ملف ٤٠٤٤\١٩١٣ الجزء ٢ "سكة حديد بغداد: المفاوضات مع ألمانيا" [ظ‎‎١‎١‎٩] (٢٨٢/٢٣٤)

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plete agreement on the subject between the
Imperial Ottoman Government, His Britannic
Majesty’s Government, and the Imperial German
Government.
Clause (b). The Imperial German Government
declare that they will in no case themselves
establish, or support any claim by any persons or
corporations whatsoever to establish, a port or
railway terminus on the Persian Gulf unless and
until there is complete agreement on the subject
between His Britannic Majesty’s Government
and the Imperial German Government.
Clause (c). His Britannic Majesty’s Govern
ment declare that they will in no case themselves
establish, or support any claim by any persons or
corporations whatsoever to establish, in Ottoman
territory, railway undertakings either in direct
competition witl. the Bagdad Railway Company’s
lines, or in contradiction with that company’s
existing rights, unless and until there is complete
agreement on the subject between the Imperial
German Government and His Britannic Majesty’s
Government. For the purposes of this article,
the western terminus of the Bagdad Railway
system, as defined in the explanatory note attached
to the present Convention, shall be held to be at
Konia and the eastern terminus at Basra.
Article 4.
Clause (a). The Imperial Germcn Government,
having cognisance of the declaration signed on
the 29th July, 1913, on behalf of the Imperial
Ottoman Government, concerning navigation on
the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, declare that
they will not oppose the execution, nor support
any action directed against the execution, of
such declaration, so long as the navigation on
the said rivers is maintained in substantial
accordance with the provisions thereof.
ment declare that they will not oppose the acqui
sition by the Bagdad Railway interests of 40 per
cent, of the share capital to be allotted to
Turkish interests at the first allotment (i.e.,
20 per cent, of the whole share-capital) and the
right in respect thereof to subscribe for a rate
able proportion of further issues of capital of the
Ottoman Company for river navigation, and their
rateable participation (by directors agreeable to
the Imperial German Government) in the board
of the aforesaid Company out of the share of the