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EUROPE AND AFRICA 
to make a contribution of over $3,450,000 to its budget in 
1911 in order that the revenues might equal the general ex- 
penditures. From a commercial standpoint, however, this 
protectorate was a source of considerable profit to the mer- 
chants of the Empire. The sum of its imports and exports, 
which in 1899 equaled only $2,585,150, reached by 1913 the 
very creditable total of $27,160,000, of which the share of 
Germany was approximately 80 per cent. One half of the 
total value exported consisted of diamonds. The total trade 
of the three colonies — Togoland, Cameroons, and Ger- 
man South-west Africa — in the same year approximated 
$47,000,000. 
During the Great War, the British conquered German 
Southwest Africa and placed it under the government of the 
Union of South Africa.! Togoland and the German Cam- 
eroons were seized by the Franco-British forces. And in the 
settlement after the war, Southwest Africa was assigned to 
the Union of South Africa as a mandated territory of Class 
C, i.e., one which the mandatory may govern as an integral 
part of its territory, even to the extent of discriminating 
{e.g., by a customs tariff) against nationals of other states 
members of the League of Nations.? Togoland and the 
Cameroons (not including the 100,000 square miles ceded 
in 1911 and now recovered by France) have been divided 
between Great Britain and France as mandatories, France 
obtaining about two thirds of Togoland and five sixths of the 
Cameroons. These two, like German East Africa, became 
mandated territories of Class B in which the “open door” 
must be maintained. The mandated territories of this class 
are subject to the supervision of the League, in that the man- 
1 See Chapter VIIL 
2 League of Nations: Official Journal, 11, pp. 12, 89; Documents de I’ As- 
semblée, No. 161, Dec. 6, 1920. Report by the Council to the Assembly, p. 17. 
3 League of Nations: Official Journal, 111, pp. 791, 847.