"مذكرة تتعلق بالملاحة في نهري دجلة والفرات". [ظ‎‎٦‎٣] (٢٨٤/١٢٧)

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His Majesty's Government should state that they
did so on condition that the company's rights
and privileges would be restored in the event of
the concession being withdrawn before the
prescribed time.
Sassoon Effendi, Jewish deputy for Bagdad, ^ ^ rlin g.
was reported to have organised the campaign November 30,
then being carried on in the Turkish press
against the fusion arrangement, and it was also
stated that German influences were at work in
opposition to ihe agreement. Debates on the
subject of the concession to the proposed
company took place in the Turkish Parliament Mr - Marling,
on the 11th and 13th December, 1909, and a No«.^36l^nd 363,
motion was carried condemnins: the Government D r cem i^ r ri 1 . 1 ,^ d
. 0 13, 1909 [4ol04
for desiring to grant a concession creating a and 45336, File
monopoly and laying a charge on the Treasury; 322 09 ^
but subsequently a vote of confidence in the
Government was carried, the effect of which was
to authorise them, pending the passage of a
Concessions Bill then before the Senate, to
conclude the amalgamation of the two companies
provided it involved no charge upon the Treasury.
This stipulation was made because one of the
articles of the fusion convention laid down that
compensation should be paid to the new company
by the Ottoman Government in the event of
navigation being impeded or rendered impossible
by irrigation works, then being projected and
carried out by Sir W. Willcocks.
As a result of the vote referred to above, the Mr. Marling,
Ottoman Government were placed in an awkward No - 975 -
dilemma; on the one hand they had given His
Majesty's Government repeated assurances that Mle S22 / m 'i-
they would effect the fusion, an essential part of
which was the grant of adequate compensation
if the navigability of the rivers were interfered
with by the projected irrigation works; and, on
the other, they could not conclude the conven-
tion containing this essential point without
submitting it to Parliament, which was not
hkely to pass it. if it i nc i uded compensation.
ith regard to the possibility of the irrigation
worfa affecting navigation, it should be mentioned
verbally info 1 ^ LOndon Was To Sir G. Lowther,
erbally in.ormed by Sir C. Hardinge on the ? 0 - 20 .
z4tn January, 1910 and similti, i January 30, 1910
held to tl.e p f „ r ' an S ua ge, was [3303, File
held to the Porte by Sir G. Lowther, that if the 189/10 J
pioposed fusion fell through, the existing conces- lo
won o t le Euphrates and Tigris Steam Naviea- ? lHrch 1910
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