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“...GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST
INCORPORATING "THE NEAR EAST AND INDIA”
Telegrams: Eastaprox, Westcent, London
Telephone: Holborn 8254-5
Subscription : 30s. a year
Registered as a Newspaper
The authority for 30 years on the industry,
economics and current affairs of Great
Britain, the Balkans, Turkey, Egypt, the
Sudan, Malta, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria,
Iraq, Iran, Arabia, India, Afghanistan,
the Netherlands East Indies, the
Federated Malay States, China and Japan.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST, LTD.
133-136, High Holborn, London, W.C.l
No. 1602—Vol. LVIII
Postage: Inland lid., Abroad Id.
FEBRUARY 7, 1942
JAPS ARE NOT A SIDE SHOW
WHEN this reaches readers in the
farthest East the war picture will
be much different, and more hope-
ful. At the moment these words are being
typed Singapore seems doomed, and even
the Burma road is threatened.
The news is grim, but the outlook
brighter for one thing, and that is that
the Allies now realise that the happenings
in the East are not a little sideshow to
Hitler’s...”
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“...On the other
hand, the income of the port rose from
INDIAN RAILWAYS’ WAR EFFORT
The Indian railways are making a vital
contribution to the Allied war effort
both in the production of war materials
and the supply of equipment and men
for speeding up railway communications
through Iraq to Russia and Turkey.
Many thousands of men are being
recruited for railway and military units,
and huge numbars have already gone
overseas in order to increase the carrying
capacity of the lines of communication
through Iraq.
This work is being pushed on as quickly
as possible by Indian experts and Indian
labour. At the same time, great quanti-
ties of rolling stock are being rapidly
converted from the broad Indian gauge
to the Iraq gauge. Already more than a
hundred locomotives and many thousands
of other vehicles with auxiliary equip-
ment have been sent overseas, together
You will want to see
Great Britain and the East every week
SUBSCRIPTION FORM
To Great Britain and the East, Ltd.
133/136, High Holborn...”
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“...Bitshire Khurramshahr
Meshed
Resht
Shiraz
T abriz
Teheran
(Bazaar Office)
Zahedan
Branches in Iraq :—Baghdad, Basra.
The Bank transacts Banking business of every description in
and connected with Iran and Iraq ; and in London, grants
Drafts, Telegraphic Transfers and Letters of Credit, and
negotiates or collects Bills on Iran and Iraq.
Head Office - 11, TELEGRAPH ST.,
MOORGATE, E.C.2
BANK MISR
Societe Anonyme Egyptienne
R. C. No. 2
ESTABLISHED in 1920
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Head Office:
CAIRO: 151, Shareh Emad El-Din
Branch Office:
ALEXANDRIA: 19, Shareh Stamboul
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BANK MISR offers a complete
banking service with facilities
for transacting business of
every description through its
various agencies all over Egypt
IRAQI STATE RAILWAYS
The linking of Mosul to Baghdad by rail and the extended running of the
TAURUS EXPRESS to BAGHDAD provides aTri-weekly Wagons Lits Sleeping
Car Service between Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq, a Twice Weekly
Service with Iran and a Weekly Service with India and the Far East via...”
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“...(late MOHAMERAH) and BASRA.
Subject to the terms of the Company’s usual form of Bill of Lading.
Cargo taken on through Bill of Lading to
BAGDAD. TEHERAN, QUASR-I-SHIRIN, KERMANSHAH,
HAMADAN and TABRIZ.
Vessels loaded regularly at London, Glasgow, Manchester. Also Occasional Sailings
from Cardiff, Newport and Swansea.
For Freight and Passage apply to Loading Brokers :—
FRANK C. STRICK & CO., LTD., 117,121, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.3.
FRANK C. STRICK & CO. (BUSRA), LTD., P.O. Box 49, BUSRA, Iraq.
RENSON & STAFFORD (BROD) LTD
General Exporters & Buyers.
Correspondence Invited.
32, Buckingham Court, Kensington Park Rd., London, W.//
Cables: Codes :
Restaff, London. A.B.C. 6th Edn., Rudolf Mosse.
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