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"A King" anys one writer, "is like the commander of a great army or navy. The commander can only be known personally to a very fow, can only be able to muke his own personality felt amongst a number 80 small in proportion to the whole a to count little or nothing. But a whole army will have confidence In one general and none in another, will give to one admiral a whole-
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GOD SAVE THE KING.
the historic examples with us of such an affection. It can only be founded on the knowledge and ex- perience of the very few, but in some mysterious and yet unfailing way it spreads and spreads until it permeates a whole enormous force; and what is more, such feeling is never wrong, the affection is never misplaced, the trust is always well and truly earned." Su it is with King George.
Through the stress of the changes which have marked the twenty-one
como in, proving public interest in
gen.
THROUGH THE HEART OF DARKNESS.
By WILLIAM J. MAKIN.
cooked dinner and a discriminating|
FRICA In now spanned from Thirstland," and there is well- West to East. The Atlantic watered bush country where every | Colonel R. B. Skinner, Q.B.E., de- Land Indian Oceans are joined variety of big game can be soon.
ported on a tour of Inspection to by two strips of shining metals. It I doubt whether the Uganda Rail- Shanghai and Tientsin as a passenger on 8.8. Patroclus on June 2, and id a railway line surely the most way in its journey alongside the world, thrusting game park near Nairobi can equal expected back in Hongkong in about romantic in the a month's time.
its way through mountain gor the spectacular effect of the Ben-
spanning
rivers, guella Rallway on the highlands of huge polsed above mighty falls and enta- Angola. Lions abound, man-osters As previously Announced, the Young Women's Christian Associa Facts, and shimmering across plains that have terrorised more than one tion is giving two concerts, on Friday where little heaps of bleached bones village into flight. Big game hos been trekking for years from, the and Saturday next, at the Theatre tell the tale of thirst and death. Royal, in aid of a fand to build a The traveller of to-day can now advancing civilisation of Rhodesia permanent camp for Hongkong girls survey this route from a seat in a into the sanctity of unknown and women. Tickets are on sale at restaurant car, with an excellently Angola. Moutrio's and the Y.W.C.A. Home generous subscriptions have already bottle of wine before him. Through made the acquaintance of many of When I frei entered Angola 1 the project and sympathy with the the windows of the coach he can the engineers who had been engaged aims of the promoters. The pre-scan that trail through Darkest in this railway enterprise which had
aro Africa where Stanley with his threa grammes for the two evenings
different. somewhat
Among the hundred bearers was near to stary-cost about fifteen millions and taken attractive items are vocal and instru: Ing only fifty years ago.
twenty-five years to complete. The stories they have to tell of bridg- mental numbers, special dances, and
The railway begins from the Ing the Kwanza River, the torrent. Chinese music and drama. The con- tributors will comprise several of sandy shores of a lagoon where that swept down and marooned a the Colony's best-known entertainers. once slaved dhowa hld from British working party for weeks, equal in gunboats, A. mysterious lagoon epic character that of "The Bride- Even Nature conspires to conceal builders" by Kipling. It for five months in the year with n vell of mist. Moreover, the steamer secking an entrance is con: fronted with a stretching sandspit almost enclosing the place and yet creating, the finest harbour on the West African coast.
IF RAILWAYS ARE
ELECTRIFIED. ·
WHY THE COMPANIES HESITATE.
with steam.
The traveller along this exciting railway is bound to meet many of the men who built the line and are unable to tear themselves sway from it. They have suffered all the hardships of pioneers, the discom- forts of camps in the bush, the Lobito Bay. Thirty years ago virulent attacks of malaria which Some of the problems raised by the first European stepped ashore come to men, working in the wilds. the Weir Report recommending on that sandapit, a war correspon-Yet, after a few months in London that all the rallways should be dent who was investigating the spending their pay in a desperate electrified at a cost of £386,000,000, horrors of the slave traffic.
effort to amuse themselves, they were discussed by Major R. G. C.
have come back to these highlands Midland and Scottish Railway on Portuguese liners steam Glyn, a director of the London To-day, British, German, and to live beneath the corrugated fron in and roof of an unprepossessing little Apr. 27.
anchor alongside the same gandapit. house. There is no doubt," he said to The place is transformed. Villas, From the Congo frontier to the a reporter, "that the proposals are hotels, and even a cabaret and mining town of Kambove, the whole absolutely right in regard to areas cinema have been conjured into economic raison d'etre of this trans- with a density of traffic.
being by the building of a railway African railway is revealed. For "With electrification you can by British engineers and British the engine is snorting its way years of His Majesty's reign, the generate a speed of 30 miles an capital. Along the path which through what is perhaps the richest
hour in 30 seconds, and thie en slaves once trailed are the steel rails region in the world. In common with all parts of the Throne has kept its place in the af-ables platforms to be cleared linking the two Portuguese colonies This area of the Congo is not Empire, Hongkong will to-day mark fection and allegiance of the Bri- quickly and far more trains opora- of Angola and Mozambique. merely a land of ivory, apes, and I found Lobito Bay one of the peacocks. It is also a land of with a spirit of loyalty and thank-tish people, whilst other monarchsted on a section than is possible
healthiest ports in Africa. A cold copper; gold, and radium. It is fulness the 66th birthday of Iris of less tact and wisdom have been
"But every day Improvements sea current from the Antarctic | the famous Katanga region, which Majesty the King. The occasion is deposed and gone into oblivion. In are being made in steam traction. sweeps alongside the sandspit and supplies the world with the greatest rande all the more notable by the the long weeks, some three years An enormous sum has been spent, keeps the port free from mosquitoes part of its copper and radium, And and is being spent, upon atoam and many other curses of Africa, the railway that reaches to the At- happy circumstance that it finds ago, when His Majesty lingered in traction; and although electrifica-But instinctively the knowledgeable lantic const is carrying this modern
Africa His Majesty completely recovered the valley of the shadow, sick almest tion might show a saving in ex-traveller in
seeks the treasure of civilisation. from his recent indisposition, which unto death, he learned of the deto take into account the millions hotel where one is persuaded by Katanga region provides a series of Rattling along the railway in the penditure when operated one has heights, and so I abandoned the
was naturally the subject of much voted attachment of his people not invested in ateam. The whole of the hospitable Portuguese to too surprises. The Belgians have de- public concern. During the course only to his Throne, but to his per- that capital expenditure on steam much curacoa, and began the jour-veloped the country, wonderfully, of his sickness, following on the son; and to-day he may assure him.plant could not possibly be scrapney by the Benguella Railway into built in a few years gigantic smelt-
the Heart of Darkness.
ing plants, covered whole hills with more serious illness of some three self that the emotions which that
The snorting Garratt engine stira, powerful machinery, lit up in- Road v. Rail. years ago, Britons In all parts of crisis evoked have not diminished.
up a flock of flamingoes near the Idustrial centres with a flaming glare the world joined in a deep and but deepened. So, on the ocean he continued, "is the position of sea. For a few miles the railway the dead heart of Afrien into a "Another point of importance," mud flats. A pink farewell to the of electric Bght, and transformed another birthday,
never mere rail and road competition.
line is guarded by lonely sentinels throbbing organism. fervently and loyally do his people, "The London and North-East- of tall sloes. It le barely more than It in into the heart of the black wherever they may be, say "Godern and the London, Midland and ten years since the Portuguese au-country in black Africa that the'.
Scottish companies have just thorities cleared up the skeletons railway penetrates. Away on the Save the King!"
spent over a million on electrify and abandoned manncles which fringe of this throbbing Indus-
lions rear, ing the Manchester. Altrincham marked this slave rondd to the coast,trialism
clophants and South Junction railway line. With a shriek of triumph the en-trumpet, and gorillas thump their to-date system in the work,. belle, a pleasant shady spot where possessed baunts.
"What is going to happen? We the slaves from the interior hat If the traveller decides to stay have already been threatened by their first glimpse of the Atlantic.a few days at this incongruous intensive road competition by the There are nearly 800 miles of heart of Africa, Kambove, he will Manchester Corporation, who pro country to be traversed before the be able to take stock of his ge Two girls, whose job is to trampose to put on road services a traveller crosses the Congo border, Kraphical position. Actually, he 12 miles a day through city streete such fares as will probably 100 That country is Africa at its mest will have travelled 1,200 miles from
of spectacular.
the Atlantic coast and Lobito Bay. and country lanes, are playing an ardise any adequate return important part in a campaign be-apital expenditure for the elec There are the cultivated lowlands, To the Indian Ocean by way of the trification. That is an example. then the mountains and the in Victoria Falls and Befra is another "Therefore." he said, "one can finitude of the highlands, then the 1460 miles. Should he decide to not help asking, what
justifica-gorges where rivers either tear Ko south to the Cape, there is a tion there is for spending
journoy 1,460 £300,000,000 when
over along in rapida, or trickle with the through railway others may forlorn appearance of the tropics. miles. come in and take the best part." There is desart, known as "The
sincere wish that the King might be spared to continue his beneficent reign. Happily, those prayers have been answered and to-day His Majesty is once again able to take
ved.
up those duties of State which he GIRLS' £1,000,000 SHOES. and we have there the most up-gine reaches the gorge of Catum-chests in desperation at their dis-
has discharged with such signal uccess during the twenty-one years since he came to the Throne. It was well said by a commentator, on the 21st anniversary of King George's accession, that the out- standing feature of his reign has been that there has been no error a King might make which he has not avoided; no good thing a King might do that he has not done or tried to do. The suggested epitaph for King Charles II was that "He never said a foolish thing, and nover did a wise
one,"
TRAMPING TO WIN TRADE FOR BRITAIN.
gun by a factory in Walton, Liver-
tool, to win a trade worth £1.000,- 000 from foreign markets.
The girls are testing British- made rubber aboca, hundreds of thousands of which are to be put on the market this year.
Punctually at nine o'clock in the morning the girla report at the fac Of Kingtory office for duty.
George, It might be said that dur- They don shoes. straight from the works, and they buckle on. n ing his reign he has never blundered belt to which a pedometer is at-
in a foolish or imprudent or pro-tached, vocative speech or act. It is be cause of his reputation with his people in this regard that the basis of subjects' affection is in the trust
and confidence which they put in him. It has for long been taken for granted, and as a matter of course, that he will do the right thing and never let his people or the Empire down.
The pedemeter responds to the series of joga which walking pro- duces and accurately measures the miles covered by the wearer.
At o'clock in the evening the
girls return and hand in their
shoes and their pedometers. Not until a pair of shoes has done,500 miles is the batch from which it is taken passed.
The girls' work is part of the inborate organisation built up at the Walion factory of the Dunlop Rubber Company. For months 1,600 girls and men have been work- ing overtime making shoes out of crude rubber and cotton from Rochdale mills.
It may be hard to understand why so many millions of people who bave never seen or heard, the King, and who never expect to, should
Mr. Leonard Brown, the general | have such a quiet but sincere af-
manager, said: "IF we вис feetion for him. His Majesty, how-ceed. In capturing the market ever, has consistently shown that there will be work for more than 0,000 more people. In Lancashire, a strong and deep-rooted and £1,000,000 will be won from the lio has sympathy for all his people, and it American, Polish, German and is clear that the public expressions French competitors who took it inat of this which he makes from time:
year.
"In soven years Britain has lost to time are genuine and truo; In nearly 20,000,000 in this way. fact, more deeply and personally an English shoes, and the prices at "The tests we have given the new than his words convey. And be which it is possible to sell them, cause sympathy is something which havo convinced us that we have a cannot be given without being re- good chance of winning this battle. It now remains, for fine weather to ceived, the bonds between the King come along to stimulate the de and his people have grown steadily I mand."
"The instruator suggested I become a bit more modern
The trans-African journey con- tinues south to Elizabethville, the main town in the Congo, Thr white-garbed Belgians work with terrific industry in this banki əg and commercial centre. The real | spectacular· Africa appears again when, having traversed the Tleb copper fields of Northern Rhodesin, the train passes through Living- atone, and the traveller finds hini- self poised above the mighty Victoria Falls
This exciting raliway journey continues to Bulawayo, a town of much lelaure and where some wives are oven driven to the desperation of reading the many cheap novela about Rhodeslu and Rhodesians. To many travellers Bulawayo has be come a more wash-and-brush-up place on the railway lino, which la a great pity. It has been for ma town of many delights, adven- tures, and glorious hospitality.
The subsequent journey by rail- way over the Pungwe Flats to Beira and the Indian Ocean can be the most exciting part of this exciting! Journey if taken at the wrong time of the year. Floode have boon known to maroon travellers on this. route for days. Washaways are frequent
I recall one ople Journey accom plished when the engine driver was. desperately ill with malaria. But he brought his train safely into the station after a delay of some days, and then collapsed
Finally, that glimpse of the Ins dian Ocean from Beira. A
white soak dethenia
crocodiles. And"
Himy w
trees of Baira, the trolleys punhe
by boys, and the Inevitabis dah
dinner