the Conference of Communists, one of the "side-shows" of the All India Congress, was interesting as showing. the independent attitude adopted them in regard to Communism as understood in other parts of the world. Indian Communism, he explained, was not Bolshevism. Their ideal was to end the domina-of capital and the immediate sim was to. win Swaraj for the Indian masses by the organization of labour and peasants. This milk fand water brand of Communism would hardly suit Comrades Trotsky or Zinoviel who are nothing if not militant, Telepathy and Muscle Reading Something.of a sensation has been caused in Calcutta during the pest few days by the marvellous! teats of 'a certain Professor} Langsner who claims} telepathic powers and who submitted his claim to a stringent test organized by one of the news-Papers here. Briefly, the te: this, Professor Langsner was locked in his room in the hotel where he was staying, with a representative of the newspaper to} Keep him company and see that] he did not leave the hotel.
Meanwhile, the Committee, which included the editor of the newspaper and a high police official, repaired to another spot where they med a murder accompanied by robbery.
They then went to the hotel of the professor, released him and he motor-< spot where committed, discover the murdered man, the murderer, the instrument by which the crime was committed] and the loot, without a word being] spoken or a sign made by the other occupants of the car. Professor Langsner's only _condition was that he should have a medium whose business it was to concen. trate on the route to the scene of the crime, the murderer, ete, and] whose thoughts the ' professor undertook to read. This condition was agreed to and the medium chosen was a newspaper man. Professor Langsner performed the feat} to the letter, but it was noticed that during the whole of the per-|: formance he. held the arm of the medium and this led to the suggestion by a local psychologist, a Dr. Bose, that it was not telepathy at all but. muscle reading Professor [Langiner employed. To. this the Professor replied, with challenge Dr. Bose offering to establish telepathic' communication between Galeuttaand London, Paris, Berlin'
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