CAPE TO CAIRO.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 26 October 1917, Page 1

CAPE TO CAIRO.

AFRICAN NEWSPAPEKS.

The following article, which m. recent issue of tde " Newspaper "World,? nil! be read with interest and -wonder, wbeniit is remembered that some of the place* mentioned were but a comparatively--few-yeais-ago among the unexplored portion* ot the tarth...

The Republic of Liberia now- havin«joined the Allies in the worlds war, io « probable that a new weekly journal, under Angpo-Amerioan auspices, will shortly be started at Monrovia.

West African matters will presently be brought well before the British Mr Cartwright's new journal,. 'West Africa;' ia getting into attractive form, and serves the purpose well for which it was established a few months ago, whilst the. * African World'—connected intimately "for tho last 15 years with the West Coast—now runs its 'West African Supplement' with excellent support, and has a local circulation of 3,000 copies by being issued after each mail arrived with tho ' Sierra Le«ne Weekly News,' the Gold Coast Leader,' and the •Nigerian Pioneer,' all three of which ut well-conducted, native-owned and' edited productions.

In Cape Town, tie 'South Afxieaa Review' recently celebrated tho anniversary of its 25th birthday; and received siany : 'welldeserved encomiums and fraternal metiagi on tho undoubted, value of its independent criticism aiid uncontrolled, healthy, political tone, which makes it such a favorite wit* the public. |

Both in Cape Colony and Natal, as well as in Egypt, arrangements have recently bee* made to obtain paper supplies from, Japanese mills—smart commercial representative* from the land of Nippon being on the spot to utilise the temporary war difficulty of getting the .necessary requirement* ' frim Europe and the Continent. Wake ud. Joka Bulll *' < u

Further up the East Coast the 'Beir» Post' has changed hands, and under -■tke strong editorship and guidance of ati'old Transvaal pioneer—Mr George Adamsoit—will soon become a power for good as'an organ of Anglo-Portuguese opinion 'ind news-gatherer from a wide Hinterland to: it* port—ranging from Mozambique to Gersaa* Bast Africa, and westward from Rhodewia, to the Great Lakes and the Southern Conm. The war in German East Africa is "i*y» final stages, and any week may bring "the news of the surrender of the small remnant of enemy forces crushed up in the Eufiji Delta. The 'Morogoro News,' published* by the military authorities on the Tanganyika, Railway, is a good production and' fullT of interesting news dealing with the joya aa.4 woes of the gallant composite force* nowgarrisoning the country. Before the war three very progressive German weeklies were published at Dar-es-Salaaßi, Tanra, and Tabora respectively. It ia doubtful if £h*y will ever be seen again, even with tke/return of normal times. '

In British East Africa the 'Standard' tad the -Leader'—both published at Nairobilook very flourishing. Smaller local jouroata aro published'at Mombasa and in Uganda, and it is natural that, -with the whole country still under military adminktratioß, and with the- problems created by ahigpiag coxUibious, the production of papers is cszried. out under very great difficulties. " \ In the Sudan the ' Sudan Times' (Ikigliih- . Arabic) and the 'Sudan Herald' (EnglifehGreek) present an excellent appearance -ill the time, and both popers are rery craiitably produced, and frequently oontaim [excellent articles on important local matter*. As a fact, the Cape to Cairo river and railway route, along its entire great length of over 7,000 miles, is well supplied with jo"urlialistio milestones. Stixiahg -with the great Cape journals in the extreme south and the splendid Rhodesian productions, "we lind the ' liivingstone Mail' itsued at tka .'Victoria Falls,; the 'Etoile du Congo' «jfc Elissabethville', iatanga, and the cfioiai Congo journals at Stanleyville. Acroa. ','ta the JSile, at the only gap remaining in.tbs route to the Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza, ive get the 'Uganda Herald* at Kampala, and, -with the cvro fine Khartum journals mentioned before, we enter Egjut with its 70 odd daily and -weekly journals, issued in seven languages, ending the tour at Cairo and Alexandria with the splendidly edited and produced ' Egyptian Gazette' — for many yeara /a credit in every zrsj to British enterprise in the Land *f the Pharaohs.