RAILWAY ACROSS AFRICA.
CAPETOWN. July 2. The linking up of the railway from Lobito Bay in the Portuguese Territory of Angola to the main system running through the Belgian Congo was officially celebratod at the point where the line crosses from one territory to the other.
The traveller can now go entirely by rail across Africa from the Atlantic (jeean to the Indian Ocean. ' The railway is 1180 miles long. The formal opening was fixed to-day, because this is the anniversary of the founding of the Congo Free State, now the Belgian Congo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 182, 4 July 1931, Page 7
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93RAILWAY ACROSS AFRICA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 182, 4 July 1931, Page 7
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