Show the in africa the british south africa company has been doing some energetic work in its naw territory and owing to the re establishment of friendly the boers and the portuguese finds i itself able to reduce the armed police force from six hundred and fifty hundred men notwithstanding heavy expenditures it has money enough to continue the development of the country tor two years without the issue of fresh capital most of its energies have been devoted to the construction of railways roads and telegraph and rapid progress has been made towards securing direct and rapid communication with cape town and with bay by means of a road across portuguese territory properly protected wells have been built at distances of one days journey on the trade routs across the kalahati kalahari Kal ahari desert telegraphic line have been put up very rapidly and messages can be sent from Masho to london in five hours |