BIG TREK PLANNED
JOURNEY THROUGH AFRICA (Rec. 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 6. Forty-three families have reached Khartoum in an overland scramble to reach the Capb over the 5000 miles stretch of desert from Cairo, says the Daily Mail. A great many of these trekkers have sold their covered wagons for food, others have stayed in mud-hutted transit camps en route but the majority have reached Khartoum and are preparing to leave by boat down the Nile to Juba, when they plan to work their way via Uganda to Tanganyika, then down through Rhodesia to the Union. A Daily Mail reporter, who telephoned Khartoum, was told that 2000 more trekkers were expected to arrive from Cairo to-day. One traveller said: “ The roads are terrible and the Sudan Government is trying to prevent us getting through.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26353, 7 January 1947, Page 5
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