The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-22
jet to BRUSH control by treaty or other

jeet TO British control by treaty or other
wise
From the fastest statistics published It
appears that the British empire extends
| over H'-aono square miles. OF which only
l2l'uo are In the small islands which are
me nome OF the United kingdom OF Great
hIltain ana Ireland. Queen Victoria IS rul-
er over 100000 people, and only IS l0i.-
/ yio Of them dwell within the confines Of
the United Kingdom In 1897 the revenues
! OF Great Britain ard her colonies were
aoout $ll45 ego 600 while the share raised
III the United kingdom was ONLY half
the amount.
India, Australia and Canada are. Of
I course. the richest Of England's possess
S'N"S' IN the provinces of India The
queen realm extends over more than
I,o"Wp square miles of territory. and
I through her vlceroy she rules 2s7 G11o30
people. The Canadian possessions cover
o'tYV'V'o square miles, and the Canadian
SUBJECTS number nearly 55U.Ol0 loyal SUBJ
Jecls In Australia the Queen mas
S,"1uVV loyal subjects IL is the
IafSesr island la the world
about SOsl,o') square mucs-eoualine m
size the United states. including Alas
Aa' ana being tweny-tix times rs large
as the httie England that rules it.
me rest OF Great Brtaius colonial Dos
sessions are not, territoH3lly so import
ant IN the English ana Irish channels
seN' IN t2o Mediterranean are Gibraltar
ana Maltese and Cyprus Islands: in the
gun OF AHen is group of dependencies:
III the indian ocean are Ceylon and 4
| Few MINOR Islands; in Asia are India and
| t"e Sulats Settlements; in the AqiaHc
Arcilpelago are Hong Kong. North Bor-
heo ana LabUan Island; IN the Pacific the
british flag floats over New Zealand ana
the tlJlsi on the American continent he
| sldeS canada, Britain holds sway over
| newfoundland, Guiana aud Honduras. in
the North and South Atlantic are a dozen
such Islands as Bermuda, Bahama ia
malca ana Barbados and added 10 ain
tnese are the millions of miles Of English
territory and the millions Of British sub
gt'ts III darkest Africa. The smallest OF
DhEaihds foreign possessions but At rho
same time one OF the most important IS
Gibraltar, which includes only one ana
hlhe-tSnths square miles, and is the home
OF $1,000 people.
Next TO England France holds the ,oost
| important colonial possessions The total
tfench colonial territory is about 2750 GOA
| square miles, and the population is prac-
ucaHy 00J0OO9. The most important OF
the French dependencies are Algeria
Madagascar, French Soudan and French
congo; Tunis, which Is q prOtectorate.
French Iudo-China, COMPRISING AMMAN,
| also protectOrate; Camhodia (protecto-
rate), Cochin China and Tonquin In the
Rtter are 100000 people and in French
congo more than half that number. Al
sera has a population of 100000 and Mad
aBascar 35O0000. The African ana Asiatic
possessions of France are the largest ana
most troublesome ana would fully warrant
the nome government in keeping a large
standing army If the German frontier
were thousands OF miles away Among
! the French American possess ions-Eng-
Iand now rules Canada, where France was
once supreme-are Cayenne (where the
| pepper comes from, Guadalupe, Martin
ique and St. Pierre and the Miquelon Is
lands.
those of England are somewhat insignia
cant. They cover about 105O 900 square
miles, most OF the territory being In Az
RIGA and not being mentioned often in
the dispatches In the, CamerOons are
100000 people ruled by the young war
lord,and in German East Africa are GOO 0
more. In the Pacific Germany holds the
Bismarck and Marshall Archipelago
/ Kaiser Wilhem's Land and the Solomon
/ Islands
! Spain has more colonies now than she
Will nave in a few weeks. The most Valu-
able of the islands over which once llooted
1 the red and yellow stripes are the Philip
! pines, Cuba and Porto Rico. The last
! named viii belong to the United States,
! Cuba WIZ be free IL il behaves Itself and
/ tHe IHlupplneS may 20 WIN Porto HlcO
! They are Islands Of richest production, and
they hold 7,0O0O 900 people. Little Porto Rico
has only $3.50 square miles and less than
100000 people. but they all want to come
aud Will come under the protection OF I'm
Gle Sam. Spaln's other colonial possessions
are the Caroline, Palaos Lulu and Mari
anne Islands In the Asiatc. ana Ifni, Fer
nando Po Elobey, Anabon, Carisco and
Canary islands and The Sahara coast
| Hollands best colonial possession is
Java, that land of earthquakes and coffee
where live 100000 such simple people as
were seen on the Midway during the
! Worlds Fair. Besides Java the Dutch
rule over part of Borneo and New Guinea
/ the Maluccas, Sumatra and other islands
in The Asiatc archipelago, and st. Martin,
/ Curacao and half a dozen others in the
! West Indian group. Little Denmark
| claims Greenland, where the icy mountains
grow Iceland and ST. John and st. Thorn
as Islands, in the West indian ocean.
| West Africa, whore Cervera's fleet lotered
a few weeks before sailing over The At
! lantic to destruction, and a few minor ISL
! ands In African and Asatic waters Italy's
! colonial possessions are Insignificant and
so are Russia's Siberia being province
| in the Russian state). The Dey OF Trlpol
renders homage 10 the Sultan Of Turkey
who also exercises his power Ia Egypt
| though Egypt Is nominnlly an independent
state, even If Il is occupied by British
troops