El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-20
RAPID COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT
TO FOLLOW ALLIED WAR VICTORY
Next Century to Witness Great Expansion Projects in
Colonies Controlled by Allies Especially France and
England, and Development Will Help Pay Nations
War Debts Belgium and Portugal to be Aided.

. tran slormed Algeria and Iunlss which
/ have become tremendous markets for
/ French manufactures and sources of
/ a large variety Of raw materials and
/ 1Oorstuffs necessary TO French exist
I ence at home. A population, native
three Barbary states VIII DO much
to restore the balance between French
I and German populations, and thus
/ French and German military strength.
Nor IS the situation in West Africa
I less promising. a great trunk rail-
way system IS almost completed from
2 Dakar on the Atlantic 10 the navi-
gable Niger the unfinished link COW
cred by the steamboat service on the
/ Senegal and French system. and in
I dustry has already Transformed the
vast region Watered by the Senegel
and the upper Niger, inhabited by
u, 0Qe, 600 blacks. far more Industrious
than the Inhabitants Of central
Africa From these natives, too,
France drew many divisions Of SEN
eEalese troops who figured in some
Of the most successful operations Of
the recent war.
Been Restrained by Germany.
In Algeria and Tunis. France has
. been working successfully for many
years; she began in Algeria in 1881
and in Tunis in 1881. In Morocco her
even then German opposition and Ger
nan menace restrained French effort
and held out the ever real menace
that a successful German attack in
europe would be followed by a Ger
man seizure OF Morocco AS the for
mer German chancellor Buelow wrote
IN his famous volume, Morocco is a
bell we can always strike when we
wish &c cali France" Moreover. when
Sir Edward Grey asked the German
government for a promise 10 respect
the integrity OF France in case Of
British neutrality in the critical days
OF 1914, the pledge was offered for
In 1905, IN 1908 and in 1911 Ger
many used French activity IN No
rocco as a basis for precipitatfna a
crisis; German journals published
maps showing western Morocco as
German. and AEadir was rendered
notorious for a long period by the
appearance in Its roadstead OF the
German Panther sent 10 serve no
tee that Germany desired a share in
Moroccan estates. This venture cost
France leo,0 square miles in her
Congo colony, and momentarily cut
ne colony in half, leaving it a mourn
ful fragment
German CIaImn Are Gone.
Now the German has lost his fleet
his claims on Morocco have disap-
pearec, the world has confirmed the
French protectorate. as Il has recog-
ntzed a similar status for Britain in
Egypt. Ar Paris, agreement was also
reached between France and Britain.
The other nations c0nsentiuE. which
VII permit the French to acquire
Tor the Spanish IN the future the
little strip Of territory remaining in
Spanish hands It the northwest cor
ner Of the African continent while
Iangier VIII Enthusiastically remain
IN French hands henceforth. although
70 was something Of a no-man's land
an impossible neutral district. before
the war. The advantage taken OF
this anomalous situation by the Ger
man has resulted in temporary
changes which are certain 70 become
permanent, now that France and
Great Britain have laid aside all Afri-
can riTalries and British acquIescence
in French aspirations in Morocco has