"THE BLUE ROOM."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1927, Page 6

"THE BLUE ROOM."

Mr. Liddle asks if he is challenged on maintaining his statement that conjurers are fully-qualified investigators of phenomena. I challenge him on his statement that scientists have no hope of defeating mediums. Mv letter to "A.E.C." clearly shows that a juggler could not help in Professor Riehet's investigations, except by tying the medium up like a trussed fowl. The juggler could not follow the investigation into the laboratory, neither could he assist in the following case. Sir William Beach Thomas, in his book called "A Traveller in News," states that a lady passenger on the Makura wrote a good example of hieratics, a popular form of hieroglyphics used 7000 years ago. Professor G , one of tha great archaeologists of the world, also a passenger on the same ship, translated the message, and he said: "I do not think anyone could have written the document in the short time taken by Mrs. B " (except by automatic writing). Mr. Liddle is particularly unfortunate re Flammarion, because, if he has thoroughly investigated the subject, Flammarion's letter to the London Dialectical Society 57 years ago must apply to him also. Here is an extract: "I do not hesitate to affirm on personal examination of the subject that any scientific man who declares the phenomena impossible is one who speaks without knowing what he is talking about." PHILOS.