DEAD SEA SALTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19178, 8 December 1927, Page 9

DEAD SEA SALTS.

QUESTIONS REGARDING CONCESSION. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIBELXSS.)

KUGBY, December 6,

Questions were again asked in tho House of Commons regarding the concessions for the Dead Sea minerals.

Captain the Hon. W. G. A. OrmsbyGore (Under-Secretary of State for the Dominions) said negotiations w.ere proceeding on behalf of the Palestinian and Transjordanian Governments, with a view to safeguarding the interests of those Governments in any concessions which would be granted. The question of possible relations with a German . monopoly ' would be borne in mind. He would like to point out that there had been so much exaggeration as to' the extent of the deposits that he must enter a word of caution with regard, to the salts, which were not only potash. The Transjordanian Government was the Government of a mandated territory, and its life 1 ad to be preserved. He believed that the theory was that the frontier between Palestine and Transjordania ran somewhere down the middle of the Dead Sea. Asked whether negotiations for the concessions had beei* undertaken wit Mr Novomeysky or Major Tullock, Captain Ormsby-Gore replied that negotiations were proceeding with £hose gentlemen jointly. Mr Novomeysky was an engineer with local experience, and also with experience in the separation o mineral salts by evaporation. For so.me time past he had been carrying out experiments on the shores of the Dead Sea.