The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-03-24
Map of All Africa Endangered

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this broken bit of possession. 1t will
show the present territory held by the
Germans in two sections on the west
adjacent to the Belgian kongo in the
center Of the continent.
1t is not out of the possibilities of the
next few years that the kongo terri
tory should become German: that the
Portuguese territory lying between her
two principal possessions on the west
coast should also become German. The
requirement of these places would give
Germany Il belt right across the mid
die of the southern part of Africa near
ly as large as the United States and
%effectually slice the English north from
the English south.
1t will be seen that in the event of
German defeat III the present wal the
kaiser seems likely to lose his foothold
in South Africa to the benefit Of Eng
land and to Il lesser degree for the ben
eft OF France.
\ slight indication of what this
mounts to lies in Il recently published
list of capital investments of Germans
in various colonial adventures. In Afri-
"a alone they are said to he nearly
S4Oo.OOO,0OO. Her total colonial capital
investments are nearly $2.OoO.OOO,O0 600.
The largest fractions are said to be
as follows:
Brazil $500, N0, 900
AIIlCa oSO.V UOO
Venezuela $4,000, 900
She has more than $1OO.OOO.O 900 in
vested in Turkey and the Balkans. tt
say nothing OF nearly $1OO!oO0,OOO or
thereabouts in China, Mexico. Peru.
and $2,oOO,O0O in Argentina.
Pretty pickings for those who con
clude the treaty of peace.
In the Desert Country.
Twenty years Z Timbuktu was a
word. Today it is the junction point
Of a railway system, partly in opera
ton and partly under construction.
which will connect the Atlantic and
the Mediterranean and open up to the
worlds LII al area II and a
half times as great as the United
States-the French empire in Africa.
Desert? Part of it, yes. but French
science and French enterprise have ac-
complished such wonders hat the an
nouncement was made two years ago
by the French colonial administration
that in the very heart of Sahara a re-
gion many square miles in area had
been reclaimed to an extent thai it
could be planted to grain without de-
lay.
Wherever the Frenchman has gone
In Africa he has taken the railroad II H.
veying instrument and the we'll digger
with him. 1t is not too much to say.
on the basis Of what has been accom-
plished in the past, that in fifty years
the great desert will have been cut
down one-half by the same sort of
reclamation processes that have put
vast arid sections of the American
west under successful cultivation.
And this great empire is already part
ly linked up with Europe by boat or
rail. In Paris you "a buy a through
ticket to Biskra and return that will
entitle you to a rail and water trip
with all the comforts and most of the
luxuries of civilization.
Lie UIOlLc StHlue VI SuL1lcSe NOl-
don on camelback overlooking the Nile
at khartum is suggestive Of what the
British have done in the reclamation
of northern Africa. From Alexandria
all the way to the southernmost limits
Of the Egyptian Sudan you will see
the helmeted British or civil admins
traitor bearing the white mans burden
with an cas- that makes you suspect
that it is no burden at all.
1t is a close race between Gaul and
Briton as to which has accomplished
more in the way Of shedding light into
the dark continent. with the odds
slightly in favor of The Frenchman.
The two practically share equally in
the dominion of Africa.
Germany came late into the scram-
bic for the waste places OF the world.
Even while Won Moltke and his vic
torious Prussians We're severing AL
sacc-Lorraine from the body Of France
the French We're building up across the
Mediterranean Il splendid dominion be-
side which the home country looks UNI
important.
DUMBEST OF ALL ANIMALS.