COVERED WAGON TREK
Received. Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 6, Borty-three families Have reached Khartouni in tfie ovdrratid' sdratiibl'e to reach the- Cape over a* 5000-hiri'e stretch; of desert fvom Cairoj says tiro Daily MaiL A great many of these . trek-kers have soid their covered wagons for food, and otfceis have stayed in. mud-hutted transit camps en route-, but th# majority have reached /Ehartoum and Are preparing to leave by boat down the. Niie to Juba when they plan. to. w.ork. their way via Uganda. to Tanganyika, then down through Rhodesia to the- tJiuon. A Daily Mail reporter who telephoned Khartoum was told that 200 mere trefefeers were expeeted to arri-ve from Cairo today. Oue traveiler said: ' 4 The roads are1 territtie and the Sudan Government is- tryfng to prevent us getting through. ' '
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 5
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