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ASSETS EXCEED g ^^Ip^.^'sm CLAIMS PAID.
£3,000.000. ?rv^^^^^ OVER «i 4.000,000.
By Appointment,
GENERAL
ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE CORPORATION, LTD.
ESTABLISHED 1885.
ALL CLASSES OF INSURANCE BUSINESS
TRANSACTED.
The Corporation has Representatives in every civilized
part of the Globe, who are prepared to look after
the interests of its f)oiicyholders
CLAIMS LIBERALLY SETTLED.
CHIEF OFFICES
General Buildings, Perth, Scotland.
General Buildings, Aidwych, London,
W.C.2
BRANCH OFFICES
CANADA — Continental Life Buildings (corner Richmond and Bay
Streets), Toronto.
SOUTH AFRICA — General Buildings. Gr«enmarket Square, Cape
Town ; Commercial Exchange Buildings, Main Street,
Johannesburg.
INDIA— 12-14, Church Gate Street, Bombay.
AUSTRALASIA— 21. Queen Street, Melbourne,
Also in United States, China, Egypt. Belgium. France, Holland,
Argentine, Scandinavia and Mexico.
Directorand General Manager— F. NORIE-MILLER, J.P.
Advertiser's Announcement.
Perfection !
Here is a delightful little girl,
in whose clear-eyed healthfulness
and shapely limbs can surely h^,
found perfection. It is not sur-
prising that this lovely little
maiden — she is 2k years old — -has
been brought up from birth on
Glaxo, for Glaxo is, next to healthy
mother's milk, the most nourishing
of diets, and the only safe alter-
native.
Glaxo is pure milk and nothing
else — -it is not a patent food. It is
bacterially pure, free from con-
tamination, and so modified by the
Glaxo process that the nourishing
milk-curd (which in ordinary milk
forms a hard (;heese-like mass)
breaks up into tiny particles, easily
digestible by the youngest baby.
You cannot go wrong with Glaxo,
which is, after a healthy mother's
milk, the perfection of infant diets.
Ask your Doctor !
The Super-Milk
Builds Bonnie Babies
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proprietors: Joseph nathan & co., lt
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WELLINGION, NEW ZEALAND,
OSNABURGH ST., LONDON, N.W.
The larger our advertisement revenue, the more we can spend on
improving " OVERSEAS."
Advertisers' Announcements.
Anchor Line
Passenger and Freight Services :—
GLASGOW AND NEW YORK
GLASGOW AND BOSTON
GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND
GIBRALTAR, SUEZ, PORT
SAID, BOMBAY
GENOA, LEGHORN, NAPLES,
PALERMO, AND NEW YORK
ANCHOR LINE (Henderson Bros.) LIMITED
I J Glasgow . Liverpool . London
Manchester . Dundee . Londonderry
CuNARD Line
Regular Passenger and Freight Services from
LIVERPOOL LONDON SOUTHAMPTON
BRISTOL QUEENSTOWN CHERBOURG
ANTWERP ROTTERDAM HAMBURG &
D ANTZIG /o UNITED STATES & CANADA
MEDITERRANEAN to NEW YORK
Regular Freight Sailings from
LIVERPOOL LONDON MANCHESTER SWANSEA
ANTWERP AND ROTTERDAM to FRENCH MEDI-
TERRANEAN LEVANT AND BLACK SEA PORTS
SAILINGS to INDIA AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND JAPAN & CHINA
LIVERPOOL . . Canard Baildlns. Pier Head
LONDON. E.C. 2 - - 51, Bishopsgate
LONDON. S.W. I - 29-31, Cockspur Street
Offices and Agencies Everywhere M
Members help the Club by mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to
Advertisers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The views expressed in the Monthly Letter and in all signed articles in "Overseas'" are those
of the writers and not necessarily those of the Members of the Central Council o' the Over-Seas
Club and Patriotic League. page
My Monthly Letter— E. W 31
Photographic Contest for 1921—22 . . . . . .40
The Two Aspects of the Empire — Sir Valentine Ghirol . . 41
Why Australia Wants 15,000,000 Population— Percy Hunter 45
The Telephone as an Empire Linker — Ernest A. Bryant . . 47
The Menace of the Nation's Bad Teeth — John E, Ransford . . 49
Should the Married Woman compete in the Labour Market —
Hertha Davies .......... 52
The Royal Arms of the United Kingdom — F. C Yardley . . 55
The Herring Harvest — A. B. Cooper .... . . 59
Why?— H.d. V. . 61
A Day of My Life— Miss E. Herbert 64
The Great Rift Valley— Professor J. W. Gregory . . . .65
The Forthcoming British Industries Fair — E. D. W. C. . . 67
From a Woman's Standpoint — A Wayfarer 69
The Overseas Home-Maker — The Best Way — Mrs. Ernestine Mills 72
The Overseas Forum ......... 76
My Month's Reading — A. St. John Adcock .... 81
The Month's Cartoons . . . . . . . . .83
News from Headquarters ........ 88
Members' Exchange ......... 91
Overseas Trade Bureau . ....'... 95
Overseas Employment Bureau ....... 99
Notes about Our Advertisers ....... 100
THE
ANGLO-SOUTH AMERICAN BANK,
LIMITED.
Capital and Reserves Exceed £13,000,000.
Offices in
ARGENTINA CHILE URUGUAY
PERU MEXICO U.S.A.
FRANCE SPAIN
HEAD OFFICE:
62, Old Broad Street, London, E.G. 2.
NORTHERN DISTRICT OFFICE :
69, MARKET STREET, BRADFORD.
AFFILIATIONS :
THE BRITISH BANK OF SOUTH AMERICA, LTD.
and
THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SPANISH AMERICA, LTD.
Increased advertisement revenue means continued Improvement of
" OVERSEAS."
Advertiser's A uuouncement
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Throughout the world the
Boulton & Paul Buildings
are known for reliability.
Constructed on hygienic
principles, they are admir-
ably suited to the needs of
tropical and semi-tropical
countries. They are strong,
rigid, well-built, perfect in
every detail, and easily
erected by unskilled labour.
Promptness ia delivery and
economy in production are
matters which receive par-
ticular attention.
Steel or Wood Framed
Portable Buildings
specially Designed for Export
The illustration and plan above show B. & P. Portable
Steel Bungalow. No. 197, specially designed for Tropical
Countries. The accommodation consists of three
rooms, each 14 feet by 12 feet wide, and bathroom, etc.
Verandah all round building with overhang at eaves
of 3 feet 6 inches. Steel framing inserted in building
to promote complete rigidity, and the staircases also are
constructed of steel. Ventilators in ceilings and gables
are provided, each covered with mosquito-proof gauze,
also external doors and windows are protected with
mosquito-proof gauze frames complete. Post us a card
for further details.
Manufacturers of Bungalows, Go-Downs,
Market Buildings, Tea and Rubber Factories,
Coolie Lines, Light Bridges, Workshops, &c.
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NORWICH, England i mutique, cektrai londm
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Cable Address— Boulton, Norwich, ENGLAND.
Codes used : — A.B.C. {5th Edn.), Engineering (2nd Edn.),
Western Union, Bentley's, Lieber's, Marconi, and Private.
Members regularly corresponding with our advertisers materially help
" OVERSEAS."
The Over-Seas Club and Patriotic
League
(EMPIRE
SERVICE)
Patron: HIS MAJESTY THE KING.
Vice Patrana-I ^•^■^- The Prince of Wales, K.G.
vice-Pairons-j^jj j^ jj ,j^^ ^^^^ ^^ Connaught. K.G.
President: Viscount Northclifie.
Vice-Presidents :
Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P.
Rt. Hon. Winston S. ChurchiU, M.P.
Duke of Devonshire, K.G.
Rt. Hon. Sir Robert L. Borden.
Uarquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G.
Earl of Liverpool, K.C.M.G.
Rt. Hon. Andrew Fisher.
Earl of Meath, K.P.
Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey.
Earl of Selbome, K.G., G.C.M.G.
Rt. Hon. WilUam Hughes.
Earl Buxton, G.C.M.G.
Rt. Hon. F. Wrench.
Viscount Gladstone, G.C.M.G.
Sir Owen PhiUpps, G.C.M.G.
Viscount Bryce, O.M.
Sir Bevan Edwards, K.C.B.
Viscount Milner, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Bt., K.C.B.
Viscount Harcourt.
Sir T. Vansittart Bowater.
Viscount Burnham, C.H.
Sir John Kirk.
Viscount Novar.
General Booth.
Viscount Long.
Hon. & Rev. Edward Lyttelton.
Lord Hardinge of Pen.shurst, G.C.B.
Sir George R. Parkin, K.C.M.G.
Lord Islington, G.C.M.G., D.S.O.
Kennedy Jones, Esq., M.P.
Lord Denman, G.C.M.G.
Sir J. M. Stewart, K.C.M.G.
Lord Morris, K.C.M.G.
Richard Jebb, Esq.
Lord Aldenbam.
Sir E. R. Fremantle, K.C.B.
Lord Leverhulme.
W. A. Bulkeley-Evans, Esq., O.B.E.
H.E. Cardinal Bourne.
F. W. Hayne, Esq., O.B.E.
Rt. Hon. A. Bonar Law, M.P.
Evelyn Wrench, Esq.
Central
Council :
Evelyn Wrench, Esq., Chairman.
G. C. Hutchinson, Esq.
W. A. Bulkeley-Evans, Esq., O.B.E.,
Sir Roderick Jones, K.B.E.
Vice-Chairman.
W. Maxwell Lyte, Esq.
Algernon E. Aspinall, Esq., C.M.G.
E. R. Peacock, Esq.
Major Cyril Bavin.
A. E. Perkins, Esq., J.P.
Sir Ernest Birch, K.C.M.G.
A. L. Rea, Esq.
Sir Harry Brittain, K.B.E., M.P.
The Earl Stanhope, D.S.O
Lt.-Col. Sir G. McL. Brown, K.B.E.
Sir Campbell Stuart, K.B.E.
Capt. Ernest Pescott Day.
Sir C. J. Tarring, J.P.
Sir Howard d'Egville, K.B.E.
Sir John Taverner, K.C.M.G.
Lady des Voeux.
Edwin Thompson, Esq.
G. B. Dodwell, Esq.
C. F. Truefitt, Esq.
F. W. Hayne, Esq., O.B.E. (Poutidtt,
Sydney Walton, Esq., C.B.E.
Patriotic League).
Robert Williams, Esq., J.P.
A. H. HorsfaU, Esq., D.S.O.
Evelyn Wrench, Esq., ChairrrtaH and
F. C. Yardley, Esq., Assistant Editor.
Hon Organiser.
E. D. W. Chaphn, Esq., Advertising
Lady des Vceux. Hon. Controller.
Manai^er.
C. F. Truefitt, Esq., Hon. Treasurer.
E. W. Pither, Esq., Financial Secretary.
Major Cyril Bavin, Hon. Hospitality
Secretary.
Solicitor : Ralph S. Bond, Esq.
F. G. Deverill, Esq., Receptton Secretary.
Banicers : Messrs. Coutts & Co.
Auditors : Messrs. E. L
lyton Bennett, Sons & Co.
Headquarters General Buildinj
;s, Aldwyoh, London, W.G. 2.
Cable Address : "0
vazeeclub, London."
ROURNYILLE Cocoa
J^ SPECIALLY PACKED FOR EXPORT
See the name "CA.DBURY" on everv D'ece o/ Chocolate.
"Members trading with our Advertisers materially help " OVERSEAS."
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Advertiser's Announcement.
A NEW WORLD ATLAS ON
A NEW PLAN
THE TIMES
SURVEY ATLAS
OF THE WORLD
Prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute
under the direction of J. G. Bartholomew, and
Sebicateb 6t> ^ermi^Sion to §.9)t. t^e ^ing.
POINTS WORTH NOTING
The Times Atlas contains 1 1 2 new double-page plates eacb
measuring 23 " X 18|".
They contam a representation in mmiature of several
hundred thousand origmal survey sheets of all parts of the
world.
Orographical colouring has been employed throughout for
the representation of physical relief.
The Gazetteer Index contains more than two hundred
thousand references, giving in each case the name of the
country, the latitude and longitude, and the map and " Grid "
reference. It contains also a Pronunciation Table and a list
of the " Lands of the World."
Write for an illustrated brochure giving full particulars of
this great work, to The Times (Educational Sales Department),
Printing House Square, London, England.
When making purchases, please give "OVERSEAS'" Advertisers' an
opportunity to quote prices^
Advertiser's A }niouucement.
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to show you how
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freedom from chills and colds.
Each of the myriad little cells in the fabric actually holds a
cushion of air ; every garment is not only a protection against
chills but a tissue-stimulating air distributor contributing to health.
For comfort and health, on summer days, and throughout the
seasons insist on
AERTEX
cellular
UNDERWEAR ior MEN,
WOMEN and CHILDREN.
SHIRTS, SHEETINGS, ETC.
Alwayi look for the AERTEX
label on all AERTEX goods.
^ Write for 1922 Catalogue, giving full range and prices of garments, etc.
The Cellular Clothing Coy. Ltd., Fore Street, London, E.C. 2.
<p -— J
^ A selection from List of Depots where I
AERTEX Cellular Goods may be obtained.
LONDON :-ROBERT SCOTT, LTD.. 8 Poultry, Cheapside, E.C. I.
OLIVER BROS.. LTD.. 417 Oxford Street. W. 1.
BOLTONS. LTD.. 177 Piccadilly. W 1.
To continually improve " OVERSEAS " we rely largely upon our
advertisement revenue.
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THE OVER-SEAS CLUB AND
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
(Patron : His Majesty the King.)
HE Over-Seas Club and Patriotic League is a non-party
society of British subjects residing in all parts of the
world. Its underlying motive is to promote the unity of
British subjects. Its four chief objects are
I. To draw together in the bond of comradeship British
people the world over.
To render individual service to our Empire.
To maintain the power of the Empire and to hold to its best
traditions.
4. To help one another.
MEMBERS' CREED.
BELIEVING the British Empire to stand for justice, freedom, order
and good government, we pledge ourselves, as citizens of the
British Commonwealth of nations, to maintain the heritage handed
down to us by our fathers.
HEADQUARTERS.
The Headquarters of the Over-Seas Club and Patriotic League are
situated at General Buildings, Aldwych, London, just opposite
Australia House, in the very heart of the Metropolis. Here are pro-
vided most of the amenities of an ordinary Club, including Reading,
Writing, Lounge, Ladies' and Smoking Rooms, Information Bureau,
the provision of a postal address, and the forwarding of Members' mail.
Light refreshments can be obtained. Hours of opening, 9.30 a.m. to
8 p.m. Closed on Sundays.
The black square shows the building in which the Over-Seas Club
Premises are situated.
Date of Inception August 27th, 1910
Subscribing Membership, as at
December 31st, 1920 25.423
Life Members 4.290
MEMBERSHIP FEES.
All fees include " Overseas " and Membership List
Residents. Entrance. jAnnually.
Over-Seas (Two years for £1 o o) . . Nil. los. i
Provinces los. los.
London (within 20 miles of Charing Cross). £110 £220
Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch . £1 '*>
Liverpool, 2, Bold Street . . . . £110
Members' subscriptions become due on January 1st each year. Sub-
scriptions received after October ist are carried forward to the
following year.
Contributions or Subscriptions should be addressedto The Hon. Organiser,
Over-Seas Club and Patriotic League, General Buildings, Aldwych,
London, W.C 2.
Life.
£7 70
£10 10 o
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Advertisers' Announcements.
When Do You Sail?
jMONG the many matters to be considered by the
traveller when making preparations for a voyage, long
or short, the care of baggage is of the first importance.
The seasoned voyager remembers to cover himself
against risk of loss, accident, and damage to himself
and his effects during the journey. Members of the Over-Seas
Club who contemplate a visit to the Old Country, or who are about
to return overseas, should get into touch with the Western Australian
Insurance Company, whose London Office is at 45/47, Cornhill,
London, E.C. 2, and secure particulars of their Policy, which not
only provides against loss of baggage, but can be extended to cover
compensation for death or personal injuries, the result of accidents.
It is as well not to leave this important matter till too near the time
of embarkation, and a call on the Company to-day, or a written
request for particulars may save much annoyance and financial loss
later. The settled claims of the Western Australian Insurance
Company to date exceed Two Million Pounds, and the Company
has numerous Branches and Agencies throughout the world, where
claims can be promptly dealt with. Be among the wise ones, and
get in touch noiv.
The shaving
service for
everyman —
everywhere.
Men who had never before
shaved themselves, and men
who had tried every other
shaving device ever invented
have found in the Gillette
the complete solution of their
shaving problems, and a razor
that suits them individually
and exactly . . The Gillette
gives efficient, dependable
service for a lifetime.
Safety
Razjor
NO STROPPING NO HONING
Sold everywhere.
Gillette Salety Razor, Ltd., 184-188, Gt. Portlaud St., London, W. i.
Factories at: Slough, England; llontreal, Canada; Boston, U.S.A.
Increased advertising revenue makes possible ttie continued improvement
of " OVERSEAS " generally.
Advertiser's Announcement,
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BRITISH
INDUSTRIES FAIR
LONDON & BIRMINGHAM
Feb. 27th to March 10th, 1922.
{Organised bytt.M. Department of Overseas-Trade.)
A comprehensive exhibit of the Leading British Manufactures is
here officially presented, In the two principal industrial centres of
the United Kingdom.
This unique disolay of Britain's Best Merchandise may be
inspected by the World's Buyers with the utmost convenience.
\'alues can be compared, and the most advantageous terms
secured for all requirements, with the minimum trouble and the
greatest saving of time.
LONDON :
White City, London, W.
Musical Instruments, Furniture and Basketware, Sports Goods, Toys, etc.,
lewcllery. Silverware, Cutlery, etc., Scientiftc and Photographic Goods,
Chemicals and Drugs, Stationery and Printing, Fancy Goods, TravelHng
Kctjuibites, etc., Brushware, Pottery and Glassware, China and Earthen-
ware, Glass and Glassware, Foodstuffs and Beverages, Boots and Shoes,
Leather, etc.
BIRMINGHAM :
Exhibition Buildings, Castle Bromwich.
Brassfoundry, Hardware and Ironmongerv, Metals, Construction, Building
and Decoration, Power, Lighting. Heating, Cooking and \entilatiug,
Engineering in all Branches, .Agricultural Machinery, ^Iining .\ppliances.
Motors, Motor Cvcles, Cycle Accessories, Perambulators, Guns, Saddlery
and Harness, Fishing Tackle, Br^wing and Distilling Appliances.
Descriptive Booklets and Invitation Tickets may be obtained from
the nearest British Legation or Trade Commissioner, or on request
to the Secretary, 35, Old Queen Street, Westminster, London,
England.
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Alembers mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to Advertisers help
to maintain the advertising revenue.
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Advertiser's Announcement.
Canadian Government
Merchant Marine, Ltd.
" Canada'i Commerce Carriers."
Operated in connection with
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS.
STEAMSHIP SERVICES
Between MONTREAL and QUEBEC in Summer; HALIFAX,
N.S., and ST. JOHN, N.B., in Winter.
And LONDON. LIVERPOOL. GLASGOW, CARDIFF,
SWANSEA and NEWPORT, NEWFOUNDLAND. WEST
INDIES, CUBA. BRITISH GUIANA. SOUTH AMERICA.
INDIA. EGYPT. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS and JAVA.
AUo between VANCOUVER, B.C.. and JAPAN. CHINA. JAVA,
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. INDIA. AUSTRALIA and
NEW ZEALAND.
LIST OF AGENTS.
UNITED KINGDOM
THE ORIENT (Joint
Service with Messrs.
Alfred Holt & Co.).
INDIA. EGYPT.
STRAITS SETTLE-
MENTS and JAVA
(Joint Service with
British India Steam
Navigation Co., Ltd.).
CANADA
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND
and
The Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd., Llvei-
pool, London, Cardm, etc.
Anchor Donaldson Line, Glasgow.
Butterfield & Swire. Hong Kong, China,
& Japan.
Holme, Ringer & Co., Nagasaki.
Wuriu Shokwai, Moji and Shimonosekl.
Smith, Bell & Co., The Philippines.
■Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co., Calcutta,
Bombay, Colombo, Karachi.
Adamson Gilfillan, Singapore.
Islay, Kerr & Co., Ltd., Penang.
A. C. Harper cV- Co., Ltd., Port Svvetten-
ham.
Maclaine, Watson & Co., Java.
The English Coaling Co., Ltd., Port Said.
■Agents of B.I. S.N. Co. at all other ports.
■ Canadian Government Merchant Marine,
Ltd.. Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, N.S.,
St. John, N.B., Vancouver, B.C.
Canadian Government Merchant Marine,
Ltd., Melbourne and Sydney, Welling-
ton and Auckland, N.Z.
R. B. TEAKLE,
Managet.
Canadian Govt. Merchant
Marine, Ltd., 330, St. Jamca
Street, Montreal.
Wm. PHILLIPS,
European Manager.
Canadian National Rai Iways
and Canadian Govt. Merchant
Marine, Ltd., 17—19. Cockspur
Street, S.W. 1.
The larger our advertisement revenue, the more we can spend on
improving " OVERSEAS."
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Advertiser's A nnnuncement.
A Newspaper
Every Young Britisher
Should Read
THE CHILDREN'S NEWSPAPER" is a
real, fully-illustrated 12-page ncK-spaper.
It tells each week the wonderful story of
the world's adventure ; the striving and achieve-
ment of mankind ; the infinitely great and the
infinitely little ; the wonders of science and the
miracles of nature.
More than this, it breathes the very spirit of the
Homeland that you want your children to
remember and to know. Let them read "The
Children's Newspaper " each week and it will
help them to grow up British to the core —
happy, strong-willed, self-reliant.
CHILDREN'S
NEWSPAPER
Edited by ARTHUR MEE, whose name is known
to children and lovers of children the world over.
J 1
J The Editor of "The Children's Newspaper" is always
glad to see any interesting photographs that may be sent
to him from any part of the world, and will pay for all
that he uses. ■
SEND TO-DAY FOR FREE SPECIMEN COPY
of "The Children's Newspaper," which will be sent, postage
paid, if you send a postcard, giving your name and address,
to: — Export Department, Amalgamated Press, Ltd., The
Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C. 4, England.
Members help the Club by mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to
Advertisers.
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Adverliscr's A nnuuncemenl.
Increased advertisement revenue means continued improvement of
" OVERSEAS."
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(R. B. Department),
SODTH METROPOLITAN GAS
COMPANY,
709, Old Kent Road, London, Bnt|.
T. A.: "Metrogai, London."
Members regularly corresponding with our advertisers materially help
" OVERSEAS."
u
Advertisers' A nnoitncemcnts.
LONDON JOINT CITY AND
MIDLAND BANK LIMITED
CHAIRMAN :
The Right Hon. R. McKENNA
JOINT MANAGING DIRECTORS:
S. B. MURRAY F. HYDE E. W. WOOLLEY
Subsoplbad Capital - S3S(116,816
Paid-up Capital ... 10.860.566
Reserve Fund ... 10,860.565
Deposit* [Jtite 30th, 1921) - 871,322.881
HEAD OFFICE i 5, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON. E.C 2
OVER I.SSO OPPICBS IN BNQLAND AND WALES
OVERSEAS BBAROH: 66 & 66, OLD BBOAO STBEET, LONDON, E.G. 2
Atlantic Offices: "Aquitanla" " Berengaria " " Mauretania'*
APPILIATBD BANKS:
BELFAST BANKING CO., LTD.
OVER no OFFICES IN IRELAND
THE CLYDESDALE BANK LTD.
OVER 1 60 OFFICES IN SCOTLAND
NATIONAL BANK OF INDIA, LTD.
BANKERS to Ikt GOVKRSUENT <« BRITISH KAST AWRI9A Mi VGAMDA
Head Office: 26, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, E.C. i
Branches
Calcutta Amrltsai Mandalay Zanzibar Entebbe '\
Bombay Delhi Aden and Kampala [ Uganda
Madras Tutlcorln Aden Point Mombasas Kenya Jlnja j
Karachi Cochin (S. India) Colombo Nairobi I Colony,
Cawnpore Chlttagong Kandy Nakuni /'British Dar-es-Salaam \ Tanganyika
Lahore Rangoon Newera Ellya Klsumu J E.A, Tanga /Territory.
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL 'Z Z Z ... ... ... £4,000.000
PAID-UP CAPITAL -.......-. £3 000 000
RESERVE FUND _ ... „. ^ ea'.SOoIoOO
The Bank conducts erery description of Eastern Banking business.
THE COLONIAL BANK.
(i;STAHLISHEIi IN iRA SANCTIONED B^' RuVAL CllAKTIiR AND I \I)I-R
THE AlIIRIRITV 01- PARLIAMENT.)
Subscribed Capital £3,000,000
Paid-Up Capital £900,000
Reserve Fund £400,000
Head Office : 29, GRACECHURCtl ST., E.C. 3.
Branches in LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, HULL, HAMBURG (Adolphsplatz 4.]
NEW YORK, WEST INDIES, BRITISH WEST AFRICA, AND DA.K^r'
(SENEGAL) AGENCY.
Shipments of Produce Financed. General Banking Business Conducted.
Members trading with our Advertisers materially help " OVERSEAS."
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Advertisers' Annoimcemenls.
Commonvpealtb Bank of Euetralta.
GaKTRBieea by Ike t^> Hsad Of Km i SYDNEY.
AuSralUn GoTernmwI. ^B^^m Sir Denuon MiUer. K.CM.a,
Brmnebes »od Asaneiea W^^^ Governor.
ihroasK-at AnalralMia. ^V)^^^ Jwne* Kelt Deputy Governor.
ADVANC Ei made against Approved Seourltlea. BILLS nn(?orla-ed ••nd
oolleoted. CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened. DRAFTS and LETTERS of
CREDIT issued. DEPOSITS aooepted for fixed periods. REMlTTANCliS
cabled or mailed and BANKING BUSINESS of every desorlptlon transioted
with Australia.
Bankers to Tbe Qoveromeot o) the Commonwealtb o\ Aastralia, Tbe Qovern-
meot ot tbe State ot Queensland, Tbe aovernment ot tbe State oi &ontb
Anstratia, Tbe (iovernmeRt fA tbe State e( Tasmania.
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.— Agencies are open at 3,085 Post Offices
In tbe Commonwealth. Special facilities for the remlttanoe of Settlers' Funds.
On 31st DECEMBER, 1920.
Savings Bank Balances £35i3°6t9SS
General Bank Balances £37,153,311
Note Issue Department £s8>973<537
Other items Ai3i5£7^5
"£j3<.96o.s69
London Office : I6<4I , New Broad St., E. C, C. A) B. Campiom, Loa'ilon Manager.
Also at Australia Houses Strand, W C.
BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
Establlsbed 1817.
London OfUce : 29, Threadneedle Street, E.C< 2.
Paicd>up Gapital £4.965,200
Reserve Fund ... 3,425,000
Reserve Liability of
Proppletops ... ... 4.965,200
£13.355.400
Affriregrate Assets, 31st
March, 1921 ...£75,692,488 12s. 6d.
The London office Issues dratts on demand on Its Head Office and branches In Australia,
New Zealand, Tasmania, Fiji and Papua, and on Its Correspondents In Tasmania. Makes
Mail and Cable Transfers. Negotiates and Collects Bills of Exchange. Receives Deposits
for fixed periods on terms which may be known on application, and conducts every descrip-
tion of Australasian banking business. H. MELDRUM, Acting Manager.
WwV
liCUTBILL, KING & Co.
n 32, ST. MARY AXE, LONDON, E.G. 3.
\ I Cables : " Lockett, London." Codes ! Marconi, A.B.C. (jth Edn.), Lieber's, etc.
SUPPLIERS & SHIPPERS
of all descriptions of Stores and Materials required by Rail-
ways, Port Works, Contractors, Ship Owners, Builders, etc.
■ I OVERSEAS BUYERS desirous of appointing Buying and Shipping
♦ ♦ Agents in the U.K. are requested to communicate. ♦ ♦
FOR EVERYTHING MUSICAL:
Music, Player-Pianos, Pianos, Organs. Gramophones and Records, String and
Wind Instruments. Your definite enquiry invited. Catalogues free. Quotations,
Including delivery to your seaport (and safe packing for export) our specialty.
Established 1883. Bankers : — London Joint City and Midland Bank, Ltd.
fSOCK:X^li^Y'>S 84/86, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.3,
MUSICAL SERVICE, LTD. England, and Nina London Branches.
When making purchases, please give " OVERSEAS'
opportunity to quote prices.
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Advertisers an
Advertisers' Announcements.
BARCLAYS BANK
LIMITED.
Head Office : 54, Lombard St., London, E.G. 3.
The Bank has close working arrange-
ments with Agents and Correspondents
in all the principal towns throughout
the World.
Every Dascription of Overseas Busioess Trapsacted.
CHIEF FOREIGN BRANCH t
i68, Fenchurch Street, London, E.G. 3.
WEST END FOREIGN BRANCH i
I, Pall Mall East, London, S.W. i.
LIVERPOOL FOREIGN BRANCH 1
42, Castle Street, Liverpool.
MANCHESTER FOREIGN BRANCH:
Comer of Fountain Street and York Street, Manchester.
LLOYDS BANK
LIMITED.
HEAD OFFICE: 71, LOMBARD ST., E.C. 3.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED
- £70,688,980
CAPITAL PAID UP -
- 14,137,796
RESERVE FUND -
- 10,000,000
DEPOSITS, &c
- 346,397,553
ADVANCES, &c. -
- 151,079,173
AFFILIATED BANKS;
THE NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND LTD. LONDON AND RIVER PLATE BANK LTD.
AUXILIARY.
LLOYDS AND NATIONAL PROVINCIAL FOREIGN BANK LIMITED.
To continually improve " OVERSEAS " we rely largely wpon our
advertisement revenue.
17
Advprtixcrs' Announcements..
For Infants
an all-important advantage.
Babies and growing children obtain from Banger's Food the
great advantages of being reared on pure fresh milk. These
include healthful natural growth unchecked by the under-
nourishment which arises from unsuitable food.
Food
is always prepared with fresh milk, or milk and water, according
to the age of the child.
It is speciallv prepared to adjust the milk to the delicate
digestion of children and invalids All the great good in milk-
Nature's all-important food — becomes available with Benger's.
Benger's Food is sold in Tins by Chemists, etc., everywhere.
" Be Hirer's FooJ and How to Use it." A little work of authority on the f-ediniJ- of
infants, invalids, and the aeed, a !ii"st interesting and informative booklet— post free from
BENGER'S FOOD, LTD. Otter Works, MANCHESTER.
NewYi rk (U.S.A.), 90, Beekman Street. Syi-NEY (n.s.w.), 117. Pitt Street.
Depots throughout Canada.
The All
British
THE CAR FOR THE OWNER DRIVER
A proved Light Car with an
OVERSEAS reputation for
Reliability under any conditions.
The liigh clearance and
long wheelbase are just
two features that help to
make the sTAiNDARD
LIGHT CAK the Car
for the OVERSEA h-
DRIVER.
AGENTS
IN ALL COUNTRIES
OVERSEAS.
THE STANDARD MOTOR CO., Ltd., Coventry, England.
When ordering from oUr Advertisers, please mention " OVERSEAS."
This helps the Club.
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Advertisers* A nnouncemoiis.
REOISTERED
LENNARDS
TRADE MARK
BOOrS&SHOES,
A WONDERFUL
GUINEA SHOE
Style No. 3705. Brown Leather Oxford
Sports Shoe with stout red rubber
sole. Light in weight but strongly
built. A great Overseas
favourite.
LENNARDS Ltd.
(branches) Bristol, Eng.
ROBERTS' PATENT BALING PRESS
Fop Baling WOOL, COTTON, HAY, HIDES, etc.. by HAND,
HORSE or STEAM-POWER.
Simple, strong and quick iu operation, easily
understood and worked by any native.
30 to 40 bales per hour.
All sizes of Presses made.
H. I. ROBERTS,
42/44, CASTLE ST., LIVERPOOL.
Telegrams: "Ingenious, Liverpool."
WILKINSON'S
"Colonial" Hammenless Ejector
53, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W.
Managing Director:
T. H. RANDOLPH
NG
OUTFITTERS
SWORD MANUFACTURERS
FANCY CI METERS for PRESENTATION
Increased advertising revenue makes possible the continued improvement
of " OVERSEAS •• generally.
li)
A dvertiser's A nnoimcenient.
ONCE WORN
ALWAYS WORN
fF^JS SUPER
FOOTWEAR
WARM IN WINTER
COOL IN SUMMER
" AERTEX " has long been accepted as
possessing wonderful hygienic qualities,
but it has not previously been used for
Shoe linings. The fabric is
cellular, and every time the foot
is put to the ground a current of
air IS circulated round the foot,
which is warm in winter and
coo! in summer, giving a delight-
ful feeling as of Walking on Air.
" AERTEX " also prevents the
staining of hose.
Made in the following Materials: —
Tan Willow Calf, Black Box
Calf, Black Glace
cn-
cu^
Kid, Patent
Leather - - -
45/-
58/.
IS
label
is on every
"AERTEX •'-
'■nod Shoe.
Also in Dove Grey,
Dark Grey, Nigger,
and White Doeskin
Suede Calf in Grey
and Copper Shades.
Oitr Customers who have purchased " AERTEX "-lined shoes
express their delight jcith the coolness and comfort they afford.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. k^.-S^ol^^ll
Take advantage of Post Office Cash on Delivery Purchasing Facilities.
W. ABBOTT & SONS, LTD.
(PHIT-EESI),
121, High Holborn, London, W.C, Englandc
54, REGENT STREET, W. 1.
434, STRAND, W.C. 2.
Members mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to Advertisers help
to maintain the advertising revenue.
20
Advertisers' A nnouncemenis.
Select your
HANDKERCHIEF
Presents —
Be in plenty of time and save
your Xmas presents now. We
suitable for all ages and tastes
■NOW
No. 0.507, Ladies' pure
linen hemstitched hand-
kerchiefs with hand
embroidered initial.
Size about i;
ins. Per doz.
Write for samples and
price list No. 50D, sent
post free. Delivery
guaranteed and carriage
paid on 20/- upwards.
:i 17/6
the rush at the last minute by selecting
have a wonderful range of handkerchiefs
at prices ranging from 2/3 per dozen to
£5 each.
No. 0.41, Gentlemen's
pure linen handker-
chiefs with a hand
embroidered two-letter
monogram. Size about
19J ins. Per
doz. -
Please place your orders
early so that full justice
may be given to the era-
br'>iHerint^ of tlie Cre.ts,
Monnjjrams or Initials.
'; 33/9
ROBINSON & CLEAVER, Ltd.
Linen Manufacturers, Belfast, Ireland.
JOSEPH C. MOUNT & CO.
146/147, Grosvenor Road, Westminster, LONDON, S.W. 1
Universal Forwarders^ Foreign Removals^ Tac^ers
:: and Shippers^ JVareJiousemen and Wharfingers ::
Packers and Shippers of Motor Cars,
Lorries, Aeroplanes, Machinery, Furni-
ture and General Goods.
Baggage, etc., collected from steamers
or stations. Re-collected from hotels,
private houses, etc., delivered to
steamers, or shipped to the Continent,
Colonies, America, etc.
Foreign and Home removals, including
collection, supply of cases, packing, or,
if in large quantities, transported by
lift vans by steamers and/or rail.
Seven acres of Riverside Docks and
Warehouses, with the most extensive
and up-to-date storage accommodation
in London, with nine cranes lifting up
to 15 tons.
Motor Cars, Lorries, Machinery, etc.,
received from abroad, unpacked,
assembled, stored and/or delivered.
Special services rendered in connection
with all exhibitions, for reception of
exhibits, unpacking and placing upon
stands.
Agricultural Machinery, including Trac-
tors and other material, purchased,
packed and shipped.
Packing cases urgently wanted by
travellers or others constructed and
delivered by express vans.
Special Terms for the Packing and Shipping of Settlers' Furniture, Effects, etc.
Established over a quarter of a Century.
Telegrams : Telephones :
" Anticlimax " Churton, London. 6360 Victoria (3 lines)
The larger our advertisement revenue, the more we can spend on
improving "OVERSEAS."
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Advertisers' A nnouncements.
SPALDING
ATHLETIC GOODS
are specially manufactured to suit the local require-
ments of every Climate, and
ARE FULLY GUARANTEED
If any Overseas Sportsmen experience difficulty in
obtaining Spalding Goods from their local dealers,
they should write to :
EXPORT DEPT.
A. G. SPALDING & BROS., Ltd., 317, High Holborn, LONDON, Eng.
TELEPHONE :
Caairil
89S6.
ESTABLISHED TELEGRAMS
iQBi " Holfminiit,
"""• Fi«iquiM.LoBdo«."
H. & B. HOFFMAN & SONS, LTD.
(BRITISH SUBJECTS)
FURRIERS-SKIN MERCHANTS-TAXIDERMISTS
27a, FINSBURY SQUARE. LONDON, E.C.2.
HEARTH RUGS SKINS DRESSED FUR COATS
MOTOR RUGS & MOUNTED FUR SETS
FURS RENOVATED AND REMODELLED.
Wirehonie : 57. Wilson Street, E.G. 2
Estd. 1873. Telephone : 1542 London Wall.
GOLDSMITH,
SILVERSMITH
AND
OPTICIAN
£5-5-0.
JOHN ELKAN'S " COLONL\L " WATCH.
Solid Silver Case. Lever Movement.
Fully Jewelled. Compensated Balance.
A thoroughly reliable timekeeper, and can be guaranteed
to go in all climates.
JOHN ELKAN'S selection of Diamond and
other Gem rings is the largest in London.
For Prices & QUALITY they are unequalled.
Please note only addresses :
35L, Liverpool St., E.G. 69, Cheapside, E.G.
70, Leadenhall St., E.G.
WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE,
SENT POST FREE.
No West End Branches. No West End Prices.
Rl-.DIX'HU SI/li
Members help the Club by mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to
Advertisers.
Advertisers' AiinounccnioUs.
Illlllllllllllllilllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillli^^
MOTOR CARS
FURNITURE
Packed and Shipped
lllirilllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIfllllll
GERHARD & HEY, Ltd., Shipping Agents.
LONDON :
GT. ST. THOMAS APOSTLE (off Cannon Si), E.G. 4.
T.A. : "Gerhardey." T.N. : Central 3706 (8 lines).
ALSO LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, HULL, SOUTHAMPTON, ETC.
lllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllH
r//EPORTABLE GRAMOPHONE /I
'T'HIS is the compact little gramophone that you
■^ with you anywhere, and that will stand the s
travel and weather. Went through the war with distinc
lion. Plays all makes of records ; clear reproduction
and rich natural tone. No loose parts ; no
ready to play immediately opened.
ECOV
Leather Cloth .
-, £6-15-0
£Ma-0
Brass Bound Teak
{/or Overseas)
£12-12-0
Compressed Fihre
£8-15-0
Solid Cowl.ide
£12-12-0
Music Dealers, Stores, etc., all over the
rid. Or by Parcel Post (Cadi on De
ery). " Decca ' Book (illustrated) en
request.
iDecca" (Dept. 1), 34,
Worship St., London, E.C.2.
Proprietors : Bamett
Samuel & Sons,
\ Lt - ^ "
Wc
t n \
imuel & Sons, I
td., Dulcet 11.
'orks, Ken- 1 11
in g t o n, /// .
o n d 0 n , / // A
S.W.g. /^* ^
Shopping
Agents.
\.
— 'Purchases of every description effected. —
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Clubs and Sports T^equisites, Presents, Prizes, etc.
\\J V I- ■ Ml-- n," NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS DESPATCHED REGULARLY
\ .0- '' „%, V''^ <t *^''' I Reniittances, with I'lill instructions, should accompany all orders, vvliicli
V^ ' ^'' ^ 1 will liave careful and proiiiiit attention.
lijnkers: Barclays Bank Limited, 19, l-leet Street, London, E.G. 4.
Increased advertisement revenue means continued improvement of
" OVERSEAS."
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Advertiser's Announcement.
GAMAGES
The Largest Mail Order
House in the World
LONDON'S SMARTEST
LOUNGE SUIT
Whatever corner oi the Universe you are
privileged to be living in, a stylish hand-
somely naade-to-measure Suit DIRECT
FROM LONDON is now placed within
your reach. It comes to your very door
by the earliest mail after receipt of order
and measurements. These can be taken
with the simple form and tape we will
gladly send you free with the Patterns.
ALL WOOL INDIGO SERGE
SMART CHEVIOT TWEEDS
You may choose at leisure from these fine
patterns. West-end cut and fit. Fault-
less Tailoring. Elsewhere you wou
have to pay 7 to 8 guineas.
Our huge volume of
Overseas Trade enables
to offer the Suit for
Id
75/-
us
THE FINEST
VALUE
TO-DAY
OUR
NOTED
REAL
SCOTCH Bi-5^
BROGUE Brown
SIJ rk 17 C B^'osue,
rl U t O Walking
Uppers, in Black Box or
leather, soft and pliant yet trustworthy in wea"-,
Soles of Solid Butt leather. Wear and comfort assured. All
sizes from 6 to 1 1 . Also in Ladies' sizes, 3 to 7.
at the same low price. These are the best and cheapest
Real Brogue Shoes in London to-day. Price per pair
wear.
A handsome
suitable for
or Golfing
Tan Willow
assurea. rtii
19/11
GAMAGES, HOLBORN, LONDON, ENGLAND
Members regularly corresponding with our advertisers materially help
" OVERSEAS."
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Advevtiscvs' A )inounceriieiits.
WHITE STAR LINE
ROYAL y UNITED STATES MAIL STEAMERS
S.g. MAJESTIC, 56,000 TONS (Building),
the Largest Steamer in the World.
R.M.S. QL KM P/C (Triple Screw) 46,439 Tons.
Regular Passenger and Freight Sailings from
SOUTHAMPTON an J CHERBOURG to NEW YORK;
and from LIVERPOOL and QUEENSTOWN to NEW
YORK. BOSTON, and PHILADELPHIA ; also from
LIVERPOOL to SOUTH AFRICA. AUSTRALIA and
NEW ZEALAND ; from LONDON to NEW ZEALAND :
from ANTWERP to AUSTRALIA ; and from GENOA
and NAPLES to BOSTON and NEW YORK.
WHITE STAR-DOMINION LINE
Regular Passenger and Freight Sailings from
LIVERPOOL to QUEBEC and MONTREAL (.Summer) ;
LIVERPOOL/oHALIFAXar,JPORTLAND.Me.(W',Vi/er).
Apply to —
WHITE STAR LINE: LIVERPOOL i SOUTHAMPTON! BRISTOL i
UNION CHAMBERS. 63. TEMPLE ROW. BIRMINGHAM i AND
1. COCKSPUR ST.. S.W. 1. AND 38. LEADENHALL ST.. E.G. 3. LONDON.
For all
Temperafures
The qualrty and re-
liability of "Castroi "
are not affected by
climatic and regiona
extremes. It is a
proved selling line all
over the world. Write
for name ot nearest
:: Agent. ::
C. C. WAKEFIELD
& Co., Ltd.,
Wakefield House,
Cheapside,
London, E.G. 2.
Members trading v/ith our Advertisers materially help " OVERSEAS."
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Advertiser's Anttottncemevt.
AMERICA
THE ROYAL MAIL
STEAM PACKET CO
18. MOORGATE ST.
LONDON. E.C.2
THE PACIFIC STEAM
NAVIGATION CO.
GOREE. WATER ST.
LIVERPOOL
A\hcn making purchases, please give " OVERSEAS'
opportunity to quote prices.
2ti
Advertisers an
A dvertisers' A nnoiuiccinents.
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
STEAMERS
OPERATING OVER 19,400 MILES OF RAIL-
WAY, the Canadian Pacific has the most
complete and far-reaching service, not only in
Canada itself, but also for the United States of
America and Alaska.
Regular services of fast passenger and freight
steamers from Liverpool, London, Southampton,
Glasgow, Bristol, Antwerp and Havre to Quebec and
Montreal (summer) and St. John, N.B. (winter), and
from Vancouver to Japan, Manila and China.
"Empress of Asia" and "Empress of Russia" are
the largest and fastest steamers on the Pacific.
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
62-65, CHARING CROSS, S.W. 1; 103, LEADENHALL ST., E.C. .3,
LONDON.
Or Local Agents Everywhere.
WEST AFRICA
The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold
Coast and Nigeria.
REGULAR SERVICES FOR PASSENGERS AND CARGO
to and from
REGULAR SAILINGS ALSO BETWEEN CANADA AND THE CAPE.
Jill parliculapi from
ELDER DEMPSTER AND CO.. Limited.
COLONIAL HOUSE, WATER STREET, LIVERPOOL.
4, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C.3. 30, Mosley St., Manchester,
Hull, Birmingham, Hamburg, Cardiff, &e., &c.
To continuallyiimprove " OVERSEAS " we rely largely upon our
advertisement revenue.
27
Advci'iisry's .1 iinminccmoii.
UNION-CASTLE LINE
TO
SOUTH AFRICA,
WEST AND EAST AFRICA,
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE.
Serving THE CAPE, NATAL, TRANSVAAL, RHODESIA,
MOZAMBIQUE COAST, BRITISH EAST AFRICA (Kenya
Colony), ANGOLA. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA, MAURITIUS,
Etc. With calls at
MADEIRA, CANARIES, ASCENSION and
ST. HELENA.
For further information apply to the
Head Office: 3,FeiichurcliStreet, E.C.3.
When ordering from our Advertisers, please mention " OVERSEAS."
This helps the Club.
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Advertiser's Announcement.
The Surest and most con-
venient way of securing
British or Foreign Publi-
cations is to let us mail
:: them to you
For over loo years we have sent them to all parts of
the world.
The local newspaper of your native home town will
come as regularly as your favourite British periodical
or magazine, or the trade paper you need to keep you
in touch with the doings and developments of British
industry.
You save time and postage by ordering from one
source and the automatic memory of our organisation
saves disappointment. The best method of obtaining
this service is to send a deposit to be placed to your
credit so that we may immediately start sending to
you, or we will send by return a free copy of our
« POSTAL PRESS GUIDE " which gives the sub-
scription rates of over l,ooo publications.
We have an exceptionally large stock of books on all
subjects. Any book or publication can be despatched
by next mail. We also specialise in cheap parcels of
renovated library books by popular authors.
W. H. SMITH & SON
Wholesale 6- Retail Newsagents, Booksellers 6- Stationers
STRAND HOUSE, LONDON, W.C. 2
(ENG.)
Cables : atTTX Codes :
Bookstalls, (Si/rN) A.B.C. 5th Edn.
E»trand, London. ^^^-^^ BENTLEY'S.
TRADE ENQUIRIES INVITED.
Increased advertising revenue makes possible the continued improvement
of " OVERSEAS " generally.
29 D
Advertiser's Announcement.
m^
/erffsements.
1
MailFrei^ht afcg»iO©rServices
E6ypt
India
Persian
-- Giilf
^Burmah
Slam
Mauritius
E.8S. Africa.
New ^ •
Zealand
Australia
Tasmania
Mynesia
Straits — -
Settlements
China
Japan
M</^.'.^:.-
'A
K|'
P6 0 or British India Passage or Freight Depts.
122.LEADENnALL ST.. LONDON. LC. 3.
;■ , Citici Passcnijer Office; P. & O. HOUSE, 14, C{X;KS1'UR STREET. S.VV.l
Members mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to Advertisers help
to maintain the advertising revenue.
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OVERSEAS
A LINK.- OF • EMPIRE
Founded and Edited by
EVELYN "WT^MCH
GENERAL BUUXUNGS • ALDWYCH • LONDON
Vol. VI. No. 70.
November, 1921.
[ The views expressed in the Monthly Letter and in all signed articles
in " Overseas " are those of the writers and not necessarily those of the
members of the Central Council of the Over-Seas Club and Patriotic
League.]
My Monthly Letter
By E. w.
lERY HARD TIMES. — Not in the memory of living
man has Great Britain suffered from such hard times,
and the im.mediate outlook is sombre indeed. The
fact that British industry is only bearing its share of
the universal unrest and economic chaos caused by the
aftermath of the world-war is slight consolation to the people of
these islands who are confronted with unemployment on an
hitherto undreamt-of scale.
Even the armchair politicians in the strongholds of Torydom,
who parrot-like repeat the phrase that all our troubles are due ' ' to
the British Working-man who will not put his back into his job,"
know that they are only uttering half-truths. For if every British
worker were ready uncomplainingly to keep his nose to the grind-
stone for ten hours a day, as some employers would like him to,
our position would be little better. What is the use of production
if no one can afford the products of your labour ? And that is
very much the present state of affairs.
EXCHANGE PROBLEMS.— Nothing is so dull to the ordinary
mortal as columns of figures and dissertations on high finance.
But one does not require to be a Rothschild or a Rockefeller to
grasp the broad facts of the existing European exchange situation.
The depreciated currencies of most of Europe mean that the peoples
of Russia, Germany, Austria, Roumania, Poland, etc., and to a
lesser degree Italy and France, cannot afford to purchase British
goods. So, however much the British workman might put his
back into his job, his efforts could be of little avail till the exchange
problem is righted.
Not that I wish to imply that the disastrous strikes and lock-outs
we have suffered from during the past two years have not added to
our misfortunes, but they are by no means solely responsible.
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My Monthly
Letter.
As a result, one of the first matters which the Government has
turned its attention to, with the assistance of the master-minds of
Lombard Street, has been the institution of a system of credits
which will enable the countries with depreciated currencies to
purchase British manufactures.
SHOULD WAR DEBTS BE CANCELLED ?— The following
figures, and they are the only ones I will give, show how great are
the world's debts, caused by the War : —
The world owes America ;£2, coo, coo, coo, as follows : —
£
Britain ..... 972,000,000
France
Italy
Belgium
Russia
Rest of World
The world owes Great Britain
Russia
France
Italy
Belgium .
Serbia
Other nations
Dominions
550,000,000
325,000,000
70,000,000
37,000,000
46,000,000
£1,9^7,600,000, as follows
£
561,400,000
557,000,000
476,800,000
103,400,000
22,100,000
82,900,000
144,000,000
As a result of the economic stagnation caused by Europe's
inability to trade with us there are many who are openly advocating
the cancelling of all war debts. Among them is Mr. Winston
Churchill, who, according to the Sunday Times, feels "that salva-
tion lies only along the lines of the stabilisation of exchanges by the
mutual remission of debt. He is even against large reparation
payments from Germany."
OUR ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE.— Assuredly we have
travelled a long way since December, 191 8, when the British public
was complacently listening to election orations which assured them
that Germany would pay all the costs of the War, while Great
Britain would seize all the lucrative trade of the world ! Not so —
alas ! for the glib words of the election orators — are the affairs of
this complicated world of ours conducted.
If Germany or Russia does not prosper- — in other words, cannot
afford to trade with Great Britain — hundreds of thousands of British
working men are without a job and threatened with starvation.
Remarks like these seem platitudinous to-day, but when Mr.
Norman Angell drew our attention to the interdependence of the
modern industrial world ten years ago, how few listened to him !
DISASTROUS STRIKE POLICY.— The present official unemploy-
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ment figure is given at 1,400,000, which is a great improvement on
the end of June, when the effects of the coal strike were at their
worst, and it seems small in comparison with the 6,000,000 of
the United States. One happy augury seems to be emerging from
the hard times we have been going through.
The workers as a whole are realising that a policy of continuous
strikes brings disaster on all of us and that somehow or other the
price of coal must be reduced so that the cost of production of our
manufactures can be lessened. Indeed there appears to be a growing
realisation that employer and employed must pull together if we are
to find a way out of our industrial difficulties.
SOME FURTHER REFLECTIONS.—When Parliament re-
assembles we shall doubtless learn what other methods of lessen-
ing the unemployment, in addition to the granting of export
credits, are proposed. Among the suggestions which have been
advocated are the making of roads on a large scale, urgently
required as a result of the development of motor transport, the
extension of electric lighting schemes, and the developm.ent of
garden cities on a big scale.
One aspect of the unemployment position in Great Britain which
is apt to be overlooked is the transformation effected in many
hitherto importing countries such as Australia, South Africa,
Canada and India. As a result of the War many of them have
become self-contained to an extent they never were previously, and
as a result the British manufacturer is obliged to look elsewhere for
fresh markets.
Some economists are seriously
concerned by the continuous
export of British capital to foreign
countries, much of which does
not necessarily mean extra work
for British industry. The sugges-
tion is made, and there is much
to be said in favour of it, that at
the present time every proposal
for investment and every appeal
to the public for funds, ought to
be considered in direct relation
to its effect on the provision of
employment at home, and, as the
New Statesman puts it, "those
investments which promise profit
to the investor at the cost of
starving the people of this coun-
try ought to be ruthlessly sup-
pressed."
My Monthly
Letter.
UHj't*'
3;i
"Will he Accept.''"
McCutcheon, in the Chicago Trilune,
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My Monthly THE DOWNING STREET CONFERENCE.— Now that the Irish
Letter. delegates are in London and meeting Mr. Lloyd George and his
colleagues round the conference table at " No. lo," the less that
onlookers say about the negotiations the better. But there is not
a reader of " Overseas " who will not desire to add his prayers to
those of all of us who desire a permanent solution on a just basis
of the Irish problem. Let us hope that, when such gigantic issues
are at stake, there will be a spirit of moderation and give and take
on both sides, and that out of these fateful discussions will emerge
the Dominion of Ireland, a sister state in the British Commonwealth
of Nations.
THE NATION'S TEETH. — The announcement of the appointment
by the Ministry of Health, in consultation with the Medical Research
Council, of the Committee to investigate "the causes of dental
decay " has come not a moment too soon, for the present state
of the nation's teeth, as the columns of " Overseas " have often
pointed out, is nothing short of appalling. An official of the
Ministry of Health said to a representative of the Daily Express
recently, " A perfectly healthy set of teeth in a school child is
practically non-existent ! "
One of the problems the Committee will have to tackle will be
the question of the evil effects of excessive sweet-eating by the
children. This aspect was also referred to by the Ministry of
Health official already quoted. He said: "When the sugar
supply was halved during the War, it was found that there was an
extraordinary improvement in the teeth of school children. One
of the problems before the Committee just appointed will be the
relation of diet to bad teeth, and we may have a scientific inquiry
into the effects of eating sweets."
ECONOMISING IN HEALTH.— But the whole problem of teeth
is so closely allied to that of general health that it is difficult to
see where the Committee will draw the line. What will be their
attitude towards the cutting off of the free milk supply to expectant
and nursing mothers as a result of the " Anti-Waste fanatics,"
which had been responsible since its institution for a lowered
death-rate among babies under one year ?
Nowhere has useless expenditure by the Government been more
severely criticised than in the columns of " Overseas," as my
rea.ders will recollect, and time after time our voice was raised
Against the expenditure of millions of good money in Russian
and other wild-cat expeditions. But the nation's health is alto-
gether another matter.
What greater obligation can the State have than to ensure that
every child brought into the world is given a reasonable chance
of growing into a healthy citizen ? If national prosperity is
reckoned by man-power, healthy and clean-limbed, what greater
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economy could any Government effect than the care of the coming
generation ? But this is an aspect which most of our Anti-Waste
newspaper " stunts " seem to overlook.
THE BRITISH CLIMATE'S LATEST.— No apology is required
to excuse a reference to the weather, for the British climate has
surpassed itself to such an extent that our fund of suitable comments
has long since been exhausted 1 There never has been such weather
in these old islands — anyhow, not in living memory. First we
had a phenomenally mild winter, followed by an extraordinarily
early spring of delightful sunny days ; then came a practically
rainless summer, with a prolonged heat-wave, concerning which I
told you in a previous letter.
At the end of July and in the middle of August we had a few
days of rain, but much below the average. And all the time we
said, ' ' Wait till September and October, when we shall pay for this. ' '
Indeed, we almost began to pity those unfortunate individuals
who had put off taking their holidays till late in the year, and
complimented ourselves on our superior wisdom.
September came and went in a blaze of sunshine, with only three
days of rain, and all the while we kept saying to ourselves that
to-day must be the last day of summer weather. But no, the
British climate, when bent on establishing fresh records, does not
do things by halves. Here we are in mid-October, and we have
literally been bathed in sunshine, and on October 9th London had
a shade temperature of 82
degrees, a record which one
has to go back to 1859 to
equal 1 As a result every one
has been wearing summer
clothes and trying to keep cool,
with indifferent success.
Our weather these past six
weeks has been more like a
North-American Indian
summer than anything else I
can compare it to. The
amateur meteorologists are
getting quite excited, and the
sun-spots and the Gulf Stream
and other natural phenomena
are being held responsible.
Some folks boldly say that the
British climate is changing, but
" I hae me doots," and I am
sure that there are some sur-
prises in store for us later on.
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My Moothly
Letter.
I '■
"All Dressed Up and no Place to go:
Until the collapsed foreign exchanges are repaired
wc can expect no real improvement in our foreign
trade.
" Poy," in the London Evening News.
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My Monthly Anyhow, I know in a few weeks, when the November fogs are upon
Letter. us, we shall all be regretfully looking back on these wonderful
early autumn days of continuous sunshine.
THE FIRST BRITISH-BORN WOMAN M.P.— We can all, whatever
our politics, unite in extending the heartiest of welcomes to Mrs.
T. Wintringham, the Independent Liberal candidate, on her election
by the voters of Louth (Lincolnshire) to the House of Commons.
However much we may admire the fearless manner in which
Lady Astor has championed worthy causes since her election, we
like to feel that British womanhood is now represented at West-
minster.
It was not fitting that the only woman M.P. in the British House
of Commons should be American-born, and Lady Astor, in her
characteristically generous manner, was among the first who
hoped for Mrs. Wintringham's return. To the writer, long before
the Louth election. Lady Astor said that she earnestly hoped that
Mrs. Wintringham would be elected, as she stood for all the things
which were worth while.
Voters, whatever their politics, can whole-heartedly rejoice in
Mrs. Wintringham's election, because the more M.P.'s of her type
we can have at Westminster the better. The new M.P. has a
splendid record of public service. Starting life as a school teacher
at Grimsby, Mrs. Wintringham has long championed better con-
ditions for women workers, legal equality of the sexes, fairer
divorce laws for women, and other good causes.
THE DRAWBACK OF MAIN ROADS. — Modern civilisation
has certainly its drawbacks, as all who own houses on our main
roads, either in town or country, are realising to their sorrow.
The internal combustion engine has certainly much to answer for !
True, the motor enables the great mass of our people to enjoy the
delights of the countryside, and we can none of us desire to push
back the hands of the clock of progress in so far as it brings happi-
ness and opportunities for the enjoyment of fresh air to the workers
in our large cities. Nevertheless, how often this summer must
we all have wished that motor traction was less noisy and more
picturesque !
By all means let us welcome the coming of the char-a-banc, but
surely up and down this land of ours there might be marked off
great " reserves " into which no motors would be permitted to
penetrate. Charming bits of English landscape which we will
not permit Henry Ford — and he is one of the least offenders — the
great motor lorry, the glaring petrol signs of diverse brands, to
desecrate. Reserves where pedestrians and push-bicyclists and
dog owners could wander to their hearts' content without the
constant nightmare of noisy, rattling, mechanically-driven vehicles
rushing by.
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Now that every small town in England has its motor bus service
and that the road transport of goods has been developed to such an
extent, to say nothing of the private motorists and motor 'cyclists,
residents on main roads are suffering from a special brand 'of brain
exhaustion, so many doctors tell us — and no wonder.
How we are to protect ourselves from on-rushing civilisation in
the form of the nerve-racking motor bus and lorry is a problem
which is a very real one just now. What a contrast to the picture
of Ruskin, accompanying his father and mother, posting leisurely
along the roads of France and Italy seventy or eighty years ago !
ON THEATRE QUEUES.— Since the return of the dark evenings
with the end of summer-time, there has been much correspondence
in the press on the subject of the theatre queue. It seems incon-
ceivable that there are still some who defend this disgraceful
institution, and yet so it is, for although the majority of letters I
have read demand its abolition, some play-goers seem to be of a
very conservative make-up.
The urgency of the abolition of the queue is all the greater now
that the prices of all the seats which can be booked in advance have
gone up. This practically means that the person of moderate
means who desires to see a good
play must either pay more than
he can afford and book in ad-
vance, wait two or three hours
in the dismal, draughty sur-
roundings of the average London
pit queue on a winter's night, or
go without.
From the standpoint of the
managers, long queues blocking
up the pavements are good ad-
vertising, but from the poor
patient public's point of view,
there is nothing to be said for
the queue. How many illnesses,
I wonder, is the queue respon-
sible for in the winter, when
vitality is low, after hours of
waiting, and when the weary
play-goer falls a ready victim
to influenza and cold microbes ?
If there is any valid reason
against advance booking for the
pit and other cheaper seats, I
have not heard its advocacy,
nor do I see any good reason
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Letter.
B.FFECr ON GIRL'S IN AFTER UFE, _
PAniL!ft.RiT> wan Pm^ BREE.O& CONTEnpx
EFFECT ON SOVb IN AFTER LIFE. -
TrtE VE«.-V FtEVER-S:
' NO , not")
\A Pin!
What every mother knows about babies is that
they dread pins. In later life the girl baby grows
up to understand them. To the boy they always
remain a mystery.
Mr. W. K. Haselden, in the London Daily Mirror.
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My Monthly why the doors should not be thrown open, say, one and a half
Letter. hours before the performance, so that the public could wait in their
seats.
A FILM DANGER. — In the columns of " Overseas " the need for
better and cleaner films has often been advocated. There is one
aspect of this subject which will especially appeal to those living in
Asia and Africa, where the extraordinarily difficult problem of the
relationship of the white man to his coloured brother is very much
of a reality. I refer to the part which many of the trashy and
suggestive films can play in lowering the prestige of the white races
before Asiatic and African eyes.
If Western civilisation is so much superior to that of the East, it
must be confessed that coloured patrons of the " movies " should
be excused if they do not always realise the fact.
" EAST IS EAST." — The harmful effect of the cinema in the East
is dealt with by Miss K. F. Gerould in a recent issue of the Atlantic
Monthly.
" We have (she wr'tes) a great responsibility on our hands.
I have heard it said and cor-
roborated, in unimpeachable
quarters, that to the movies is
due a large part of the unrest
in India.
" For a decade, the East
Indian has been gazing upon
the white man's movie ; and
it is inevitable that he should
ask why the people who behave
that way at home should con-
sider that they have a divine
mission to civilise and govern
other races.
' ' We can perfectly see that
to the Hindu and the Moham-
medan, the Japanese, and the
South American of Hispano-
Moorish social tradition, the
spectacle of the movie-heroine
who is not only unchaperoned
but scantily dressed, who more
or less innocently ' vamps '
every man within striking
radius, who drives her own car
through the slums at midnight,
who places herself constantly in
perilous or unworthy contacts,
[Photo: Graphic Photo Union.
A novelty in hats used to advertise the work of
blind ex-service men.
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yet who is on the whole considered a praiseworthy and My Monthly
eminently marriageable young woman, is not calculated to 1-etter.
enhance the reputation of Europe or the United States.
" Nor do I believe that Charlie Chaplin is destined to spread
the doctrine of the White Man's Burden very successfully.
We deal, in these other continents, with peoples to whom
unnecessary bodily activity is not a dignified thing. You
cannot possibly explain Charlie Chaplin to them correctly.
You just cannot. They simply think that official Anglo-
Saxons are minuetting in the parlour for diplomatic reasons,
and that Charlie Chaplin is the Anglo-Saxon ' out in the
pantry.' "
ROUNDING CAPE HORN. — Mere land-lubbers, like most of us
who are readers of " Overseas," know very little about navigation
in sailing ships, accustomed as we are to make our voyages across
the oceans on modern steamships. The other day I came across
the following account of an American sailing ship's attempt to
round Cape Horn and its final triumph, together with the chart,
which is reproduced on this page. An account like this makes
one thank one's stars that fate does not expect us to go sailing
round " the Horn " in a sailing ship !
Here is the extract from the Pacific Marine Review, of San
Francisco : —
' ' There is a basis of fact in the legend of the Flying Dutch-
man— the ghost ship that is eternally trying to round Cape
Horn and for ever being beaten back. The chart shows why
sailor folk gave
the cape its bad
name. Follow
the course on this
chart day by day.
The course is that
of the sailing ship
Edward Sew all
while trying to
round Cape Horn
in 1914. It took
her sixty - seven
days to get from
latitude 50 south
on the east of the
continent to the
same parallel on
the west side. On
ten previous voy-
ages the ship had
"^^ Chart showing the wanderings, lasting 6j days, of the American
sailing ship Edward Sewall rounding Cape Horn in 1914.
My Monthly
Letter.
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made this portion of the voyage in from ten to twenty-three
days, the average being i6"4 days. The illustration gives the
course in detail below the S4-degree line. The coastline is
indicated with no suggestion of the treacherous isles and
inlets. A glance at the dates showing the vessel's location day
by day makes the story clear. On April 19th, for instance,
she was farther east than on March 30th, and so it went.
Those bare lines are the skeleton of a sea romance — but the
Sewall made it in the end." E. W.
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has since subsided about thirty feet. There
are several holes like this In the neighbour-
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The Two Aspects of the Empire
By Sir Valentine Ghirol
R. CHAMBERLAIN once advised us to "think
Imperially." The advice is as good now as it was
then. But if we are to follow it, we must have a clear
idea of what the British Empire is and what it stands
for to-day. Not long ago I saw it described on one
and the same day in two very different ways. One newspaper told
me it was a great British Commonwealth of free nations, the
greatest democracy that the world had ever seen. Another re-
minded me that now that there was no longer an autocrat of all
the Russias, it was the one Empire left in the world which kept
scores of millions of human beings under alien rulership.
The strange thing is that both these statements are true in them-
selves, but are only part of the whole truth. They represent, as it
were, the two opposite aspects of the Empire, and it is the task —
a no easy task — of British statesmen to keep them equally present
to their mind if they mean to "think Imperially." Britain
and the British nations that have sprung from her loins and trans-
planted her faith and her traditions, her language and her institu-
tions to Canada and Newfoundland, to Australia and New Zealand,
and with a large admixture of Dutch elements, to South Africa,
supply the back-bone of a far-flung Empire which stretches to
every quarter of the globe. These British nations constitute,
undoubtedly, the greatest and most democratic commonwealth
that the world has ever seen.
But, numerically, they form only a small minority of the total
population of the British Empire, and that small minority is itself
very unevenly distributed — 45 millions in these islands and barely
20 millions in the rest of an Empire of some 450 millions, com-
prising numberless races and creeds and tongues, all remote from
our own, and all in very different stages of evolution. Whilst
all the peoples of European stock within the Empire with one
exception, which, it may be hoped, will soon disappear, govern
themselves to-day as free democracies, the vast majority that
are not of European stock, and that amount collectively to
close upon a quarter of the estimated population of the globe,
have been hitherto governed, undeniably, on despotic lines, how-
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The Two
Aspects of
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The Two ever well-intentioned and beneficent such despotism may have
Aspects pf been.
the Empire. j^^ problem before us is the gradual adjustment of these two
different aspects of the British Empire, the one so essentially
democratic, the other so largely despotic. It should not be an
insoluble problem. After all, the relations between Great Britain
and the other British nations of the Empire have only recently
reached their present stage of adjustment. Only a generation ago
we in these islands used to talk in an almost patronising tone of
the British peoples of the self-governing Dominions as "the
daughter nations," and instead of a South African Union we had
an extremely disunited South Africa on the eve of a long and bitter
struggle between Boer and Briton. To-day the British peoples of
the Dominions are " sister-nations " who, in addition to their self-
governing rights, are intimately associated with Great Britain in
the control of the whole domain of Imperial policy, and it is on this
basis that the recent conference of Prime Ministers has confirmed
in peace time and for peace purposes the unity of the Empire,
which emerged not only unscathed, but immensely fortified
from four and a half years of frightful war waged in common
and for a common purpose. Not the least striking feature of that
conference was the presence of a Prime Minister of South Africa,
now welded into a self-governing South African Union, in which
the principles of British freedom have already so far prevailed
over the old antagonism between Briton and Boer that the dis-
tinguished statesman who spoke for both alike in London was
General Smuts, who had fought stubbornly against us in the Boer
War, and no less whole-heartedly for us in the great World War.
To adjust the governance of races on a different plane of civilisa-
tion from our own to the democratic ideals of self-government,
now firmly embodied in the British Commonwealth of Nations,
will be a still greater achievement. We are on the way to it in
India, consciously, deliberately, since the Government of India Act of
1919 endowed India with parliamentary institutions still doubtless
rudimentary, but which definitely introduce the chief elements of
responsible government and have as their declared goal Dominion
self-government for India within the British Empire. It is apt to
be regarded as a new and bold experiment — by some as a very rash
experiment. But we have, in fact, been committed to it for the
last hundred years, ever since we introduced Western education
into India and, as the inevitable result of Western education, the
ideas of liberty and the aspirations towards national self-expression
which permeate British literature and British history.
It is, of course, only a small minority of Indians who can be
expected to rise at once to the great opportunity they have in front
of them. But that small minority represents the intellectual and
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The Two
Aspects of
the Empire.
"politically-minded" classes, who, thanks to Western education,
have acquired an almost complete monopoly of all the liberal pro-
fessions and all the public services except the few branches still
reserved for men of British birth. Their influence cannot be
measured by counting heads, and it is upon their influence that we
must in the long run rely, if the British connection is to be main-
tained in India otherwise than by the sword — upon which, even
in the past, we have never alone relied — against the many
reactionary and revolutionary forces which have been set in
motion with renewed intensity in India as elsewhere by the great
wave of world-unrest that has followed the World War.
Even in the most democratic countries of the West, it is always
from small minorities that the impulse to progress has at first
proceeded, until in the end minorities become majorities. It may
be a longer and more arduous process in India, but there is no
reason to despair of its accomplishment if other parts of the Empire
will do their share in overcoming one of the main difficulties,
viz., the conflict of racial feeling, which is the chief common asset
to-day of the forces leagued together in India against a " Satanic "
Government and a " Satanic " civilisation.
If our Western civilisation, together with the principles of
democratic governance which are amongst the finest of its fruits,
is to prevail, not only in India, but ultimately amongst all the
people of the British Empire who are not of British stock, it must
be based on ethical and not on racial standards. This is, in fact,
what the British Empire has undertaken to prove by inviting
India to become a partner in its Commonwealth of Free Nations,
and by admitting Indians to represent India at the London Con-
ference on a footing of equality with the Prime Ministers of all
the self-governing parts of the Commonwealth.
More than that, it has given a supremely valuable lead to the whole
world at a time when the
racial issue underlies so
many delicate and even
dangerous international
questions. And it is a lead
which the British Empire,
compounded as it is of
an unparalleled mixture
of Western and Oriental
peoples, could alone give
in disproving the shallow
fallacy that ' ' East is East
and West is West, and
never the twain can
meet."
'^'^ Waterval Onder, Transval. Photo sent by Mr. M. Liefeldt,
Native Affairs Denartmenr, Pretoria, South Africa.
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The New Home of the Over-Seas Club.
Vernon House, Park Place, St. James's Street, London.
In order to pay off the loan we have arranged in connec-
tion with its purchase, we still require £23,000.
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Why
Australia
wants
15,000,000
Why Australia Wants 15,000,000
Population
By Percy Hunter, Director of Immigration in London
of the Australian Government
HE Commonwealth of Australia, with an area equal
to that of the United States of America, is at the
present time in the possession of but five millions of
inhabitants. The latest estimate of the population population,
of the United States is 105 millions. Yet the proba-
bilities are that, for its ultimate power of wealth production,
Australia may be regarded as the peer of the great northern
republic. This single fact will explain the reason why Australia
is now in urgent need of more population to develop its resources
and to secure its safety.
Judged by all comparative standards, the Commonwealth has done
excellently well in the past. Its birth-rate is high, and its death-rate
low. Its rate of natural increase, amounting to 16-34 P^"" i.ooo of
mean population per annum, so far as accurate statistics are avail-
able, is the highest in the world. For the decade prior to the War,
Australia was adding to its numbers to the extent of about 25,000
per annum by immigration. Its economic position was enviable.
The total export and import trade per inhabitant in 1914 was
£Si IDS. 9d. ; in 191 9, ;^39 15s. ; the corresponding figures for
those years for the United States were £g os. 8d. and £iy 15s. id.,
and for Great Britain, £26 and 1^53 is. 5d.
By comparison, the economic and vital statistics of Australia
are satisfactory, but other considerations have now to be taken into
account. With an area of 2,974,581 square miles, Australia is the
most sparsely populated of all civilised countries, having a density
of but I -So persons to the square mile ; the density of Great Britain
and Ireland is 351-04, and of the United States 35*39, persons to the
square mile.
The emptiness of the great southern Commonwealth is thus
conspicuous. For the Australian nation to retain the whole as
their exclusive possession, and also to direct its development on the
lines of the past, a rapid increase in numbers is urgently needed.
The country has been British territory now for upwards of 130
years, but it cannot be said to have reached national stature before
the middle of last century, when the discovery of gold caused a large
and sudden infiux of people, the majority of whom settled down in
other avocations than gold mining. Since that time the condi-
tions, until quite lately, have not been such as to bring home to
Australians a sense of impending danger to the continued posses-
sion of their country by reason of the paucity of their numbers.
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Why But perception of this risk is now abundantly clear. A world
Australia movement has set in which will bring the Pacific Ocean into much
rs^OOO 000 greater political importance than it has ever yet had, and Australia
Population. '^ ^^^ crown of the Pacific. Its actual production of wealth is great
enough to demonstrate its inherent possibilities, when the obvious
capacity for future development is considered. The Commonwealth
has established itself as a political unity which it is worth while to
preserve intact, and its present population is too small to ensure
security of possession. That is the outstanding fact.
A minimum of fifteen millions of inhabitants is required to cope
with the problems that the land now presents. Preferably the
figure should be put at twenty millions. The fertile coastal fringe
of the east and south could absorb twice that number and provide
a bountiful subsistence for them. The burdens imposed by the
exigencies of recent years, which will tax severely the capacity of a
population of five millions, cou*ld easily be borne by treble that
number of people in so far as they consist of financial responsibi-
lities. But it has also to be remembered that the Treaty of Ver-
sailles, by making the Commonwealth a Mandatory Power, has
enlarged those responsibilities in a manner without former prece-
dent, and has imposed upon the Australian nation the duty not
merely of providing for its own defence, but of administering
additional territory far exceeding the United Kingdom in area,
separated from its own shores by considerable tracts of sea, and
situated at great distances from its present chief centres of popula-
tion. This trust confers honour upon Australia, and is a tribute
to its political ability and economic advancement, but for its due
fulfilment it involves much more than the former primary duty of
self-defence, and could be better compassed by a nation of twenty
millions than of five.
The figures named are far from being the limit of Australia's
capacity to support a population ; they simply represent what are
regarded as the country's immediate need. The requisite numbers
are not on the spot, and must be brought into the Commonwealth
from overseas. It is to be hoped that the overwhelming majority
of them will come, like their predecessors, from the mother countries.
The Federal and State Governments of Australia desire this, and are
engaged in establishing a joint organisation to promote migration
and settlement.
The time is favourable, and the prospects good. Above all, in
this connection, Australia desires that it shall be its own national
kindred who will take advantage of the opportunity it offers for
immigration. The instant wish of those concerned for its welfare,
when they think of the annual overflow of the United Kingdom, is
that they should come south and not abandon the Flag. The
Australian is not a jingo imperialist, but he is strongly opposed
to the disintegration of the British group of nations.
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The Telephone as an Empire Linker
By Ernest A. Bryant
HE day is coming when London may be not only the
heart of the Empire, but the whispering gallery of
the world. The medium is to be the telephone. In
the Homeland we have come of late to regard the
telephone as an invention of diminished facilities
offered at higher cost, but experts in the United States have set us
an example and despatched us a message which, soon or late, is
bound to be fruitful in result.
With President Harding at a main switchboard, and members
of his Cabinet, together with representatives of pretty well every
people, nation and language, present with him. Colonel Carty,
Chief of the United States telephones, has engineered a series of
telephonic conversations over a distance of 5,500 miles. Across
the continent, from ocean to ocean, from Havana in the Atlantic,
through Washington and New York, then due west, linking city
with city, desert with prairie, industrial hives with homes of harvest,
mountain with lake, and out again to sea from Los Angeles down
to Catalina in the Pacific — so the messages travelled forth and
back.
That constitutes a record, in point of distance and in variety of
means employed. It embraces a system of land-lines loaded with
" repeaters " and other apparatus ; it employs lines beneath the
sea, and utilises wireless where no cable runs. But the message
was continuous ; it was heard simultaneously by scores of operators
stationed at as many exchanges strung out across the continent.
And Colonel Carty, to whose organising faculty the success is
due, lays it down as a certainty that in due season the extremest
fringes of the British Empire will be linked together as completely.
With devices now in use, he says, it is possible for London to speak
to Cape Town, to Calcutta, to Hong Kong and beyond, and for
Downing Street to hold vocal intercourse with the chancellery of
every foreign capital in the world. The prospect is a fascinating
one, for what Government does to-day, the individual citizen may
do to-morrow.
It is beyond hope that we shall ever hear again " the sound of a
voice that is still," but there seems every possibility that we may
summon into activity the voice which is muted only by distance.
In that sense the telephone is infinitely more human than the
telegraph in the miracle of its achievement. The submarine cable
can but connect lands ; the telephone brings a speaker at home
to the ear of his friend far over the sullen sea. If the system were
already in operation King George would be able daily to converse
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phone as an
Empire
Linker.
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Linker.
The Tele- with the Heir Apparent during the Prince's tour in India. Present-
phone as an day equipment, once installed, is already equal to the task of trans-
T .-lldf mitting human speech 10,000 miles, and that is only a beginning
of the new efficiency.
Some years ago, Mr. G. F. Preston, Controller of the London
telephone system, said to the writer, " England has the best tele-
graphic system in the world, and we shall not rest content until
we have as good and efficient a telephone system as the American. ' '
At that time we had already installed loading coils at regular
intervals along the lines, with the result that at a bound we had
extended by 300 miles the range of our submarine cables for
telephony, and had newly perfected what is technically termed
the phantom current, a current borrowed from two existing cables
and made to act for the transmission of speech as if the cables were
threefold, so adding 50 per cent, to the capacity of the lines.
Even then it was possible for 300 towns in Britain to speak to
Paris, to Belgium, to Switzerland and other European centres.
Our petty territorial boundaries prevent competition here in Great
Britain with Colonel Carty's feat ; he has a continent over which to
operate, whereas our greatest span is from London to Wick,
which gives us but a beggarly 730 miles.
The War has crippled developments of our telephone service, and
economy is so essential as to prevent attempts at spectacular per-
formances, but the potentialities for this reaching out into the space
of Empire exist. Whatever the limitations of the business side of our
British telephones, the technical skill of the men responsible is second
to none, the imagination and vision of the engineers unexcelled.
It was not news to these men that they have it in their power,
finance permitting, to enable Calcutta to exchange greetings with
London, for Singapore to transmit its local news to St. Stephen's.
All that America has done our men can equal, given time and
money. It may not be to-morrow or the next day, but that the
time will come when the authentic voice of Old England may
be heard by her sons and daughters in the farthest of British
possessions is as certain as that this magazine will reach them.
DR. C. W. SALEEBY'S LECTURE.— The attention of Members is
particularly drawn to a lecture by Dr. C. W. Saleeby, F.R.S.E., at the
Essex Hall, Strand, on Friday, November i8th, at 7.30 p.m. Dr. Saleeby
has recently returned from a tour in the U.S.A. and Canada, where he
lectured on Eugenics and race culture. He was particularly struck by
the superb physique of the Canadians, and his lecture, which is entitled
" Light against Death," will deal with the result of his observations
during his tour, and will be illustrated by lantern slides. Admission is
free, and each Member is allowed to bring one friend. As there is sure
to be a large demand for tickets, early application is advised. Applica-
tions should be addressed to the Reception Secretary, Over-Seas Club,
enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
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The Menace of the Nation's Bad Teeth
By a Doctor
"ROM the amount of attention that has been given to The Menace
the teeth in the past half -century, and the amount of of the ^
paper that has been spoilt in describing the various ^''''°° ^
methods of preventing their decay, one might fairly
expect to find a defective mouth a curiosity, and
every one should be wearing his own teeth.
Unfortunately, in spite of all this, quite the reverse is the rule.
False teeth are becoming more and more common, even at quite
youthful ages, while decayed teeth are looked upon by most as
just a natural incident of our existence.
Certainly this should not be so, and one cannot avoid the con-
clusion that, as a nation, our teeth are decidedly deteriorating.
Ancient British skulls, belonging to the early inhabitants of these
islands, show teeth ground down by long usage, right to the level
of the gums, but still firmly fixed in the jaws, and with still healthy
roots. Few old men of the present day could exhibit this condi-
tion, and I do not think those few would be found very near a
town. Even among children early decay appears to be rather the
rule than the exception.
Admitting, then, that our teeth are more liable to be attacked
by decay at a much earlier age than aforetime, one must not lose
sight of the fact that dentistry has made remarkable advances in
recent years, and has, to a considerable extent, discounted this,
so much so that one is almost tempted to wonder whether we are
really any worse off. Indeed, we should not be if artificial teeth
were as efficient as natural ones — those of Nature's own make ;
but, unfortunately, they are not quite so efficient.
Truly, they are wonderful triumphs of the dentist's art, but,
however well made the dentures, it is impossible to masticate the
food as completely and satisfactorily with them, by reason of the
lost sensitiveness of the vulcanite or gold-covered gums and,
moreover, though many dentists may deny it, a plate, covering the
roof of the mouth, does, to some extent, interfere with the delicacy
of the taste-sense, so important an aid to good digestion.
These are the facts we have to face. If we desire to maintain
a good standard of national health and physique, it is, obviously,
of the highest importance to seek the cause and remedy without
further delay. Given that, with modern scientific knowledge, one
would think it should be surely possible to avoid this early decay
and preserve our teeth to a ripe old age. There are good grounds
for believing that this will be the case, sooner or later, but much
water must flow under the mill before we know all about the
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Teeth,
The Menace subject, or before we are even in a position to take full advantage
of the of the knowledge when we get it.
Nation's Bad Many learned treatises have been written, by experts, on the
cause of dental decay, but one becomes rather bewildered to find
that each authority attributes it to a different cause, and one
begins to wonder which, if any, is right. The fact is, they are
all right — as far as they, individually, go, but there are so many
causes, and not one or two alone.
The main causes appear to be civilisation, parental ignorance
and neglect, and general carelessness. To particularise more
minutely, I should say- — defective nutrition of the body from bad
health, bad living, or poor food ; insufficient use of the teeth ;
uncleanliness of the mouth ; deficiency of vitamins in the food.
In the past the teeth of both the Egyptians and the Romans
compared very unfavourably with those of their less civilised
contemporary neighbours, as do ours, Man, in the primitive
state, had less means of rendering his food soft by culinary arts,
and also of keeping it. He was obliged, therefore, to use his
teeth vigorously, and his food was more fresh and unspoiled.
His mode of living was more natural, and made for the production
of the robust individual. He would not need a tooth-brush.
Parental ignorance is colossal, and neglect only too common.
Among the poor one sees over-diluted, stale, or even tinned milk
and dirty bottles, while the rich are addicted to expensive artificial
foods, and commonly boil the baby's milk or buy it sterilised.
General carelessness is more the rule than the exception. A
hasty scrub, with an uncleaned brush, in the morning, is about
the most attention the teeth are likely to get from the average
individual, and he rarely gives a thought to a decayed tooth till
it begins to ache. By that time the enamel has been penetrated,
and the mischief is done.
Fortunately the case is not quite so bad as it looks at first sight,
and the knowledge of a few useful facts, combined with a little
common sense, will go quite a long way to combat premature
dental decay, and assist in preserving our teeth in a healthy condi-
tion. The attempt should be commenced in infancy. More
attention should be given to the correct nutrition and general
development of the child's body. Healthy teeth in a healthy body
should be the aim of our endeavour. For this, only a very little
scientific knowledge is necessary, and some common sense, A
properly nourished, healthy child will usually have properly
nourished — and, therefore, healthy — teeth. The important thing
about the food of an infant is that it must contain vitamins.
Everybody knows now that as the electric spark starts the
explosion of the petrol in the motor, so vitamins start the digestive
process in the body ; also that, being unstable bodies, they are
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easily ruined by long cooking or long keeping. Fresh foods, The Menace
especially if raw like milk, contain them in greater amount than of the
long-kept ones. Artificially prepared foods may appear to do well Naiion's Bad
for a time, but, if what I have said be true, where are the vitamins ? ^^ *
But food is not everything. A child should have a vigorous life
and a healthy life, in the open air as much as possible. Keeping
these facts in your mind, you will find your child will soon be able
to take stronger food than you had believed possible.
A properly fed, healthy child will, at least, have a chance of
forming good primary teeth and, if the jaws be well exercised after
the cutting, by crusts, etc., they will have still more vigorous
growth. The roots of good primary teeth are more readily absorbed,
allowing them to fall out easily, at the proper time, and thus giving
the secondary teeth a far better chance of coming through in a
natural and healthy condition. A good start is half the battle,
and an occasional examination, by the dentist, will do the rest.
Malnutrition, from ill-health, dietetic ignorance, or insufficiency,
will be certain to show its effect in the teeth. If you would pre-
serve your teeth you must preserve your health by clean, whole-
some living, your intelligence governing your desires, and making
use of the modern knowledge of the rules of health, nowadays so
freely placed at everybody's disposal.
All food should be palatable and varied, should contain vitamins,
and should be well masticated, the latter, not only that it may
be well crushed and thoroughly mixed with the saliva, but also
that your teeth may be well and regularly exercised. Any organ
of the body that is insufficiently used soon commences to degenerate.
It is quicker to rust out than to wear out.
There has been some controversy over the "tooth-brush," but
you may take it that, if you use a good tooth paste, clean your
teeth well last thing at night, and then thoroughly cleanse the
brush, you will be doing the right thing. This will be obvious to
you in the morning. The brush is best cleaned in water running
strongly, under a tap, and this cleaning should never be omitted.
It is of special importance when decayed teeth or pyorrhoea are
present. The brush then becomes infected and would be liable
to re-infect the mouth with germs whose virulence has been
increased. Of course, the ideal method would be to let it stand
in carbolic lotion, or some other antiseptic, or even to boil it ; but
there are obvious objections.
It were wise to have the teeth periodically examined by a dentist
and on the slightest sign of decay in one of them it should be dealt
with at once. This will greatly prolong the life of the tooth and,
which is even more important, it will prevent it infecting others,
and you will save money and health.
JOHN E. RANSFORD.
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Should the
Married
Woman com-
pete in the
Labour
Market ?
Should the Married Woman compete
in the Labour Market?
By Hertha Davies
HERE is always one section or other of the community
in disgrace. And this is often due to our habit of
making sweeping generahsations and then shutting
our eyes to all those individuals who obstinately
refuse to fit the mould. " The Modern Young Man
has no Manners," complains one headline. " Every One tired of
Work," proclaims another. " What Type of Mother can the Girl
of To-day make ? " groans a third.
Just now it is the married woman who is coming in for her share
of censure, and her crime is the tendency of some of her class to
take another part in the work of the world than that ascribed to
her by popular opinion as her whole duty in life.
I have no statistics of the number of married women who are
wage earners outside the home, nor do I know of these how many
are compelled by dire necessity to seek the wherewithal for bread
and how many are workers from choice and ambition, but I cannot
help feeling that both are a type to be admired. The first because
they are putting their shoulders bravely to the wheel in work
probably uncongenial to them, and the second because they are
energetic, enthusiastic and competent. While all new movements
are liable to abuse, it certainly is a healthy sign that the modern
woman is anxious to enlarge her sphere of usefulness, and not to
hide all her talents but one in a napkin.
But whether one admires the individual or not, the question
whether it is for the highest social good that married women should
have full opportunity to enter the labour market cannot be so easily
answered.
Just at present, while unemployment is so rife, we are all a
little impatient of any one who adds to its woes by unnecessarily
claiming "the right to work." But the problem should not be
considered from what we hope to be a very temporary viewpoint.
Well -organised schemes of production and distribution, and the
much-anticipated boom should in time ensure plenty of work for
every pair of hands and active brain in the kingdom.
In any case, we tend, perhaps, to be somewhat hypercritical in
our outcry against the married woman ousting a single woman
from her job. We might first turn our attention to the number of
foreigners employed in this country. Again, now that so many
women are anxious to take up domestic work (I recently had over
fifty applications in response to an advertisement for a general
maid), we might argue that the educated woman who does her
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own cooking and dusting is cutting the market for others whose Should the
only gift and training lie in this direction. Married
Money begets money, and the woman who earns, spends. Instead Woman com-
of making her own frocks she will employ some dressmaker, who ?^ u *° *
in turn will be able to pay her hands. Instead of striving to teach Market ?
her growing children she will support the local kindergarten. In
fact, instead of tinkering with a hundred jobs, she will employ
experts to do them, and herself exploit her own particular talent to
provide the wherewithal.
There are many to whom economic arguments have no sig-
nificance one way or the other, but who are firmly convinced that
the home and family cannot fail to suffer if the wife-mother
spends at least eight hours a day away from it.
And I think all but the most soulless progressionist must agree
that where there is a young family, or where there is a large family,
the mother has a ready-made, whole-time job, and it is her duty
to sacrifice those of her own interests which directly clash with
those of the beings for whom she is responsible.
But this is no adequate excuse for cavilling at the principle of
married women workers. With our usual habit of vague thinking
we are apt to imagine all married women as perpetually bearing
and rearing children. Yet if we look round our own circle we can
see how very far from the truth this is. First, a very large number
of marriages are childless, and secondly, small families are more
and more the order of the day.
Some will say that families would soon increase if women had
nothing else to do but look after them, as in the good old days.
In reality the cost of living is primarily responsible for the lowered
birth-rate. The wife who is able to lay up a little nest egg for the
future is far more likely to welcome children than she who
does not know how their barest material wants are to be supplied.
The keen worker makes the keen mother. It is too often the
woman ' ' with nothing to do " who is too lazy to ' ' indulge ' ' in
a family.
Suppose you allow ten years — fifteen if you like — for the rearing
of a small family. After that, while the boys and girls are at their
preparatories and boarding schools, must the mother sit with folded
hands if she is particularly anxious to practise her gifts in the out-
side world and, incidentally, help pay for the heavy educational
expenses ? Ten years — fifteen years — ^is a big lump out of a woman's
life, but it is not her whole prime, and if she has kept her mind
bright and sharp and her talents in working trim there should be
no need to consider herself merely as a " has been ' ' as far as the
outside world is concerned.
In thinking of the home, again, people are too apt to confuse
material comfort with spiritual needs. They forget home is an
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Should the
Married
Woman com-
pete in the
Labour
Market?
atmosphere rather than a house, and that the people mean more
than the furniture.
' ' How lovely to be home again, and have lots of hot water and
a hair mattress 1 " one may exclaim after a stay in a cottage
perhaps. But a servant or housekeeper who knows her job is
quite capable of providing constant hot water, recherche meals and
the comforts of a well-run house. The part the paid worker cannot
provide is the love and sympathy and home-making spirit which
the mother usually contributes. A tired, irritable housewife,
obsessed with Jane's failings, the all-presence of dust, the iniquities
of the milkman, and the size of the butcher's bill, is not necessarily
a better home-maker than the woman who comes in from the out-
side woild, tired maybe, but delighted to be home and full of under-
standing interest of the experiences of her family, with plenty of
her own interests to share with them, and, above all, the happy
knowledge that, by her efforts, the children are getting a far better
chance in life than would have been possible if her only contribution
to the finances had been to save Jane's modest wages.
There are certain geniuses in domestic economy who invent
and perfect all manner of devices and contrivances, and are able
to make their homes their careers in a satisfying sense. Their
brains are always on the alert, and they are literally in their element.
But one woman's meat is another's poison, and there are a large
number who find housework stultifying. There is, undeniably, a
certain sameness about it, a recurrence of the self-same problem,
a lot of rather undignified trifles to worry over, and a lack of
intellectual stimulus.
Either the well-to-do wife has too little to do and kills time
with bridge and social amusements, or the badly-off wife has
far too much to do and develops into a drudge, with no time or
strength to cultivate the higher parts of her. She may become an
excellent Martha, but the Mary in her dies for lack of cultivation.
We come back, then, to the fact that the problem is an individual
one. The mere fact of marriage should not strike at the root of
liberty. But for the consolation of any male reader of ' ' Overseas ' '
who has a vision of coming into an empty hearth and chill slippers,
it is safe to say that sex characteristics do not change in a lifetime
or so, and that the habits of generations of little girls who have
nursed their dolls, dusted their dolls' houses, and given tea parties,
may give him assurance that, where the claims of home and office
compete, the home will come first in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred.
There is no more practical way of helping the Empire than
by persuading your friends to Join the Over-Seas Club.
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The Royal Arms of the United
Kingdom
By F. G. Yardley
HAT ! Is it possible ? Not know the figures of The Royal
Heraldry ! Of what could your father be thinking ? " ^^s of the
exclaims Di Vernon with indignant surprise to it°**j
^ , ^ , , ,■ . ,, ^ , ^ ,. ,,. ^. Kingdom.
Frank Osbaldistone in Rob Roy." Miss Diana,
or her creator, whose love and knowledge of
heraldry have never been equalled by a British novelist with the
possible exception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, would be shocked
beyond measure at the indifference to the " gentle science "
prevailing at the present day. Outside the College of Heralds few
people appear to give a thought to it now except the comic artists,
and the interest of these gentlemen is due less to enthusiasm for
the subject than to the alluring opportunities it offers for travesty.
To the average person the language of heraldry is as incoherent
as the libretto of a musical comedy, and the designer of the
emblem hanging by its guige from the Over-Seas Club tree would
probably be frankly astonished if somebody told him that he had
produced a shield a bouche charged vert, an annulet encircling S
argent.
So long as the schoolmaster persists in maintaining that nothing <*
useful can be usefully taught, and the rest of the community that
nothing should be taught which is not directly useful in later life,
heraldry is scarcely likely again to become a popular subject of
study. It is, however, full of fascinating interest, and a working
knowledge of its intricacies would at least blunt the edge of a
Briton's surprise when the " intelligent foreigner " speaks of the
' ' three leopards ' ' of the arms of England.
The arms of the Realm of England, as we know the device to-day,
on the first and fourth quarters of the Royal Arms of the United
Kingdom, made their first authentic appearance on the second
Great Seal of Richard I., though Henry II. is said also to have borne
the same device. The Norman sovereigns of England, William I.,
William II., Henry I, and Stephen were supposed to have borne
two " leopards " representing Normandy and Maine, while the
third, adopted by Henry II., is believed by some authorities to
represent the Duchy of Aquitaine, which was added to Henry's
realm through his wife Eleanor.
The regal dignity of the lion in the animal world would naturally
secure for him a position of corresponding eminence in heraldry.
From the dawn of the heraldic era, accordingly, the lion is blazoned
on the shields of sovereigns, princes and nobles ; and after a while,
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The Royal still retaining his original rank, the lordly beast also condescended
Arms of the to accept service with lesser fry.
United It was a necessary consequence of his wide popularity that the
Kingdom. j-^j^ q£ heraldry should be blazoned in various attitudes and
variously "tinctured," otherwise it would have been impossible
to distinguish the lions of different shields. A lion walking and
looking about him the early heralds held to be acting the part of a
leopard, an animal which they knew on the authority of grave
travellers to be the offspring of a morganatic alliance between
the lion and the pard, or panther. Any lion " passant guardant,"
i.e., walking and looking out from the shield, such as the three
displayed in the English Royal Arms, was decreed to be a leopard,
or lion leofarde. Old Nicholas Upton, the writer on heraldry,
protested, it is true, that a lion did not become a leopard " by
turning his face sidelong," but the men of action, the knights
and bowmen who fought under lion and leopard banners, laughed
with amusement or scratched bewildered heads at this pedantry
from a cathedral close. The English kings' beasts were leopards
in blazon, in ballad and chronicle, and in the mouths of liegemen
and enemy. The knight who saw the king's banner fly at Falkirk
or Cre'cy would declare it bore " gules with three leopards of
gold," even if the modern armorist prefers to have it "gules,
three lions passant guardant in pale, or." By Continental peoples,
even down to the early part of the nineteenth century the British
. were called "leopards," and Napoleon, exhorting his soldiers,
exclaimed in one of his orders of the day, " Let us drive these
leopards into the sea." So it will be seen that the " intelligent
foreigner " has authority for his leopards.
Over the origin of the Scottish arms there still hangs a shroud
of uncertainty. Sir Walter Scott, in "Tales of a Grandfather,"
says that the lion rampant was first assumed by William of Scotland
(1165 — 1214) : " William, King of Scotland, having chosen for
his armorial bearing a red lion rampant, acquired the name of
William the Lion, and his rampant lion still constitutes the arms
of Scotland." But Holinshead harks back to far remoter times.
According to his " Chronicles," the double tressure enclosing the
rampant lion had its origin in the reign of King Achaicus, who
made a league with Charlemagne, " who did augm.ent his arms
with a double trace formed with Floure-de-lyces, signifying thereby
that the lion henceforth should be defended by the ayde of the
Frenchemen." It behoves us, however, to pause before accepting
the truth of this tradition. The lively Holinshead was often more
concerned with the picturesque aspect of his narrative than with
its strict historical accuracy. He was given to drawing his long
bow rather taut. The more prosaic Chalmers roundly asserts
that Achaicus and Charlemagne did not even know of each other's
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The Royal
Arms of the
United
Kingdom.
existence. It is probable that the rampant lion of Scotland is
derived from the arms of the ancient Earls of Northumberland
and Huntingdon, from whom some of the Scottish monarchs were
descended.
The origin of the Irish harp forming the third quarter of the
Royal Arms must be sought back into the enchanted realms of
legend, romance and fable. It was assigned to Ireland during the
reign of Henry VIII. According to one tradition an early King of
Ireland was named David, and this king took for arms the harp
of Israel's Psalmist. But the idea that King David played upon
the harp as we know it to-day is a comparatively recent one.
Medieval artists frequently gave him the psaltery, a horizontal
stringed instrument, from which was gradually developed our
modern piano. Another story strips the Irish harp of every vestige
of romance. It declares the harp, indeed, to be nothing but a
blunder arising from the triangle invented in the reign of King
John to distinguish his Irish coins from the English. The triangle
is supposed to be in allusion to St. Patrick's explanation of the
Trinity or — more likely — to signify that King John was King of
England, King of France and " Lord of Ireland."
When on the death of Elizabeth, James of Scotland came to
the English throne, the "wisest fool in Christendom" brought
with him to London a curious assortment of friends, relatives
and prejudices. He also brought a specimen of unnatural
history in the shape of one of his Scottish unicorns to face the
English lion across his shield of
arms, and ever since then the
" lion and unicorn " have held
uninterrupted sway as the royal
" supporters."
This unicorn ousted from its
pride of place the Welsh dra-
gon, which had performed the
office of supporter for James
I.'s five Tudor predecessors.
As a device the dragon appears
to have been the standard of
the West Saxons, and of the
English previous to the Norman
Conquest. It was the ensign of
Cadwallader, the last of the
British kings, from whom the
Tudors were believed to be
descended. Among the Celts it
was the emblem of sovereignty,
and, as such, was borne as the
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The Royal sovereign's crest. The Celtic word dragon was equivalent to chief
^•""so^the or leader, and meant, literally, "fiery meteors." Pen-dragon
Kin'idom denoted a super-chief or dictator, created in times of danger to
insure unity of command. Uter and Arthur were each appointed
Pen-dragon to repel the Saxon invaders. Tennyson's " Idylls "
have made every one familiar with ' ' the dragon of the Great
Pendragonship " blazing on Arthur's helmet as he rode forth to
his last battle, and " making all the night a stream of fire." The
last " Great Pendragonship " of history was that of Marshal Foch.
It is often pleaded that while England, Scotland and Ireland
are all represented upon the British Royal Arms, it is an anomaly
that Wales should have no recognition. According to Mr. A. C.
Fox Davies, in an article entitled " Wales and the Royal Arms "
in the Genealogical Magazine for April, 1901, this plea is based
upon a faulty conception of the meaning of the Royal Arms. The
Royal Arms stand, says this high authority, neither for races
nor nationalities. They indicate neither territory, geographical
divisions, languages nor religion. The Arms are the personal arms
of His Majesty the King — personal in so far as they belong to the
King as the Sovereign for the time being. They indicate and stand
for his triple sovereignty of England, Scotland and Ireland, origi-
nally separate sovereignties, and, as such, possessing separate
armorial rights attached to the sovereignties. The arms indicate
those sovereignties and not the territories. That Wales formed of
itself a separate sovereignty distinct from the British Crown has
not hitherto been admitted. The inclusion of arms for Wales
would, therefore, mean the definite official recognition of a separate
sovereignty of Wales, unless the laws and meaning which have
hitherto governed the Royal Arms are to be ignored. " If that
comes to pass," concludes Mr. Fox Davies, " armory itself may
just as well pass away, for, shorn of its symbolism, what would
armory amount to beyond a meaningless kind of artistic
decoration ? "
Whatever the correct answer to the question may be, the average
Briton is so unlearned in heraldic law and precedent that the
spectre of calamity called up by Mr. Fox Davies will not, perhaps,
unduly disturb him. He would, in spite of it, bid heartily welcome,
not only an emblem of Wales in the Royal Arms, but also representa-
tion of the Dominions overseas, even if these constituent parts of
the Empire have not hitherto enjoyed separate sovereignties.
F " Overseas " offers (1) One prize of one guinea every month for
the best or most interesting photograph sent in by a Member of the
Over-Seas Club. (2) One guinea to the boy or girl under 18 years of
age, the child of a Member, for the best photograph taken by him or her.
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The Herring Harvest
By A. B. Cooper
OWN from the North come the herrings, biUions of The Herring
them, uncounted and uncountable. Drawn by some "^fvest-
instinct which the wit of man has never fathomed,
the vast shoals of the silvery fish make slowly south-
ward down the east coast of Britain. Yes, down from
the North they come, solid square miles of them, covering the
ocean's face with a silver sheen, followed by innumerable foes,
ensnared in millions by the fishermen, till finally, their numbers
apparently undiminished, they disappear towards the South.
The herring fishery commences north of Shetland in July, and,
along eight hundred miles of coast from Stornoway and Lerwick to
Hastings, the boats from Wick and Peterhead, and Aberdeen and
Dundee, and Leith and Whitby, and Scarborough, and Hull, and
Grimsby, and Yarmouth and Lowestoft sally forth to intercept them.
They are the reapers of the rich harvest of the sea, which, for
fertility and productiveness, has no equivalent on land.
December ist maiks the close of the herring season. But
during the whole of November the industry has been flagging.
Lowestoft, the " half-way house," is the culminating point where
the race for the fish becomes fastest and most furious. The twin
towns of Yarmouth and Lowestoft are at their busiest in October
and November, when often as many as a thousand fishing craft leave
harbour for the fishing grounds in one day !
Wherever the herrings are there are the boats, and, just as the
English boats go north to meet the herrings, so the Scotch boats
follow them south until they are lost somewhere on the confines of
Biscay, putting into the port nearest at hand with their catch.
The herring, in a very real sense, catches itself. Miles of drift
nets are set, buoyed up by cork-strung cables, and in the countless
drifting meshes the onmoving masses of herrings are caught and
entangled by the gills, literally by the million. Drifting is usually
done in the dark hours, but, of course, there is no set time for haul-
ing up the nets. Every two hours, or so, perhaps, a haul will be
made of one of the sections of drift net, to see if things look
promising.
The men are admirable judges, and if the first net shows up well,
over the rollers, hand over hand, every man working at the top of
his energy, come the endless nets, skilful hands disentangling the
fish from the meshes and casting them amidships in a shining scaly
heap.
The scales of the herring are very loose, as everybody knows, and
when the crew has been working but a short time every man looks
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The Herring like an impersonation of Father Neptune, covered as he is from head
Harvest. to toe with shining armour.
But, although a thousand herrings appear in the net to one of any
other species of fish, yet every big haul of herrings includes haddocks,
mullet, whiting and gurnard. Sometimes, too, a dog-fish appears
in the net. It damages the net pretty badly, as a rule, but its
despatch is hailed with satisfaction on all sides, because it is the
herrings' most destructive enemy.
Some of the finest herrings caught come to hand with a half-
moon shaped bite taken out of their backs which utterly spoils them
for the market. This, of course, is the foul work of the dog-fish.
Occasionally, too, a shark is found among the herrings and, needless
to say, is promptly knocked on the head. But the advent of a shark
entails too much net mending to please the fishers !
Many people have a notion that the herring fleet hugs the shore,
does not go far afield. Such a notion is wholly wrong, for the
North Sea fisheries vary commonly from twenty to eighty miles off
shore, not to speak of the range of eight hundred miles in pursuit
of the south-bound shoals.
The earnings of a drifter vary greatly with the season and the
market price of the moment. Recently, a Lowestoft drifter took
;£io,240 worth of herrings for the season, and another earned
£9,800, whilst several others averaged £8,000 apiece. Yarmouth
did equally well, one of her famous boats bringing in herrings to
the value of nine or ten thousand pounds, with many other boats
little behind this high figure.
The year 191 2 will long be quoted as one of the most prolific
herring seasons in living memory. The total landings at Yarmouth
and Lowestoft were over eleven hundred thousand crans. Now,
a cran is a thousand fish, so the actual number of herrings landed
at these two ports during the three months of the season totalled
at least one thousand one hundred millions. Yet in those pre-
war days these herrings brought only a price of 23s. a cran,
whereas to-day the fishermen get 45s.
One of the most remarkable features of the herring fishery is the
fact that about a thousand Scottish lassies employed by the fishing
companies follow the fleet from port to port down the coast, halting
wherever the boats are putting in, and dealing with the fish with a
celerity and skill which is admirable. Why Scottish girls from
Aberdeen, and as far north as the Shetlands should be more apt than
their southern sisters at this work may perhaps be attributed to the
fact that they are the daughters of fisher-folk to the third and fourth
generation. They appear to be born to the job. Certainly to watch
them gutting the herrings and preparing them for transformation
into the ubiquitous bloater and the tasty kipper is a liberal education
in what practice can do towards producing perfection !
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Why
URIOUS it is how some incidents in life, wholly
unimportant, impress themselves indelibly on the
mind. As vividly as if it had been yestereven do I
remember a night long years ago when, from the house
high on the hilltop where I lived, I had, for special
reason, to go down into the little village nestling in the valley.
There were no stars in the impenetrable heavens above ; darkness,
heavy and thick, pressed on the land. Down the rough mountain
path, carved by winter torrent, cautiously I picked my way, closely
following my guide as he walked, lantern in hand, a pace or two in
front. From out the encompassing blackness the shifting circle
of light thrown by the lantern stood out startlingly sharp and clear,
and, poor spark as it was, the night, close pressing, unrelenting, had
no power to swallow it up. Loosened stone and bramble, delicate
flower with folded petal, and green grass, in eloquent outline stood
revealed, and in perfect safety step by step might be placed the foot.
But beyond — ah ! of no avail to strive with straining eyes to
pierce the gloom. Fast doth the darkness hold its secrets; its
treasures to dull earthly sight never can be disclosed : another rarer
sense it is must find the penetrating way.
And very often has that midnight walk come back to me, preg-
nant with meaning, lighting up thought, a symbol of man standing
in his fleeting day by " darkness and the death hour " rounded.
Only the foreground clear — the bit of life which immediately con-
cerns, familiar claim and pleasure and duty, mesmerising routine —
but all the time beyond that, pressing with deadly weight on the
spirit, impenetrable surrounding mystery. "Why?" All down
the ages the same unanswered ' ' Why ? ' ' from heart to heart
has echoed. Why is he here at all, failing, faltering man, with
his hungry, seeking mind, his poor enslaved will, and his immortal
soul ? What is the meaning of innocent suffering and of unavoid-
able sin ? Why do children reap in depravity and degradation what
their fathers have sown ? Is there no end to oppression, and
selfishness and greed ? Where does Justice hide behind the intoler-
able unfairness of the world in which we live ?
Philosophies old and new have sought to supply us with an
answer, but the wisdom which they utter rings hollow when the
flaming sword of anguish pierces the heart. Religion again and
again has claimed to explain and understand that which by mortal
mind can never be explained or understood, but its answers have
failed to reach down to humanity's need. Not by human reason
can the everlasting counsels be apprehended, not in words'can they
ever be conveyed.
One, to my heart well known, told me once of a dream — or was
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Why ? it a vision ? — which came to her in a dark time of pain. She fell
into a light sleep one summer's night after long suffering, and to
her it seemed she was standing in a large chamber where many
stood in eager knots and earnestly talked of the present world and
the world unseen, of the dark problems of sorrow and sin, of the
mystery of death. Each had some new interpretation to offer,
some gospel to preach ; each was so sure that his interpretation was
right, his gospel true — all but a few who with cool logic and clear
wit held up to ridicule the poor efforts at explanation one by one.
And her spirit burned within her as she stood in that welter of human
opinions, and to herself she said, " Not so, not so is the light
reached," and though not hers was the gift of tongues, and she
could not speak, it seemed to her as if from a great height she
looked down on the clamouring Babel. And then all at once she
was aware that beyond the half -closed door, in the adjoining hall
a Presence stood, and she hastened thither as she would have
hastened to an earthly friend. But as she passed the threshold and
paused before a Figure dimly seen, immense, overshadowing, the
busy words died down on her lips, and her soul hushed itself in
awe undreamt, and she sank on her knees and with head thrown
back gazed up silent into the fathomless eyes. Into those eyes she
gazed, and her paltry conceptions of infinite love, of the High and
Holy One who inhabits eternity, fell from her and lay broken at His
feet. She had deemed her own vision clear side by side with the
clouded reasonings of the voluble disputers, but in the light incom-
prehensible which for one instant illumined her heart small indeed
seemed the difference between the crudest creed and the loftiest
apprehension compared to the immeasurably outsoaring height of
the Everlasting Verity.
" Who fathoms the eternal thought ? Who talks of scheme
and plan ?
The Lord is God, He needeth not the poor device of man."
Like a child standing on the shore stretching out his pail,
clamouring to hold in that little pail the mighty waters of the
unplumbed deep, so man from out his circle of light leans out into
the illimitable dark, and with magnificent arrogance — arrogance
unthinkable — claims to encompass with his small human mind the
depths of the counsels of God, the heights of the heavens above,
the mystery of the ages. Upon that which is infinite and eternal
he brings to bear a little human brain and rebels at his bewilder-
ment, rebels when he cannot understand. Understand ? Does
he dream of touching with his hand the stars, the far distant stars,
which yet his eyes can reach ? In the depths of his wondering
eyes mirrored and held they are, though by endless space from his
feeble clasp removed, and secrets which to the questioning mind
must ever remain sealed, in the hidden places of the soul are
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apprehended by faculties which as far outreach reason as touch is Wjiy ?
outstripped by sight. Very wide and wonderful is the Kingdom
accessible to the conquering human mind, but beyond it the vast
realms lie whose portals are open only to what is immortal in man,
and the knowledge gained in those heavenly places by mortal
speech can never be conveyed. It is the fruit of inmost experience,
dearly bought and still more dearly prized, and words dipped in
living flame alone could reveal something of the glory glimpsed in
those far flights of the soul — the flights " of the alone to the
Alone." But the blessed certainty, assurance serene and unassail-
able, which holds the soul that so has seen is a power in the world
which nothing can overcome ; he who has once looked into the
Face of Love can nevermore be afraid. Dark still lies the shadow
of suffering, of sorrow and sin ; deep as ever are the mystery of life,
the mystery of death — but behind the shadow is Love, and Love
within the mystery. The mind does not understand, what of that ?
Little finite mind, how should it understand life and death and God ?
But the heart hears, and it does not seem hard to leave all the
unsolved riddles, all the unanswerable Whys, in that Heart which
in silence to our hearts doth speak. H. d. V.
An Irrawaddy flotilla steamer slowed down in mid-stream to take on
board a party of natives who have hailed the steamer on its way to
Mandalay. Photo sent by Mr. W. M. Gerrard, c/o Messrs. Steel Brothers
& Co., Bassein, Burma.
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A Day of
My Life.
A Day of My Life
By Miss E. Herbert
LIVE in a village in the Orange Free State, where the
daily round and the common tasks go on year in,
year out, with little or no change. Occasionally,
however, there is a welcome break in the monotony.
I went over recently with a party of friends to the
annual race meeting held at Maseru, the little capital of Basutoland.
Crowds turned up, fully prepared for a good day's sport and fun.
We passed vehicles of every imaginable description, to say nothing
of thousands of natives in their national costume — a red blanket.
To the native, the Maseru races are what the Derby at Epsom is
to the Briton.
It is a truly remarkable sight to see the veld alive with these
hordes of uncivilised beings, and the wonderful orderliness through-
out the day was directly due to the authorities forbidding liquor
of any description to be brought into the country.
The native women have to be content with viewing the proceed-
ings from the surrounding hillsides, while their menfolk have all
the fun below, but they do not resent it, as they are so accustomed
to be " least " that they take it all as a matter of course. Even
the prisoners, I am told, are let out for the day, and are also kept
on the hillsides, away from the crowd.
Some good horses belonged to European owners, others to the
different chiefs, while the rag-tag-and-bob-tail of the race were
owned by the rank and file of the natives. The latter take as keen
an interest as their white brethren, and their shouts of excitement
are almost deafening when a race has started.
The jockeys were mostly native urchins, who ride extraordinarily
well and are game little fellows. Most of them wore regulation
costume and looked very smart, but a few rode bare-backed and
unadorned by an3d:hing save a shirt.
It was certainly the most amusing feature of the day watching
them urge their steeds by digging their heels into the horses'
fianks, their arms going round like windmills, and their shirt tails
flying in the wind. Though sometimes half a mile behind the
winner, " nil desperandum " seemed to be their motto, for they
did not leave off urging and hitting until the goal was reached,
amidst good-natured jeers from thousands of lips.
As the day wore on there was a tremendous exodus of horsemen
and vehicles, and by the time the stately Maluti Mountains were
bathed in a flood of light cast by the rays of the dying sun there
was a hushed stillness over hillside and veld, which but a few hours
before had been teeming with civilised and uncivilised life.
P.O. Box 99, Ladybrand, O.F.S., South Africa.
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HE simple medieval explanation that all mountains are
due to upheavals, and all valleys to the sinking of parts
of the earth's crust proved fallacious as soon as it
was tested by scientific methods. Critical observation
showed that ordinary land valleys have been excavated
by rivers, and that most mountains are the remnants of once wider
masses, and are still being reduced by the agents which removed
the surrounding material. Reaction against the older belief led
to the other extreme of denial that any land valleys have been
formed by earth movement ; and some geologists even made the
astounding suggestion that the ocean basins were excavated by ice.
This view is so incredible that it is now mainly of interest as an
illustration of the things people will believe in obedience to what
they regard as logical application of first principles. It is now
admitted that some land valleys are due to direct earth movements.
One type of these " tectonic valleys " has been formed by the
subsidence of the floor between parallel fractures, so that a long
strip of the earth's crust has sunk, leaving its boundaries as straight
" scarps." Such valleys are known as rift valleys.
The longest and most important of the rift valleys is known as
the Great Rift Valley. It extends from Palestine to South Africa,
through the Red Sea, the lake chain of South-eastern Abyssinia,
Lake Rudolf, and Lake Nyasa. African exploration during the
past thirty years has shown that the Rift Valley is continuous
from Palestine, except for one short unproved gap, across the whole
of Eastern tropical Africa. The Upper Nile, as far north as Gondo-
koro, the Albert Nyanza, and Lake Tanganyika, lie in a western
branch which is connected through Lake Rukwa to the main
valley north of Lake Nyasa. Off-branches on the eastern side
have formed the Gulf of Aden and the valley of the Pangani River ;
and branches to the west of Tanganyika form the rift valleys of the
Eastern Congo. In most parts of its course, the structure of the
Rift Valley has been proved to be due to the subsidence of its floor,
which has sunk as a paving-stone sinks below the general level of
the pavement if it has been undermined by water or burrowing
animals.
The Great
Rift Valley.
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The Great The subsidence of the floor of the Rift Valley was accompanied
Rift Valley. |jy great volcanic eruptions ; and, as for most of its length the
valley does not intersect fossiliferous rocks, the sequence of the
volcanic rocks has to be used to decipher its history and determine
the dates of the different stages in its formation.
The Great Rift Valley traverses an area which, at the time of
the deposition of the world's chief coalfields, was part of a great
continent — Gondwanaland — that extended from Brazil eastward
across Africa and India to Australia. During the geological era
which ended with the deposition of the chalk, the world was under-
going a gradual deformation which led to the slow sinking of parts
of North-western Africa and of South-western Asia, leaving between
them a raised tract of highland, which extended from Asia Minor
to Cape Colony. By the time of the chalk, the collapse of the region
between Eastern Africa and India formed the western part of the
Indian Ocean. This great subsidence was accompanied by colossal
volcanic disturbances ; the lavas ejected covered over 200,000
square miles in Western India, where they are known as the
Deccan Traps, as well as large areas in South Arabia and Abyssinia,
and probably also in the Kenya Colony. The subsidence of the
Indian Ocean weakened the East African Highlands, and along
their middle line the country sank between a series of parallel
fractures and thus formed the first stage in the development of
the Great Rift Valley. Later earth movements accompanied by
renewed volcanic disturbances led to the gradual enlargement and
extension of the Great Rift Valley and its branches. As this valley
is over 4,000 miles long, and traverses more than half the width
of the Old World, it was obviously due to some widespread cause
which affected the three continents of the eastern hemisphere.
Their dominant earth movements in the last geological era were
a northward thrust in Europe and a southward thrust in Asia.
Northern Africa and Southern Europe were thrust northward,
crumpling Algeria and Southern Europe into the fold mountain
chains of the Alpine System, including the Atlas, the Pyrenees, and
the Alps, At the same time, Asia was affected by a southward
movement which produced the Himalaya and the other fold moun-
tain chains of the Himalayan system. The Great Rift Valley lies
along the line between the movement southward to the great
sunken basin of the Indian Ocean and the segment of the crust
which in Africa and Europe has been thrust northward. The
formation of the Rift Valley was completed by a prolonged series
of movements, and some of them may have happened so recently
that memories of them may be preserved in the traditions of the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and of many villages in East
Africa, as beside Tanganyika, by the sudden formation or enlarge-
ment of the East African lakes.
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The Forthcoming
British Industries Fair
British
Industries
Fair.
O the many thousands of Over-Seas Club Members in The Forth
all parts of the world who are doing their utmost to coming
promote British trade in their particular territory, a
word concerning the plans for the forthcoming British
Industries Fair (to be held from February 27th to
March loth, 1922, simultaneously in London and Birmingham) may
be of interest. Organised by the Department of Overseas Trade,
Britain's annual display of her manufactures and industries — the
trade buyer's opportunity of selecting goods for the ensuing season —
is a matter of moment to British traders throughout the globe.
Since its inception in 1915 the British Industries Fair has steadily
grown until it is to-day the most important national trade fair in
the world. In fact, one of the great difficulties with which the
organisers have had to contend has been the lack of adequate
buildings, for the Fair has developed to such an extent that it has
been no easy matter to adhere to the policy of housing each section
under one roof. To those who are familiar with the Continental
fairs, which are held in innumerable separate buildings scattered
throughout the length and breadth of a city, the advantages of con-
centration under one roof v/ill be obvious. For the 1922 Fair it
has fortunately been possible to secure enough additional accom-
modation both in London and Birmingham to provide not only for
the growth of the Fair, but also to enable room to be found for the
great industries which have hitherto been exhibited at Glasgow.
Textiles, however, will not be included in the 1922 Fair.
The London section of the Fair will, as in 1921, be housed in the
White City, an enormous range of exhibition buildings within a few
minutes of the centre of London and connected with every part of
the London area by trains, omnibuses and trams, while the Bir-
mingham section will be in the great buildings of the easily acces-
sible Castle Bromwich Aerodrome. Not only are both sections of
the Fair, in London and Birmingham, in each instance under one
roof, but it has been found possible to arrange that the various
trades shall be themselves in separate but adjoining departments,
with the result that the buyer need not waste time wandering through
section after section which does not interest him. The grouping of
exhibitors according to their various trades is of the greatest help
to the buyer, as he finds, side by side with well-known firms, busi-
nesses of which he has probably never heard, but which are of equal
interest. To the trade buyer new sources of supply are as important
as are new markets for a manufacturer.
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The Forth- Another great advantage enjoyed by the buyer who visits the
coming p^j^ jg ^i^g £^^,^ ^j^^^ participation in it is confined to manufacturers.
Industries There is, therefore, no duplication and no confusion caused by
Fair. finding identical articles unnecessarily repeated at different prices
on different stands. This does not mean that merchants do'not do
business in connection with the Fair, for many exhibitors prefer to
pass orders, particularly those for export, through merchant houses
who have special facilities for handling them. None the less, from
the buyer's point of view the Fair has the great advantage that he
comes into personal contact with the actual producer.
Moreover, the British Industries Fair is purely a trade fair, and
not an exhibition. Admittance is restricted to trade buyers, and
business is not impeded by crowds of sightseers. In organising the
Fair the Department pays particular attention to the comfort and
convenience of the overseas buyer. A special Club is provided for
him, where reading and writing rooms are available, where the
gratuitous services of interpreters are placed at his disposal, and
where he may consult specially qualified officers of the Department
of Overseas Trade, who will be able to assist in indicating the sources
of supply of any goods required, and to give information regarding
tariffs, shipping and transport, trade conditions, etc., etc., through-
out the world. Last, but not perhaps least, he will find in the
catalogue which is given to him a mine of information, for it is not
merely a list of exhibitors but a book of reference of considerable
value. It contains, among other things, a comprehensive index
translated into seven foreign languages, thus ensuring that prac-
tically every foreign visitor shall be able to find readily each
exhibitor of the class of goods which he requires.
In a word, the function of the British Industries Fair is to bring
buyer and seller together, and to facilitate business between them
by every legitimate means. It is obvious that the promotion of a
successful trade fair cannot be achieved by good organisation alone,
for the latter is, after all, of minor importance in comparison with
the quality and price of the goods shown. Much as the organisers
in London and Birmingham pride themselves on the convenience
and completeness of their arrangements, they congratulate them-
selves still more on the support and assistance which they receive
from British manufacturers.
Many manufacturers would welcome a visit from the overseas
buyer to their works, where he may not only see the goods being
manufactured, but also the facilities for adapting them to the require-
ments of special markets.
The Over-Seas Club and Patriotic League in London will be
pleased to forward correspondence from Members relating to the
Fair direct to the promoters for special attention.
E. D. W._^C.
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FR02A A WOPu\N':S
STANDPOINT
"^^^^L^C^i^T^
THE CENOTAPH.
The hopes that fall like leaves before the wind,
The baffling waste,
And every earthly joy that leaves behind
A mortal taste.
The uncompleted end of all things dear,
The clanging door
Of death, forever loud with the last fear,
Haunt them no more.
Without them the awakening world is dark
With dust and mire ;
Yet as they went they flung to us a spark,
A thread of fire.
To guide us while beneath the sombre skies
Faltering we tread.
Until for us like morning stars shall rise
The deathless dead.
Maurice Baring.
"HOSE of you who live overseas and cannot lay
flowers on the Cenotaph to our Glorious Dead, will
like to know that as the months pass the flowers
and wreaths do not diminish in number. From 300
to 400 are laid about the base each week.
I very rarely pass the Cenotaph, either on a week-day or on a
Sunday, without seeing groups of people reverently moving round
the spot, the traffic of Whitehall flowing past on either side. In
spite of its position in one of our great thoroughfares, over and
above the Cenotaph there reigns a great calm. As the buses go
by many men salute or raise their hats, and the women cast
a look at the shrine which means so much to so many of us.
The Unknown Warrior's grave in Westminster Abbey is like-
wise kept fragrant with the flowers which are laid there every
week.
Great Britain, indeed, is scattered now with shrines. Scarcely
a village but has erected some form of memorial to those that
went forth never to return. I have seen many of these shrines,
and always there are vases of flowers, flowers in pots, or ever-
greens in humble jam-pots, put there by loving hearts which do not
forget,
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From a
Woman's
Standpoint.
OVERSEAS
From a A CAREERS BUREAU. — Not long ago I was speaking to the
Woman s Editor, and asking if it would not be possible to have a section of
Standpoint. "Overseas" devoted to "Careers for Women." Time and
again I have been struck with the need for fresh ideas and a new
outlook in this matter, and have occasionally and very spasmodi-
cally referred to enterprises of various kinds that I have come
across. But I believe a great deal more information is needed,
and would be useful to many women Members these hard times.
Will any readers who are interested send me particulars of how
women are earning their living in various parts of the world, not
in the old stereotyped way, but especially where originality and
adaptability have been shown ?
I come across a number of women obliged to earn or to supple-
ment their own incomes, and too often through pride, or an un-
yielding temperament, they will not or cannot adapt themselves to
altered circumstances. This is, of course, especially the case with
the elderly woman, who has got into a rut and has the type of
mind which makes it almost impossible for her to get out of it.
I have two high-minded, charming gentlewomen in my mind's
eye, both anxious to be secretary companions, neither of them on
the right side of forty. They both know that such jobs are few and
far between, they have both been out of work for some time, and
yet they seem unable to think of anything else. I have suggested
to one that she should learn how to clean silver, and build up a
connection with those who are no longer able to keep a butler
or very experienced parlourmaid. I know of one woman who
makes this pay, though I cannot recollect what she charges.
Several times I have suggested to would-be workers that they
should learn to wash and iron laces and fine underwear, and go as
visiting ladies' maid to women who can no longer keep a maid of
their own. In one case the woman I was trying to help was
offended ; such work, she thought, was beneath her dignity.
What I thought I did not say^ — and yet well-to-do women have
asked me if I did not know of any one who would come to them
once a week and look after their underclothes.
On the other hand, an artist friend of mine, who paints portraits
delightfully which few can afford to-day, remodels coats, and
finds it tides her over slack times. She says she was born with
capable hands, and if she can't do one thing she will do another.
She does not add that she has grit and enterprise. The longer I
live the more impressed I am with the opportunities for women in
business, which, with a few exceptions, the educated woman
scarcely seems to realise.
WOMEN IN BUSINESS. — A woman's paper issued a supplement
not long ago giving a list of all the various branches of work in
which women could find employment, and business as a profession,
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or indeed any branch of it, was never even mentioned. And yet From a
it is just here that the educated woman with taste and knowledge Woman s
can find an outlet. Standpomt.
Take one branch alone, that of window dressing. It is an expert
job and requires various qualifications of just the kind that one
would think an educated, artistic woman would possess. And yet
what are the facts ? Practically all the window dressers in this
country are men. Why, I do not know. One expert says that boy
students are trained for three years before they are actually allowed
to dress a window. They learn design, have their colour sense
trained, study the art of drapery, and even lighting and architec-
ture. They must know how clothes should be worn and must
always keep in the forefront of fashion. To me it is absurd to
think of boys being trained in this art, for it is an art, instead of
women, who study clothes and the fashion to a greater or lesser
degree from the cradle to the grave.
When one of Self ridge's head men was consulted the other day
he laid down as essential these four qualifications — " Orderliness,
proportion, colour, and a knowledge of the use of merchandise.
These are the four great qualifications which must be possessed
by a woman who wants to make a career of window decorating."
Again, there is salesmanship. Who does not know the difference
between a bad saleswoman and a good saleswoman ? A good
saleswoman or shop assistant must have good manners and ought
to have intelligence and as wide an education as possible.
BUSINESS IDEALS. — Mrs. Prince, founder and president of the
Store Education College, Boston, where girls from all over the
States learn salesmanship, declares that ' ' all the education that
can be got is necessary for efficient salesmanship. More and
more education is what is needed in all businesses." I am sure
she is right. But here again the highly educated woman has
thought business beneath her. This is a point of view with which
I have no patience nor the slightest sympathy.
Having spent years of my life doing social work and having been
in business for two years, I say unhesitatingly that a business
career gives one quite as many opportunities for helping fellow-
wayfarers as working with some charitable organisation, and has
this great advantage, that one can help freely without patronising.
To my mind, business is quite as ideal as politics, or the medical
or any other profession. It is not degrading to be a cook because
some people over-eat, any more than it is degrading for a woman
to be in business because some people are dishonest and love
money. All this seems very commonplace and obvious, but there
still exists in Great Britain a prejudice against a business career
for a refined and educated woman which should be got rid of.
A WAYFARER.
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Cookery
Books and
Cookery — I.
Cookery Books and Cookery.— I.
F the making of cookery books there is no end, and as
a matter of fact most good cooks compile their own,
for nothing is so reHable as that Httle scrap-book in
which one preserves those recipes which have been
really tried and tested. A good old-fashioned book
containing a mass of miscellaneous information is "Enquire
Within," but too much space is devoted to various early Victorian
odds and ends which, though intensely amusing to read, scarcely
add to the usefulness of the work. A new book somewhat on the
same lines is "The Housewife's A.B.C.," which, though not a
cookery book pure and simple, contains many useful suggestions
on the theory of cooking, and many practical hints on the details
of household management, as well as a section on simple remedies
and first aid.*
It is easy to collect a mass of recipes for elaborate dishes, to
write ideal menus, to estimate for wonderfully economical family
budgets, to publish beautifully got up books on " How I fed my
Family on a Shilling a Day," or "Tasty Dishes for Sixpence a
Head." But it usually appears to me that the families who live on
these elaborate ornamental and inexpensive dishes never have any
appetites — and under these circumstances it is not difficult to feed
them economically. We find this kind of thing : —
" Take two fresh herrings at twopence each " (here follows a
long description of the ideal appearance of a fresh herring, and the
importance of dealing at a good fishmonger's). Then we proceed :
' ' Take out the roes and set them aside for a savoury for late dinner.
Cut off the heads and stew them for fish stock. Cut the fish in half,
serve two fillets of the best end on toast with mustard sauce; this
will serve instead of a meat course for lunch, fish being more
wholesome than meat. The remainder of the fish serve with sauce
marinata in a silver dish garnished with parsley and a small portion
of last week's mushrooms. Any of the fish which remains will
make nourishing rissoles tor breakfast." The italics are mine, but
this is really the kind of advice given to young housewives in many
modern cookery books. All I can say is that if I wanted to make
two herrings serve for three meals (knowing my family and
* "The Housewife's A.B.C.," by W. Fales and Janet Hunter. Geo-
Harrap & Co.
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its appetite) I should advise as follows : — " Carry the fish home Cookery
yourself, carefully wrapping it in newspaper in which you have Books and
already placed a small piece of cheese and an onion. Lay the Cookery I.
parcel in a warm place for a few days. Then take out the fish, fry
rapidly in a pan in which bacon has been recently cooked. Serve
tepid in a fireproof dish garnished with balm." Then there really
would be some left for rissoles the next day. One well-known
cookery book, which prides itself on its economy, actually gives a
recipe for a " pretty supper dish " which consists of a cold boiled
fowl, stuffed with sausage meat and covered with white sauce, and
declares, " One chicken thus treated will suffice for eight people
without touching the pinions or the legs." The italics again are
mine. If one of the eight people had the temerity to attack the legs
and wings it would upset the author's menus for the rest of the
week.
Seriously, I do not think it is worth while to publish books or
articles of this kind, especially when our national standard of
simple cookery is so low. The number of households who keep
skilled cooks to undertake elaborate ornamental dishes is very
small, and the housewife who does her own cooking is usually too
busy to attempt them, and let us hope her family have such healthy
appetites that they do not need so much labour and art expended
upon their daily meals. Extravagant menus usually appear in
the kind of periodical which is filled with portraits of actresses and
society ladies advertising the latest fashions, which set forth the
pathetic difficulties of the girl who has to contrive to dress on :£200
a year, or the nice distinctions between the work of the third
kitchen-maid and the fourth scullery-maid. I believe they are read
largely in dentists' waiting rooms and small suburban households.
Even vegetarian cookery books sometimes descend to frivolity. I
opened one the other day at a paragraph headed " Mock White-
bait." Why vegetarians, who presumably object to animal food,
should manufacture "mock cutlets," "mock crab," and even
" mock goose," has always been a mystery to me. In this case
the " mock whitebait " were merely strips of vegetable marrow
fried in oil.
We might certainly with advantage give a great deal more
attention to cooking vegetables, which British people usually cook
carelessly and without any attempt to preserve those natural juices
which are often the most valuable constituent of green and other
vegetables.
An ancient and celebrated recipe begins, " First catch your hare,"
and hints on vegetable cookery might well begin by suggesting that
the cook is saved a great deal of trouble if the gardener or allotment
holder will clean the vegetables when and where he gathers them.
Ask the gardener to keep a sharp knife and a bucket of water, to
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Cookery
Books and
Cookery — I.
trim off all dirty and superfluous leaves at once, to wash roots and
place them in a separate clean basket. This saves a great deal of
mess in the scullery or kitchen. The amateur gardener can even
be persuaded sometimes to shell beans and peas on the ground if
he is provided with a seat — and perhaps a pipe ! All root vege-
tables too small or misshapen to peel with ease can be well scrubbed,
cut up, and boiled in their skins until tender, for vegetable soup.
Put through a potato strainer the skins remain behind and the pulp
is ready for use.
Green vegetables cooked in a steamer retain their juices and
flavour, which are lost if boiled in the ordinary way. Do not forget
that all runner or dwarf beans when too old to use make excellent
winter vegetables if shelled and dried. The haricot beans we buy
at the grocer's are much harder and require more soaking than
beans dried slowly in the sun or in a light, dry shed. Simply
spread them out on trays or paper and turn them occasionally,
removing any that show signs of mildew. When quite dry and
hard they can be stored in muslin bags or jars. The green flageolet
beans, white runners, or little brown Dutch beans make quite a
change in winter vegetables, and also make excellent soup. Try
them as a puree as follows — put a quart of flageolets into a sauce and
with some stock, two small onions, four cloves and a few mixed
herbs (dried herbs if fresh are not available). When the flageolets
are soft pound them in a mortar with a slice of bread fried in drip-
ping, and rub it all through a sieve. Add enough stock to make it
of the consistency of cream, serve hot. Puree of dried green peas
or lentils can be made in the same way, using dried mint for the
peas instead of mixed herbs.
ERNESTINE MILLS.
The Best
Way.
The Best Way
[Mrs. Ernestine Mills, who edits our Home-Makers' pages, is
ready to answer questions or to give any advice for which
our readers may ask her.]
Every sender of a " Best Way " tip is entitled 1o nominate a
friend to receive six free issues of" Overseas."
A HINT FOR BEEKEEPERS.— The "visibility" with a bee-
keeper's veil is much increased by sewing in an oblong piece of
celluloid in front of the eyes. For celluloid use a spoilt photographic
film, floating sensitised matter off in warm water. — George L. Boag,
Aguilas, Murcia, Spain.
TO CLEAN BRASS. — The leaves of the ordinary begonia, crushed in the
hand to bring out the moisture, will clean brass beautifully. So will
sorrel, or probably any acid leaf. The brass only needs polishing with a
dry cloth afterwards.^Miss A. L. Howarth, 80, Park Drive, Port Eliza-
beth, C.P.
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TO CLEAN WHITE FUR.— Make a paste of powdered starch and cold The Best
water, smear thickly over the fur. Let it remain on for twenty-four Way.
hours, then brush and beat it all out, and the fur will be perfectly clean. —
Mrs. M. C. Carlson, 20, Southgate Avenue, Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.
SPLENDID " RENEWER."— Buy twopennyworth of soap bark, put it
in a jar and pour over it a pint of boiling water. Steep this for half an
hour, then strain the water into a clean jar. Lay the garment to be
cleaned on a table and apply the solution with a brush, rub lightly until
a lather is seen on the surface of the garment, allow this to dry in and the
garment will look like new. — Miss K. J. Joynt, Sheen Lodge, Limerick,
Ireland.
TO BOIL A CRACKED EGG. — If you have no salt at hand, take the
damaged egg {i.e., if the film is not broken and the egg " weeping ") and
strike it firmly on a flat, hard surface, such as the top of the stove,
making a flattened disc about the size of a halfpenny ; the egg may then
be safely boiled in either hot or cold water. — Miss Dorothy Birkett,
" Gilmour," Meyerton, Transvaal, South Africa.
" THE AUGUST ' OVERSEAS ' has an article on ' Productive Work,'
by Mrs. Mills, saying where some politicians were horrified at using
ex-service men for house-cleaning 1 Right at this very moment two
American ex-service men are putting this house in order for a house-
wedding of four hundred guests. They do everything — windows, rugs,
woodwork, pictures, ornaments — and get room after room back in its
original order like veritable magicians. We would not know what to do
without them. Now and at house-cleaning time their noiseless efficiency
is quite restful, even in the midst of the domestic upheaval ! They are
so proud of their job when it is finished, and they certainly are artists in
their line.
' ' The little maid in the same article who will not use a damp duster
should have a dustless duster^ — an oiled duster which will not let one bit
of dust get away ! Please tell Mrs. Mills I will tuck in some dustless
dusters in my box for the Christmas Gift Sale, and they are surely
splendid." — Miss Anna Irving, 263, Foster Street, Melrose, Mass., U.S.A.
HOT PINEAPPLE DRINK. — Slice and chop finely a tinned pineapple.
Pour the juice into a saucepan, make it up to a pint with water, add one
pound of lump sugar, boil until the syrup is thick, then pour on the
chopped pineapple. Add the strained juice of two lemons, cover and
leave until it is cold. Then strain into a glass jug and add two pints of
boiling water. (Good for children's parties.)
A GOOD BATTER FOR FRYING FILLETED FISH.— Shake four ounces
of flour lightly into a quarter of a pint of warm water, add one tablespoon-
ful of oUve oil, the white of an egg well whisked, and a pinch of salt.
Blend until quite smooth, and let it stand ten minutes before use.
TINNED LOBSTERS SERVED HOT. — Melt a quarter of a pound of
butter or margarine in an enamelled saucepan, empty the tin of lobster
into it, season with cayenne pepper, salt and lemon juice, until the whole
is very hot. Mix with bread crumbs until of a consistency to fill scallop
shells or patty pans, brown in the oven, putting small bits of butter on the
top, serve hot, garnished with parsley.
A MEMBER will be glad of suggestions for using small green figs, grown
out of doors in England, which do not ripen.
COLD WEATHER DRINK.^Boil some fine maize flour with milk and
water until it is all well mixed. Then add chocolate powder or cocoa and
drink hot. It is very warming and nourishing.
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The Over-
seas Forum.
Members are invited to correspond with one another.
ORTH-WHILE WORK FOR "OVERSEAS."- I left
New Zealand last May on a tour of the world. The
purpose of my tour was to enlarge my mind. The
immense importance of such pilgrimages for those with
the welfare of the British League of Nations at heart
has impressed me deeply, especially so during my stay
in the Mother Country.
Although the complete results of the recent Imperial Conference have
not been published, every one is, or ought to be, perfectly well aware that
the relations between the Dominions and the Mother Country are no
longer those of pre-War days. The children have come to man's estate,
and have been taken into partnership. And yet there still exists at
home an astonishing ignorance of the Dominions and their point of
view, which, if allowed to continue, may some day lead to serious trouble.
At least 75 per cent, of home-staying Britons still speak of the overseas
parts of the Empire as "the Colonies," and their inhabitants as
" Colonials," while the British newspapers, for the most part, are just
as bad.
Unhappily, the Empire no longer possesses a Cecil Rhodes. What
is sorely needed is a public-spirited man, or group of men, with the
The •' HoRTI-PlOUGH." [Photo: Da, !y Minor.
A new labour-saving device for digging which is more effective and speedy
than a spade. By means of the handle a wire cable is wound on a drum,
and the machine moves forward.
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Prison Island, Zanzibar. Mrs. McLachlan falling off a turtle, Judge Reed trying to save her.
Photo sent by Mrs. J. McLachlan, c/o National Bank of India, Zanzibar.
Malay Houses constructed of Trees and Branches tied together with Ratan Canes, and thatched
with Palm Leaves. The houses are built well above the ground for the sake of coolness and as a
protection from crocodiles. Photo sent by Mr. S. M. Fo.x, Byram Estates, Nebong Tebal, S.S.
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Rhodesian vision and the Rhodesian wealth, to endow the public schools
and universities of the homeland with a system of travelling scholarships,
enabling as many young men as possible, at the most receptive period of
their lives, to visit the distant parts of the Empire, and make themselves
acquainted on the spot with the many and various problems that each
nation of the Empire is confronted with. Having accomplished this good
deed he might usefully apply the system of travelling scholarships for
the benefit also of the young men of the overseas Dominions in order to
give them an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the thoughts,
aspirations and traditions of the Mother Country. Such an endowment
would be of the greatest possible benefit to the British League of Nations,
and could lead only to happy results.
To allow the existing mutual ignoiance and indifference to continue
is unjust and dangerous. If the Em.pire lacks a large-minded philan-
thropist wealthy and wise enough to launch such an undertaking, I
would commend the proposal to the serious consideration of the Over-
Seas Club which is doing great and beneficent work for the Empire in all
parts of the world. It would be " worth-while " work.
I will, moreover, back my opinion by willingly subscribing to any fund
started for the purpose of establishing such travelling scholarships pro-
vided that the organisation is in the hands of the Over-Seas Club. W.
Stuart Wilson, Inglewood Place, Wellington, New Zealand.
A SMOKELESS LONDON.~I joined at Mafeking a few years ago, and
now I am living at this address. In the July "Overseas" I was
interested in a note in My Monthly Letter, entitled a " Smokeless
London." Now I believe that I can do a lot of good to mitigate that
smoke nuisance. I have a patent, which was taken out by my father
in 1864, and was protected for fourteen years. It was called "Thomas
Loftus's Self-acting Smoke Consuming Apparatus," for attaching to
Lancashire and Cornish Boilers.
Instead of the foul smoke going up the chimney and contaminating
The Over-
seas Forum.
A snow-plough trying to force its way tlirough a snow-drift on the C.P.R.
at Schreiber, Northern Ontario, Canada. Photo sent by Mr. Charles
Haywood, Box 147, S.lirciber P.O., Ontario.
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The Over- the air, etc., it was burned in the furnace, thus being utiHsed and getting
seas Forum. more heat from the coal, being a benefit to coal consumers and a benefit
to the public at large. Will you please make it known, and if anybody
likes to take it up I am willing to correspond, and will make terms as
to its being used again in England.
The apparatus was fitted to a' large number of cotton mills and other
works in both Lancashire and Yorkshire, and in all cases proved entirely
satisfactory. Will you kindly pass this letter on to any public body, and
others, who are anxious to get clean and healthy towns. — J. Loftus,
6, Oak Terrace, Grahamstown, Cape Colony, South Africa.
AUTHOR OF "HOME, SWEET HOME." — How very many Britishers
sing " Home, Sweet Home," but know nothing of the author, of his
life and burial.
" Home, Sweet Home "was written by John Howard Payne, at Tunis,
where he was American Vice-Consul, but he had previously been a
dramatist and actor. In his play " Clari, the Maid of Milan, "the lyric
" Home, Sweet Home " is found. He died at Tunis and his body was
buried in the old British burial
ground, but it was exhumed and
transported to Washington, where it
was re-buried. Enclosed is a print
I have taken of the tombstone
which is still standing, and is visited
by very many American and British
tourists when in Tunis. I hope the
print and these few lines may be of
use to your most valuable, valued
and interesting journal, " Over-
seas. ' ' — Arthur V. Liley, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Over-Seas Club and
Patriotic League at Tunis, i. Rue
Sidi-Zahmoul, Tunis.
A LOYAL RHODESIAN.— Having
been a Rhodesian for twenty-one
years, I may be able to give you in-
formation that may be of use to
Members with an idea of turning
their eyes towards this outpost of
Empire. I shall always be delighted
to do this, for, though an Australian
born, I am a very loyal Rhodesian,
and a big believer that this country
has a great future, even a greater
one than our big Imperialist, Cecil
Rhodes, ever dreamed.
Our great need to-day is settlers,
and as soon as the question is
tackled in the manner warranted
by our resources, and facilities
offered to the right stamp of
Britishers, the country v/ill prove
itself. There is an undoubted
feeling of approaching manhood
present with us to-day, and, with
the prospects of becoming self-
governed, we are buoyantly
optimistic.
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Tombstone of John Howard Payne, author of
" Home, Sweet Home," in the old British
burial ground at Tunis. Photo sent by Mr.
A. V. Liley, i, Rue Sidi-Zahmoul, Tunis.
With best wishes for success in your great work, and assuring you The Over-
of my desire to assist where possible. — A. Tyas, P.O. Box 309, Salisbury, seas Forum.
South Rhodesia, South Africa.
SOME POSERS. — On behalf of others interested, I shall be very grateful
if you can, through the magazine, supply the following information :
Supposing I am born in Germany or Czecho-Slovakia, or Russia, or any
other European country, excepting Great Britain or its possessions, of
British parents, bred and born in England, according to British law I am
British.
Does it make any difference whether I was registered with the British
Consul in the country I was born in, or should parents register their
children with the British Consul whatever country they may be at the
time of the birth of their child ? This question often com.es up for dis-
cussion, but nobody seems to clear up the matter. No. 2 Problem :
Supposing a British subject in this country takes out his " first papers,"
i.e., intention to become a United States citizen, and after seven years
neglects to apply for his second or final papers with the oath of allegiance
to the United States, does he remain a British subject ? Supposing he
returns to England and does not apply for second papers here, can he
become a British subject again, or is he neither one nor the other ?
A case came under my
observation where a young
man sailed to England to join
the Navy, but as he had his
first papers out here, the British
would not take him. So he
went to the American Navy
recruiting offices, and they
would not have him because
he was not an American
citizen. But ultimately he did
manage to get in, but how I
have not learned yet.
I shall be glad, on behalf of
self and others, to know the
nationality law, as described. —
J. Cliff, 867, Beacon Street,
Boston, 17, Mass., U.S.A.
[Perhaps some correspondents
will write Mr. Cliff direct. 1
ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED
POLICE.- — The magazine more
than comes up to my anticipa-
tions, and, as you requested, it
will be passed on to my friends,
and I know it will be highly
appreciated, especially by mem-
bers of this detachment.
While speaking of this detach-
ment, it may be interesting to
know that the sergeant, who is
in charge, was once a Member
of the most northern post of the
Over-Seas Club, while he was Master A. B. Moore seated on the post which
stationed at the Fort McPherson marks the exact centre of the State of Queensland.
detachment o^ this Force, then ^j^j^ j^ situated in the grounds of the State
known as the R.N.W.M.P. ^^^^^^^ Blackall, Central Queensland. Photo sent
79 by Mr. A. B. Moore, H.C.S., Blackall, Queensland,
Australia.
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RSEAS
The Over- Fort McPherson, as you know, is in the Arctic circle. There were
seas Forum, five membeis of the Force there at the time. One, Sergeant FitzGerald,
has since been lost in a blizzard in that region while en route from
Dawson to Fort McPherson delivering the mail. The others are now
scattered over the north-west territories. — L. C. H. Martin, Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, Weyburn, Sask., Canada.
FROM NEW HEBRIDES. — Mr. King, our Resident Commissioner,
came in to our anchorage and offered to take any mail we had on to
Vila, where there might be a chance to get it away. I took the oppor-
tunity to send off my note to you, and hope that it will reach you safely. —
Rev. D. L. Paterson, Abnatari, Malo, New Hebrides.
Our cnrrespnndenVs letter took manv months to reach us.]
" AS LONG AS THINGS RUN SMOOTHLY. "--I fully realise what an
enormous undertaking running a world-wide concern must be. At the
same time it must give you a tremendous amount of pleasure and interest
as long as things run smoothly. — Miss E. A. Goodson, Hotel du Lac,
Vevey, Switzerland.
[Miss Goodson is quite right. Our work is wonderfully inspiring and,
after all, the unpleasant things, like when Members fail to renew their
subscriptions and drop out, act as a contrast to the year in, year out
splendid record of our world-wide membership. No words can express
what we feel about their loyalty and help.—E.W.]
A NOBLE WORK. I wish to
take this opportunity of saying
what a noble work the Club is
doing in the overseas parts of our
Empire in making Britishers
think of the interests of their
fellow - Britishers, whether
English, Irish, Indian, African,
or of any other race in the
Empire. — S. S. Spurling, St.
George, Bermuda, British West
Indies.
SOUTHERN PATAGONIA. ^ I
have been over thirty-five years
on this island and Southern
Patagonia without once going
to England, and in the old days
nearly the only Britisher, but
have always managed to hold
my own. — John Dicks, Porvenir,
Tierra del Fuego, Chile, South
America.
THINGS QUIET IN QUEENS-
LAND.— This town has a popu-
lation of about 18,000, and
another ; 10,000 in and around
the villages outside.
There is a depression just
now and considerable unem-
ployment, due to the want of
capital required to develop
this great State. — H. Beer,
Blackall Street, East Ipswich,
Queensland, Australia.
"The height of his ambition. A gull on the top
of a flagstaff. Photo sent by Mrs. A. Hodgins,
1471, Fairfield Road, Victoria, B.C., Canada.
MY MONTH S
READING
has
By A. St. John Adcock
UST as there are born orators, born poets, born
musicians, so there are born travellers, and Mr.
Frank Hedges Butler is one of these, and one of the
best of these, iov he has not only travelled under all
sorts of conditions in every available vehicle, but he
known how to write about his experiences in such fashion
My Month's
Reading.
that anybody who will may read his books and enjoy his journeys
with him. It is one thing to be a good traveller, and altogether
another thing to make a good book about your travels, and Mr.
Hedges Butler has made at least three, for " Fifty Years^of Travel
by Land, Water and Air " is the third of his that I have both read
and enjoyed. Most men when they sit down to write their recollec-
tions are ham.pered by the fact that, after a long and busy life,
they naturally forget more than they remember, but Mr. Butler
is one of the wise who insure themselves against that by keeping
diaries, and you may gather from his latest book how invaluable
that practice has been to him.
As an author, he owes something to that habit of keeping
diaries ; as a traveller, he owes something to the circumstance
that his reading in boyhood about the travels of great explorers
gave him a desire to see as much as possible of so wonderful a
world ; but the second paragraph of his book indicates that his
wanderlust did not result entirely from his early reading : —
"This desire to make journeys was really an inherited instinct.
My mother before her marriage travelled extensively with her father,
William Hedges. There were no guide-books in those days, but they
kept diaries of the tours they made, and these were passed round the
family to be read. The Grand Tour in the early part of the nineteenth
century was to France and Italy. Journeys were made by post-chaise,
and travellers, who were accompanied by a courier, insured their lives
and valuables against attack by brigands and highwaymen in Italy.
It is to my father that I owe my own habit of keeping diaries. Whenever
I went for a holiday it was expected of me that I should write an account
daily of places visited and things seen. Because of this practice I can now
recall that in my boyhood luggage was carried on the top of railway
carriages, and that to get to Ilfracombe one had to finish the journey
from Barnstaple by stage coach."
As his mother, till her marriage, travelled much with her father,
so you will find from this book that, till her marriage, Mr. Hedges
Butler's daughter, Vera, travelled much with him, and though the
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OVERSEA
My Month's chaise may have served him at first in his overland journeyings,
Reading. j^e discarded it for the motor car when the car was still in its experi-
mental stages, and took to travel by air as soon as that became
practicable. You trace the virtue of his diaries in the accounts
of his visits in the seventies and early eighties to the West Indies,
South America, France, Spain, Portugal, Palestine, India, Ceylon,
and later to Morocco, Lapland and East Africa. Without diaries
one doubts whether he could have given all manner of vivid little
touches that put so much colour and life into his record. There
is that graphic description of the araguato, or howling monkey,
seen in Bolivar, for instance — a description so exact that an
artist could re-draw the strange creature from it. There is the
curious story of his search for and discovery in Ceylon " of the
real wild men, the Veddahs, perhaps the lowest type of human
beings in the world " ; and, to say nothing of others, the passing
sketch of a visit to the monastery at Cartuja.
A very interesting and amusing chapter on the early days of
motoring will awaken recollections in many who are even less
than middle-aged.
" Now that the fortunate owner of a Rolls-Royce can have breakfast
in London, make concessions in speed in the neighbourhood of suspected
police traps, and arrive by road at Bournemouth in good time for lunch,
the comedy and tragedy of the early days of motoring seem far away.
As a pioneer among motor enthusiasts, I have myself vivid recollections
of the troubled birth and slow development of a form of transport which
has now become universal. It was in 1896 that I had my first experience
with a car. This was a great year for the bicycle, and I remember that
in the mornings and afternoons the road on the north side of the Serpen-
tine in Hyde Park was a rendezvous of those who had taken up cycling
as a pastime and form of exercise. Cyclists also delighted in the afternoon
to pedal their machines round Battersea Park. With my daughter,
Vera, who was then at school in Paris, I made a cycle tour in 1896 from
Aix-les-Bains to Geneva."
In Paris he experimented with the Peugeot car, which had its
engine at the back, and visited the Automobile Exhibition orga-
nised by the Automobile Club of France, where " no English cars
were shown, as the Act in England had not then been passed to
allow horseless carriages on the road without a man walking in
front carrying a red flag."
" My own first car, which came into my possession in 1897, was a
Benz, from Mannheim, described on the invoice as a motor velocipede,
price £120. I bought it from Mr. Harry Hewetson. The early days of
this extraordinary horseless vehicle puzzled me and every one else. To
get it started was a work of art. A wheel at the back of the car had to
be turned ; sometimes one forgot to turn on the petrol or the electricity,
or the carburetter became flooded. When the car did start, one felt
quite astonished, and half expected the engine or something to explode.
Engineers with many letters after their names looked upon motor cars
as impossible and a sort of toy, although the gas engine was nothing new,
(Continued on page 87.)
The Month's Cartoons
Looks as though They would
NEVER DO Team Work.
Reid, in the Evening Mail
(New York). '
Will She ever Make it?
Hungerford, in the Sun (Pittsburgh).
I'LL BE DrVO.^CEO
:INlinZLY, I k-.ANT ,
THE CUSTODY CiF (
i T'<e Child, AnD I
V/ANT ME (V.OEN
NAME RESTO»rD'
She wants an Absolute
Divorce.
Knox, in the News (Galveston).
An .American Point of View.
sa
The Month's Cartoons
Unanimous.
Japan: "My intentions, I as-
sure you, are entirely Pacific! "
Uncle Sam : " Sure — so are
mine ! "
John Bull : " Same here ! "
Chcnev, in the Passuip Show
o
(London).
He needs a disarmament
trimming — but who will begin
it, and where .'
From the News-Tiihtiiic
(Tacoma, W.ash., U.S.A.).
The " Front " in the Next War.
Harding, in the Eagle (Brooklyn,
U.S.A.).
The Day of Emancipation
MUST Come.
Knott, in the News (Dallas,
U.S.A.).
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The Month's Cartoons
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2?
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i
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^"^***^
Sandy McTavish finds a Place to Practise.
From Life (New York).
This cartoon will appeal to our Scottish Members — a mere Saxon suggests that
it will appeal even more to the unfortunate mortals who happened to be born
south of the Tweed!
85
The Month's Cartoons
" Please send me a gallon of ice cream an' five pounds of choc'lit an'
two dozen cream puffs an' a box of^honey, an' I want them delivered in time
for breakfast." ' - - - ^.^^ ^^^ York).
..I 'i.-^- L"? "/a.M iX^. -^ j\
Teacher: "Now tell mc, Willie, where do naughty boys go who don't go to
church on Sunday ? "
Willie : " Fishin' ! " S. DelevantCj in Wayside Tales (Chicago).
86
(Continued from pa^e 82.)
and the whole idea, including electric ignition, was foreshadowed in the My Month's
1 851 Exhibition in an invention shown by a Frenchman, M. Lenoir, Reading,
whose patents could later be bought for threepence at the Patent Office."
The chapter goes on to tell of the difficulty of climbing hills in
those noisy, primitive cars ; the terror their passing inspired in
horses and countryfolk ; the frequent breakdowns, and the pro-
vision that had to be made in anticipation of these ; and it is all
good reading and an excellent history of how the car grew out of
its infancy, improved, and rose into popularity.
During the War, Mr. Hedges Butler made a good many business
visits to France, especially to Reims, and the varied tale of his
war-time experiences among the indomitable soldiers and civilians
of our Ally, sometimes under fire exploring the trenches, sometimes
in strange subterranean places of refuge when the scattered towns
were enduring bombardment, gives his book some of its most
poignant and fascinating pages. He is a shrewd observer, and has
a wonderful eye for the small events that count so effectively in the
finished picture, as where he says that when he was in Coblenz just
after the Armistice he found the French hatred of the Germans much
more pronounced than that of our troops, and adds, ' ' Frenchmen, of
course, have cause for their bitterness, but beyond this, the British
temperament is different from that of our Gallic friends. I met one of
our Tommies with two little German children clinging to his hands."
I had thought to quote several things from the chapter on " My
Hundred Balloon Ascents," and from the chapter following,
" Airships and Aeroplane Flights," the fine appreciation of the
Wilbur Wrights and their work, but I have no more room. It is
a delightful book, written with vivacity and charm, and as full of
information as of entertainment. Mr. Hedges Butler is a true-blue
Cockney, born within sound of Bow Bells, and as a pioneer of
motoring, the founder of the Royal Aero Club, as one who has
done great service in the cause of ballooning and air-flight in
general, and is the author of some of the best travel-books of our
generation, his name will be added to that list of notable Londoners
who, born for the universe, have not narrowed their minds and
given up to one city the enthusiasms that were meant for mankind.
SOME BOOKS OF THE MONTH.— General Literature : " Fifty Years
of Travel by Land, Water and Air," by Frank Hedges Butler, F.R.G.S.
Illustrated. 21s. (Fisher Unwin.) " From Private to Field-Marshal,"
by Field-Marshal Sir William Robertson. 21s. (Constable.) "Elizabeth
Inchbald and Her Circle," by S. R. Littlewood. los. 6d. (Daniel
O'Connor.) " Penny Royal." Essays, by J. B. Morton. 6s. 6d. (Philip
Allan.) "My Life of Song," by Madame Tetrazzini. 21s. (Cassell.)
" Last Studies in Criminology," by H. B. Irving. 15s. (CoUins.)
Fiction : " If Winter Comes," by A. S. M. Hutchinson. 7s. 6d. (Hodder.)
" One Woman," by Alfred Ollivant. 8s. 6d. (Allen & Unwin.) "The
Heart of the Desert," by Honore Willsie, 8s. (Thornton Butterworth.)
" The Secret Victory," by Stephen McKenna. 8s. 6d. (Hutchinson.)
87
News from
Head-
quarters.
^_^;^ V^i^^ S\' . \ ;".u 1 1 '», i.K^, ^y--^
-^nmm
"Overseas" Editorial Rooms,
London.
UR CHARTER. I have been so busy in connection
with out purchase of Vernon House that I don't seem
to have very much fresh news to tell you about our
movement as a whole except that our petition for the
granting of a Royal Charter has been forwarded to the
Privy Council, and we hope to be able to report progress before long.
WILL 1922 BE OUR BANNER YEAR ?— Our new membership
this year is not quite as good as I had hoped, the actual total
enrolled being so far 6,225. But let us forget about past events
and make up our minds that we are going to celebrate 1922, the
year in which we take possession of our new home, by making it our
banner year. I hope that every single reader of " Overseas " v/ill
lend a hand in the task of doubling our membership. We must
not rest content till we have turned our present membership into
50,000.
OUR RELATIONS WITH THE " LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE."—
After a very pleasant association of several years with the League
of the Empire, which, as you know, especially concentrates its
energies on educational work, we have decided that it is in the best
interests of both societies to continue their work as independent
organisations. I should like to take this opportunity of once more
wishing Mrs. Ord Marshall, C.B.E., the Hon. Secretary, and her
co-workers the very best of luck in their splendid efforts for pro-
moting Imperial unity through the schools and universities.
OUR DEBT. — Our debt is now £23,000. Please remember that
every pound contributed means money saved in the interest paid to
our bankers for the loan. I know we can rely on every Member
to help us to the best of his ability, and we should like every branch
to arrange some function this winter in aid of our War Memorial
Fund so that we may soon reach the £50,000 mark.
THE OVERSEAS TRADE BUREAU.— All the financial big-wigs
and leading politicians nowadays seem to be convinced that the
only way to bring back true prosperity and increase employment is
to stimulate our export trade.
Without blowing our own trumpet too loudly, this is just what
we have been doing through the Overseas Trade Bureau for the past
five years ! More and more are our Members and those engaged
in industry overseas realising what a service we are rendering to
British importers and exporters by means of our Bureau.
88
OVERSEAS
This month you will notice an interesting Hst of some of the
commercial enquiries we have received. Please remember that no
trade enquiry is too small to receive attention. Nearly every
reader of " Overseas " can help in Empire trade.
OUR ADVERTISERS.- Please don't forget that you can always
do us a good turn by writing to our advertisers and mentioning
" Overseas." As our advertising increases we are enabled to
improve and add to the contents of our magazine.
GETTING READY AT VERNON HOUSE. Now that we have
actually acquired possession of Vernon House, Park Place, St.
James's, S.W., we are hard at work making our plans for its occu-
pation at the earliest possible moment as the future London premises
of the Over-Seas Club and the headquarters of our world-wide
activities.
Those of you who are householders will realise what a big task
it is planning out all the details of our future home, and making the
best possible use of the space available.
The photograph appearing on page 44 shows the gates by which
one drives into the courtyard of Vernon House, together with the
actual building, approaching it from St. James's Street through
Park Place, but this photograph does not give an adequate idea of
the size of the building, which runs right through to the Green Park.
We are all looking forward tremendously to our big move, which
we expect will take place this side of Christmas. The fact that
Vernon House has been acquired by the Over-Seas Club and Patriotic
League has created quite a stir, and we are receiving as a consequence
a considerable amount of free newspaper publicity. People who
never took the Over-Seas Club very seriously before are surprised
at the thought that after art existence of only eleven years we should
be in a position to acquire one of London's most charming residences
in the very heart of the most exclusive part of Clubland.
I want every reader of " Overseas " to help me during the next
couple of years to put our society in an unassailable position, and
the two things we require to do are (i) to double our existing
membership, and (2) to pay off our debt of £23,000 to our bankers,
so that we can feel that Vernon House and the plot of old London
on which it is built belong to us for all time absolutely debt free.
Will every reader of " Overseas " who is prepared to help me to
clear off our debt let me know what sum he will make himself
responsible for ? All we require is two hundred friends who will
provide themselves or collect £100 — surely not a very big task.
As soon as we have settled all the necessary details entailed in
removing and reconstruction, and such matters as the lighting and
heating, I hope with your assistance to tackle the wiping-off of our
debt in real earnest.
All donations towards the clearing off of our debt will be acknow-
ledged in " Overseas."
^9
News from
Head-
quarters.
OVERSEAS
News from OUR TORONTO BRANCH. —We have had some deHghtfully en-
Head- couraging letters from Toronto, where O.S. affairs had been Ian-
quarters, guishing for a long time. Our former H.C.S., Mr. T. B. Gleave,
has been obliged to relinquish his duties owing to the fact that he
is so often out of the city. But he is very kindly co-operating with
our new H.C.S., Mr. B. V. Atkinson, c/o Messrs. Price, Waterhouse
& Co., 802, Royal Bank Building, who is getting into touch with
those Members who are anxious to put Toronto on the O.S. map.
We hope all our friends in Toronto will make a point of getting
into touch with Mr. Atkinson — we believe there are great possi-
bilities before our movement in that city.
Now that the prospects of getting the O.S. cause going again
in Toronto seem so good, we should like to take this opportunity
of thanking all those kind friends who have helped in the past,
including Mr. Fane Sewell, Mr. T. B. Gleave and the others.
O.S. DEBATING SOCIETY.— The Over-Seas Debating Society has
recommenced its activities at Headquarters, and meetings are being
held on alternate Tuesdays at 7.0 p.m.
Any Member who desires to attend debates is requested to
forward name and address to Mr. D. W. Caddick, c/o Over-Seas
Club, enclosing 2d. to cover postage. E. W.
OUR ROLL OF HONOUR.
[Here is the O.S. Roll of Honour this month, containing the names of a
number of those kind friends who have rendered conspicuous service to
our cause. Is your town on the list }}
LEVUKA, FIJI. — Twenty new Members and renewals from the Levuka
Branch per Mr. R. W. Robinson, the Hon. Treasurer. Our Members
at Suva, Fiji, celebrated Empire Day in good style.
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, U.S.A.— Six more new Members from our
Hon. Corresponding Secretary, Mr. B. L. Twinn, five of whom were
obtained through the efforts of Mr. Jameson, of 1515, Highland Avenue,
to whom we are very grateful. Mr. Twinn writes that our local Members
are aiming at a total of 100, and are hoping to get Club premises later on.
DAIREN, MANCHURIA.— We were delighted to hear from a very old
friend in the person of Mr. F. C. Bardens, Hon. Secretary of our Dairen
Branch, who forwarded nine renewals and six new Members. It is very
gratifying when old friends prove by their acts that their interest for our
cause does not wane.
GIBRALTAR. — Several new Members from our good friend, Mr. W. H.
Hoare, our Hon. Corresponding Secretary of Gibraltar. Mr. Hoare is
holiday-making in the South of Spain, and we wish him a very pleasant
time.
MULMEIN, BURMA. — A steady flow of new Members comes from our
Hon. Corresponding Secretary, Mr. C. W. Law.
MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA, SOUTH AMERICA.— Several Members
forwarded by H.B.M. Vice-Consul, Mr. J. Robertson.
MACKAY, NORTH QUEENSLAND.— Four more Members from Mrs.
E. M. Innes, of Pratpino, Alligator Creek, together with some delightful
photographs, which we hope to publish.
BAHIA BLANCA, ARGENTINE.— It is the exception rather than the
rule to miss Mr. F. B. Tregarthen's hand-writing in our South American
mail. He never misses an opportunity of sending along new Members.
Members can have one free insertion in our Members' Exchange
pages each year.
DDRESSES CHANGED— Julius Kramer, Poste Restante, Members'
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. — " As I am leav- Exchange.
ing the country temporarily and do not know when I will
return, I shall be pleased if you insert a notice to the effect
that my address will be as above. I am leaving for a holi-
day and expect to be away some time. I shall also be
pleased to receive correspondence with a view to obtaining and exchang-
ing stamps, snaps and interesting literature."
Frank J. Phillips, 4616^, Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.A.
- — " Would you please draw attention to my change of address in the
magazine ? "
D. Macmillan, Keetmanshoop, South West Africa. — " Will you men-
tion in the ' Overseas ' that I have now removed from Engcobo, Tembu-
land, to the above address ? "
C. R. Haines, Pacific Cable Board, Norfolk Island, via Sydney, N.S.W.
— " Will you kindly have my change of address recorded at Head Office
and instruct that future copies of ' Overseas,' etc., are to be sent to rny
new address, which is given above ? I shall also feel grateful if you will
kindly mention the change in ' Overseas ' when space permits."
BACK NUMBERS OF " OVERSEAS." —E. K. Waldock, c/o The
Over-Seas Club, would like to receive the back numbers of " Over-
seas," Nos. I to 5 and November, 1917, and June, 1918.
BOOK WANTED. — H. W. Martin, P.O. Box 1071, Ocean Beach, San
Diego, Calif., U.S.A. — " I am very anxious to obtain copy of book
written in prose by a dear pal of mine, C. C. Crowther, who died years ago
when serving in the Burma Imperial Police. The title of this book was
" The Last Christian," and it was published, I believe, either in Bath or
Dover. He gave me an autographed copy, but I lent it, with the usual
result : it was never returned. Could any brother Member kindly help
me in the matter? "
CORRESPONDENCE REQUIRED. Miss E. T., c/o Over-Seas Club,
General Buildings, Aldwych, W.C. 2, would be glad to correspond
and exchange stamps with Members.
Miss B. Nankivell, St. George's Lodge, Museum Street, Perth, Western
Australia. — " I would very much like to correspond with fellow-
Members."
Miss R. Pohl, Atholdeni, P.O. Sydenham, Durban, Natal, South Africa.
— " I would like to correspond with either a lady or gentleman from
either England, Australia or America, being interested in these coun-
tries."
W. Sturgess, Laurengo Marques, Box 358, Portuguese East Africa. —
" I should like to correspond with Members."
F. E. Alderman, Northampton, W. Australia. — " I was enrolled last
year by the Rev. G. P. Stubbs of this place. I should like to correspond
with the opposite sex in England if you happen to know of any one willing
to do so. Occupation, accountant. Born Nottingham. Religion, Angli-
can. Single."
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OVERSEAS
Members' The Misses Florrie and Ruth Pearse, " Landew," Temuka, S. Canter-
Exchange bury, New Zealand, would be pleased to hear from Members in all parts
of the world. " We just pine for correspondents, especially ones who like
bright and cheery letters. Hobbies, outdoor sports, music and photo-
graphy."
" 0. E.," c/o Over-Seas Club. " Young Englishman (20) would like
to correspond with Members (either sex) in all parts of the world
except B.W.I. — particularly those residing in oil countries, Canada and
Australia."
P. S., c/o " Overseas." — -'A young Overseas Member (21), resident
master at a school in Eastbourne, wishes to make the acquaintance of
any fellow-Members in or near Eastbourne."
M. K. Chelliah, The Nordanal Rubber Estates, Ltd., Muar, Johore,
Malaya. — "I invite all Members in the universe to write me. I also
exchange postage stamps, picture postcards from all parts of the world.
Answers guaranteed by return mail, and there will be no disappoint-
ment."
W. R. Jones, Box 22, Auburn, South Australia, would be pleased to
correspond with a few Members interested in country life.
STAMP EXCHANGE.— Albert V. Coates, Ituzaingo, 1459, Monte-
video, Uruguay, wishes to exchange stamps with Members interested
in stamp collecting.
S. E. Ridge, River Zander End, Cape Province, South Africa. — " I
should like to exchange stamps with Members all over the world in return
for colonial and foreign stamps."
Stamps for Sale. Selections on approval to responsible collectors at
not more than half catalogue price. Ten per cent, of all sales is devoted
to Overseas War Memorial Fund. Write, stating countries interested in
to C. F. Beck, P.O. Box 44, Premier Mine, Transvaal, South Africa.
Walter Sheppard, 15, Hilda Street, Hull.—" I would be glad to exchange
stamps with Members anywhere."
Jack Conway, 1234, S. Peach Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. " I
wish to exchange with Members in all countries, Canada and Newfound-
land included. I will send stamps, postals, or, if desired, back numbers
of the magazine. As I am only a new enthusiast many collectors who
have duplicates can help me greatly."
W. M. Gerrard, c/o Messrs. Steel Bros. & Co., Ltd., Bassein, Burma.
" It is only after reading the last ' Overseas ' magazine that it has struck
me how keen Members are on stamps, and to make it more interesting I
have just received a letter from the school where my boy is at home
saying, ' I have thirty-four stamps, daddy.' Now most of the corre-
spondents say they will exchange stamps for stamps received. I am
afraid I cannot do this, as I am not a collector. I can of course recipro-
cate in other ways.
" I will always be a keen Member of the O.S. Club, not for what I can
get out of it but for what I can put into it, as every ounce of energy applied
to this Club is for the Empire and the old country."
J. Cobbold, Paso de Los Toros, F.C.C. del U., Republic of Uruguay,
South America, would like to exchange stamps from Uruguay and Brazil
for those of any part of the world, excluding Central Europe.
Alfred H. W. Brazier, The Tea Gardens, Galleywood, Chelmsford,
Essex, would be glad to receive foreign stamps from Members, as durmg
War service (Navy) collection has been neglected. Will forward value
of stamps received to Memorial Fund.
'T. H. Newey, Posts and Telegraphs, Daressalaam, Tanganyika Terri-
tory, East Africa.—" I am desirous of changing stamps from these parts
OVERSEAS
for those of all foreign countries or colonies, India and South Africa only Members'
excepted." Exchange.
J. H. Hook c/o Singer Sewing Machine Co., P.O. Box 512, Singapore,
S.S. — " I would like to get into touch with stamp collectors, with whom
I would exchange stamps of the Dutch East Indies, Straits Settlements,
Federated Malay States, and Unfederated Malay States."
Donald F. Smith, c/o Bank of British West Africa, Ltd., Warri, Nigeria,
W.C. Africa. — "I noted Mr. Boulton's remark in April 'Overseas' to
the effect that he has had forty-nine replies. In three months I have had
fifty-one (advertisement in February number), and they are still rolling
in. Can any one beat that ? I am endeavouring to reply to all in due
course. This shows what a wide circulation the magazine must have and
the interest overseas folk take in it."
Miss C. Cheyne Brady, Pavilion de 1 'Olivine, Rue Titien, Cannes,
France, would like to hear from Lieut. A. Grey, late of Demobilisation
Camp, Kantara, Egypt, and also from Sig. V. de Augels, of Malta.
FARMING.— W. M. Squire, c/o Messrs. W. M. Strachan & Co., Ltd.,
P.O. Box 296, Yokohama, Japan. — ' ' I would like to be put into touch
with a Member of the Over-Seas Club, well established at farming in either
New Zealand or British Columbia, with a view to sending out to him my
two boys at present at school in England. My idea is to send them out
in order to get a good grounding in farming, and, while doing so, to make
themselves useful and to a certain extent pay for their keep. Later on
it is my intention to join them and start a small farm of our own. The
boys are hefty youngsters, and are both very keen at present on the idea.
Their ages are 15 and 14 respectively, and the younger of the two is
already 5 ft. 7 in. I would much like to be put into communication with
any one interested and take up the matter of terms, etc., with him."
A gentleman (widower), with two sons aged 17 and 12, latter still at
school, is anxious for information regarding prospects of ranching or
farming in Western Canada, capital necessary for starting on m.oderate
scale, or possibilities of a partnership in an established concern. Replies
in first instance to Caixa Postal 1251, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
British Columbia, c/o Overseas, General Buildings, Aldwych, W.C. 2. — ■
" I contemplate going to British Columbia very soon to engage in mixed
farming in one of the well-settled districts.
" I am an experienced farmer, and know Canada well. Am an ex-
officer, married, and would like to hear of another with some capital to
come as partner, or come out with object similar to mine, and settle as a
neighbour for mutual benefi.t."
FARMS FOR SALE. — Gentleman at present abroad hoping to return
to England in about a year would like to hear of fruit farm for sale
on easy terms or partnership. References can be given, and in the case
of a partnership would be expected. — H. S. C. P., c/o " Overseas."
For sale in British Columbia. Creston, West Kootenay, B.C. — Fruit
and Dairy Ranch of 25 acres and 250 acres of mountain and timber land,
with complete outfit for carrying on. Ranch contains two cottages,
stables, haybarns, packing and storage sheds. Twelve acres of meadow
and pasture ; 15 acres orchard just coming into bearing, planted with
best varieties, about 1,200 apple trees, 500 pear trees, cherries and
apricots. A wooded bluff of six acres, ideal site for house, one mile from
town, church, banks, P.O., C.P.R. station. Climate and land produce
fruit of first quality and colour. No extreme cold. Summers of con-
tinual sunshine. No noxious pests, no codling moth, canker, fireblight,
or woolly aphixes. Market close at hand ; excellent shipping organisa-
tion. Is delightfully situated, fine view and aspect. Valuable water
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OVERSEAS
Members* rights and piped supply. Valuable and practically free grazing and hay-
Exchange, ing rights close by. Some of the best fishing and shooting. Owner
retiring on account of age. Particulars can be obtained from Mr. H.
Green, 93, Forest Hill Road, Torquay, Devon.
LOST TRAILS.^S. J. Woodhouse, c/o West African Lighterage &
Transport Co., Ltd., Accra, Gold Coast, W. Africa. — " I should like
to get in touch with a Member residing in Los Angeles, California, with a
view of obtaining information of that particular State, and particularly to
find out if there is any means of obtaining my brother's address, who I
know resides in that town, but unfortunately we cannot get into communi-
cation with each other."
Joseph Vella, 84k, Via Curmi, Hamrun, Malta. — " I wonder if I can
get into touch with people through the magazine who can claim that
they are descendants in direct line from Giuseppe Saxo and Teresa Cowin ?
It is known that in the year 1760 they lived in Sardegna and that they
had a son named Antonio Saxo-Cowin, who was married in Malta in the
year 1773."
LONELINESS. V. L. Bauer, Sitebe Station, P.O. Clarkebury,
Transkei, South Africa. — " I should like to correspond with Mem-
bers in England, as this is a very lonely place."
Mrs. M. Garratt, c/o Don Eduardo Aparicio, Guatemala City, Central
America. — " There is only one other Member here in Guatemala City I
believe — Mrs. Mullins — and as I feel very lonely, I should be so glad if
you would kindly ask some Members to write to me. I should be happy
to send photographs also from Guatemala."
PAPERS EXCHANGED.— J. Bland, Hotel Marly, 3rd Street, San
Francisco, Calif., U.S.A., would be glad to receive newspapers from
any part of the world, i.e., those printed in English, and would send
P.P.C.'s in return."
A. S. V. Tebbitt, Messrs. Kirby, Beard & Co., Ltd., 5, Rue Auber, Paris,
France. -" Will a Member send me weekly Illustrated London News or
Graphic in exchange for Monde Illustre? "
POSTCARDS EXCHANGED.— George C. Phelps, 493, Talbot Avenue,
Boston 24, Mass., U.S.A., would like to receive good picture cards,
or small photographs of interesting parish churches, exterior or interior.
Will reciprocate with similar cards or photos of his own beautiful church,
or others that may be desired."
W. A. Roberts, c/o General Manager's Office, Palestine Railways,
Haifa, Palestine. — " I am desirous of forming a few letter friendships
here and there over the world. I should be delighted to exchange post-
cards or current postage stamps in sets. A hobby of mine, too, is the
collecting of newspapers, and if any ' Overseas ' reader would be good
enough to send me one or two, any date, any issue, any language, I should
acknowledge receipt of same with pleasure and thanks, and in return
satisfy any little wish the sender might care to ask of me."
PROSPECTS OVERSEAS. -A. Fisher, c/o Messrs. J. Holt & Co.
(Liverpool), Ltd., Onitsha, River Niger, S. Nigeria, W. Africa. — " If
any one wishes to know of this part of West Coast I should only be too
pleased to give them any information."
SHEEP AND CATTLE FARMING.— Norris Russell, i, Madeira
Road, Napier, New Zealand. — " I am desirous of corresponding with
Members in different parts of the world. Would also be willing to give
any information within my power pertaining to sheep and cattle farming,
being associated with the same for the last ten years."
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The object of the Overseas Trade Bureau is to develop British Empire
Trade. The free service of this Department is at the disposal of Members,
and genuine trade enquiries are welcomed. A number of the enquiries
dealt with during the past month are printed below. Members
wishing to avail themselves of the service of the Bureau should send
their enquiries to The Overseas Trade Bureau, General Buildings,
Aldwych, London, W.C. 2.
RITISH TRADE IN BURMA.- As the O.S. Magazine
devotes considerable space to promoting trade interests
within the British Empire, observations made by me, a
commercial man continually travelling, may be of interest
to your readers. During my travels I meet a good many
other business men and I make a point of obtaining all the
information I can on this matter. For example, I was travelling a few
weeks ago with an engineer who informed me that he was going up
country to help to erect a big plant at some large mines ; the plant has
cost many hundreds of thousands of pounds. I asked where the plant
came from, and he told me U.S.A.
Again, a big oil company has been putting from twelve to fifteen miles
of large diameter pipe-line down ; I inquired where the pipes came from,
and was informed U.S.A.
There are many hundreds of motor cars in Rangoon and I doubt if
more than one in thirty is of British make — nearly all from U.S.A.
The Burmese and Indians are very fond of clocks and watches, but I
do not see any English makes, all U.S.A. and Swiss. Much tinned and
bottled provisions come from U.S.A. now. The other day I was shown a
catalogue of German bicycles costing from £5 to £j home price, whereas
a British-made bicycle costs out here £17 to ;£22 and even more.
Lamps and lanterns are sold out here in huge quantities, almost all
made in U.S.A. I often go in the bazaars, and if there are any British-
made goods there I cannot find them except cotton and woollen goods ;
but now there has been a great revival of the home weaving industry, and
in the houses the people are buying hand-looms as fast as they can be
made, and they are weaving cotton goods with the express purpose of
cutting out the British-made article. Yesterday I went to see a new
hand-loom invented by a Burman. It can weave material, I should say,
three times as fast as the old style of Burmese loom. He told me he had
already sold twenty at R220 each.
Big companies who had their registered offices in Britain have now
been converted into Indian companies with their registered offices out
here : this, I think, to save the heavy British income tax.
Large iron and steel works in India are making extensions to
enable them to supply the railway material for Indian railways, now
being supplied from England. Also a big oil company is arranging for a
tin-plate plant to be erected in India. Tin plate is very largely used out
East. The Burmese will not believe me when I tell them that if they
send their sons to England they can study engineering, they think it
necessary to send their sons to America for an engineering course. The
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Overseas
Trade
Bureau.
Overseas impression is that it is only necessary to send students to England if they
Trade want to become barristers-at-law.
Bureau* They say the British Government is fine. Quite true, and we
are paying for the administration of a country for the benefit of other
countries to trade in. I should like to point out that at the present time
the fates of nations are moving at a very rapid pace, and that if action is
not taken at once it will soon be too late, and what is happening in
Burma is also taking place in India and Africa. Can England afford to
lose the markets of India and Africa, with nearly one-third of the
population of this earth ? The British Empire has been built up on her
foreign trade : when this is lost the Empire must take a back seat.
Those who travel abroad seem to get a better " bird's-eye " view of the
situation than those who stay at home. Before the War British
prestige was being undermined by the German missions. Exactly
similar things are taking place now. In spite of past experience we still
go on, wilfully blind.
TRAVELLER.
AIRCRAFT. — " I would be pleased if you would inform me for a friend,
who was a pilot in the Air Services, how he could obtain an aeroplane for
training purposes, etc. The Government are doing a little here, but it is
very little." — Enquiry 2080, New Zealand.
WHOLESALE GROCERIES. —" Wanted to hear of wholesale dealers in
Australia willing to supply small business in Ceylon with all groceries, in-
cluding bacon, ham, and cheese." — Enquiry 2081, Ceylon.
AGENCIES WANTED. — " I am desirous of obtaining agencies of any
kind and willing to accept good paying commission and salary concerns.
No reasonable offer refused." — Enquiry 2082, Durham.
PATENTS. — " I have been looking in vain for an advertisement I used
to see in the home papers, namely, that of a firm who assists those wish-
ing to take out patents. It is very difficult to do from this remote corner
and I shall be exceedingly grateful if you can assist me. I have an idea
which I believe would be a success and would pay very well if put in
proper hands. Can you give me the address of an honest firm who do
this sort of business ? " — Enquiry 2083, China.
SUN RESISTA FABRICS. —" I should be obliged if you will put me in
touch with a firm from whom I could purchase fabrics suitable for cur-
tains and house furnishing, washable, and that will stand the tropical
sun. I should be grateful for patterns and prices." — Enquiry 2084,
Trinidad.
SAMPLE OF ROCK. -" I would be glad to get into touch with a com-
petent person who could give me his opinion on the samples of rock I am
posting to you. I am under the impression this rock can yield Portland
cement." — Enquiry 2085, Madagascar.
TOOL HOLDER. — " In a recent issue of ' Overseas ' I notice an enquiry
by a Member who might be interested in a new design of duplex tool
holder I have brought out. I am already considerably indebted to
your Trade Bureau and should be glad to extend the sales of this holder.
I forward you two sample tool holders, the price, with cutters f in.
square, being 22s. each. A liberal discount will be allowed any firm
recommended by you, able to dispose of a satisfactory number, or, alter-
natively, I would dispose of the patents on a royalty basis. The holders
are manufactured by a well-known firm of London, the cutters set
locally. Patents have also been obtained in Canada and the U.S.A." — •
Enquiry 2086, Liverpool.
OLD COINS.- — " I have in my possession a silver penny halfpenny piece ;
the date is almost invisible but appears to be 1804 ; also one Georgius III.
half-crown piece dated 1817, and one Georgius III. sixpenny piece dated
no
i8i7- I would be much obliged if you would let me know their value as
old coins."- — Enquiry 2087, British West Indies.
[The coins in question are worth no more than the metal which they
contain unless they are in absolutely unworn condition, as issued from
the Mint, in which case they might command a very small premium.]
ORANGES. — " I should be pleased if you would kindly assist me to get
in touch with firms in England desirous of opening up in this country ;
also firms wishing to buy oranges during the coming season. At present
I do business in all the principal towns in Palestine." — Enquiry 2088,
Haifa, Palestine.
SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE.— " Member owning coal property in Trans-
vaal wishes to get in touch with manufacturers willing to start works of
any kind where cheap coal (excellent steam coal) and cheap unskilled
labour are available. Site sufficient for erection of factory would be
given free, and additional ground required could be purchased or leased,
and contract for supply of coal entered into. Raw materials available :
wool, skins, and hides, maize, wattle bark, etc., in immediate vicinity.
Cotton, asbestos, near. Union Government sympathetic to the intro-
duction of new industries." — Enquiry 2089, Transvaal, S. Africa.
MINIATURE WAR MEDALS.—" Would you put m.e in touch with a
firm of makers of miniature war medals. I require the following and
shall be glad if some firm would send me a quotation : S. Africa, 1899 -
1902 (King's and Queen's Medals) : Coronation (Edward), bronze ; Coro-
nation (George), silver ; 1914 — 5 Star ; Victory Medal ; General Ser-
vice Medal — these three Great V/ar." — Enquiry 2090, S. Africa.
TORTOISE-SHELL.—" I would be much obliged if you could supply me
with some information on the question of tortoise-shell. I have some
very nice shell that I got locally in this colony, and desire to have it made
up at home into ladies' hair brushes, looking glasses, etc. Could you put
me in communication with a good house that would do the work ? Prior
to forwarding the shell I would like to have approximate price fixed for
the making of the several articles." — Enquiry 2091, Seychelles.
ENGINEERS. — " I have been approached by two young Englishmen,
both of whom hold Spanish titles as electrical engineers and are employed
by a large company out here, for information as to how they can become
members or associates of the Association of Mechanical or Electrical
Engineers. Could you let me have the required information ? " — ■
Enquiry 2092, Spain.
ARGENTINE. — " I am anxious to take up a few good agencies in any
commodity for the Argentine. I am well acquainted with trade condi-
tions in this part." — Enquiry 2093, London, W.C.
BADGES. — " A very useful institution has been formed in this city and
we are desirous of having a badge of membership. Could you put me in
touch with a firm making these, asking them to quote, per 100, brooches,
buttons, pendants, as per design enclosed in blue and white or white and
blue enamel." — Enquiry 2094, South America.
GRAMOPHONE RECORDS.— " I am enclosing herewith £4 los., and
should be glad if you would purchase a number of gramophone records
for me, especially some of the well-known ones by Sir Harry Lauder." — •
Enquiry 2095, West Falkland.
TRADE CONDITIONS IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—" I should like to re-
mark here that we find St. John, and apparently all Eastern Provinces,
use quantities of goods of all descriptions made in the United States, but
very little British or Canadian made, and I am sure all British subjects
would be glad to see more of our own goods on the market. In fact, it is
rather maddening to be forced to buy goods made in the United States." —
Enquiry 2096, New Brunswick.
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Overseas
Trade
Bureau.
Advertiser's Announcement.
Km-KKJE
The World's Best Car
yl 'technical Expert's
Impression of, the
Post-War Rolls-Royce
" Having regard to its quality, its
performance, and to the permanent
pleasure which it represents, and
also having regard to the very slight
depreciation which, in normal times,
it suffers, the Rolls-Royce does, 1
think, realise the best motor car
value for money that has ever been
offered, and it is because it has such
a long history, and because it does
these things that so few rival manu-
facturers of super-cars have been
able to assail the Rolls-Royce posi-
tion with any hope of success."
Cupt. jr. Gorduii Asian,
in "Irish Field" Sept. ^rd, 1921.
ROLLS-ROYCE. LTD.. 15. CONDUIT STREET. LONDON. W. 1.
Telegrams: Code:
Rolhead. Reg., London. A.B.C., 5th Edition.
Members help the Club by mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to
Advertisers.
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OVERSEAS
Overseas Employment Bureau
[The Over-Seas Club and Patriotic league merely acts as a
medium of introduction, and cannot be held responsible for
the accuracy of any of the announcements published. — Editor.]
AM A RHODESIAN, British home born, bachelor, 32,
strong, tough and healthy, well educated, six years' business
experience in London, ten years' experience in Rhodesia,
farming, trading, etc. I would like to hear from any one
who could offer me a position with good remuneration and
prospects in any part of the world. I would make a capable
secretary or representative, having considerable tact and initiative. Have
held many positions of responsibility with success. Can handle natives
and quickly acquire languages. Ex-officer. Will travel anywhere and
undertake any mission requiring tact, secrecy or courage. — E.B. 1055.
EX-ARMY OFFICER is anxious to obtain post as companion to any one
travelling round the world. Englishman of good family, age 33. I
have travelled considerably in the East and I am single. — E.B. 105 d.
A MEMBER (Scotch, 39, married), just returned from China, long experi-
ence there with first-class firm, holding executive position, wide know-
ledge of country and conditions, shipping, etc., desires appointment in
London or abroad ; salary on commission basis. —EB. 1057.
YOUNG LADY MEMBER desires position in South Africa as typist.
Over four years' experience in typing, book-keeping and general office
work. Excellent testimonials. Able to start beginning of year.- -Apply
Miss Nightingale, Quthing, Basutoland, South Africa.
LADY (young), professionally trained teacher of ballroom dancing,
wishes to obtain engagements to give private lessons, either visiting
pupils' houses or by other arrangement. Terms moderate. -£ B.105y.
RANCHER, shortly returning to Rhodesia, desires situation in a mana-
gerial capacity. Farmer's son, age 34, married. Experience stock,
crops, implem.ents, ensilage, dairying, incubators and gardening. Good
native linguist and organiser. References exchanged. — E.B. I06O.
YOUNG GENTLEMAN of good education and appearance desires posi-
tion abroad. Ex-lieutenant. Thorough knowledge of office adminis-
tration and accounts. Certificate Royal Society of Arts for Book-keeping.
Commercial experience. Knowledge of Hindustani and French. Plenty
of initiative and common sense, not afraid of hard work. First-class
credentials. -£./J, 1061.
MEMBER, now residing in West Indies, desires po.sition as manager of
estate. Age 32, married. Able to control labour. Energetic, hard-
working. Canada or America preferred. — E.B. 1062.
LADY SECRETARY requires post in South Africa or Rhodesia. Expert
stenographer. Knowledge of French. Seven years' experience. — •
E.B. )063.
YOUNG MAN, aged 20, just returned from two yf^ars in Portugal and the
Azores, with good knowledge of Portuguese and French, desires business
position in any part of the world. Good references. — E.B. 1064.
PAPUA.— Member, age 35, single, well educated, at present in Central
America, desires position in New Guinea or South Seas. Good accoun-
tant, experienced in transport, shipping, insurance, and general construc-
tion, store work. Shortly disengaged. — EB.1065.
LADY MEMBER would give services for a month or six weeks in return
for expenses and small remuneration. Well educated, travelled, and
experienced with children. Would accompany any one on a tour, in
France, speaking French fluently. Reference furnished. — E.B. 1066.
01)
Overseas
Employment
Bureau.
1 NOTES ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS j
I By the Advertising Manager I
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the Star and Garter Magazine
contributions, revealing a cheery
all concerned. (Star and Garter
Notes about [> miJ9^^ SUNDORA ALBUM.— The little album produced by
our Adver- C.^B£q^[ the Sundora Company, Manor Park, London, E., should
tisers. «j^B.-^'^l ^^ ^^ ^^^ possession of every one interested in photography.
The pages are dark brown, gilt-edged, loose-leaf, and the
prints slip in. It is primarily intended for vest-pocket
size users, although it is surprising what a number of
damty pictures are produced when superfluous print is cut away, and
form a collection worthy of an Album no matter what size camera is in
use. The cover is in black imitation morocco, and the price is low.
Overseas enquiries are dealt with by return mail. (Page 107.)
" PHIT-EESI "—The makers of the well-known " Phit-Eesi " footwear,
Messrs. W. Abbott & Sons, Ltd., of 121, High Holborn, London, W.C,
England, have recently organised a special department for the service
of their rapidly-growing list of overseas customers. Simple self-measure-
ment instructions enable the firm to fit the purchaser by mail with all the
facility of a personal visit. " Aertex " lined shoes are a special feature
of Messrs. Abbott's footwear. A line to the firm will bring full par-
ticulars. (Page 20.)
THE STAR AND GARTER MAGAZINE is a bright little monthly
publication, entirely conducted by the patients of the Star and Garter
Home for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors. The work of the Star and
Garter Committee on behalf of service men paralysed by wounds is well
known to readers of " Overseas." Published from the seaside branch
of the Home at Sandgate, Kent,
contains many interesting literary
atmosphere which does credit to
announcement on page 116.)
SETTLERS' EFFECTS.—Messrs. Joseph C. Mount & Co., 146/147,
Grosvenor Road, Westminster, S.W. i, welcome enquiries from Club
Members who require expert service in forwarding, foreign removals,
packing and shipping. Baggage is delivered by this firm to steamers, or
shipped overseas, while foreign and home removals are conducted.
Messrs. Mount & Co. offer special terms for the packing and shipping
of settlers' furniture, effects, etc. Application to the firm in Westminster
will bring full particulars. (Page 21.)
WAR MEMORIALS of all kinds are supplied by Messrs. Swanser & Son,
Art Metal Workers, 52, Great Queen Street, London, W.C. 2. Members
considering the erection of memorials should write to Messrs. Swanser
for particulars. (Page 107.)
ELECTRIC CYCLE LAMP.— Cyclists replacing the unsatisfactory oil
lamp with the up-to-date Voltalite electric cycle lamp have good reason
to be satisfied with the change, if one may judge by the batch of testi-
monials received by Messrs. Ward & Goldstone, of Pendleton, Manchester,
the makers of " Voltalite." The Voltalite illumination is produced by
the movement of the cycle, at walking speed and up to thirty miles an
hour. An illustrated art booklet will be sent on application to the
firm. (Page 120.)
SPORTING OUTFITS AND GUNS.— The Wilkinson Sword Co., Ltd.,
53, Pall Mall, London, have now prepared their new 1922 Catalogue,
which is of interest to the sportsman in all parts of the world. This well-
known firm supplies explorers' rifles and guns, revolvers, and automatic
pistols of all calibres, and hunting knives. Overseas sportsmen are
asked to write direct to the firm for full particulars. (Page 19.)
100
Advertiser's Announcemer.t.
At Home
or Abroad
The convenience of the " New
Perfection " is appreciated
everywhere. A perfect oil
cooker incorporating all the
advantages of the most modern
cooking appliances, it burns
refined oil completely without
a trace of smoke or odour.
The progress of the cooking
can be seen through the glass
door of the oven.
ISEW-PERFECTIQN
Oil Cooking Stores
: ¥oLiS all' OVER THE WORLD !
I Overseas readers can obtain these heating and cooking comforts anywhere. J
PERiFECTJOTS
Oil Heafers
Without the dirt and trouble of tindling fires these famous
heaters give abundant, glowing warmth just when and where
you want it
SOME AGENTS IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
INDIA. Standard Oil Co., of New York, Calcutta and Bombay.
EGYPT. Vacuum Oil Co., Cairo.
SINGAPORE. Standard Oil Co.. of New York, Singapore.
MALTA. St. Paul Petroleum Tanks, Ltd., Malta.
GIBRALTAR. Gibraltar Petroleum Co., Gibraltar.
SOUTH AFRICA. Vacuum Oil Co., of South Africa. Cape
HONGKONG. ^Standard Oil Co.. of New York, Hongkong.
AUSTRALIA. Vacuum Oil Co., Pty. Ltd., Adelaide, etc.
NEW ZEALAND. Vacuum Oil Co., Pty. Ltd.. AucUand, etc.
SOLD IN THE U.K. UNDER THE NAME OF "VALOR-
PERFECTION" BY THE ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL
CO., LTD., 36, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE, LONDON, S.W. 1
MADE BY
The Cleveland Metal Products Co., Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
The larger our advertisement revenue, the more we can spend on
Improving " OVERSEAS."
101
Advertisers' A nnouncenieuts..
THE
" Fletcher "
Gas Cookers
AND OTHER
Domestic Labonr-Saving Appliances.
THE MOST . .
EFFICIENT, ECONOMICAL,
4nd RELIABLE in the Market.
Fletcher, Russell
&. Co., Ltd., Warrington.
London Shomroomt:
15 FitHtr St., SoutHatnptan iioto, W.C.
BUYING AND SHIPPING AGENTS.
We offer our services to residents abroad for the
purchase and shipment of any goods they may
require from Great Britain.
We are in constant touch with the leading manu-
facturers, and can secure the lowest possible
prices and best discounts.
We are also able to secure for our clients abroad Sole
Agencies for important British Manufacturers.
If you have no representatives here it would be to
your advantage to communicate with us.
WILLIAMS BROS. & CO. (London), Ltd.
9. MINCING LANE, LONDON, E.G. 3.
Telegrams: "BXPORTUKB. LOHDOH."
TEST
" LUSTRESSA
SHAMPOO
»»
AT OUR EXPENSE.
WRITE TO-DAY FOR FREE SAMPLE.
C A. STOKES & Co., Ltd.
39 ECLIPSOL WORKS
BRISTOL . ENGLAND
1
REO, TRADE MARK
Members regularly corresponding with our advertisers materially help
" OVERSEAS."
J UL'
A'lvcrtisers' Aininuvcfjjiriits
AU STR ALI A
OPPORTUNITIES for MANUFACTURERS and INVESTORS
Australia offers Great Opportunities to Britisli
Manufacturers to establish themselves in the
Commonwealth.
Australia can now produce many things which
she formerly regarded as beyond her industrial
capacity.
The history of Australian Manufacturers is one
of remarkable growth and achievement.
Australian manufacturing industries produce an
annual output amounting to £226,000,000.
THE INVESTOR will find:
Abundant room for the profitable employment
of Capital.
Great primary resources awaiting development.
Wide scope for Manufacturers.
A healthy land in a growing country.
■ ■ ■ ■
For full information regarding Australia, apply to the High
Commissioner, Australia House, Strand, London, W.G.2.
DOMINION o*
NEWFOUNDLAND .^i LABRADOR
Standing Sentinel at the Gateway to the New World. The Birthplace of our
Great Overieai Empire and the lint link io the Imperial Chain of
Aerial Communications.
■ One Week's journey from England by direct steamer. ■
NEWFOUNDLAND and LABRADOR offer unezceUed
opportunities for PIONEER DEVELOPMENT.
The Sportsman's Eldorado.
The Rivers and Lakes abound with
Salmon and Trout. Fine Snipe,
Partridge and Caribou Shooting-
No reserves.
SPORT LICENCES.
Caribou Shooting, $50 (;^I0).
Salmon Fishing, $10 {£2) per rod.
Forest, Mineral and Farmland
Wealth.
Large areas of uncleared arable
land waiting for development, and
generous concessions given to
settlers and others interested in
establishing new industries.
Copper, Iron Mines and great Pulp
and Paper Mills in active operation.
THE LARGEST DRY DOCK IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
with all modern appliances for temporary or permanent repairs.
For further information, apply to —
HIGH (JOMMISSIONEB FOR NEWFOUNDLAND, 53, Victoria Street. London, S.W.I.
Increased adverliserr.ent revenue means continued improvement ot
" OVERSEAS."
:u3
A dveytiscr' s A nnouncement.
FOR
COUNTRY HOUSES,
BUNGALOWS, FARMS, Etc
The 2i H.P. size is suitable for a house with an
installation of 25 to 40 lights, the ?^ H.P. for 35 to
50 lights, and the 4J H.P. size for a larger number
I of lights, or where healing
or domestic electrical ap-
paratus is used.
I; LIGHTING ^Np'\
'power PLANTS \
TYPEW.S.
operate on
PETROL,
ESSENCE,
PARAFFIN,
KEROSENE or
GAS.
BRITISH
MADE
THROUGHOUT.
in use all over the world for over 12 years, and
owing to their extreme simpUcity, small fuel consumption and reliability are
recommended for Home and Export.
Their strong construction and robust design ensures effective service for years
without replacements.
SPECIFICATION.
re \ ^
ENGINE.
Complete with Governor, spark Plug, Ignition
Wire, Two Heavy Disc Flywheels, Two Main
Bearings. Fuel and Water Tank, Silencer, In-
jector, High Tension Magn-^to, Foundation
Bolts, Spanners, etc.
DYNAMO.
Shunt Wound Dynamo, wound for 25, 35, 50, 70,
100 or 140 volts, as ordered, suitable for Lighting
and Charging, complete with Slide Rails.
1-ngme and Dynamo mounted together on sub-
stantial hardwood skids ready for bolting down
to floor.
SWITCHBOARD.
Slate Panel having mounted thereon all necessary
switches, fuses, meters, etc., for efficient control
of Plant and Battery.
BATTERY.
Best English Make ope.i glass b^x type cells.
Prices and Particulars. |
Size
W.S. I
W.S. 2
W.S. 3
Brake Horse-Power
2M
3M
4^
Dynamo Watts
1000
1500
2000
Volts
, 25/35
50/70
50/70
Size of Battery Recommended |
(13) 120 Amp.
hour Cells
{27) 100 Amp.
hour Cells
(27) 120 Amp.
hour Cells
Generating Set Complete, as illus-
trated, with Tanks (Water and
Fuel), Piping, Foundation Bolts
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
£ s. i.
and Spanners
100 0 0
120 0 0
144 0 0
Switchboard
20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
Battery Complete with Acid
50 15 0
74 10 0
105 10 0
Total
170 15 0
214 10 0
269 10 0
Shipping Specifications (Appr
OXIMATE).
Case.
CWTS.
Case.
CWTS.
Zt
lse.
CWTS.
Ins.
Packed.
I.
Ins.
Packed.
I
■JS.
Packkd.
3.
Generating Set &
W.S.
W.S.
2.
W.S.
Switchboard
60 X 30 X 31
7}^
70x33x34
10
7.-)X-
56X37
11%
Battery (less Acid)
18 cu. ft.
6%
24 cu. ft.
8
36 c
u. ft.
14
\ aisii
We are open to appoint
FIRST-CLASS Agents in
districts at HOMH and
ABROAD where not already
represented.
Sectional i ist C/303 giving
full particulars of Mercure
Engines on request. En
close Business Card
Memo for Trade Terms
When making purchases, please give ** OVERSEAS' " Advertisers an
opportunity to quote prices.
104
Advevtisey's Annouucewciit.
Barratts Double Sole"
Double Wear, Boots-by-Post
Are honestly worth 40/- even without the double
sole. The Box Calf uppers are made from
.picked skins so as to keep the original
good shape and suppleness, while the
boots are soled again and again. The
block toe and back quarters are solid
leather stiffened. The welts are sewn to
the solid leather insoles on the hand-sewn
principle — beautifully flexible and
smooth inside. The fine proportions
are not affected by Barratts novel
idea of the Double Sole.
Sir E. Shackleton ordered these
Double Sole Boots for every
member of the Shackleton-
Rowett Expedition.
Style J
1614
With Extra "Dri-ped
I Postage Abroad Extra.
On Approval
H, when you get these boots,
you don't think they are
worth more than 30;-, or
they don't fit you, send
them back. We will return
your cash immediately.
24 Fittings. — Sizes are 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in
three widths : — 4 (medium),
5 (wide), 6 (extra wide). If
size is not known, send
" footshape," got by run-
ning pencil round stockinged
foot resting lightly on paper,
or old boot.
The
" Dri-ped " Extra Sole
This renowned waterproof,
non-slipping leather keeps out
all damp, protects the insole,
and may be removed for repair
when necessary, without dam-
agingthe main sole orstraining
the original sole stitching, the
welts or the insole. So the
boot remains wet-proof and
shapely. The saving is ob-
vious. It is absolutely the
most economical boot ever
made.
Order Now-This Way.-^ri. ^S
size, and send 10/- only with Cash on Delivery
Orders. Where C.O.D. is not available, please send
cheque or money order for 30/-, plus postage (if
Overseas), and 1 /- extra if size 1 2. Post your order to
W.BARRATT & Co., Ltd.,
90, Footshape Works, Northamptor.
Write for Art-printed Booklet " Footshapes for the Family." —
Postage 3d.
' The Super
• Leather for ■
I Soles. Look J
I fur Jjurp e I
I " L»iamond " |
1 Traiie Mark 1
ffi
Members trading with our Advertisers materially lielp " OVERSEAS."
105
Advertisers' A nnounrements.
s t y 1 ; s h
Lounge Suit
in Smart,
Hard - wear-
ing Tweeds,
Tailored to
Measure for
£4 10s.
Tailoring for Overseas
Men has been so thoroughly studied and progressively
improved lor 20 years by Groves & Lindley that they
absolutely guarantee lo refunJ your cash without demui it
you are not full ' convinced that the suit or overcoat (its you
and is full value for the money.
ONE THIRD AT LEAST
SAVED ON EVERY SUIT.
In every quarter of the globe
where European-style
Clothes are worn we have
regular customers who tell
us that our suits are 30 to bU
per cent, better than any
they can get from local tailors
at 30 to 50 per cent, higher
prices.
CUT OUT THE MIDDLE-
MEN— BUY DIRECT.
We cut out middle charges
by purchasing all our cloths
direct from the makers. Gar-
ments are cut and tailored
by our own specially-trainei
staff and you are charged
only ONE modest profit.
Vte invite you to write for —
>-_.
Box of 100 Cloth Patterns — Sent Post Free.
They are representative of all the best British high-grade
cloths, Scotch Tweeds, Serges. Hu:ldersfield Solid Worsteds,
West of England Tweeds, Garbicords, etc., etc. Styles Book,
Self-Measurinj Form, Tape Measure and isU instructions how
to measure also enclosed.
All our Cloths are sold by the yard also
and are largely bought by overseas men for their local tailor to
make up. Big savings and extra cloth quality are obtained this
way Note — We guarantee Satisfaction or Cash Refund.
GRO YES & LINDLEY
102, THE LION. HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND.
Stylish Single-
breasted Ascot
Overcoat, Lined
Full, Tailored to
Measure from
Kre-lusta
Knitting Silk
"JUST LIKE SILK"
ALL BRITISH BRILLIANT COLOURS
For Jumpers, Coats, Scarves, etc. Wears and washes beautifully. Pattern cards
free on request. Made in a wide range of magnificent Colours, including Pillar Box
Red, Gold. Tangerine, Rust, Pink, Peacock, Royal Blue, Saxe Blue, Navy, Jade-
Green, Cherry, etc., etc. i lb. hanks 7/6, or 25/- per lb.
Registered and Post Paid. - Trade supplied — Terms on application.
THE A. T. KREMERS MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.,
16/17, DEVONSHIRE SQUARE,
BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, E.C.2.
Wires: — " Keestonica (Ave.) London." 'Phone: Central 6069.
DALES'sin DUBBIN
Ple&saal
Odonr.
Allow*
Poliahing.
Mf
FAKES BOOTS AINU HARNESS waterproot bs k dnck't back, soft
^a* velvet and 3 times as durable. Over 40 years' repatation.
aa UZhlDITIOS HIGHEST AWAkDS FOR SVPhRWRITV.
Sold In P'orit aa-1 "«ow» r-^^n^^>«. ja Ttim. Mni'iifaptory, Danntabis, BrgUnil.
When ordering from our Advertisers, please mention " OVERSE.\S."
This helps the Club.
lot;
Advertisers' A yinouiiccmciils
FREE
TO AMATEUR |
PHOTOGRAPHERS. |
You can save m
money g
when buying g
another M
I CAMERA
^Write for Illustrated
^"Camera Bargains" Cata.-
g logue. Thousands of high-
J grade Cameras at half makers'
m prices. Experienced Packing
gfor dispatch anywhere.
gSatisfaction guaranteed..
I SANDS HUNTER'S
m (SMDS HUNTER & CO.. LTD.)
^ Established in liJA
M. 37 Bedford Street, 5trand,
^ London, W.C. a
^ Telegrams: " Santunter, London."
M Cables: A. B.C. 5th Edition.
N€MORIAL
SWANSER S SON, Art Metal Workers
52. GREAT QUECN STREET. LONDON. W C. 2.
Number 7*\ "% Quality
Socks for Men.
Are made oF tVie finesV i^vii-e
Vk-ool mgrairx yam irv
lfE:RFECT KIT
PROLONGED ^VEAR
Comfortable »r» ^11 Cliii-vatcs.
TKe <j-.aality numbor- is on
ea.cK siOcK.
"Wnte for the nanxe of nearest
agent or postal agent
TO
"'oPtDo^lf epics £imitc5r
\ViGSTDN. N" Leicester
F.rvqLcu-al
DEAN & DAWSON, LTD.
will seen re
year Steamer accommodation
or arrange your Tour in
Britain or on the Continent.
Passports obtained.
Foreign Money Exchanged.
Write to, or call at —
DEAN & DAWSON'S OFFICE
84, Piccadilly, London, W.l.
Branchti in Chief Provincial Tnwnt.
Gladola Restaurant
44, South Molton Street. W. 1.
Mayfair.1417. (C,'<.v,A> «,>«.!' .■?(■. T7lWSUJ/i.<l: )
SPECIAL LUNCHEONS, 2/-
dlso ^ la Carle.
TEAS.
Scones. Home-Made Cakes.
DINNERS. 6 to 9,
Table D'Hote. 4/-
or i la Carte.
AN IDEAL PRESENT
THE "SUNDORA" ALBUM DE LUXE
Girdle
WINE LIST.
OPEN SUNDAYS 12.45
p.m
Mailed
free.
Gilt-edg-cd, Loose-leaf, Slip-in for Vest Bocket size;
nr lari;er s-i^e may be pasted on reverse side of leaf if
desired, .\ssorted openings. Loose-leaves obtainable.
Distinctive, tasteful.
To continually improve
advertisement revenue
107
THE SUNDORA Co., Manor Park, London
OVERSEAS " we rely largely upon our
Advertiser's Announcement.
RUSSIAN FAMINE
The British Empire Appeal,
*^ BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!^^
THE WHOLE DUTY OF FIGHTING THE FAMINE is for the present thrown
on Private Charity.
TWENTY MILLION PEASANTS
are maWn? their last effort to maintain life on a diet of cKoppeJ_^rass^^^owdere^
bar' anH clay.
Eye-witnesses state that the rubbish-carts go through the tOA'ns laden with the
dead bodies of little children.
THE RUSSIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND
IS AT WORK
in the Samara Province, organising the food supply through the
agency of the Society of Friends.
During eighteen months of steady work in Russia this Society has lost only one-
half of one per cent, of its supplies. Everything is forwarded in sealed trucks.
which invariably arrive intact.
All British Relief sent through this Fund will be under the |
supreme direction of a British Commissioner, whose name ,
will carry conviction, and who will be assisted by British J
inspectors. Further, Dr. Nansen's own Representative^ at
Moscow to direct the whole International Relief movement
is to be a Britisher.
We, who are busy with relief, know that the Nansen scheme is so'jnd. and the
Guarantees sufficient.
Doubts and fears come only from critics who stand aloof.
BUT WHAT ABOUT FINANCIAL TROUBLES AT HOME? HELP US FOR
THAT VERY REASON. BLOCKED MARKETS ARE THE CAUSE OF
THESE TROUBLES. WHAT GREATER BLOCK THAN A DEAD OR
DYING RUSSIA?
Donations should be sent at once to the Hon. Treasurer, Russian Famine Relief
Fund. Fishmongers' Hall, London, E.C.4.
PRESIDENT . - THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
CHAIRMAN - - THE RT. HON. THE LORD EMMOTT, G.C.M.G.
; DELAY NO LONGER,
L ...____. :
Issu il by the Imperial War Kelief Fund (registered under tlie War Charities Act, 1916).
Members mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to Advertisers help
to maintain the advertising revenue.
1<'8
PATENT AUTOMATIC
WATER AND OIL VINDEBS
are us*^d by leading Goverruiients, Railway Com-
panies . Land Companies, Well-boilng Engineers,
and others.
A Colonial en-
gineer writes:
" Since purchasing the
Instrument I have se-
lected 300 sites, most of
which I have either
bored upon with our own
plants or had bored
by sub-contractors. In
every instance we have
been successful."
Prices of Water Finding
Instruments are : —
£60 locating at all
depths up to 20D ft.
£76 locating at all
depths UD to 500 ft.
£125 locating at all
depths up to 1,000 ft.
Prices of Water and
Oil Finding Instruments
are:—
£200 locating at all
depths up to 3,500 ft.
£275 locating at all
depths up to 4,500 fl.
£875 locating at all
depths up to 6,000 ft.
Delivery at Colonial or
Foreign Seaports, £2
extra.
We undertake the loca-
tion »{ sites and boring
at lump sum prices under
guarantee of
"NO FULL SUPPLY NO PAY."
Particulars on application to
Wi MANSFIELD St GO.,
17. Brnnswiok St.. LIVEBPOOL.
Makers of lVel!-b0ri7:g Plant, Pumps, Wind-
mills. Oil Engines^ and everything connected
•with Water Supply and Irrigation.
Cables : " Mantles, Liverpool.'' Tel. No.
1392 Bank,
IRISH LINEN
AT
WHOLESALE PRICES
Sanplei and LItt Pott Pn«
to %vf part of the World.
De V. CROSSLEY,
20, BEDFORD ST.,
BELFAST, IRELAND.
«■■ a Direct dispatch of small parcels
I L A Post Paid to any address in the
I rU United Kingdom. Also per Foreign
■ ■■" Parcel Post (Under Bond) to any
part of the world.
Ceylon & Indian, 2/4. 2/6. 2/10. Chinas, 3/-.
Darieeling, 3/6 and upwards. Fine Ground
CoHee. 2/5. Tea Dust, 2/5-
Remittance witli order. Wholesale terms
by arrangement.
BURMAHTEACO.. ^LTex.'!'
(Trade Referen::es ^iven if required.)
Advertisers' Announcements.
OUR
BREECHES
are admitted to be
better than many sold
at double ti.e price.
A TRIAL WILL
CONVINCE you AND
SAVE YOU 50 %
CUT TO YOUR SPECIAL MEASURE
IN BEDFORD CORD
OR DRILLS
RIDINQ TWEEDS,
WHIPCORD8,/fo»t30/- Per Pair.
/■
Send for Patterns and Easy
Self-Measure Instructions.
No matter where you are we gfuarantee to fit
you perfectly, satisfy you, or return your cash.
BEDFORD RibINC
BREECHES Co Depth!
29 Great- TirchficldStre«t
Oxford St. London. W.i.
SPECIAL LINES.
Look at followinji i
The London Pocket
Microscope •< - 2/3
(Of great use to Stamp Collectors).
Needle Conmass • - 1/9
Card Float Compass • 2/-
Planispheres - • 2/- & 3/«
Watchmaker's
Glasses - - 2/- & 3/-
Microscopic Moimting
Glasses, per doz. > 6d.
Prisms - - - - 2/6
Postage on anv of the above : Home, 3d.,
t^oreign, 9d.
School Microscope,
1 power - » - 18/6
Carriage: Home, 1/6, Abroad, 4/6.
Postal Order must accompany order.
Write to us whenever you want
Oymnasiom Ontflts, Clab Ontflts,
Medals and Badges.
Lanterns and Lantern Slides,
or any otlier items of interest to boys.
J. W. BUTCHER,
DEPT. 0.,
2 &3.Ladgate drcns Bolldlnfts,
* London, E.G. 4. •
Increased adrertlsing revenue makes possible the continued improvement
of " OVERSEAS " generally.
109
.■Ic7i'ci't!sers' A )r,ioi(i!cri)ii)!ts.
THB
6i
ARETHUSA"
Training Ship and the
Shaftesbury Homes
URGENTLY NEED
£259000
TO PREVENT CURTAILMENT OF ANY
BRANCH OF THE SOCIETY'S WORK
10,000 boys haye been sent to Royal Navy and Msrcanllls Marins.
9,000 boys have been trained for Civil Bmployinanl and Bmlgratloa.
1,100 boys and filrls now being maintained.
Patrons; THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN
President: H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
Chairman and Treasurer: C. E. MALDEN, ESQ., M.A.
Deputy Chairman: F. H. CLAYTON, ESQ.
Chairman of Ship Committee : HOWSON F. DEVITT. ESQ.
Joint Secretaries : H. BRISTOW WALLEN AND HENRY G. COPELAND.
Cheques should be tnade payable to and sent to
THE SHAFTESBURY HOMES &" ARETHUSA " TRAINING SHIP
164 SHAFTESBURY AVENI7S, LONDON, W.C.S
SEVEN WARDS CLOSED
SOO cases awaiting admission at
KING'S College Hospital,
ENGLAND.
Please send a Contribution.
STAR'T
lUSIKTESSS YOUI^SEX^F
WE supply Fancy Goods, Postcards, Drapery, Tobacconists, Stationery,
Jewellery, id. to 6d. Bazaar Goods, Toys, Confectionery, Cutlery, etc.
Sample Cases £5 upwards sent by return. Guide Catalogue, "Success in
Business," 3d. — H. Michaels & Son, Cromwell House, High Holborn,
London, W.C., England.
BIGGEST and BEST
BMIORATION COLrONISATION OFFICE.
The Salvation Army has world-wide organisation. Free and disinterested
advice about Dominions. Cares for passengers. Representatives everywhere.
Correspondence Invited. Address : Commissioner D. C. Lamb, laa. Queen
Victoria Street, London, E.G. 4.
Members help tlie Club by mentioning "OVERSEAS " when writing to
Advertisers.
110
Advevlisers' A inioioicemeuts.
The Sick Poor
of the Homeland
often go from bad to worse because they are
unable to secure treatment in Hospital, by
Dispensary, admission into some Conva-
lescent Home, or necessary surgical
appliances.
THE LONDON MEDICAL
CHARITIES FUND.
President :
Col. Sir Raymond Greene, Bart., D.S.O.,
J.P., M.P.,
seeks to bring medicalrelief within the reach
of all. Over 6,000 letters of recommenda-
tion to Hospitals, etc., etc., etc., have been
supplied to needy sick people since the Fund
was started in igio.
The benefits have been enormous —
Medical, Dental, Ophthalmic, Surgical, and
Convalescent Home Treatment, and Special
Grants to the needy poor.
Will you please help this good work which
has brought health and happiness to thou-
sands ? Funds are much needed now ?
Contributions should be addressed
to Mr. A. C. EVANS, Secretary, London
Medical Charities Fund, 76, Finsbury
Pavement, London, E.C.2, England.
WHAT
MORAVIAN
MISSIONS
STAND FOR :
The Gospel of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, preached
by life and lip, in humble de-
pendence upon the Holy Spirit.
This basis has been (for 189 years)
and is still being wonderfully blessed,
so that those who know speak of
"THE MIRACLE OF
MORAVIAN MISSIONS."
Converts outnumlier hoiucj member-
ship by three to one.
YET while the Income has remained
practically stationary, the Expenses
have greatly increased, and unless
increased receipts are sent in
CURTAILMENT MUST FOLLOW '.
Your prayers (and if possible^ your
gifts of money, are earnestly pleaded
for by
The Rev. EDGAR SWAINSON,
Sei:retarv. London Association (all British)
in aid of MoRA\ IAN MISSIONS.
7, New Court, Lincoln's Inn,
London, W.C.2.
I jterature sent free on apjilication.
THE
CHURCH of ENGLAND
From Rock |
and Tempest. I | WAIFS « STRAYS
I SOCIETY
m (Pounded in iSSi by Prebendary Rudolf )
M has given Homes to
M over 25,000 children
M and now has a family
g of 4,219 little ones to
|feed, clothe,
i shelter & train
320 Merchant Seamen, men |
who have run the gauntlet of g
the fiercest storms, now find B
themselves in poverty and =
need your assistance. M
\ 887 Widows of Seamen and p
I 1100 Dependent Children |
; are also wanting help, which g
I we are compelled to with- m
I hold because funds are low. m
\ Will you bring a ray of sun- |
I shineintotheirlivesbysend- g
I ing a donation immediately? g
I THOS. SCOTT. Secretary, |
I British Merchant Seamen and their ^
i Dependents' Fund, ^
Tower Building. LIVERPOOL, p
nil
WILL YOU HELP?
= Gi(l( gratefully received by Secrelaryi
= Rer. W. Fowell Swann, M.A-,
m Old Town HaU.
= Kenninston Road,
^ London. S-E. 1 1.
M 9k*qutt, etc., croned and payable U»
= "Waift& Stray t."
The larger our advertisement revenue, the more we can spend on
improving " ^VPRSPAS"
OVERSEAS.'
Ill
Advertisers' A nnouncements.
i THIS SIDE UP
WITH CARE
With the CARE that they
receive in our School, fatherless
boys and girls are sent into the
world of business "right side
up" — that is, placed
ON THEIR FEET
with their
HEADS HELD UP
This is the Empire's oldest
Orphanage and has helped
fatherless boys and girls for
over 163 years. Please help
us to carry on the good work !
THE
ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL
and
ALEXANDRA ORPHANAGE,
Fred. ). Robinson, A.C.I.S.,
Secretary,
73, Cheapside, London, E.C. 2
SOCIETT (or the U8IST1NCE of
LADIES IN REDUCED
CIRCUMSTANCES.
(Under Royal Patronage)
CHRISTMAS will soon be
here, the season when
every one wants to make
every one else happy. Please help
one lady to forget her troubles by
sending her a useful present and
a book or some other unnecessary
gift ; or will you send us money
to help us with our Christmas
gifts? We like each lady to have
from 30s. to £2 extra at this
season of the year.
Hon. Sec,
EDITH SMALLWOOD.
Lancaster House, Malvern.
THE GREAT NATIONAL
INSTITUTION FOR THE
RELIEF OF DISTRESS
AMONGST OUR GALLANT
SAILORS
FISHERMEN
AND THEIR WIDOWS
AND ORPHANS.
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINERS'
SOCIETY which has an Honorary
Relieving Officer in every Village and
Town on the Coasts of the United
Kingdom, NEEDS FUNDS for its
Work.
Will You Send a Ck>ntributlon
to the Secretary —
G. E. MAUDE. Esq.,
Carlton House,
Regent Street,
London, S.W. 1 ?
Patron :
H.M. THE KING.
Bankers :
I WILLIAMS DEACON'S BANK, Ltd.
5 ,000 Wounded Soldiers
and 500 Civilians
I mostly munition workers)
have been cared for by the
PR I NC E ALBERT
CONVALESCENT HOME
(formerly the "Grange' Hospital)
WORTHING
Patron : H.R.H. Prince Albert.
President: Col. Sir Raymond Greene,
Bart., D.S.O., J.P., M.P.
The Home has always been, and is, quite
full. 85 disabled soldiers and sailors now
under treatment. Please help us to benefit
these to whom so great a debt of gratitude
is due.
Funds are greatly needed to secure a
suitable Recreation Ground immediately
adjoining the Home. Such a piece of
vacant ground is now for sale, and can be
purchased at a reasonable price if funds are
forthcoming soon. An appeal is made for
this purpose, and for providing extra com-
forts for the men, as below. Can you, and
will you, help ?
All contributions should be addressed to
Mr. A. C. Evans, Secretary, at the London
Office:
76, Finsbury Pavement, London, E.C. 2, Eng.
AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS
DINNER— Turkey, plum pudding, etc. —
will be provided for the Patients if funds
permit.
Members regularly corresponding with our advertisers materially help
•• OVERSEAS."
112
Advertiser's Announcement.
** There is nothing in the world too fine for the
Mercantile Marine of this Country for the work
they have done during the present war." — LORD
JELLICOE.
An Appeal for the
Captain Fryatt
Memorial Fund
THIS Fund was Instituted In
August, 1916, to perpetuate
the memory of that very gallant
Ofl&cer, Captain Fryatt, of the
S.S. " Brussels," who so heroically went
to his doom in the cause of the Allies.
Its purposes are for the alleviation of suffer-
ing and distress, primarily due to the War,
arising amongst the Officers of the Merchant
Service and their Widows and Orphans.
Will YOU Help Us
to carry on the Good Work the
Fund has already done and is doing ?
You owe a great deal to the Merchant
Service and Contributions are Sadly Needed
They will be thankfully received by the
■ Honorary Secretary : ■
Lieut. T. W. MOORE, C.B.E.. R.N.R.
The Arcade, Lord Street. Liverpool
Increased advertisement revenue means continued improvement of
"OVERSEAS."
Advertiser's A nnoimcf.ment.
DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES
appeal for
300,000 Half-crowns
vVUl yo\x Keif
tki-s LitbU cklU
f
or
H^ji
Bread and Butter
for their
7,280
children
who are being trained to
become good and useful
citizens of the Empire.
240.000'
Will you help the little
child up the ladder?
Drafts, Cheques and Orders
payable " Dr. Barnardo's
Homes Food Fund " and
crossed, may be addressed to
, the Director, Rear-Admiral
Sir Harry Stileman, 18-26,
Stepney Causeway, London,.
E. 1, England.
[See next page.)
When making purchases, please give " OVERSEAS' " Advertisers an
opportunity to quote prices.
lU
Advertiser's A nnoimcement.
OVERSEAS
Mrs
Dr. Barnardo's Homes
(See previous page)
E take this opportunity of tendering our heartfelt
thanks to our world-wide circle of friendsfortheir long-
continued interest intheworK of Dr.Barnardo'sHomes.
We append below a further list of gifts from oversea
friends to the Food Fund, which has for its object the
feeding of the largest family in the world — over 7,000 boys and girls
who are being trained to become good citizens of the Empire.
92,330 children in all have been received. 27,355 have been
emigrated within the Empire : —
Collected in Hong Kong to endow the " Hong Kong " Bed
"J. A.," Pahiatua
Collected in the Federated Malay States to endow the " Kuala
Lumpur " Bed .....
" F. P. W.," Amritsar
Military Ice and Soda Factory, Dar-es-Salaam
Oeuvre Anglo-Franco Mauricienne des Orphelins et des
Mutiles de la Guerre, Port Louis, Mauritius
Proceeds of Children's Concert, Hankow, China (per
Hemmings) .......
" H. R.," Bloemfontein
Friends in Calcutta ......
" J. M. M.," South Australia
Contributions by American Citizens of all classes and creeds
as a token of admiration for Britain's part in the late
War, per the National Allied Relief Committee,
London : —
First gift .....
Second gift .....
Third gift
" T. S. F.," Hong Kong
St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon (collection
Whiteley, Esq.) ....
Members of Shanghai Club (collection)
Donations, per Tne Afii'ertiser^ Adelaide .
Canteen Committee, H.M.S. Blenheim
Subscriptions per the Yangtszepoo Lawn Bowls Club
Shanghai
Members of Manilla Branch, Over-Seas Club
Islands.
" R. G. L.," Mexico
Offerings at out-of-the-way parts of the Frontier guarded by
the Kohat-Kurram Field Force (per Rev. T. H. Dixon
" K. S.," Bombay
" H. H.," France.
" R. H. C," U.S.A.
Misses A. and D. W.
per W. H
Philippine
H.
R.
F.
G.
A.
T.
Hong Kong
I.," Queensland
T.," Nicaragua
G.,"Fiji
M.,"Fiji
T. W.," New Hebrides
H. H.," Suva
i
500
500
500
303
300
200
169
150
131
100
100
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33
100
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A dvertisers ' A nnouncements.
^'^^^TaltJatton f rmi)
IN 70 different countries the Salvation Army is waging
unceasing war against misery, ignorance and destitution.
Its devoted officers minister to the social and spiritual
needs of mankind without regard to race, creed or colour.
They preach the Gospel of hope and faith in 42 languages.
Criminals, drunkards, outcasts and other unfortunates are
gathered into the Salvation Armj-'s Shelters and Homes,
where they are fed, clothed, spiritually regenerated, and set
on the road to a new life.
The Salvation Army is one of the greatest purifj-ing forces
of the age. Its social and spiritual work has raised
thousands of men and women from a life of vice and crime,
and by the grace of God made them into respected citizens.
Help is urgently needed and should be sent to
GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH,
Queen Victoria Street, London, E.G. 4.
Cheques should be crossed "Bank of England, Law Courts Branch."
THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
STAR AND GARTER HOME
FOR
DISABLED SAILORS AND SOLDIERS.
RICHMOND. SURREY, ENGLAND.
ESTABLISHED by the British Red Crosi Society, under the
patronatTe of H.M. the Queen, as a permanent memorial of the
Great War. On the site of the old Star & Garter Hotel, of
famous memory, a noble building is being erected to accommodate about
200 men. To hasten building operations the temporary Hospital in the
Annexe of the Hotel, opened in January, 1916, for Sailors and Soldiers
paralysed by wounds, has been moved to the Seaside Branch at
Sandgate, Kent.
The Star & Garter Committee appeals to the benevolence of our friends
and kinsmen overseas on behalf of the Building Fund which, notwith-
standing the generous support it has received both at home and abroad,
is in need of further help, in consequence of the enormously increased
price of labour and materials.
jJddress all subscriptions to :
THE SECRETARY. STAR S CARTER COMMITTEE.
19, Berkeley Street, London, W. 1.
•K
When ordering from our Advertisers, please mention " OVERSEAS.'
This helps the Club.
116
Advertiser's A nnoimcement.
LOST!
LOST!
1
N many popular resorts the town
crier, with his big bell and his
long list of treasured articles lost,
is still a familiar figure.
Is there no bell-man to sound
in your ears this poignant cry?
((
LOST in childhood's days, all that
makes life precious — a mother's care,
a father's protection, the care^
less gaiety of unshadowed youth ! "
In the shelter of our Home, the orphan, the neglected
little one, the unwanted child, find again their lost
treasures of love and laughter.
If you are willing to share in this beautiful work, we
will be your almoners.
Gijts and Enquiries should be addressed to : —
THE PRINCIPAL (Rev. W. HODSON SMITH),
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME
(Founded by Dr. Stephenson))
104-122, CITY ROAD, LONDON. E.C. 1.
Treasurers :
J. R. BARLOW. Esq.. M.A.. J.P.
SIR CHARLES C. WAKEFIELD. Bart.. C.B.E.
To continually improve " OVERSEAS " we rely largely upon our
advertisement revenue.
117
Advertiser's Announcement.
THE
CHURCH LADS' BRIGADE
(Founded 1691 Incorporated 1893)
HAS NO ENDOWMENT.
WANTED
1,000,000 Shinings.
WILL YOU HELP
The Church Lads' Brigade to Continue its
Great Work ABonK Lads for Church and State?
Patron : H.M. THE KING.
President : Field-Marshal H.R.H. The Duke
OF CONNAUGHT, K.G., K.T.
Vice-Presidents: The Archbishops and Bishops of
THE Anglican Communion.
Governor & Commandant : Field-Marshal Lord
Grenfell, P.C. G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
Hon. Treasurer: SiR Adrian D. W. Pollock.
(Chamberlain of the City of London).
Brigade Chaplain-General and Secretary :
Rev. Edgar Rogers, O.B.E., M.A.
General Headquarters :
Aldwych House, Catherine Street, Aldwych,
London, W.C. 2.
FUNDS AREURGENTLY NEEDED
Members mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to Advertisers lielp
to maintain the advertising revenue.
118
Advertiser's A nnouncement.
LEST WE FORGET
I
the men who gallantly held the positions at
the front, but lost their positions at home.
WANT to work, but no one seems able to give me a
job." This is the heart-breaking remark of thousands of
maimed and broken ex-Service men who sacnticed posi-
tions and prospects by responding to "The Call." It is
true that these men are unemployable in ordinary Workshops
and Factories, for in these days of keen competition a one-
armed, or paralysed, or legless man is not a profit-making
worker ; but, after all, they fought for the Homeland aod lost
their limbs and powers of action in the service of us all.
THE LORD ROBERTS
MEMORIAL WORKSHOPS
are doors through which these men, who served and suflered,
can enter the hive of Industry and show that, given the
chance, they can make their lives as useful to the Nation ai
they were before the handicap of war's casualties crippled
their possibilities. In these Workshops — the only Memorial to
one of our greatest soldiers — these men are traioed in useful
occupations and provided with permanent employment at
good wages. Over 2,300 men have already been admitted
into the Workshops but there is a far greater number whose
requests to enter have to be refused because money is needed
for machinery and maintenance. Will you help the Committee
to help these men ?
THINK what it meana to bo disabled. Most of the evils that
afflict human nature j disease, poverty, grief — if they do not
kill — pass on. But the arinless, the legless, the paralysed
men — legacies of the war — are maimed for the duration of their
lives. In the desert places made by the war,
flowers vdll grow and bloom again covering
up the scars that disfigured the face of the
earth, but the human disablement will al-
ways remain as long as life lasts. Surely the
least we can do is to give these men that for
which they crave— an opportunity of retain-
ing their self-respect by becoming
self-supporting citisens.
The goods made by the men are sold by all
leading retailers. Buy them.
HELP THE FUND
also by sending a cheque
or money order payable
to the Chairman of the
Lord Roberts Memorial
Fund.
MAJOR GENERAL
Lord Cheylesmore,
K.C.M.G.. KCVO..
122, BroBipton Road,
London, SW. 3.
Increased advertising revenue makes possible the continued improvement J
of " OVERSEAS " generally.
119
A dvertisers' A nnouncements.
CHILLON COLLEGE
Uniting Cheltonia English School, Villeneuve, and L'E'cole- Foyer des Pleiades.
Near MONTREUX
-SWITZERLAND
A HIGH-CLASS PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR BOVS ON THE LAKE OF
GENEVA, CONDUCTED ON ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOL LINES WITH
THE MODERN LANGUAGE FEATURES OF SWISS SCHOOLS.
SENIOR COLLEGE (13.V to 19 Years).— Altitude 1,300 {eet above sea level, and
50 feet above the lake, overlooking the famous Chateau de Chillon. Stands in its
own park containing the playing fields. All games. Bathing and rowing in the lake
40 yards away. Modern building (1912), running hot and cold water, central heating,
fating south and ndmirably sheltered- Preparation for English and American Schools
nnd Universilies Modern Language Finishing Classes, Army Class, Commerce Classes.
JUNIOR SCHOOL (7 to 13i Years).— Altitude 3,500 feet above sea level, situated
on Mont Pleiades, overlooking Montreux (3 miles), Vevey (2 miles), and the Lake ;
50 minutes by mountain railway from Vevey, and d5 minutes from Montreux.
Wonderful mountain air and sunshine. Private bathing pool, skating rink, tennis,
sunbaths. scouting, gardening. Buildings modern and specially equipped for a
sihool South aspect, well sheltered on southern slopes. Electric hea'ino xnd
trlephone. Kindergarten and Preparatory for Public School Examination", Science.
The Climate is equable and particularly adapted to growing boys, especially those
from America. India, China anj the Far East generally,
HEADMASTER, Rev. F. de W. Lushington, M.A.. Scholar of Clare College.
Cnmb'-idge, late Headmaster of Dover College, formerly Headmaster of Elstree
School and Assistant Master at Eton College.
Author of "Oil Personal Service" .mil other books of addresses to boys.
Master of the Junior School, W. E. Mocatta, B.A., Keble Colleje, Oxford.
FRENCH IS THE LANGUAGE OF BOTH SCHOOLS.
OVERSEAS BOYS. — Entire charge is undertaken of Boys whose parents live Overseas.
SELF GENERATING
ELECTRIC CYCLE LAMP.
mXMASGIFT^S?
BEST
CYCLIST.
All British Made.
No Oil. No Acid. NoMat;hes.
A Brilliant Light at No Cost.
THE PEERLESS VOLTALITE
produces by the movement of the cycle, at walking speed and up
to 30 miles an hour, an inexhaustible supply of electricity to
brilliantly Illuminate head and rear lamps at no cost. Lasts years
without attention.
PRICES.
V2, complete with head lamp 86/- V7, De Luxe head type .42/6
V6, complete with head and V8, De Luxe head and rear
Illuminated rear lamp . 40/- type .... 47/6
Extra for postage, 1/-.
TO ENSURE SATISFACTION 1-TRMI-V REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
Extracts from a few unsolicited Testimonials received.
{Hundreds to select from.)
C. 11. F., West Croydon,
Surrey. — " My ' Voltalite 'has
been running for over three
years — e\ery day and in a 1
weathers— and still it responds
as readily and reliably as on
the dav it was purcliased and
titted.''
X. S. M. \\., Bendigo,
\'ictoria, Australia. — " I have
that ths ' VoltaliU;' Electric
Cycle Lamp, which 1 i>ur-
chased from you in the year
1912, is 'still going strong."
and does ail you say it will do.
The Eanip has been in con-
stant use tor eight years.
This is a brilliant perform-
ance, and I w uld not revert
to oil or carbide lamps, which
great pleasure in advising you I cannot equal the '\oltalite'
regard to cheapness,
cleanliness and convenience.'"
H. R,, Exeter.— " 1 ride a
minimum of 40 miles per
week, all weathers. I have
had this Generator over 12
months, and have nothing
but i>raise for it. 1 am often
aslced my opinion of it, and
truthfully say I wouldn't go
back to oil or gas again,"'
Send for the Illustrated Art Booklet of the Voltalite,
0/50, giving full particulars.
Terms to the tradh on Application.
Members help the Club by mentioning " OVERSEAS " when writing to
Advertisers.
Published by the Over-Seas Club, London. Printers i The Whitef riars Press, Ltd., Tonbrldge
How does the
National Institute for the Blind
Help Blind Folk?
1. It bears a very heavy financial responsibility for many important
institutions all over Great Britain for the training and education of the J
blind, and provides practically all the Braille literature for the whole ^
British Empire. |
2. It maintains the most up-to-date and best-equipped Sjrhool of
Massage in the country for blind people of both sexes, and takes practical
steps to help ex-students to build remunerative careers.
3. It is the sole producer of literature in Moon type for the entire
English-speaking world.
4. It has a widely-developed department for the printing and dissemina-
tion of Braille music, without which blind musicians would be helpless.
5. It maintains an old-established and far-reaching organisation for
visiting, assisting, and training the blind in their own homes.
6. It expends thousands of pounds annually on the relief of needy blind
persons.
7. It undertakes the financial responsibility and conduct of Worcester
College for blind boys, and the newly-established college at Chorley
Wood for girls with little or no sight.
8. It cares for the Deaf-Blind — those condemned to life-long darkness
and silence.
9. It is responsible for the upkeep of Hoole Bank, Chester, for blind
persons of good social position who are unable to maintain themselves in
comfort.
10. It maintains a home at Clifton for blind women of the poorer
classes, and a similar home at Brighton ; also a hostel for blind women
workers in London.
11 . It carries out much important research work with regard to apparatus
and materials generally of wide importance to the blind, and the
manufacture of these.
12. It maintains the only home in the Empire for blind babies —
" Sunshine House " at Chorley Wood — and proposes to equip and
maintain several more " Sunshine Houses. '
I The proper discharge of these obligations depends
entirely upon the generous response of the public.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
Registered under the Blind Persons Act, 1920.
President: SIR ARTHUR PEARSON. Bart., G.B.E.
I Chairman: SIR WASHINGTON RANGER, D.C.L.
X Sec-General: MR. HENRY STAINSBY.
I Head Office : 224-6-8, GREAT PORTLAND ST.. LONDON. W. i.
t
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"LUVISCA" looks lik; silk, is more durable than silk, and cheaper
than silk Ask your Outfitter or Stores to show you the newest patterns.
Look for the •' LUVISCA " TAB on every garment None genuine without
If any difficulty in obtaining "LUVISCA.
please write to "LUVISCA" (Dept I).
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SPORTS COATS, etc., for Ladies" wear-
in all newest styles and designs — sold by all
Drapers and Stores.
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