Show OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA it to Is 73 75 years since david livingstone completed the first journey made by a white man across africa and that journey had bad taken two years now following broadly living stones track from angola to mozambique zam bique a very different transcontinental tin journey Is being made the first train to cross africa from ocean to ocean leaves lobeto lobito now for beira a distance of 2049 miles by the route of the railway the lourney journey has been rendered possible by the completion of the western section of the route that from lobeto lob to bay by the banguela Ben guela railway and its continuation through the belgian congo to the katanga copper field a field which extends into the adjacent regions of northern rhodesia Rho desla the change that has come over this land in a single generation Is remarkable As diamonds drew the railway from the cape to kimberly and as gold drew the railway on to the hand so copper has drawn the railway to the heart of south central africa katanga but yesterday a thousand miles from anywhere almost m 0 s t unknown tr the white man Is now n 0 w t the he most highly developed ae eloped province of the belgian congo it has a considerable white population its mines have hae already exported cobber to the value of and in it has haa an attractive capital which at the moment Is indulging in its first international exhibition hibi tion across the border in northern nort herh rhodesia Rho desla there Is promise of an almost equal development and whether in portuguese belgian or british territory the great change has been brought about mainly by british enterprise and with british capital this Is as it should be for the opening up of the whole region originated with the british 1 I to the courage and persistence of one man in particular sir robert hobert williams this change Is due then livingstone was vas the true pioneer it was livingstone who first kept open the road to the north and it was the rending I di ig 0 of entries in Living stones journal that guided williams as he has himself said to his discovery discover y of the immense mineral wealth alon along g the congo zambezi divide williams was a an early associate ot of cecil rhodes and an ardent believer in the cape to calro railway scheme but neither he nor rhodes was foolish enough to suppose that a railway from the cape to cairo was on an econ economic orille proposition in itself the cape to calro line was meant as a backbone front from which ribs would extend on either side two years before his death rhodes wrote the junctions to the east find and west coasts which will occur in the future will be outlets for the traffic obtained along the route of the line as it passes through the center of africa that was written in IDOO 1000 the year in which williams got his clr first r t mineral concession in katanga T today two great junction fin lines es tire are complete and as rhodes foresaw they tire are taking to the mar markets bets ot 0 the world the traffie obtained along the route of tile the main cape to calro line they are also opening up lands rich in agricultural find and mineral possibilities london times |