NOT ALL=RED

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 679, 2 December 1909, Page 7

NOT ALL=RED

CAPE-CAIKO RAILWAY AND GERMAN '.■'.;TBBKiTOB,t;'- ; V'--".-;.'..' "'•";' (By Tclcsraph.-l'ress Assorlnilnn.-CnpyrlEtt.l ::'.'",.-.■".■'■ ..London,.November 30, . 'Re'uter's. Berlin correspondent states, that the Anglo-German - Agreement, relating to the. .frontiers botween British Uganda and German •!East Africa and botween these colonics and the Congo, does not enable the Cape to Cairo rail-way-to run tlirbugh British territory.;, ;; BRITISH AND BELGIAN RAILWAYS; ; The: All-lied line inSouth Africa 'is unbrbken —thanks to tho issue of. the I'ashoda incident—, from Egypt to Uganda (Lake Victoria),' but between; Lake : .Victoria and tho"northernmost point of the British ,• South African territory (Lake /Tanganyika) there is the gap referred to in .the cablegram., The Belgian. Congo.■ fr.oin the west and .German-East Africa from tha east converge: and to-day's. cablegram would appear to indicate that the new frontiers arrangement does not provide for any All-lied' ship intervening. But,'in.any,case,,according to advices published, some' time ago, the Capc-tb-Cairo railway, as soon as British capital has. carried it to the Congo frontier, will be extended by Belgian capital into the Katanga copper belt.' This was the effect of ah agree-; ment 'between the. British South Africa Com-, pany and. Belgian' and Continental' companies, the British Company agreeing to extend the line to a point on- the Congo frontier at or | near Mayaba., So, apparently, the commercial development- of the trans-African railway systom .will be via Belgian I ;territory. •'• ■',