The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-08-18, Page 7Bugclad Railway
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'itAleppo Is a Junction That
May Link Three
Continents
A step toward realizing the railway
possiilities of Aleppo in th® north of
Syria has lately been taken in the
opening of an express- s-eiwice to it
over the old Bagdad Railway line
from Constantinople. Aleppo is one
of 'the most inter>es>tins railway junc
tions in the world. The old Bagdad
Line, potentially the shortest rail
route between Western Europe and
India, connects there with the French
railways which run south through
Syria to link with the British railways
of Palestine, Egypt and Sudan, a
chain of lines- which is'' potentially the
■likeliest rail route between Europe
and South Afrca. These great potential
routes connecting three continents by
rail, pivot on Aleppo, Hence the in
terest which attaches to the new Con*
stantinople-Aleppo express service.
The Wagon-Lits Company which b‘e-
bnn the new service on July 2, has
announced it as the. first instalment
of an eventful service to Bagdad, At
preset the old Bagdad Lime extends
only tn Niisbin in Upper Iraq. Be
yond Aleppo, local trains run to the
lonely desert stations which lie to
ward Nisibin. Up from Bagdad the
line has been pushed to Shergat below
Mosul, but the gap between Nisibin
and Shea-gat has never been filled in.
The First Civilian Service
The new service is the first through
civiikn service which has ever been
operated over what was once the Bag
dad Railway. Tho Germans opened
the last of- the tunnels which breach
the Taurus'Range just in time to sur*
render the entire line to the British
in October, 1918, The Taurus Tun
nel System was the last gap between
Constantinople and Nisibin, a distance
of T,100 miles, and when the line was
surrendered the tunneil® were finished
except for their concrete facing.
British military authorities took over
the line and worked it in two sectons,
tho seaten between Con®tantnople and
Konia being maintained in rather bet
tor shape /than the section beyond
Konia to -Adana, Aleppo and Nisibin.
Civilians with miltary permts could
use it, but the trains from Constanti
nople only ran to Konia, and from
Konia the trains- for Aleppo stopped
overnight en route at Boz-anti at the
top of tli-e Taurus, and at Adana down
in the
Taurus.
From
of the
and- its rolling stock went to rack and
ruin. Few railroads- have been more
magnificently built'and nene- has- ever
been pounded to pi-ece-s* mor-e ruth
lessly, The armie-s which surged back
and forth across it as tli-e Greco-
Turkish War progressed maintained
it no more than was necessary to en
able it to supply their immediate
needs. When peace finally came what
remained of it from Constantinople to
Y-eni-dje, just beyond the Taurus in
Cilicia, was left in Turkish hands, and
beyond Y-enidj-e to Adana, Aleppo and
across the Euphrates toward Nisibin,
it was handed over to a French com
pany. Since then there has been
ampl-e time to restore it and a civilian
service has been operating for some
time over it, through passengers from
Constantinople to Aleppo changing at
Konia and Yen-idj-e.
From Aleppo the French railways
afford direct connection with Damas
cus, where a rack-atad-pinlon line
drops down through the Lebanon to
Beirut on tli-e coast. From Damascus
also the narrow gauge Hejaz line runs
El-Derao-h and thence to Haifa on
the coast, whence the British standard
gauge lines run south to Jerusalem,
Cairo and Khartoum. What the
Wagon-Lits Company has now done is
to open a through service twice a
week between Constantinople and
Aleppo. Like all the European ex
press service operated by the com
pany, the trains consist of sleeping
and dining cars and are open to first-
class passengers only. Tli-e service*
begins in the hot season, but it will,
open tojiext 1'all’s- tourist traffic the1
first direct overland route to Syria and -
Palestine, which has ever been avail-j
able .to the ordinary Westerner.
Hitherto the Western tourist lias had
■ .ito travel to Palestine via the Medi-ted-,
rar-san and Egypt, a far more round-.
about and slower route frdm Europe, j
The Bagdad Railway’s branch lino
■v to Angora, had a similar, experience
during the Greco-Turkish War. It is ‘
an older line, however, for it was j
originally intended to bo the mainI
Biagdod Lino. ■ It was accordingly!
completed and an ordinary train s-er-1
vice was operating over it before the J
great war. The Wagon-Lits Com-’
pa-ny has now begun operating an ex- ‘
press service from Constantinople to
Angora three times a week in con- •
junction with the daily Eimp,Ion-Orient
( Express from London and Paris to
‘ Ccnstanfiiople. Tlie- Bosphorus has
hot yet been ^tunneled and th-e Wagon-
Li-tS Company ferries Its passengers
from Sirkedjl Station in Constant!-,
ncple to Haidar Pasha, the old Bag-'
dad Railway terminus', on tli-e Asiatic ’
’side. |
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Cilician Plain beyond
■that time until after the
Greco-Turkish War the
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“And are you any
,0’Rourke?'
was
was
True Stuff.
I’vea pet,
And Yet They Sing.
We love indeed all those -who sing
Whatever work they’re at;
But who can bring himself to love
Mosquitoes—or a gnat?
replied,
in Alaska.”
kzlt a.wv*>| s* iv m*1
This simple truth we all must grant.
Yet, while a footless watch can run,
A yardstick, which has three feet,
can’t.
Life and Baseball.
Life is like a baseball gamo,
That is conceded;
l?o win, you've got to make your hits
When hits arc needed,
Amons: the new features of the 1927
Canadian National Exhibition will be
UN new Live Stock Pavilion—an fl
acre extension to the C. N. E. Coliseum. Canadians will point with particular
pride to 'this mammoth new structure.
49th Year Celebrating
of the Ca^l,a’s
/-’mp 60 thC. N. E. Birthday
John J. Dixon,President
The Fop—“Yes, I always sleep with
gloves on my hands because It keeps
them so soft, you know.” Pert Miss—
“And do you sleep with your hat on
as well?”
“The modern factory and the rail
road train running at lightning speed
are as wonderful as the finest sculp
ture in a Gothic church.”—Arthur Lie
ber t.
the
Thirty-six Canadian aviators an
nounce their intention to race from
London, Ont., to London,’ England.
Thus another “London bridge is fall
ing down.”
most universally believed. This sup
erstition, the memory of bls recent
defeats and the sense of responsi-
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Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills assist di
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Too Near.
“I’m in lovo with a girl In Nebraska,
But I’m really afraid, sir, to ask her
To, be my fair bride.”
“What’s the hitch?” I
"I’ve a wj£e, sir, at homq
Not Curious.
The skunk makes quite
heard,
Is playful as a cat.
I’ll take the other fellow’s word
For anything like that.
Alarming-
Said the wise country crow
. When to town- he did go:
"It’s back to the cornfield for me!”
For he read this one . line
On a specialist’s sign:
“Crow’s feet removed quickly,
free!”
trial
“You look tired, my friend,”" said
the sympathetic soul. “Well, madam,
it is hard work carrying a hod of
bricks up to the fourth floor.”
you been doing that for long?”
but I. start next week.”
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court
sight
A policeman’s wife stated in
that she left him because the
of his uniform got on her nerves. Her
departure was a bolt
as it wore.
from
made
The
the blue,
to repi’e-
lady who
Handbags are now
sent stuffed animals,
absentmindedly delved into the mouth
of her Pekinese for a ’bus fare is get
ting on-as well as.,,can be expected
'The British shilling does not al
ter,” states an authority on curren
cies. “Mine was changed on the very
day I received • it,” sighs the spend
thrift who was "cut off with a bob.”
play as a champion, wore all added
to the burden borne by
in a mtecli against the
players of the world.I If these things did
young man he gave no
it.
every golfer
most famous
disturb- the
iudicaton of
His qualifying reoro was good,
but not extraordinary. When he teed
up for his first round, however, he. struck out boldly, ,fis unconcerned as'
ever. Par for the ccurec- was 73, and
in that round* he made it in 68, which:
t<ed the record for eighteen holes at
historic St. Andrews and gave him
a lead pf three over his nearest com-1
i petitor,( In his article in The Sun he
confessed himself a little uncertain
whether his luck on that day was
top good to hold. Next day, in
second round, he shot a 72, or one
der pur. Jfl lis morning round of
final day he made the course in par,
and in tfie afternoon ho shot another
72. Thus In four rounds of eighteen
boles each ho equaled par once, beat
it by one strok^ twice and beat it by
five strokes the other time.
Probably there never was and
never will be such a thing a» perfect
golf, but Bobby Jones has come very
near to it. Much as his technical skill
is to be admired, his moral stamina is
even more admirable. The world’s
applause always goes unreservedly to
men who possess both to the pre-emn-
ent degree in which he possesses
them.—N.Y. Sun.
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For Either the Newborn Babe or
the Growing Child.
the
the
the
Khvanis Cup in the seedling
years ago the Hamilton
Club offered to the Canadian
What pi-omis-es to be the biggest
floweir show ever held in Canada is to
be held in the Memorial School
Auditorium, Hamilton, Ont., on Aug.
24th and 25th. Being the combined
exhibitions of the Canadian Gladiolus
Society and the Hamilton Horticul
tural S-oolety, it will tax the school to
its capacity.
The Secretary, Mrs. Schumacher,
112 Victoria Ave. N., Hamilton, is busy
sending out the prize lists and she
reports keen interest in ail tho classes
wlVoli include the open, amateur and
novice.
The outstanding features of
show will be the competition for
Spectator Cup in the open class,
Eaton Trophy” in the amateur class
and the
.Class.
Two
Kiwanis
Gladiolus Society a cup to be award
ed to the best seedling gladiolus of
outstanding merit. ***’• This meant that
the winner must be a better flower
than any on the market at the present
time.
This stirred up a great deal of in
terest and the rivalry was very keen.
Among .those- entered wa-s one from far
off New Zealand. In s-pite of the
high caliber of the enteries, the
judges would not make an award. The
same thing happened at Peterborough
‘last year and although there was keen
disappointment among the exhibtors,
it stirred up their blood with the result
that this year is going to -see the
greatest struggle for this coveted
prize.
Besides the 225 classes for gladiolus,
there- are numerous sections for asters,
dahlias and dozens of other fall bloom
ing annuals and perennials.
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The Light Brigade (Balaclava) Fund
has come to an end with
the last survivor of the
sioned officers and men
the famous charge. A
years ago a special fund was collect
ed for the support of these veterans,
. . . . Nothing in- tho Crimean cam
paign except the fighting quality of
our men reflect much honor on Eng
land. The statesmen who made it,
the higher command, the Staff, divi
sional and brigadier-generals, all blun
dered ruthlessly. But it was the cour
age and endurance of the troops in
the Crimea which first roused the na
tion as a whole to some sense of duty
towards its soldiers and sailors
their families.
Many a sly little puss has a
dog on a lead.
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When Bobby Jones won the British
open golf championship last year his
total score of 291 strokes for seventy-
two holes was hailed as a marvelous
achievement, tying as -it did James
Braid's-winning score of 190S. In the
play at,, St. Andrews this week two
other young men, Aubrey Boomer and
Fired Robson, tied that mark. But be
fore they had done so it had already
ceased to have anything more than
historic interest, for Jones had made
the seventy-two holes in 285, breaking
the British open golf record by six
strokes and being one stroke better
than the best mark for the American
open championship.
Yet it was not even this extraordin
ary play which proved the supreme
skill of the young man from Atlanta.
As golf goes, it is a great thing for
a man to
pionship;
sion is a
had not
Braid did
most remarkable thing about Jones’s
second victory is that he won it not
withstanding certain psychological up
sets which must have increased his
mental hazards enorijiously.
This time a year ago Bobby hold
three of the four principal golf titles
—the British open, the American open
and the American amateur. His game
had attained such smoothness that he
Wa shailed as invincible, and it would
scarcely be human nature for Sim not
to have melt thi? opinion well ground
ed. Then, at 6altusrol last fall, he
lost the American atnateuf- title when
he tvas defeated by George von Ehn,
A few weeks ago the American open
title was taken from him at Oakmoilt.
{lie Was much disappointed by these
i reverses and some persons aOfitL$hfted
1 with the facts described hipt lis being
• greatly discouraged,
I "They never come back” is an old
'saying in the sporting world, and al
though it is not always true it is al-
win the British open chain-
to win it twice in succes-
feat which until yesterday
been accomplished since
it in 1904 and 1905.. The
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Minard’s Liniment for burns.
As the Rain Began.
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who hides behind a woman’s skirts?”
He—“Oh, yes; but isn’t it all right
for a fellow to take shelter under a
woman’s hat?”
Minard’s Liniment relieves Backache.
Britain and the Air
Glasgow Herald (Cons.): The Brit
ish record in long-distance flying is
something to be proud of. We have
to our credit the first conquest of the
Atlantic both by airship and aeroplane,
the -long array of Empire flights by Sir
Alan Cobham, and the magnificent
non-stop attempt t-o India which syn-
chonized with Colonel Lindbergh’s
Atlantic crossing. Yet to a great
extent, because wo are without the
flair for self-advertisement which i-s
a conspicuous possession of some
other nations, Britain’s reputation
abroad is tending to become that of
an Indifferent performer in the air,
and pessimistic critics at home are
tailing and writing as if -wo had fallen
into a position of hopeless inferiority.
An artist states thal his sketches
are just good enough to keep the pot
boiling. It seems dreadfully extrava
gant to light fires with good sketch
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