THE BAGDAD RAILWAY.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] United Press Association. London, January 13. According to the Berlin press the Bilemdik tunnel on the Bagdad railway has been completed. Presumably this refers to the first of the four tunnels through the Taurus mountains. (Bagdad, the famous city on the River Tigris, Asiatic Turkey, and 500 miles from the sea. Population 145,000. The vilayet of Bagdad stands between Persia and the Syrian desert, and includes some of tme most fertile lands in the- valleyes of the Tigris and Euphrates.)
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 7
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90THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1915, Page 7
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