DEVELOPING PERSIA.
Sin WILLIAM WILLCOCIvS' SCHEMES By Cable- —Press Association—Copyrigi) Received Nov. S. (i.ni. London, November 8. Sir William WilK-orks' report emphas-i-e« the opinion of Menopotumian merchants that communication between and tile Persian Gulf is not what the delta require*. The principal market- are in the eastern Mediterranean and Europe. Sir William Willed;* j-ccommends the construction of an 800-mile railway from Baghdad to Damascus affording cheap transit besides profitable traflic for Pci. «ian goods westwards, also for the conveyance of the Central Asian pilgrim", rendering the Hedjaz railway remunerative. The opening of Arabia would attract thousands of European and African tourists. Ho estimates the cost of the railway to be two am! a-half mil lion* sterling, and the prnlit on th.working JCllo.i)i)rt n year. Thus before the proposed great irrigation works wore begun the railway would yield a prolit. Ti?e total cost of the works in the Euphrates <and the Tigris basin i* estimated at upwards of a million each.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 235, 10 November 1909, Page 4
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160DEVELOPING PERSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 235, 10 November 1909, Page 4
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