We laughed at his native name, Pupure, which means fair, and at the titles given Tahiti by visitors: the New Cytherea by Bougainville, a russet Ireland by McBirney, my fellow voyager on the Noa-Noa and Aph-Rhodesia by a South-African who had fought the Boers and loved the Tahitian girls and who now idled with us.

Troops had been raised in Rhodesia for the war but were employed outside the colony.

Mr. Chamberlain had refused to send forces into Rhodesia in December upon the ground that troops could not be spared.

The consensus of opinion among European Powers was that the landing of troops at Beira and the passage by rail to Rhodesia with the consent of Portugal constituted a breach of neutrality on the part of the latter.

Provision is also made for the future inclusion of Rhodesia within the Union.