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The difficulties it has to over- come, are not made less by the fact that Germany is watching all political changes in Africa lest they should affect its own de- mands. for colonies there. The Royal Commission has, there fore, to take into account Ger man as well as South African susceptibilities toward

any changes it may think intrinsical- ly desirable. Its objects are to broaden the basis democracy over a wide area, while main- taining protection for the inter-

for adequately to guard them themselves.

of

Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 18, 1938 ests of coloured peoples unable

A NEW NATION?

The British Government has decided to send a Royal Commis-

Introducing The

sion to look into the mutual Unknown relations of Northern and South-

ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It isn't every day in the week Events in that remote quarter of that researchists on the trail of "missing elements" can have Africa have been moving in the their search rewarded. But with direction of the emergence of a the discovery in France of ele- new unit of the British Common-ment number 87, madavium, by Horis Hulubei, the hunt for un- wealth of Nations.

known elements narrows down still Materials adequate for the to ekaiodine, the only one formation of such a unit exist outside captivity. in the three territories. They Trying to arrange such things have à joint area as big as that as helium, lithium, beryllium and oxygen in the same scale with of England, France and Ger-gold, lead and thorium, the fam- many combined. They are in-ous Russian chemist Mendeleeff found years ago that all fitted

habited by 4,000,000 to 5,000,- into families and neighbourhood 000 Africans whose relations sets based on their chemical with the 80,000 European settlers properties and atomic weights. require to be placed upon a more Numbering the elements from 1 to 92, what might be called their permanent basis. At present "social register was established. Southern Rhodesia is practically There were gaps, to be sure, but autonomous, its European settl-Mendeleeff asserted these would ers being in almost complete con-some day be filled by elements

then unknown. trol of the Government.

Chemists puzzled over the Northern Rhodesia and Nyasa-idea. They considered such pre- land, on the other hand, are dictions with some skepticism. still ruled from Whitehall, but Then along came praseodymium, terbium, europium, ytterbium, the development of powerful et alia, to fit neatly in the direc- the tory. Number 85 remains the Copper-mining interests in one and the increasing demand sole atom socialite still to stage

its "coming-out party, on the part of the European set- All ninety-two, including ekaio- tlers for the African labour of dine, which has not yet the other has rendered it neces-seen, have come up from the sary to revise this arrangement. ranks, as it were. They are the children of the four elements The white community would Plato recognised centuries ago: gladly take over entire control, earth, fire, water, and air. But but the British Parliament quite lest the uninitiated take to hunt- rightly holds that the interests ing for the last of the missing of the Africans have first to be elements, be it known that num- ber 85, while hiding somewhere considered.

between radon and polonium, and On this account in 1931 White-belonging to the chlo

chlorine group, hall refused proposals then made will no doubt be as difficult to for amalgamating the two Rho- find as was number 43. Masur- of man- desias with one another. Now ium was blasted out this question is to be reconsider ganese salts by Professor Nod- ed with special reference to dack in Germany, but years went Nyasaland and the northern nord by before identification tion of Northern Rhodesia in were found to both of which areas the African positively.

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