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NEW THEORY ON Bolivian

LIFE'S ORIGIN

London, March 26,

A theory that life originated on the shores of the ancient scas under conditions which, 'can' nover again be duplicated is engaging tho attention of British scientists.

It is regarded as one of the most interesting con-

tributions to science's greatest mystery in this · century.

TRAGEDY OF TWO SISTERS

New York, Murch 20. The police broke into the flat of two elderly women reclusos today and discovered among the mountain of accumulated junk, one dead and the other babbling incoherently,

The body of. Mrs. Frances lichter aged 65, was found under

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Professor J.D. Bernil, head of the physics department a Birkbeck College offered his theory as a "crude" effort to explain how life come inte being on this planet. But cal- leagues quickly noted that un- like many other theories on the same subject there are phases of Professor Bernal's explanation

be which can tested in the laboratory.

According to the Bernal theory the stage was set for life tu maka ils appearance any millions of years ago when the earth's atmos phere, during the long cooling of the molten state. period from was composed mainly of nitrogen the bed in the littered four-room and carbon dioxide and the seas apartment. Hier sister, Mrs. Mar- 1 were weak solution of Karet Hahn, aged 63. was dis-monia, carbon dioxide and hy- covered in the kitchen mumbling | drogen sulphide, to herself. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observa- tion..

Neighbours seldom saw Mrs. Hahn. They sald Mrs. Richter

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At that time there was no ozone In the air to filter out the the sun. strong ultra-violet radiation from Thus the sens were were bombarded with ultra-violet

coup nipped in the bud

La Paz, March 26. The Bolivian Government announced today that it had failed ⭑ Communist revolu». tionary plot planned to start next Tuesday under tha of a high Ruscian chlor and French

'The loaders, together with a number of others, were ar rested last night while hold- Ing a meeting to arrange finat detalle, the added.

communique

The revolution was planned > break out simultaneourly at several points throughout the country while the Presi dent, Mr. Memorio Urriola- goitia, was addressing a Con- gress of schoolmasters Sucre, 250 miles from La Paz, the capital.

THE CHINA MAIL: TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950,

The fifth of six articles on t

The Chinese Revolution

The victory of the Com that it is its historical mission to in recent years to think of the The Communist Party belleves people. It has been the fashion munists in China does not rescue the masses of Asia from Chinoso as a peaceful people. This mean simply the ordinary this tyranny of exploitation. As change of one Government its first step it has set up an for another, a thing which merely affects China itself. The Communist victory is a great revolution in the life of one-fifth of the inhabitants

By Windrush

of the world. A revolution "Eastern Cominform" with head- of this sort lets loose expan-quarters at Peking, which will be

High sive forces which may bring the

Command for the the whole of the rest of the world into danger.

Great Britain, though several thousand miles away from China, nevertheless its neighbour. For Hong Kong in British. terri- lory. So is Malaya, AL

which dangerously near China. Though Great Britain has laid down its former imperint position in Asin It has still the obligation to play a part in preserving peace and security throughout South Asia: It is thus deeply affected by China's revolution. That is the reason why the British Govern- ment has taken its elaborate pre- cautions in Hong Kong.

The communiqus said that the entire country is quist--- Router.

Patronising Christianity

By THE REV. SIDNEY M. BERRY, D.D.

The

crusado.

Dangerous crusade

That is how It appears to the Communists. A less blassed ob- server might see that what the Communists really aim at doing is to use the discontents in Asia in order to establish their own political power over as wide an arca as possible. The typical Communist State whenever it has been set up in the West itself is n police State on a scale quite

scons unparalleled. There

ng reason to think that the Commu- nist State in China will be any different in this respect from Russia.

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What may make the Commu- nist crusade more dangerous Communist Icaders in

that the ambitions of the Com- China are not simply politicians.munists will more or less coin They have brought into polities eide with the traditional Nation- many of the emotions which

normally are found in religion.

Unquestionably. many of them think of themselves as leading a It is a kind of inverted tri-crusade for the "liberation" of the bute to Christianity that men world. The Chinese Communists

liberation of Asia.

did all the marketing and was radiation, of a type Impossible to intent on quite other things are especially Interested in the

very friendly with the neighbours but never let then enter.

A

mass of newspapers, old ningazine and assorted rubbles filled all the four

roums. The 10lier broke into the flat after the superintendent complained they ill not unswer when he went to inspect the that's fixtures.-- United Press.

Robot weatherman

A robot weather man de- veloped by a team of radio ex- perts and physicists in the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, promises to revolu- fionise meteorolgical methods in that and perhaps other parts of the world.

Alan Hardeastle, in Wellington, says that the "weatherman bilt to operate for months on ent, evadi Cor years wilhout receiving attention.

In the South Pacife countries an automatic weather watch and reporter will be of great advent- uge. In the Northern hemis- pliere a close network of manned reporting stations is fensible, but in the Southern hemisphere land masses are far separated and the few islands are uninhabited, und mostly uninhabitable.

The robot lukes no account of bleak rocks, bitter cold ond blizzard storms; it functions rc- garelost of these. It enha given virtually unlimited storage battery power and be kept charged by wind-driven genera- lors,

The prototype robot set up at the central meteorological office In Wellington has been faithfully reporting at three-hourly inter- vals for weeks now. Wind strength, wind direction, barom-

eur

present

alinusphere,

and

the consequent joining of smaller molecules to make larger ones led to the formation of amino acids- the units from which proteins are bull

This, suid Dr, Bernal, was pro- bably the first real step towards life.

Clay theory

But the seas were too dilute for further chemieni reactions which would build the amino acids up into Ilving proteins and Dr. Ber nat suggests that the mechantem which eventually concentrated the substances concerned Was clay.

Bernal theory point out that clay Scientists commenting on the

Is known to be composed of piles of minute plates roughly com- parable to the composition of 'pro- telns. This is regarded as a point in favour of Dr. Bernal's hypo-

thesin.

should attempt to use its authority or influence for their own purposes.

In the period vf

His earthly life, men sought to crown Christ as King, not because they were render obedience to willing to Him, but because they believed His King-ship would favour their political plans.

the He can have adopted the

Many others in the generations

same attitude. Rival schools el politient or economic thinkiny attempt to use Christianity us a counter in their game of securing adherents.

The patronage of Christianity Is theme which runs through the centuries of its history, Tha Dat blatantly materialistic schools of thought in modern times have only varied that theme in dis- 05 dope, missing Christianity. They have sought to patronise dental in the interests of their of idol worship of the State,

Chy also has the property attaching certain molecules to its

surfner, Dr. Bernal thinks it pos- sible the antino ueld and other organic substances were

so at lacher and advanced to proteins. The next step would be based on the known fact that when protein molecules reach a certain size they tend to lose their indepen- dence and become organised into a certain louse unity.

The sequence of chemical reactions characteristic of living proteins would have begun to take place but Dr. Bernal stressce in the proceedings of the Physical Sceloty that this form of "life" would be more elementary than even the sim plest living thing today.

of

It would be just a lump matter possessing In its most rudimentary form the chemical properties of life.

Series of extinctions

This process probably went on etric pressure, temperature and many times a series of extinc

recorded, tions-us "ilfo" consumect the compounds laboriously

all Bre

simpler

humidity, Robot No. I will probably be dis- patched to the uninhabitable built up by the ultraviolet radia Snares Istand, 150 miles South of Bion and then died for lack of New Zealand.

energy. But eventually come lump of living matter found another source of collecting energy.

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From one point of view all this is a childish game, but it has its truge side. Whenever men turn to Christianity in order to use it for their own ends they ure de- meaning the highest things in life and indulging in a form of practical blasphemy.

No one has ever made a start

on the road which leads to a living faith unless he has come to God to learn and to obey.

To attempt to use God rather than to surrender

oneself to be

They have drawn their view of the

from outside world chiefly reading Marxist literature, Few of them have travelled abroad. Those who have been in foreign countries see them deflated and taught by their reading. distorted by what they have been

Communist view

The orthodox Marxist teacher

alist ambitions of

the Chinose

is not really correct. In fact, the Chinese, before the coming of the West, wore an activo and ex- pansionist political force, "Ori- ginally, the Chinese State spread from a small area in North China until it subdued the non-Chinese peoples of the South. For a period of many centuries the Chinese Empire spread its power sporadically far over Central Asia. Nearly 2,000 years ago Chinese armles actually reached the Caspion Sea, Large

Chinese navics have appeared at Ceylon and in the Arabian Sea. In the past. century there has been 0 great outward drive, quile unor- ganised but formidable, by the Chinese people into SE Asia.

The Chinese Government has, at various stages in history, been accepted as overlord by Burma, Nepal, Tibet, Annam, and many other Asien countries now inde-

THAT ARRESTING WHITENESS

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pendent. The Kuomintang, in its 1A white feature, in a dull background always compels inter period, had begun to revive attention. Snowcrete provides the architect and builder the ambition of reasserting the with the ideal medium for picking out in white those ancient authorlty of China. China's neighbours will fear that the Chinese Communist Party, under the pretence of spreading the Communist faith, may, in by this old Imperialist ambition. fact, be impelled, at least partly, (To be continued)

CROSS-ROADS

By Guy Ramsey

State,

Today the Church of Eng-again of the Church in its con- land is controlled by a Par-ict and co-operation with the llament many of whose mem- There is no clear-cut answer bers are not even nominal to the modern dilomma-any Christians,

more than there was to any of the historical cross-ronds; there are ions in every path: llons of economic privation (which mean fewer men to fight the good night, not less not money for lazy Church- men to have a good time); nnci the even more dangerous Kon

What will be its rate tomorrow, when (if the present trend in "modern" thought persists) the State becomes totalitarian and, Agnostic,

actively anti-Christian?

That is the question asked by Cyril Garbett, Archbishop and and even a great book published Metropolitan of York, in a large-

today: Church and State In Eng-

fand.

either dis-

that a Church disestablished may have more freedom in theory but less in fact to full its func- tion than it has, when voked to the State.

of Asla has taught that for more than a century the Western capl- talisis have battened off the Eastern countries which either became colonies, as in the case of Indlo and Burma, or semi- colonies as in the case of China. From this miserable condition the Eastern countries have been res- cued one after another by nation- alist movements. These have put an end to the actual political sub-national life an integral and im cognition of the good and the bad jection of

of Eastern countries to the portant element which has en-1 in other Churches as well as in West. It has been Communist dured for centuries, reducing the his own. tactics to

historie "C. of E." to the status of with Na- tionalism in its struggle against

Just another Church permitted to the West.

exist in Britain? The Communists continue their analysis further.They see that when Eastern countries

Will the Church

Cyril Garbett himself wurms establish itself or be disestab- the cold print with his wide sym- lished-eliminating'

thepathy, his deep tolerance, his re-

co-operate.

usted politically

are

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begins. Power may then pass rite the hands of the local bourgeoisie, The Communista say that this bourgeoisle then organises a police State and be comes as savage an exploiter of the masses as were the Western capitalists.

This, say the Communists, is what happened in China after the assorted its authority against the Kuomintang seized power and Western

countries, compelling them to renounce the privileges which they had won by

force.

According to the Communists, it used by Him is perilously near to-in-India, they say, there-has-not is happening also in India. But the provest-of-ali-sins.

May it not be one of the rea- sons for the present state of the world that the face of

hidden becaue men are intent on using Him for their own ends, and not seeking to Bud and to do His Wit?

It is "the pure in heart who see God." those who are single- minded in their passion to under- stand and to follow.

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even been a genuine liberation from the West. The Communists pretend that the transfer power by the British was a blind. of Really, they say, there was a

ern

the

secret undertaking between West- capitalists and the Indian Congress to go into partnership in exploiting

Indian musses. Tho Communists accuse Mr. Nehru and Mr. Patel, the two principal leaders of Indie, of being stooges for the West.

Vandenberg plan for U.S. foreign policy approved

Washington, March 26.

This would preclude any other Senator Arthur Vandenberg's proposal for a non-

spontaneous generation of life. For the oxygen in the air and ozone, the ultra-violet radiation that helped it all start, would be cut off forever.-United Press,

Defence against sneak attack

Washington, March 20. The Navy is activating volun- teer reserve units in 20 coastal cities to guard their harbours from sneak submarine' or sur | face attacks,

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A naval spokesman sald the reserves will be trained toward off assaults on vital maritime cities from Malno all' the way around to Washington. The plan affects only the continental United States.

He would not reveal how many ships and men will be employed or in which particular atlas they will servo, but suld reserves will probably

„be trained\to\Iny¡anti- submarine nots," plant "minos and patrol areas around the harbours. He did not know when the plan will become complctaly. Operative, but it is well under way---United:

partisan commission to study long-range American foreign policy won enthusiastic support in the Senate today.

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Several members were parti-current Republican attacks on the cularly interested in the Michl Secretary of State, Mr. gan Republican's suggestion Acheson, which, proposed that the Com- mission consider the problem of dealing with Western. Euro- pean nations after the Marshall: European recovery programunt expires in 1952.

But Benator Vandenberg was one of the chia? architects of the bl-partisan "toraign pollby and it noms likely that the would be seriously concerned with any major threat to that policy, including the possiblilty of: its collapse) under election. ysar political prostures:

Among the supporters of his proposal were Republican Alex- ander Smith and Democrats John' Sparkman, Virgil Calman, Chap Senator Smith, member of the man Willis Robertson and Lis-Senate Foreign Relations Com- ter Hill,

mitice, said Senator Vandenberg. the bi-partisan commission

ick the right note in proposing struck

House voting on the omnibus foreign.ald bill for the next fiscal

Senator Robertson endorsed the year is to begin on Tuesday. Ad-

ministration adherents are most proposal, and predicted ⠀ that concerned about the provision American did will suli da rived- that would, provide 185,090,000 edt after. 1962 in ·Germkny and for the start on President True Greece. Unemployed refugees: In 'man's "Point Fours programme, Wasters Germany and under par Some feel that odds are agalnat | production would make the pro- fla' approval.

granime) for Gminany, necessary,

wolog tog

There, la nothing to indicat that: Smator-Vandenber gestion "for", tho: "hos commimion la connected with?

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His voice Is the voice of sanity and balance crying for reform from within rather than for n solution from without: for a

The Archbishop poses his ques-patient, careful programme, gent- tiona and gives his answers ly but resolutely undertaken and against a background of history, carried through, whereby the tracing the strengths and weak- Church shall continue her work nesses, the rise and fall and rice more greatly than ever before.

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