Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-25
RICH COLONIES THE PRIZE
Nations at War Have Vast Posses
sions Beyond Their Borders.

Nations at War Have Vast Posses
sions Beyond Their Borders.
Millions Of square miles Of the
earth's surface beyond the borders of
the European nations at war; will con-
stitute the rich prize to be divided
when the hostilities will have ended.
France controls 4,53S,540 square
miles and population Of 40,9S6,243 in
Asia. Africa, America and the islands
Of the sea. Germany controls 1,027,S20
square miles, with an estimated popu-
lation Of 12,O41,6O3.
Russia, in the two protectorates over
Bokhara and Khiva, known to Ameri-
cans merely as the names Of certain
kinds of Oriental rugs, controls 100000
square miles Of land and 1896, 900 peo-
pie, not included within the Russian
empire. Finland, for purposes Of dis
tribution, is heir to be part Of Rus
sia.
Belgium controls the Belgian Congo,
containing 100000 square miles and 49,
100000 of Bentus
Italy controls Eritrea on the Red Sea
Tripoli and Cyrenaica, and part of
Somaliland. The first mentioned has
an area of 45,SOO square miles, an
eighth larger than Ohio, with a popu-
lation of 100000; Somaliland has an
area of 80, ,43O and a population Of 4OO,-
600. Tripoli and Cyrenaica have an
! area of 100000 square miles and pop
ulation estimated at 523,176 In addi
tion Italy has a small concession at
Tientsin, China, with a population of
1900 not carried in the grand totals of
lands and people subject to parceling
by the Peace congress.
Germany, which, according to re-
ports, has already lost Togoland on the
west coast of Africa, to a combined
force of British and French colonials
| in the Kamerun protectorate, German
Southwest Africa and German East
| Africa has $751; ,460 square miles, with
white population Of 22,405 and a ma
tive population Of 11,406,024. German
East Africa is the prize, containing as
| it does an area Of 3S4,S10 square miles
and a population Of 7,645,770. German
Southwest Africa has an area of 32.
| 245 square miles and a population OF
| whites of 1888 and a native popula-
ton of 1856.
In Asia her jewels consist of Kiau-
Chau, acquired in 1897, with an area Of
only 200 square miles, but population
of 10000. That is the seat of the
eastern empire the kaiser hoped to es-
tablish on the ruins of China.
In the Pacific ocean, Germany has as
| large a collection of islands, numeri-
| cally speaking, as the United States
| including the New Guinea, Marshall
Solomon and Carolina Islands and part
of Samoa, in which the United States
also has an interest.
France overseas has possessions put
ting her away ahead of all those en-
| gagged in the war other than Great
| Britain. She regards Algeria and Tu-
mis-, in North Africa, particularly the
former, as part of France. Tunic is at
tached to the ministry of foreign af-
| fairs, while other colonies are subject
to the ministry of the colonies, created
as a department of the government In
1894.
French colonies have n large measure
| Of lf-government The older ones
such as Reunion, Martinique and Quad
eloupe. have representation in parlia
ment. Each of those mentioned has a
| Senator and two deputies French In
| dia (Pondichrry), for many years the
| football between the Dutch, the French
and the English from the middle of the
seventeenth to the beginning of the
nineteenth centuries has senator and
one deputy in the parliament, while
Senegal, Guiana and Cochin China
| have each a deputy.
The other colonies are represented in
the Conseli Superieur des Colonies
consisting of senator's and deputies
from colonies. delegates from those not
represented in parliament and persons
especially appointed to that assembly
| for considering colonial affairs
The possessions in Asia have a total
area of 310,176 miles and population OF
| 10,7T3,3O0. In Africa the area is A.
1S4. 4.4Ol. with Il population Of 2j,6S1, ,263
In America the area is 80. 162 and a
population of 446.2l0, chief Of which is
French Guiana, with an area of $4,000
St. Pierre and Miquelon on the New
fOundland coast, have an area of only
SO square miles almost equal to the
original district of Columbia. with Il
population of 423. The Island Of Mar
| tinque came into notice in 1902 on ac-
count of he eruption of Mont Pelee
the volcano constituting the northern
point of the island. which resulted in
| . he ctin Of tho rit of pinrrp