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French Government Submits Note to Britain on Dead Sea Concession

February 14, 1929
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The French Ambassador yesterday submitted a further note to the British Government on the question of the Dead Sea concession.This note is now under consideration, Austen Chamberlain stated in Commons today in reply to a question raised by Col. Bury, who opposes the granting of the concession to the Jewish engineer Moses Novomejsky and his associate Major Tulloch.

The note of the French government points to the concession for the exploitation of the Dead Sea salts granted before the war by the Turkish government to Ottoman subjects.

A French group has acquired this concession, the note points out.

The British government informed the French government last April, in reply to a previous note, of the reasons for its inability to recognize the validity of that concession, Mr. Chamberlain stated.

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