Identifier: literarydigesthi09hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rice, on a large scale,and was capable of sustaining a large negro population. In all these lands international science had made largegains under German influences. Evidence of this was pres-ent in German museums of ethnology and natural history;in German contributions to African philology, to the studyof tropical diseases, to economic botany, chemistry, palaeon-tology, history, and archeology. In East Africa, and in theKamerun hinterland, Germany had abolished the deeplyrooted slave-trade, but in Southwest Africa, the negropopulation had diminished through long drawn out wars.In 1884, when the Germans first came to this region, theHottentots were exterminating the Bantu negroes, and per-ishing themselves from alcohol, smallpox, syphilis, and star-vation due to the disappearance of big game. In lateryears, however, some elements in the native population inSouthwest Africa had been on the increase. Germany hadconstructed a thousand miles of road in East Africa, nearly 156 Ijovo Redondo
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^^-^^^f.^^v Pnrt Alfred Scale of Miles ^*«tlM 200 300 400I 1 1 I GERMAXYS SOUTHWESTERN AFRICAN COLONY 157 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA two thousand miles in Southwest Africa, 128 miles inTogoland, 149 miles in Kamerun, and 272 miles in Kiao-chow. In the Near East she had built the famous Bagdadrailway from Konia almost to Skanderun and Aleppoand, in patches, onward toward Bagdad. Her future pol-icy in Turkey would probably have tended to secure pref-erence for German trade; yet in the territories actually un-der Germany sway she had preserved the free trade prin-ciple. Her own trade, with her entire oversea possessionswas, however, not yet very large. Germany had made no great profit from her overseasempire, but as a colonizing Power, she had in general de-served attention. There were only 23,383 Germans inGreater Germany as against 243,000 Germans settled inlands under the British Crown, including 100,000 in theUnited Kingdom prior to the outbreak of the war. Ger-mans had a

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