THE NEW PROMISED LAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 501, 18 September 1912, Page 6

THE NEW PROMISED LAND.

The Jews who dissent from the Zionist movement, with Mr Israel Zangwill at their head, have found two new countries where Hebrew settlers could form a majority, and so secure an autonomous aaministration. One of them is the Portuguese colony of Angola, in South-West Africa, and the other is a State of Central America. The schemes were discussed in Vienna a few weeks ago by a Congress of the Jewish Territorial Association. "1 learn that Mr Zangwill explained the great difficulties that had been encountered in finding a suitable colony," writes a correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle. "In 1907 Turkey, fearing an Italian invasion, offered the Jews Cyrenaica, the eastern division of Tripoli, but this proved unsuitable for colonisation owing to the lack of water. An attempt to get land in Australia failed owing to what Mr Zangwill described aa the narrowmindedness of the Labour party there. Offers in Mexico and Paraguay had to be rejected owing to the unsettled state of political affairs in those countries. The proposal to work some concesions of a Brazilian railway company also fell through, owing to the concessions proving insufficient. There remained but Angola, a rich and fertile country under the Portuguese flag, and a certain Central American State." The Portuguese Legislature has passed a law authorising the entry of Jews into Angola, and the authorities of the Central American State, which has not been named publicly, appear to be willing to place control of their country absolutely in the hands of the Jewish people on certain term?. The Congress passed a vote of thanks to the Portuguese Government, and authorised a committee to study the comparative merits of the two projects in conjunction with the London Council of the Jewish Territorial Association. The initial steps were taken for the creation of an agricultural bank, which is to finance the operations of Jewish settlers when the new promised land is found. The next decade may see the foundation laid of a great Jewish State.