Show economic highlights ainoo thai affolt th ilia clr dinner polls dividend cheek and tux tax hlll 1111 of livery every Indi individual vidal Nat funni wid international proto lanin parable from local wei welfare a once the singo Is seto sc fr it take much to start a war the example of that occurred in 1914 when the assassination of nil fill obscure archduke in ft city fl few people on oil this side of the water vater had ever heard board of set match to powder keg find resulted in file ahe gre greatest adest and most destructive coi conflict in ili the history of the world 1 repetition a almost occurred q a few weeks ago king AI Alxa xander iuler of 0 augot 41 avla landed at marseilles wils met by loreign foreign minister bar thou lion of franco france surrounded by ceremony and a armed r I 1 n e a men meir tho the process proves ion slon started down tile the main street of the city suddenly ft a fat man leaped to tile running board of tile kings ear car pressed the trig ser gr of a now new style sub machino kun gun which la hardly than a revolver ver twenty shots split the nil air and alexander anti and burthen iny dying the as assassin was cut down hy by the sabre of a cavalry officer almost turn torn to pieces by tho the cros crowd d all tile details of the ailing at once flashed to every corner of world it was dramatic stag iRoy py nut but in ili tile the chancel lories of tile great hat nations ions diplomats feverishly tho the anwer an nn to a single question qu what was the iS on oil thit gibingly minor point the pence peace ot of enrobe the ambition ot of franco today la Is to estabI establish lilt a rin of steel around lonni iny lf if anything she fears the central powers more now than site alil before lie ilia world wr war to her aini alm she phe must en list the cooperation of tho the nations which liko herself bound Oc germany and tit tho m most ost import important antof of these aro are italy and A difficult problem is roused caused by alio tact fact that and italy are extremely unfriendly while they formal rela relations tiong accolla accod by nil all the polite trappings of at old world diplomacy each hates bates and fears the other the ot at Mini minister Bart barthau lioa in dinv inv inviting I 1 t I 1 ng AI alex e X ranee enato wn ato woo iut coup adew 4 bindt and italy Is tile file link in alie prospective rang of E steel and so long ns as she ahe and italy hilly arci ancl cloe to swords sword s points Fran francea coA purpose cannot be accomplished shed therein Is tho the reason for tho the vast importance neachea to tile na an tio of 0 alexanders assassin had he be been Ital italian lati it Js Is safe to say ny that italy mid and would have been at war within 24 hours and it might have been a 4 matter of time before all other 1 european powers lind and possibly this country would have dia drawn i wn ill hi fortunately tor for world peace tho the assassin was 4 a mom her ber of a secret society pledged to fo wipe ipe out alexander Alexande ei a dictatorship which has incurred the enmity of thousands of his bia people like mu allis and stolen staten alexander camo into power in a troubled and torn coutry did not pauso pause at using harall iA methods ethOda to insure hermony the trouble over however ho weTer tile the entire european situation tion lim ima again iwon been upset Alpi alexander andor will bo be followed on tile the throne by king icing peter who la is still a child until lio lie comes come of nao fipo cipo will bo be governed by a regency and there lire gravo grao doubts it t the tur bill gulant ailt Jug olala can an c be ke kept pt un un der control again ns as in the ilat nil cyc catti 8 are arc turned curnc to the balkins tile powder keg of europe it seems that till all the important late news cornea comes from overseas two foreign events ot of international interest remain to be i the first of these la Is tile abo abortive artive I 1 Span spanish tilt revolution and it can bo be disposed of quickly spain today is governed by nil an extremely conservative serva tive government little different from tile monarchy of th the 0 deposed alfonso left wingers staged I 1 tile alio revolt and were defeated at tills this writing all ali la fit calm and clear pit on tile spanish const coast but there ore fire several mill million ion spaniards who sympathize with tile the revolutionists find and abey are not sati sifted itis it Is ls vr v acry r y safe to forecast that cladi tion at al trouble lq in spain will make the headlines within a year ear ind probably rb touch much sooner booner more afore Import important to total anig country la Is tho the recently announced attitude of 0 japan toward the forthcoming three power naval conference there are only three really first class navies in ili tho the world eng ianda ands Ja japans pano kind inna th united states staica under the exis existing fing naval treaty which expires shortly tho ratio between tho the powers is ia 5 5 3 in ili other words for every five tons of nay navy owned by the united i states and england japan la Is al bowed locc d ito to have laroo hrco tons tong and I 1 continue dou on rage pats tw economic hig highlights flights continued from page one on cho bho like it at the next naval conference japan will demand that she bo be permitted to have a navy the tha same size its as england and tile the united states the latter countries will probably refuse in that t case japan will likely withdraw from the conference and sign no morn more tread treaties and build as many war ships as she likes it Is barely possible that mutters will be x arbitrated and that japan will accept a naval ratio of for exam example ale 5 5 4 kut 1 11 t the present attitude of nippon tit at all encouraging and lie he safe tit in betting that the old 5 5 s 3 ratio Is doomed |