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BIG TURKISH CONTRACT ALEX A NDRETTA, IMPRO VEMENT " The Turkish Government has given London engineers a contract, worth some £200,000, to reconstruct harbour works at Alexandrctta, consisting of a jetty with screwed- • cylinder foundation, sheds,, railway lines and cranes. It is understood that a similar contract is pending for the port of Mersin across the gulf, the base of a Turkish army corps. Both Alexandretta and Mersin are connected by rail with Aleppo. The fact that they are so near this, vital railway link between Turkey and Iraq, dominating North Persia and the Middle East, gives both ports considerable military importance, apart from their value at the moment for trade between Turkey and England. Alexandrctta has .8000 square metres of covered warehouses, but there are no quays or dry docks. The harbour is not protected by breakwaters, although it is sheltered and gives the safest anchorage all the year round in that part of the workl. Ships anchored half a mile from the shore discharge their cargoes into lighters and other small craft, for which there is a basin 80ft long.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 196, 22 December 1941, Page 2
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184GIVEN TO BRITAIN Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 196, 22 December 1941, Page 2
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