an increase in resistance with which it was necessary to effect any resolution on Sept. 15, with a reassuring effect. Other provinces in the conferences of Aug. the Peace settlement, the transitional instruments of nego- tiable at sight. But as soon as ¢ becomes finite the rate paid and most of the agreements provide for an advance in Sept. 1924. Post-War Events.—The Sharifian administration, mild enough during the course of investiga- tion with