A large portion of the oil from the Mosul fields in Iraq will flow to Haifa, High Commissioner Chancellor predicted today in formally opening the Shell Oil Company’s Haifa plant. He also confirmed that before long the Haifa-Bagdad railroad will be built and will eventually link up Teheran in Persia with Haifa.
Declaring that the ruler of Persia had already inquired regarding the possibility of a Persian line linking up with the Haifa-Bagdad route, High Commissioner Chancellor voiced the hope that Haifa would become a refining and distributing center for the Iraq oil which would make that port as great as the Mediterranean ports of Genoa and Marseilles. Haifa, he said, as the junction of the railway, will be the most important link not only for Palestine and Transjordania but also for Iraq and Persia.
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