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'The Baghdad Railway Negotiations' [‎68v] (26/32)

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The record is made up of 16 folios, including 1 map. It was created in Oct 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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T he B agdad R ailway.
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was as folloA\s . -Roaflad R'lilwav svstem which, was
Great Britain undertook not to oppose of tlie nav i g ation
carefully defined. Germany undert00 VA t both undertook to use their best
of Mesopotamian nvers '^trrans.n.eut between the Bagdad
endeavours to secure the dvie cx ,. /w the terminus of the line should be
Railway Company and the For e P^X ^s on the Bagdad Railway, and that
at Basra, that there should be two ^ Bagdad and Basra should be carried
the construction and exploitot on ]lave a 40 per cent, participation
out by a separate a.mpanj. ^ undertook to prevent any discniBination in
in this company. i3oUi Uoveinme c K- nf - w rn \ The German Government
treatment on the railways or waterways of As.a c urkey 1 t0 sl , pp ort
bound themselves in no circumstances except tlie Pel . si f n G «lf. They
the establishment of any poit 01 1. •. osed ]|iverain Commission,
also recognised, by agreeing to ^ '^VSand 01 the Shatt-el-Arab.
111 '"''slmuUaneoullyuegotiations were carried on by
obtained from Russia .the ^®versiou^o „ e a g reeniell t, of 1900) in regard to
their 'respective^raUway interests, and a complete agreement seems to have been
VirtU 0 1 u .wfs 1014 Sir E. Grey stated in the House of Commons that the
arrangements of Great Britain both with Turkey and Germany were complete, ^
were dependent upon the conclusion of negotiations then proceeding between ^
and Germany ; and these latter were not concluded when the European war bioke .
Conclusion.
The Bagdad Railway was a damrujsa hwreditas, which was due as much to a lack ol
imagintdion mk I effective organisation on the part of our business comnn.mty m the
eighties, as it undoubtedly was to mistaken policy 111 those critical years on the pait ot
the British Government. Whatever judgment may eventually be passed on bir L O-rey s
administration of our general foreign policy, our narrative lias, wo 1 ii» , ni ' '
clear that in the Bagdad Railway settlement his action was necessarily bmited to
saving the wreckage. He was hampered by the existence of the Convention of 190d
and he was constrained, in determining our attitude, to take into constant consuloia inn
the interests of France and Russia as well as our own. , . + *1 1 ^
He succeeded in securing recognition of onr time-honoured position at the Head
of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and on the Arabian coast in a manner which made it no longer

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This printed memorandum is a copy of an article reprinted for private circulation from the The Quarterly Review of October 1917 concerning the Baghdad Railway negotiations. The purpose of the article is to trace the development of railway interests in Turkey and seek to focus the situation in which the later negotiations concerning the Baghdad Railway took place, and ultimately resulted in a draft agreement. The article is divided into the following chronological periods which are dealt with in corresponding sections of the article: 'The First Period' (ending 1888), 'The Second Period' (ending 1903) and 'The Final Period' (ending June 1914). These sections are followed by a 'Conclusion'. Each section is referenced with footnotes.

There is one map accompanying the article on folio 71 entitled 'Map of Railways in Asiatic Turkey representing their condition in July 1914' with the following railway systems represented: 'Turkish Railways (European and Hejaz)', 'Anatolian Railway', 'Baghdad Railway System, Working', 'Baghdad Railways System, Projected', 'Baghdad Railway System, Branches', 'Other German Projected Lines', 'Smyrna-'Aidin Railway (British)', 'Smyrna-'Aidin Railway Projected', 'French Railways', 'French Railways Projected', 'Egyptian State Railway', 'Russian Railways', and 'Navigation Concessions under British Management'.

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16 folios, including 1 map
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 56. and terminates at folio 71, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between folio 11-158; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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