SYRIAN FRONTIER
REPUTED ADJUSTMENT.
1 AFTER LENGTHY DISPUTE. SECTION OF RAILWAY CEDED. (Received 9.23 a.m.) LONDON, February 39. A report from Constantinople affirms that M. de Jouvenel's negotiations have settled outstanding questions affecting France's position .in Turkey and Syria by'ceding to Turkey the section of the Bagdad railway forming the northern frontier of Sjria ; with a railway station-'at' Payas' dticl ■, seven villages in the vicinity. ...*»•.'.-, I The report is not confirmed, but the [Turkish newspaper " Vaki't ''' states [that M. derJouvenel is waiting- to sign [an agreement. ' The Franco-Turkish Treaty of 1921; fixed 200 miles of railway a« . ; the ■'• frontier of Turkey and Syria/but possession of the line has'since.been the j subject of dispute. Tie railway will be the most important means of access to* Iraq when a small uncompleted portion in the Mosul region is finished.— \. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1926, Page 5
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