The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-12-05
French Control Most of In
terror, While British
Hold the SeapOrts
DISTRIBUTION NOT
FINALLY SETTLED
Teutons Had Spent Vast Sums on Rail
ways in Togoland and CAMERON -
Country Rich in Agriculture and
Probably Contains Minerals.

The first step toward an apportion-
m2nt between France and England of
the territory of former German colonies
III West Africa is described in report
to the ROYAL Geographical society of
l. naon, printed III the journal of the
society for November. Under the ar
r&ngement now existing, by far the
greater area is under French admins
tf2tlon, but the most important ports
are under British control.
The maps printed by the society indi-
cate that England has jurisdiction at
present over about 10000 of the 800 600
square miles of CAMERON, and over
al 1ut 10000 of the 33,700 square miles
OF Iogoland. Lone, the principal port
and town of TogOland, becomes British,
temporarily at least. Buea, Victoria
and Rio del Rey in the CAMERON are
governed by the British, but Duala,
the largest town, is in the French sec
tiCn.
The conquered German territory is
placed under the government of tho
Fl 2Ilsh and French provinces adjoining
1t. The CAMERON is situated on the
GDlg of Guinea, with the British prov
French Equatorial Africa south and
east OF 1t, so that it is divided for adj
milistrative purposes between the Co
loHal governments Of Nigeria and
French Equatorial Africa.
Iogoland, which is west of CAMERON
on the Gulf of Guinea, will be ruled by
| the governors of the Gold Coast, the
British province, and Dahomey, the
| French.
Both of the conquered provinces are
rich III agricultural resources, with more
or less mineral wealth only slightly ex
| plcred. The CAMERON has native
population of 3 800 600 and a white pop
| ult ton before the war of about , 900
| Since their acquisition of the country
/ in 1854, the Germans had developed it
| Before that time it was for white mer
| nothing more than a geographical tern
| and a spot on the map of Africa. TIL,
| Germans instituted the production O.
| palm oil, cocoa, rubber, cotton, indigo
fin" woods, and other natural product
| and built up Duala, Buea, Victoria ant
| other stations into reproductions o.
| small German towns. They had bull
three railroads and were CARRYING for
| ward large plans for the development
| of the colony with the purpose of estab
| fishing a model colony. A member O
! the West African expeditionarv fore
| into CAMERON wrote in report to tn
| Royal Geographical society:
These railroads were built at enor
| nous expense, the bridges being excel
| lent. On the Mittellandbahn at Edea
crossing the Sanaga river. is an irol
| bridge, the largest single span in Afri
ca. On the Eisenbahn there are severa
long iron bridges, the biggest being a
Bepele and Rake.
1.-The wealth Of the country unde
the Germans was entirely agricultural.
1t would seem probable that there ar
minerals, in the north at any rate, {
the same extent as in Northern Nigeria
| but it is believed that no mineral Sun
vey has been made by the government
as the policy was to develop the agricuI
tural side first. The richest centre o
agriculture is that around Victoria an
Buea. Here there are huge and splendi
plantations of cocoa and rubber. Fac
plantation has very good Europea
quarters; they are traversed by broa
ways mostly with light trolley line
down them.
''Fhc inhabitants extreme fear o
remaining in a place in German hand
was only too clearly shown at the evaC
uation of the Kribi by the Allies.
huge refugee camp had been formed a
the Kribi, when it was decided that til
place could be of no value in future mi
itary operations, whereupon all tn
; natives begged to be taken away an
remain under British protection. \
far as the shipping allowed this wa
done, but necessarily many were lef
The scene on the departure of the las
steamer from the Kribi was tragic, $