A mere eight tractors were a drop in the bucket for Shaoqui Town. Local agricultural development still required a great deal of manpower.
As an area long operated by Portugal, Shaoqui had numerous nearby plantations and farms, and its area was far from small. Otherwise, Count Roberts would not have chosen to establish the Allied command headquarters there in the first place.
Before the Portuguese left in large numbers, Shaoqui Town alone had more than ten thousand Black slaves serving as laborers for the local plantations and farms.
When it became a battlefield, a great number of military installations were built throughout the Shaoqui area. Even now, many trenches and pillboxes remained in the outer districts.
The East African government had not dismantled these military installations on a large scale, which also delayed Shaoqui's agricultural development. Especially after the recent torrential rains, Shaoqui Town's trenches had filled with rainwater. At the same time, countless shell casings lay buried beneath the land throughout the Shaoqui area. All of this needed to be cleared away.
Of course, this was not particularly difficult for Shaoqui Town. After Portugal's surrender, more than a hundred thousand Black slave auxiliary troops had been left behind for East Africa. They were ready-made labor.
Shaoqui Town in particular had retained twenty thousand Black people after the war to maintain production and reclaim land, while East Africa had stationed an entire regiment there.
First Town.
"This is East Africa Radio Station. The time is now exactly six o'clock in the evening, East African Time, May 12, 1891. Welcome to the East African News Agency bulletin..."
Ernst's family listened in front of the radio to the broadcasts transmitted by East Africa's first wired radio station.
East African News Agency was the abbreviation for East African National News Agency. Previously,