Lorry Convoy’s 4000-mile Journey Across Africa
Received Sunday, 7.30 pm
LONDON, June 26.
Reuter’s Cairo correspondent disclosed that a convoy of heavy lorries passed through Cairo recently on the last stage of its 4000-mile journey across Africa. Experts said the Journey was impossible, but the convoy got through in 34 days without losing a single man or vehicle. Leaving Kano, in Nigeria, the convoy came right across the African jungles and deserts, through country often unmaped and unknown, to find an overland route for supplies for Beligan Colonial troops in the Middle East. The convoy was led by a few white officers, hut all the troops were natives. The leader of the expedition, Captain Lierman, said the worst stage was through the .Sudan where the party often had to negotiate deep wadis. A previous attempt to open up a permanent motor route between the Belgian Congo and the Sudan failed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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