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Show uu !S CONTINENT DRIFTING AWAY? LONDON. Sept. 1C. fBy the Associated Asso-ciated Press) Is the American i sontl-n.nt sontl-n.nt drifting westward and slowly leaving Furope behind0 It Is, II the. theory propounded to the S8 ants ol the British association at Hull Y th German geologist. Wegener, is correct Dr Wegener declares that thj a-Irlous a-Irlous continents originally were joined at the poles, but that now they arc slowly drifting away from th' poh-f and from east to west America, is ; moving westward fastrr than Europ I he said and Greenland still faster 'than America. He added that this movement had been proven bj 'fxperim-nts at observatories in Eli-fn.) Eli-fn.) ai WashinsTton In the discussion which follow.-. 1. Professor Turner, of Oxford, suid I there was no rial ronomlcal observation I worthy of serious consideration In I support of Wegener's theory . |