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·WORLD'. OVER POPULATION,

An Appalling Prospect,

believe that the moment of ex-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1918.

"It is increasingly likely, sa

PRESIDENT WILSON,

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Brother

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| locomotion: sed - 'communication become essier, that the lordship of a world' thus reduced in ite dimensions will fall into the hands Straffed by German Empress® of one sole authority. It seem al- most certain that we have to foranes the strongest natión dominating, Are there worse times in store deimsting, finally exterminating for the world than even those in all those that are weaker, until which we are now living ? Mr. that nation itself shall eventually

Hate-songs and miscellaneous B. G. Butobiozion, writing in the replenish the whole habitable

carses, big and little, have been Quarterly Review invites us to arise of the globe. What showered upon our allies by every What are we to Tom, Dick, and Harry in the treme stress has by no means and when we once more turn hysterical realm of William II. fallen apon humanity. He fore the page? That the struggle until they aren't worth printing sees what he terms the "real which has so far been for national here any more, with paper at ita armageddoo," when the world be predominance and possession has comes so congested with buman-to take on itself a fratricidal Present price. To print this ity that the people have to war character brother

one page requires six tons of fighting against reach other for a foot brother for a living space upon first order is worth it. We are paper, and only a strafs of the hold. Is that time within massarthe earth, what 'modus vivendi'

afforded one, however, by no less able distance? From an examina in the form of a strict regulation aroyal personage than the Kaiser's tion of statistics Mr. Hutchinson of the birth rate to match the brother-in-law, who has looked draws the conclusion that the death rate will the world masters all around the horison to die- world will be congested with then contrive, so that conditions hamacity in something less than may not be altogether intolerable? to shoot at, and has picked the big enough two centuries bence. It has been These are questions to be asked: American President, perhape after estimated that the earth cap it is for them, not for us. reading in some of our Republican maintain A population of find the answer. More than 6,030,000,000, a total which enough for as to realise that before papers that he is the most

powerful autoorat în the world will be rescued about A.D. such an extreme congestion can Duke Ernst Gunther of Schleswig- 2100, at the present rate of be reached life as we to-day Baletein, brother of the German increase. That

is envisage and enjoy it will long Empress, takes his title from s generally endorsed by a sumber bave passed to be worth living; province richly suggestive of of deceus and xats-of increase The open speca, the large cf Prussian rapacity, but, forgetting figuree, drawn from different citiee, will have been claimed all that, be has the cool assurance Bourosa. Moreover, if it be only for the inexorable necessity of approximately correct, it would of building a dwelling upon them to contribute an &:ticle on "Ameri oap Morality" to the Berlin Nord still seem to point to a situation years before. Either that, or man und Sud, a periodical edited by in the near fatare such as maso must become again s race of has never been faced with in all trolodytes. the ages of his history. "What will that congestion mean for our duecendents in no very remote degree?

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Dwelling beneath the earth, and growing his foodstuff: upon the surface, man for a time may This President dares to ex obeat the fate with which the prese his moral indignation about "When 8

++ msn of energy, world congestion threatens him. German conditions and to speak writes Mr. Batchinson, finds It can but delay for a brief while of the inflagras which the German himself so ercambered and the eupreme hour. Safe for monarchy exercises ou orowded to day that there seema cataclyem which will destroy -to be no room for him in his terrestrial life s new man will be solation of the crowding problem, able to find a place on the what will it be like in the year earth only on condition of thrust 2100 A. D.? No longer will the ing another off it. That, as far European, for whom the old as his life on earth can take him, world bae no place, be able to say, is the destiny towards which man 'I will go overses?," There is manifestly is moving. Well, space for

Only two indeed, might Huxley say that centuries, at the most, will evolution promises us to millen pass and there will be no room nium. for him. He will find footing if at

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destiny the destiny which really

"I do not believe that one în s "Humanity, se it would seem, matters-is not an fair of this thousand American citizens bas may expect something like two earth at all. If this were all, then the alightest knowledge of the centuries of reepite before con-evolution, far from being on the German Constitution or he would A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY. gestion becomes world complete; road towarda Во millenniam, know that the Imperial suffrage

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To show the rise in businees popular were "Somewhere in Wilson. for the German, if crowded in And with a future so immed supply of munitions to our enemies some of the increases (in gold

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