Coming from so important and responsible personage as the Premier and Foreign Minister of Evance, M. Herviot's charges that Germany' has bees pursuing. a "rearmament policy" cannot be ignored, is reported in a despatch to the United Press from Paris, published elsewhere, to have stated that he could even name the place where periscopes for use in submarines and fin trenches were being manufactur led. That his charges would have carried more weight had "they Imentioned the place where big guns jor some form of armament more deadly than periscopes were beng factured, is not the point. What important that the charges of {hen¢
[Great Britain is now doing, though. saving will have been effected. 'The Is equally plain tht a considerable details of the scheme have not yet come to hand, but judging from th lines of the report which has reached here, the scheme is on all fours with that which' been, adopted and put through by Great Britain, and there is every" reason to hope that this similar process will be attended with equal success Year's Work in Science 'The British Association for the JAdvanceinent' of Science. held its foist annual meeting this year in the city of York. The meeting lasted for one week, from August SI. Until September 7, and over 5,000 among them the. most, imguished in the. world, indicated their intention to be present, The annual meetings. of the Association were formerly very quiet affairs, this ts. net so today, when this great "Parliament of Learning", as has been called, deals with almost: every, human. activity. More. and note. the "purpose of the meetings land. to consider what is Iiely to be inleate toa accomplishments tecomplished. in. the future. The wider applications of science are of great importance in national: "and international policies, This is fully realised by press and. public, and othe. British Association's ire-armament, with their implications Jof breaches of the Versailles Treaty, should have been made at all. They cannot be brushed aside as. simply a Recurrence of a scare which has lopped up more than once in the course of the last decade. In this lease, it is claimed that evidence of sufficient importance tobe laid re the League of Nations Imeetings, the most important their kind in the world, are now losely followed and reported for the information of the layman. This year's meeting dealt with a greater variety of subjects than ever, The Presidential Addrese, by Sir Alfred Owing, was on the subject of an lengineer's outlook on the world gen-row Tir Four Winns 400414 month; the lattes three.
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