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JOHN MILNE AND HIS WORK.

REMOVAL TO OXFORD.

October 29, 1918, Temperature 74 BADA MAZA14ABRUP

The replicement of the early seis. mographs by better instruments was Entrendy overdue, ans, ut Milne's res quent, Mr. 3. J. Shaw, út West Bromwior, had been experimenting on a new type. These experiments Professor H. HI. Tumed bak putere be completed for a year or two, [lished an appreciative article on the. Nevertheless, the work of mak sad menatius the war eine upor work done by the late Frokesor Juhning new machines to replace the old. Alitne. He refers to the fact that and of keeping the Shide observatory The steamier Sun sails for the Far Bourly lack a century ago a few running as a centre for the collation East of November 7th. Halt her accom-going firen were invited by Japan thehot te last half-dozen yes.

of information, hus modation has been requisitioned by the

not tagged Government, leaving Bader 20 berths for to come still touch the science at civilians

Bit grupit lins become more Farope They responded by more difficult, to, mastain the tanglin their piling pupils to excel. obfervatury at Shide. Mr. J. H. lens efect: they as themes Big and Mr. S. W. Pring, who leurat el in tieteelling, and

had worked with Milne in his le PARIS. Cetober Snel Hear by Cable Co.)

returned to zobliko eres at bette, ie, and eating the work under Owing to harder and melting down specify acrested by the earthquake death, and thenfelves called away Incidentally be tissir attention was Committee. For some you after his

The superintendence of the B.A.! and export of coinage, in spite of pro- hibition against such action, silver coin-so common in Japan and so rare in from Shile by business changes aris age has practically gone out of afreule. Fagins. One of them. John Milne, ing out of the war. Other exut help tion in France, although over 1,000,000,000 war fed to devore his life to earth was forthcoming, but when, early in franes should be circulating.

quakes, and on his return to Eng the present year, Mre. Mine found fhad in 1900, with Eis Japanese wife. it advisable to return to her home Roughs for a home where he might in Japon for reasons of health, and hare some chance of studying earth consequently to sell the house to qenkes, however are ani small, nt which the observatory is attached, fairly close quarters. On the advice it became clear that the maintenance For in friend. Profesor Judd, het of Shida the central station was The International Trade Conference elected Side, near Newport, in the no longer feasible. opened today, with five nations reprae of Wight, which he ultimately sented. the object being the stabilising of male so famous by his work that, the world's commerce and determining the as he used sailingly to say there. Amount of credits needed by the war stricken countries.

are now maps of the world with Shide book bequeathed by Mime to the Aonditgly the instruments and marked on them."

But almost at the moment when moved to Oxford provisionally and British Association) are being re- he was selecting this spot as the mosta circular has been dressed to the probable set of disturbance, bis at possibilities. It was found that very information formerly sent to Sibile. tention was diverted to quite other! then in 'future to send to Oxford the various seismological stations, weking

distant earthquakes could be detect- fed with anhabile apparatus; there wasntain continuity at the motreat; It the best that can be done to no need to camp close to headquar- and the maintenatice of British co- ivers, for the fines of conmmunicationtinuity was never more important. stretched all over the globe. Mine For Prince Galitzin diest, during the did not, however, after his choice of war, and the highly efficient Russian a home, though his reason for nutki organisation is presumably in the it was now supenaxed. He set up hands of the Butherists. Germity at Shide, in a used stable, his sins, for a time at any rate, made ber- ply devised but delicate remo-self an impossible coltengue: ehe kas gmphs, and fortbritb observed, Tot agreed by the Fence Treaty to with- The Peking Government has deed at first intended, but earth-The information supplied by th mere locar disturbances such as he draw on international arenciations. cided to construct a motor road. from Peking to Tientsin.

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It IN expected that steps will be taken to forms World Chamber of Commerce. The British delegate. Sir J. H. Simpson, stated that Britain did not ask for help. She only naked that busines be obstructed. Brisain had always paid her debts and always would.

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SHANGHAI, Oct. 28.

The Premier says that all the secret treaties he knows of have now been disclosed.

Two Southern delegates are re turning to Canton on the 3.5. Nan- king."

Wong Yap Tong being a fallure at the Shanghai Peace Conference, no one being willing to listen to him, Chú Kai Kim of Tientsin is being invited to take on the job.

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cakes from Jupus, from Cabral stations of both these nations was, from Alaske. from the Philippines before the war. undoubtedly more from Siberia earthquakes which shake the whole world, and which it's pioneer instruments.

accurate" thin that furnished by our at the rate of more than a hun the new pattern, constructed by Mr. But dred every year, though comparative-1. J. Shaw, is enpuble of a very high- ly few attract public attention by order of accuracy, and the dissemina. shaking down a big city...

A NETWORK OF STATIGNS.

tion of such instruments, which is proceeding as rapidly as war difficul ties permit, will restore the value of the British stations, even when re-

arded us units.

THE LAMP-POST SKISMOGRAPH

But these new possibilities altered the trend of Mine's ideas far beyond this chuige in his own immediate observations.. He promptly con- ceived the den of a network of stations scattered over the globe, moment it becomes necessary to re- It is pathetic that just at this which should compare their observa- tions of each earthquake, thus giving, though the work, and, let us hope, move his observatory elsewhere, in the first place, information of the the spirit of the work will be main. rute at which the news travelled; tained unbroken. Some of the sur- secondly, inferences as to the path roundings which have became fiumi. of the weves through the earth; and bar to workers and visitors from all uitimately, deductions concerning the over the work are being transferred nature of the earth's interior. from Shicle to Oxford with the instru Through his energy this great scheme meats, so that the old traditions may soon became an accomplished fact. be preserved us long as possible. His His ambition was to have the net-seismological library, some volumes work of stations "all British, and bearing the traces of the disastrous he persuaded Colonial Governors, fire which attacked his house in officials of cable companies, scientiJupap, was definitely bequeathed, fio friends abroad, and others, to set with his instruments, to the British up in' all parts of our Empire one or Association Committee above men- more of his simple instruments, and tioned. But there are also the pic- to send to him at Slude their photo-tures, portraits of friends who helped graphic records when an earthquake bin, photographs of landscapes toru occurred. In this great work, the by earthquakes, Historic seismological beginnings of modern weismology, he records, and so forth. Some things was helped by the British Association must be left behind nevertheless; and by a few generous friends, but no there in the old lamp-post which help from the Government was forth Milae bought for thirty shillings and corning in spite of one or two profitted as a ginnt seinograph, which mises. When the infant science had rang a bell in his bedroom when an begun to grow, the Germans started earthquake came along. an International Beismological Asso- however, not altogether a success in It was, ciation at Strasbourg, to which out any of its functions, and its use ha Government contributed an annual been discarded. It must be left be sum which would have meant aohind with the piers all clearly marked service. At the present time "Ereighth, a few years earlier, to Mize. with the amount of tilt due to a pull

At a meeting of Foreign Trade Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce protest was made against the existing steamship service between the Pacific Coast and the Philippines by J. F. Rafferty, Director of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry of the Philippine Government. »

Rafferty pointed out the wonderful opportunities for increased commerce with direct service operating via Honolulu and making Manila the Americuz distributing port of the Far East. That this business will drift away from the Pacific Coast under the present shipping conditions was neered by Zafferty and he claimed it as a duty of the United States Government to provide its insuflar posession in the Pacific with proper

and passengers going to and from Manila have to travel by Japanese. and Chinese boots, taking 30 days instead of 17 which direct service would give.

Filipines, stated Pafferty, are very loyal to the United States, prefer to. do business with this country and cannot understand why the United States ignore the matter of trans- portation, leaving them practically dependent upon preign ships, for commerce and passenger trasporto tion.

The member of the Foreign Trade Committee decided unanimously that it was essential that every effort be, used to remedy the situation. It' won agreed to endeavour by every means to have the first fire hrge passenger steamere now being built by the Shipping Beard allocated to. the Pacific Coast-Maria ruh and that in the interim every effo be unde to marense the direct freight service. Representations will be im mediately made to the Shipping Board by the Chairman of the Foreign Trade Committee, Marshall Dill and F. F. G. Harper of the Company of that name, to be later backed up and followed through by the entire resources of the Chamber,

Ho it the contrust deeply, and for of one pound. Indeed, a finger-pres many yours could not bring himself sure of only an ounce or two set the to work with the new sociation. enlama in motion, so delicate wAS But ditimately his unfailing genial- the adjustment.

ity triumphed, and he attended the

The Milne Earthquake Observatory meeting of the new association at has been removed from Shide, Isle Manchester, where he was most cor- of Wight, to Oxford, owing to the dially and honourably welcomed as sale of the late Professor "Milne's re the pioneer of modern seismology.

THE FUTURE OF THE WORK.

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