RUSSIAN RAILWAYS
AIT htteenatiostas company, (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 21. The Standard states that British and Russian statesmen and traders are sympathetic towards the Baku-Mishki railway project, which is now estimated to cost twenty-one millions. An international company is being formed, British and Russian interests predominating. It is considered that the Bagdad railway might junction with the new line, and the fusion is iike’y to prove a factor in averting possible, political difficulties. M. Zegintseff, a member of the Duma, is visiting London and sounding financiers. He recalls the project originated by M. de Lesseps at the end of the eighties.
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Southland Times, Issue 14581, 23 November 1910, Page 5
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102RUSSIAN RAILWAYS Southland Times, Issue 14581, 23 November 1910, Page 5
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