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lessons of the Indian Mutiny * To
the South West lay German West
Africa, and to judge from a novel
which appeared in Germany| about
this time, the Germans appear
already to have meditated the
possibilities of acquiring the goldfields
of Johannesburg and Kim-
berley to replenish their Treasury.
In India and Egypt the Native
problem was equally urgent. Who
could foretell what effect the sudden
lowering of British prestige might
have in the Soudan, in Somaliland,
or among the frontier tribes of
India ?:|:
* My attention has been drawn to the Ethiopian
movement, which was only nipped in the bud by
the despatch of the South African Constabulary to
the North of the Transvaal, in Oct., 1904, to check
the meeting of native chiefs. Vide LeklOf the
native paper published in Pietersburg.
t Alluded to
July nth, 1905.
in the English House of Lords,
t ^.^. South Africa was fought to save India.
** Ye cannot in one place rule and in another place
bear service."—See Traffics and Discoveries: A
Sahib^s War, by Rudyard Kipling.
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