East Africa

12 pages in this part of World's War Events.

IN the strenuous days of the Boer War I learned to know my South Africa from the Indian to the Atlantic Ocean as one learns a country only…

Obtaining water on the Kalahari Desert.

I have referred to these lakes and to the great mountain-chain along the lakes because they formed the western boundary of German East…

Pursuit of enemy across Rovuma is difficult.

The Konigsberg's guns accompany the enemy on land.

From a strategic point of view, the northern frontier was the most difficult of all. It passed north of Kilimanjaro, to the west of which…

Railways built in the Congo territory and connective. Two railways built during the war in the Congo territory have largely extended the…

Now, the Germans are not in search of colonies after the English model, and those that they have in East and West Africa had no white…

The riches of the African territories. "All these territories together have over 100,000,000 inhabitants. United in a single ownership, and…

Franz Kolbe, in the "Deutsche Politik," a year ago thus described the future role for raiders in the South Atlantic:

And in another article in the "Preussische Jahrbucher," he says: "Nearer Asia cannot continue to exist without this covering of its flank…

The dominions desire a Monroe Doctrine for the South. As long as there is no real change of heart in Germany and no final and irrevocable…