File 4030/1913 Pt 1 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates' [‎144r] (91/280)

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'Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Sovenafijatt,}
ASIATIC TURKEY AND AR ABIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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1913
[November 14.]
Section 2.
[51815]
No. 1.
(No. 570.)
(Telegraphic.)
Sir L. Mallet to Sir Edward Grey—(Received November 14.)
Constantinople, November 14, 1913.
MY telegram Iso. 562 of 11th November.
Following from consular officer at Basra, No. 96 :
j T* AS Y aS ! T il 1 lformed ’ J , affer ’ s . connection with Germans consists of trade
act ities only, and they have no share m the concern. Jaffer buys coal and barges
upto toOO? 81 " CarneS 1 ei1 ' Carg ° t0 Ba * dad * getting advances on freight occasionally
Let urns of Jaffer’s Basra-Bagdad river service for 1912 show as follows •
logTton’s 8 ' 1P ’ 5 P888en « er8 d ° Wn ' 3 ’ 809 i fre igl>t up. 4,326 tons ; freight down;
“ Jaffer s company now owns four steamers and some barges, and has no other
assets. Jailer is said to hold two-thirds of the nominal capital of £T 35 000 and
rest belongs to seven shareholders, of which four are Persians and three TuSs
Amount of capital there will be perhaps exaggerated.
, , C< J +1 thl “ k that flaf ] e 1 r 1 nmst have some inkling of what is going on I learn
to-day that there is trouble between him and other shareholders who, he alleo^ have
no participation m his river interest. ^ ’ a e
. ^.P resume ^ ou ^ ailt i n format ion about financial position and assets of Jaffer’s
navigation company and not of Jailer personally.
“ No other permit is being worked I believe one was granted some years ago to a
native Christian, but nothing came of it. I am enquiring further on this and" other
points and will report by telegraph.”
[1930 o—2]