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Thcuo first states of agitation {were wholly a proaouro
croup affair, Only a limited interest was stirred up
among C. t3. S. supporters and commercial interests* and
U Landa . certainly played a' very minor part in the 1892
election, The G. 2. S and A. S. S. faced the problem of
not being able to support the Company' especially
f±uncially, without incurring adverse criticism and they
therefore toned down their activities as much as jioaaible,
But tho money raised towards the end-of 1891, had
provided only a very abort term solution to the problems
of the Company, and on 17th May 1892 Mackinnon wrote to
the roreign office giving notice of the Company''a
evacuation of Uganda by the and of 1892. Ile added that
the Company had gone to Ugandat for national rather than
for co=ercial reasons, in order to consolidate the Britiah
cphore in view of international rivalries in Last Africa,
Another financial appeal was obviously impractical and of
little use, and the struggle in the Autumn of 1892 revolved
around persuading the new Liberal Government to either
finance the Company or to take over its work in Ugandas
late solution become the one ncnt favoured.
x'13 Pit aoentury Papero#, Vol LXi1I C 6847, Uganda, 189, S-4,
Ilackinnon to the F. O. 17th Ziay 1892.
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