London to Bombay.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 January 1911, Page 4

London to Bombay.

WKKK-ENDS IX INDIA. The project for building an international railway througli Persia, to bring Bombay Mithin .seven days of London, has awakened the keenest interest not only in shipping but in financial circles. M. ZveginbefF, the member of the Russian Duma, who is entrusted Avitli the mission of enlisting British support and capital for the proposed railway, has already met with considerable success. Twenty-one million pounds is required to carry the plan through, and money will be gathered in every European capital." When the railway is completed the man with only three Aveeks' holiday —and plenty of money to .spare—Aviil be able to take a quick trip to India and back, and stay a week in the country. He Avill leaA-e Charing Cross on Monday nt nine in the morning, and Jitant on his race across Europe and Asia, through the cities of the Continent at 3.32 on Monday afternoon, in a comfortable railway carriage. Five o'clock on .Monday evening Avill see him in Brussels, and at nine ait night, he Avill have crossed the German frontier at Herbesthal, having seen all Belgium spread befo:e I lis carriage Avindow. He will sleep, not in a bunk in a rolling ship, but in a comfortaVo bed. in a "waggon-lit." In the night, whilo he sleeps, !■• will be borne across Germany, end Avhen Tueday daAvns he Avill "be 'n •Hanover. He will have breakfast in Berlin, and dinner at Alexandrovo, on the Polish frontier. At ten minutes to ten on Tuesday night his train will steam into Moscoav station. _ By midday on Wednesday his carriage Avill be rushing through the provinces of Russia toAvards the Caucasus: through Bjazan, where he can take tea from a samovar on the train, to Kozlov, where he will go to sleep again. He may wake r.p in the earlv morning of Thursday and find himself passing through Voronesh; by Thursday night he Avill have left the River Don behind him; Friday Avill bring Vladikavkaz to him, and if the train runs at high speed, early on the morning of Saturday he should he in Baku. This is where the porters may cry, Change here for India," for, now, the neAV line will run across the Persian plateau, along caravan routes AA'here hitherto the onlv carriage has For a time, from the window of ihds "Avaggon-lit," lie Avill be able to see the waters of the Caspian Sea, as the train boars him towards Resht. The next capital ho will be brought to is Teheran, and then he will haA 7 e a long journey ithrougib Yezd and Kirman, passing little wayside stations named Mahammadabad and Ze,in-ud-din, to the Customs at-Baluchistan. Aoross Baluchistan "to Nusbki. on the Anglo-Indian, line, and on Monday, the train will run into the Victoria terminus, Bombay. KTrtA* 3 P asse ?£ er have travelled 0700 miles_ in_ seven days, and' the " ° ticket will have been