The Facts of the Day

IN PARIS

The Senate voted, in its session yesterday, to reestablish the district ballot, by 232 votes to 32.

In diplomatic circles in Paris, it is believed that Mr. Marx would not dissolve the Reichstag, but would resort to a popular referendum. As for the evacuation of Dortmund, it should be delayed until after the signing of the London agreement by Berlin.

Captain Pelletier d'Oisy and his companion, Sergeant-Major Bésin arrived yesterday morning, at ten o'clock. Several thousand enthusiastic admirers came to the Gare de Lyon to cheer the two heroes of the Paris-Tokio raid. What the cheers were from this ardent crowd, moved to tears, one cannot imagine. One must have heard them. The return of Pelletier d'Oisy Bésin was triumphant.

IN THE PROVINCES

Versailles. The aviator Emile Clément, who was testing aircraft last night over the Buc airfield, fell 200 meters, the causes of which are unknown. Picked up seriously injured, the unfortunate pilot was taken by car to the hospital in Versailles, but he died en route.

Avignon. The town of Vaison, so rich in Gallo-Roman memories, and which has an ancient theater, will henceforth be called Vaison-la-Romaine.

Morlaix. By order of the indictment chamber of the court of Rennes, Séznec, charged with the murder of Mr. Quémeneur, is sent before the Assize Court of Finistère. The case is entered on the roll, dated October 20.

Montmédy. Lieutenant Laurent, on leave, was going to Stenay last night, by motorcycle. At the entrance to Stenay he was collided with by a Belgian car. Taken to the hospital in Stenay, the wounded man was trepanned but he died shortly afterwards.

ABROAD

Brussels. The Brussels newspapers say that Mr. Theunis received Mr. Herbette, the French ambassador, yesterday. The meeting is said to have concerned Franco-Belgian trade relations.

Mr. Hymans had a meeting yesterday with Mr. von Keller, the German minister in Brussels.

London. Mr. Macdonald has given up the idea of ​​attending the Congress of the League of Nations on August 29. He will not go to Geneva until around September 2.

Official news received in London announces that the Wahhabis have been definitively driven out of Transjordan. The government troops, aided by the Bedouins, have taken 200 prisoners. The number of enemy dead and wounded exceeds a thousand.

Berlin. The Chancellor delivered a speech in the Reichstag yesterday morning, in which he stressed the importance of the decision that the Reichstag must make. In closing, the Chancellor wondered what would happen if the Reichstag rejected the London Pact and the proposals for implementing laws. "In London, the problem of inter-allied debts almost caused the conference to fail, and this danger was only avoided by means of a very precarious compromise. If we break the threads tied in London, these dangers will resurface again and America will cease to concern itself with the fate of Europe."

About twenty cases of typhus have been reported in Frankfurt an der Oder.

Moscow. Messrs. Rakowski and Scheinmann have flown to London.