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Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine
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British Uganda railroad officials turn to American suppliers for bridges and rolling stock due to delays from the engineers' strike in Britain, as stated by Commissioner Sir Harry Johnston in a Dec. 9 dispatch to London.
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English Contractors Obliged to Send Here for Their Supplies.
London, Dec. 9.—In a dispatch to the foreign office with reference to the American contracts for bridges along the line of the Uganda railroad, Sir Harry Johnston, the commissioner for Uganda, declares the railroad officials were compelled to send orders to America owing to the British firms being unable to supply their wants in reasonable time. The orders comprise not only bridges, but locomotives and other rolling stock. Sir Harry adds:
"This and other troubles of the railway committee, in placing orders in Great Britain, are the outcome of the disastrous engineers' strike, which has done so much to cripple this class of manufactures."
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Uganda
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Dec. 9
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british firms unable to supply in reasonable time due to engineers' strike; orders sent to america for bridges, locomotives, and rolling stock
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Sir Harry Johnston, commissioner for Uganda, reports to the foreign office that railroad officials were compelled to order bridges, locomotives, and other rolling stock from America because British firms could not meet demands promptly, attributing this to the disastrous engineers' strike crippling British manufactures.