Next Thursday will see the beginning of work on the oil pipe line which is to extend 1,200 miles across Iraq, Palestine and Syria and which will be laid at a cost of $54,000,000, “World Petroleum” states in its current issue.
Engineers from Great Britain, France and the United States will begin to connect Iraq by a great Y-shaped tube with two ports on the Mediterranean.
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