MOSUL AND MUSLIN.
Prom the Mesopotamian theatre of war to drapers' shops seems a far cry. Yet a manufacture supplies the link. Mosul, the Turkish, military centre on the Upper Tigris, gave its name in the Middle Ages to the fabric known as mousseline or muslin. At that time it was a prosperous industrial city. Now it is a distributing centre for Western goods, and its .chief native export is gall-nuts from tho Kurdish mountains. Mosul, however, lias' another claim to remembrance.. It lies on the Tigris, op. posits the ruuw of ancient, Nineveh,
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 16
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94MOSUL AND MUSLIN. Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 16
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