THE NEAR EAST.
THE ROAD TO EGYPT. RAILWAY' CONSTRUCTION ABANDONED. Received Dec. -28, 7.5 p.m. London, December 27. A Rome correspondent learns that German engineers have suspended the construction of the railway to Egypt owing to the lack of material. They had now forced ten thousand laborers, mostly. Christians, to build a wide macadamised road for the remainder of the distance.
The recent Senussi raids across the Cyrenaica border are not regarded as oi importance. The British are strongly guarding the.caravan routes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1915, Page 5
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82THE NEAR EAST. Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1915, Page 5
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