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EINSTEIN AT OXFORD.

RHODES LECTURE ON RELATIVITY.

EAGER BUT SILENT AUDIENCE.

Oxford. The academic popula of Oxford is immensely in terested in the visit of Professor Einstein, who, as this year's Rhodes Lecturer, gave on May 9 the first of three discourses on The Thecry of Relativity" qm

Immediately the doors of Rhodes: Ifcuse were opened just before nocu, big crowd of undergrads ates surged into the hall, eager to me and hear the great man.. Many, perhaps, most of them could not follow his German; and if they could, the theme and his treat ment cf it wore recondite to sả de. gree beyond their grasp.

It did not matter. This was spectacio ns woll as higher mathe maties. And they were tremon dously interested, if they could not comprehend.

But thore wore in this crowded

audience a considerable number of learned people who have not only applied their minds diligently to Professor Einstein's subject but who understand his own tongue.. Most of the mathematicians at the University are famiar with Ger- man, spoken or written. !

Striking Voice and Figure. Professor Einsta entered the hall with tho Vice-Chancellor (Canon F. H. Dudden) and a fow dons followed. There was no for mal introduction, and Einstein at once began his lecture...

SOVIET SPIES IN GERMAN WORKS.

LORD IRWIN AT HOME.

NETWORK ALL OVER THE MEETING WITH HIS AGED

COUNTRY.

PLOT TO AID THE FIVE-YEAR-

PLAN.

Berlin-The scandal of the Rus- sian industrial espionage in Ger- many is assuming gigantic dimen- Falona. Already clandestine agents of the Bolshevik Governa int have been caught in half a dozer lending manufacturing centres.

Thore can no longer be any doubt that the entire country was covered with a perfect network of inforniers paid by Moscow to betray the accrets of their employers.

FATHER.

HICKLETON (Yorkshire). Lord Irwin, the ex-Viceroy, had a.great welcome to the village where he was born, Hiokioton, and the home, Hickleton Ifail, where he spont most of his youth.

All the people of the village turn- ed out, and flags lined the drive to. Irwin's father, Lord Halifax, who Hick.eton Hall, where Lord is 92 years of age, awaited him at the top of the steps of this typical fold country, sunt.

On the torrace and lawns was drawn up a guard honour from the Goldtharpo British legion, and a detachment of Boy Scouts and, Girl Guides lined the carriageway to the hall door. On either side of the stops loailing to the hall door were tenants and school- children,

Wits Still Clear."

The arrests made indicate that the Bolsheviks illegal researches extended to all those branches of industry in which Russia is back-

With the cheors of 1,000 villagers ward, and in which it is one of from Hickleton and the surround- the main objects of the Five-Yearing districts ringing in his ears, Plan to render her independent of Lord Irwin shook hands with his the outside world.

father,

Lord Halifax welcomed Lady Irwin with a kiss it take

Irwin, "wrote to cach other almost "My father and I," said Lord every week during the whole of the dve years I was in India. We have had some good arguments on papor."

The arrests of Bolshevik spies in chemical world at Hochst and Laid wigshafen, and in glass works at Aachen, have already been report ed. It is now announced that five workmen in the great Leuna nitrato words near Merseburg have been taken into custody. Another of the "When my son wont to India.. suspects occupied a prominent posi five years ago, I wondered whe tion as engineer with the Humboldt ther I should ever see him again," Motor Company in the Doutz disho said. "When you are. 87 you trict of Cologne.

Becret, Designs Carried Of. Further arrests in connection with the affairs have been made among officials of the Communist party at Essen and Hamborn. An engineer of a well-known machine factory in

Laughter among those nearest ta him indicated a humorous opening remark, but it did not reach my ears After that, silence, except for the lecturer's singularly impres sive voice. Soon he was soaring into an upper sphere far beyond the reach of most of us. The black-Ludwigshafen for whom a wallant beard was covered with esoteric was out managed to escape. signe comprehensible only by the olite of our mathematicians.

The Professor is a most striking figure. His face..'s shaven except for the moustache, and the head is erowned with grey hair, nearly white at the temples. But it is

his voice that one most adniired, It is cf beautiful tone, and though he used it for this large audience in an apparently effortless way, as though he were in a classroom, it carried to the end of the hall with perfect clarity: He spoke without note. A gesture now and then stressed a special point..

Silent Departure:

When he had finished, he depart ed without coromony. No word of thanks, not even a cheer. It was

the silence of a church.

He took with him a quantity of important secret designs to which he had had access. Like others who have disappeared since it be came known that the spy organiza- tion had been discovered by the police, he is believed to have fled

to Russia.

Many of the arrests have been due to the confession of Dienstbach, who directed the espionage in Southern Germany. He gave the names of twenty-five persons en- ployed in various enterprises from whom he had been receiving regular information for transmission to Russia.

Some of the accused, however, were in direct connection with: Steffen, the man who, while nomin

The lecture was a general ex-ally employed at Berlin in organis position of the theory of relativity, in the trade unions, in reality pcted

ing the "revolutionary opposition and of some problems arising out

as middleman between the official of it. In the second discourse the

Russian agencies here and the actual spies.

Professor will deal with its appli- cation to the cognios; and in the third will treat of the latest" de- velopments of the theory

It is stated in the Press that Steffen's connection with these. During his stay in Oxford Pro-agencies has been established to fessor Einstein is in residoner at yond any doubt. To prove it with Christ Church. He arrived there the cogetey required for diplomatic more than a week ago, but so care. action may, however, be none 'too fully was he is avoid publicity that easy. The Bolsheviks are masters fow knew of his presence.

in the art of camouflaging the machinery by which they carry on their illegal work in other countries.

Theory Based on Light." In the course of his lecture Pro- fessor Einstern said:

I nao my theory entirely ca experience of the expansion of light and of the velocity of it, the light being independent of the bodies in space and of their rela tive velocity and colour.

The relativity principle under- log all geometry, and the theory of relativity in -19 simple as Euclid's geometry.".

Professor Einstein went on to discuss the two esspustial: branches of the theory, known as the special and the general theory.

The special theory was based upon the well-known experiments which proved that it is impossible to detect the earth's motion through space, This led to the conclusion that an event could not be uniquely divided into spacial and temporal

co-ordinates,

NEW GOVERNMENT IN POLAND.

COL, PRYSTOR SUCCEEDS IN FORMING A CABINET:

Warsaw, May 27.-Colonel Alex- ander Prystor, the new Premier of "Poland, to-day succeded in forming a Government to suceped that of Colone! Valery Blawek, resigned Premier and the leader of the Non- Party Union, MESTEREN O

Colonel Prystor hha submitted his the President of Poland. Only three new Cabinet to M. Ignacy Moscicki, changes have been made.

Colonel Prystor succeeds Colonel White reality enld be described. uniquely in a four-dimensional Slawek. M. Jan Pileudaki, the younger brother of Marshal Pilsud- space time manifold, various obski, the Dictator, is the new Min- servera moving relatively to ona ister of Finance General Saraycki another who tried to describe it in is the new Minister of Commerce. terms of time and space separately. The resignation of Colonel Slawek would split up the four-dimension-

al reality in somewhat different was tendered to permit him to re- sume active Parliamentary leader- ways into their space and time chip of the Non-Party Union. ordinates

Logically Complete, But-

***"The general theory of relativity | Eut accounted for various minute is based upon the observed fact deviations from this law, and pro- that the attraction of a lump of dicted other new offects which had matter is exactly proportional to since been confirmed.. its inertia. Instead of saying that one mass attracts another, and this defects it from itt path, one can ascribe to matter the property of distorting the apara tuse manifold, This would explain why the de- flection from the Euclidian line ja the same, no matter what the mass of the deficcted particia or the rub. atance of which it consists,

"There is one, friticism which may be levelled at the theory of relativity. Professur Einstein added. "While it offers & antis- factory theory of gravitation, it does not, as it stands provide ná- turally for the phenomena of the electro-magnetic field and matter which play so important a part.in, Gur daily life. "

The problen was to find differon- |*The subject is logically completa tint equations which expressed but there are difficulties which this orelationship. The gentral arise in certain particulars. In equation found not only described fact, the whole is like a marble all they results obtained by the status which has had to be com- use of Newton's inverse square law, pleted, for the present, with limba |(^uunjas jagu so-4001 jo pinusjung) of plaster.

Lord Halifax, all smiles, address. ed the crowd.

are not sure of the future. But although five years may make a lot cf difference at my age, and I am not very firm on my legs, my son will find that my wits are still clear."

Butterscotch.

On his arrival at Doncaster Station shortly after 7 o'clock; Lord Irwin was met by the Mayor, a largá and outside the station crowd cheered,

The Town Clerk presented the ex- Viceroy with an illuminated address of welenine, and the Ma- yor's little grand-daughter, Mary Trueintn, handed a bouquet to Lady Irwin.

"I remember coming back from school for the holidays to Doncas ter," said Lord Irwin, and get ting Doncaster putterscotch.

must confess that rn this ccension

I feel like a schoolboy home from his holidays after a rather stronu-

ous terms.

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