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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930.

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November 1) Samarinda

Saigon

TUESDAY,

Japan and Shanghai

Rhodes's Pioneers.

ROMANTIC COLONISING. Exactly forty years ago the first stage of the most romantic colonie ing enterprise of modern times was successfully achieved, writes Lleutenant-Colonel H. Marsoll

between the. Pioneers and the war- like Matabele through a portion of whose country they would have to pass, insisted that they should be accompanied by a force of 500 mounted

polica under British officers to ensure their safety dur ing the march and to garrison the forts after the occupation.

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The expedition then assumed a military character, both Pioneers and police being provided with Documentary, 4

months' sight machine guns, searchlights, hello- graphe, and other up-to-date equip“?”- On Paris- ment. The general command was on demand Hole, C.M.G. (Formerly Chief entrusted to Colonel Pennefather, Credits

6th Dragoons, who had served in Secretary of North Rhodesia) in the Zulu war. Johnson command- the Morning Past. On Septembered the Pioneers, who wore accom 12, 1800, Cec Rhodes's Pioneers

panied by Selous as guide, and by Dr. Jameson representing Rhodes,

raised the British flag.on, a patch of open veld in the high plateau of Mashonaland, and inaugurated the foundation of a great new African State. The date has since been regarded as the Hegira of the Rhodesian calendar, and its AD-

Riversary is regularly celebrated with pride by the rapidly diminish. ing band of survivors of the 'ex- pendition, and with something akin to reverence by those who are to day reaping its fruits,

Before the occupation Mashona land had been the happy hunting Empress of Japan ground of the Matabele, a peculiar

ly fierce tribe of Zulu origin, whose evil reputation had discouraged any organised attempt to test its sultability for colonisation. It had been traversed only by a few ven turesome hunters and explorers such as Thomas Baines and F. C Selous. Although their descrip- tions of a high, healthy and well. watered tableland, intersected by innumerable teefs of gold-bearing quartz, and containing ruined cities of stone the vestiges of a bygone civilisation-aroused some interest, there was a tendency to discount them 38 'travellers' yarns," on a par with the old legends connecting those regions with the Land of Ophir and the ancient kingdom of Monomotapa, round which Rider Haggard was just then weaving his fascinating

Shanghai

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romances.

But the reports fired the im- agination of Rhodes, who saw, moreover, that other European Powers wore casting avaricious eyes in that direction, and resolved that Britain should not be left be- hind in the general scramble.

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He started by obtaining mineral concession from Loben. gula, the Matabele King, and with this somewhat tenuous asset, back- ed by his own wealth and the guarantees

other financial groups, he induced the Govern. ment to grant him a Charter to occupy all of Central Africa not already appropriated by Germany, Belgium, and Portugal.

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From the rallhead at Kimberley, 1,100 miles from their goal, the force was gradually drafted to a camp on the British side of the Matabele border, and, after

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prise.

Scouts

A route was selected which skirt. cd round Lobengula's eastern boundaries and kept clear of his villages, but it lay through broken and difficult country, sparsely in habited by subject tribes. Every precaution was taken against sur- were constantly guarding the flanks and riding ahead of the main body, and, in order to reduce the length of the column-which, with its eighty ox- Waggone would have been too straggling for safety-and to faci- litate the rapid formation of laager at the daily halts or in case of attack, two parallel tracks were cut for the greater part of the

way.

More than once the scouts be came aware that their movements were closely watched by parties of Matabele, but although regiments of this formidable tribe were gathered at Bulawayo, clamouring to be let loose at the intruders, their King managed to hold them In check.

After five weeks of strenuous road-making and the construction of forda across rivers, the Pioneers passed out of the low veld and emerged on the open table-land, 3,500 to 5,000 feet above the level, close to the site of the modern town of Victoria.

From this point their progress was comparatively easy. They: struck due north, and on Septem- ber 11 halted within a few miles of Mount Hampden...

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On the following day a care. monial parade was held, prayers were offerod. by the chaplain, Canon Balfour; the Union Jack was run upon an improvised flag, His first deaign was to secure staff by Lieutenant Tyndale. foothold in Mashonaland, and Biscoe, R.N., and formal possession within a few weeks he aet about

was taken of the country in the organising an expedition osten. name of Queen Victoria. A fort, Mra. H. Cantlle, Mr. E. J. Collins, aibly mining in terms of his con long since vanished, was erected Mr. K. R. Christian, Miss cession, but in reality to annex the and called after Britain's Premier' country. His idea was to enrol a Salisbury, number of young colonists of various trades and professions who should march up in a body to tho most promising gold area, and he cided that their objective should be Mount Hampden, a prominent Handmark known to Selous, who had named it, and situated within convenient reach of the reputed gold-fields.

A chance meeting with a young Briton named Frank Johnson (still a live and active member of the Rhodesian community) who had

tract.

The occupation had been accom- plished without a single casualty.

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During the first few years the early Rhodesian settlers had a hard struggle against successive attacks by the natives, against flood and droughts, famine and postilence. Most of the original 700 have. A. Gregory, Miss W. Golds- fallen by the way, but they be

worthy. queathed to their successors a fine legacy of endurance and indepen dence-qualities which have abled them to hold their own in adversity and to build up a self-

Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Grant, Mr. H. K. Ropes $10.80

en-

(Due Thursday Island, Dec. 2.)

Parcela...Nov. 20, 5 pm Registration .Nov. 21, 9.45 am.served in the frontier police and governing colony with prospects ..10.30 am had visited Mashonaland on his second to none in the British

own account, suggested the plan of | family of nations. carrying out his scheme by con- The Rhodes tradition is still their inspiration, and is enshrined Johnson was engaged for a fixed in their national motto, Sit nomine sum to raise, equip, and command | digna. a force of about 200 "Pioneers," who should cut a waggon road across the 400 miles of untamed country which separated Mount Hampden from the British Protec- torate of Bechuanaland; to provido them with mining tools and food supplies for a specified period, and to build a chain of forts along the route for their protection.

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Superscribed correspondence only.

BY GOLIYII'M GONNA GIT OUT BEFORE

MAGGIE THINKS ABOUT". MINIATURE

GOLF

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GUESTS OF REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

November 17. Mr. A. S; Abbott, Dr. M. E. Asger.

Mr. W. D. Harris. Mr. H. S. Jenyus, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Jensen.

Mrs. E. P. Kerr, Mr. A, R. Kin-

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Mr. J. B. C. Lamburn, Mr. and

Mr. G. T. May, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Maynard, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mayhew, Mr. Geo, Mellis, Mr. T. Megarry, Mrs. J. Moodie.

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Mrs, and Miss Tarrant. Miss 1 M. Vaughan.

It was understood that on arrival Mr. H. P. Balley; Mr N. C. at their destination they should be Barber, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Barron, dispersed to prospect for gold and Mrs. H. J. Bird, Air Commodore mark out farms, and thus from the and Mas. L. Blandy, Miss Blandy. nucleus of a permanent settlement Mr. W. G. Bree, Mrs. M. Brennan, under the British Crown. -

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