4000 MILES ACROSS AFRICA
CONVOY OF ARMY LORRIES FROM NIGERIA TO EGYPT 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 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 right across the 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 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 steep wadis. A previous attempt to open up a permanent motor route between the Belgian Congo and the Sudan failed. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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