OVERLAND SCRAMBLE AWAY FROM EGYPT TOWARD S. AFRICA
MANY FAMILIES ON TREK Recd. 6.45 p.m. London, Jan. 6. Forty-three families reached Khartoum in an overland scramble to reach the Cape over a 5000 miles stretch of desert from Cairo, says the “Daily Mall." A great many ot these trekkers have sold their covered wagons tor food and others have stayed In the 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 and then down through Rhodesia to the Union. The "Daily Mail’ reporter who telephoned Khartoum was told 200 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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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 January 1947, Page 5
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