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commercial department, under Mr. Whitlev, being Mr. William Hill. 

 The Turkish Government had a special engineer of European educa- 

 tion, Monsieur Edmund Bechara, to make reports to them, whom we 

 found a man of very good ability and character. 



It has been a great disappointment to me that when our organi- 

 zation had become so satisfactory, and when we had finished this 

 first barrage, that owing to the war our works should have been 

 suspended and the whole of our valuable English staff detained 

 by the Turks at Bagdad as prisoners of war. 



[J. J.] 



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