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THAT MESSAGE FROM MARS.
MYSTERIOUS SOS'S" FROM NOWHERE.
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London was startled recently by the staggering suggestion of aj contemporary that the inhabitants. of the Sun, or the Moon, or Mars -it is not very clear which- were in clandestine communicat- ion with the farconi Telegraph Company.
These mysterious beings it was binted, were finding some dif- ficulty in expressing their emot- iors; but had managed to send to the Earth a pathetic kind of, "5.0.5"
In the dead of night, as well as in the middle of the day; the letter "S." Boating mysteriously, out of interstellar spaces, intrude ed itself between the prices of the Stock Exchange, and disturbed the operators with visions of the Unseen.
TWELVE MONTHS AGQ. Whatever element of wonder there is in these greetings from the Einstein warpings and weft- ings of space was indicated by Mr. Marconi himself on January 20 of last year in an interview in the Daily Chronicle with Mr. Harald Begbie. In that article, Mr. Begbie wrote:-
"Mr. Marconi stopped speak- ing for a moment, and then, as if the matter was something so un-j certain that he did not feel it worthy of aught but a passing mention. told me that he had often received strange, signals out of the ether, which seemed to come from some place outside the earth and which might con-
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he declared but as to their having been sent from the planets he protested that there was nothing to show that the matter had advanced beyond the stage of "purely fanciful speculation."
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H.M.S. Malaya, off Wilheln-¡ Union of the Established Church shaven. January 17. For the l of Scotland and the United Free first time since the war Church of Scotland was brought British Navy this morning salut-! within measurable distance bet the Germans, H.M.S. Malaya the decision taken at- a meeting firing twenty-one guns on MR. MARCONI PROTESTS,
of the Commission of Assembly arrival bere with the members of The following explanation of of the Church of Scotland held the Inter-Allied Commission of his statement was given to an Edinburgh this afternoon. The Control on board. Dolly Chrised representative by next stage. is Mr. Marconi-
approach Parliament for an Art recognis
It was expected that the Gier- man Naval Peace Commission "I desire to protest against the ing the new Constitution.
would come aboard in the moro- terpretation that appears to Thave reen put upon statements receive reports from the Presby accordingly. All that happened To-day's meeting was called tong, and preparations were made which I have made at intervals teries on the draft articles of the was that a little erinan naval during the last few years with declaration of the Constitution lieutenant, very nervous and very regard to the possible sources of of the Church of Scotland in impressed, arrived and made al what are being termed myster- matters spiritual. These articles, long statement, beginning with! ious messages from the unknown.
after up
the German Admiral's gree ings. longi A "Wireless messages afe trans- series conferences with and ending with an urgent re- mitted through the ether by the the Committee of the Unitedest that no members of the agency of electro-magnetic waves Free Church, propuse certain British or French skips of definite lengths, which can be notifications in the constitution panies should be allowed ashore, adjusted, and in order to receive of the Church of Scotland.
as the attitude of the people was such messages the receivers must
uncertain. He added that special be tuned to the particular wave-Church, reported that 74 Presby safeguard any officers who would Mr. Alan Menzies, agent of the precautions had been taken to length that is used for transmisteries had approved of the draft have to go ashore on official sion.
articles, and wine had disap-business.
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At times signals are received proved. which are apparently due to
is visit was returned an hour length (up to hundreds of miles), noti electro-magnetic waves of grea:
The Rev. Dr. Wallace William- or so later by the British officer; Edinburgh, submitted aon the guard who had, in- and these signals are not of the motion that the Commission, mediately on landing, an exper- same character as those com-having received the report on the ience suggesting that the old monly catted 'X's' or strays
returns from the Presbyteries, rat tape of Prussianism Occasionally such signals can be should authorise the Committee by
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and these signals occur at all for union. This resolution, said Morse signals for certain letters, regard to legislation necessary meet him, but he had to cross seasons and irregularly.
Dr. Williamson, was the outcome of twelve laborious years on the part of the Church and its The sources of such signals Committee. He stated that the are unknown. They may be in need had been proved for the atmosphere or outside it and working arrangement between due to electrical disturbauces, the Church the State, each free to If outside the atmosphere they exercise its power within its own may arise in any point of inter-sphere. The policy of the Church planetary space, possibly in the of Scotland, as a National Church, sun, where it is well known that had always been a policy of con- electrical disturbances occur.
cillation and reunion. "Obviously, since the planet.
There was a long and at times Mars is situated somewhere near beated debate, and ultimately Dr. intr-planetary space, the Wallace Williamson's motion was Source of such signals might be carried by 219 votes against 36 on it, or on
any other planet. for an amendment for delay. There is nothing, however, to
The Commission will show that this is the case, nor approach Parliament for an Act LONDON DIRECTORY must any purely fanciful specula- recognising the new constitution.
tions of mine be interpreted to If this is granted, certain State very frigid reception, orthodox mean that I have asserted having shackles, which were hindering remarks were rade, received any intelligible CT unintelligible
unity with another and non-State returned, followed to the picket messages
snotty," in Church wit be removed and the boat by what the Mars, or from any other point of way cleared for finding a basis the boat described as "a grimac-
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WHAT ASTRONOMERS SAY. Sensational suggestions of the
|| possibility of wireless comm- munication with the planets were
enthusiasm
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an Admiral. and that nobody could mistake him for other than what he was. Only after the ringing of many telephone bells innumerable questions and an swers among the Germans them- selves was the officer allowed to proceed. Then, of course, half. way. a tyre hurst, and the journey now had to be finished on foot.
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In the afternoon senior German officers came aboard. They were received with a guard of Marines. there was much saluting, very received with a singular lack of whether he believed that the formal, and
very punctilious. astronomical mysterious sounds, said to be There was no handshaking, the circles. Leading British astron from the planets, he merely while the attitude of the British beard by wireless óperators, came Germans were very ill at ease, already either expressed the opinion that life replied, "I don't think there is officers was courteous, but very does not exist on the planets or any scientific reason to deduce cold. confessed their inability to speak anything either way." The
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