Show OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA It H Is 75 5 years since David ld LivingStone Livingtone Living Living- tone Stone compUted 1 the first journ Journey made b by n white man across Africa and ami that Journey had Imd taken two years jears Now ow following broadly Liv- Liv track from Angola to 10 Mo- Mo n a nEr Er very different Journey Is 18 being made The fht first train to cross erus Africa from ocean to ocean loaves leaves Lobito now for Helm delis n a of If 2010 H 19 miles by hy the tile route of If the railway 11 The Journey Jour Jour- no ney y tins has been hn rendered red possible by hy the completion of f If the western section see sec CHon C tion Hon of nf the route that from froth t Ion y b by the railway and Its cent continuation through the Belgian Congo lon to 10 Ih the Katanga copper lIr Held fielda field 1 H M Held field which h tenda e Into the ml- ml regions of northern Rhodesia Th The 11 change HI lIl t that ha has lI tome come over Derr this land In III n 8 single ringle generation Is rc- rc As AR diamonds drew the Ihl railway from the Ihl cape capi to tn and ns liS gold drew w r the lI railway on to the liand lul so su copper has haR drawn the railway to the th heart of South Central Cen ln tail Iral Africa t Iolana but hut yesterday n Il thousand miles mile from ail here ni- ni nl aI t unknown ti tt the Ihl white man Is Isnow Isnow isnow now the most mot highly developed province pro pro- ince of If the tae Cun Congo I It t tins has hasa tinsa a considerable white hilI lion i Its mines hl hale hi I n already exported copper to I the he value of f 2 1101 MN n and nIl In 1 IIII it II has an attractive e capital which at III the moment I Is Indulging In In- ii In Its ti first firt rot ex ex- Across the Ihl border In northern It I there here Is II promise of an almost equal till ties And whether In III Portuguese Belgian or British territory the great change has lins been brought about mainly b by British enterprise 1 arid and with capital This Is as ns It should be Ie for the opening up tip of the whole region originated lasted with the U I. to the courage and persistence of or one man inn manIn In particular Sir Ir Robert Hubert Williams this hits change Is due dUI then Livingstone Living Living- stone Mono on was Ives the true pioneer It was Livingstone I who ulie ho first t kept open the road to 10 the tile north and It II was the n reading rending of entries In Livingstone's Journal that guided William ns RS he hI has himself said ahl to 10 his discovery of If the Immense mineral wealth along the Congo Zambezi divide was nn an early associate of Cecil and an ardent believer r In Inthe inthe the to Cape railway n scheme Hut But neither he nor Rhodes was foolish foolish fool fool- ish enough DOugh to suppose that thai n a railway from the Cape to Cairo was an nn economic proposition In II Itself I t. t The to Cape line was meant ns RS a n backbone from which ribs would extend extend ex ex- tend on either side 1 Two years 1 he- he 1 fore his death Rhodes wrote The Junctions to the IIII east a t and west coasts which will occur In the future will willbe be hI outlets for the obtained along the route of the line ns as It passes through the center of Af At Atrich rich rica That wa was written In 1000 the year In which Williams got his first mineral concession In Today To To- Today day two great grant Junction lines complete and ns as Rhodes foresaw they IhlY mire taking to the markets of the Ihl world the Ihl obtained along the Ihl route roule of the main to Cape line They are also olo opening up 11 uplands uplands lands rich In III u agricultural ural anti mineral min I eral possibilities Loudon London Times I |