'File No. II/8 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re. affairs in Turkish Arabia. Nov '07 --' [‎27v] (54/110)

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doubling of the Company’s present capital,
thus raising it to 1,35,000,000 fr. The whole
of the new shares were to be taken up by the
Deutsche Bank, which was to pay a first call of
10 per cent immediately, and undertook to pay
further calls as required by the Company. It
was stated that the money was required for the
execution of two concessions recently obtained
by the Company, viz.> the irrigation of the
Konia Plain at a cost of 19,000,000 fr. and
the doubling of the line from Haidar Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to
Pendik at a cost not to exceed £ T. 100,000.
34. A man describing himself as H. Holsten,
Proposed establish- Austro-Oriental l rad*
XT by 8 fl « r he 8t A^ 8 tlS: j n 8 Com P^y. Limited,
Oriental Trading Com* has arrived at Baghdad
pany, Limited. with four Assistants
and is going to start a house of business there.
He said that he would deal in anything that
promises a profit, but he hoped to do a good
business in haberdashery, soft goods and the
finer cloths. The Resident at Baghdad is of
opinion that this competition is likely to prove
more formidable to the German Firm of Berk,
Puttmann & Co. than to British Firms at
Baghdad.
35. According to the “ Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Herald ”
Motor service be- of the 14th February
tween Baghdad and 1908, a motor service
Basrah. - g k e established be
tween Baghdad and Basrah, and motor cars
for the same have already been ordered.
Deserters at Baghdad.
c6. On the 4th March, the Political
Resident in Turkish
Arabia reported that
the outskirts of Baghdad were being rendered
unsafe by deserters. In an encounter between
them and the Zaptiehs, four deserters had been
shot dead and the officer of the Zaptiehs had
also been shot.
37. According to a telegram received by
Prohibition by the
Persian Government of
pilgrimages to Kerbala
and Nedjef.
the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. from
the British Legation
at Tehran, the Persian
Government have prohibited further pilgri
mages to Kerbala and Nedjef owing to cholera
in the Hedjaz and cases of plague at Kerbala.
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