New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-10
GERMAN COLONIES IN AFRICA.
AN INVESTMENT WHICH Is NOT YET
PAYING FULL INTEREST.
THE CONDITIONS AS REPORTED BY sEcRE-
TARIEs OF THE BRITISH En-
BAssY IN BERLIN.

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Washington, Oct SO much interest is feit IN
the colonial experiences Of other countries par
tIcularlv when they relate to experiments III uop-
zeal regions that the following report on the Ger
man colonies in Africa by the secretaries OF 'he
British Embassy Berlin, when mas just "cc"
received by the Treasury Bureau Of Statistics is
especialIy timely The German colonies In Africa
| are from three to twelve degrees north and south
of the Equator the climatic conditions and products
| thus being sufficiently similar to those Oh ro''o
! Rico Cuba Hawaii and the Philippines 10 iehu
unusual interest 10 experiments now In progress
under the direction OF the German Government
which are detailed In the report as follows:
The number of resident Europeans in German an
Africa In January 1897. 1913. OF whom Zisa
We're t;ermans The military force consisted Of s6?
/ German officers and men and about 1000 colored
soldiers besides the police force. 49,.
given as S206iS square miles. The expense TO- the
home Government was estimated ye ro from
This is ar increase go 000 the state SUBSIDY
s nd sonh nV ye Aca & than in the asst
Colonial budget. mainly owing to the grans LOT me te
SwakOp Railway. the improvement OF SWakoP mar
Dor and the increased expense OF the armed force
GOOD PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE.
1t will be from a comparison Of the area and
the European population that yet the colonies
are like those OF all other nations In the same
latitude plantation and not settlement colonies
In this respect the year 1897 is OF good augry Tor
the future of the colonies. From every quarter
J evidence
plantations in TOgOland. the Cameroons ana East
Africa In East Africa there are present twenty
nine plantations with a capital of 10000. In the
Cameroons there are ten and IN losoiaHu SIX
plantations The success Of these und'ItakSinss:
which. Judging 10y the frequent foundation OF new
companies appears to be assured is due chiefly 10
/ the Government experiment gardens, Wnch are
conducted by trained officials under lsl'uJIIo.s
from the central botanical station in Berlin FROM
these stations seedlings are sHppigd to Europe or
planters and 10 native chiefs. There Is every
reason 10 suppose that the products OF the colonies.
espeGiqy Gose cocoanqt S ddG facnG anu so
As TO another and more important SIDE 70 me
colonial auesion-lhe possby Oh answer is nni
as yet so decisyely In the aihrmauVe ~ aPpelns
bara-that some three hundred four hundred I;u-
ropean families could support themselves by farming
doh neG no9 an& h0se exs@s GERMANY in
addition to this district there is large territory.
where. in the opinion Of the Governor it will be
possible to establish large agricultural settlements
In Southwest Africa the southern, district Is ex-
tremey dry, but water storage has been tred WITH
dams there is little doubt that there. as In western
Canada, it will be found profitable to- grow Wheat
company is in formation with the object OF esiab-
round an artificial lake The Government is paying
great attention to the land question ana it Is ey
cultural colonies will be established before long.
More than a hundred European farmers are already
settled in the colony. The great want is European
women rs is always the case In similar stages Of
colonial development. The climate cannot be con
view the rainfall of Windhook last year having
been over twenty inches 1t is, however, subject to
great variations.
RELATIONS WITH THE NATIVES.
The relations Of the Government with the natives
have been the whole good. Two difficult
paigns. one in the southwest OF East Africa. the
other in the north of Southwest Africa were sue.
cessfuly concluded. The labor question appears to
be solved in East Africa, where tribes have been
found willing and able 10 work. The same may be
said of the Cameroons but in Togoland it appears
that the demand is not fully met The Government
has put severe restrictions on the employment Of
labor with view to protecting the natives from
abuses In the Generous It has steadily set us
cess, as the natives now seem TO come in for en-
ployment Of their own accord.
are as follows. Total imports. fl.1ll 600: total
ports f2iI rs OF this 4? Per cert is with Germany
Great Britain and her Possessions have a large
share S in the trade q The colonies
land and quarter Of the imports came from
l BRUSH 81 Territory Nearly half the goods imported
part OF the exports went to Zanzibar for trans
II Will be by an examination of the figures
that the German colonies are still in the condition
o. an inysstment which is not yet paying full in
expended on the plantations in which the trees
have not yet begun to bear 1t will be necessary
10 whit some years before a final judgment Is pos
sble as to the success of the experiment
Two treaties have been concluded of great i'm
portance to the colonial interests of Germany that
with France settling the eastern and northern
boundaries Of Togoand and assuring that colony
an excellent trade route on the eastern side and
mat with China transferring the port OF Kiao-
Chau TO Germany.
From the general point OF view perhaps the most
important fact recorded In this report is the ex-
ANIMATION by DR.. Koch into the nature of frODicaI
malaria II Is malaria and not the heat which
MAKES africa so dangerous a place OF residence
and so hard Tor Europeans to develop Bur from
Or koch's report (Which DR.. Rosss Investigations
appear 20 corroborato) II would seem that there Is
fair prospect Of discovering means OF pro-
curing permanent immunity. It would appear that
by the simple expcdieni Of using mosquito nets a
european traveller could be safely passed through
me DANGEROUS fever belt until he reached the high
lands, where fever cannot he acquired although r.
may ana does frequently recur. This fact would
be or immense importance in the colonization cues
tlon Another important observation II confirmed
Is mat quinine should only be administered ar Ger,
tam stages OF malarial fever, TO be determined by
tho temperature. ~