Item 01: Sydney B. Young war diary, 13 May-24 July 1916 - Page 29

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[Page 29]

big enough to hold two like themselves. They don't seem to eat anything. None of them did who came on the march with us, and they did not look as if they missed it.
The wage paid to laborers is 2/- for colored and 3 for white labor.
The attitude towards the kaffirs is not easy to explain. Up Country where there are most Kaffirs the white people are not allowed to walk on the pavements. But down here where there are equal rights the white people seem to tolerate the kaffirs but it seems a hard task. Their

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