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File 4044/1913 Pt 2 'Baghad Railway: negotiations with Germany' [119v] (234/282)
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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plete agreement on the subject between the
Imperial Ottoman Government, His Britannic
Majesty’s Government, and the Imperial German
Government.
Clause (b). The Imperial German Government
declare that they will in no case themselves
establish, or support any claim by any persons or
corporations whatsoever to establish, 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.
unless and
until there is complete agreement on the subject
between His Britannic Majesty’s Government
and the Imperial German Government.
Clause (c). His Britannic Majesty’s Govern
ment declare that they will in no case themselves
establish, or support any claim by any persons or
corporations whatsoever to establish, in Ottoman
territory, railway undertakings either in direct
competition witl. the Bagdad Railway Company’s
lines, or in contradiction with that company’s
existing rights, unless and until there is complete
agreement on the subject between the Imperial
German Government and His Britannic Majesty’s
Government. For the purposes of this article,
the western terminus of the Bagdad Railway
system, as defined in the explanatory note attached
to the present Convention, shall be held to be at
Konia and the eastern terminus at Basra.
Article 4.
Clause (a). The Imperial Germcn Government,
having cognisance of the declaration signed on
the 29th July, 1913, on behalf of the Imperial
Ottoman Government, concerning navigation on
the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, declare that
they will not oppose the execution, nor support
any action directed against the execution, of
such declaration, so long as the navigation on
the said rivers is maintained in substantial
accordance with the provisions thereof.
ment declare that they will not oppose the acqui
sition by the Bagdad Railway interests of 40 per
cent, of the share capital to be allotted to
Turkish interests at the first allotment (i.e.,
20 per cent, of the whole share-capital) and the
right in respect thereof to subscribe for a rate
able proportion of further issues of capital of the
Ottoman Company for river navigation, and their
rateable participation (by directors agreeable to
the Imperial German Government) in the board
of the aforesaid Company out of the share of the
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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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