THE WEALTH OF AFRICA

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1659, 9 January 1917, Page 4

THE WEALTH OF AFRICA

Although it is not possible to punish the Germans adequately for the atrocities they have committed in East Africa, the campaign will not be unprofitable. The famous authority on Central Africa, Sir Harry H. Johnston, recently >vfo|e; —“Rightly governed. I venture to predict that Africa will, if we are victorious, repay us and our allies the cost of our struggle with Germany and Austria, The war, deny it who may, was really fought over African questions. The Germans wished, as the chief gain of victory, to wrest rich Morocco from French control, to take the French Congo from France, and the Portuguese Congo from Portugal, to secure from Belgium the richest and most extensive tof alluvial goldfield as yet discovered. ThU is an auriferous region which, properly developed, will, when the war is over, repay the hardest-hit of our allies all that she has lost Jfom the German devastation of her home lands. The mineral wealth of Trans-Zambezian Atriea treed for ever, we will hope, from the German menace—is gigantic; only slightly exploited so far. Wealth is hidden amid the seemingly unprofitable deserts of the Sahara, Nubia, Somaliland and .Namakwa. Africa, J predict, will eventually show itself to b e tlje most richly endowed of all the continents in valuable vegetable and mineral substances. Bui in the political map of the future there must be no yegion allotted to the German flag—after what Germany has done and has threatened to do.”