Evening star., 1939-09-05
Outbreak Of War
Cuts Attendance al
Geodesy Meeting
IS Of British Delegates
Will Remain, but Some
Are Recalled

From Is to 20 Of the British SCI
ence delegates to the International
Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
are remaining here for the seventh
assembly that convenes tomorrow
although it was reported few had
returned home on account of the
war.
DR.. John A. Fleming, secreary
general Of the Organizing Commit
tee Of the union, said that DR.. F..
Dienert of Paris, the only one of
18 French delegates who had come,
was preparing to leave Immediately
for home.
Germany was to send IS dele
gates, he said, but only three, who
were already here when hostilities
broke out, will attend the sessions.
They are DR.. Julius Bartels of the
Geophysical Institute of Potsdam,
DR.. A. Graf of the Askania- -Werke,
Berlin, and DR.. Steubbe, Ameri-
can representative of the Askania-
Werke, who is German citizen.
British Delegates Withdrawing.
The British delegates who have
withdrawn are Col P. K. Boulnois,
who is attached to the geographical
section of the general staff, war
office; B. c. Browne of Cambridge,
DR.. James N. Carruthers of Lowe
stoft, Suffolk; George H. Edmunds
OF London, DR.. A. H. r. Goldie Of
London, DR.. A. G. Ogilvie of Lon
don, Capt. George T. McCaw of
London, DR.. John B. TAFT of Aber-
deem, DR.. E. F. Thompson of Lon
don, DR.. j. D. H. Wiseman of Lon
don and Brig. H. st. j. L. Winter
botham, the latter being secreary
general of the International Union.
Most of them hold government posi-
tions.
Approximately $50 of the TIT
scheduled delegates to the scientific
conference are from foreign coun-
tries. None of the Polish delegates
had arrived, and none is expected.
Yesterday afternoon some so foreign
delegates had registered, one of the
latest having been DR.. S. Chapman
OF London, president of the Inter-
national Association of Meterology,
Imperial College OF Science and
Technology.
The Italian delegates were not
permitted to come, it was said. All
delegates Of the belligerent nations
who are in government service had
been recalled.
DR.. Leon Dostert, professor of
French at Georgetown University,
who is a French citizen, is in charge
OF the corps of interpreters. He
was expecting to be recalled to duty
by his government. DR.. Dostert was
a front line soldier in the French
army during the first World War
and has been on the Georgetown
faculty number of years.
Japanese and Chinese Coming.
Nearly 40 nations are listed among
the delegates who are coming here.
including three from Japan and
one from China, who have arrived.
Soviet Russia named no delegates.
DR.. Fleming welcomed the at
tendance of the German delegates.
They are a very likely lot of
men, all altruistic," he said.
The session beginning tomorrow
evening in the Departmental Audi
torium will initiate a series of SCI
entif1c meetings at George Wash
ington University, which is host.
The fact that there is a war re-
duces the sessions to a strictly SCI
entif1c basis" DR.. Fleming ex-
planned. There will be no discus
sions of laws, finances and other
subjects on the agenda, which might
otherwise slow things up and cause
misunderstanding. Because stress
will be laid entirely on science the
Washington assembly will be much
more worth while and valuable"