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File 4030/1913 Pt 1 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates' [236r] (275/280)
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
^ ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA,
[September 15.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 3.
[38451] No. 1.
Foreign Office to Messrs. Slaughter and May.
(Confidential.) _ ^ ^
Gentlemen, Foreign Office, September 15, 1913.
SECRETAEY Sir E. Grey understands that you are already aware that Colonel
Picot, acting on behalf of your client, Mr. H. F. B. Lynch, recently communicated to
this Department certain documents, of which, for facility of reference, a printed copy
is enclosed.*
These documents have reference to, and contain a detaded commentary upon,
answers returned by the Secretary of State on the 32nd duly to questions addressed to
him in Parliament by the Earl of Ronaldshay, on the subject of the navigation of the
Rivers Euphrates and Tigris. i • , j t •
Sir E. Grey observes that Colonel Picot explicitly disclaims any desire to deal in
a contentious spirit with the points raised; having regard to this statement, and to the
fact that negotiations, which seem not unlikely to result in an acceptable settlement,
are now pending between your client and the concessionnaire of the new Ottoman
company Sir E. Grey does not propose that a detailed reply should be sent to Colonel
Picot, the more so as such a reply would be controversial; it would have reference to
past misunderstandings rather than to a future settlement, and it would therefore serve I
I am however, directed to inform you that this reticence should not be interpreted
as acauiescence in the statements of fact contained in the documents referred to; there
is on the contrary, marked and frequent discrepancy between those statements and
the official records of this Department, and the Secretary of State cannot admit that he
was “ misinformed ” in drawing up his answers to Lord Ronaldshay.
While Sir E. Grey considers it necessary to make this written reservation to you
now, he desires to leave it to your discretion whether this letter should be communicated
to your client at once or at a latei date.
jl am, <vc.
PVttC A CROWE.
* Colonel Picot to Mr. Parker, August 15, 1913 [88451].
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Copy to India
23 SEP 1913
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This part contains correspondence that relates to a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for the construction of the Baghdad Railway.
Much of the correspondence relates to negotiations between Lord Inchcape and John Finnis Lynch of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company to ensure that their respective interests did not conflict with one another.
The principal correspondents are Lord Inchcape; the Ottoman representative in negotiations regarding the concession, Ibrahim Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ; the law firm, Slaughter and May; the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey and the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet. A limited amount of this correspondence is in French.
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