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Noire, touching at the French ports of the Gulf of Guinea and at 

 Monrovia. A branch line from Niamey runs through Dahomey to 

 the coast. 



The Belgian service, Sabena, besides the main trans-Saharan 

 crossing in which they alternate with the French service, run 

 internal services connecting Brazzaville (Leopoldville) with Boma 

 and Matadi on the west, and eastwards with Port Franqui, Lulua- 

 borg, and Lusambe. Another internal service connects Brazzaville. 

 Coquilhatville, Lisala, Basakoto, and Stanleyville. 



In Portuguese East Africa, the D.E.T.A. Portuguese Government 

 service runs from Lourengo Marques to Johannesburg in connec- 

 tion with the Imperial Airways service along the east coast. In 

 Angola a projected line runs from Humpala via Loanda to Kabinda 

 in the Belgian Congo. 



The Italian air line, Ala Littoria, connects directly with Rome, 

 Benghazi, Melita, Tunis, Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast; and 

 there has recently been established a regular route to the colonies 

 of the East Coast, running via Cairo and Khartoum to Asmara, 

 Assab, and Jibuti. These three are all directly connected to Dire 

 Dawa, as are Addis Ababa on the west and Mogadishu on the 

 east coast. 



The German line by sea-plane runs down the West Coast to 

 Bathurst in the Gambia, and thence across the Atlantic to South 

 America. 



The Dutch line to the Far East crosses the north-east corner of 

 the continent from Tobruk in Libya, via Cairo to Baghdad. 



ORGANIZATION AND RESULTS 



At present the four meteorological organizations which cover 

 the greatest area of Africa, but not in all cases the most highly 

 developed, are those of (i) The Union of South Africa; (2) British 

 East Africa; (3) Egypt, which has close relation with the Sudan 

 and to some extent wdth Abyssinia, and (4) French West and 

 Equatorial Africa. These correspond to the four regions into which 

 it is convenient to divide the continent for meteorological purposes, 

 the South, Central, North-East, and North- West. The first of 

 these regions includes Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and 



