[Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookCaves of Terror CHAPTER III 6/17
To-day they are using wireless telephones, who twenty years ago would have mocked whoever had suggested such a thing.
Yet it is common knowledge that forty years ago, for instance, when Roberts the British general led an army into Afghanistan in wintertime and fought a battle at Kandahar, the news of his victory was known in Bombay, a thousand miles away, as soon as it had happened, whereas the Government, possessing semaphores and the telegraph, had to wait many days for the news.[1] How did that occur? Can you or any one explain it? [Footnote 1: This is incontestably historical fact.
See Lord Robert's book, _Forty-one Years in India_.] "If I were to go forth and tell how it happened, the men who profit by the telegraphs and the deep-sea cables, would desire to kill me. "There is only one country in the world where such things can be successfully explained, and that is India; but not even in India until India is free.
When the millions of India once grasp the fact of freedom, they will forget superstition and understand.
Then they will claim their powers and use them.
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