Photograph from Pictorial Press 



A STAIRCASE LEADING TO THE TOMB OP A NATIVE CHIEE : CAMEROON 



At the beginning of the world war Germany's Cameroon possessions embraced an area 

 of 305,000 square miles — more than four and a half times the area of all the New England 

 States. The native population about equaled that of Massachusetts, but less than 2,000 whites 

 lived in the colony. Although the Imperial Government had been in control of the territory 

 for 30 years, less than 200 miles of railway had been constructed in this, one of the richest 

 regions of tropical Africa. 



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