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Show AGADIR GAME IS IT WORTH CONGO CANDLE Germany's Bargain With France Last November Less Than Worthless. Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, Auk. M. If anybody ever believed that Germany had the better end of the barjraln she made with France In regard to Morocco and Congo, any such faith Is now dispelled by a hook by Dr. Rltter of Jena, published with the full consent of the colon is.) department and giving exhaustive details about the trmt of Congo territory which Franco with suoh apparent reluctance ceded to rsermany last Novembi f. The book proves without the slightest dOUbt that the country is worth a good denl leoe than nothing and the pros-r,t.cir pros-r,t.cir of It ovor becoming the valuable coionv the government represented n would be, aro anything but cheerful. Germans thought they were getting one 'of tho richest rubber . ountrles in ttiA world. Rome rubber forests there ure Indeed, but whenever rubber Is ob tainable In anv quantity inn nonunion:, m-a so deplorable that no white person can live there, and even a sojourn Of n few weeks is described as suicidal Sleonlng sickness and smallpox h.ive Hvastuted the district; poisonous ln-K..ctn ln-K..ctn lnfost It to a degree unknown In nn'v other part of Afrlrx, Where, Oil the Other hand, conditions are somewhat some-what better, the rubber trees are already al-ready used up. In order to gather any .profit at all from tit lnd, the author says, tremendous tre-mendous activity must be displayed to ameliorate tho conditions of the natives and more thnn a hint is given as to th-.,., th-.,., Bums of money thnt will be neccs-H."iry neccs-H."iry The conclusion prevailing In some quarters that labor may bo Imported Im-ported from British India. China and Janan Is shattered by the statement that the respective governments have pfOhlbtted Hi's course altogether. |