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Show THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY. The Cape It) Cairo railway has been completed to Victoria Falls, sixteen hundred miles north of Capetown. But the bridge over the Zambesi at tho falls, w.hlch Is to cross the chasm Just below the plunge, and will make tho view one of the grandest In the world, has pot been laid. The sectiono of the huge single-span bridge which Is to carry the railway across the falls are now on their way out from England, and it Is expected that the structure will be completed before the end of thJs year. Meanwhile, says the Central News, the line will be taken a hundred miieo further north to Kalomo the headquarters of the Administration of North-West Rhodesia. The next section to be built is from the Zambesi to Broken Hill, 350 miles In the direction of Lake Tanganyika. After Af-ter that point nothing further has been definitely decided. The whole length of the line planned by Mr. Cecil Rhodes was 5700 miles. Of this length, over 1600 miles has now been constructed from Capetown to theZambesi. while from Cairo the line extends 1-100 miles' south to Khartoum. The section from the Cape to Bulawayo was opened on November 1. 1897, and the section from Belra to Salisbury on May 1, 1S90 Of the whole distance, therefore, more than holf Is already completed, while that in hand will by the end of the year bring the completed part up to fully three-fifths. It will run for a time through tho wildest ahd least known country of any railroad ever built. |