The Yale expositor., 1916-03-30
STORY OF THE CONQUEST OF KAMERUN
COLONY ON THE WEST AFRICAN COAST
Germans Fight Fercey and nfc Two Serious Defeats the A.
es-Terrory Taken From the Germans Africa Amounts to
10000 Square Mies-Brtish Soldier Gives Some
Interesting Details of the Campaign.

will ask the minister of war to re-
name that place Fort GODDARD"
Big Guns Arrive.
Not much could be done to smoke
! the Germans out, until late in April,
when two French guns. one of 95-mil-
limeters, arrived In the latter half
OF May the allies attacked in earnest.
After a heavy bombardment the
French rushed forward and secured a
position 500 yards from the German
advanced trenches. 1t was possible
to dig only at night, as the sun was
killing and by daylight the enemys
sharpshooters could pick off the allies
workers.
On the morning of May 81, the allies
took up position for general attack.
The S5-millimeter gun opened on the
defenders II was learned later that
this caused great CONSERVATION and
surprise among the Germans, because
they thought il was impossible to bring
such heavy piece through the jungle
to Garoua
Fighting was incessant for two
days. Each night the allies pushed
their trenches closer TO the Germans
The Germans employed the nights in
strengthening their positions. BY day
both sides took refuge in their excava.
lions.
The night of June s, Captain Car.
bonneau made a daring raid with thir-
ty-two men. He penetrated to the
edge of the town and set fire to $50
cases of munitions. He also learned
from natives the exact position OF the
houses in the center OF the town
where the Germans had taken refuge.
The next morning the French big
guns blasted these houses, setting
them afre. The Germans did not
hold out much longer. In the after
noon OF June 10 white flag appeared
on the roof of the hut which served as
! a German fort. Then, for the first
time, the French realized that they
had no white flag with them and could
not reply in kind to the German sig.
nal.
With the remark: AT this distance
they may take il for white" one of the
perspiring French officers took of his
shirt and waved II.
Captain Won Crailsheim, the German
commander. at first demanded a sur.
render with all the honors of war. but
finally gave up Internationally
The combined northern columns
were now able to move south and
form a junction in November with
the most northern of the two columns
invading the colony from the east.
The Germans were reduced to scat
tered groups and the allies sent scout
ing expeditions far and wide through
the vast jungle TO locate them. There
were several fierce fights. one at Ban
20, where the British defeated the
Germans. The pursuit continued. but
the Germans were able to escape to
friendly internment under the Spanish
flag
What will happen to the German
colony at the conclusion Of peace can
not be said now. If the allies win the
war. II will probably be divided up
between the British, French and Bel
gians, with perhaps a titbit to Spain.
Soldier Writes Of Fighting.
An officer in British regiment
from the Gold coast which helped TO
clear the Kamerun of Germans writes
to a friend some interesting details
Of this campaign under the Equator.
He tells how the expedition he accom-.
panied reached the neighborhood OF
Sakbyenne, on the Sanaga river, after
landing on the coast near Douala. He
continues