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English: Colenso Railway Bridge, across the Tugela. the link between Colenso and Ladysmith

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Title: War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harding, William
Subjects: Boer War
Publisher: Chicago : Dominion Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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COLENSO RAILWAY BRIDGE, ACROSS THE TUGELA, THE LINK BETWEEN COLENSO AND LADYSMITH.
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN REVIEWS THE SITUATION. 277 the industrial and mining centers, whilst the burgher population remained absorbed in its pastoral avocations and dispersed widely through the country districts. It is very difficult to arrive at any exact idea of the numbers of these two classes of the inhabitants. But I conceive that I am well within the mark in estimating the white population along the Rand as something like 110,000, and it may safely be said that the aliens (the large majority of whom are British subjects) at the present time outnumber the citizens of the republic. 5. The political situation resulting from these conditions is an anomalous one. The newcomers are men who were accustomed to the fullest exercise of political rights. In other communities, where immigration has played an important part in building up the population,it has been the policy of legislatures to make liberal provision for admitting the newcomers who are desirous of naturalization, after a comparatively

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