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The Coloured Conquest [novel by “Rata” (Thomas Richard Roydhouse), 1904]

7 September 2023 · Leave a Comment

[Editor: This novel, by “Rata” (Thomas Richard Roydhouse), was published in 1904.]

The Coloured Conquest (1904)
Front cover of The Coloured Conquest (1904)

The

Coloured Conquest


By “Rata.”


Contents.

June, 1913. [preface]

I. Deals with the affairs of Mabel Graham and myself

II. Mabel Graham’s gift of a bunch of red rambler roses to a Japanese officer causes a fracas in the Hotel Australia

III. What was learned on a visit to South Africa

IV. My strange meeting with Sunotoko

V. I learn of Major Matte Yoko’s threatening and brutal letter to Mabel

VI. I endeavour to warn the people of Australia but fail

VII. Australia and Japan

VIII. How the Japanese and Chinese played a game, and arranged for naval demonstrations before the deluded peoples of the Continental Countries

IX. The people of Sydney become alarmed

X. The blow falls

XI. Excited meetings in Sydney, and a run on the banks

XII. Bennett Burleigh’s story

XIII. The Japanese land in Sydney

XIV. The fair lily colonies

XV. I tour the word, and survey the results of the Coloured Conquest

N.S.W. Bookstall Co.
861 George Street, Sydney.
1904.



Source:
Rata, The Coloured Conquest, Sydney (NSW): N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1904

Editor’s notes:
“June, 1913.” is the book’s preface, although it was not labelled as such; therefore, a notation in square brackets has been added beside “June, 1913.” in the Contents list: [preface].

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