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1,077 glaciers which are considered worthy to be kept under close and sustained observation. So leisure-

I is their mode of travel, indeed, that 58 are actually backing; five are just slightly shuffling about where they stand; and only six are heading for the horizon.

The "speed ace” would appear to be the glacier of Dama, in the Gothard region, which last year advanced nearly 37 feet. Con- solation prize goes to a minus- competitor, the glacier of Tourte magne, Valais region, that reced ed 97 feet, for a foul should be given against the showing of the lower glacier of the Aar (receded 131 feet) since man interfered by creating the big reservoir of Grimsel

The famous glacier of the Rhone receded last year by almost 32

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the

Noir serenely pursued its wind progress by nine feet. the Reuss region the only plus- competitor was the Brunni glacier, with an advance of twelve feet

Schlossberg glacier resorted to - shifty tactics which tended to com- plicate the issue. It really retired 15 feet, but, incorporating some huge blocks of ice that came top- pling down the Schlossberg moun- tain, it built on to itself a sort of prow - which made it appear to a casual beholder to have advanced slightly. But even then the local snails are still unworried.

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who apparently regard the world as one large waste-paper basket. Now the methods of the detective are entering into the campaign and last week's story of a branch secretary of the Nation- al Trust who noticed torn note- paper on Ludshott Common and who thereupon picked the frag ments up and took them away for further examination may well strike home to the guilty con- science of the litter-lout For when the litter-slenth had put his 102 fragments together there before him was an addressed let- ter and envelope and the result was a fire of five shillings for the

fressee.

It is, of course, only in the case of personal correspondence that the offence can be made to point with quite such immediate certain- ty to the offender. And yet the resources of civilisation Con penal side) are not thereby ex- hausted, what about the finger-

which litter-handlers must leave on their passing deposits Those might yet convict the bottle- ers and carton-casters if the was applied with as much ce, and industry as was ht to the science of detection ecer-together of the Lad- shott torn-up letter. Litter louts should be warned in time and mend their ways, the net may be closing round them more tightly than they ever anticipated More Weather Prophets

A report from the Meteoro-

logical Plains that the de-

partment question is faced with the necessity for "a large increase in the staff both of highly trained forecasters and less skilled 25- sistants who will be in charge" of the dependent stations." But no cynic need hastily jump to the un- justified conclusion that the weather of England is now be- coming far too varied for the existing meteorological staff to cope with its perversities. It is not

the waywardness of the weather but of man which makes the increase of staff unavoidable, it is the expansion of the Royal Air Force that has done the trick, for that expansion means mo

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up this week and without any preliminary flourishes of trum- pets either, as far as I can make. out I have seen nothing about it. in any newspaper nor in any the weekly or monthly review and yet it is a most unusual piece of work, and one which is nothing less than appalling in its implica- tions.

We all know that Abraham Lin- coln, President of the United States, was assassinated in Wash- ington in 1865, and most of know that he was shot by a young actor called John Wilkes Booth while he was watching a perform- ance at Ford's Theatres The assassin was soon afterwards shot, a number of persons were tried for complicity and that

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But we had reckoned without Otto Eisenschim), a distinguished. Chicago chemist, who now pub- Tishes Why Was Lincoln Mur dered?" (Faber and Faber) have enjoyed many thrillers but none beats the excitement of this piece of reality which is so much more strange than fiction.

Awkward Questions What actually happened on the night of April 14, 1865, when Pre- sident Lincoln was murdered? And why did it happen? Why did General Grant suddenly alter his

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There are many more pertinent questions which might be asked, - which should have been asked long ago, and which Mr. Eisen- schim? loses no time in asking As, for instance, why the Presid- ent's bodyguard at the theatre, though guilty of the grossest ne- gligence, was not punished, nor even questioned.

What seemed before a simple assassination, if anything of the sort can be called simple, now takes on the colour of a dark po- litical mystery, thick with intri- It gue, bitterness and horror. reads like some fantastic story.

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