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“...GREAT BRITAIN AND
INCORPORATING “THE NEAR EAST
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.
THE EAST
AND INDIA”
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST, LTD.
133 -136, High Holborn, London, W.C.l
No. 1609—Vol. LVIH
Postage: Inland l|d>9 Abroad Id.
MARCH 28, 1942
INDUSTRIALISTS CAN DO IT
CIR EDMUND CRANE makes bicycles.
But in wartime he is much more
interested in a good many other things he
is doing. He made progress in peace days
by using his brain, demanding action and
getting it. He has tried to use the same
methods to help forward that part of
Britain’s war work for which he is
responsible, and partly he has succeeded,
but the red tape boys are always...”
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“...er in Egypt and later
Director-General of Foreign Affairs to
the Egyptian Government. The execu-
tive committee of the Centre, with head-
quarters in Cairo, includes representa-
tives of the British Embassy, the
Ministry of War Transport, of the Army
and the Commander-in-Chief Mediter-
ranean, and the United Kingdom Com-
mercial Corpoation. The Centre is
responsible for an area populated by
some 50 million people: to wit, Aden,
the Sudan, Egypt, Palestine, Transjor-
dan, Syria, Cyprus, Malta, Iraq, and the
occupied territories of Italian East
Africa. The Centre is concerned also
with supplies to the Government of Tur-
key.- Its work extends, too, to British
East Africa: the surplus commodities of
Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika are
sent up north and marketed by the
Centre, but British East Africa is self-
supporting so far as the Centre is con-
cerned, and does not need to be sustained
from the Middle East.
For administrative purposes the Centre
is considered to be a department of the
Ministry...”
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“...BANK OF IRAN
(Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1889)
CAPITAL (fully paid) - £1,000,000
RESERVE - £760,000
Reserve Liability of Shareholders,
£1,000,000
Branches : Chief Office TEHERAN
Alrtvaz Bushire frrrrait Teheran
Arab Hamadan Meshed (Bazaar Office')
(Sultanabad) Isfahan Resht Zahedan
Baghdad ifermanshdh Shiraz
Basra Khorram Shahr Tabriz
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.0.2...”
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