ANOTHER COLONY TAKEN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 5

ANOTHER COLONY TAKEN

ALLIES OCCUPY CAMEROONS

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

The Prime Minister has received the following message from London :— London, September 28. Official.—The operations of the British naval forces on the West Coast of Africa have resulted in the unconditional surrender of Duala, the capital of the Cameroons, and Bonaberi, to Anglo-French forces under a BrigadierGeneral. - "'..'' The Gorman Cameroons, in West Africa, like Togoland, is purely tropical in character, with a - broad malariaRtrickon coastline, and great inland plateaus where the conditions of health are more favourable. Togo and the Cameroons are very similar in character. All sorts'of civilisation niay be found within their boundaries—from hordes of cannibal savages to somewhat fiighty-organised native States. The chief products are indiarubber, palm kernels, and cocoa'. The German ,Came'roons are much larger than Togoland, oovoring 191,130 square miles, as against Togoland's 33,700; The population of the Cameroons totals 2.540,000. The seat of Government is at Buea, but Duala (population 22,000) is,the.principal trading centre. There is 149 miles of. railway, and from Duala a cable runs to Germany.