Note 16 — Chapter V · PEACEFUL PENETRATION PROGRESSES

Report of the Anatolian Railway Company, 1907, p. 7; H. C. Woods, “The Bagdad Railway and Its Tributaries,” in The Geographical Journal, Volume 50 (1917), pp. 32 et seq.; Parliamentary Papers, No. Cmd. 964 (1920). The irrigation system thus planned was completed before the outbreak of the Great War. It justified the sanguine expectations of its promoters, for the agricultural yield of the irrigated lands increased from five to fifteen fold over the former production. In 1911 a similar irrigation project was gotten under way in Cilicia. Diplomatic and Consular Reports, No. 4835 (1911), pp. 18–19.