Show OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA i It Is 75 years since David Livingstone Livingstone Livingstone Living Living- stone completed the first Journey made by a n white man across Africa and that Journey had taken two years Now following broadly LivIngstone's Livingstone's LivIngstone's Liv Liv- track from Angola to Mozambique Mozambique Mo Mo- a very different transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental Journey is being made The first train to cross Africa from ocean to ocean leaves Lobito now for Beira a distance of 2049 2010 miles by bythe bythe bythe the route of ot the railway The Journey journey Jour jour- ney fey has hns been rendered possible by bythe bythe bythe the completion of or the western section section sec sec- ec- ec tion of the route that from Lobito bay by the rall a railway and Its continuation through the Belg Belgian an Congo to the Katanga copper field fielda Helda Held Held- a field which extends Into the adjacent adjacent adjacent ad ad- jacent regions of ot northern Rhodesia The change that has come over this land In a n single generation Is Is' re re- re- re As diamonds drew the railway from the cape to Kimberley and drew to as gold the railway a on the Rand 50 so copper has drawn the railway to the heart of South Central Central Cen Cen- Central Africa Katanga but yesterday esterday a thousand miles fr m anywhere almost al- al al almost most unknown t tf tl the white man IsI is isnow isnow I now the most highly developed prow prow- province provInce ince lace of the thc Belgian Congo It hasa has hasa a considerable white population Its mines ba have ve alread already exported copper to the value of and in it has an attractive capital which at ut the moment Is indulging in- in Indulging Indulging In In- In its first international e ex ex- Across the border In Rhodesia there is promise of an almost equal development And whether in Portuguese Belgian or British territory the great grent change has hns b been en brought about mainly by British enterprise and with British capital This Is as It should be for the opening up of the whole region originated originated with the British L. L to the courage and persistence of one man manIn manIn manin In particular S Sir r Robert nobert Williams this change Is due then Livingstone Livingstone Livingstone Living Living- stone was the true pioneer It was Livingstone who first kept open the road to the north and It was the reading of entries In Livingstone's Journal that guided Williams as he has himself said to his discovery of ot the Immense mineral wealth along the Zambezi Congo divide Williams was an early associate of Cecil Rhodes and an ardent believer In Inthe Inthe Inthe the to Cape railway scheme But Dot neither he nor Rhodes was foolish foolIsh foolish fool fool- ish enough to suppose that n a railway from the Cape to Cairo was an nn economic proposition In itself The to Cape line was vas meant as a backbone from which ribs would extend extend extend ex ex- tend on either side Two years before before before be be- fore his death Rhodes wrote The Junctions to the east cast and west coasts al which ich will occur In th the future will willbe willbe be outlets for the traffic obtained along the route of ot the line as ns It passes through the center of Af Af- rica That was written in 1900 1000 the year in which Williams got his first mineral concession In Katanga Today Today Today To To- day two great junction lines are complete and as Rhodes foresaw they are taking to the markets of ot the world the lUte traffic obtained along I the tho route of the main Cape to I line They are also opening up uplands uplands uplands lands rich In agricultural and mineral mineral mineral min min- eral possibilities London London Times |