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 142 km.; Muslimie Jerablus, 93 km.; Alexandretta-Toprak Kale branch, 60 km.; total, 295 km., completed 1914.

2. The French Group, consisting of:

(a) The system of the company now called the Société Ottomane du Chemin de fer Damas—Hama et prolongements. This includes three lines of a total length of 682 km.:

i. Beirut—Rayak—Damascus—Mzerib, 249 km., completed 1895;

ii. Rayak—Homs—Hama—Aleppo, 331 km., completed 1906;

iii. Tripoli—Homs, 102 km., completed 1911.

(b) Chemin de fer de la Palestine (Jaffa—Jerusalem), 87 km., completed 1892.

(c) Tramways Libanais (administered by the management of the Beirut—Damascus line): Beirut Harbour—Mameltein, 19 km., completed 1908. In 1913 an extension was undertaken to Jebeil, 20 km. further.

3. The Hejaz Railway, of which the Syrian section of the main line, Damascus—Deraa—Ma'an, 459 km., was completed in 1904. Between 1904 and 1917 the following lines were added: Haifa—Deraa—Bosra, 200 km.; Akka—Beled esh-Sheikh (Haifa line), 17 km.; Afule (El-Fule, Haifa line)—Massudie—Ludd (Jaffa line), about 100 km.; Massudie—Nablus, 15 km.;Wadi Surar (Jaffa line)—Bir es-Seba—El-Auja, 155 km., with a branch Et-Tine—Julis—Deir Sineid-Beit Hanum, 39 km. to be carried on to Gaza, some 10 km. further, and a sub-branch of about 12 km. from Deir Sineid to Huj. These two branch lines have been dismantled since the British occupation. The total length is 997 km., exclusive of the Arabian section from Ma'an to Medina [843 km. ], the present terminus to the south. This line is