A World History of Our Own Times: From the turn of the century to the 1918 armisticeSimon and Schuster, 1949 |
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Page 186
... railway ruin- ing their shipping lines that carried silk from Marseilles to India . The Russians feared that the opening up of Mesopotamia would lose them some of their markets for wheat . The British saw the Berlin - Bagdad Railway ...
... railway ruin- ing their shipping lines that carried silk from Marseilles to India . The Russians feared that the opening up of Mesopotamia would lose them some of their markets for wheat . The British saw the Berlin - Bagdad Railway ...
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... Railway . The Germans , in 1902 , had obtained the consent of the Turks to extend the railway from Bagdad to the Persian Gulf . The British , French , and Russian Governments combined to thwart and delay the plan , which the Kaiser now ...
... Railway . The Germans , in 1902 , had obtained the consent of the Turks to extend the railway from Bagdad to the Persian Gulf . The British , French , and Russian Governments combined to thwart and delay the plan , which the Kaiser now ...
Page 352
... railway through . The Germans had already financed the construction of some seven hundred miles of railway lines in northern Asia Minor . To extend these lines down to Bagdad called for laying twice as much additional track . They ...
... railway through . The Germans had already financed the construction of some seven hundred miles of railway lines in northern Asia Minor . To extend these lines down to Bagdad called for laying twice as much additional track . They ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF 1900 | 7 |
CHAPTER PAGE 1 EUROPE AND GERMANY 3 | 7 |
THE LESSER TWOTHIRDS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE | 23 |
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