Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — Future Rapid Travel. [ARTICLE]

Future Rapid Travel.

Mr. Lindsay Bashford, writing in the Edinburgh Review, foreshadows a London to Calcutta journey by rail in a fortnight. “The Bagdad railway,'* he says, “begins at Konia, in the heart of Asia Minor, where, by means of the Anatolian railway, it connects with Constantinople. From Constantinople to Aleppo the distance Is some 850 miles. From Aleppo, the line proceeds to Jefablus. on the Euphrates, and thence by Nislbin to the important center of Mosul on the Tigris; thence southwards to Bagdad and to Basra. The distance from Aleppo to Bagdad is about 650 miles. “Carry the imagination further, and we may reasonably picture, under the new political arrangements between Great Britain and Persia, the extension of the Bagdad railway to Teheran, and thence to Quetta and India. That done travel ‘overland’ between London and Calcutta should be a matter of less than a fortnight.”