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'Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway' [‎142r] (1/52)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (25 folios). It was created in Jun 1906. It was written in English and French. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
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Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. June 1906.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(8658.)
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad
Railway.
[Amended Version. See Fart IV, p. 17.]
THE subject of this Memorandum is dealt
with under five headings:—
1. General Railway development in Asia
Minor.
2. The Bagdad Railway Convention of 1903.
3. The Anglo-German negotiations of 1903.
4. The prospects of completion of the line
without British co-operation.
5. The influence of the railway on British
interests.
In the first and second parts recourse has been
had, both for purposes of reference and quotation,
to two works in particular—“ Le Chemin de Fer
de Bagdad,” by Cheradame, and “The Middle
Eastern Question,” by Chirol. The statements of
these writers have, however, been verified by
official Reports, and where inaccurate care
fully corrected.
Part 3 is a summary of official correspondence.
Part 4 is based upon (a) the Report for 1904-
1905 of the Ottoman Debt Administration, and
(6) statistics respecting the yield, actual and
estimated, of revenues available for allocation to
the kilometric guarantees.
Part 5 is a precis of Memoranda prepared at
the Committee of Imperial Defence, the War
Office, and the Board of Trade, and of official
correspondence.
Three Appendices are annexed, containing
respectively a railway map of Asiatic Turkey,
the text of the Bagdad Railway Convention of
1903, and a list of official documents and
published works to which reference has been
made.

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This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic.

The memorandum is divided up as follows:

1. General Railway development in Asia Minor;

2. The Baghdad Railway Convention of 1903;

3. The Anglo-German negotiations of 1903;

4. The prospects of completion of the line without British co-operation;

5. The influence of the railway on British interests.

The file contains a map of the rail lines on folio 159 entitled 'Le Chemin De Fer De Bagdad' (The Baghdad Railway).

The appendix to the memorandum contains a copy (in French) of the Convention de la Societe Imperiale Ottomane du Chemin de Fer de Bagdad of March, 1903 (folios 160-166), in and on folio 167 a list of official correspondence and publications referenced in the memorandum.

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1 volume (25 folios)
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On folio 167, the memorandum contains a list of all official correspondence and publications referenced in it.

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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 142, and terminates at f 167, 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; 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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