. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. sions had little to remained for the African and Pacific colonies a totaltrade of $66,000,000, of which $30,000,000 was for ex-ports and $36,000,000 for imports. German colonial advocateslaid stress on the fact that the colonies of England, France,Holland, and Belgium were selling tropical products toGermany of the value of $269,000,000 a year, while they 158 THE WAR IN THE COLONIES bought in return only $70,000,000 worth of German th
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. sions had little to remained for the African and Pacific colonies a totaltrade of $66,000,000, of which $30,000,000 was for ex-ports and $36,000,000 for imports. German colonial advocateslaid stress on the fact that the colonies of England, France,Holland, and Belgium were selling tropical products toGermany of the value of $269,000,000 a year, while they 158 THE WAR IN THE COLONIES bought in return only $70,000,000 worth of German the 50,000,000 square miles of habitable earths surface,12,000,000 were British, 8,500,000 were Russian, 4,500,000French, while only 1,336,000 were German. The reason why Germany had made so little of her Afri-can colonies was commonly stated to be that she had fol-lowed neither her own system of government intelligently, .M^^aKa ^UPI^R-SENEGAL AND -^-^--r-_ o Sabankafi Bedwaram Hacha,./;;^^Bir Alali <VC»* L< IK ane tn Z ° Mussuro ukawa ; (ji^^Ma3sakorij ^y«a%°ikoao/^-^^ ?B^oorn^^^^yH AD TER. ore Guiba et. (i r^ -. l. rebuLukolela . TWO GERMAN COLONIES IN WESTERN AFRICA nor the system adopted for colonies by the English, TheGerman Government mistrusted private enterprise, fearingthat individuals might control, or squander, natural re-sources. Hence there was no opening in her colonies forkeen business-men, not even for keen German administration was characteristically German. Regula-tions drafted for every possible contingency minutely gov-erned the activities of all who desired to engage in colonial 159 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA exploitation. If a business-man went to a colony, he foundhe could not begin operations without official he wished to trade with natives, to build railways androads, to prospect for gold or copper, to farm, to growrubber or cotton, he had first to get authority to do sofrom Berlin. The Germa
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