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her desire to cope with us in armaments, but do 

 we follow her as closely in her scientific pursuit 

 of tropical produce ? As an instance may be 

 mentioned wolfram, another product of Malaya 

 which is scarcely known in England, whereas 

 Germany has special agents in the Straits who 

 buy up every ounce that is offered them. The 

 latest official statistics show that for 90 tons of 

 this metal shipped to the United Kingdom, 220 

 tons were sent to Germany, and the use of this, 

 in particular, is for the hardening of steel armour 

 plates. We are apt to think that everything 

 worth having must, in the first place, come to 

 London, the so-called home of capital ; but 

 capital will follow successful enterprise any- 

 where, and in many branches of commerce our 

 neighbours appear to be getting ahead of us. 

 It is hoped, therefore, that these remarks on so 

 great and promising an industry may serve to 

 stimulate the desire to foster and encourage it, 

 and in the work there is, apart from individual 

 gain, a building up of Imperial interests which 

 can never fade away." 



PREVENTION OF ALIENATION OF NATIVE- 

 OWNED LANDS 



The following letter by the author appeared in 

 the Financial News of July 3, 1913 : 



" Adverting to an article which I recently 

 contributed to your columns in regard to the 



