Show EARTHS X SURFACE ADRIFT 1 I 1 1 lai t BELIEF OF scientists no artes es of german savant I 1 arouse new controversy f london an interesting controversy has y been excited in british scientific circles prof by tho the remarkable theories of S alfred fitner a 0 german who mathat ya that tile the I earths continents ore are athe setting westward hl a rd ills thesis Is that i eartha continents are of lighter magerl heable bial ai and flaat it alita re icebergs on a KS highest r plastic atie which rea reaches clies oceans cans level nt at tuo bottom of dt t the e startling theory has been wrongly tron gly criticized by P lake of tho the ot 0 aal yal phi ca I 1 society by means aang maps he WL gener showed the way in which 1 has surf reconstructed constructed the land S e of the 00 alb A according to this atlon ct lon north 1 la I physical america was once w in contact ith india betI between veen africa and aus and south america was brought into contact with africa since tia then on the continents contine tits have drifted away froni frolli one another into pie present position among a number of carefully reasoned criticisms critIcism i mr lake pointed ot out I 1 t bilat in order to meet his theory had flattened out the in order tb l lengthen the peninsula of india atit but 1 he had bad not flattened out worlds mountains in a others of the similar way ile he alan ais declared that the argument based 01 on alleged c correspondence in geological forma formation tIOU in the var various loni continents would not hold good because nerla ls geological facts were not accurate As tin an offset to mr air lakes vie NW a number of other oilier british observers reava beem inclined to support Wes eners revolutionary theory prof j f jolly of trinity college dublin wilt writing lill in the c current issue 0 of f nature that thai Is lu in error til in working outtie out the theory on the baals of a westerly drift t of the continent the theory ile he anys in probability it on an easterly drift asin Is indicated dilated dica ted |