The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29

COLONIAL POWERS OF THE WORLD
Only Great Britain, France, Ger
many, Holland and Spain Have
Colonies.


Colonies.
From the Chicago Times Herald.
Should the United States add the Philip
pines and Porto Rico to the Hawaiian Is
lands, which have already been annexed,
this country would rank fifth in import
ance among the Colonial Powers of the
world. Only Great Britain, France. Ger
many and Holland have colonial possess
sions that are more populous and more
valuable. Spain, which is now fifth as a
Colonial Power, would have 10 take a low
er rank.
With the annexation of the Hawaiian
Islands, the United States increased it's
area 6,6H square miles and added about
10000 to its population. The Philippines
would add 1926 square miles to the area
under Uncle Sans deninian, and about
100000 to the population that claims his
protection. Little Porto Rico has an area
of $3.50 square miles and 806703 people
Hawaii is now alone on the list of Unit
ed States colonial possessions, but there
is every reason to believe that other is
lands, and valuable ones, too are soon to
be added
Great Britain, of course, leads all the
nations of the world in colonial posses
slons. Indeed, the Queen Of England and
is4HlJtSSS VI lbu4d rules over greater COZ
onial population than is subject to all the
other nations combined. Truly enough
may 81 be said that the sun never sets on
the soil of Great Britain, for in every
ocean and every sea there are Islands, big
and little, whose people owe allegiance 10
the Queen. She has colonies, dependencies
and protectorates throughout Che world,
and, collecting all the province of the Do
minion of Canada and all the province of
British India into one group of each, there
are no less than sixty islands and terri
torial divisions TO be found in the list of
Britain's colonial possessions. Some of
them are colonies possessing a free consti-
tuition and having a responsible govern
ment, such as the Dominion of Canada and
most of the Australian provinces; others
are colonies in which the legislature is
partly elective and partly controlled by the
governor, such as British Guiana and Ber-
muda; others are crown colonies, ruled
directly by appointees of the imperial gov
eminent, such as India, TO which country
young CurZon is soon to be sent as vice.
roy, some are dependencies subordinate to
the government of others, and a few are
protectorates, internally independent, but
subject to British control by treaty or 9TH
erwise.
From the latest statistics published 1t
appears that the British Empire extends
over II 900 square mics, Of which only
12l, lis are in the small islands which are
the home of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. Queen Victoria IS
ruler over 400000,000 population, and only
49, 1875 of them dwell within the confines
of the United Kingdom In 1897 the reve-
nues of Great Britain and her colonies
were about 81 ,125, 100000 while the share
raised in the United Kingdom was only
half the amount.
India, Australia and Canada are, of
sions. In the provinces of India the Queens
realm extends over more than 1885, 900
square miles of territory and through her
viceroy she rules 2S7,000O00 people The
Canadian possessions cover $3.50 900 square
miles, and the Canadian subjects number
nearly 5500,00O souls. In Australia the
Queen has $500, 900 loyal subjects. 1t Is
the largest island in the world-about g.,
OBJ 900 square miles-equalling in size the
United States, including Alaska, and be-
ing twenty-six times as large as the little
England that rules II.
The rest of Great Britain's colonial pos
sessions are not territorially, so important
In the English and Irish channels are the
Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey; in the
Mediterranean are Gibraltar and Maltese
and Cyprus Islands; in the Gulf of Alden
is a group Of dependencies; in the Indian
ocean are Ceylon and few minor islands;
in Asia are India, and the Straits Settle
ments; in the Asiatic Archipelago are Hong
Kong, Berth Borneo and Labuan Island
in the Pacific the British flag floats over
New Zealand and the Fijis; on the Ameri-
can continent besides Canada, Britain
holds sway over Newfoundland. Guiana
and Honduras IN the North and South At
lantic are a dozen Islands as Bermuda,
Bahama Jamaica and Barbados and add
ed 10 an these are the million Of miles Of
English territory and millions Of British
subjects IN darkest Africa. The smallest
of England's foreign possessions, but at
the same time one Of the most important Is
Gibraltar, which includes Only one and
nine-tenths square miles, and is the home
Of 5000 people.
Next to England, France holds the most
important colonial possessions. The total
French colonial territory IS about 10000
square miles ana the population u prac-
tcally 400O0,0O0 The most important Of
the French dependencies are Algeria,
French S0udan ana French
Congo; Tunls. which So protcctOrate;
French ind0-China comprising AMMAN.
sleo protcctorate; camDodia QF0tector-