Listening-in has become very, popular in India and every week excellent concerts are provided for the benefit of the public. According to a Calcutta radio enthusiast it is now possible for amateurs here to listen-in to Moscow. He hima self, he said, had been receiving the' Moscow' programme almost nightly. There are three wireless stations in Moscow, and that from hich programmes are received Calcutta is known as No. 8, The power of the station is 12 Iw, which, by the say, is the proposed, power of the new broadcasting stations which the Indian Radio Telegraph Ca. intends. to erect in, Calcutta and Bombay. These Indian stations will, when erected, be able to cover the whole of India. The other night, the Moscow station oadcast the whole opera Carmen." The singing is describe ed by those who heard it as wonderful, and it was distinct even on a loud speaker, Coming of a World Teacher 1
A remarkable statement by Mra, Besant to the effect that the coming of a world teacher is imminent has caused not a little sensation in the press at Home and in the newspapers here, In ian interview with a press representative in Madras she gave the following explanation' of certain rumours which had already received publicity: "Last summer in Hol-Ignd I mentioned to a large audience (in the camp held by the members of an order to which only those are admitted who believe "in the coming of a world teacher) that Krishnamurti was the chosen Vehicle, a fact already largely recognized among them in consequence of his speeches and writings, suppose that this was the basis, of the inaccurate statements which subsequently appeared in the London papers. I had never, had eny idea of proclaiming him a Messiah.'......J- believe with rainy of the eatly Christians that the world-teacher named by them tke Christ, assumed at the stage of the Gospel story called baptism, the body of a disciple Jesus to carry on earthly work at that time A similar event is to take place amongst us Krishnamurthi was lecturing on December 28 to a very large audience under a banyan tree, Ho was concluding his lecture, speaking of a world teacher with the words He comes to ead us and he comes only to those who have understood, who have suffered, who are unhappy, who are unenlightened. He comes only to those who want, who desire, who long and'—thero was a slight start and a voice of penetrating sweet ness rang out through his lips; come for those who want sympathy, who want happiness, who are longing to be released, who are longing to find happiness: In all things I come to reform, no! to tear down, not to destroy " but to build." <The meeting broke up fu silence. Probably some account of this filtered out that the world teacher spoke through the then speaker. I believe that since 1909 have known that he was the accepted vehicle and I accept the ever increasing tenancy of the selected body by him for whom it has been prepared. I believe that we are at the beginning of a new age, a new civilization such as has oceitrred before in human evolu" tion." season are—Celtic, 22 games and 34 points; Hearts, 24 games and 31 points. Hibernians came an unexpected cropper to St. Johnstone, who have got away—from the danger zone. Dundee checked the progress of their home rivals, Dundee United. The game was an exciting one, and hard knocks were frequent. Two players were sent to the pavilion. amongst the millions receiving empioynient doles, as English women are spending $10,000,000 or more annually in shingling and bobbing.
Tue experiment of growing fruit trees by the roadside seems to have little chance in England. Tt may be possible in Germany, where the word "verbolen'™ is held in respect; or in France, where the apple is no particular treat; or in Switzerland, where it commemorates the pious memory of William Tell; but the English small boy is something of a Communist, and in his taste for apples takes after his mother Eve. There is only one way to protect roadside apples Home, and that is to make the eating of them compulsory and give lessons in school on. tree-climbing.
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