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WEDNESDAY, APR. 29, 1936.

Our

December 4 and 5, 1642, and again early in 1644, we might be reading such a para- graph, but in Dutch, in newspapers. On the strength of north-west gale in 1642 and on the caprice of south-east winds in 1644 hung the destinies of Australia.

In 1842 Abel Tasman formally His took possesion of Tasmanin. carpenter, Pieter Jacobzuon, awani ashore on December 3 and hoisted the Dutch flag on the shores of the "eleen bochtien," now called Prince of Wales, or Watsons Bay, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. Leaving his anchorage, Tasman ran northward along the const. Ils Course would have brought him to Bass Straits, and then to the east coast of Australia.

NOTES OF THE DAY

CO-ORDINATION OF DEFENCE

Defence.

WIDER ROADS

The development of wider roads in Hongkong during re- cent years invests with more than passing interest the dis- The strengthening of the British closure made some little time Defence Services led to a demand back by the Minister of Trans-from some quarters for a Minister port, at Home, that the future

of Defence who would co-ordinate will most likely witness the the work and the development of carrying out of a project in

the Army, the Navy, and the Royal which thoroughfares 140 feet in

of the Air Force. The object width will be brought into being in various parts of the country. Government was not to bring. the It is foreshadowed that these three forces under one head, in the sense of making them subject roads will have dual carriage-to one control. What was wanted. ways, us they are termed,

was a co-ordinating centre, which separated by ample central re- would still leave the responsible servations, besides cycle tracks, heads of the services freedom of margins, and spaces for trees initiative and liberty of action, and and shrubs. Nothing definite recently the Prime Minister has been announced regarding announced that a Minister would the specific provisions for be appointed for the Co-ordination pedestrians, but inasmuch as of Defence, the Prime Minister Mr. Hore-Belisha has shown himself retaining the Chairman- himself a strong supporter of ship of the Committee of Imperial the movement for pedestrians' rights and safety, it is naturally There was much speculation in assumed that their needs will Parliament and in the press as to also be taken into due account, who would be chosen for the post, We notice that it has been and a number of well-known names. were mentioned, but, among all claimed in some quarters that

the names suggested, that of Sir the national road-widening cam-Thomas Inskip, who had previous- paign undertaken in recent

Solicitor-General ly held office as years has not resulted in the and Attorney-General, and whose increase of safety expected, name had always been associated and, indeed, that wide roads with the Law, was not included. are able to engender a false His appointment came as a sur- sense of security, especially to prise to Parliament and public, but motorists. There may be some-a little reflection soon led to n thing in this argument, but, on general feeling that Mr. Baldwin the other hand, it can be had made a good choice. stretched to somewhat absurd Thomas Inskip has had wide ad- ministrative experience. He is points. It is tó be conceded that some of the safest roads energetic, level-headed, patient, In- dustrious, receptive, of new ideas, are those which look most dan-and enpable of justly balancing and gerous; they compel the driver deciding upon conflicting claims or the pedestrian to exercise from various quarters. His rew special caution, the necessity oflike will call for great "drive,” for which is obvious to all, and equally great tact in helping Evidence on this point could be to co-ordinate the Services and thus cited here in Hongkong, where develop a National Defence Force most of the roads are far more which will work na one harmonious tortuous than they are at Home. Considering the frequency of

whole.

Sir

blind corners on local reads, it are much safer than narrower is really surprising that more streets flanked by verandah- accidents do not happen at these posts, from behind which pedes- points. The explanation is trians are always liable to dash | probably to be found in the ten-out into the main road. But dency, which becomes ingrained just as the Increase in motor In course of time, to take special traffic has necessitated bigger paina when approaching such and better roads, so the time corners. On the general ques-must come whòn special provi- tion of wider roads, it is doubt- sion will have to be made for ful whether here in Hongkong various types of traffic. The they have conduced to a largoriden of separate tracks for percentage of accidents; indeed, cyclists is, therefore, a step in the wide road will probably the right direction, and, coupled, be found to have had the where possible, with two-way opposite effect. There can thoroughfares for motorists, it certainly be no

for should be a factor in providing doubting the point that a greater measure of safety for

thoroughfares those who go on foot.

spacious, open

FOOT

A strong north-west wind drove him off the coast. On December 5 be took his departure from

the "high round mountain" of St.. Patrick's Dome anal stood to the castward, to discover New Zealand and to return to Batavia by way of Tonga and the north coast of New Guinea,

Again, early in 1844, Tasman was at the western end of Torres Straits, with orders to sock a passage to the Pacific. Having found it, ho was to take possession of the cast const.

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Plans were in hand for settle. -ment here, which would have link- ed up with the Dutch plans for a Bettlement in Chile and for trans- Pacific trade..

Owing probably to advere winds, Tasman did not find a pasange through Torres Straits. He sailed westward, put the Gulf of Carpen taria fully on the map for the first time, and charted with fair accur acy a great extent of the Austra- lian coast.

He had missed A chance which never came again.

"They have done nothing of advantage,' wrote the Council of India, bitterly, in describing the voyage. The Council was still inclined to a voyage to Obile, but nothing came of the plan for occupying Australin.

Those were the days of the Eng- lish Civil War. Thon came Crom- well and the sea wars with Eng- land, which gave Holland enough to do nearer home. In the face of the naval power of England growing and of France, the might of brave little Holland declined relatively, if not absolutely,

And so it came to pass that the vision of a Dutch Apstralia remain- ed a dream. The Dutch are our nearest neighbours, and hold A grent tropical ompira in the East Indles and New Guinea.

They missed the chance of but- tressing this with a Dutch . contin- ent in the south. What they might have done in Australia we can see, as in glass darkly in the his- tory of the Boer in South Africa.

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A sonso of what might have been Is to be found sometimes in British writers..

"From the neighbouring island of Timor it is but a step to the north- ern part of Now Holland; and it would be well to bear in mind that they (the Dutch would have a fus- flable plen in planting an estab- shment on any part of the north- ern coast of the latter, in our own example of taking possession of the stern coast ami the Island of Van of Diemen, the original discovery which by the Dutch is not to be disputed

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So wrote Sir John Barrow, Sacre- tary to the British Admiralty, July 22, 1824, in a private letter to Uniler-Secretary Horton. Did he have in mind, apart from the dis- covery of Van Diemen's Land (Tas- mania) by the Dutch in 1642, the, statement of Alexander Dalrymple, timt the Dutch "long before Cap- thin Cook are reported by Nicholas Struyck to have surveyed the east- ern coast of New Holland" T

It is certain, he goes on to argue, that occupancy is a stranger title than priority of discovery. His view is that both New South Wales and Tasmania bolonged to the Dutch by right of discovery, but to the British by occupancy.

lis letter recalls the statement published in a newspaper of Octo- ber 30, 1786. This runs:-

The

"An opposition to the Intended settlement al Botany Bay has been latoly started from a quarter from which it was little expected. Dutch have always elaimed the sovereignty of it by right of dis- covery, right which has been greatly respected by the different Powers of Europe. We are credibly informed that his Excellency the Baron de Leyder, the Dutch Ambas- sador, has received orders to remot Atrate with our Ministera, in the name of the States-General, againat our regular planting of a territory which, they assert, belongs to an. other country."

The time had gone by when such a protest could be effective. Let us look back, however, and we will sec that over a century before the Dutch came within a hair's breadth of occupying Australia,

Abel Tasman takes a fost sight of the Teamsnian. Court as a north weusi wind blows him of his couran wone that would have brought files to the east coast of 'Russsalía-with shes results one can only imagina.

Australian Bight." They had

dir- covered Tasmania, New Zealand, the Fijin, the Friendly Islands, and other groups to the eastward, and hnd sailed right round Australia, though at long range.

Let us look at the ideas of the men who controlled Dutch policy in Defore the South Sena, 5 years Dampier again visited" the country bad written of whose people he carlier:

The Hodmasuds of Monomotapa, though 1 nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these."

The plans then laid down ought to have led to a Dutch occupation of the cast cons of Australia. They were made in the light of Tas- man's great voyage of 1042-1043.

Meeting in the Castle of Batavia on Wednesday, January 29, 1644, the Council of India (Governor-General Antonio Van Diemen, Cornelis van der Lijn, Joan Mastsuicfker, Justus Schouten, and Salomon Sweerts), laid down instructions for a voyaga of discovery to the Southland by Captain Abel Jansz Tasman, and the pilot-major, Frans Jacobz Vles- cher. They were to follow the coast of New Guinea, and to seek diligent ly to learn whother New Guinea saparated from the known Southland,

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"If this is so (as is feasible), you should Bail so far to the south-east n the new van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), and from there to the islands of St. Peter and St. Fran- cis (at the head of the Bight)."

Later in the instructions this significant passage:-

occurs

you

Seventy-one years befors Cook's visit to the cast coast England sent

"And in order that in futuro the. out that dark, brooding, brainy, ex-

fruits of the pains and expense laid out in this discovery may not per buccaneer, William Dampler, to ex

from us by THEY are a tough, stubborn, and plore New Holland, which he had haps be taken away

European nation, prolific stock, and in Australia already visited in 1688 as one of a some other

a great pirate crew. It was the first time shall everywhere take possession of empire. Even to-day Dutch people that England showed any official in-the-lands-and-Islands visited by you, they might have founded

which have none or barbarous in in Java sometimes send their chil terest in Australia.

habitants in the name and on be dren to school in Australia,

half of the Incorporated Netherlands. Company, with some of the custom; ary tokens, such as the sowing of fruits, or the planting of trees, the putting up of a stone, or a wooden pillar, or in some other way; in the same new lands you shall set up the arms of the company, with lot- tors cut out in wood, or carved in

A Dutch Australia, nearer to the Netherlands Indies than we aro to India, would have acted as a home am recruiting centre for the Dubch in the Indies. Each of them could

have drawn strength from the other.

A letter forgotten in the records of the East India -Office for 300 years shows that Thomas Bright and ather shipwrecked English mariners spent nine days on an island off the coast of Western Australia in 1622, This, however, was but an isolated accident.

And to-day publicists in Austra- lia might have been arging that But fifty years before the second boys ought to be taught English voyage of Damplor, the Dutch had more freely, and talking of develop- good rough knowledge of the ing trade with the foreigners of the Australian coast from Cape York British Empire,

west about to the head of the Great

SIDE GLANCES

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By George Clark

"Surely SOMETHING must have gone on at the office today. You people don't just sit there without saying a word to. cach other."”'

stone, showing in what year and at what date you have sailed to these lands and taken possession of with a declara- them as aforesaid, tion, on purpose, that it may re- main visible, that at the first oppor tunity people will be sent thither from here, in order to assure us the possession with permanent, colonies." Tasman was specifically Instruct. od to examine the "bight" of Torres Straits, to see whether there was an entrance to the Pacific Ocean.

Why he failed to find the strait and pass through it, and then run down the coast to Botany Bay, and to Tasmania, we shall never know, unless the lost logs of the voyage turn up somewhere.

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If Tasman had been able to carry out his instructions, the Stadraad. of Lutjegust might be proparing to erect a replica of Tasman'a cottage on the shores of Kruidkunde Ban

The Staatsrand of Nieuw Zuid Fricaland would be meeting in the city of Nieuw Amsterdam beside the Inlet of Janszoon's Haven, The Staats lotterij might or might not be a burning question.

It is hard to say what would be the strength of the Scheldenheld movement in Westen Nieuw Holland and Van Diemen's Land. And If there was to be any Royal visit to our Eedgenootschap, on account of the Honderdjaar-viering, the visitor would be the Princess Juliana.

To and fro across the Tasman Zeo to the Dutch Island of Nieuw Zoeland would ply the vessels of the

Eendracht. Stoomboot Mant

schappij.

And on both sides of the Tasman Zee mon might be discussing how for the Government of Holland, in the interests, of its own farmore, was likely to adopt & policy of Bepaling towards the meat, butter, cheese, and other products of Nieuw Holland and of Nieuw Zeeland.

All these things seem incredibly impossible to us today. The things that are actually happening might. scom just as impossible but for a couple of shifts in the wind near-

ly three hundred years ago.