AFFAIRS IN TURKEY.
-BAGDAD RAILWAY. '•'-.' ..-'■.'' BIG; ACREAGE OFFERED, TO ZIONISTS. ■'■(ny\*elekrap.U^l?^ Londoni October 14. The Turkish Minister for Pious Foundations has resolved to invite the Jews'of all cbuntries to,;.settlo ; near' the. route' of. tho Bagdad. Railway. Seventy million acres will bo, set ] aside for the. Zionist programme.:,. •'■.'■■■■'';■.':■ ■■":'■■- '; .Turkey has contracted for a- loan' of seven millions with French: financiers.-' Two millions will be issued in London..- '~':. ::
x IRRIGATION OF MESOPOTAMIA. A RAILWAY OUTLET AND RIPARIAN' WORKS. (Rec. October 15, 10 25 p m) , London, October 15. Sir Win. Willcocls, tho irrigation expert, states that without a-railway from Bagdad to the Mediterranean, tho irrigation of Mesopotamia would be fruitless. , Tho railway would cost 2J million sterling, Works preventing the overflow of the Tigris and tho Euphrates Mould cost .£700,000.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 5
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128AFFAIRS IN TURKEY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 5
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