RELIGIOUS FEUD IN UGANDA.
Statement by Lord Salisbury. Another Serious Allegation. (UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) ■ London, June 18, Lord Salisbury informed the House of Lords that a telegram bad best) received from Captain Williams at Victoria .toyanza, dated 81st Marob, Btatirig that the fighting was at an end, and the missionaries were Bafo, The Premier appealed to toe public to suspend their verdict on the action of the English officers in Uganda until their reports had been received, He was unable to believe that Captains Lugard and Williams bad committed the acts of violence alleged against ihem by the ,Frenoh and German press, but an enquiry would be held in due course. Juno 14, •'■ Lord Salisbury said ho believed the East Afrioan Company would only withdraw partially from Uganda, In his opinion the best hope, of holding the territory 1 lay in the construction of a railway, Among, the, allegations brought against the British officers'in Uganda is one that they caused the drowning of 500 victims, . .
In the House of Lords the Premier said be boped the daw Parliament would aanotion the construction- of a railway from the Coaßt to Uganda. '■ Captain Williams; in Ma telegram to the Marquis of Salisbury, expresses thehope of an easy settlement of the disputewith King Mwan'ga'and bis adherents,..- fe ,. .•,-,.- , ; ■■■ The Dime's is glad that the' Premier j discourages a .leavmgj Uganda, •;..;. The Standariasserta that the East: African Companyfiwreoeived £26,000 from the Churoh Missionary Society on ''condition'' that : it.:remains in Uganda uutil tbe : end of the present year; also, that the .nativetreaties leave" Uganda within'the' British sphere re/jardlesa of tho. action which raay'j-be taken jby tbe company. "to ; withdraw" from.tbe country. .-•' •;,..: ■:, ...!'. ■:..-;-.,,•:•-.VBmiS.Jnne-li"''
■■■ The German- press ■ doubt if the English will withdraw from Uganda: Theyconsider.thatGermanyia next heir to. the country; but.ita hands are too 'full* to' permit it to annex the territory, ".■ : :*/;..'■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4139, 16 June 1892, Page 2
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305RELIGIOUS FEUD IN UGANDA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4139, 16 June 1892, Page 2
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