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THE STORY OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA
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The Chartered Company should disappear, and before the British tax-payer is mulcted in heavy "compensation" sums for the benefit of the Company's shareholders (it seems that among the bills we are to be called upon to pay, there is one of £2,500,000, being the cost of the Company's wars upon the Mashonas and Matabele!), Parliament should insist upon a public and searching investigation into the Company's administrative and financial history.