GAMMA RAYS

Radio-active tances such as radium and were found to give off three types of rays. These were Sir Ernest Rutherford, Alpha, and Gamma rays. Alpha rays later recognized as atoms of helium Beta rays (g.v.) were identified trons, or particles of negative Gamma, rays are not material ‘but are waves with properties breeding to Roentgen or X-rays, of which 1 deer appear to be a type. They will, the law instance, penetrate opaque substan spotted such as stone, flesh or leather. ‘1 so are considered, therefore, a variety; was light, having a very short wave-len that GAMUT (gamma ut), form of s again as used in medieval music; now applie states the scale or compa of wind instrume In all game GANDAK, GREAT (25° 45’ N., protectors 14’ E.), river, India; rises in Ne Him a lay as; joins Ganges near Pa were a GANDAE, LITTLE (6° 4’ N., Greeks 4’ B.), river, India; rises in Nepal | described joins Gogra, a tributary of Ganges. chariot village, Afghanistan; scene of ma were of last survivors of Brit. force f They Kabul, 1842. shrine of celebrated E.), town, Brunswick, Germany; sex or famous abbey, founded IX. cent. the myth. Isthmian different GANDHI, MOHANDAS KAR. cent’s CHAND (1869), Indian lawyer g’s agitator; 6. Por bandar, India. Pythian grandfather had been Prime Min Isthmian of one of the native princes, and earliest ancestors had held high office. He Olympic to London in 1888, studied law in Chris country and returned to India in 1] A.D. In the same year he a ociated hir are held with a law firm in South Africa. T people the prejudice that prevailed ag 1916. Hindus put his life jeopardy - named, mob violence. He was insulted, be were and served several terms in jail. Y gladiator the Boer War he was of great a ist the later to the British authorities in organizir Indian Ambulance Corps, and co-op ed with them also in 1906 during stakes at Zulu Rebellion. During the World mixed he organized the Indian Field At noted that lance Corps. Following the war hov are he inaugurated in India the ‘pa can _ be resistance’ movement with which alleged to name and fame are a ociated. transactions. became the leader of this moven is that a which is regarded by ‘the British a; a bet, most menacing in the history of bet has empire. He urged his country me refuse co-operation of any kind wit! sub British Government. They wer uranium, refuse to buy British goods. H distinct lawyers were not to plead before Bi named, by courts. He held that it was not Beta the right but the duty of Indian were refuse allegiance to the Government gas. at the same time he cautioned. his as eleclowers that they must take the c electricity. quences of civil disobedience wit particles, resorting to violence. His slogan similar ‘India for the Indians.’ His doct; 7: have taken strong hold on the people of India and by most of them he is revered as a saint. Hz is an enemy of modern industrialism, would abolish machinery and revert to the economic practices of ancient times. In the course of his crusade, riots have occasionally occurred and violence has been practiced by his followers; but never without the disavowal and condemnation of Gandhi himself. His singularly pure and gentle character, his sincerity and consistency, his ascetic mode of life, together with his marked intellectual ability, have given him tremendous influence over three hundred million people. Because of that influence, the British Government hesitated for a long time before taking drastic measures; but at length Gandhi was brought to trial at Ahmedabad on charge of sedition and sentenced, March 18, 1922, to six years in prison. He thanked the Court for its courtesy and said he considered the sentence as light as any judge could po ibly have inflicted.: Polencie. Spain; coasting trade. Pop., Sudan, on Niger, N. of Borgu; chief town, Gando (pop. c. 12,000), on Sokoto; inhabited by ah and Hausa races, Area, as 78,000 sq. miles. Pop. c.,000,