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File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.' [5r] (14/514)
The record is made up of 1 volume (253 folios). It was created in 27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913. 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 26.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 4.
[19150] No. 1.
Sir G. Lowlher to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received April 26.)
(No. 328. Confidential.)
gj r Constantinople, April 19, 1913.
WITH reference to my despatch No. 177 of the 2nd March last, I have the
honour to report that I am in receipt of a telegram from His Majesty’s consul-general
at Bagdad in which he sets forth certain views suggested by the above-mentioned
despatch, copy of which was communicated to him.
Mr. Lorimer considers that the formation of a navigation “ combine” is greatly to
be deprecated, first because a monopoly would be most prejudicial to trade, and,
secondly, because British interests would probably become absorbed, while it is not
unlikely that the combine would oppose very influential resistance to any Bagdad-
Basra Railway.
It is in the interest of the Germans, Mr. Lorimer continues, to keep the
communication between Bagdad and Basra inferior to that with Aleppo, and to the
interest of Lynch to prevent the realisation of the Basra Railway scheme, while the
interests of the country and trade generally demand the construction of the Basra line
as soon as possible, and the opening in the meanwhile of the Tigris, like the Karim, to
international navigation.
I have, &c.
GERARD LOWTHER.
[2884 cc—4]
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The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
The principal correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office, the 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. , and the Board of Trade; and the Secretary of The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company.
The papers cover: contracts and agreements; Russian concern over the proposed agreement; the formation of a joint company to operate river transport on the Euphrates and Tigris; the assertion by Britain of exceptional rights to navigation on the rivers of Mesopotamia; and papers concerning the general Baghdad Railway question.
The French language content of the volume consists of contracts, agreements and conventions, with English translations.
The volume contains conventions and agreements that are earlier than the man date range, dated 1903-11.
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- 1 volume (253 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 1808 (Bagdad Railway) consists of one volume only. The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 255; 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 present in parallel between ff 3-254; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:24v, 31r:31v, 34r:49v, 54r:59v, 61r:75v, 78r:81v, 83r:89v, 91r:135v, 138r:141v, 143r:145v, 192r:214v, 254r:254v, 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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