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As a layman, I do not believe ported to use a solder of aluminum alloy have the slightest material effect upon that the Trans-Persian Railway will and a flux in the form of a paste, and after this is applied to the joint, the heat the security of India. Railwaye in
precipitated war of an alcohol or other fame melts it, Europe have never causing it to run freely into the joint, The Siberian Railway brought to a head forming an oxide-free contact, with pera conflict that had been brewing for forty fect adhesion, Metal aluminum, it is years, but only because it traversed Hus- said, can be used by a special process for sian territory alone and ended in one connecting heavy cables of aluminum of the richest and most fertile provinces strands.
of the East. The grim hills of Mekran and the deserts of Eastern Persia will still intervene between India and a pon- sible invader. The trua line of advance on India for a northern for will remain, as it has been since history began. through Afghanistan.
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[BY LOVAT FRASER IN THE DAILY MAIL"
But why, it will be naked, should the Before long the great Trans-Persian railway be supported? I am not going railway scheme will transcend all other to involve myself in a maze of technicali issues in the Middle East. Already it ties about trade routes and Persian topo- dwarfs the internal problems of Poraia,graphy, or about relative times of tran and the recent debate in the House of sit, or about cost and chances of profit, Commons reverted the hold it has taken or about breaks of gauge and other pre- upon men's minds.
cantions, or about why we should help
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RUSSIAN AND INDIAN DEFENCE.
The attitude of the Radical Party to build this line while still refusing to towards the scheme need not concern us go into partnership with Germany at anxiety, about the safety of India but issues than these details. very mach. It is dictated, not by Bagdad. The decision rests on greater rather by hatred of Russia
We have bean picturing to ourselves for Trans Persian line beon a German pro-
many years a docile and submissivo ject it would have been overwhelmed with India, shut off on the landward side by benedictions. Although Russia is literal mountains and deserts, hemmed in by ly the most democratic country in the oceans on which the White Ensign waved world to-day, it is hated because in some supreme, a nice compact Empire which How gravitation is propagated in muddied way it supposed to be at vari- for all practical purposes was about as stantaneously to vast distances, as it has
ance with the intangible thing called accessible as Spitzbergen. We thought appeared to be, has been one of the pro-
Liberalism. Radical opposition to the this comfortable arrangement might go foundest mystories. In a Franch A Trans-Persian scheme arises from senti- for ever. We must now awaken from
thesa
dreams. paper, Prof. Boussinesq has mental hostility to Russia and has little offered a new theory, assuming that such relation either to the merits of the pro- of miles of railway we have built in We have boasted of the many thousands body, each material point in space, is posed railway or to the safety of India.
India. Not only have we done nothing surrounded by an infinitely attenuated "presence," and that this connects it—
towards those international communica Military objections to the railway must tions which are being pressed forward in like an elastic band-with all other be treated with greater respect because every other great country, but we have hodies within its range of action. The they are both sincere and widespread. not even made suficient through routes variations of action are not successively Many soldiers, some of thems of great within our own borders. transmitted, require no time. The eminence, argue that a railway through
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"We have tween these two great ports by sea. hypothesis seems to agree with that of a years to keep Russia as far away from India and Burma; again the sea must.
a hundred There is actually no railway between continuoes mediuinor ether-filling all India as possible. We have fought two be sought Railways are being developed TAKING A COAL-PILE'S TEMPERATURE, wars to maintain Afghanistau as a buffer in the Malay Peninsula, we have never A new apparatus for determining
State. The whole policy of Indian de a coal-stack is becoming no fence is based upon the theory that Rue Inought of linking them up with the system. The French have built heated as to be liable to take fire spon India.
sia should never be allowed to approach a railway from Tongking to the heart Lord Kitchener hurried on bis of the Chinese province of Yunnan; we taneously is an auger with a bore in the top to receive a maximum thermometer great redistribution scheme because he have scoffed at every suggestion for a
when Russia built registering 200deg. to 500deg. F. The was alarmed
a railway between India auger is sunk in the stack to the neces- new line from Orenburg to Tashkent, although a practicable route exists all sary depth, allowed to remain 10 minutes. And now we are asked not only to open enter a train at Calais to-day and go the way to the Upper Yangtse. We can
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The answer to these objections is that all the way to Poking and Hankow by it was never contemplated that India rail; yet fright is expressed when any. should for over remain isolated by land one talks of the far shorter railway WHARF from the world without. The founder journey from Calais to Calcutta. of the Middle Eastern school of politi cians was the late Sir Henry Rawlinson,
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veryone assured me there would and externally. The toxic properties of scheme for "a continuous iron road to the argonic are said to be practically units East and West" ought to enlist he any more, because the Chiness would neutralized in the combination, and the the common sympathy and support of all not disturb the spirits of their ancestors. slight faver following internal admin the European Powers. British soldiers The moment the Chinese discovered the istration is supposed to be due to the and civil administrators have repeatedly practical advantages of railways they changes set up in the cancerous tissue, sought to extend railwaya from India thought no more about the spirits of Many cases of alleged cure or benefit are
their ancestors. In the making of Chi- westward, Lord Roberts wanted to build given. The preparation is claimed to
a line to the Peiwar Kotal in 1880. Vasteso railways there have been corruption check the cancer,
even where opera quantities of rails for a line to Kanda- and speculation and extravagance, of tion cannot be attempted, and in the har were collected at Chaman, on the course; but is the name of Hudson, the stationary or improved condition the Afghan frontier, and possibly are there China to-day is being covered with rail-
railway king, forgotten in this country patient may retain general health and still. Lord Curzon actually built the strength. When applied externally the first section of a projected line from wave, and some of them are already in effect is believed to be to prevent the Quetta ta
communication Lord Kitchener
Europe. return of cancer after operation an urged the Amir Habibullah to build a Central Asia is in touch with Europe. example of this is the case of a wordan od railway from the Khyber to Kabul. Persia as far south as Ispaban soon will 82, from whose face a cancer was cut two Three years ago, when I was standing on whatever we may say or do. So will years ago, and in whom symptoms of a the fort at Jamrud, I saw the mysterions Asia Minor. Even the Holy Cities of return of the disease were checked by line built by Lord Kitchener from that Arabia will soon be linked up without this remedy from India.
breek, except at the Bosphorus. spot along the abur some reason Everywhere the locomotive is bursting towards Afghanistan. For through frontiers, as it has burst or other it has since been born up by the walls of Peking and the Great Wall Lord Morley,
of China. We cannot resist the inevit able. There is no reason why we should try to do so. We cannot tell people that to get to India when they might reach they mast continue to take fourteen days there in seven days.
The House of Commons once decided to build a bridge across the Thames at Westminster would bring about the entering the Calcutta express at Calais disruption of England. When we are
Trans-Persian Railway in the same cate. we shall place the opposition to the gory as that remarkable resolution.
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To what extent animals are shaped by what they feed on may not now be told, but it appears that the alimentary canal, at least, adapts itself in size to the kind
THE WORLD CANNOT STAND or concentration of food eaten. In 280 The larger answer to the military, specimens of mammals, representing 30 jections in, however, that military plans species, A. Maguan has found the ratio and strategy must be readjusted to meet of the length of the canal to the length changing conditions. The world cannot of the body to be least in carnivorous stand still. The first bows and arrows species, greatest in herbivorous, and in must have seriously disturbed the staff termediate in animals of mixed food. officers of the fint-axe armies. The same is true of birds. The dif. Duke of Wellington declared that rail ference, moreover, seems to be not in ways would ruin England. Consider, length alone, but in the actual surface for example, the extraordinary changes of the canal as related to body size. which neroplanes will produce in the
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