Convoyed From Belgian Congo To The Sedan
LONDON, June 26. Reuter’s Cairo correspondent disclosed that a convoy of army lorries passed through Cairo recently on the last stage of a 4000 miles’ journey across Africa. Experts said that the journey was impossible but the convoy got through in 34 days without losing a single man or vehicle. Leaving Kano, Nigeria, the convoy came fight across African jungles and deserts through country often unmapped and unknown to find an overland route for supplies for Belgian Colonial troops in the Middle East The convoy was led by a few white officers but all troops were natives. The leader of the expedition, Captain Lierman, said that the worst stage was through the Sudan where the party often had to negotiate deep wadis. Previous attempts to open up a permanent motor route between the Belgian Congo and the Sudan had failed.
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Northern Advocate, 28 June 1943, Page 3
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