The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1923-01-18
THE SPOILS OF WAR AND
DEBT TO UNITED STATES
ENGLAND AND FRANCE MADE A
RICH HAUL IN ACQUIRING
GERMAN COLONIES.

in all the talk about German rep
arations and the ability of the allies
to pay their debts to the United States
(Which they insist on linking together
although they have no relation in
| fact) we hear practically nothing of
the huge accretions of territory that
Great Britain and France obtained as
their share of the spoils of war;" says
the Republican Publicity association,
through its president, Hon. Jonathan
Bourne, Jr. "These new acquisitions
are located in all parts of the world
and are politely called mandates but
for all practical purposes are actual
possessions of the countries that now
govern them. By far the most extern
sive and valuable of the former Ger
man colonies are in Africa, and are
known as German Southwest Africa,
ITanganyika German East Africa),
TOgoland and the Kameruns. About
four fifths of those areas fell to the
lot of Great Britain, and practically
all the remainder to France. Consid-
Grafton of their potential and develop
ed wealth is of vital Importance in de-
termining the ability of those nations
to meet their obligations to the United
States. Those colonies are substan-
TALLY similar in climate, natural re-
sources and character of population,
and for the purposes of this discussion
will be considered together.
Rich in Resources.
"They have a combined area of $751;
46O square miles, equal to all Of the
United States east of the Mississippi
river with another New York state
thrown in. They have a population of
about 100000 natives and 27,500
whites. Their annual export trade is
about $22OOO,OOO, and their imports
reach $24,OO0,OOO. Their varied list of
products gives an idea of their fertil
lily and their tremendous possibilities
as a source of world supply when they
shall have been fully developed; Co
Goa, rubber, rice, maize, yams, tobac-
CO. cotton, kopak, coffee, copal, coprit,
kola, nuts, kafir corn, sisal fiber, sor-
ghum, bananas, vanilla, tea, manioc,
palm oil, palm kernels, caoutchouc'
dyewoods, ivory. guano, hides and
skins, copper. marble, gold, sulphur,
iron, mica, garnets. salt, lead agates,
topaz and diamonds. About s72,000,-
900 worth of diamonds have already
been exported and the deposits are
being rapidly developed. There are
about 4,25O,OOO cattle, 7,45O,OOO sheep
and goats and 10000 horses.
Vast Value of Products.
IAN this wealth mas been realized
with but one white man to every 40
square miles, or but one white man to
every $40 wild, ignorant natives. Both
Great Britain and France are exert
ing themselves to develop the natural
riches of their new possessions. When
modern methods, directed by intelli-
gent enterprising Englishmen and
Frenchmen, have been applied to those
territories the wealth that they will
produce may well stagger the imagin-
alton. There is every reason to be-
Iieve that their resources will com
pare favorably with an equal area IN
the western United States. Fifty BILL
lion dollars would be a conservative
estimate to place on the value of the
future products of those former Ger
man African colonies.
TT is not difficult to guess why