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File 2764/1904 Pt 3 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1910-1912.' [219r] (448/544)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 1910-1912. It was written in English. 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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Sir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.—{Received October 7.)
[By Bag.]
^ T °'TURKKH^loan^ daw. Paris, October Cj, 1910.
The infoimation given to me by M. Picbon this afternoon is as follows :—
The Minister of Finance has been negotiating with the Turkish financial delegate
and the delegate has referred to Constantinople proposals which M. Cochery has made
lor the better administration of the Finance Department and proper security for the
loan, and he has no doubt that terms will be arranged. M. Pichon is anxious that the
negotiations should be concluded quickly, for he has information that the German
Government have been pressing the German banks to make, and the Turkish
Government to accept, an advance of 6,000,000k at 5.J per cent., to be refunded out of
the first Turkish loan.
My information is that the Deutsche Bank made an offer of an advance if it had
the piomise of the loan, and that it would issue the loan in April ; and that its rival,
the Diesdnei Bank, offered to raise a loan immediately. I have also reason to believe
that the negotiations between M. Cochery and the Turkish delegate are not progressing
0luabl y as -Pich 011 states, and that the obstacle is the insistence on the part of
M. Cochery to obtain for the Ottoman Bank the privilege of having the Turkish
iieasmy, which the delegate is resisting, and is proposing another form of control
iiioie acceptable to the Porte and less likely to give to the Ottoman Bank a monopoly
of finance.
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1910-1912.
The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military considerations impinging on British strategy for the international negotiations over the development of a railway to Baghdad.
Further discussion surrounds the motivations and strategies of British competitors in the area; included in the volume is a copy of the Russo-German agreement.
The principal correspondents in the volume include Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, Ambassador to Constantinople.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (268 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2764 (Bagdad Railway) consists of five volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/56-60. The volumes are divided into five parts with each part comprising one volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 269; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. Pagination: a pagination sequence in red crayon is present between ff 244-252.
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- File 2764/1904 Pt 3 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1910-1912.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:40v, 42r:69v, 71r:114v, 116r:119v, 121r:176v, 178r:192v, 195r:200v, 203r:203v, 207r:256v, 258r:262v, 266r:266v, back-i
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