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LEADING ARTICLES. 



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they saw the tent standing on the lonely 

 plain. One of the relief party thus de- 

 scribes what they found : — ■ 



Lieutenant Wriglit, of Toronto, a Cana- 

 dian, commanding our little party ap- 

 proached the tent first and lifted the' flap. 

 Captain Scott lay on his hack as if asleep, 

 but outside of his sleeping-ba^. Doctor" 

 Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers were in their 

 sleeping-bags, and it was apparent that thev 

 had been carefully wrapped up by Captain 

 Scott, who evidently was the last to die. 



Lieutenant Bowers lay on his side exactly 

 as if he were asleep. Doctor Wilson was sit- 



ting in a half-reclining position, his back 

 against the side of the tent, facing us as we 

 entered. On his features were the traces 

 of a faint smile. 



When we had secured all the equipment 

 and the records of Captain Scott, we laid the 

 bodies side by side and said a burial ser- 

 vice for them. Then wo removed the poles 

 from tlie tent and covered the liodies over 

 with the canvas. On top of this we built a 

 cairn of snow and ice, fifteeji feet high. We 

 took two skis, bound them together in the 

 form of a cross, erected it at the top of 

 the cairn, .n ];ist memori.il to the dead, and 

 left them where they fell. 



IMPERIAL MATTERS. 



THE WELDING OF THE EMPIRE. 

 In the Fortnightly Review Sir Gilbert 

 Parker discusses, under the above title, 

 the various aspects of the Xaval prob- 

 lem as it affects the Dominions — more 

 particularly Canada. Sir Gilbert fore- 

 shadows the establishment of a real 

 Imperial Parliament in which the vital 

 interests of the Empire may be ade- 

 quately respected. He says : 



Immense progress has been made in the 

 last twelve years, and in the most natural 

 way — by a process of evolution. Canada has 

 been a unit of government since 1867. Aus- 

 tralia became a unit in 1901, and South 

 Africa became united in 1909 — Rhodesia ex- 

 cepted That, has simplified the Imperial 

 problem enormously. Now the British 

 Grovernment, through the Colonial Office, has 

 to deal with only three Governments, instead 

 of seventeen ; and in relation to all foreign 

 interests of trade and maritime questions, 

 and all others of importance, the whole pro- 

 cess of ooTsultation, arrangement, and agree- 

 ment is simplifietl. and each Dominion .speaks 

 as one people. The advantage of tiiis is 

 immeasurable. 



AN ENGLISH SPEAKERS' UNION. 



Tho first administrative federation or co- 

 operation will certainly take place in the 

 field of defence, and — of a consequence — 

 foreign affairs, and from it will be evolved 

 ways and means to machinery for a larger 

 exe<?utive co-operation. That accomplished, 

 and the British Empire rendered a fact and 

 not merely a name, by an elastic, loosely- 

 jointed, reciprocating union, with the prin- 

 ciple of trade preference in operation every- 

 where, that other larger union Avill be in 

 sight — and I think I may live to see it — 

 the co-operative alliance of the British Em- 

 pire and tho United States, together with 

 all English-speaking peoples. It is a dream, 

 but dreams come true, as the history of 

 the Britisli Empire has shown, as the history 

 of the United States has shown since the day 

 when tliere were three nations with three 

 Grovernnients operating in the territory now 

 c-ontrolh'd from Washington, to which was 

 opposed an Imperial policy tliat at lengtii 

 successfully excluded Spain and France from 



the territory now represented by the forty- 

 nine States, and the problem of half a conti- 

 nent was solved. 



The welding of the British Empire will 

 lead to the welding together of all British- 

 speaking peoples: and that will be a good 

 day for civilisation and for the world's peace. 



ANGLO-AMERICAN REUNION. 



Mr. Ellis Barker's article in the 'Nine- 

 teenth Century is a measured contribu- 

 tion to the amenities of the two nations 

 of Britain and America which can no 

 longer be said to be two severed halves 

 of one nation, but notwithstanding have 

 been drawn more closely together. 



The v/riter devotes considerable space 

 to the origins of the Monroe Doctrine, 

 and suggests that the United States 

 have been content for the most part 

 to leave the defence of the doctrine to 

 Great Britain, which will make hard 

 reading for the fire-eaters. Mr. Barker 

 sums up his views with admirable pre- 

 cision : — 



The race instinct is strong on both sides 

 of the Atlantic. In Great Britain and the 

 United States it is instinctively felt that one 

 nation depends for its security largely upon 

 the other, and that neither nation can allow 

 the other to go down. The Unit^Kl States siid 

 Great Britain are in the same boat. Great 

 liritain realises that it would be a calamity 

 to see the Unite<l .States dcfeatefl by a great 

 military nation, which would probably settle 

 on the American Continent and militarise it, 

 and the United States recognise that they 

 would become tho immediate neighbours of 

 the military Great Powers of Europe if the 

 Briti.sh fleet should be destroyed. 



Tlie greiitest interest of the ovor-crowde<l 

 military nations of Europe and Asia is ex- 

 pansion. Tho greatest interest of the Anglo- % 

 Saxon nations is peace, security, and the 

 restriction of armaments. Th(>'se bie.<sings 

 cannot be obtained by the federatioii of the 

 world, dreamt of by "the late ^Ir. Ste;id, or 

 by the federation of Europe, proposed by 

 S r Max Wa.'chter, but only by the federation 

 of tho Anglo-Saxon nations. Experience 



