MARS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 7

MARS

The following illuminating paragraph is securing wide puhlieity: — something has happened to Mars! Professor Howell, one ol tiie ablest present-day astronomers, as the result of his remarkable investigations it Falstaff, Arizona, where no has a magnificent instrument for observing that mysterious planet, maintained ;,v.he while hack that the Martians were engaged in a heme fight " tth Nature , for their existence, and were energetical!; constructing huge canals to lead the water molted at the poles to the arid wastes upon which they depend for their existence. About the same time M. Antoniadi described at length before the British Astronomical Association how at the end of last year mysterious mists : nd markings obliterated certain 1 anions landmarks on the planet. Many scientists arc inclined to the belief that ■disaster swift and sudden lias sweet over the planet. Kxaetiv what that disaster Is no one seems ready to state in so many words, hut the opinion seems to be that Mars has been visited by some catastrophe more terrible, more devastating, and more extensive in its effects than any cataclysm which lias visited the earth, and it is feared that the struggles of the Martians, supposing human life existed, have ended for ever.