The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-09-03
UNEMPLOYED AI7RIC.A. :.
A Portion Of the Dark CoEt.atn.
Yet Unknown.
Unappropriate1 Parts e the t'a- %- ti'
Objective Point of Eypior.ls 80
ties from various
Nations.

There is vet an uncEplored an re-
appropriated section If Afeitls IL
ing from the scene OF st,al.a'5 ~. ~
tions on the Congo nortlvard = : k
Tchad. says the Springfield l2Ioas.}
Republican. 1t lies cast OF the equa-
torial province and nth of the new
line of the French )hcre from the
Niger to Lake Tchad; t is rich aHd
fertile country. and sad to be one Of
the most desirable possessions in the
dark continent. The London Times
gives an interesting survey Of the man
euvering ON the part of france, Ger
many and England for possession of
this territory, which touches the
spheres of all these nations.
The French scheme is the most am
bilious, and it includes Il railroad fram
Brazzaville on the Congo-in t.l..t part
of lower Guinea given to tn French b.
the conference that fixed the b97.i-
daries of the Free State Of the Conro
-northward through twenty-five de-
grees of latitude to Algic1s, For five
hundred or six hundred miles north
ward the road would pass through this
disputed ground, not intended to be in
cluded in the French sphere, and which
can only be annexed after prolonged
controversy with Germany and Ing
land. The valley Of the Shari, includ-
ing the province of Bagirlni and parts
of Adamawa and Bornou, lie south of
Lake Tchad, and are in the territory
under the eye of the Royal British
Niger Company, which would formally
resist their annexation to France. Nor
would Germany consent to. this addi-
ton to the French sphere if she had no
other reason for opposing this railroad.
The doctrine of hinterland, however,
comes in play here.
Germany's sphere in the Cameroons
extends eastward to the fifteenth degree
of east longitude, and behind this
sphere lies territory appropriated by
France reaching to the Mobangi, which
is the property of the Congo Free State.
This French appropriation is contrary
to the English agreement, and
cuts Germany off from portion of her
hinterland, as the appropriation of ter.
ritory along the line of this proposed
railroad would form the remainder
German parties are now pressing east
ward from the Cameroons to take pos
session of this hinterland--a strong one
under the governor working steadily
toward the northeast; another under
Lieut. Morgen making it's way to the
sources of the Binue, while a third is
on it's way to establish base of opera
+inpc In 40 Roll np1,,,t,.N IN bn how
ders of Adamawa.
French exploring parties are pene-
trating this region from the north as
well as the south. From the sou tn they
have followed the Mobangi river and
its branches-one party following the
Sanga to about four degrees north lati-
tude; another the Mobangi to the Bon
gra rapids, whence it is proposed to
push across country to the Shari and
through to Lake Tchad From Algeria
and from Senegambia expeditions are
trying to reach the upper Niger and
thence along to Lake Tchad
In the meantime the Royal Niger
Company are looking after their con-
nections with the central Soudan and
trying to keep hold of the countries not
granted to France to the south and east
of Lake Tchad. The Shali valley, Ba-
girmi, and Wadai they will keep in their
sphere if they can; the British East Af-
rican Company will hold on to Darfur,
and will work it's way rs far to the
south and west of that coun try as it is
able. Whatever France and Germany
may claim when the time comes for the
new partition of this unappropriated
part of Central Africa by international
agreement as it must before long, Eng
land will probably manage to secure
the larger part If not the whole of the
Central Soudan for herself