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9 1930:

THURSDAY, OCT

INDIA'S FUTURE.

DAY BY DAY

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.

State Governments. The Moham medans will also gain from the absence of a political group which is predominantly Hindu, and here. again, the results may be beno-

NO BOOK IS WORTH ANYTHING ficial, for the presence of a strong whicH IS NOT WORTH MUCH; NOR and relatively united Moslem IS IT SERVICEABLE UNTIL IT KAS group will tend to concentrate at-BEEN READ, AND RE-READ, AND LOVED, |AND_LOVED ÄGAIN, AND MARKED.—-- tention on the netual form of the Ruskin, Provincial and Central Govern. ments and the powers of the executives questions which vital- ly affect minorities. The com mercial interests,

Indian and European, will also be powerful- ly represented. Indian business are anxious to control the Departments of Finance and Com- merce in the Central Government, and it has been suggested that British business men might be prepared to accept a Commercial Convention as a safeguard.

men

THE

E. B. OSBORN reflects on

THIS TERRIBLE WORLD,

The P. and O. 8.a, Malwa, from leaving the

ductive proof for othera

The ss. Cracovia sailed from Trieste on the 8th inst. and is due here on the 9th November.

The motor vessel Col di Lan sailed from Karachi on the 9th inst. and is duc here on the 31st

It will thus be seen that al- October. though the Congress Party.

re-

one

"

THE GREAT SCIENTIST the former; Planck and he have often possesses the baffling collaborated in formulating and genius which leap-how we applying the second. know not to a remote truth The first step towards what is long-drawnout de- properly styled the Einstein Theory to was taken when a now conception of Shanghai, is due here at 5 a.m. on find. So in 1644 Descarter, the space and time, forms impressed Friday.

founder of Analytical Geometry, on all human experience according The Hongkong interport golf conjectured that the sun and stars to Kant, was adopted by mathema- "From this hour, space in team left for Shanghai by the were made of matter which pus-ticians such as Minkowski, who Chichibu Mnru to-day.

violence of agitation said: sesses such that impinging upon other bodies, itself and time in itself sink to it gets divided into indefinitely mere shadows, and only a kind of blend of the two retains an inde- minute particles."

This conjecture unticipates mod; pendent existence." ern views of the hurly-burly of His theory even in its earliest atoms wholly or partially stripped form accomplished its purpose of of their electrons in these huge removing discrepancies in the con incandescent masses. In the largest ception of physical phenomena. stars, such as Betelgeux, the atoms whether mechanical or electromag- may have three rings of electrons netic, Later on, he was able to ex- Quarantine restrictions imposed left; in medium sized stars, such plain gravitation as due to the iner- presentative of Indian Nation by Hongkong against arrivals as Sirius, Procyon, and our Sun tia of a body combined with the ring is left; and in small effect of space curvature in the alism, is absent from the Con- from Iloilo and Manila on account stars of great density, such as Van neighbourhood of another body.

Mannen's or the faint companion of The theory of Relativity has ference, there is no lack of repre-of cholera have been removed.

confirmed by observational sentatives able to deal fairly and

Mrs. R. H. Kotewall is to open a Sirius, the atoms have been com- been equitably with the future of India. two days' bazaar and fete in nid pletely stripped of electrons, so that tests: eg. during total eclipses of the closest packing is possible. the sun the light rays from a star Gandhi and his henchmen have of the Precious Blood Convent at

Thus the discontinuities in the grazing Its surface, so to speak, is the Wah Yan Collège on Saturday size of stars correspond to

the actually deflected to the extent themselves to blame for being left afternoon.

discontinuities in the size of dis (about 1.7 seconds) it requires. out in the cold. They have been

A Chinese youth was sentenced tegrating atoms which, as the and an explanation is also provided given assurances which leave the to two months' imprisonment Mr.

central law of quantum dynamics of that long-standing puzzle of as- sincerity and honesty of the Butlers at Kowloon this mornings, cannot retain fractional tronomy, the irregularity in the movement of Mercury's perihelion. British Government in no doubt for the larceny of four packets of Parts of a ring,

cigarettes and a $10 note from his

We may think of the deeps of The faint companion of Sirius have whatever. But they

pre former master.

ace as a vast laboratory and of already mentioned as one of the *** ferred to quibble and demand even

the stars as tremendous expieri- densest of stars (according to A woman named Ching Ho, ofments, which exhibit the nature of Professor Eddington its density is further gestures. The best answer 46 Teniple Street, Yaumati, was the atom with its diameter of a 50,000, so that a part of its materia! to this importunity is that re-reoved to the Kwong Wah Hospital hundred-millionth of a centimetre would weigh about 25 tons!) sup- of removed to the Kwong Wah Hos and confirm the quantum theory of plies another remarkable proof. cently given by the Nawab

pital yesterday suffering from in-energy which, formerly regarded as At the surface of a star of this Bhopal on his departure from

juries received as a result of a fall continuous in its nature, must density with a mass equal to the India to attend the Conference. from the verandah of her house now be considered as made up of Sun's the "Einstein Shift" should The Viceroy and the Imperial whilst hanging out clothes.

"quanta" or indivisible units. be thirty times that observed dur Even the surface temperatures ing solar eclipses, and observation Government had, he said, offered In an attempt to commit suicide, of stars, such as the Sun, which shows that it is within 10 per Now that the whole of the de-India the hand of friendship, and a young Chinese named Wang Wing are moderately hot, comparatively cent of what it should be on the legates to the Round-Table Con-

ao Government could, on the eve jumped into the harbour from the speaking, are beyond us. There basis of Eddington's necessarily ference have been selected, the

ferry launch Man Ping whilst it can be little doubt, moreover, that approximate calculation. of a free and representative Con-was on its way from Hongkong to there are heavier and more complex Fantastical deductions may be task of evolving a new Constitu- tion for India, on a basis which ference, give pledges which would Shamshuipo yesterday. The youth atoms deep down in the interior of made from that conception of a render futile all discussion at the was rescued by a seaman and these huge bodies than any in the curved space-time continuum, finite will be fair to all interests, will

taken to the Kowloon Hospital, terrestrial series, which ends with in its content and yet unbounded Conference and which might suffering from the effects of the uranium with its 92 revolving elec- (as the surface of a sphere is in Once shortly have to be faced.

casily prejudice the vital interests immersion.

a sense). It implies a limited uni- the Imperial Conference is end-

of the country.

The atoms revealed in the spectra verse in which a ray of light would ed, the issue will be taken up, so

A market coolie was sentenced to of the stars-hydrogen, calcium, return to its starting-point after two weeks' imprisonment and bound iron, &c-are the lighter compon-some 100,000 million years (Sir J. that the events of the next two or

A Tip For Malariologists, over in a bond of $50 to keep the ents which, naturally come to the H. Jeans' estimate), and a very re- three months are likely to be of

The apparent complexity of a peace for a period of six months surface. It would he impossible to mote nebula might be the "ghost" vital importance so far as they problem is not always a true guide by Mr. Butters at Kowloon this combine the known terrestrial ele-of the Sun's family of Stars as it

morning. The defendant was ments in such a way as to generate was that long agol affect the place of India within to the means of its solution. charged with having assaulted an- the high and long-continued radia- These two theories hold the field the British Commonwealth of Very often it is reached by a cor other market coolie with a bamboo tion of the sun and stars. If the because, as working hypotheses, Nations. It is true that the Con- respondingly complicated process pole at the Star Ferry wharf. The sun consisted of pure uranium, its they have been confirmed by obser- ference will not be quite as re-when, right under the nose sa to quarrel arose over a money trans-radiating power would be only half ved facts and bring us nearer to of that actually observed, and its the truth about things both great "life" would be far too short to fit and small. They are enveloped in presentative as was hoped, but speak, there is a short cut, the action. the fault for that does not lie with simple way so obvious immediate-

An unsuspected form of poison in with the demonstrated age of the a busk of the most appallingly diff ly it has been pointed out. The contained in food served at a meal stars which is probably between cult mathematics. Where Newton the British Government. Gandhi

result of certain

experiments caused the removal to the Kwong five and ten millions of millions of found a single differential equation and his followers are. by their carried out in France with the Wah Hospital of a woman named years.

sufficient ("Dit" is the A B C of town acta, excluded from a share abject of protecting visitors, and Wong Chan, of 84. Portand The Theory of Relativity and the such calculations) Einstein

Street, Yaumati, yesterday. Whilst Quantum Theory are "working hy-twelve simultaneous differential in the final solution of the pro- residents from the mosquito pest it was thought that the poison was potheses" which help the human equations, each of such an intri- blem. There will be no "official" leads, us to speculate whether or

present in some food which the mind to escape from the old obses-cate structure that a compact and representatives from the Congress not Hongkong, though not alone woman had taken, it is not known sions and so to arrive at a clearer unfamiliar notation is required to

by any means, is indulging in what particular unwholesome food and nearer approximation to the render them printable; party, but we have seen it hinted

(Continued on Page 7.) certain amount of ..unnecessary she had eaten.

truth. Einstein is the author of that there is a possibility of one hour in its efforts to combat or two individual members at-malaria.. At the moment speci- tending. Be that as it may, the path of the British Government is clear. It is to go ahead re- solutely with the work of im- plementing its promises and as- surances, undeterred by the abstention of the Congress leaders

alists are engaged in a thorough investigation of local conditions, which may take some considerable time yet, preliminary to recom- mendations regarding the mea- sures to be taken for preventing the breeding of the anopheles mosquito. the malaria-bearing or the clamour of reactionaries.species, and his less dangerous The personnel of the Govern- brothers and sisters, incidentally. ment and Opposition delegates in- A year or two ago, a somewhat

similar problem

the has

engaged dicates that much wisdom

attention of the authorities of been exercised in the selection;

Montpellier, the well-known the delegations from the three French university town, and political Parties are exceptionally working upon the idea of the strong, being composed of men attraction of all' insects to light, who should be able to bring use-it was decided to erect a so-called ful talents to the complicated "mosquito lighthouse" between the issues involved. Turning to the Montpellier and Palavas,

seaside resort nearby. The light- other groups, the Princes will, of

house consists of a powerful lamp course, be in a powerful position.

on the summit of a tower, They have excellent advisers, furnished with an aspirator that plenty of British friends, and the engulfs all insects attracted by the tactical advantage of not having light. When first erected, to put forward concrete sugges- residents suspected that it had tions. In the absence of the Con- been inspired by a famous eccen- tric cartoonist, and it became an gress Party, it will be easier for object to be pointed out, to visitors the Princes to come to some work as the standing joke of the neigh- ing agreement with the represen- | bourhood. Then it was found 'to tatives of British India 28 to be effective. And not only to the The striking their participation in a Federal degree calculated. Government. It has, indeed, been diminution in mosquitoes suggested that there have already eight miles is now attributed to its

beyond its supposed range been some discussions between the action. The whole district Princes and the Moderates, and Languedoc has been almosten- that the former may be prepared tirely free of mosquitoes in a year when the rest of France has to consider favourably any scheme suffered from an unusually severe for federation on the lines of the plague, bred it is thought, owing to the wet sticky weather that Simon Report, provided they can lasted until late in August. The have adequate safeguards on the efficacy of the Montpellier method subject of tariffs, and that the of destruction is attracting con- functions of the Central Govern-iderable attention, and its sim- plicity being one of its chief ment are limited to certain de-assets, more "light-houses" are finite subjects, leaving residuary likely to spring up. Is it worth

a trial in Hongkong? powers to the Provincial and

far

of

of

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