LOOKING FORWARD.
Mr Sidney Low. discussing the Middle Bast in an English magazine, does not think there is much to concern u.s in the future of Constantinople, as he snvs it is no longer the hey to India,
if, indeed, it ever was, except in Napoleon's imagination. .Mr Low forecasts that some time there will be a tunnel under the Bosphorus, and passengers and mails will run straight through from Boulogne to Bombay; but that will only make Stamboul an important point of transit, like Marseilles or Brindisi, which nobody re-
gards as keys to India. The writer, refers to the enormously strengthened position which, in his opinion, Great Britain will enjoy as a result of the war—that is to say, in Egypt, Arabia,
Mesopotamia, Persia, and the Persian Gulf. The disappearance of the Turk from Europe is to result in "the reconstruction of the Moslem world on the ruins of the military despotism which had usurped the Caliphate."
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 43, 21 June 1915, Page 4
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159LOOKING FORWARD. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 43, 21 June 1915, Page 4
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