THE BAGDAD RAILWAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13334, 24 March 1911, Page 5

THE BAGDAD RAILWAY.

DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS. Press Association.—Telegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, March 23. In the House of Lords Lord Curzon initiated a detailed debate on the question of the Bagdad Railway, Lord Morley declared that if Turkey’s settlement was acceptable the Government was willing, upon condition .-that , the Sultan would use his influence with the Sheikh of Koweit to permit the terminus of the railway at Koweit, to withdraw the objection to the increase of Turkish Customs. Britain was sincerely desirous ■of a settlement, but adhered to the position Lord Lansdowne expressed in ,1903.