T HE following is brief sum
mary of the most important
news Of the world for the seven
days ended April 20:
GREAT BRITAIN.-Robert Seymour
Bridges, poet laureate of Great Britain
since 1918, is dead at 85, less than six
months after the publication of the
poem which many regard as his best
work, namely, The Testament of
Beauty" He was a poet of very gen.
uine distinction, though not Of the first
rank Not improbably his extensive and
interesting proSodical experiments Will
be turned to account by mere brilliantly
gifted successors. He had the gift rare
in poets, of non-eXpreSsion when not
impelled by the muse. Sharply crttt-
cized, especially in Parliament, for not
complying with the general demand for
an lode to Peace" at the end OF the
war, he said: II do not care damn. -
For this alone he would deserve the
bays He was the sixteenth poet
laureate, post held by a number OF
infinitely petty songsters, but also by
Ben Jonson, Dryden, Wordsworth and
Tennyson.
Flying from Marseille, on April IS,
the Prince of Wales arrived back in
London from his African hunting trip.
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FRANCE.-The London naval treaty
was signed on April %. Italy and
France join with the other powers in
the capital ship holiday to 1886, ex-
cept that they are permitted to build
the battleships which, under the Wash
ington naval treaty, they were author
lied to lay down before the end OF 1929.
We hear that under this provision
France will proceed Immediately to con-
struction of battle cruiser of $1,000
tons to carry IL eight-inch guns and
to be "incomparably superior in every
respect TO the Ersatz PreuSSen; this pro-
cedure resulting from the recent action
of the Reichstag reversing a previous
vote, authorizing construction OF a
second vessel of the ErSatZ PreuSsen
| type The French vessel will cost about
/ the equivalent of $50 1000 900 and will
be about three years a-building
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| RUSSIA.-The second quarter Of the
| current Russian fiscal year went OIL
more proseperously than the first quar-
! ter, especially in respect of oil. metall-
urgy and coal A resemblance to chaos
resulted temporarily from the Krem-
! Inns modification of its farm COLLECTIVE
cation program, but the Russian seems
| TO thrive in conditions of heller SHELTER
| and much admired confusion" The
| collectives of extreme communistic type
are being modified into "artel' collec-
tives, which allow the members some
property of their own, such as chickens
and pigs, and the concession. however
petty. makes all the difference in the
world as regards the peasants attitude.
When the Kremlin recognized what a
dangerous volume of resentment com
pulsory membership of the extreme type
collectives had caused, 1t issued orders
allowing withdrawal therefrom, and the
privilege was generally embraced, but
most or the withdrawers are said to be
Joining the "artels." We hear that
Spring sowing is proceeding satisfac-
torily.
INDIA -Disorder again in India on
April 49, Insurgents raid and gut the
police arsenal at Chittagong in Bengal
and kill seven persons, including two
Englishmen. Lord Irwin. viceroy of
India, invokes Bengal ordinance, con-