GERMAN DREAMS IN EAST
CONSTANTINOPLE TO CHINA ,• \ LINE. The' Socialist paper "Burgerzeitung," of Bremen, publishes details of German imperialist designs regarding Mesopotamia. Briefly, the proposals are to Germanise the Bagdad railway not only as far as Bussorali, hut also to Builder Abbas, on the Persian Gulf. "Only so would the Bagdad railway be completely removed from. * British control and. a blow delivered against England's supremacy in the Persian Gulf. x There appears to be two railway projects: the first the : Bagdad "which may ho described as Constantinople to Kiaou-Cliao" (the German port in' China captured by the Japanese and British), and another a Central Asian line-from Turkey to China, extending Turkish U-e:, German)' influence over Persia and "strengthening. the semi-independent neighbouring States of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, now under AngloIndian influence.". The paper, adds tlmt tlio Atiglo-ler-siaii Oil Company's pipe lines have only once been interrupted during the war. Tho rebellious nomad tribe concerned ; was defeated and tho damage repairZed. . '
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 6
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159GERMAN DREAMS IN EAST Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2963, 29 December 1916, Page 6
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