Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Europe's Holdings in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Europe's Holdings in Africa.

Within the scope of a magazine article it is impossible to describe the steps which France, Germany, and Italy severally took. A sufficient Idea, however, may be gained by the casual reader of what has been done when I say that within the last ten years France has acquired of Equatorial Africa about 300,000 square miles, in which there are now 300 Europeans; Germany, 400,000 square miles; Italy, 547,000 square miles; and Portugal has now a defined territory extending over 710,000 square miles. France, moreover, has been active farther north, in the Sahara and In west Africa, and claims rights over 1,600,000 square miles; While Germany, in southwest Africa arid the Oameroons, asserts her rule over 540,000 square miles.—Century.