Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-28
HAILED AS PROPHET
Hindu Lad, Aged Is, Leader
of Theosophists.
HEADS SOCIETY OF 1000
Bogoloff Islands in North Pacific
Chased as. New Continent.
STRENGTH OF FRENCH NAVY
New Law Gives Total Of Battleships
and Auxiliaries-Change in
Police Methods.

Paris. April 21.-Theosophisty Of Eu-
. rope have their thoughts directed toward
! Paris, for at Paris has arrived a new
I Hindu prophet who is regarded by many
. theosophists as the precursor of the ul-
Z innate master who is to give to the
: world its long-expecteds moral transfer
nation. He is mere boy. only fifteen
years of age. and he comes from Adgar
! in India. At fourteen he wrote a book
. called AT the Feet Of the Master" which
I has been translated into many languages
and which is said by theosophists to be
inspired by a high consciousness of hu-
man needs. To them the prophet, who
Is called both Krishnamurti and Alcyone,
confirms by his presence the declarations
! of Mrs. Annie Besant In her address at
the Sorbonne last year that a profound
change was coming i'm the life of human
I ity. and that 1t was 10 enter upon a new
phase to be signaLzed by the coming of
the master who was to establish new
religion.
Ventures a Prediction.
! The prophet presided at meeting of
theosophists OF which he is the head.
, 1t has 1900 members, of whom 900 are
in France. He plans to pass about six
months at the University of Oxford. to
gain knowledge of western culture,
for he believes that in the new era there
will come union of western culture
and OF eastern wisdom He predicts
for the future the formation of a new
continent in the Pacific ocean like the
one called Atlantis, which, according to
classical tradition, once existed In the
friends contend that the Bogoloff Islands,
whose coming in the north Pacific was
accompanied by seismic disturbances, are
the nucleus of the new continent he has
in mind. This physical earth change he
believes will signalize a revolution in re-
ligion.
Fixes Strength of Navy.
The new navy law Just promulgated
fixes the strength of the French navy at
IS ships of the line, 10 scout" cruisers, So
destroyers. 10 foreign service ships, -
submarines. mine vessels and various
auxiliary ships. Battleships laid down
before 1906 are to be struck OF the list
after twenty-fiv years service. and ships
ty years service In the case Of the bat
tie fleet at least half the ships are to be
kept at full complement, and the re-
duced crews are to include at least three
ffths of the gunnery and eng .neerlng
Applies Railway Methods.
. To permit the withdrawal Of traffic po
lice for other and more important duties,
such. for instance, as the hunting of the
sautomobile bandits WHO have been ter
srorizing France for the past several weeks.
] the police authorities are trying an ap-
splication OF railroad methods in the prin-
cipal thoroughfares Of Paris
Every American tourist who comes to
Paris at once remarks the Inadequate
regulation of street traffic when COM
pared with that Of London. Some feeble
efforts have been made recently to direct
'vehicular traffic in central points. like the
grand boulevards, but enough has not yet
been done. The traversing OF streets,
therefore continues exceedingly danger
Gus in Paris to pedestrians, especially
since the slower horse omnibus has been
eliminated in favor Of the swift and heavy
autobus-
of the erection Of signal cabin in the
middle of the roadway at the intersection
of the boulevard and the Fanbourg Mont
martre. one of the most congested cross
roads in the city. In this cabin police
man manipulates large disc, indicating
which vehicles are to stop and which
are to proceed. A broad. white line
from the edge OF the sidewalk across the
{ must wait until given the signal to pro-
! coed into the next section. II this ex-
pertinent proves practicable it will be
5 rapidly extended all over the heart of
Paris.
Effect Of British Coal Strike.
: One effect Of the British coal strike on
: the continent was the forcing Of de-
I crease in emigration to the United States.
Every spring there is an important move
. ment of emigrants to America, but this
: year the discontinuance of several ocean
steamers, owing to lack of coal, made ii
{ impossible to accommodate all the emf
Z grants who. wished to sail. Holland and
, Belgium refused to receive any more
emigrants and sent them back to France
and Switzerland. Several hundred emil
grants were stranded on the frontiers and
were practically living on charity, await
ing the decision of the British miners.
! One emigration train. containing over 200
Russians, Bulgarians and Turks. bound
for the United States, was stopped on
the French frontier and refused admis-
!. sion. The emigrants settled themselves
at Delemont, Switzerland, awaiting for