CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 131, 3 June 1904, Page 5

CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY.

COMPLETED TO VICTORIA PALLS. Orkss association.! LONDON, 2nd Juno. Tho railway from tho Cape to Cairo has reached Victoria Falls. [As the crow tlics, tho distance between Capetown and Cairo is about 5700 miles, but tho actual spaco to be covered will, on account of rhe eonliguratkm of tho country nnd uecesflury deviations, bo much greater. In tho 1 north tho lino has been made to Khartoum, about MOO miles, while the completion of tho southern section to the Zambesi makes tho completed portion «t the ot-hw end nbqul IGOO milos. No connected Hobemo has yet "been formulated to bridge tho gap between the two, but survoys aro actively proceeding in the Congo Country, und another survey has been mad© for a line 900 milos long to connect Lobito Bay, in Portuguese West Africa, with the Congo-Rhodesian frontier. Tho Zambesi at tho Fulls is a mile wide, wiih a power of 35,000,000 homo in times of Hood, A railway bridge is to be buttt south of tho Fbllh, which will b« tho highest in tho world. The height from low-wator level to the raik is oalctdntod at 120 ft, or about 380 ft from high water. A township will be kid out ft* tlio FaHs, and here next year tho an-, nuoi meeting of tho British Association for tho Advancement of Scienco will be held.] v