French Official Photograph 



NATIVES WEAVING MATS IN WHAT WAS FORMERLY GERMAN WEST 

 AFRICA, CAMEROON 



"Germany has been as murderous in dealing with the backward tribes of her colonial 

 possessions as she was in Belgium and in northern France." Scandals in the maladministra- 

 tion of Cameroon and in the oppression of the natives under German rule came to light in 

 1906. Three weeks after the outbreak of the world war British troops from Nigeria crossed 

 the German frontier into this colony, and on February 18, 1916, its complete occupation by 

 the British and French, working in cooperation, was announced (see page 57). 



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