AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE BAGHDAD RAILWAY. [To THE EDITOR Or
THE" SPECTATOR."]
Sie,—It may prove interesting to your readers to know that it is highly probable that the Charing Cross to Baghdad route (see Spectator, July 6th) will have soon an alternative, though not less interallied, line. For some time, in fact, the project of a ferry-boat from Otranto to Valona has been gaining ground in Italy, whilst the Valona-Monastir line is spoken of as one of the first construc- tions to be effected after the war. There will then be no reason for passing through Hungarian territory, even before the Yugo- Slav highway be completed, and the route will be the same as that followed to-day by the Indian mail to Brindiei (very near Otranto), thence by ferry-boat to Valona and by rail to Monastir, Salonika, Dedeagatch, Constantinople, Konia, Adana, Nizibin, Baghdad, Basra—and, let us hope, Bombay. When the great Yugo-Slav highway is complete, the Otranto-Baghdad line will perhaps cease to be the London-Baghdad, but will remain the direct Rome-Baghdad, Railway.—I am, Sir, &c., S 41:VATI. Via Lamarmora 41, Torino.
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