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1?T ar Office repeated G.O.G. Mesopotamia.
From:- Gen.Candollo Basra.
To:-
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S.ggeo. D.O.T. 16 of 18.12. Reference your telegram 72401 clpior-
M.R .2a .676 dated 10/12. For D.6.M.R. as follows. Memorandum to you
was taken by Col.Bradshaw on this?sudject together with plan C &
the reasoned notes on trar ; sport(?)organization in Mesopotamia
submitted to G.O.C. in C. as referred to in X.4348.of Deo.9th. Tnc
following aro replies to your remarks taken verbatim. Aa metre
gauge will, in my opinion, except along coast prove widest
practicable for Persia. Mero feed lines will never be numerous on j
be carried. into specially difficult country. Therefore the narrowing j
of gauge is not essential. B. see E. £• During survey
of Diala branch to Sulaimaniya.I/ubheeks suggestion is to be xooked
into. But whole geology and other Information has already practically
ruled it out. Along coast of gulf & Xfidian Ocean lies the highest
capacity-shortest safest ultimate standard gauge railway haute to
Indiaa, D. All my comments on Persian Railway project have been
& are dictated by-commercial considerations . E. Sentence refoi- od v5
claimed that Dizful Burujird W would be extravagantly costly by any
route (1 group-undecipherable)ed. (3 groups undecipherable).
Dizful sector to Chahmak or Mlrkala would join the Baghdad Teheran
line near Hum. In Persia the line of hydrography is strangely uniform
so that in expressing specific views I have come to feel less
hesitating. Lightness of line from Baghdad to Teheran is due to its
utilizing the highest reaches of the river & avoiding the middle oo-sc.-
with their <containing gorges the outcome of geological conditions
universally pervading meunteins of Persia. This same advantage is
partly onjoyod by Trans Persian line as far westward as Teheran, But
it must not be forgotten that very many of the views expressed by me
require to be confirmed. This must bo tackled gradually & will take a
long time. The more (1 gr.undec.) surveys & reconnaissances required
for the purpose have been set forth in cable Y 4278 dated Doc .5th also
my telegram of Doo .9 th transmitted by the G.O.C.inC under his X_4348.
Ml these reconnaissances & surveys should now be vigorously pushed//'’
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