Evening star., 1927-05-22
BY HOWARD WHITE.

~IR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, creator OF
Sherlock Holmes and world.famous ex-
ponent of spritualism believes that
- great catastrope, which would seem to
he something worse than war" may come soon
to "shake the universe into sense"
In one of the longest and most remarkable
interviews he has ever given, Sir Arthur made
this prediction to the writer and also announced
that Sherlock Holmes will solve no more mys.
teries.
There will be more Sherlock Holmes.
He is absolutely gone. l hope that up to the
end he played up. l do not think he was in
state of absolute decay. His last adventures
are just coming out, but he can't go for.
ever, and don't want to let him down badly"
The immediate future of the world is dark.
Sir Arthur declared, but an approaching storm.
OF whose exact nature he is not sure. will pre-
Cede great spiritual awakening and a new
golden age II the catastrophe occurs as his
spirit guide. "Pheneas," hints. it may be in
the nature of seective process by which
large part of the world would be eliminated.
Sir Arthur believes A change in the axis of
the earth, with cataclysmic floods and tidal
waves, may be one of the manifestations of
the new era. America will be greatly af-
fected Sir Arthurs spirit guide declared.
Sir Arthur, hale and hearty at 6S main
tains his curious personal magnetism and his
impressiveness of speech. His iron-gray hair
and neatly cropped mustache increase the
maturity. At his side sat Lady Doyle, occa.
sionally seconding him as he spoke of the most
amazing things in perfectly matter fact
manner.
Sir Arthur is very busy at present. He is
preparing popular version of his six.volume
history of the World War and he is perfectng
and editing another book intended to demon
strate the innocence of a man now serving
life term for murder.
But Sir Arthur Is always ready to speak of
spiritualism, and he spoke of it to me his
face and speech showed his evident faith in
the revelations which he believes he has OBJ
tanned from "Pheneas."
Pheneas, Sir Arthur said was an Arabian
who lived at Ur before the time of Abraham
His messages" obtained through the medium.
ship of Lady Doyle, are about to be recorded
in a new book by Sir Arthur, "Pheneas Speaks"
I'VE spiritualists have been fighting an up.
hill battle for years." Sir Arthur said. "Phe
meas hints all through that book of mine--and
we believe him--that something is coming to
shake the world into sense-to make it sit up
and realize, not only by the descent of a high
spirit, but by disaster. That Is the onlv
thing that can do it. Sorrow is the chastener
AS war has failed, it must apparently be some.
thing worse than war"
Lady Doyle said that she and Sir Arthur
had not thought of publishing the most sen.
sational things that "Pheneas" has told them.
I'VE have heard great deal about things that
are coming to the world, and what makes us
take it seriously is that we have been told
about trouble that has come" she said For
example, the trouble in the East, volcanoes
eruptng after long periods of inactiyity--of
these things have been told weeks or per.
haps months beforehand. We were told of the
Japanese earthquake the night before it hap.
pened. OF course, they have time
on the other side; they see happenings
series of railway stations, without knowing