'.i'lie transformation of Mesopotamia from llie desolate waste which it- had becomc under the blighting nile of the Turk into a land cf nlcntv is mocceclV - apace. 'llio latest triumph of British engineering—an important irri--«|tjou woi-K at Mansurevauli, on the Diaui river some 70 miles north-east of Bagdad—has just been opened. The car.ai is six miles lout;, and without any further -work upon it water ran be supplied to irrigate 300.000 acres, and render cultivation possible as far as the neighbourhood of Ba-'dad
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16506, 25 April 1919, Page 5
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