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File 4044/1913 Pt 1 'Bagdad Railway: negotiations with Germany' [202r] (117/284)
The record is made up of 1 item (142 folios). It was created in 1913-1914. 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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Article 3.
Clause (a). The Imperial German Go
vernment and His Britannic Majesty’s
Government declare that they will in no
case support the construction of a branch
from Basra (Zobeir), or from any point
of the main line of the Bagdad Hallway, to
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
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 what
soever 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
Government declare that they will in no
case themselves establish, or support any
claim by any persons or corporations what
soever to establish, in Ottoman territory
east of Aleppo, railway undertakings either
in direct competition with the Bagdad
Railway Company’s lines, or in contradic
tion with that company’s existing rights,,
unless and until there is complete agree
ment on the subject between the Imperial
German Government and His Britannic
Majesty’s Government.
Article 4.
Clause (a). The Imperial German
Government, having cognisance of the
declaration signed on the 29th July, 1913,
on behalf of the Imperial Ottoman Govern
ment, 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 naviga
tion on the said rivers is maintained in
substantial accordance with the provisions
thereof.
Clause (6). His Britannic Majesty’s
Government declare that they will not
oppose the acquisition by the Bagdad Rail
way interests of 40 per cent, of the share
capital to be allotted to Turkish interests
at the first allotment (i.e., ^0 per cent, of
the whole share-capital) and the right in
respect thereof to subscribe for a rateable
proportion of further issues of capital of
the Ottoman Company for river naviga
tion, and their rateable participation in the
board of the aforesaid company out of the
[2034 6—1] &
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This part contains drafts and counter-drafts of the Anglo-German Convention regarding the Bagdad Railway [Baghdad] and cognate matters, and of the proposed Agreement between the Bagdad Railway Company and the Ottoman Government. These are written in English, German and French, and found at folios 149, 160, 167, 178-179, 201-203, 217-223, 225-230, 235-240, 247, 257-269, and 281-284.
The file also contains correspondence between 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. Political Department, the German Ambassador to London (Karl Max Fürst von Lichnowsky), the Councillor of the German Embassy (Richard von Kühlmann), and the Ottoman Finance Minister (Mehmed Cavid Bey). The correspondence concerns negotiations over the following points:
- the construction and naming of the line;
- options for British capital investment in the Bagdad Railway Company;
- options for British representation on the Railway Board;
- oversight of the project, the safeguarding of commercial interests, and arrangements for arbitration proceedings;
- shares in the River Navigation Company;
- navigation of the Shatt el Arab [Shatt al Arab];
- the formation of a Shatt el Arab Conservancy Commission;
- the potential impact on the Anatolian Railway, and the prospects of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway Company;
- and German wishes that no railway should be in direct competition with the Bagdad line from the western terminus at Konia [Konya] to the eastern terminus at Basra.
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- File 4044/1913 Pt 1 'Bagdad Railway: negotiations with Germany'
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- 153v, 149r:149v, 160r:160v, 167r:167v, 178r:179v, 201r:203v, 217v:223v, 225r:227v, 228v:230v, 235r:240v, 247r:247v, 257v:260v, 262r:263v, 265r:269v, 281r:284v
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