r Turkish control, and he dismisses as inadequate the numbers of
Syrians, Arabs, Armenians and Jews who can be transported to Mesopotamia
from inside the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. Their numbers are even
more inadequate since the Armenian massacres permitted by Dr. Rohrbach's
Fatherland, and even he cannot picture a million of his own countrymen
forsaking the beer-gardens for summers in the Sawad. He does not
positively state our answer, that it is from India and Egypt that the
man-power will be supplied, but, as mentioned before, I think he guesses
it. His prophetic gifts are not convincing enough to himself to let him
state the glorious future, when India and Egypt shall become German, but
that, I feel sure, is his vision: 'he sees it, but not now; he beholds
it, but not nigh.'

But we can give the answer which he does not quite like to state, since
for the English it is clearly more easily realisable. The native labour
we can supply from Egypt and India, especially India, will furnish a
million labourers, and, if we wished, two millions without difficulty.
But no Power except England can furnish it. And that, I submit, is the
solution of the problem of Mesopotamia; a solution well within the power
of English enterprise to attain in the hands of such men as have already
bridled the Nile, the water-horsemen of the world. And I cannot do
better, in trying to convey the spirit in which this work of
reclamation should be undertaken, than by quoting some very noble words
from Sir William Willcocks's report, in which he speaks of the
desolation that has come to this garden of fruitfulness through wicked
stewardship.

'The last voyage I made before coming to this country was up the Nile
from Khartoum to the Equatorial lakes. In this most desperate and
forbidding region I was filled with pride to think I belonged to a race
whose sons, even in this inhospitable waste of waters, were struggling
in the face of a thousand discouragements to introduce new forest trees
and new agricultural products and ameliorate in some degree the
conditions of life of the naked and miserable inhabitants. How should I
have felt, if in traversing the deserts and swamps which to-day
represent what was the richest and most famous tract in the world, I had
thought that I was the scion of a race in whose hands God has placed,
for hundreds of years, the destinies of this great country, and that my
countrymen could give no better account of their