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NOTES AND NEWS the reply given by the Hon., Member to an interpellation in the Legislative Assembly in September 28 asked by Mr. Sarabhai Nem Chand Haji, about 6,000 persons go every year for pilgrimage, the authorities have persistently adopted an adverse mood.
The Bombay Peshawar Express haults at Hindeun City, Gangapur City Malarna, Indargarh, Lakheri, which is only 7 miles from Indargarh and which place seems to be of no special importance. Then again she stops at Raotha Road, Darah, Morak, Suket Road, Shri Chatrapur, Bhawani Mandi, Garoth, Suvasra, Chaumahla, Gadguchaalot, Luni Richa, Mehidpur Road, Khachraud, and Bangrod, namely at 14 places within a distance of 138 miles. The anxiety of the Railway administation to reduce stoppages in respect of 19 Down and 20 Up Bombay Peshawar Express has therefore been proved to demonstration to be a mere excuse without any substance and based on obstinacy and coupled with a woeful disregard of the convenience of an overwhelmingly large numbers of Jain Pilgrims, whose interest and convenience it should be the duty of the Railway Authorities to adequately safe-guard and provide for.
By the negative reply of the Railway authorities the Sentiments of the Jains all over India have been cruelly hurted. We again make an appeal to the Authorities concerned to revise their decision.
New Terrors for War in Skies. A piece of metal, twice the strength of steel but only half the weight of aluminium, was tossed up into the air by Dr. Hilton 1. Jones, the well-known research chemist, as he discoursed to the Executives' Club at Chicago recently.
This new metal and a new poison-gas, he said, would destroy the world.
He talked reluctantly of the new gas, cacodyl isocyanide, which, he said, was known to all world Powers, who, however, would hesitate to use it, so terrible and destructive was it in its effect on life.
" It will destroy armies as man snuffs out a candle," Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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