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in a very good state but mentioned the lack of American ships. There is a good deal of trade in automobiles, sewing machines, cash registers, graphaphones, and other things of that kind. The German competition is making itself felt in a decided manner and the Stinnes ships are beginning to assert themselves also. Our trade was given a great boost during war but it will be different to keep all of it from now on under our system.

30. My impression of Java was that of a population organised from above to till the soil, a paternal government, and a strict, sanitary, political, and financial control. The government, as such, is very efficient. It must be remembered that this system was used by the early Hindu conquerors who had already laid the foundation which the Dutch have continued. It is undoubtedly the best colonial government of this kind, and, in fact, the only one in existence today.

31. The people may be divided into four principal classes: first; the government officials from Holland, only four four hundred in number who absolutely run the Indies; next, the white proprietors of estates, a person having Dutch blood is considered a white; next, the native nobility; and last, the ordinary natives

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