RUSSIA AND PERSIAN GULF.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 80, 3 April 1906, Page 5

RUSSIA AND PERSIAN GULF.

New Consulate Established, (Received 5.39 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG. April 2. A Russian Consulate baa been established at Blinder Abbas, in the Persian Gulf. -i [Bunder Abbas is one of the chief ports of Persia, and is situated on the Strait of Onnuz, connecting the Gulf: with the Arabian Sea. J JWho Is going to be the mail to "Oromerise" Asiatic Turkey? asks "Commercial Intelligence." July 5. 1905. "What Lord Cromev nas done for Egypt, to the great gain of the British nation, will be accomplished sooner or later by someone else in Asiatic Turkey to the immense advantage of such, administra;tor's fellow countrymen. Up to the present the Germans have secured all the tricks in the diplomatic game. Backed by their Government, and directly aided t)y the Emperor himself, German financiers have secured valuable railway concessions which they have used in the most skilful manner to their own advantage. It is an old story how, after a prolonged struggle between rival groups of financiers, the Bosphorus to Ismid line passed into the hands of the group controlled by the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, and was successfully extended through Eski-Shehir to Angora on the east' and Konia on the south, being now known as ihe Anatolian Railway. From Konia the Germans have constructed a line to Eregli, and ultimately it is intended to ■ carry this railway torough Adana, Biredjik, Urfa, Mardin, Mossul, and Baghdad, to Koweyt." The length will be about 1800 miles, and the cost about £20,000,----000. This question is now becoming an i urgent one, because it is stated that "Sir 1 William Willcocks." who has done so , much, for Egypt, "is at the head of this i company, whose object it will be to render the Tigris and the Euphrates navigable from the Persian Gulf as far as Diarbekir and Biredjik respectively. It is also proposed to join the Euphrates and Tigris with canals, and people the uninhabited plains between the rivers with Mussulmans. Immense importance therefore-attaches to the construction of these railways, for it cannot be doubted that -tbc nation that builds the railways and controls them will eventually reap i the rich harvest that will follow when ithis fruitful corner of the world is proj perly developed."]