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File 4044/1913 Pt 2 'Baghad Railway: negotiations with Germany' [118v] (232/282)
The record is made up of 1 item (142 folios). It was created in 1914. It was written in English, German 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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international commerce, His Britannic Majesty’s
Government undertake not to take or encourage
any measures likely to impede the construction or
management by the Bagdad Railway Company of
the Bagdad Railway system or to prevent the
participation of capital in this undertaking.
Clause (b). The Imperial German Government
declare that they will use their best endeavours to
secure that two British members, agreeable to His
Britannic Majesty’s Government, shall be admitted
as representatives of British shareholders to the
Board (Conseil d’Administration) of the Bagdad
Railway Company.
Article 2.
(Notk: Copies of all agreements relating to
the railway system to be communicated to His
Britannic Majesty’s Government before signature
of this Convention.)
(Nots: In order to ensure the permanent
presence on thp Board of two directors agreeable
to ilis Britannic Majesty’s Government,the German
group which controls the Bagdad Railway Com
pany will uive a written assurance to the Imperial
Geiman Government that the said group will
always use its best endeavours and voting power
to secure this object, and the Imperial German
Government will undertake to Ills Britannic
Majesty’s Government that they will maintain and
uphold the said assurance. Provisions to this
effect should be inserted in the explanatory note.)
Clause (a). The Bagdad Railway Company
having concluded with the Imperial Ottoman
Government an arrangement on the following
basis, the Imperial German Government and His
Britannic Majesty’s Government declare, so far as
concerns themselves, that they adhere to the said
arrangement, and will use their best endeavours
to secure its due execution :—
(i.) The terminus of the Bagdad Railway
Company’s line shall be at Basra, and the Hagdad
Railway Company has renounced all claims to
construct a branch line from Basra (ZobeirJ to
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, referred to in article 1 of the
Bagdad Railway Convention of the 5th March,
1903, and to build ..a port or railway terminus on
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, under article 23 of the said
Bagdad Railway Cohvention.
(ii.) No discrimination, direct or indirect, shall
he permitted on the Bagdad Railway Company’s
system, either as regards facilities or rates of
charge for the conveyance of like articles between
the same points on account of the ownership,
origin, or destination of goods presented for trans
port, or in any other manner whatever.
(hi.) In the event of the construction of the
said branch line from Basra (Zobeir) to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
being undertaken, adequate arrange
(Note : The Imperial German Government are
ready, by means of an exchange of notes, to
declare as follows: The Bagdad Kailway G’om-
pany have assured the Imperial German Govern
ment that all rates of freight and conditions of
transport shall be duly published, and likewise
any change proposed therein : further that any
change, whether an increase or a decrease, in the
said conditions or rates of freight, shall be
published at least two months before they come
into force. The Imperial German Government
will uoe their best endeavours to keep the Bagdad
Railway Company to these assurances.)
ments shall he made to secure facilities for through
traffic from and to the Bagdad Railway Company’s
system, and there shall be complete protection
against discrimination, direct or indirect.
(iv.) The construction and exploitation of the
proposed ports of Basra and Bagdad, authorised
by article 23 of the Bagdad Railway Convention
of the 5th March, 1903, shall be carried out by a
separate Ottoman Company.
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This part contains drafts and counter-drafts of the various agreements relating to the proposed construction of the Bagdad Railway [Baghdad Railway], comprising the following documents written in English, German and French:
- the Anglo-German Convention;
- an agreement between the Bagdad Railway Company and James Lyle Mackay, first Baron Inchcape;
- an agreement between the first Baron Inchcape and the Société Impériale Ottomane du Chemin de Fer de Bagdad;
- an agreement between the Ottoman Railway Company (the 'English Company') and the Anatolian Railway Company and Bagdad Railway Company (the 'German Companies').
Folio 85 is a map, titled 'Sketch Map to Shew Approximately Railways and Railway Projects and Navigation Concessions in Asiatic Turkey', displaying the routes of existing and proposed railways and river navigation.
The file also contains correspondence thereon between 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. Political Department, the Foreign Office, the British Ambassador to Berlin (Sir William Edward Goschen), and the Imperial German Ambassador to London (Karl Max Fürst von Lichnowsky). The correspondence concerns the following: negotiations over the wording of the draft agreements; arrangements to limit competing lines between Konia [Konya] and Basra; the appointment of potential British Directors to represent shareholders on the Board of the Bagdad Railway Company; and disagreements between Deutsche Bank [the financiers] and Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. over the area to be covered by the Smyrna-Aidin line. A number of 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 Foreign Office minutes, providing details of meetings with German and Ottoman officials, are also found within the file.
In addition, the file contains correspondence between the Foreign Office and the firm Boulton Brothers and Company, who enquired into the terms of the Bagdad Railway, with a view to participating as a financial backer.
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- File 4044/1913 Pt 2 'Baghad Railway: negotiations with Germany'
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- 10r:18v, 36r:42v, 46v:48v, 66r:71v, 74r:74v, 78r:83v, 109r:111v, 112v:113v, 118r:126v, 139r:142v
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