CAPE TO CAIRO LINE.
The completion of the Cape to Cairo railway, the dream of Cecil Rhodes, is now well m sight. By the end of the year the whole extent of the line will have been surveyed. From Khartum in the north, and from Broken Hill in the south, the line is creeping forward to tho fulfilment of one of the greatest enterprises of modem times. The line, with its 5600 miles of metal, will be by far the longest ia the world. Mr. Hnberty, secretary of the AngloBelgian Katanga Eailway Company, informs a Brussels correspondent, that it has just been decided to survey the route of the Congo extension of the Cape to Cairo line from Elizabethville (close by the famous Star of the Congo copper mines) northward to Kambwe. The line between the Star of the Congo and Broken Hill (Rhodesia) will be completed by September next.
An automobile enthusiast proposes the building of a motor road from the Atlantic to the Pacific, -with road-houses and garagea every five miles. Why omit hospitals ?
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1910, Page 13
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