BAGDAD RAILWAY.
WITHIN 120 MILES OF MOSUL.
One of the areatest cTerman schemes which the war has overthrown __- the ambition of a German-controlled railway line from Hamburg to Bagdad. The future of the Basdad railway rests with the Peace Conference.
I had a conversation with M. Edouard Huguenin, director-seneral of the railway writes Mr Ward Price on November SI. Tunnels throuzh the Taurus Mountains were opened for broad-gauge traffic last month, and trains -an now run as far as- Niefbin '120 miles west of the British railhead n»ar Mosul, in Mesopotamia).
The tmck thro_z_out is in good condition, but the rolling stock is much deteriorated by overwork durin_ the war. !_ evertheless" a limited daily traffic from Constantinople to Nisjbin would be posBible, together with a larger service of trains in Western Asia Minor. from "where food supplies: for Constantinople J are drawn, if it were n«t for the coal famine. , , i
As to the probable time required to I complete the Bacdad railway to the Per- | Ran Gulf. M. Humenin said that, working from both ends with adequate sup- j piles of material and la.our. and with, the use of the British military railways in Mesopotamia as lines of supply, be thought trains might be runnina through to the Persian Gulf in two year_
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 52, 1 March 1919, Page 17
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