228 The Great War in the sun," so Inadequate in German eyes yet pre- cious in the promise of the future? First of all, on the morning of the declaration of war France and England from Dahomey and the Gold Coast stepped over into Togoland, seized the ports, overran the shore, and after a mere formal resistance upon the part of a helpless colonial governor extinguished German authority there. Hard on this came the Japanese attack upon Kiao Chau, long persisting but certain to end In the cap- ture by Japan of Germany's only foothold In Asia, on which she has lavished millions and for which she had planned a great future, conceiving it to be the base from which she was to challenge British influence at Hong Kong and French in Indo-China. Then, in the Pacific, Australian and New Zealand expeditions took Germany's Samoan port and Island, occupied Kaiser Wilhelmsland, and an eventual seizure of the islands purchased from Spain was to be expected. Taken by Australia and New Zealand, they would patently be hereafter included in the Anglo-Saxon Empire of the South Pacific, will be lost permanently as Kiao Chau must be. In Africa there promptly began British operations against German Southwest Africa. This colony had always been a menace in British eyes. Held by Ger- many it was a base for hostile intrigue on the flank of her South African colonies, it included a part of the gold and diamond fields. To acquire it, Ger- many on her part had paid dearly in blood and treas-