AN ENGINEERING FEAT.
In particular, he referred to the remarkable progress made by the Iraq Petroleum Company, in which the Anglo-Persian is materially interested. Sir John took part in the inauguration of their pipe-line system, and with regard to that great under- taking he said : " And a colossal work it is. To have discovered oil in the hills of Kirkuk, the site of the biblical ' fiery furnace' to have laid 1,150 miles of pipe—to have connected it through 12 pumping stations to the Mediterranean seaboard— to have drilled for and discovered water at -or near each station—to have constructed sea terminals at Tripoli and Haifa—all this constitutes one of the greatest engineering feats of our age." Thus, said Sir -John, -" Iraq oil passed triumphantly from the oil fields of Irak to the Mediterranean, and the great work was completed more than a year before the stipulated date." Incidentally, it may be noted that following the General meeting there was a Special meeting, when a Resolution was passed changing the name of the company from Anglo-Persian Oil Company to the Anglo-Iranian. Oil Company Limited, It change, of course, in harmony with the change in the mane of the country itself from Persia .to Iran.
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