SUCCESS OF THE UGANDA RAILWAY.

Hastings Standard, Volume XII, Issue 5846, 9 May 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

SUCCESS OF THE UGANDA RAILWAY.

Mr. Winston Churchill has lately been describing for the benefit of the public, his impressions of his recent journey in Africa, and he speaks in a very encouraging way of the present and future of the Uganda Railway. He is fully alive to the immense difficulties with which the undertaking had to contend in its earlier days. "Through everything through the forests, through the ravines, through troops ot marauding lions, through famine, through war, through five years of excoriating parliamentary debate, muddled and inarched the railway." Kven now " the line is only a trunk, without its necessary limbs and feeders; without its deep waterhead at Killindini, without is full tail of steamers on the lake; above all, without its natural and necessary extension to the Albert Xyanza." Yet it has done much more than "startle the tribes on of their primordial nakedness with 'American' pieeo goods made in Lancashire;" for "there is already a substantial profit of neaj'ly eighty thousand pounds a year." And this is just another tribute to British optimism, e-nergy, and dogged perseverance.