DEVELOPMENT OF MESOPOTAMIA.
SIR WILLIAM WII.COCICS REPORT
United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Nov. 8.
Sir AVilliam Willcock’s report emphasises the opinion of Mesopotamian merchants that communication between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf is not what the Delta requires. Its principal markets are the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe. Sir AVilliam AVillcocks recommends an 800-mile railway from Baghdad to Damascus, affording cheap transit, besides profitable traffic for Persian goods westwards, also conveyance of Central Asian pilgrims and rendering the Hedjaz railway remunerative. The opening of Arabia Would attract thousands of European and' American tourists. He estimates ;the cost of the railway at two and a-lialf-million sterling, and the profit at £IIO,OOO. Thus before the proposed great, irrigation works had begun to yield a result the total cost of the works on the Euphrates and Tigris are estimated at upward of a million sterling each. •
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2655, 10 November 1909, Page 5
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142DEVELOPMENT OF MESOPOTAMIA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2655, 10 November 1909, Page 5
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