Show SCIENCE BAffLE A TILE WAGED ON ISLAND Declare Continent Existed Exited in Pacific HONOLULU T. T H. H Aul Aug Theories 2 of the existence of ot a prehistoric conti- conti nent nemt In the ha P Pacific and the connection of tho the Hawaiian and other Polynesian islands with some come mainland ages a ago w were ro scouted as untenable by E E. C. C Andrews Andrews An An- drews chief of the geological survey of ot Now South Wales s Australia Austral In an ad address ad- ad dress before tho the Pan Pacific Scientific co congress ress which met here early this month G Geological evidence Is directly Uy opposed op op- op 1 posed to the Id IdeS that Hawaii Tahiti Samoa Tonga Tonea and other Islands ever had direct land connection Andrews said Bald These Islands appear to bo be small email land masses which rose from tho the ocean depths along great zones of or weakness The Tho Hawaii group never was much larger larer than It Is today Mr Andrews' Andrews views while supported by many of ot tho scientists attending tho the congress congre were opposed to those of ot another another an an- other school at the session one o of the leaders of ot which Professor protessor William A. A Bryan of ot the Un University of or Hawaii declaring de de- de claring in an m address that he believed a a. continent existed In the Pacific years ago aeo |