Show OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA It Is 75 5 years since David Ing II I r lying lying- stone completed the Hie first Journey made by a n white man across Africa and that journey had taken h 0 ears cars 1 Isow ow following broadly Lh- Lh Liv Jn stone s track tracI from Angola to Mo Mozambique a n ter er or different transcontinental transcontinental journey journe Is IJ being mn made ninde The first train to cross Africa i from ocean to ocean leaves loo I obito now for neIra a n 11 distance Lance of 2 2940 2010 om miles by bythe bythe bythe the route of the railway The jour jour- jourDe journey ney De has been rendered possible by bythe bythe bythe the completion of the western see sec section tion of the route that from I 1 obito bay by the Ben uela rail railway ay and Its through h the Bel Belgian Congo Cono to the Katanga copper field field- fielda a n field which tends extends Into the ad adjacent adjacent jacent regions of northern Rhodesia The change chan e that has hns come o cr os 0 er this lw land 1 In a n single le generation Is re remarkable As diamonds dilmond drew the ty from the cape to Kimberley and as gold gull drew v the railway on to the Rand nand so eo copper has hns drawn dr the y to the heart rt of South Cen Central Central Africa Katanga K but hut a thousand miles from anywhere nn here al almost al- al almost most unknown n t tr ti the white man Isnow Is Isnow isnow now the most highly de eloped province HO ince lace of the Bel Congo It has hasa hasa n a considerable white population Its mines have already exported e copper to the value of li f 72 and In It his an capital v- v which at the moment Is In- In Indulging indulging In Indulging In Its first International c e ex the border In Rhodesia there is promise of an nn almost equal de development And whether hether In Portuguese B Belgian or British the gI ell change has hns been brou brought ht about mainly by British enterprise and with British capital This Is as It should be for the opening up of the whole hole re region lon mated with Ith the British Ii IL to the courage and persistence of one inn manIn In particular Sir Robert nobert ms i this change Is due then Lis Lh Livingstone in ing stone was the true pioneer It v- v was vas as who first kept open the road to the north and It was the reading of ot entries In Livingstone's Journal that guided Williams as ns lie he heh h himself said 1 to Ills his discos cry ery of the Immense mineral wealth along the Congo Zambezi divide W was vas an nn early associate of Cecil Rhodes and amI an ardent believer In Inthe inthe the Cape to Cairo railway scheme But neither he nor Rhodes was v fool foolIsh foolIsh foolIsh Ish enough to suppose that a n railway from the Cape to Cairo was v-as an economic proposition In Itself The Cipe to Cairo line 1 was meant as a backbone from which v ribs would ex- ex extend extend ex extend tend on either cither side Two years yeaN be he- before before fore his death Rhodes wrote The junctions to the east cast and west coasts which will occur In the future will Ill willbe willbe be outlets for the truffle tr obtained the route of the line as ns It p Pisces cec es through th the center of Af Af- Af- Af Africa rica That Th was written In 1000 the year In which winch W got his first mineral concession In Katanga To Today Today day two great Junction lines lInc ire re complete and as ns foresaw they are arc taking to the markets of the world the traffic obtained cJ alon the route of or the multi main Cape to Cairo line The are arc also Iso opening up uplands uplands lands rich In agricultural and min mineral eral possibilities London possibilities London 1 limes imes |