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TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1915.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

0.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT-

TO

TAXING PASSENGERS AND CARGO TO

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STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, &c.

Steamers

10

Colomba

Leare Hongkong Noon

Connecting Mail Steamer from Colombo.

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Due Marseilles London

1917, IPIT.

When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO commodation in the connecting Steamer from CULOMBO is definitely reaircod Hongkong at the time of Booking.

THE WAR.

THE CHINA MATI

PROBLEMS FOR POSTERITY.

SHIPPING

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.

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There Steamers have the most modern equipment, including ovatiolt electric fans and electric lighting ALL LOWER BERTHS and large comfortable Staterooms (All single and two berths only).

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OVER-POPULATION AND than half the world into misery mind, the believer in terrestrial per

unspeakable in a war, wholly unneces- fectability must appeal to most of Bory. War in 1914 was in no sense us as a being gifted with an optimism necessity, fer. Germany, for the which we can but admire, "which we German, it crowded in his native can never hope to rival, country, had but to cross the sea, "And with a future so itmediatel Are there worse times in store, for In avery land he found a footing and eyes, we may yet hour people speak and there was ample room for him. and so inevitably spread hafóm their the work than even those in which well know how to maintain it. With with snug complacency of the course we are now bring? Mr. H. the passage of another century and of the world, after the present war, Hutchinson, writing in the Quarterly

a ball that free footing will be his as if humanity's developmens were MARSEILLES AND LONDON, Berior, invitis i to believe that the from his own hand will need to fighs sabse conditions as in the past, when no longer. He and every man going to continue on it under precisely the moinent of extrémne stress lu by no in order to gain a place in another. it was fathing his destiny of thenas fallen upon humanity He question but that it will be war, bitter, blink, as it appeas, to the obvious, What is to be the issue? Can we repleuishing the earth. They are foresees what he terms the real war, war, not of a nation's choosing, the uccessary and the very drastic Annsgeddon. when the

but thrust almost of necessity upon changes in the circumstances when world becanes so congested with humunity have, the room to live? Conceivably accomplished and he shall proceed to itions, war to conquer the very that part of his fate shall have been that the people have to war against it is possible that, should the nation the next and infinitely shrewder pro Frach other for a foothold. Is that perceive the imminence of an inven- blen, of his life on an already fully tion such as, that Veil fuil already replenished earth. It is not an time within measurable distance? noticed, they might impose upon amusing prospect Bus what would From an examination of statistics themselves & self-denying ordinance be amusing. were it not pathetic, is Mr. Hutchinson draws the conclusion prohibiting its nee, braking up the the talk of the general disarma- thas the work will be congested with mechanism of its manufacture even ment and of the abiding price humanity in something less than two engiies by the wisdom of the rulers consequences of the satisfactory us machines were destroyed ar illegal which are to be ung the natural centuries hence. It has been sti- of Erebwoy.. That is a possibility, termination of this war. Such talk mated that the earth can maintain a though recent experience does not is rife, and, pitiful as it seems, there population of £1,000,000,000, a total to any ordinance of the kind. The they say. More pathetic still in days encourage the hope of an adherence, are such talkers who believe in what which will be reached about AD. | proved disposition of warring of a not very remote future, will be 2100, at the present rate of increase. hunquity is, rather, to avail itself the fate of our people they and That estimate is generally, endorsed most diabolical mechanical their rulers allow themselves to be agents that science can contrive.. It hypnotised by the suggestion of this by a number of census and rate of is manifestly vain to build high hopes smooth folly, if they fail to realise HNG & SATURA increase figures, drawn from different on any tenderness or mercy in our the situation HOTICE.. Moreover, if it be only poor Euman nature, or to expect any humanity is most inevitably working, approximately correct. it would still change of heart in so short a time. fail to prepare for the dire clasir that FAID-UP CAPITAL.. sem to point to a situation in the

THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG. is obsolutely bound to come." The battle, then, the inevitablo fear fiture such as man has never "battle can hardly fail to be to the been faced with in all the age of his strong. It looks as though that history. What will that congestionation or that race which is most mean for our descendants in no very esse, is the nation that will win, and populous, most prepared, most ruth- Fernote degree ?

will possess the earth. PATELL & CO. Hon. Mr. P. B. Holycak-Chairisan, liminary skirmishes, it is to be pr sunad, will be not so much in the nature of any battle of giants as of the pitiful destriction of the lower

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"When a man of energy," writes Mr. Hutchinson, “finds himself vo cumbered and crowded to-day that there meeros to be no room for him

races. in his own little island, he emigrates, į

More and more will the white rron thrust the man of colour-no That is his solution of the crowding datter what the hue out of his problem, but it is solution which, rights us fellow-man. Gradually be unless the unforeseen should hap will be shifted altogether from the. pen, must fail us about the year scene, to make way for the more 2100 A.D. No longer will the Euroserious drains in which the best pean, for whom the old world bas equipped and strongest nations will no place, be able to say, I will go "It is increasingly likely.. D

compete for final domiuntion. overseas. There is space for me." locomotion

and communication Only two tenturies at the most will become easier, that the lordship of a pass and there, will be no room for world the reduced in its dimensions him. "He will find foxxing, if at all, will fall into the hands of one sole authority. It seems almost certain in a new land only on the condition that we have to foresee the strongest of thrusting out from it that is to nation dominating, decimating, fiu- say, thrusting to his death-sonically exterminating all those that are previous inhabitant. Is not the prospect sufficiently uppalling?

Humanity as it would seem, turies of respite before congestion may expect something like tag cep- becomes world-complete; yet, with every increasing generation, the stress must grow tighter. And dur- ing those centuries, in what manner, We may ask, will nun proceed with

weaker, until that nation itself shall eventually replenish the whole habit- able surface of the globe. then? What are we to find when What

the struggle which has so far been we once tuore turn the page? Thut for

national predominance and possession has to take on itself a fratricidal character-brother fighting

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