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Show GUGGENHEIMS TO ' EXPLORE AFRICA NEW YORK, March 5.--A party bf eight or nine, headed by A. Chester Beatty of the Guggenheim Exploration company and 8. P. Verner, general manager man-ager of the American Congo company, sailed today upon the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse for Cherbourg, whence it will cross the continent on tbyft way to Africa for an eighteen months' stay in the Congo Free State in the interest of the American syndicate which a few months ago obtained vast concessions in that district from the King of Belgium. Headquarters will be established at Leopold ville, where a caravan will be organixed and exploring trips into the territory covered by the concessions will be planned. ' |