NEWS FROM ABROAD

Evening Star, Issue 19839, 12 April 1928, Page 2

NEWS FROM ABROAD

Starvation of the Human Race World Becoming Over-Populated Governor Small Defeated at Chicago Elections “Bill” Thompson’s Setback Big Claim Against Union Company

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 11. A terrifying picture of tlio human race dying of starvation in the near future is conjured up in statistics published to-day. It is stated that the earth’s population has increased by 100,000,000 during the last fifteen years, and the prophets of doom base their calculations on: First, tlie possibilities of the population increasing to an unlimited extent; secondly, the cultivatablo surface of the globe is strictly limited. Excluding wars, famines, and pestilences, it is just a matter of simple arithmetic to prove that mankind might crowd the whole planet within a measurable period. Although the increase of the population _ proceeds at a pace far slower than is potentially possible, it is nevertheless continuous. Some say we are already near the limit of production, and that the possibilities of extending the food-producing areas are practically exhausted. That is the grim side of the picture. Sir Henry Rew, ex-Government Statistician, reassuringly asserts that the forecasters of early starvation have based their calculations on terms of wheat, and have overlooked the fact that four-fifths of the world’s population depends on other kinds of fond. “Thirty years ago,” Sir Henry Row savs, “the president of the British Association declared that practically no more land was available for wheat, yet within a decade 50,000,000 acres were added, and there have been Inrther additions since. None of the vast wheat-exporting countries Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, Russia, and India, ranking in this order—have yet utilised all thenland suitable for cropping. Professor Russell Smith contends that the United States and Canada are good for an increase of probably 1,000,000,000 bushels per year, while the only limit to Siberia is a drought. Only .10 per cent, of the Australia area is utilised, while 92 per cent, of Chile is not utilised. . “ If it came to a pinch,’’ Sir Henry says, “ mankind would purify the tropics of deadly fevers and dear the junde for wheat, and irrigate the whole of the continent of Australia before it would sit down to- starve.”— United Service.

As far as the dominions are concerned, they must remember that there were only 18,000,000 whites outside the United Kingdom. The dominions’ birth rate is and soon white emigration will entirely cease wth the drying up of the European population. ' Hence it is hopeless to look for much larger populations in Australia and Now Zealand. In South Africa there arc 8,500,000 blacks and 1,500,000 whites. The birth rate of America is falling and will continue to fall. It will bo unnecessary to restrict the European whites, because none will be available. The article concludes: “It used to be said that the colored races would conquer the whites in a tearful carnage. Such barbarism is entirely minessary, as the same end is being achieved bloodlessly by the will of the whites themselves, who hail childlessness as the shortest way out to better times. The only hope of the whites is to pass on birth control to the colored races.”— Australian Press Association. AVIATION FRENCH AIRMEN AT DELHI Prsss Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, April 10. The French airmen Captains Lcbrix and Costcs have arrived. They fleAv from Hanoi, in French Indo-Ghina in eleven hours. They left Tnkio on Sunday in an effort to reach Hanoi (2,6(10 miles), but were compelled to descend and refuel after Hying for twenty-five hours. 'Hie livers loft Calcutta to-day in an effort to cadi Jodhpur (1,500 miles) in the hope of reaching Paris on Friday.—Australian Press Association,

COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY TRANSFER OF SHARES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, April 11. The directors of tlio Colonial Sugar Refining Company propose amendments to the deed of settlement to prevent the transfer of shares to a trustee company unless the beneficiary or the represontaive thereof is associated with such company’s officers. Thus the owners of shares are assured of voting rights. The total issue of shares is 202,500. The directors regard the position as dangerous, as many shareholders have no real interest in the company, A statement on the othc l- side of tho question is to bo circulated by various trustee companies.

EVENTS IN CHINA

BRITISH TUGS FIRED ON NATIONALIST DRIVE ON PEKING. Prosa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright HONGKONG, April 11. A naval wireless message from Hankow states that Chinese troops fired on British tugs and lighters proceeding to Changsha, and soldiers attempting to board tho vessels by means of junks were forced to return to Hankow. A British consular protest resulted in the Chinese garrison commander taking tho necessary steps to ensure a safe passage. Chinese reports here state that the Nationalist forces, in a new drive on Peking, heavily defeated the Shantung troops, who are hurriedly retreating northwards.—United Service. RASH FRENCH OFFICER DISPUTE WITH GERMANS MURDER AND SUICIDE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, April 11. An intoxicated French officer had a dispute with German civilians at a tavern in the village of Namborn, in tho occuped territory. He rushed home, got his revolver, killed one German, and wounded another. Tho police chased him home, where ho barricaded his door and set fire to his furniture. When tho police broke in they found his charred body.—Australian Press Association. BIRTH CONTROL DOWNFALL OF WHITE RAGES LOSING THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WORLD Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 10. The fact that the whites are at present in a. process of being utterly swamped by the colored races is the keynote of an arresting article by Sir Cluozza Money in tho ‘ Evening Standard.’ He instances the amazing low level of birth rates in Europe as an outcome of birth control, the tide of which it is useless to endeavor to stem. He also instances France building up a colored army in Africa and the American ban on whites, while building up large black populations in the industrial towns. In the face of these facts it is not difficuit to say that the whites in Europe will be forced eventually to_ import colored labor. The world’s whites are only one in three, and we must therefore anticipate the certainty that the whites will be compelled to lay down tho leadership of tho world. European emigration will entirely cease, the industry and the wealth of Europe will contract; and the British Empire will necessarily dissolve, because there will bo insufficient whites to maintain it.

CHICAGO ELECTIONS GOVERNS SFI ALL DEFEATED filß “BILL" THOMPSON ROUTED WRECK OF POLITICAL FORTUNES. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. NEW YORK, April 10. With the defeat of Governor Small now apparently certain, it is vicar that Mr “Bill” Thompson has suffered a political rout. Senator Dencen’s ally, Mr Emerson, seems assured cf the Republican nomination for the Governorship. , Mr Thompson’s boast that he would have twenty delegates to support President Coolidge for the Presidential nomination at tho Republican Convention is empty, only eight being elected, nhile fifty-three delegates who were instructed to support Senator Lowden have been chosen. Colonel Frank Smith, who was’elected a Republican Senator from Illinois in 1926, and was twice not permitted by the Senate to take his seat, owing to excessive campaign expenditure, was again running for tho Republican Senatorial nomination, hut apparently he has been defeated by Mr Otis Glenn. Thus again Mr Thompson has had a setback. It is interesting to note, moreover, that Air Thompson, who himself was running for appointment as a delegate to tho Republican National Convention, was also defeated. The fate of State Attorney Crowe is as yet uncertain. He appears to have been defeated for nomination as State Attorney by Judge Swanson, but,should he he successful it will moan that Air Thompson will have saved something from the obvious wreck of his political fortunes. —Australian Press Association. LESS VIOLENCETHAN EXPECTED. ONLY ONE DEATH. NEW YORK, April ]0 The Chicago primary elections ended with little of tho expected violence. The shooting of one negro is the only death reported at present, hut it is said ihat there have been six kidnappings and other scattered, nets of violence.—Australian Press Association.

SYDNEY HARBOR DISASTER

CLAIM BY FERRY COMPANY £30,000 FOR LOSS OF GREYCLIFFF Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 11. An echo of the Greycliffe disaster was heard to-day, when an application arising out of the pending action by the Sydney Ferries, Ltd., claiming £30,000 from ,%e JfpiPfl Stew Ship, .Company,

Ltd., for the loss of the Greycliffe was made to Chief Justice Street. The Union Company applied for a commission to examine material witnesses in London. These were Professor Hillhouse and J. Semple, and their evidence was desired to test that submitted at the Marine Court of Inquiry regarding the operation of interactive forces and bow wave repulsion between the Greycliffe and the Tahiti immediately before the collision. For the Sydney Ferries it was contended that the Union Company had called two experts to give evidence on the points involved. The granting of a commission would cause undue delay and deprive plaintiffs of the right to cross-examine the experts in Britain. Decision was reserved.

A VILLAGE SCANDAL • ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RECTOR COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. AIM’IL 11. The village of Avcjiing (Gloucestershire) is excited over the opening of a commission of inquiry appointed h,y the Bishop of Gloucester to investigate allegations regarding the conduct of the rector, the Rev. 0. F. Hayden. It is alleged that he paid court to the village schoolmistress under circumstances to occasion scandal, and that he frequented alehouses, telling improper stories and swearing habitually. Counsel, in outlining the complaints, said that, having regard to the rector’s own reputation and the fact that ho was a married man, apart from being a clergyman, the commission would have to ask whether he acted wisely and honorably. The rector denies the charges, and says that the gossip must be fully investigated “ for the sake of myself, my wife, and the young woman concerned.” —Australian Press Association. SOVIET RUSSIA M. TCIHTCHERIN RESIGNING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, April H. A Riga message states that confirmation has been received from Moscow of the report that M. Tcbitcberin is resigning owing to ill-health. The Communists arc reported to have chosen M. Litvinoff to fill the post of Commissary of Foreign Affairs. Australian Press Association. COKMST MENACE JAPAN'S REPRESSIVE MEASURES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. TOKiO, April 11. (Received April 12, at 1 a.m.) The Prime Minister (General Tanaka') is sending out a nation-wide manifesto pointing out the dangers of radicalism, and explaining the closing of extremist organisations.—Australian Press Association.

RUSSIAN INTRIGUE SUGGESTED. TOKIO, April 11. (Received April 12, at 1 a.in.) While the Foreign Office reiterates that the publication of tho details of the Communist raids will not strain RussoJapanese relations, there is increasing evidence that the position of the Russian Embassy at Tokio will be unpleasant. . It is reliably stated that it has been learned that the Special Commission for China in Aloscow passed a resolution in favor of the formation of Communist Party branches a.t Kobe and Yokohama, and assigned a certain Vassilicff to be sent to Tokio as nominal assishtant Soviet commercial attache, but with the real purpose of acting as Communist organiser, it is not learned whethei or° not Vassilieff has arrived, and no reports have been received of any Russians having been arrested in connection with the raids. It is considered significant, however, that tho police arc detaining tho Japanese assistant ot the official Russian news agency winch has always operated at Tokio virtually as a department of tho Embassy. Meantime the Government spokesman has indicated that lie will exert pressure on the two Farmers’ Labor Party members of the Diet to resign their scats voluntarily, but the party « now reorganising, and tho loaders state that the members cannot he forced to resign their seats. It is indicated, however, that tho Government may bo able to force their unseating. Cabinet secretaries_ consulted tne Prime Afinistcr regarding tho status of the proletarian members, and aftcrwards said the course of actitei wdl he finally decided at the Seiynkai Party meeting to-night. # It is also reported that Cabinet may protest to Aloscow against alleged Russian support of tho Japanese Communisis asserting that it is a violation ot file' Yoshizawn-Karnkhan agreement. United Service. A BRAVE DEED MISS DONALDSON HONORED Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. SYDNEY, April 11. (Received April 12, at 1 9.m.) Aliss Lucy Donaldson, the heroine of the recent shark tragedy, was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society, It is believed that she is the first woman to he so honored. [While bathing in the surf near Newcastle Air Arthur E. Lane, business manager for Henry Lane (Australia). Ltd. I=l was attacked by a shark a.nd severely mauled. He died en route to the hospital. Aliss Lucy Donaldson, awed twenty, was bathing near by with .iTgirl friend. She sent the latter for (assistance while she herself hurried out fo Air Lane, who was 50yds away. Aliss Donaldson splashed the water as she neared Air 1 Lane. The shark became frightened and disappeared. The girl found Air Lane almost unconscious, She dragged him to the shore, where assistance was available. The man’s right hand was bitten off, and there were large pieces out of his left thigh, while his calf and shin bone showed the marks of the shark’s teeth.]

TRADE PROBLEMS BRITAIN AND THE EMPIRE A CANADIAN. OPINION. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, April 10. (Received April 12, at 1 a.m.) The capitalisation of commercial intercourse among members of the British family of nations was urged by Mr G. H. Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, when addressing the Canadian Club. Ho said: “Britain must alter her relationship with the rest of the world, and particularly with her own family. We should give serious consideration as to what our relationship is with the British Empire.” For Canada’s benefit Mr Ferguson urged that Britain should place a. duty of 5 cents a bushel on foreign wheat, and suggested that Canadian wheat production should have sympathetic consideration from Britain.—Australian Press Association.