BRITISH EAST AFRICA
THE ZIONIST COLONY.
LONDON, June 22
Sir C. N. Eliot, Commissioner and Commander-in-chief of the British East Africa Protectorate, has resigned, and lias appealed to Mr Balf our to inquire into the circumstances of bis resignation. Ho declares that Lord Lansdowne bad prohibited grants of land /to individuals while ordering him to give a monopoly over enormous tracts on unduly advantageous terms to the Jewish East African Syndicate. Sir C. N. Eliot considers that this would be unjust and impolitic.
The East Africa Protectorate oxt-ende about 400 mil&s along the coast northwards from the Ri-ver Umba and inland to Uganda. It touches the Italian, Abyssinian, and Gorman sphere of influence. The population is estimated at 4,000,000. At the Zionist Congress in 1903 it was announced that the British Government had offered land for fche founding of a Jewish colony, vi ith the right of self-government, under British control. The offer wac thankfully accepted, and delegates were appointed to &py out the land.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2624, 29 June 1904, Page 19
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