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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [‎57] (72/148)

The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Arabia]
RAILWAYS 57
would take 52 hours via Jauf, which would be
the head-quarters of the line. The cost was esti
mated (probably too low) at £5,000,000.
(ii) From a point opposite Port Sudan to Koweit or
Bahrein.
{h) Turko-German Schemes. There were two pro
posals :■—•
(i) The linking up of the Baghdad and Hejaz lines.
Such a connection would be valuable for
strategic reasons only, and would therefore be
very costly.
(ii) The extension of the Hejaz Railway to some
port on the Indian Ocean. Aden was originally
suggested, but would now be probably replaced
by Sheikh Saad or by some point between Sheikh
Saad and Makalla.
From the point of view of the development of Arabia
the construction of a trans-Arabian railway in the
north would probably have no very far-reaching effect.
It would facilitate imports to central Arabia from the
Gulf Ports and from Haifa or Cairo, but these must
always be limited. The extension of the Hejaz Rail
way southward to the Indian Ocean would probably
be far more beneficial to the country at large. It
would connect by rail the Mediterranean and the
Indian Ocean, and would offer excellent trade facilities
between south-eastern Asia, eastern Africa, and
Europe, competing with the Lower Egypt and Suez
routes, especially in post and passenger traffic. More^
over it would open up the fertile and little-known
districts of Asir, and, if properly managed, would con
tribute powerfully to the establishment of order m
precisely that part of the peninsula (Yemen and Asir)
where there are the greatest possibilities of future
1 The question of improved railway facilities in Arabia is more
over dependent upon that of the railway development of Meso
potamia The establishment of a trunk line connecting Baghdad
with a Syrian port would render the British schemes above
mentioned, and to a less degree the Turko-German schemes, of
secondary importance. See No. 92, Mesopotamia., p. 66.

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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.

It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.

There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.

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1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.

Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.

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