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claims of the anti-slavery and missionary lobbies, with
their appeal to high-minded eentirout.
But only the Times really contained a substantial
amount of information and editorials on the subject of
Uganda. The Foreign Office file ? 61, containing prone
cuttings on Uganda, is heavily weighted in favour of the
inn and the London press in general. There was not the
some interest displayed by the local press% even in those
towns auch as forwioh and Bristol which wcro'noted for
their public meetings. Uganda was mentioned in editorials
only briefly and intormittantly. Tho only general
activities to be reported were the i , 13. S, and C. FN. Co
deputations and a few of Zugmrd's ncetinga The revolutions
passed by religious bddiony - the bulk of the activity,
rarely got mentioned in the press. In spite of the gleeful
assertions of the Company and the C. M, So that public
feeling lins intense, there were probably many casual readers
of the provincial press who did not realise that anything
very much out of the ordinary was happening in Uganda.
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(1ý Cf. the great attention Given by the prone to the Sudan
campaign of 1884.. 5, - especially after the loath of
Gordon; and the immenom amount of publicity obtained
by the Transvaal issue before the outbreak of the Boor
Ware No newspaper zudor 'in August-October 1899, could
have failed to be aware that momentous events were taking
place in British-Boar relations,, There was nothing like,
the same sense of urgency conveyed by the pros in 1892
over Uganda,