The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-11
THE COLONIES
IN AFRICA TO
cause TUSSLE
THE POWERS NOW CONFRONTED
WITH ANOTHER PROBLEM.
WHICH WILL BRING GERMANY
AND ENGLAND FACE TO FACE.
81 AssoeIated Press.

~s0tHSCh TIE PoWSIS Oh EUROPE as Tar
as can be seen at present. is to be
over the Portuguese colonies in Africa
This time England and Germany will
come directly face to face: each will
be lighting her own diplomatic battle.
got that of her friends or allies, as in
the. Moroccan and Bosnia and Herze-
goyina cases.
The British government is being
urged by the Imperialists to take the
matter up Immediately and get her
share at the same time that Germany
ecmes into hers Germany there is
20 donbt. is willing; in some quarters
1t Is believed that she has her pre-
4iminary negotiations well under way
while Portugal, being IN need Of
money and knowing that the present
yis good time. to sell, is not averse
10 parting with colonies which she can
not afford to keep up.
A glance at the map makes the d.
vision of the colonies between Eng
CfCFtugdese East African possessions
arc bordered on the south and west
by British South Africa and on the
moth 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 own. as thew would give her
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 it to extend her East African coll
onX 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 Germany's share
of the Lewiston would be Angola on
The west coast.
Angola has a coast line of 1000
miles and an area of about half a mil
lion square miles. The acquisition of
this extensive and rich territory by
Germany, adjoining as it does her
Southwest African possessions, would
give her that Central African empire
OF which German expansionists talk
s England. it is understood, has already
intimated TO Germany that she would
offer no opposition to this acquisition,
and in factIit is believed to have been
this to which Sir Edward Grey re-
ferTed when he spoke of offering no
obstacle to German expansion in At
RIGA.
But there would be long and PERHAPS
a hitter controversy. With the suspi-
II cicfis existing between the two coun-
Atries and the determine ton Of both to
give up nothing that they believe to
empires to maintain. there would he
lots of opportunities for squalls. The
islands along the coast Of Angola,
sithough Portuguese territory. are
practically owned by British mer-
chants, and influential ones too, while
al ikeral government is in power The
great cocoa manufacturers of Eng
landg strangely enough. all Radicals,
sC7wning. papers to advance their. polit-
sical Views, get their raw material
from these islands, of which Eft. Thome
and Princine are the largest Ger
MANY would want the islands with the
mainland, and 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
sb0rder questions to settle. but these
aside. England would probably be anx-
tous to give a favorable reply when
Portugal and Germany, having COM
pleted the deal, asked for her views,
according to diplomatic usage. A
favorable answer might relieve the
tension between the two countries and
pave the way for a cordial welcome to
King George when he pays his coro-
nation visit to Berlin some, time this
year.
Many Opportunities.
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 in
dustry at least there are great oppor-
tunities for men in England. The in
curry was made by two men whose de-
cision can be said to be perfectly un-
biased, Professor S. ]. Chapman and
Mr.. F. j. Marquis.
They state that returns received
from number of manufacturers
showed that some so per cent of those
willing TO give information had be-
gun life as operatives or clerks A di-
retc investigation was made in one
manufacturing town. and 1t transpired
that some SO per cent of the heads of
private manufacturing businesses owed
their position to .heir own efforts. and
that they had begun life in the lower
economic ranks. The Investigation
being extended to spinning, and of So
directors of cotton mills approached
by letter, replies were received from
10, Of whom = were self made men.
A spinning district was visited, and a
direct investigation showed that 13
percent of the managing directors A.
Per cent of the mill managers and 81
percent of the assistant managers
came from working class families or
from families with incomes about the
same as those earned by the opera :
tives The investigators also reached
: the conclusion that. despite the ex
panding dimensions Of the factories
. during the past century. it Is still,
possible to make small beginnings in
Industrial management
s Some of the manufacturers declared
that trade uricnisra was stunning the
growth Of initiative and PRODUCING a
dead level Of 1nedioerfty among the
Stprkers. bat that opinion was noi
horne ont BY further inquiry. for the
+ trs Re unions approved the promotion
Of their members to the positions OF
fcnenen or managers The spread Of
technical education and the improve
uaent Of general educa ton had also
greatly stimulated the vertical mohil-
ity OF the POPULATION. It is proposed
ia carry out investigations in other
trades with the view or removing the
impression that the prevailing unrest
is the result OF the contraction rather
than the expansion of the opportuni-
ties Of the working classes.
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