dered, cleaned, scraped, enamelled, wrapped in tar paper, and laid in the ground. Leeway is left between the joints of each section to allow for expansion and contraction due to changes in temperature.
But the crude oil is sluggish; it flows with difficulty. So twelve pumps, empowered by oil, must help the laggard flow.
And now the work of 600 technicians of all nationalities, 10,000 laborers, and a host of tools and machines is completed—the virgin flow of oil has made its first long journey of 800 kilometres into Haifa, the future gate of entry into the Middle East.
The Mosul-Haifa oil line was developed under terms of a concession between the Palestine government and the Iraq Oil Company. The duration of the concession is for seventy years. At the expiration of the concession the rights granted to the company under the convention will be terminated and all immovable property of the company and all fixtures in Palestine that are part of the industry, will become the property of the High Commissioner, free of charge, provided that on or before the expiration of the concession, should the company so desire, the High Commissioner “undertakes to consider sympathetically the extension or removal of the concession terms to be agreed.”
LOCAL LABOR
The company undertook to employ local labor for the purpose of the undertaking in Palestine, provided that if the supply of suitable local labor was insufficient, the High Commissioner would supply facilities for the admission into Palestine of labor for the purposes of the undertaking upon the condition that if such labor is admitted temporarily, the company would agree to repatriate the men who have not obtained the consent of the High Commissioner to remain in Palestine.
André Crémieu-Foa, French Jewish cavalry officer, fought two duels over an article in an anti-Semitic paper before dying in West Africa in 1892, where he had distinguished himself in combat.
In 1306 Philip the Fair of France disputed with the bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne the claim to the confiscated property of the Jews of that district.
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