COTTON ON THE NILE LANDS.
SCHEME! TO PLANT 300,000,000 ACRES. ; LONDON, July 28~Mr Harmsworth, Under-Secretary 4 -for Foreign Affairs, / moving ..the ; se^bhdi' reading of the SouBan "Loan /Bills i^thV?House of v Commons/, said that 'the Bill proposed to enable the: Soudan Government to ; raise £6,000,000 for irrigation and railways with a i-viejif /to, developing the cottongrowing industry. It was propped to plant 300,000,000 acres along the junction of the Blue and White Nile. Theyscheme-was-ql the t utmost importance in view; of British dependence pn American, cotton,: ";'- : •:: ■ «wilMßMßMM>__|' "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14987, 14 August 1919, Page 5
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87COTTON ON THE NILE LANDS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14987, 14 August 1919, Page 5
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