BRITISH COLONISATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18500, 12 September 1934, Page 10

BRITISH COLONISATION

UGANDA’S PROGRESS

Major O. H. Date, 0.H.K., H.M. Commissioner for Eastern African Dependencies, tells in the August issue of “The P.L.A. Monthly” the story of the marvellous changes which r.uw i dec;]: red in the Tigandu J’roioi. lorn ej 'rll‘i i; comua rativelv shot i time. lb'. v- : ~ L I “ i’e v parts of the world have, in j so short; a time, built up snob a romantic history as Uganda. Prom the early discoveries of Speke, on through its connections with preklalidi Sudan, the associations with Gordon and Baker, and Stanley’s great journey in relief of Kinin Pasha, goes tho tale. Then comes the early .occupation: wars, and martyrdom; the building of the Uganda Railway, through what is now ihe great colony of Kenya, but. then only an inhospitable and hostile corridor. After, this : the Wonderful growth of Christianity, marred l'or a time by fierce religious war, but triumphing over that disaster, ami going from strength to strength. Followed the introduction of cotton, which brought wealth to a well-endow-ed land, ami with it all the adjuncts of civilisation: schools, hospitals, motor roads, railways, steamers, and the aeroplane. .All this in less than two generations; much of it in one ”