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File 3047/1909 'Railways: Asiatic Turkey; railway construction in Asia Minor' [81r] (166/368)
The record is made up of 1 volume (182 folios). It was created in 1908-1911. 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.]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [April 20.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
[8733] No. 1.
Foreign Office to Board of Trade.
Sir, Foreign Office, April 20, 1910.
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit herewith copy of a despatch
from His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople on the subject of the Mersina-Ad^ft-
railway. A suggestion is made in paragraph 6 of the enclosure in this despatch that
the large expenditure by the company in 1909 may have been incurred with a view to
lowering the market price of the shares, so that British and other shareholders may sell
their holdings to the Germans, who are already supposed to control the company by
virtue of their existing votes.
Originally the company was under the management of an Anglo-French board,
sitting at Constantinople. In 1906 His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople stated
in the course of a despatch that in December, 1905, Baron de Yendeuvre, the vice-
chairman, left Constantinople for Berlin, where, after several interviews with Dr. Zander
and Herr Gwinner, acting on behalf of the Anatolian Railway Company and Deutsche
Bank respectively, he came to an arrangement by which he undertook to place those \
companies jointly in possession of a sufficient number of ordinary and preference shares of
the Mersina railway to command a majority of votes at general meetings of the company.
From “ The Stock Exchange Official Intelligence ” it appears that the shares and
bonds are all to bearer, and offer therefore no clue as to the ownership. It states however
that Herr Arthur von Gwinner of Berlin is president, and C. Testa of Constantinople
(presumably Herr von Testa, the German delegate on the Ottoman Debt) is vice-president.
In view of the above information, I am to enquire whether there would, in the
opinion of the Board of Trade, be any advantage in endeavouring to prevent the
Anatolian Railway Company from acquiring such of the shares oi this company as
may not already be in their possession.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the construction of railways in Asiatic Turkey, 1908-1911, as well as oil concessions in Mesopotamia.
Correspondence outlines the proposal to develop a railway from Tripoli via Homs and Deir and along the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , to compete with the Baghdad Railway. The company was designated 'The Anglo-Syrian Tripoli - Homs Railway and Tripoli Harbour Improvement Company'.
Correspondence also discusses the different consortia bidding for oil concessions in Mesopotamia and the relative significance of French, Russian and German involvement. Included in the volume is a letter (folios 49 - 153) from William Knox D'Arcy giving a 'List of Turkish concessions connected with oil now being sought'.
The principal correspondents in the volume include the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and the Ambassador to Constantinople (Sir Gerard Lowther).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (182 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3047 (Railways: Asiatic Turkey) consists of 1 volume,
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 178; 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.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/166
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- File 3047/1909 'Railways: Asiatic Turkey; railway construction in Asia Minor'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:67v, 69r:138v, 140r:148v, 154r:157v, 159r:170v, 175r:181v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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