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\erican Colony, Jerusalem
of the enterprise, it is necessary
briefly the history of this
iture.
. of a railway to Bagdad is
Sir William Andrew, an Indian
cial of renown, is said to have
urst seriously to suggest such
and as far back as 1857 Sir
Leill and General Chesney re-
mrably upon it, while in 1872
Committee of the House of
vas appointed to examine the
i idea was to run a railway
port on the Syrian coast,
ta bAug the point suggested,
and thence to Persia towards
e late Sultan, Abdul Hamid,
t time showed more than an
endship toward Great Britain,
:d to sanction the scheme, but
was shelved, presumably be-
inanciers could be found to
)ur occupation of Egypt, to-
the Government purchase of
e shares giving us a practical
the management of the Suez
)ther matters, somewhat upset
1 at the Porte. Germany saw
mity and grasped it, so that
rrs the Kaiser became virtually
n of the Sick Man of Europe,
showed her hand promptly
the Anatolian Railway, which
Scutari, the Asiatic suburb of
>ple, to Konia. But in 1902
y dropped a bombshell into
il world by announcing the
she had obtained from the
>vernment to build a railway
to the Persian Gulf, a distance
les, or 1870 miles from Con-
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