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Show ASTRONOMERS OUT TO ' TEST EINSTEIN THEORY By CUS M. OIHM. United Preee Staff CorrwapandVert. BERLIN, Aug. II (By V. P.I Th .T" rfallura of th little ea-pediuon ea-pediuon of Oerman atronomer. who are In Mexico to prove or dia-prov dia-prov th Kineteln theory, depends on th work cf three epeelflc minute min-ute on th afternoon . of Mcptera-ber Mcptera-ber 1. , . If th aky Is cloudy during thnee thr epecile minute on that dsy. ths sntlr trip will be futile. The little croup of four Oerman abeerv rls headed by Profeeoor Luden-dorff Luden-dorff of Potsdam oheervalorr brother of the German cenerej, and It purpose Is lo obeerv aad photo-graph photo-graph th ellpe of th sun which will be obeerved only In the south-ern south-ern part of th North Am.rlcan continent con-tinent on that mid-September dsy The eclipse will last only three minutes. min-utes. x Th Mexican government bag screed to pay all tb expen.ee. Including In-cluding traneportaUon from and I Hamburg of th a.ironomere and th.lr forty bote, of Instruments. Professor Kineteln waa Invited to makehe trip, but declined, laying he I worn out from hi reoent visit, to Japan and Bpaln. Profaaaor tdidendorfr writ attempt at-tempt to detarmln th temperature tempera-ture of th aua corona by mean of dividing H rare Into varleu color, col-or, ueing a pctrum and etudylng the Inten.lly of light tn each Individual Indi-vidual colored ray. Dr. Kohrauach. another member of th party, will attempt ta prove th Kineteln theory by means of photography, uaing th earn method that waa to have hwoa used n ths Christmas Island last winter, bat which failed because a eksud covered th eus about four minute before the eclipoe occurred. Profeasora fecnorr ana Dolberaer of the Hamburg obeervntory . re th other twa colleague. H not definitely known juet where thla ua-uaual ua-uaual experiment will take place In Mexico. A profeasor from the Mexican Mex-ican observatory at Tacubay will arrange the details. Th fjermane point out that their expeneiv In-nrumenli In-nrumenli ar very delicate and cannot b trmnaported over rough or mountainous roada. Then too the climatic condition must b ebeolute-ly ebeolute-ly perfect. If lb beet reaulla ar to b obtained, i |