ANGLO-PERSIAN RAILWAY

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6

ANGLO-PERSIAN RAILWAY

OFFSET TO THE BAGDAD LINE.

OUTCRY IN GERMAN PRESS.

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LONDON, April 29. In accordance with Sir E. Grey's forecast in the House of Commons on March 8, and the rescript read by Lord fdorley in the House of Lords on March 22, Sir E. Grrey-has. applied .to the Persian Government for ah' option to construct a railway from tho Khormnsa Inlet through Ahwaz and Shunter to Khoramabad, in tho region which Great Britain and Russia stood upon as a neutral zone. The scheme would enable British goods intended for Persia, instead of entering Turkish territory, to go direct to Khormusa, and thenco along a British line linked with Russia's projected KhanikinTeheran railway.

BERLIN, April 29. The' Khormusa scheme lias led to a great outcry from tho Prose. The 'Reichsbote' says: "With honey of peace on her lips, Great Britain's unswerving purpose is to bar Germany's path everywhere, and frustrate her success. Here wo havo again material for a gravo conflict with Great Britain." LONDON, April 30. (Received May 1, at 8.34 a.m.) ' The Times,' commenting on the Persian railway question, says that the Sardar of Assad's refeal to continue to guarantee the safety of the Bakhtiari trade routes makes it tho more desirable that these should bo supplemented by the KhortusaKhoramabad Railway.