LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
ROSY DEPORT ON WEST AFRICA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 26. (Received February 27, at 8.55 a.m.) The report presented by the Parliamentary Commission under Captain Walter Eliot, which recently visited West Africa, contains a rosy report of these possessions. It states that they are second in importance only to India from an Empire standpoint. It says that no industrial troubles exist, because owing to bounteous Nature it is only necessary to work two months in the year. Twenty million natives, just tasting civilisation, already buy more British goods per capita than the United States. This huge land, stretching to the borders of the Sahara, is one of the biggest live stock areas in the Empire, and is now carrying three million head. Thick seams of coal exist in the Enugu hillsides, also rich tinfields and great palm oil groves. The country offers one of the greatest opportunities to British enterprise.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ OaSWor
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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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156LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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