GERMAN COLONIAL CLAIMS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 15

GERMAN COLONIAL CLAIMS

“Searchlight on German Africa,” by F. W. Pick (London: Allen and Unwin). Twenty-nine years ago a lonely little seaport on the Moroccan coast nearly stole the fame, as the author puts it, later attained by Sarajevo. That seaport was Agadir and a Irge portion of this book is devoted to study of the causes of the international crisis over the German claims in Morocco. With the coming of the Great War Agadir was forgotten, but German efforts to obtain colonies in Africa after the war are dealt with in the second part of the book. These concerned a part of Portuguese East Africa and, up to the advent of Hitler, the German Government and those working in the colonial sphere were hopeful of persuading Britain, by negotiation in this case, as opposed to threats in the other, to agree ito Germany obtaining this colony. Based on the diaries and papers of Dr. W. C. Regendanz, an enthusiast for German colonial expansion, the book casts new light on German colonial polities from the inside. It is also a tribute to the faith and determination of Dr. Regendanz himself. He never gave up hope of realizing his ideal till Hitler came on tjie scene. Then he broke with any German colonial ambitious and left the country in 1934 to become a British subject. NEW MUSIC A portfolio of new music for children and young students lias been received from tlie publishing house of Joseph Williams, Ltd., Maryiebone, London. The pieces are mostly those helpful to beginners, and they are presented in a manner entertaining to the very young. For example, the exercise on lingering is called “Fun With Fingering.” It lias clever little rhymes to go with each exercise. Then there is “Children's Zoo,” by Alec Rowley and Raymond Tobin, with a monkey seated at the keyboard, and an elephant turning the leaves of the music as a frontispiece. These examples also have catchy little rhymes. “My Ward Mary,” by L. E. de Rusette, is a simple, melodious ditty, with full directions for a percussion band accompaniment. For young students, out. of the primary class, there is the dainty “Chanson Joycuse,” by Herbert Denison, and two improvizations for the organ by Ambrose P. Porter.