Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 25 | Palestine Looks to Rail Expansion

I Palestine Looks to Kail al Expansion x JERUSALEM Dec 6 By A. A P P. In In few tew ways has the English ad adI administration administration ad- ad ministration lent itself more to the I economic development of ot the Holy HolyLand HolyLand Land Land than by the development of I its railway system With a standard standi standard stand stand- i ard gauge line from Eg Egypt pt through I Gaza And Lud in m the coastal plain l lalnI I to ta Haifa at the f foot ot rot O of Ie Carmel one of the chief and an-a another I from the port at Jaffa crossing this uns one at Lud to Jerusalem the chief economic centers are well connect connected I ed with Egypt and th that tha outside world Damascus road and several short lines lines' make most of ot the country by rail railA A report is now that negotiations ne negotiations negotiations ne- ne al' al are aie- progressing satisfactorily satisfactorily satisfactorily for the of a line from Haifa to Beirut along the coast passing through Acca T Tyre Tre re and Sidon A line Is already in operation operation operation op op- as far as Acca and only miles more need to be built to connect by b rail one of the largest seaports in the Near East Beirut I with Cairo Alexandria ann Port Saih I There is also talk of constructing I a a. line across the Syrian connecting conI connecting con con- the Damascus Haifa railways rail raU- railways I I ways with Bagdad