BER 6, 1988
MESAMENTLES
T AID REICH GREATLY
re coal and potash. She available trade figures show the in Iapanese mandated island are num- The ly independent as far as port and export trade of this vint and British Empire nations, hers are concerned. Ereatz area is almost negligible. The mozesperous but all are small and, eco- up for some deficiencies in than 366,000 square miles of terfi-nomically unimportant. Japan also t economists do not believe tory contains a population of only has announced she will not give up these islands and it is believed enuity of German chemists about 80,000 chiefly natives. de subtitutes for many im-
Germany does not intend to press
aterials.
for their return. ·
ORE EXPENSIVE
every
Chief exports of Tanganyika are sisal, cotton, coffee, ground nuts, hides, skins, hemp and ivory—one of them vitally important raw ma- terials. more, practically
Southwest Africa, a Union of developed has proved South Africa mandate, is even less ensive than the real pro-productive. Essentially
raising country, its principal pró- the products for which ducts are diamonds, wool, furs and is wholly or partially de-a few rare mineral ores. pon the rest of the world} The Cameroons are divided
# cattle
A few of the British-held islands' nré more important. New Guinea
is said to have very rich placer gold deposits as well as copra a substi- Fute for fats-citrus fruit, bananas, coffee.
Nauru Island is a tíny dot in the Western Pacific but has valuable be-phosphate deposits. The ther re-
able oils, nickels, tungsten,tween Britain and France, with thelatively important islands are in the the Samoan groups. Principal exports bauxite, antimony, molyb-latter nation holding by far
In the British partare copra, bananas and cocoa. bestos, vanadium, cotton, largest area.
Trade-experts contend that most Manila hemp, iron, cop-the soil is fertile and rapid progress er, wool, oil and even cer- has been made toward building up colonial powers have found over- B of coal.
valuable agricultural production, seas territories, with few excep chemists have been able but the present products are insig-tions, disappointing from an eco- e relatively large quanti-nificant cloves, vanilla, soline and oil from coal; pepper, palm oil and ivory,
wood; a type of cotton
w; soap and textiles from stics and rubber from 3;
"leather" from fish
FRENCH AREA
ginger, nomic point of view. In some cases colonies have proved nothing but a burden on the taxpayers.
African
colonies in particular, they say, have produced few valu In the French area, the chief pro-able, raw materials, and all the colo- ducts are palm oil, ground nuts, al-nies of the world contributed only}
three per cent of the world's trade. monds, hides, cacao and ivory.
Togoland also is split
tion, one type of material]
between Germany is deficient is be- for another. Glass för France and Britain. This was the is being used in place of only German colony that was self- bing, although some-cop-supporting, but its economy is rela- btained from Austria; fish tively unimportant now.
s being substituted
by
r eggs; rayon is being area
German
e manufacture of tyres in Urundi, now a part of the Belgian
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It is one of Africa's best nination of production fig-cattle countries and possesses
e former colonies indicate sizeable mative population. eir present state of deve- gium recently announced, however, least, they will add little that she would never give up any aking up the Reich's depart of the Congo.-
TANGANYIKA
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The former German areas are in
former African colonies, the Pacific, divided between Japān tis Tanganyika. Latest
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