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“...GREAT BRITAIN
AND THE EAST
INCORPORATING “ THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA.”
Telegrams:
Eastaprox, W estcent, London-
T elephone:
Holborn 8254.
A Weekly Review of the Politics, Commerce and Finance of Great Britain (including the British Empire), the Balkans, Turkey, Egypt, the Sudan, Malta, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, Iraq,Iran, Arabia, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, India, Federated Malay States, China and Japan.
General Editor : E. A. Mackenzie-Bell.
Editorial Offices:
“ GREAT BRITAIN & THE EAST,” 133/136, High Holborn, London, W.C.l.
No. 1,492.—VOL. LIII. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939. Established 1911
The aims of this Paper are : the Maintenance of Peace ; the Safeguarding of our Imperial Communications ; the Promotion of British Trade; and the Interpretation of Great Britain (including the British Empire) to the East) and of the East to Great Britain (including the British Empire).
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NOTES OF THE WEEK.................. 497
LEADING ARTICLES—
Financing the War ..............499
The Watch in the Balkans...”
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“...visits to Syria, the Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan with this end in view. Orders for pharmaceutical products, of the kind formerly supplied by Germany, are being placed in large quantities with factories in Palestine by Egyptian and Turkish firms; and in other ways, too, the economy of the Eastern Mediterranean lands is being closer-knit by this new process of unification of international outlook.
It will be gathered, therefore, that the peoples of Palestine, Syria, the Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and, further north, Turkey, must take a profound interest in the unfolding of events in the Balkans. Any emergency which might develop among Turkey’s western neighbours would find her eastern friends anxious not only about their own future, but also the well-being of the power that controls the outlet of the Dardanelles into the Aegean and Mediterranean.
Another Population Rise
An aggregate increase by 10,400 persons occurred in the settled population of Palestine during the third quarter...”
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“...cases being despatched to Haifa, an increase of 521,387 cases in the consignments to that port. For the whole season up to the end of April the traffic totalled 7,263,925 cases, an increase of 1,295,686 cases.
New Works
New works were restricted during the period, but steps were taken to enable the railway to cope more advantageously with the busy traffic between Haifa and points to the east of the town by a new passage for trains through
WHERE TO STAY IN THE EAST
CYPRUS—
Nicosia—
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IRAQ—
Baghdad—
RITZ HOTEL, Rashid Street
PALESTINE—
Jerusalem—
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the marshalling yard between Haifa East Station and the Acre-Samakh Junction, and in the process of this work the stores sidings were reorganised and additional stacking place provided. New sidings were...”
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