Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1913 — Cape to Cairo Rival. [ARTICLE]

Cape to Cairo Rival.

The French project for a trans-Af-rican railroad from Algiers to Cajfe Town, using the line from Stanleyville to Cape Town, has taken definite form. In January, says the Scientific and Mining Press, an expedition to make a preliminary survey from Colomb-Bechar the present southern terminus of the Algerian railroad, to Lake Tchad, started out from the former point The engineers believe that the crossing of the Sahara desert presents no unsurmountable difficulties. From Lake Tchad the line will presumably follow the divide between the Sbaro and Nile basins and will enter the Belgian Kongo at Semio on the Bomu river, from there going to Stanleyville.