A NEW SOUDAN FUEL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1911, Page 7

A NEW SOUDAN FUEL

FACTORY OPENED. By Telegraph.— Press Associations— Copyright. (Received April 21, 9 a.m.) KHARTOUM, 2Qth April. " ' A factory for the preparation of "sudd" fuel has been opened. This is regarded as an immense step in the economic development of the j Soudan. [In November last The Times's Berlin correspondent reported t — "Experi- | ments have recently taken place in Germany in connection with the manufacture of a new fuel out of the papyrus and other reeds which cover a large area, estimated at 35,000 square miles, on the upper reaches of 'the White Nile, and obstruct navigation. It is proposed to dry and 'disintegrate' these reeds, which are generally known as 'Sudd,' reducing them to a powder, which will bo compressed into the form of briquettes. No binding material will' be necessary. An Anglo-German syndicate has been formed to promote the manufacture. Representatives of the Soudan Government and of the British and German Admiralties were preßent at the trials. The promoters claim that the Sudd fuel can be put on the market at a price 35 to 40 per cent, cheaper than that of coal, which ts the fuel at present used on the Nile steamers and in the locomotives on the railways. I understand that the idea of utilising the Sudd originally suggested itself to the principal German promoter in consequence of a sentence quoted from one of Lord Cromer's reports."]