A PATRIARCH OF THE PUNJAB. March 1933 GENE;iAL CONFERENCE LIBRARY TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON, C. IT is rumoured that the new 1933 Ford will be a GREATER TOK10 now becomes the third largest city in six-cylinder car, but, as usual, no authoritative information the world. It has recently absorbed eighty-two villages and will be available until the car appears. towns, bringing the population from two to five millions. London and New York only are larger. A RECENT British invention consists of the using of a washing soap which moth-proofs the fabric each time it is BEXLEY, England, has a butterfly farm. Hundreds washed. It consists of 90 parts soap, 10 parts tri-phenyldi- of caterpillars are there fed with their favourite food until chlorobenzyl-phosphonium chloride. they reach the chrysalis stage. Then they are taken into. a green house and put into cages and soon burst forth into beautiful many-coloured butterflies. A TRANSPARENT revolving gun turret is the latest addition to some of England's military planes. The machine IT is now possible for anyone in Britain to telephone to gun is fired through the single open section of the turret anyone in the Empire and to ninety-five per cent of the which protects the gunner from the wind and enables more telephone users of the world. The record long distance careful shooting. call was when an American film star telephoned from Australia through London to Los Angeles. A TELESCOPIC mooring mast has been constructed at the United States naval station at Sunnyvale, California. The THE newest thing in night lamps is one that is clamped normal height of the mast is 75 feet but is extended for use to the bed frame under the bed so as to shield its direct rays to a height of 160 feet. When the airship has been made from the occupant but casting a soft glow over the entire fast, the mast is lowered and by electrical equipment in the floor space, thus making it possible for one person to move mooring mast is towed into the hangar. about the room without disturbing the one in bed. It would be useful in the care of children and of the sick. IN Germany during the last fourteen years it is estimat- ed that over 40,000 glider pilots have been trained and there RECENTLY some seeds of barley, wheat and various weeds are over 10,000 licensed glider pilots actively practising this which had been buried several feet under ground in pots for sport, but in that time only three fatal accidents have thirty years were dug up by the United States Department of occurred during training and only two fatal accidents in Agriculture and planted in test boxes. The seeds sprouted and soaring contests. The skilled glider pilot Schemp recently grew in the ordinary time, thus demonstrating that it is use- attained an altitude of 8.000 feet. less to try and kill weed seeds by ploughing them under. "THREE hundred trillion stars are already within the PLATINUM knives and forks and platinum handles on range of the largest telescope," says Professor Harlow automobile doors are expected to be in use soon. A new Shapley of Harvard University. In only a portion of the sky process of plating makes this possible and thus avoids the seventy-six thousand galaxies, of which our Milky Way is trouble from tarnishing and the cost of continually polishing. a typical example, have been charted. Professor Shapley For parts subject to rough usage the cost is about Rs.10 thinks that eventually at least three hundred thousand square foot, but for articles not handled much the cost call g tlaxies will be mapped with an estimate of about a billion be brought down to a third of that. stars, of which our sun is an average example, in each galaxy. A HEN that lays thirty-three eggs in a week would seem THE new $13.2,000,000 bridge across San Francisco to be a very profitable kind to possess, but this is the claim put Bay connecting San Francisco and Oakland is to be the forward by an inn keeper near Genoa, Italy. He claims that largest in the world. It will be 4} miles long, will have two this remarkable hen laid two eggs on Monday, two on decks, one with six lanes for fast moving traffic, the other Tuesday, four on Wednesday, six on Thursday, eight on with three lanes for slower moving traffic. In addition, there Friday, five on Saturday, and three on Sunday, and three will be two tracks for tram lines. It will require 170,000 again on Monday, the eighth day. It is said the eggs were tons of structural steel and wire, 1,000,000 barrels of cement, well formed and only slightly smaller than usual. 1,000,000 cubic yards of rock and gravel, and 40,000,000 running feet of timber, and 200,000 gallons of paint; while 12,000 men will be employed in its construction. The CHEMICAL timber can be made from waste farm prod- central span will be 4,500 feet lorg. ucts such as corn stalks, corn cobs, straw, bagasse, etc., according to a report from the Ohio State College. This artificial wood can be made in imitation of almost any wood REMAINS of Roman iron helmets, Samian ware, and and the hardest variety resembles teak in many ways, but other interesting discoveries, have been made at Colchester, has a cross breaking strength nearly twice that of teak England, on the site of the Celtic or pre-Roman city of and almost that of ordinary steel. The cost is nearly Camulodunum. The excavations last year revealed the Rs.1,000 a ton, but since it can be made in the desired shape camping ground of the Roman expeditionary force. and the site the cost is really less. For instance, a window frame is now being examined with a view to finding the gateway to pressed out complete in the required dimensions could be the camp, and the continuation of the ditch and rampart constructed at a cost of about Rs.1-8, or less than the cost which were discovered last year. The present work of of a wooden frame. The largest size board that has ever been excavation has also led to the finding of the sites of camp cut from a tree was four feet wide and 250 feet long, but by fires of Cromwellian troops at the siege of Colchester in 1648, this chemical process boards of twelve feet width or wider musket-halls, horse-bits, shoes, and other objects. and of unlimited length can be made. PAGE Two 74r1INUENTAL WATCHMAN AND HERALD OF .HE ALT H T A VOLUME 9, No. -5 POONA March, 1933 MANCHUKUO Is the New Government Established in Manchuria by Japan. Its Importance in International Politics is Explained by One Who is Familiar with the Far East By Alfonso N. Anderson (Our Special Correspondent in Tokyo, Japan) HAT will become of Manchuria ? In cordant elements. But the conversation between that extremely dangerous section of Count Uchida, Foreign Minister, and Lord Lytton our danger-fraught world the interests brought no compromise, and indeed the Commis- W of Japan and China continue to clash. sion was forced to leave Japan without coming to The main question at issue now is what will be any kind of agreement. the result of Japan's recog- The British investi- nizing the new-formed gation maintains that Manchukuo Government. Japan, in aiding and abet- Japan has expressed her ting the formation of the determination to carry the Manchukuo, has violated matter through. She the Nine Power Treaty. asserts her freedom of Japan, on the contrary, action in the matter, and claims that the movement maintains that the new in Manchuria was natural government is a fait and spontaneous on the accompli. part of a people fed up on On the other hand, Chinese misgovernment. Lord Lytton also main- the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry, tains that the signatories under Lord Lytton, after of the Nine Power Treaty having made the most have pledged themselves thorough and painstaking to maintain the sover- investigations throughout eignty and territorial the Far East, definitely integrity of China, which requested the Japanese pledge has been violated Government not to recog- by Japan. The 1 at te r nize the new state until counters with the state- I the commission should ment that China is so have made its report and disorganized and the new the League had time to state is already so firmly make its decision. (And planted that the treaty does not the report of the Com- apply in this case. • m i scion was extremely Lord Lytton further main- unfavourable.) The Com- tains that recognition by mission, of course, is Japan would infringe on attempting to pour oil on the spirit of the Covenant troubled waters, and to of the League of Nations. do everything possible which has the right to to bring about a recon- settle the question at issue. ciliation between the dis- But (Turn to page 27) PAGE THREE PEACE TALK: .11 play in the war of the future, is emphasized in an article by Joseph Caillaux. This former premier of the French Republic speaks with an air of certainty and finality, • and surely he is in a position to HE word of prophecy points out many know whereof he affirms. The following paragraphs significant conditions existing in the world are indeed striking, and constitute an authorita- just prior to the coming of the Lord.