RAILWAY LINK
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA. For Persia, now known as Iran, a railway has just been completed to link the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. A train can now run 865 miles from Bandar Shah on the Caspian to Bandar Shapur on the Gulf, crossing the Zagros mountains in romantic Luristan, spanning the River Abi Cesar, and bringing Teheran, the capital, within reach of the sea both north and south. Tunnels were driven, barracks built for 50,000 men, and settlements became villages. It has taken eleven years to build, but the best thing about it is not its value, or the resolve of Iran’s progressive ruler, Shah Riza Pahlevi. to have it made, but that its . construction should have been entrusted to the engineers of eleven nations: Great Britain, Germany, France, U.S.A., Italy. Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Greece. They were led by little Denmark. This is the sort of task in which nations should combine. It is gratifying that Britain's share should have been the hardest.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 7
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170RAILWAY LINK Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 7
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