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India’: Importance to England.
NGLAND owes her wealth and her im-
portance as a world power to her do-
minion over India. In fact, India might
well be termed the material substance of
the British Empire. India gives a certain
power, resplendence and prestige to the Is-
land Kingdom, and lends inliuence and ad-
vantage to British aristocracy and com-
merce by her illimitable abundance.
India does not occupy the foremost place
in Great Britain's foreign commerce. Trade
with East India is third in its importance
to England-the United States being first.
and Germany second. But if we include
Ceylon and the Straits Settlements then the
entire Indian Ocean trade takes second
place. But the British-Indian commerce is
not the only consideration for the innum-
erable ofiicial posts open in India to Eng-
lishmen exercise a strong influence upon
the accumulation of wealth at home in Eng-
land. Therefore, the great concern of
British politics is to insure the safety of its
Indian possessions and to insure the safety
of all accesses to India.
If we consider the alliance of England
with Russia, which had been attempted for
the last ten years, this last fact seems il-
logical. But, whether England is on the
side of Russia herself, her one purpose is
to divert the greedy eye of the Moscovite
from the Indian Empire. This has been
England's policy for some time. Witness
how, through Japan, she debilitated Russia's
maritime and military strength as well as
her Asiatic powers. And when England did
reach out a friendly hand to humiliated
Russia, and allied herself with that nation,
against Germany, it was not because of any
altruistic desire to strengthen Russia, but
because she knew that by pitting Russia's
strength against Germany, Russia’s atten-
tion would be centered in the lVest, and
India temporarily forgotten.
England's approaches to India are
through the Suez Canal and around the
Cape. Naturally it is of vital consequence
to England that both remain surely under
her control. By means of the colonies in
South Africa, England commands the Cape
and in order to protect the Suez Canal she
has acquired territories which make her po-
sition there equally certain. Not very long
ago Great Britain designated the Sudan as
a piece of useless territory. Shortly after-
wards England's policy changed-she de-
clared that it was necessary to control the
middle and upper Nile in order to properly
command the lower Nile and the delta. But
England's plans were in pursuance of an
idea to control the avenues of communica-
tion to India, b afiiliating her South-Afri-
can and North- ast-African colonies. And
this indeed, was part of a huge scheme to
control the entire line from the Cape to
Cairo, which would imply a sovereignty of
the India Ocean.
In order to possess besides the Suez
Canal, a reserve route for transportation to
and from India and also because of strate-
gic considerations, England built the
Uganda railway. This line, which was a
costly bit of construction opened a new
way to the Indian Ocean.
But England's greedy plans did not go
unchallenged. The Bagdad railway, built
with German capital, became a dangerous
rival to the Suez Canal, and England
promptly harrassed and opposed it where-
ever and whenever she could. This was not
all-Germany had fixed herself firmly in
Tanganyka, and her plans for a connection
East and West through Africa interrupted
and prevented England's ambition to render
co-tangent her northern and southern col.
onies.
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