THE CAMEROONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 7

THE CAMEROONS

ANGLO-FRENCH OPERATIONS. CONSIDERABLE TERRITORY SECURED. (Received September 30, 9.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 29th September. Semi-official.— Operations in the Cameroons have been successful as in Togoland. The Anglo-French troops have already captured the greater part of the territory ceded in 1911. OFFICIAL. The Prime Minister has received the following message from London :— LONDON, 28th September. Official. — The operations of the British naval forces on the West Coast of Africa have resulted in the unconditional surrender of Duala, the capital of the Cameroons and Bonaberi, to Anglo-French forces under a BrigadierGeneral. [The German Cameroons, or Kamerun, of which Duala is the chief port, is on the Gulf of Guinea, just north of tho equator. Its area is 191,130 square miles, and its population over two and a- half millions, of whom less than 2000 are white. The country grows many tropical products — cocoa, coffee, rubber, kola, ivory, palm oil, ebony, and other hardwood, and various spices which are cultivated. Cattle are reared with success on the inland plateaus, where the climate is much less severe than on the fever-stricken coast. In 1911, < the French, in return for German recognition of the French protectorate in Morocco, ceded to Germany a large area of French Equatorial Africa, forming additions to the south and west of the Kamerun. The area thus ceded was 107,270 square miles, Germany at tho same time giving France 6450 square miles from the northern part of th© Kamerun.]