GERMAN PROPOSAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 7

GERMAN PROPOSAL.

AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. BERLIN, 19th April. There is a movement in official circles in favour of summoning an International , Congress in 1912 to consider the question of an international language and making it a compulsory subject in all Che public schools of the leading nations. [The British Esperanto Association was established in October, 1904, as a national centre for the promotion of the use of Esperanto as an international medium of communication. This neutral auxiliai-y language is the invention of Dr. Zamenhof, of Warsaw, who was born at Bjelastok, in Poland, in 1859, and in 1887 published his brochure, "An International Language, by Dr. Esperanto." For the first ten years little apparent success rewarded him, but since 1897 its progress has been rapid and uninterrupted. There are now about 1500 societies and groups, situated ■in all parts of the world, and forming centres of propaganda. Of these, 190 are within the British Empire. Its own journals and magazines number mbre than 100, and circulate in every civilised country;. The merits and uses of Esperanto appeal to all sections of the community. Educationists, scientists, tourists, commercial men, etc., are rapidly recognising its practical and valuable nature. J