RHODESIA’S FUTURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 37, 15 February 1915, Page 4

RHODESIA’S FUTURE.

Sir Starr Jameson, at tlio animal meeting of the British South Africa Company, said at the last election eleven of the twelve members elected were pro-charter, and the twelfth required a recount to put him in. The only alteration in the charter which had been renewed for ten years, was that if during these ten years the people of Rhodesia desired to have full responsible government, and the Imperial Government were satisfied that financially and otherwise they were capable of governing themselves, then full responsible government should be granted. With regard to the railways, their next great enterprises would be two trunk lines to bring the interior nearer to their port at Beira—one from Salisbury up to Kafue, and the other from Victoria to join the Beira line on the way to the coast. In the great happenings which were taking place in South Africa, as everywhere else, there were certain to be great changes; there would be a rearrangment of boundaries, and it would be advisable for the Company to put themselves in as strong a position as possible. In the course of some general remarks on South Africa, he said it was a practical certainty that an enormous area of it was going to bo painted red. . On the south-west German territory projected by a long tongue into the Company’s territory on to the'Zambesi. It was felt that that might be a danger point to their

railway and to the bridge over the

Victoria Falls, so, with the permission of the High Commissioner they had occupied the eastern portion of the German territory—what was known as Caprivi Strip.