(By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

ST. PETERSBURG, 27th Feb.

The Russian Government has prepared a bill providing for the irrigation of the Karabagh Steppe, at a cost of million pounds sterling. Eighty-one thousand acres will be devoted to cotton plantations.

[Karabagh (“black garden”) was at one time a Khanate, and later a province of Transcaucasia. It is now part of the Shusha district of Baku.]

Publication date 02/28/1914