Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-30
ONE RESULT OF WAR
TENDS TO BROADEN
COLONIAL POLICY
The English Government Will
Develop Broader Educational
Program After The War
THE GIVING OF
THE TENTH PART
Plans Of The Joint Centenary
Committee Of The Methodist
Episcopal Church

Rich Chinese merchants in the Fed
| grated Malay States are buying ar
nored tanks and presenting them to
| he British army and many have also
/ given airplanes, according to j. Stuart
i Nagle, who has just returned to this
| country in connection with the 1919
| Centenary Celebration of Home and
/ Foreign Missions of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church. Mr. Maggie a Meth
| odist Missionary, has spent the past
i've years in Singapore where he is
| president OF the Anglo-Chinese Col
| iege.
There are a number OF wealthy
Chinese who are giving more than a
| enth of their incomee TO aid the AL
| les" declared Nh. .Nagle. "Some gave
large contributions toward building
| he battleship Malay which was given
~ the Federated Malay States to the
British Government shortly after the
outbreak of the war and which took
prominent part in the famous sea fight
off Jutland. These people are also in
yesting heavily in War Loans and give
generously to the Red Cross. At one
single affair recently they raised $751;
300 for this cause. The bops of our
| own Anglo-Chinese School last year
gave over $4,000 towards war chart
ties"
THE Chinese in Singapore have al
ready raised 100000 for the Metho-
list Centenary, which sum will be
lsed in Singapore and great portion
Of it for the Anglo-Chinese College.
Various friends in Malaysia are going
20 raise more than S1.500,000 for the
Centenary" said Mr.. Nagle. The pur-
pose of the Centenary is to conserve
The results of the war so that the
church can prevent any recurrence in
future of the conflict now raging in
Europe. When our armies have won
democracy for the world the church
must be ready to step in and make
democracy safe for the world
Sometimes even the missionaries
get mixed up in war;" said Mr. Maggie.
Shortly after the outbreak of the
World War, the English Government
informed all the Germans in Malaysia.
The Germans then bribed some of the
native troops to mutiny. There were
thirty of us holding our annual con-
ference when word was brought us
that the troops had mutinied and that
they had seized cannon and were go
ing to clean up the streets in Singa-
pore. We all enlisted on the spot and
some of us actually engaged in the
fighting which followed. In a week it
was all over but some of the German
prisoners had escaped, amng them the
captain of the battleship Emden, per-
haps their most important hostage.
| They say he got back safely to Ger
many. The Malaysians have been
loyal ever since the mutiny, though,
| and there has never been any more
| trouble
Prices are exceptionally high in
Malaysia as everywhere, and it is al
most impossible to get canned goods,
iron and steel implements, print pa
per and white cloth. This latter is no
littlhe hardship as nearly ell the
clothes worn by the white people
| there are of this material. Rubber
| was very high at the beginning of the
war Then it dropped from $3.50 a
picul down to $40. CA picul is about
1870 lbs.) Out there the reason given
| for the tumble in price was that the
United States Government had discov-
cred thousands of tons of rubber
stored away by the Germans here in
America and that the United States
had confiscated this and then placed a
ban on the importation of rubber until
such time as the stores on hand could
be used up.
zone result OF the war will undoubt-
| eddy be a broader colonial policy on
the part of Great Britain although no
one could complain of their rule over
the Federated Malay States and things
are very peaceful The English Gov
eminent after the war, will undertake
larger educational program as a
part of her colonial policy. / think it
is significant that last year, in spite of
the fact that all of her resources were
taxed to the very limit, the English
Government increased her appropria-
tions for eduation by twenty-five per-
cent"