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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1918.
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THEOHWA MATI.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO
HELIGOLAND &
INDIA'S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP EMENTA
Vice Admik Bir Chas. Dandas ton writing to a Louan newspapir qur extraordinary to find Lord Lalings Dundas, KCMG says in the waterm
And remote from the trials and sufferings of India should be rected from fondba
which wash the eastern shores of Africa, resting that she indiatrist develpriat
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of European strife lies a fertile little Lord flington's official position, is night
aland rich in tropical vegetation, and
set like a gem in the coral pecklet of its would have precindel adjolning shoals Few people who have from expounding poly of this lind made this little land of Zanzibar their remarks the Pioneer in wlew of the their temporary home leere it without prepaste which have been practically
of and many cherish a
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The population of Zanzibar is round in the official hierarchy than half about 139,000, and its trade is valued at The report of the Industrial Commision two millions sterling The chief exports will be bened before the end of the are sloves and copra. The position" of
the island makes it a convenicot port of present month and it is no secret thas call for vessela plying their trade up and it will recommend the creation of a down the codes of East Africa. Its important new departments carry on commercial value to the Empire is there the work of industrial development which fore, not great Strategically, ita im-Lont Elington would apparently place portance exista doly in a negative conse
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fe is undesirable," from our point of the hamlar of the Secretary of State view. that any other nation should in Connel. This recommendation has possess in GN
During the latter part of the 19th ed in advance the implied approval in their Reforum Report and we eluce Contary Zanzibar was under a kind of at the Viceroy and the Secretary of Rate
was for ever striving for the upper hand to way that the idea propounded by Lord Consequently it became a constant Islington is to inchievous one, source of annoyance and irritation to our The present war, has shown thai India's Foreign Office. It is probable, from what what we know of German polley now, industrial salvation will have to be that this pinpricking was fostered with worked out in India without the home A view to creating a situation which pecing interference which has been so would inevitably real in our both harmful in the past. | ready to pay a very high price is
to got the Germans out of Zanzibar alto gather.
This was part of the great scheme. which rosabed its calmination in 1913, Another incident has been added Germany forces that the greatest the Lloyd Georga," film. The count obstacle to her naval expansion was oorerfeit "Lloyd George was conducted possession of Heligoland, and abe set to by a torchlight procession through the work deliberately to get out of it
KAMER AND QUEEN VICTORIA, » The Kaiser used his private influence with Queen Victoria, while the German Foreisn Office worked through the German. Ambassador in London. The position of Heligoland was such that in the hands of a great sen Power it
aminated the waterways of Germany, and prevented any free access to the North Sea. This up in November, 1490, in order that our singularly powerful position was given. Foreign Office might be freed from the the situation at Zanzibar.surrounded, the There is no greater want of foresight nor a more fagrant example of diploma tic stupidity in the whole history of international politics. Heligoland, the key to Germany's naval expansion, was exchanged for a very charming little garden island about 5,000 miles from England. How the Germans must have chuckled over that bargain.
į minor ditieulties which
com
Looking back over the 2 years which have passed since Lord Salisbury mitted this fatal blunder, we can readily believe that the in Europe might never have taken place present terrible struggle Ind we played our cards diferently in 1890. In any case, bad war developed og land, the naval situation would
streets of Carnarvon, and pictures.w taken of a reproduction of the declar tion of the pall in 1892, when the Primei Minister was re-elected for Carastro borough..
REST FOR MOTHERS.
How many babies wake up just about the mother's bed-time and keep her basy for a good part of the night. The mother Day not see anything apparently the matter with the child, but she may depend upon it that when baby is crost and sleepless there is something wrong, and the little one is taking the only means be ha of telling it.
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been very much easier, and use Medicire Co.. 96 Szechuen. Road, Shang, applies would never bare, bean thren- tened. It is very difficult to understand What made Lord. Salisbury so weak on this point. It is probable that our
of State was talked over by her late Queen's grandson played his cards with remarkable skill, and that the Secretar Majesty, whose sympathies, we wow were pro-GermaTÍ.
FOREIGS: OFFICE. OSTUMENELS.
There was precious little sentiment about the German desire to possess, Heligoland. We took it from the Danes in 1807, and mince then it had remained A peaceful little flabing settlement, visited only by a few trippers and
KEATINGS
naturalists in the spring and summer LOZENGES
months Why were the Germans so bent on getting poe
• possession of the island?
Did no one in our Foreign Office ever reason that point out ? : Was it only a coincidence that the cutting of the ship Canal between Kiel and river Elbe should synchronise with the desire to occupy Helgoland 1 Bat it is useless to labour the point now. The past cannot be recalled. Let us look to the future.
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