PERSIAN GULF SHIP CANAL
In the February. number of "Tho Times" Engineering Supplement an account is (jiven nf a schoine for a ship cnnal from the Mrriitorranenn to the Persian Gulf. SturtiiiK from Suedia, south of Alejandr.otta, (lie canal would follow the Nahr-el-A.'i to Antinoh, and would Ilipu run in an excavated channel past Aleppo to the Euphrates, which it would join at Khalat Balis, Hie total loneth frnn Suedia to Fao beinp; about 9GO miles. The author of the scheme, Jf. Gustavo Defosse, has been engnstcd in working it put for many years, some of them spent in Brussels while it was in German occupation.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 7
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106PERSIAN GULF SHIP CANAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 174, 17 April 1919, Page 7
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