Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11

The same model craft Is built IN the
United States by. the american Aero
nautical Corporation at Port Washing
ton, Long Island. ...>...,
The flight is q unique example of CO.
ordination. The 10 planes maintained
formation despite adverse weather con-
ditions.
OF course the planes passed above st.
Pauls Rocks and Fernando de Noronha
as they approached Brazil. st. Pauls
Rock Is q group of islets inhabited
chiefly by sea fowl and spiders, almost
on the equator, $40 miles from the
coast. Fernando de Noronha Is an
island belonging to Brazil, 125 miles
from the coast, miles long and mile
and half wide. It's surface is rugged
and marked by number of rocky hills
feet The soil is extraordinarily fertile
and the climatic salubrious. 1t is used
as a penal settlement.
From Natal the planes are proceeding
to Bahia, 625 miles, and thence to Rio
de Janeiro, 844 miles.
In his encyclical of date December 81,
$780, Pope Plus XII emphasizes the
sanctity of marriage and strongly con-
dennis divorce, trial marriage and birth
control.
ARABISTAN.-Ibn Saud, Sultan Of
Nejd and King of the Hejaz, has con-
tracted with the Marconi Co. for con-
struction by the latter of is wireless sta
lions to connect together the most i'm
oortant points of his realms, Holy Mecca
included. Quite as wonderful that as
anything in the Arabian Nights, if not
as romantic Sizeable territory that over
which his majesty holds sway, though q
little arid. Arabia has an estimated
area of 100000 square miles and ap
estimated population, mostly Bedouin
tribes" of about 5000, 900; HejaZ has an
estimated area of ITO square miles, and
population of about 100000. Mecca,
10000, Is in Hejaz, as also the other
sacred place, Medina, 10000.
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SIAM.-Siam participates in the
planetary slump, but not seriously, be-
cause Siam Is predominantly an agri-
cultural country. She exports some;
but rice constitutes 10 per cent of her
export in value, and the demand for
her rice has not appreciably fallen.
There are, indeed, things to be said in
favor Of an agricultural economy. But,
Of course, the thing to be aimed at in
each case is the just balance between
agriculture and manufacturing, as was
set forth so admirably by Kuan Chung,
prime minister OF the Chi state IN the
seventh century B. c., in his treatise on
political economy. cannot but think
that he had a clearer head than
Mencius.
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CLIMATIC peoples conference
summoned for May 5 Is to comprise
$40 delegates whereof 450 will repre-
sent the provinces, ~ the 8 leading cit
les, namely: Marking, Shanghai; Pei
ping Hankow, Hardin, Using Tao, Can
ton and Tientsin; 10 Tibet and rs the
overseas Chinese from the United
States, from the Philippines, 1 from
Hawaii, from Canada, l from Cuba.
The mode of selection Of delegates Is
not made quite clear, but apparently
they are to be chosen according to pre-
else rules, by associations such a. cham
bers of commerce, universities, trade
guilds, farmers unions, labor unions
and the Kuomintang
It Is figured that the new tariff,
which went into effect January /, will
add 80 per cent to the cost Of living OF
all foreigners resident in China.
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JAPAN-In Japan the years are
grouped in sequences Of II, each Of the
IL being named after an animal and
tradition ascribing certain Characters
tics according to name. The year 1890
was the year OF the horse. It was ex-
pected to have its ups and downs; It
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