“Baku with its 600,000 inhabitants — Armenans, Turkomen and Russians—is full of strange contrasts. You see camels being unloaded in the market pUicc side by side with modern motor srucks, and Turkish women who have shed the veil shopping, side by side with others —old ones —who have not. And towering high above the battlements and ancient walls of the temple of the Fire worshippers you see modern oil derricks."—William Holt, broadcasting to North America in a 8.8. C. scries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 5
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