Extinguishing Germany's Place in the Sun 229 ure In the Herero War. Now armies from the Union of South Africa, officered, such is the irony of fate, by the Boer Generals on whom Germany re- lied to promote revolt in the Transvaal, were being directed against this colony. Indefensible with the re- sources possessed by its Governor. Its fall and in- clusion in the South African Union already by Octo- ber I, seemed almost Inevitable. On the East Coast there was that prosperous colony, through which Germany has just completed a railway to Lake Tanganyika from Dar-es-Salaam. With the Kamerun and the Belgian Congo to be ac- quired by forcible annexation later, this was to be Germany's most considerable " place in the sun." But the British early bombarded Dar-es-Salaam, and began an Invasion from the south. Once this colony were taken the sole obstacle to Cecil Rhodes's Cape- to-Calro "all red" dream was extinguished — for could any one, recalling British history, suppose that, conquered, it would be relinquished? Finally from Kamerun, on the West Coast, only recently extended by French '* compensation " toward the Congo and the Ubanghl, came reports of French and British activities at Duala, at Coco Beach, of the surrender of German officials helpless in the presence of warships and French and English colonial forces from Nigeria and French Congo. Plainly France was striving here to retake her sur- rendered territory and restore her Interrupted grasp from the Mediterranean to the Congo.