Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-08-18
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and the Niger
Egypt Is still nominally a depend
ency Of the Turkish Empire, but for
all practical purposes both Upper
Egypt and Lower Egypt are British
possessions. The Soudan provinces
OF England now join the British terri
tories in East Africa, which includes
a frontage of about four hundred
miles on the Indian ocean. Thus the
route is nearly all in British terri
tory for the Cape TO Cairo" railroad.
In the cry heart of tropical Africa
Hes the Congo Free State, with near
ly million square miles, nominally
a Belgian dependency. 1t touches
British South Africa and also the
British Soudan holdings 1t requires
no bold stretch of the Imagination to
conceive that the present great war
may change the map OF Africa to a
considerable extent When the great
powers sit down around the council
table at the end of the conflict, Eng
land, in return for her support of
Belgium against the Germans, might
easily ask that the sovereigntE of
the Congo Free State be entrusted to
her.
France might we'll be expected TO
assent to this, because her African
holdings would likely be consolidated
and considerably extended as the re.
suit of her participation In the war.
With the Congo Free State In her
possession, Great Britain would then
hold a great strip OF Africa running
almost due north and south from the
Mediterranean TO the cape. She
would control the interior lake re
gion of the Dark Continent whose
asst bodies of navigable fresh water
are fairly comparable to the greai
lakes OF the United States; the. Congo
valley; the gold and diamond reefs
of South Africa and practically every
mile OF the immense and rich valley
OF the Nile.
The consolidated British Empire il
Africa, thus brought into being
would exceed the British holdings il
any other continent, not excepting
Australia and the Dominion of Can
ada.
On the other hand, should German,
be the dictator in the peace term
at the end of the great struggle, sh
would undoubtedly exact a large par
of the French possessions in Africi
, Besides the holdings in the Saharf
the Congo and the Niger valley
France owns the great island Of Mac
agascar. 1t is not improbable tina
! If Germany again. as in 1871, wer
: in position to force terms o
! France, she would exact her "poun
of flesh" in choice bits of Frenc
colonial possessions, rather than
e cash.
I One of the greatest colonizing po'
b ers OF the world Is Holland, who's
a empire In the east once include
/ much OF what is now British lndi
]. Holland still owns Borneo, which
J. nearly as large in area as the Ge
!, man Empire; the Celebes Island
n one.third as large as Borneo; Sum
n tral which is nearly as large
/ France; Java, which though on
3 about as large as Iowa, is one of y
l. most densely populated regions
s. the world, numbering something Ii
It 80. 900, 900 inhabitants Dutch Guiar
y on the north coast of South Amerit
which is about the size of jay
o though having much smaller pol
lation and various islands and grou
e, of islands in the South seas.
ID Holland, Germany and England q
ID about equal partners in the ownersf
w. of New Guinea, the second large
IL island In the world, lying north
ne Australia.
ar Though Holland has not declar
g. war. the enumeration of her colon
possessions is important in this c.
nection, for she has ordered the m
ilization OF her army and II Is h'
4 to see how, in the event of a prolo
alton of the big war, any Europe
4; power with world interests can k'
out OF It,