A rather indiscreet friend of Sir Gerald Portal, our repre-
sentative in Zanzibar, has published in the Times part of a private letter from him on the evacuation of Uganda. In it Sir Gerald says :—" Lngard, Martin, missionaries, natives,. every one who has come from there is unanimous in saying that the withdrawal of the English officers will be the certain signal for a general war and the inevitable massacre of Christians,—a massacre such as the world has not seen for centuries. Will the Government sit quiet and allow this to take place, and then be hooted into an immense expedition P I am speaking plainly to them on the subject." This precisely confirms all we have written on evacuation. Sir Gerald Portal,. however, judges the Gladstonian Government by its past too exclusively, and forgets that it cannot afford to alienate its- Scotch supporters. Scotland is not going to see with patience a massacre of all Christians in Uganda.
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