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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4967, 10 December 1884, Page 2

Eeferring to the annexation fever, tha Pall Mall Gazette says: " What a scramble it is ! England and Eussia began. the game, France struck in, and now Germany is in full ory. The contagion of annexation is spreading everywhere. Europe is partitioning the world. Every Power is grasping with both hands after fresh terrilory. The area unappropriated is diminishing daily, and if the paoe is not slackened there will soon not be a single black or brown man in the whole wide world who will not be the subject of one or other of the European Powers. All coloured mea seem to be regarded as fair game. The white man is dividing up the planet. It 18 a strange and staging process, but it has become-so familiar as to cease to attract notice. All round the contment of the dark skins Europeans are wZi Uh gJ agS *\ d Priming annexations with thelevensh haste of gold-miners who have suddenlyjstruck a vein of.'the precious metal, and who establish • claims' by the simple process of sticking in posts bearing tion of the world, based upon the principle thai *o one haa a right to any rule 0* aaveseignty in either hemisphere but men of European birth or origin. The Chosen People did not appropriate the Promised Land with more perfect assurance of a right to dispossess the Cansanites tnanjihat shown by the white men in th* plunder raid round the world.".' , When may a man be said to be literally immersed in buginess? When he's giv*ing a swimming lesson,