GREAT RAILWAY

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1931, Page 3

GREAT RAILWAY

AFRICA 'TO EUROPE. United Prettb Association.—Electric telegraph—Copyright] LONDON, February 2. “The Times” Paris com.s. oiu.eii. ivi,V--: “A great new uilernatjunai railway linking British East Airica an . Pans, hy way ol a tumid uadir llie'Straits ol Gibraltar, is in vis,aged hy a 1 rencli Cominiitce, which has imiteu Britain, Belgium and It.aiy to participate in preliminary discussions m the undertaking. The French desire i« to extend the proposal trails-..ar.ai-an Bailway from Oran to the hiver Niger, and then to link the existing iiLvay to Dahomey to it. alter which the British are to be invited to run a branch line along the lower Niger into Algeria, joining the British system, and enabling the French to continue the route through their oquatoii.il possessions—where there is at pi\ sent no railway—joining the Belgian Congo, where Belgium is to be invited to build a line eventually enabling a j motion to be effected with Kenya, Tangauyeka, and Rhodesia, which would he brought three weeks nearer London than at present. Italy is being invited to the discussions hecaus - ' the Italians are anxious to build tVir own tran.s-Saha ran railway, which would be one hundred miles eastward of France’s line, from Tripoli to Lake C’had.