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Only the Tides gave a really prominent place to Uganda,
with letters from Lugard, Bouworth Smith, H. M. Stanley,
Lord Breasey, Lord Lorne and Arthur Silva White the
secretary of the Scottish Geographical Society.
'Ehere were come cuggoetiona, - reminiscent of the spirit
behind the Gordon rescue plans of 18840 - for solving the
problem by private enterprise. For example "A. T. T. P. "'
aced eighty, who had spent much of his life in the East,
suggested that two or three cotton lords or ironeastero
might subscribe a further 2401000 for the Company,
There was a J. B. Tirling, whose son was trying to form
a "Uganda Young England Relief Cocapany, " in which two
hundred thousand young pmoplo would be induced to subscribe
five shillings per year.
(3)
The lack of press information on Uganda: helps to
explain the absence of any organised counter-agitation'.
But the most common attitude to Uganda appears to have been
apathy. The retentionist agitation only included a small
(1) The Timor1 llth, 12th: 18th$24th October 1892.
(2) xbiA, 4th October 1892v
(3) C. H. S. iss. G. A. C. 4/i0, no. 1949.
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