WAR AFTER THE WAR.
A NOTABLE BOOK.
REPUTATIONS'GO DOWN LIKE
NINEPINS.
except British divisions in Italy, which were not under his command." Meanwhile----
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE VOLSTEAD ACT.
AMERICANS IN CHINA,"
FROHIBITION PROSPECTS,
.
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ETHER FALLACY.
AN EINSTEIN LECTURE,
SPECIAL RELATIVITY ACTION.
HOME TRADE.
on
On February 28. Sir Douglas, Haig and Petain et at jthe Grand Quar
MANCHESTER MARKET. tier General ànd-arranged van- other scheme of latence on a com
LATEST WEEKLY REPORT. pletely different praeciple to that off A bill has again been introduced the General Reserve. It was the into the House of Representatives New York, April 22-Dr. Albert was which seeks to extend the enforce Estein showed yesterday in his "At the Supreme Council," by principle that it: one army
Messrs. James F. Huttin & Co., Captain Peter Wright, published by attacked the other should assist by ment of the Volstead Act to Americans lecture in the College of the City of Ltd Manchester, reported Eveleigh Nash and Co. is a book sore taking over part of its line. Under in China and other U.S.A consular New York how his theory of special Wednesday, April 27, as follows ... to make some stir. On its paper the General Reserve plan, an author districts where treaties do not prevent alativity does away with the ether Cotton has been quietly steady with overcoat we are told that in it ty higher than any of the Con Such a bill has been introduced is absolute space. The quanta theory good undertone. Spot business "reputations go down like ninepins." | manders-in-Chief decided what assist When such a reason is offered for Race one of them could receive from several times before but has never or the theory that energy is given out in both American and Egyptian is not to read it, Scandal is pretty of February 22 every Commander Act itself was passed in 1919, allogical, he said, whereas the relativity shadows much increased demand in buying a book, one's nahural impulse the other. Under the arrangement] yet been passed. When the Volstead in parcels and is not continuous, is enquiry on all bands seems to fore-
memoirs. And whatever the book
assistance he would give a colleague.
THE HAIG-PETAIN AGREEMENT.
THE LOCAL POSITION.
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steadily · improves and the better
amendment which would make it effective in China and in the Philippinement.
developments in the coal dispute still Islands, was discussed. It was dis- may make us think, it does not
This is the greatest pain of physics militates against the restoration of make us wholly like its writer.
carded by the Committee of the to-day," said Professor Einstein confidence however. In the yarn and He knows how to write; he has Captain Wright adds that "this new Judiciary, however, for several reasons humorously. During the course of cloth sections the healthier feeling clearly a quick and capable mind: scheme certainly would not have among them being the difficulty his lecture he frequently smiled as he is still in evidence and the improved
Petain, as it and he had great opportunities for been initiated by
attending the enforcement of such a pointed out some of the amusing demand has been. well maine of M. learning things that few of us know was, without the assent In 1917 and 1918 be was Assistant Clemences. But it was uninown to ruling and the fact that it was thought results of the acceptance of the retained in spite of the coal strike pot
that the Philippine Legislature would lativity theory.
being" settial. Enquiry does pot Secretary to the Supreme War Coun- Foch, who waited patiently for itself pass a prohibition amendment cil at Pails. He interpreted speeches English answer during the whole of
Professor Einstein defined light-skew any falling off and the turnover bas again been comparatively satis- at nearly all the critical discussions į February." He believes that Petain. The Hawaiian Islands passed by local ether, which is the medium for the factory. It appears in fact to have i option a prohibition measure several or between the Military Representa required on February 6, relied on years before the. Valstead Act was theory of light radiation. If it is weeks. Prices for both yar and tives of the Allied Powers, or between Haig to refuse obedience, and soake passed.
to transfer energy in this way it must cloth tend to stiffen. The amount the members of the Executive War the whole General Reserve plan a
have the material properties of inertia of business arranged recently has Board the various bodies through failure, and that Haig calculatingly Being a territory of the United and elasticity, he said. The electro-been
very fair considering the which the Allies tried to achieve unity kept back his repudiation till March States, however, these Islands come magnetic theory pushed this view stagnation we have experienced of military action before they finally 3; that is to say, till the fighting was under the acts and provisions of the into the background, and it came to for so long and the difficulties still established unity of command. It about to begin, and it would be in Constitution of the United States be considered that only such a field in the way of a resumption of trad- was his duty to draft minutes possible to replace him....
to control all the far as Foch was concerned, the hibition ruling in 1919. The Philip point of view, he said, was brought been general; rates at which business be and therefore carne under this pro-was necessary. This difference in the ins. So far as producers are cou- of meetings,
cerned, the improvement has not yet documentary records of the agreement (between Petain and Council, and to marshal beforehand Haig) was a secret agreement, and he pines, being a protectorate, require a about particularly by Lorentz's theory has been possible have been very low the information on which discussion was therefore the victims of an in- special Act of Congress. This is true, which followed the work of Hertz, and in many instances Sellers prefer was to turn. So he was pretty well trigue, a most humiliating intrigue alsa, in China, where American law and finally all mechanical characteristo wait until more profitable prices in the thick of the secrets, And The Haig Petain agreement, if it was is followed as much as possible astics of the ether were lost." *now be unpacks what he knows thus made, was of course a failure to procedare but where constitutional In mechanics there was something many mills which have been idle for
uses it to throw at those ninepins Gough was practically abandoned acts must be made specifically to No, we cannot quite like him. We The General Reserve plan had apply. like better the people who could crumbled to pieces on Haig's refusal) have done it and have not. And yet we must not deny that we have
This was bought out very clearly
of participation, and nothing effectual by Judge Lobingier when he gave had taken its place. Captain Wright judgment on the motion for a new
"By the Constitution a government Captain Wright summarises asis ordained and established for The follows Haig's whole record in United States of America, and not relation to the question of unity of for countries outside of their limits
Experience at last convinced Sir
Captain Wright's advice is to admire Foch, Lloyd George, and Henry Wilson; to blame Haig, Robertson and Ferain. He is so fery that at times be would make it command: almost a comfic! of heroes and
villains. The central point of his is the British defeat by the Germans in March, 1918. That Battle of St. Quentin cost us more men killed in ten days than the whole Peninsular War. It was, as Captain Wright says, the greatest defeat in
accusation
trial
or sojourners abroad."
similar to the conception of ether, he pointed out, Newton was responsible for the abstract character of space as understood in classical mechanics. Besides the inertia system which may
AS
| are obtainable. On the other hand
sometime have recommenced work and others are making arrange- ments to do so." At the same time both spinners and manufac rers more generally regard cotton read him with zest, and that what suggests that..." Petain first used trial by jury in the case against serve for reference in classical me and yaru as safe propositions and he says will have to be dealt with' Haig to get rid of Foch's superior \ Farbush. He cited the Ross casechanics, something more basic is/are quietly covering their probable by others, before the country can command; then induced Haig to enter
requirements. The opinion of cloth Bually know whem to blame and into the necessarily disastrous agree when the Federal Supreme Court required to refer things to, somethingers is abo hardening in the stone whom to admite.
ment of February; and, lastly, duped made the ruling-
known as the ether or absolute space, direction, but unfortunately the him in the execution of it.
he continued.
ability to operate is far from general The effect of the special relativity owing to financial considerations theory in destroying the idea of Progress is being made although it absolute rest and showing the equival is very slow, but now that more con The guarantees it affords against ence of all intertia systems is to cast fidence in values is being established apply only to off the ether in the sense of absolute even this restricting factor Douglas of what, reasoning had been citizens and others within the United space. That is what is meant by may be expected to diminish more unable to persuade him. When in States or who are brought there for 1917 Mr. Lloyd George had made
special relativity doing away with rapidly, India demand remains the and not to residenta the ether," he said. If. physical almost all classes of goods with the most important and now embraces Nivelle supreme commander at the Calais Conference on February 27,
properties are ascribed to empty space exception of fancies, which are The Volstead Act, itself, applies we speak of an ether. But space seldom asked for. Enquiry from Haig had simply repudiated Nivelle's directions on March 4 when he re only to the manufacture, sale, and without electromagnetic fields has Egypt and the Levant is more pro- ceived them. When in 1918 Foch, transportation of liquor. That fact no characteristics whatsoever." On mitent and rather more business bas as President of the Executive War very simply tells the story of its this is based the special relativity been put down. Singapore and Java. Captain Wright's contention is that Board, had been in, reality made effect in such a port as Shanghai theory that the electromagnetic field have also done a little, but there are for the extent of this calamity Petain, supreme commander on February 1. Very little business is done by Ameri-is the ultimate reality, and it is only still no signs of any material impro Haig, and Clemenceau were to blame: Haig again repudiated his directions can business firms in liquor traffic where electromagnetic fields are found yement in the demand for China, for Fetzin supremely so. as a disloyal in- on March 2. In each of these years locally. Buch organizations as the that kinematic or material properties which market transactions have again triguer against the superior authority unity of command had been frustrated American Club would probably take exist.
been very limited. of the War Board-that is, really, of by his refusals, resting on a character Foch; Haig in the second degree, as a of iron tenacity and the most gentle-out a charter under another national-
The quantum theory grew out of dupe and assistant of Petain manly, attractive surface, and on eity and continue in business. Individ the radiation theory, he said. A Clemenceau in some minor degree, as mind both obtuse and extraordinarily als would not be affected at ali since theory can be developed on classical an accessory to Petain's insubordin- slow. The Commander-in-Chief was there is nothing to prevent an Ameri-Imes, but the theory suffers from ation. Captain Wright describes how, knightly figure, with all the bear can citizen using alcoholic drinks in self-inconsistency and it does not in the winter of 1917-18, the Executive ing and temper of a leader, but the States if he can get them The correspond to actaal experiment, was War Board that is, Foch, Wilson, on a very low plane of human in amendment makes it practically in his contention. This theory leads Bliss (the American), and Cadoma- teligence, as elderly cavalry en possible to obtain liquors and wines to the conclusion that the electro- got to work, with full authority to sometimes are Even on March 14. and therefore, effectively carries cut magnetic energy of the universe,
From Maine to California it is con- co-ordinate the efforts of the Allies twelve days before, he had, persisted the spirit of the law. and direct their several Commanders in London in re-jecting the scheme of
the energy of light waves, wireless sidered bad luck to kill a cat. That in-Chief in the field. Foch evidently the General Reserve, and therefore in
waves and X-rays, accumulates is because the Egyptians of old. ze- dominated over them all. The plan effect of a single central command. There is then, the moral aspect of among the bigher frequencies, that garded the cat as a sacred animal adopted was that a General Reserve But very early on Sunday, March 26, the case which seeks to prove that is, an X-rays and still shorter under the protection of the cat-headed
Our history.
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of thirty divisions should be created
a
sea, that he submitted to unity of command, and an authority superior
to his own, for which Mr. Lloyd George had always striven.
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he telegraphed to London asking Mra loyal American citizen would live rays. But this is not so, Professor goddess Pakht, who was identified by setting apart a seventh of the Lloyd George to come over and up to the spirit rather than the letter Einstein said. Max Planck formulat- with Isis as a moon-goddess; or rather, total Allied force from the North Sea arrange for a single Supreme Cam of the law. That, of epurse, is a ed a theory which does find veri-it seems probable, represented some to the Adriatic" and "on February mander. He had never been able question of ethics and, since every fication in fact, and he gave a physical attribute of Isis. Some Egyptolo 6 letters were addressed to each to grasp that the system of double human being regards it as bis inalier meaning to his expressions. gists even speak of a cat-headed god Commander-in-Chief, asking him if command might expose him to being able right to determine his own ethical he would contribute his quota pro. forced to fight, Ludendorff by himself, code so long as he does not break the be introduced with peculiar origin, considered feminine as a rule and Isis A new physical constant had to called Paaht; though the moon was portionate to the number of divisions and it was not till he had been doing Laws of his country deliberately or he went on. Planck investigated the was its goddess. It appears as if he commanded."
Captain Wright, so for three days, and the prospect encroach upon the rights of others, number of ways that energy can Egyptian mythology varied under without professing verbatim accu- of continuing to do so actually opea- there is little chance of its being be distributed between different fre- the different dynasties. At any rate about sport, which the Prince of racy, summarises Foch's statement of ed before him, together with the the situation before March, 1918, and likelihood of being driver into the decided satisfactorily to everyone. quencies, to do which a certain dis- the moon and the cat were intimately Monaco has helped along by declaring of his proposals for meeting it:
One man will say that while he iscreetsess must be attributed to energy, connected in the ancient beliefs, the himself against the pigeon-shooting, Ludendord must launch his mass
perfectly willing to obey the laws of said Professor Einstein. Planck as cat was considered a sacred snimal of attack either westward or south
his country where they apply; resumed that the energy in radiation and mummies of cats were reverently for which, among other things, Monte ward, either towards the British side
gardless of his own personal opinion occurred in amounts which were pro- placed in the tombs.
Carlo is infamous, has now penetrated of the aogle in the Cambrai region
regarding them, there is nothing to portional to the frequency of the It is thought that the domestic cat to the Commons. Mr. Shortt, who or towards the French side of the All this is very trenchant and swee prevent him following his own ideas radiation. This is fundamental originated in Egypt and spread from as Home Secretary has had his notice angle and the Rheims region. But ping, and, both the scientific mind of right and wrong if an illegality is principle in molecular constitution. there to other countries. It was if be is successful and drives one or and the spirit of fairness instinctively not involved. Others consider that
called to pigean-shouting Classical theory agrees poorly with sacrilege to kill a cat în the land of other of these lines back, he himself put themselves on their guard in since the majority of American citizens experience, he said. For instance, the Pharaohs and as we have inherited Chatham football ground, dubbed it a Mrs A. Hoy, Mrs 8. Johnson, Mr presents an unguarded and open presence of extreme
and voted for prohibition in their home-sunlight causes
W. Kayz, Mm W. 7. Moynan, M; V, A. certain flank; and the more successful be trenchancy. One wants to hear more land, it is the duty of every American decompositions. Looked at from the herited the idea that it brings bad ment could not deal with it. Someone Mesra Fun Lam Bang, Fung Bow Yal chemical the cat from Egypt so have we in cruelsport, but he feared the Govern Seidler, and Mr Tan Kip. For Kobe; is, and the more he enlarges the What, exactly, were the relation, in wherever he is to prove his loyalty viewpoint of classical mechanics the luck to all one. Sailors are par-aid "Why?" and someone else, Takobama: Mr 7. J. Gorman For angle, the longer and therefore the point of authority and discipline, and devotion:
and Mr and Mrs Chuen Bak You. For more open and unguarded his flank between the Executive War Board
radiation of electromagnetic fields ticularly firm in their belief in the will be.
Speculation regarding enforcement shakes the molecules apart by viol-mystic qualities of a cat and while "Ishit worse than pheasant-shooting?" Battersby, Mr B. A. Baum, Miss 3,
Seattle: Mr B. F. Battersby, Mn B F. I will therefore divide my General in the field?
and the several commanders-in-chief is also interesting. The work would ence. So if light is weak enough no they are sure that she can bring ons We think it is, and for a reason no autox Me and His 7. Q. Cleormer. Reserve into three portions, of sent them
to
fall on the U. S. Court in Shanghai decomposition should be expected, storm if she wishes yet they are con- sportsman will cavil at. The shooting P. Custodic; Mrs C. A. Trick Master La Mr D. Clinton Mr H. F. Compton, Miss different sizes. The smallest portion an order, or a request, or and on the consular officials in the 16 But, however weak the light may be, vinced that some disaster is sure to of pigeons is a test of nothing, and Dick, Mira A. Fairbanks, Capted. I will place Dauphine, close to the suggestion? Was the "assent" asked consular districts throughout China. best crossing into Italy; the largest for the. "Very good, sir," of a
he said, as long as it is of the right happen if one is killed on board the an excrcise in nothing but shooting. Gibson, MD. Legarda M. Mortaron, I will concentrate round Paris; the subordinate, or the "Yes, I think so The conclusions arrived at are very place. No matter how intense the own.
frequency the decomposition takes ship, the moon-goddess avenging its The moving dummy figures of the Rotatort, G. C. Bokens, Kr and Mes third portion I will place round too, and am acting accordingly" of a simple finally. The Volstead Act light may be the decomposition does
fairground, the balls that dance on and kes Bang, Me W. H. Hayden, Rer. Yip Wing Choi, Master Tip Hang. Mr Amiens. From the concentration of co-ordinate authority? Again, there may be made to apply to the Philip not happen if the light is not of the
jets of water, or, for that matter, an E. P. Motardy, Mrs. G. Wallahghy, German troops the attack must come is 1 curious absence from Captain pines and Chins by Act of Congress right frequency.
old hat tresed in the air in the bacle Mrs H. Posner, Chiba A. H.-W. Bár in the Rheims or Cambrat region: Wright's pages of any reference to Americans are not in the liquor busi
B. H. Henderson, Mr Ip Tom Yack,
Mr garden, would make sport AVERY G. Mevarthy, Miz Griper Me Mr and Mrs 0.′′EA HUNT.
Mr H. P. "Malloy, Mr W. A. Moanabe,
sweep
Was the letter
on February 6
a
those laws.
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
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Reserve round Paris is best situated ineffectual and disobedient, com extent and would not be greatly to explain interference phenomena energy. If such & system. be put who pits his skill and endurance Miss G. Miller. Mr and Mrs E. G. A continuous distribution of energy can go from B, which is the state whit as good. It is shameful to B, Elias M. BesHagter to come to the help of either region.mander-in-chief in the field, Sir Joba effected. The enforcement of, the a confict which constitutes the pain into a field of radiation this field against a tiger or a mountain takes Richards. Mrs D. Rogera HD Bo- The Amiens portion stands behind French. Nor in all his censures of would be difficult but not in of physics Professor Einstein had through its action may, cause ether a certain risk. Even if he only gers, Man & Shaw, Mr WAM Smith, the British Fith Army, the weakest Robertson and Repington-we give point of the line, and ready to support him these. So far as we can sift possible and would not prew at an it. The Dauphine portion is situated Captain Wright's evidence, there is no American citizen drinking if he chose previously referred to. In Planck's to go from B to A or from A to B. challenges a friend at tennis, at least D. Tani Mr C. Thornd, Vier De L so as to be able to go to the assistance defending them on any tenable theory to in his home, with his English assume certain energy values, that go from A to B under this influence blazing at birds, liberated for Kroll, KPL Matheson, Mas Le Hashim, theory a material system can only The probability that the system will he expends a certain energy. This Whittlesey, Hian M. Whiles quafes H. T. of the Swiss or the Italians, in the of loyal and soldierly conduct--is friends, ör'at English Clubs and reis, a material system can only assume is found, and may be compared with the purpose befprs his nose, texte Mr and MHW; Bareback C unlikely event of their being attacked, there, we think, anything said staurants. Its greatest effect would stain rates, b, c, etc. The the probability that the system will nothing but his eyesight, and for Teary," Mr and Mrsary pede E. Beegar, Mr A. 4. Biennitt, M or to rejoin the rest of the General about the classical case of this be in the Philippine Islands, if it relative probability of these states is go from B to A due to simple radiation that there are a score of tests more Miss R. I Whitefield
kind of misconduct-French's instige- should be made to extend there, what must be investigated, he said This plan was frustrated, and in the tion of Repington and other because in such a case. it would be
and to the effect of the field.
amusing and more sporting. It is merman, Master G. E. Zammeer hour of need there was nothing journalistic intriguera against his possible so to prohibit the traffic in material systein; that is, the frequency given to the equilibrium between even the pheasant-shooter has to Chesney.
That the quality of light from a But consideration also must be admittedly a question of degree, but and Mre Moo Fook Bam, 175 'standing behind the British Fifth superiors. Captain Wright somehow liquors as to make the Islands as dry radiated, depende. absolutely upon the number of systems having etate tramp some awkward ground; the Army". Captain Wright's account gives us an uncomfortable feeling of the cause of this frustration is as that he holds a brief not so much as the United States.-N. C. D. News: the energy in the emission is a funda-E and those entering state-B: This bird gets a chance; and the lees, the follows. By February 19 letters from for discretion and loyalty in soldiers the French and Italian Commanders as for certain soldiers and politicians,
mental assumption, he added. The Planck's law of distribution of energy chance the worse the "sport in the frequency of emission is unrelated to, is derived. If it is true that light is opinion of all decent pheasant the frequency of vibration of the Reserve scheme and promising their soldiers have to be found wanting, towards,part of the truth. So do material system before and after as Planck finds, Prof Einstein said, and the harder the test the better the land is due here on Jung 4 at about
Reserve.
quota, had been received, Nothing He is pro-Foch, pro-Henry Wilson, one side's most passionate witness. was heard from Haig till March 3, pro-Lloyd George. And he is anti- But let us wait to hear what the mission.
it must be considered that the emission sport. Figeon-shooting is no text worth when a letter, dated the previous day. Haig. We do not suggest that this other side says. There is no need Prof. Einstein examined a material of light takes place in one direction the name. Its continuance anywhere was received, refusing to contribute invalidates all that he writes. Law to decide in a hurry-Manchester system in which only two states, from a resonator instead of spreading is merly a gauge of failure to advance any divisions to the General Reserve, yers, though they are out to fight Geardian
wall directions like A
and B
The
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