Bisbee daily review., 1912-02-11
OF
 AFRICA NEXT
Germany and England to Seek Equabie Divis- sion of Portuguese
 Territory
CERTAIN TO COME

] LONDON. February l0.-The next
 big tussle between the powers Of Eu | rope, as far as can be seen al pres ! ent, is to be over the Portuguese col ] oRies in Africa
 This time England and Germany
 will come directly face to face; each
 will be fighting her own diplomatic
 battle not that or her friends or al- ! lies. as in the Moroccan and Bosnia and Herzegovina cases. The British government is being urged by the Inn perialists to take the matter up i'm mediately and get her share at the same time that Germany comes into hers. Germany, there is no doubt, is willing; in some quarters it is be- lieyed that she has her preliminary negotiations well under way. while Portugal, being in neeE s mon4y and knowing that the present is a good time to sell, is not ayerse to parting with coloniss which she can not afford to keep up.
 Division Looks Easy
 A glance at the map makes tthe div ision Of the colonies between England
 
 guese East African possessions are bordered on the south and west by British South Africa and on the north by German East Africa. There are two ports, Delasoa Bay, on which Eng land has had an oIAion for some years and Beira a little further north, which England would certainly wish as her share as they would give her great South African colonies outlets to the sea through British territory. The difficulty would arise in dividing the rest of this colony. Germany would consider herself entitled 10 a portion Of it 1C all-ec s2 5.aat Af.lcan oi- ony and the trouble would cone in deciding where the dividing line should be Some Engiishmen think all Of Portuguese East Africa should become British for Germany's share of the division would be Angola on the west coast.
 Angola has a coast line of 1000 miles and an area of about half a million square miles. The acquisition of this extensive and rich territory by Germany. adjoining as 1t does, her South West African possessions, would give her that Cenr7al African empire of which German expansion ists talk England it is understood, mas already intimated to Germany that she would offer no opposition to this acquisition, and in fact it is be- lieved to have been this to which Sir Edward Grey referred when he spoke of offering no obstacle 10 German eX- pansiOn in Africa.
 May Tske Long Time
 But there would be long and per haps bitter controversy before the transfers could be completed With the suspicion existing between the two countries and the determination of both to give up nothing that tbay believe 10 be in the interest of their respective empires to maintain, there would be lots of opportunities for squalls. The islands along the coast of Angola, although Portuguese te~- ritory, are practically owned by Brit ish merchants and influential ones, too, while Liberal government is in power. The great cocoa manufac,ur- CTS of England, strangely enough. all Radicals. owning papers to advance their political views, get their raw material from these islands, of which St Thome and Principe are the larg- est. Germany would want the islands with the mainland, -~d these cocoa magnates would doubtless raise the objection that they had acquired rights there that would be injured by the change in ownership. There are also a few border questions 10 set IrrF .s probably be anxious to give a favor able reply when Portugal and Ger many, having completed the deal, asked for her views, according to di- plomatic usuage. A favorable answer might. relieve the tension be weeu the two countries and pave the way for a cordial welcome to King George when he pays his coronation visit 70 Berlin some time this year.
 Rise From the Ranks
 The result of an inquiry to discov- CT the degree in which the employing classes are recruited from the wage earning induStry shows that in this industry at leas- there are grea. op- portunities for men m England. The inquiry was mace by two men whose decisions can be said to be perfectly Professor s. J. Chapman and F. J. Marquis.
 They state that returns received from a number of manufacturers showed that some so per cent of those willing to give information had begun life as operatives or clerks A direct investigation wss made in one manufacturing town, and 1t trans pired that some 60 per cen. Of The heads of private manufacturing bus inesses owed thir position tJ their own efforts, and that they had be- gun life in the lower economic ranks. The investigation being extended 10