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Likewise, under British regulations, men who pass the examina- 

 tion of the Eastern Cadet Service and select the Hong Kong ser- 

 vice are sent to Canton for two years to study Chinese. 51 



Our conclusion is that in all colonies, where the language of 

 the mother country is spoken, it is comparatively easy to estab- 

 lish trade relations between the governing country and its pos- 

 session; and, even if the native languages in the colonies are 

 retained, the mother country and colony are in better position 

 from the standpoint of language than foreign country and colony 

 to carry on trade. 52 There are, of course, exceptions to the above 

 generalizations. It is the Italians and Spaniards and not the 

 French who furnish the language of the white man in Algeria 

 and Tunis. 53 The British administration in Egypt was handi- 

 capped for many years because it retained French as the official 

 language instead of introducing English. 54 In St. Thomas Eng- 

 lish is the working language and English signs adorn the streets. 55 

 In Santa Cruz also, while the black policemen wear Danish hel- 

 mets, their speech is English, as is that of the negro population 

 as a whole there, and official notices bearing the name of the king 

 of Denmark are in English. 50 The Danish policy in Greenland 

 has greatly retarded commerce and the general development of 

 the colony because instead of encouraging the natives to learn the 

 Scandinavian language and thus be brought more closely in touch 

 with Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and civilization in 

 general, all efforts have been made to prevent even the adoption 

 of foreign terms ; nor do the Danes learn Eskimo. 57 Again, com- 

 plaints are often made that German functionaries do not try to 

 learn the native languages, yet when self-interest in extending 

 commerce is involved young German traders will learn even such 



01 Colquhoun, Mastery of the Pacific, 344. 



52 Ireland, Far Eastern Tropics, 25. 



53 Bigelow, Children of the Nations, 249. 

 61 Penfield, Present-Day Egypt, 327-330. 

 55 Bigelow, op. cit., 184. 



50 Bigelow, op. cit., 203. 



07 Carstensen, Tzvo Summers in Greenland, 178-180 



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