US engineers and Sudanese workmen completed the installation of the prefabricated Atbara railroad bridge over the Nile River near Khartoum.
Lord Kitchener remarked:
As Englishmen failed, I am delighted that our cousins across the Atlantic stepped in. This bridge is due to their energy, ability and power to turn out work of magnitude in less time than anybody else. I congratulate the Americans on their success in the erection of a bridge in the heart to Africa.
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