CAPE TO CAIRO LINE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 264, 14 December 1909, Page 2

CAPE TO CAIRO LINE.

ANOTHER LINK COJII'LKTEb. A GREAT WOKli. ij Cable. —Preu Association. —Copyright Received 13,. 8.40 p.m. Capetown, December 13. The British-Congolese sections o£ the Rhodesia - Katanga railway have been linked up, completing a continuous British line of 2147 mites from Capetown. •Brussels, December !■>. The Belgians have begin, the exinv iion of the line to the Star of the Jongo copper mine. The late Mr. Rhodes' "dream" of n □ape-to-Cfciro railway is gradually beinji realised. M the crow llies, the distance between Cairo aiuT Capetown in aboul 5700 miles. Of this about 11500 milw have now been constructed, in Julv 1008, it was reported that an agreemeni had been signed between the Britis) South Africa Co. and the Kutangn Kail way Co, for the latter to Hio eon struction of a. railway from the fron tier of Rhodesia to the Star of tin Congo mine, in the Congo State, a dis tance of about 60 mile*, and to continu it eventually to the navigable water-i the Lualaba river, which is the prolong.! tion of the upper Congo. Knrl v in 11)0 a contraot was let for the coustructio of a road and railway bridge across i!i Blue Nile, in order to cany the Knuda Government railway into Khartoun This will form another link in the gre.t "Cape-to-Cairo" liii'"-