GERMAN EAST AFRICA
A PROSPEROUS COLONY, SERFDOM DISAPPEARING. 8/ Telegraph— Proas Association— Copy rlglU "Time** and Sydney ‘'Sun" Service*. NAIROBI, March 15-. The railway frohl the east coast to Lake Tanganyika, has been constructed. The distance is 780 miles. German settlers are converting tho bafren savannah ett route into a prosperous colony. One hundred , and eighty-five thousand serfs exist in German East Africa, but the numbers are rapidly dwindling down through death and emancipation. It is expected that serfdom will be extinct in fifteen years. Its premature abolition would cost £280,000 compensation for tho owners, besides leaving many serfs without the means of maintenance.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8683, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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