CAPE-TO-CONGO RAILWAY

Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 3

CAPE-TO-CONGO RAILWAY

( 11 de*~ibk> importance is attached to ths aehievcinci t tume" Bel" an control, of the lit nwi ot the Katanga Roitaay, which reach J Eokun en the Biver oa 22i 1 jlqj tin*. Li' This railwav is the prolon"alurx oi th jreat Ino which starting roi j Cin Toi u and crossing Bechuama-: ml mJ IPIicJ sij. icached the frontier of lie •■$ lgian Con<p in 1909 It was built for tii t«mpxgti« du Chenun de fer da Bail C*n ob a Bnti hj firm Messrs Pauling ind Co Iho ft t action (158 miles) reached he coppei imne ot the &tar o f the Congo 11 'S.nriiibo 1910 where hlisabethtille,'* pop lous town inhabited by 1 400 white men, hj =*n r*o dew loped The railway was pushed* m 191 j is tir l h-iuibovc. another imporfcii n mm, d strict 99 miles) In spite of tho diftt uitic* ciu cd bv the ■war, a third actum was open to ihe traffic north of Kambovc ieu*tii«„ Djilongo (G& miles) itt lulj ICI It -v w through this road- that thj twi n omtors under the com* mmd oi (. oijin indrpr G B Spicer Simeon* r&iriicd tie votcri o" Itake Taagiwryficiii) wJiuli thej cleared of eneniv craft. Underetj idinj the i uintagcs which the line wxmlct a.roid tin Bel„ian Colonial GoTernmenfc op nrd it% credit* to- the completion of ine illicit -s *ar as Buhama (125 miles). Thj b nlc ug «i tried tr«m Diilongo and Bu> i inn d, it the c line trne and in spite of the d fin. ill c* or the eround and the scarcity n lu " m mo region ti a versed, has ix>w b o i ucce siully completed \\ nhi n eight ua s 4ao miles of railway naic been thus constructed from the Kiioilt'i in uonutr to the navigable waterway 1 1 the t on„o and out of these nearly 200 ha r- been lail during the war It is now pi Wo ti <*o bj rail and by boat from c ipr Jo*\n either to Boma and the mouth ot the Congo or to Dar ea Salam by using the ra.ilway to the Tanganyika, complcird ip 1915 lhe new railway may also be considered as a link in the great line rom <apa to Cii o It would suffice to conlct Ivedjn or ihe Nil- with Stanleyville, en the Contjo Frier ru realise the dr&m of Ctrl Lhodcs

Meanwhile the Katanga Bailway is rendering great service to fcho allied cause by bringing every year to England's munition works 30,000 tons of copper. It is not without interest io note that the first surrey of the road followed by the hot line -was undertaken by Commandant, now Lie-atenant-pene-rai, Jacques, who commanded the Third Dirision during the successful counter-attack of tht-i Belgian army, near Langemarck, on 17th April last..