Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-02-25
AFRICAN LANDS
CAUSE TROUBLE
NEAT BIG TuSsI4E WILL BE OVER
PORTUGUESE COLONIES
III SEEMS.
A Glance At The MAP
England and Germany VIII BE Faci
10 Face--L0oking into Recruit
ing of Wagc-liarncrs.

LONDON, Feb. 24.-The next pig
tustle between the powers Of Europe,
as far as can be seen at present, Is 10
be over the Portuguese colonies In
Africa.
This time England and Germany
win come directly face to face; each
viii be fighting her own diplomatic
battle, not that OF her friends or al
LES, as in the Moroccan and Bosnia
and Herzegovina cases. The British
government ~ being urged by the I'M
perialists to take the matter up i'm
mediately and get her share at tho
same time that Germany comes into
hers. Germany, there is no doubt II
willing; in some quarters 1t Is be-
lieved that she has her premilinary
negotiations well under way, while
Portugal, being in need Of money and
knowing that the present is good
time to sell, is not aVerse to parting
with colonies which she cannot afford
to keep up.
A glance at the map makes the d.
vision of the colonies between Ems
land and Germany look easy. Tho
Portuguese 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 Delagoa Bay. on which
England has had an option for some
years, and Beira, 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 TO a
portion of 1t TO extend her East At
rlcan colony and the trouble would
come in deciding where the dividing
line should be. Some Englishmen
think all of Portuguese East Africa
should become British, for Ger
many's share of the division would be
Angola on the west coast.
Angola has a coast line Of 1000
miles and an erea Of about half a
million square miles. The acquisition
of this extensive and rich territory by
Germany, adjoining as it does her
give her that Central African empire
of which Germany expansionists talk.
England, it Is understood, has already
intimated to Germany that she would
offer no opposition to this acquisition, |
and in fact it Is believed to have been |
this to which Sir Edward Grey re-
ferred when he spoke of offering NJ |
obstacle to German expansion in AZ
RIGA.
But there would be long and per-
haps bitter controversy before tho |
transfers could be completed. With |
the suspicion existing between the Two
countries and the determination os
both to give up nothing that they be-
lieve to be in the interest of their re-
spective empires to maintain, there
would be lots of opportunities for
squalls. The islands along the coast
of Angola, although Portuguese ter
ritory. are practically owned by Brit
ish merchants, and Influential ones,
too, while a liberal government is in
power. The great cocoa manufactur-
ers Of England, strangely enough, all
radicals, owning papers to advance
their political views, get their raw ma
terials from these islands, of which
st, Thome and PrirNtpe are the lars-
est.
o o o Q
The result of an inquiry to discover
the degree in which the employing
classes are recruited from the Wage
earning classes in the Lancashire cot
ton industry, shows that in this n
dustry at least there are great oppor-
tunities for men In England. The in
quiry was made by two men whose de-
clslon can be said to be perfectly un,
biased, 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
was made in one manu-
town, and 1t transpired that
some so per cent of the heads o;
private manufacturing business es
owed their position to their own ef-