Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-06
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 reached. It is this line which the Turks, under the leadership of Meis- sner Pasha, German engineer who built the Hedjas railroad, have ex- tended into the desert east of the Suez Canal. How far the line is com pleted at this date is unknown. Ac- cording to a statement made by Meis- sner Pasha to the Associated Press correspondent. at Dera, Arabia. last June. the railroad had been surveyed and graded far into the desert ana about 150 kilometers were ready for traffic. Little is known of the line. beyond the fact that in the Hebron valley it runs over a survey made for a French company One of the pur- poses of the road might be to carry water into the desert in case the water supply system established in the vicinity of the canal should prove unable to meet the demand
 A table of days needed last June in transit from and to the various points on the Constantinople-Suez Canal line of communication is hero given:
 Constantinople to Bosantl by
 railroad ............ ...... 2 days Bosanti to Tarsus by road =. l day Tarsus to Mamori by railroad l day Mamori to Rodjo by road =. 2 days Rodjo to Ryack by railroad =. day Ryack to Damascus by railroad l day Damascus to Jerusalem by ..:
 railroad and road ...-.. 2 days Jerusalem to end of railroad
 line ...... ............. days
 Iotal -. ..-l- ..---... l2 days
 Or: Constantinople to Damascus (see above) days: Damascus to Maan. by railroad 1 day; Maan across desert, by motor vehicle, to the canal T udNS. lOldl To udfS.
 But since June work on the Mamori- Rodjo line of the Bagdad railroad ha7 been pushed as hard as possible, not. withstanding the fact that the Italian workers Of the Entilly and Karababa tunnels left their posts Difficulty in securing rails and bridge steel were also experienced. But last July the Entilly tunnels. about 5000 yards long. was broken through. and the bridge near Rodjo was completed in August. The statement made some time ago to the Associated Press cor. respondent that trains were running from Rodjo as far as Islahiah permits the conclusion that the Karababs tunnel was also finished. either that. or a track was laid over the pass which here is rather low. Since then it has been learned that track is be, ing laid in the Entilly tunnel, which means that train communication will soon exist, or is already established from Tarsus to the end of the mili. tary line in the desert. Should this be the case then the trip to the Suez Canal will have been shortened two days. the time given in the above table including in all cases the hours lost in transferring troops from train to road and vice versa.
 But the possibility exists that a further improvement has been made in this line of communication. Work was being pushed last June with all energy on the Bagdad line beyond Bosanti that is to connect with the Mersina. Tarsus and Adana railroad at Dorak. Of the seventy tunnels. three of which are $500, 2,70O and 1,700fy yards long, mauy were com pleted. so that trains were already able to proceed beyond Bosanti. and it was expected that supply trains would soon be running as far as Dor. at. on the Mersina. Tarsus snd Adana line. A narrow-gauge road serving road was already in operation. Thoueh the engineering difficulties presented bv the Tshakyt Gorge. through which this section of the Bagdad line runs. are many. they may have succumbed to the will Of the German and Swiss engineers, in charge of the work. The completion of this line would further reduce the time of the transit from Constant nople to the Canal by two days. cut ting the total on the all-rail line down to the following number of hours:
 Ordinary speed Express
 Hours Hours ConstantinopleB Bosanti As Ss Posanti-Dorak a1o noral-Rvack 36 27 pyarl-Damaecu a70