Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-21
Countries Have Vast Posses
sions Beyond Their
Own Borders
BIG sPLIT-UP AT END
(aermsn East Africa is q Country Of
Vast Wealth, While English
Foreign Holdings are Scat.
TERED Over Earth.

Washington, Aug. 20.-Millions VI
square miles of the earth's surface
beyond the borders Of the European
nations at war, will constitute the
rich prize to be divided when the
hostilities will have ended.
France controls 4,53S,540 square
miles and population of 40.9S1 24d
in Asia, Africa, America and the Is
lands of the sea. Germany controls
1.O27,S20 square miles. with al tstl-
mated population of 12,041,603
Russia, in the two protectorates
over Bokhara and Khiva. known to
Americans merely as the names OF
certain kinds Of Oriental rugs. c"n-
trolls 10000 square miles Of iand
and 1896, 900 people, not included
within the Russian empire. Finland,
for purposes of distribution, is lield
to be a part of Russia.
Belgium controls the Belgian Con
go, containing 100000 square miles
and 100000 Of Bentus.
Italy controls Eritra on the Reo
Sea, Tripoli and Cyrenaica, and par,
of Somaliland. The first mentioned
has an area of 45.SO0 square miles,
an eighth larger than Ohio. with a
population of 100000 natives. TIP
oil and Cyrenaica have an AREA OF
4O6 900 square miles and popu'a-
ton estimated at 523,176. III ao.l-
ton Italy has small concession az
Tientsin, China, with population OF
1900, not carried in the grand &c
tails of lands and peoples subject 10
parceling by the peace congress.
East Africa Great Prize.
Germany, which, according TO re-
ports, has already lost T.golaad on
the West Coast of Africa, to c'm-
bined force of British and French CO.
lonials, in the Kamerun protector
ate, German Southwest Africa aud
German East Africa, has 9Sl.4to
square miles with white population
of 22,4O5 and native population OF
11.4O6, O24. German East Africa is
the prize, containing as it does ali
area of 3S4,S1O square miles and a
population of 7,645,77O. German
Southwest Africa has an area Of 32,-
245 square miles and population Q
whites of 1883 and a native popula-
ton of 1866.
In Asia her jewels consist of Nlau
Chau, acquired in 1897, with an area
of only 200 square miles but a pop
ulation OF 16S.0OO. That is the seat
of the Eastern Empire the Kaiser
hoped to establish on the ruins u
China.
In the Pacific ocean Germany has
as large a collection OF islands. nu.
merically speaking, as the United
States. including the New Guinea
Marshall, Solomon and Caroline Is
lands and part of Samoa, in which
the United States also has an inter
est.
France overseas has possessions
putting her away ahead OF all thos'
engaged in the war other than GTea
Britain. She regards Algeria ant
Tunis, in North Africa, particular!
the former. as part of France. Tunl
is attached to the ministry of foreig'
affairs, while other colonies ar" sub
ject to the ministry of the colonies
created as department of the GOV
eminent in 1894.
French colonies have IA large mea
sure of self-government. The oide1
ones, such as Reunion, MartN:1ut
and Guadalupe, have representation
in the French parliament. Each o
those mentioned has senate? ant
two deputies. French India tPondl
cherry for many years the football
between the Dutch, the French ans
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 aid Cochin
China have each deputy.
Arc Represented by Senators.
The other colonies are Represented
in the Conseil SUPERIOR dcs Colonies
consisting of senators and deputies
form colonies, delegates from thos5
not represented III parliament and
persons especially appointed 10 thai
asse mbly for considering colonial af
fairs.
The possessions in AHA have &
total area of 310.176 miles and nopu
latioh of 1O,773,300. In Africa ths
area is 4,1S4 ,401, with population OF
1851 1853. In America the area is
35,162 and a population of 446, 20
chief OF which is French Guiana, with
an area of $4,000.
St. Pierre and Miquelor, on tht
Newfoundland coast. have an area Of
only ninety-six square mfies, .,lmosl
equal to the original District Of Co
lumbia, with a population OF 42S The
Island of Martinique came into notice
in 1902 on account of the eruptlor
of Mont IPelee, the volcano consti.slt
ing the northern point OF the island
khich resulted in the destruction %
the city OF st. Pierre and the LOSS o
about $4,000 lives.
In the Pacific ocean the Frenc. re
public controls New Caledonia ant
Tahiti, with an area of 1900 and ;
population of $1,000.
British Possessions Huge.
The British colonial possession'
are the whole of the Australian con
tinent. Canada, the former Boer re
public, Somaliland. Bechunaland. In
dta, Victoria islands Off the coast O
China, harbor off Weihaiwei, the fed