Definite progress is being made fon the project of a railway 620 miles long directly connecting Bagh-/dad with the Mediterranean, which is anticipated to be the alternative route from Europe not only to Iraq but also to the Far East.
'A. number of British employed on the Iraq railways, who have a practical knowledge of working conditions on desert railways. fare being lent to the British firm which will undertake immediately the planning and survey of a rail. way from Baghdad to Haifa.
Te is expected that the railway will take five years to complete. conjunction with pipe-line from the oil fields of Iraq to the Mediterranean.
The new railway line will di a considerable volume of the Middle-Eastern trade from the Suez-
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