CENTRAL AFRICA.
GERMAN RAILWAY WORK,
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. London Times—Sydney Sun. Services, [PER PRESS ASSOCWION.J (Received March 16, 8 a.m.) Nairobi, March 14.
The railway from the East Coast' (Dares Salaam) to Lake Tanga-: nyika has been constructed for 780 miles. German settlers are converting the barren savannah en route into a prosperoiis colony* In German East Africa 185,000 serfs exist, but the numbers are rap. idly dwindling through death and emancipation. It is expected that serfdom will be extinct in 15 years' time. Premature adolition would cost -£280,000 in compensation to the owners, besides leaving many serfs without a means of mainten-i ance..
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2313, 16 March 1914, Page 2
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