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2000 1-88 16 1X.1960+000435 G E O P R E S S No.322(40/61) 8 September_1940 THE CRIME IN AFRICA. Explanation of sign: l(black area)= The Italian Empire and the British territories in Africa conquered by Italy: British Somaliland, Northeast Kenya and the Sudanese border towns of Kassala, Gallabat, Kurmuk; 2(dotted area) = British possessions and the Allies of Great Britain in Africa: South African Union, Belgian Congo, Egypt, French Cameroon and French Aequatorial Africa (without Gabon); 3(white area) (= neutral and non-warring states and their possessions. The map also shows the reclassification of French West Africa in August 1,940, with the colony of Mauritania and the independent district of Dakar annexed to the Senegalese colony.The colonies in Fr.West Africa are marked by Arabic numerals on the map: l Senegal, 2= Fr. Sudan, 3= Fri. Guinea, 4= Elves- bein Coast, 5= Dahomey, 6= Niger Colony. French Aequatorial Africa, on the other hand, is now a unified colony whose territories are (marked on the map by Roman numerals): I = Gabon, II = Middle Congo, III = Ubangi-Shari, IV = Chad. (GEOPRESS.) G EO P R E J S No.323(40/62) 8. September_1940 NE VA NN NA N ANA NN OCEAN 1 = British possessions, the island occupied by British troops and the Allies of Great Britain in America (Canada and the Dutch colonies.) 2 = occupied by Germany. 3 = United States of America and its possessions. 4 = Other neutral and non-warring states. 5 = The bases left by the United Kingdom in September 1 940 to the United States. (GEOPRESS.)