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LORRY CONVOY CROSSES AFRICA. FROM NIGERIA TO CAIRO. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 26. Reuter’s Cairo correspondent disclosed that a convoy of army lorries passed through Cairo recently on the last stage of a 4000-miles journey across Africa. Experts said the journey was impossible, but the convoj 7 got through in 34 days without losing a single man or vehicle. Leaving Kano (Nigeria), the convoy came right across African jungles and deserts, through country often unmapped and unknown, to find an overland route for supplies for Belgian colonial troops in the Middle East. The convoy was led by a few white officers, but all the troops were natives. The leader of the expedition, Captain Lierman, said that the worst stage was through the Sudan, where the party ofjen had to negotiate deep wadis. Previous attempts to open up a permanent motor route between the Belgian Congo and the Sudan failed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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152TRANSPORT FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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