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

."NdE following IS prleI summary
Of the most important news Of
the world for the seven days
ended January 10, 1881:
GREAT BRITAIN.-Some 1000 weav-
ers in 10 mills in the Lancashire cotton
district having struck tentatively in
protest against introduction OF the
more looms per weaver system, the cot
ton magnates have threatened a gen.
eral lockout, to involve perhaps $780,
900 workers should the strike spread.
There Is no doubt that the automatic
machinery I'm general use in the
United States and Japan" permits OPP
GRAFTON of to 10 looms with scarcely
more physical effort than is required to
operate four of the old-fashioned looms.
The issue involved in the proposed
naturalization Is the immemorial one.
Negotiations continue looking TO set
Element of the strike in process in the
South Wales coal fields involving about
$50, 900 miners. There has seemed some
danger of spread Of the strike to the
WarwickShire area, but the present
auspices seem favorable to a settlement.
A strike Is threatened in the boot
and shoe industry, to involve about
100, 900 workers. The workers demand
increases of the minimum weekly wage
from the equivalent of $14 to SIS. The
operators demand reduction TO $l3.
It is thought that the destroyer fio-
tilla leader Codrington, recently COM
pleted, is the fastest war vessel in the
world In a speed test she averaged
36.8 knots over four hours and at times
made two knots better, all without
crowding and though designed for a
speed of only IS knots. French and
kolf
than 40 knots but under crowding.
Italy Is said to have four cruisers capa-
BILE Of a trifle over 40 knots under su-
preme pressure.
This is the 200th year since the birth
Of Erasmus Darwin. He was memorable
for two things-as the grandfather of
Charles Darwin and as the author of
1.-THE Botanic Garden" which, fantas-
tically enough furnished ingredients to
the cruc1ble from which emerged THE
Ancient Mariner" The second part of
THE Botanic Garden" was most anus
ingly parodied by Canning in the
Ants Jacobin." Anything that sensibly
contributed toward The Ancient Mari
ner" or challenged the comic muse of
| Canning Is memorable.
y n \
FRANCE.-Marshall Joseph jacques
! Cesaire Joffre died on January 3. He Is
| PROBABLY regarded WlCn more auecLlOn
than any other of the prominent French
| generals of the war, but there seems to
be a growing tendency to belittle his
ability. To be sure, he was not genius
like Foch or Gallieni, but he had much
! solid talent He was an excellent
mathematician. Skillful engineer,
! very able organizer, and firm and eff
Gent disciplinarian without being a
martinez. He had resolution and poise
Of very high order. The French army
owed a great deal to him by way Of or
ganization, education and morale. Like
most of the other French commanders
\ of the great war, he had profited by
colonial experiences. Had he died be-
| fore the Marine, his name would still
| be surviving in the histories with a
| faint romantic aroma as that of the
| captor of T1mbuktu. He was cooper's
son from a Pyrenes village. Papa"
| Joffre; requiescat in pace.
The funeral was held magni1cently
at Notre Dame. En- route thither from
the hospital the body was placed for
a moment beside that Of the unknown
soldier. The grave Is In the marshal'S
| own garden, his pride and delight.
| II \
| TTALY.-On January ten great Ital-
ian seaplanes, In three divisions, new
above the harbor Of Natal, Brazil and
alighted On it, surface, completing q