Show DESERT ROAD OPENED New Railway Line Connects the Red Sea and the River r Nile ile Port Soudan Feb The 2 The new n railway between n Port Soudan and Berber Berher Connecting connecting con con- the lied sea It an and tho time NJ Nile has been opened by ly Lord Cromer Cromp Ills Hit lor lordship In his opening speech saIl said that order and tranquility had been brought ht about In the Soudan In recent years and schools school and law courts had I been established but It IL was no less true that the Ite serious crous development dc nt of or tho the country country coun cOlin try began bejan from that d day So Ion long as us th the country was wa separated from Crom the till rest st of the world by a wm waste t of oC burning desert esert and so long us as communication communication cation could ani only be bt I kept kelt u up h by a n line of railway and river steamers over ovel a distance die dis ls- ls tance lance of or 1 1200 miles miles for for that was sas the distance die dis tance Lance from front the mouth of or the th thara to toA A Alexandria an lexa nd tin any any very rapid progress was out of or the question Road henri Is K 32 Miles Jes Long The distance from Berber Delbel to the sea would now no be shortened b by nearl nearly miles ulles The new Dew railway which was miles mile long Ions had hod been finished In fourteen Courteen months at a co cost t of more than an accomplishment which did great reat credit credito to o Col Coi and the tIll en who had been heen engaged d on it H. t. t It would create a trade which without it t l could never nevel exist and would open out the Soudan to the world and there would be no differential rales rates or 01 duties dutil's to favor the trade trall of nn any one nation Moreover It brought within n cas easy reach the he upper tipper regions of oC the Nile valley alley upon which the tire material guarantee of or E Egypt apt rested Th The railway a was the list fUet step in the gradual g execution of oC a n large larce scheme Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the construction of works work ol oi public utility among which were the railway from rom Ka- Ka relma to Abdu Hamed which would shortly be completed irrigation on a a. great scale In Tn the KasIlla country countr the opening ii up of anI and anil the estabI establishment I of oC communication between JI El and Open to All Trade or of World TIre Thc n ness port ort and the railway which was that day n inaugurated Inaugurate would be open Olen on equal l t terms to the trad of oC the wh whole le world Undesirable elements might come into the count country with It It but ho he trusted i hi t P t tn their the Influence by br careful and wise mea mea- Sound nd agricultural banks ml might ht compete with the usurer Wise legislation might put some come check upon Ulon tho the excessive she sale of drink Ca Care e and judgment In the disposal disposal dis die of or government lan lands s might do a areal great real deal to nullify an any done one by bythe bythe the tire more company compan He lie dd not doubt that all those subjects would receive re- re e the ruB full attention of or Sir Reginald WIngate atc of or who whose e past s services leo r to th the SOudan he could not speak In terms of or too high pm praise c S Lord Cromer concluded b by declaring the railway open onen in the names of or Kin King l Edward Ed- Ed d- d we ward Id I'd and ami amitie tie the Khedive dve After Sir had briefly explained explained ex ex- to the large number of or sheikhs and native notables notable present the effect which the Poe would have o In improving improving im inn- proving trade the Inauguration ceremony remony was l brought ht to an nn end nd by the bands playIng playing play play- In Ing the Royal Roval and Khe anthems |