Approved

Dutch And British

Fortification of Ft. Moresby Approved

MR. VAN DEN BUSSCHE, who recently retired from the position of vice president of the Council of the Netherlands Indies, said in Sydney that Holland welcomed the decision to for tify Port Moresby, which would forge another strong link in the chain of de fences of British and Dutch interests in the Far East.

“The Colonial Civil Service of Holland is drawn from University men, who must all have taken a special five-years’ course”, he said. “They must learn both the Malay and Javanese languages, economics, law, and ethnology. It is a little different from your colonial ser vice in New Guinea. We have to deal with native peoples much higher up the scale, with a culture of their own which we have to learn. But it might be a good thing for your country to have specially trained young men from whom they could choose their future adminis trators”.