e course of a single year. The number
of Sovereign States and Chief Dependencies included within its pale, which
multiplied with such amazing swiftness during the opening year of this
World-Crusade, has now risen to two hundred and forty-seven through the
arrival of the Knights of Baha'u'llah Udai Narain Singh, Frank Wyss and
Daniel Haumont, in Tibet, in Cocos Island and Loyalty Islands,
respectively, as well as through the opening of Laos and Cambodia and of
the Islands of Pemba, Fernando Po, Trinidad and Corisco--territories not
included in the provisions of the Ten-Year Plan,--and as a result of
information recently received indicating the presence of a few believers
in the Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The number of local
Spiritual Assemblies now functioning throughout the length and breadth of
the Baha'i World exceeds nine hundred. Every single country listed in the
Plan within the confines of every continent of the globe, with the
exception of those within the Soviet Orbit, are now opened to the Faith.
All islands figuring in that Plan, over seventy in number, situated in the
Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Indian Oceans, in the Mediterranean and the
North Sea, have, likewise been opened except Nicobar Islands, Chagos
Archipelago, Hainan Island, Sakhalin Island, Spitzbergen and Anticosti
Island. The number of the islands of the globe to which the Message of
Baha'u'llah has been carried since its inception now totals ninety-eight.
In the Pacific Ocean alone the number of opened territories is now over
forty, while the number of localities where Baha'is reside exceeds one
hundred and seventy. The number of languages into which Baha'i literature
has been and is being translated has now reached one hundred and ninety,
no less than thirty-four of which are to be regarded as supplementary to
those included in the provisions of the Plan.

FAST-AWAKENING CONTINENT OF AFRICA

In the Continent of Africa and in its neighboring islands, in both the
Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, the number of the avowed supporters of the
Faith has passed the three thousand mark; over two thousand five hundred
of whom belong to the Negro race. The number of territories opened to the
Faith in that fast-awakening continent and its neighboring islands has
risen to fifty-eight, while the number of localities where Baha'is reside
is over four hundred. The number of tribes represented in the Baha'i
Community is now over one