Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

the world for the seven days
ended october Is:
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF
NATIONS.-The population Of the Brit
ish Isles increased by 10000 in 1929 to
a total of 1854, 900. For England and
Wales there was an increase by $4,000
to q total of 80, 607 900, for Scotland
decrease by 1900 to a total or $685.
600 and for the Irish Free State de-
crease by 5000 to 2,943,000, while
Northern lreland's total remained un-
changed at 1,250,000. The years birth
rate showed continuance Of the decline
of recent years.
Sultan ibrahim, Moslem Sultan Of
Johore. has welded Mrs. Wilson, d.
vorced wife of a Singapore physician
Johore is one of the independent"
Malay states under British protection.
Area, $500 square miles; population,
300, 900; products, rubber, tin, pepper.
tapioca, areca nuts. etc. The happy
man Is opulent.
Wing Comdr. Charles Kingsford-
Smith arrived at Port Darwin, Australia,
on october 10, having flown from Hes
ton Airdrome, England, in 8 days 1914
hours, beating by 5 days 2h hours
the record established in February.
1928, by Bert Hinkler. He used Brit
ish 125-horsepower single-engined Avro
Avian plane.
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GREECE.-The other day the build
ings of an orphan asylum and q tuber-
culosis sanatorium on the Island OF
Syra which we're built by the Near East
Relief and have rendered magnificent
service over trying times. were with
great ceremony, in which Premier
Venizelos and the American Minister to
Greece participated, turned over to q
Greek foundation to be used as a voca-
tional trade school specializing in the
weaving and textile trades. Upon the
occasion Mr.. James Barton, chairman
of the American Near East Foundation,
announced that great contributions
would be forthcoming from the United
States within the next five years FOR
schools and hospitals in Greece, Al
bania. Turkey, Iraq and Persia.
Syra Is one of the Cyclades-magic
name. Eumaeus the swineherd thus
described it to Odysseus in the fifteenth
book of the odyssey: There Is a Ger
tain isle called Syria, If haply thou hast
heard tell of 1t, over above Ortygia,
and there are the turning places Of the
sun. 1t is not so very thickly peopled,
but the land is good. rich in herds, rich
III 0OCkS, WIFI Va WIN
Death never enters the land and no
hateful sickness falls on wretched
mortals but when the tribes Of men
grow old in that city, then comes Apollo
of the silver bow, with Artemis and
Stays them with the visitation OF his
gentle shafts"
RUSSIA-It is curious how much
nomenclature the Bolshevists borrow
from the contepned old religions.
"Heresy," for example, Is word Tor
ever in their mouths. There are the
"heretics" of right wing defeatism.
the too-quick despairers, and the here
tics" of left wing confusion, the too
jealous advance agents OF the Com
munist millennium.
/ No doubt the Bolshevist philosopher
will tell you that progress Is henxwlse'
corkscrewwise; that 1t isn't, as some
times 1t seems q case Of mere see saw;
today a kick, tomorrow q sop, to CerDe.
rus Hodge; today raise OF INDUSTRIAL
wages, tomorrow a reduction, ana Sc
verer factory discipline. Well, were
all watching that fascinating expert
ment, not too unsympathetically.
The debts of Russia ana Russians
to our Government and citizens are IN
three categories. as follows: A loan OIL
$lS7, 900 900, made by the United states
Treasury to the KerenslV provisional
government; some $e0,o0o,0oo covered