The reconstruction of South-Eastern Europe

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF

The field for British capital and enterprise to develop the natural resources and to foster the commerce of the Southern Slav State will be enormous, and we can enumerate only some of the chief lines. First of all, this State must enlist foreign capital to enlarge or to build the ports that will come into her possession. If the ports of Fiume (Rieka) and Sibenik would be able to accommodate the future traffic, the Dalmatian ports of Spalato (Split), Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and a port on the coast of Montenegro must be greatly enlarged and reconstructed. If Salonica should remain in the hands of Great Britain and France many improvements must take place in it after the war, in order to make that port the finest in the Mediterranean, a real emporium of world commerce and enterprise. There is no need to appeal specially to the British in that matter, as the building and organisation of commercial ports will best suit their skill, enterprise, and experience.

Simultaneously with the building and improvements of the ports the Southern Slav State must pay their best attention to the speedy construction of a whole set of railway lines leading to the ports, and conveying the goods to be exported and imported from abroad. One of the main arteries of this State will still be the existing railway line Fiume—Zagreb-Belgrade and Belgrade—Nish-Salonica (about 800 miles). But that line has to be greatly im-

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