The challenge was to redraw a new line dividing German Togoland into two separate territories. In 1919, the ‘Milner-Simon agreement’ between the English and the French attributed 60% of German Togoland to France and 40% to Britain. The provisional line mainly followed natural features. According to Raunet (2016), when the Milner-Simon line cut communities in two, villages could decide whether they wanted to be under British or French rule and had six months to relocate on either side of the line.