"Rising Tide Of Colour

Throughout The World"

“mHERE is a rising tide of colour X throughout the world," writes a correspondent from Cyprus. He is a high military officer, formerly a resident of Polynesia.

“You have mentioned the anti-white movement in the Solomons. In Nigeria there is a somewhat similar condition that is rapidly becoming serious. In Jam aica the half-caste Labour leader is now claiming the right of Jamaican indepen dance from the Colonial Office, from which to a Jamaica Republic is but a step.

“These are but three examples. There are many more in every quarter of the globe. The causes seem fairly obvious: (1) Oun British Administrators for the past 25-30 years have not been of the same standard as those of former (ie, pre 1914-1918) days; (2) the radio broad cast news and the cinema; (3) we did take a hell of a licking from the Japs.

Although we staged a most successful comeback, the effects of the licking re main, and will remain.

“The purport of this letter is to urge you t° use the considerable influence of PIM” to support in every way a fair deal for all Islands peoples.

“The day of the supremacy of the white us f because he is white—is gone; and it is surely better to encourage friendly collaboration, as far as is pos sible, than by bad administration to in crease the, as yet, not very serious anti white movement.

"I Just left India, where the whole situation is both very bad and very sad.

The possibility of civil war there is alarming, and the effects might easily extend to your ground in Fiji.”

Mr. and Mr. Colin Marr have a new daughter—born in Port Moresby on April 15. The Marrs were well known in pre war New Britain, where Mr. Marr was an officer of the Department of Agriculture He is now stationed at Sogerei, Papua.

M. Lestrade, secretary to the Governor of French Oceania, has been appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Madame Bailly, the wife of the well known harbourmaster at Papeete, Tahiti, died on February 10, after a long illness.