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BRITAIN IN THE PACIFIC.

GLORIOUS FUTURE IF WE ARE

WISE.

THR HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 121H, 1920

As for cities, their chief ones are among the world's finest and largest, Sydney and Melbourne each having about 1,000,000 population, while Adelaide, Brisbane, Viscouver, and Auckland boast their hundreds of thousands. These cities are also among the world's great seaports. But on every part of these Pacife shores, from Prince Rupert to Hobart, and Javorcargill, new ports are constantly springing up..

How the heart of Drake would re-

[BY THE REY ALEXANDER SHARPE«) It was a notable day in 139 when Sir Francis Drake, from a tree on a hill on the Isthmus of Dairen, caught his first glimpse of the vast, unexplored, mys terious Pacific Ocean. His spirit was stirred within him as he gazed out upon that unknown waste of waters the greatest of all the oceans, and, baring his head,joice cold, he se the position of the he "besought Almighty God of His goat. English ship on that sea" to-day! The ness to grant him leave and life to stil British flag is in evidence in every part of it, and is predominant, while the once in an English ship on that so." Six years later a little barque, with British sea-borne commerce there is one of the greatest in the world. It is at Drake, on board, emerging from the

interesting fact, moreover, that the Strait of Magellan, entered upon that' mighty exparise, the first English ship to larges, finest, and fastest liners that voyage on the Pacific are those of the plough its waters, and the prayer of the Canadian Pacife Railway, hailing from great sailor was answered; he sailed Vancouver. The greatest part of the

in an English ship on that sen." And submarine cables is also British.'

This vast British he not only sailed on that sen for he

Pacifc Empire there explored the shores of California, already plays a considerable part in the claiming possession of it, as Ne Albion,world's affairs. It supplies enormous quantities of wool, wheat, mutton, butter, for Queen Elizabeth; he crossed the whole theese, fruit, timber, gold, cost, and 6ah breadth of the great ocean, and, con- to other countries, and it has about tinuing his voyage in Eastern waters, 35.000 miles of railways. Ta the Great circum-navigated the globe, entering Ply War it contributed more than 600,000 men. inouth Sound on September 26th, 1580. to the King's armice, and we all know Two centuries later it was another re- what splendid soldiers the British nowned English mariner, Captain James Columbians and New Zealanders were, Cook, who first fully revealed the Pacific and what a distinguished part the Aus to the world, having sailed all over in tralian troops took in the conquest of in almost every part; as no navigator had Palestino, ever done before. About 20 years or Ba later, again, it is worthy of mention here, a famous Scottish exploror, Sir Alexan- der Mackenzie, of the Hudson Bay Com pany, was the first white man to reach the Pacific, averland, in wide North America, sighting its waters at Bella Coola.

ALL WITHOUT WAR

the

THE CHANGING NAVY.

BETTER CONDITIONS ON THE LOWER DECK. EX-SAILORS AS SETTLERS. (BY A CORRESPONDENT IN THE OBSERVER. How conditions have changed on

changed lower deck of the Navy was

kingly illustrated at Plymouth when nearly two hundred men of all ratings, from able seaman to chief petty officer, drawn from all ships in the port, met for their an anal rounien dinner They entertained as their guests Captain Walter Eillött, Under Secretary for Health for Scotland, and Lord and Lady Astor.

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As Captain Sir Lionel Wells, a retired naval officer, who was also a guest, said, such a gathering would have been impos sible in his carly daya in the Navy. Is those times men went to sea in small ships, and their food and comfort were of small consideration. An officer was smart if he was just a little bit of a bully. The sea-time of the men meant so many dead years as far as their life's history was concerned. Silently and steadily, however, there had been growing in the Navy a spirit of comradeship be

een offeer and man, and to-day the Service was better taught, better" clothed, and happier than it ever was.

Lady Astor had something to any "of the startling change which has come over the Navy, but, as she truly observed,

In addition to these white States of our Pacific Empire, there are also other important territories, great and small. The British half of New Guines has even to-day some people still rested un 150,000 square miles, an area larger than der the impression that sailors were of Bengal and Assam combined, equal to that of California, and it is one of the the old buccanntering type who got roar richest of the world's undeveloped tro- ing drunk when they went nabore, and

Near by it are the large and fertile islands of New Britain and had wives in every port. Aga matter of! we don't giva New Ireland, and also the Solomon Isfact," said Lady Astor, lands.

"them much encouragement to keep a wife

even in one port."

MOVEMENT OF THE EMPIRE'S HEART.' In the light of Drake's prayer it seemspical countries. strange in this present year, 1995, to hear Mr. Bruce. Prime Minister of a great Southern Continent, of which the re. doubtable Devon saitor had never heard, Baying in regard to the Dominions of Elizabeth's Royal successor, The heart of the Empire has been moved to the Pacific." Yet it is even so, in a very important sense, as statesmen and strate- gists are beginning to know.

On the shores of the Pacific, upon which no English ship had sailed in 1972, there bas grown ap ander Divine Pro: vidence, within the last 150 years, an Empire, inhabited by British people of truly colossal extent. The combined area of the British white countries alone there are 1,500,000 square miles, that is, as large as al! Europe, excluding the former Russia, and Scandinavia, or nearly twice the size of all the North American territories lost to the Empire in 1778,

WONDROUS RESOURCES,

Still within the Pacific sphere, we have North Borneo, 80,000 square milee, that is, two Portugals, or a larger Missouri, and Malaya, 50,000 square miles, as large as Greece or the State of Arkansas. These also are among the richest tropical coun. tries of the world.

Again, in Hongkong, the Empire possesses the greatest of all the Pacific ports, the chief emperium of the Eastern seas, whose importance, both commer cially and strategically, can scarcely be too highly estimated.

Lastly, there is the wonderful island world under the flag in mid-Pacific, countless summer isles of Eden," Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and all the rest.

Truly this British Pacific Empire is a wonderful thing. And it has almost

with two and a half times their populaar been acquired without war. Apart tion. The people of the Empire's Pacific from New Zealand, it has never had a white States already number nearly battle fought on its soil, with the excep- 8,000,000, or going on for twice the esti- tion of the strike affair of the Eureka mated population of. Queen Elizabeth's Stockade. It is an Empire of peace and English kingdom.

freedom, asie always the case where the British Bag dies.

Its future, as the home of. tons of It is almost startling to realize the full

of white millions

people and of significance of this British Empire on

the dark reces, with the shores of the Pacific, its vast extent, millions of its fine climates, its inexhaustible natural its marvellous resources more develop We ed, Jazzica the imagination. resources, its marvellous possibilities; these magnificent white States are far shall do well to take a lively interest in more vast and are more populous than it, and be proud of it. The eyes of the those touching the Atlantic shores under world are on the Pacific now, as the the British Bag, if we exclude the United coming great sphere of commercial and Kingdom, and are about five times the political activity, and our Empire oc- size of the American Pacific States of cupies a splendid position there already..

We should see that that position is main California, Oregon, and Washington com-

tained and improved. And this can bined, with a larger population. It is mainly be done by directing a large part striking fact that the British fag, flies over more of the enormous coast line of of our surplus population to the Pacife the world's greatest ocean than that of shores" Australia especially should see to this, for it is indeed a vital matter any other Power,

for her.

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Looking at these new lands we have

"If we are wise, there is a glorious need to. think Imperially," and to exer- cise the imagination in considering their future for our race and Empire in the figures, for some are potential empires in vest Pacific world-Western Morning themselves. A good way to realize their Vet. vastness is to make comparisons with other countries and States. There are six of them, extending within a distance, from north to south, of about 7,000 miles. ROMANCE OF £3,000,000 FORTUNE

In the north there is the great Canadian province of British Columbia.

A remarkable mystery is connected with

POLISH POISONING MYSTERY.

Its area is, in round numbers, 350,000 the fortune of £3,000,000 left by an square miles: that is, it is larger than Australian to a relation in Poland France and Italy combined, or equal to reported by the correspondent of the three, and a half States of Oregon.

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FINEST MEN ON EARTH. Captain Elliott paid an eloquent tribuute to the men of the Service. The lower deck, he anid thad the honour of England to heir hands when they went overseas. Abroad each of them was an ambassador of his country, and the stan- dard they had set was a testimony to their reverence for the traditions of Great Britain. Anybody who had been oversens knew that foreigners regarded the men of the Royal Navy as the finest men on earth.

One of the most thought-provoking sng, gestions of the evening, came trou Able, Seaman Alfred Gubb, who pro posed the toast of the Houses of Parliament. He spoke of the pro- blem of finding employment, which every man leaving the Navy after many years' service was forced to tackle. At such an age, usually about forty, a man did nos take kindly to the thought. of migration, although from the Do- minions' point of view, he said, groups of such men would be a valuable asset, It should be remembered that after many years of service afloat such men had a natural desire to settle in their own country.

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The desire of the sailor for a garden is proverbial," said Seaman Gabb, why not formulate some scheme for st ting groups of ex-milors on the land in this country in the same way as groups of migrants are settled in the Colonica? Such a scheme," he said, "would add to the productivity of our countryside, and would keep from a demoralising idleness men whose loyalty, no less than their adaptability, had been tried and not found" wanting."

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