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Jaffer, a Turkish subject, to run two steamers
with barges on the Euphrates, and the company Euphrates a^nd
considered that this made it necessary lor them Navigation
to assert their rights to navigate that river. 'Jo
this end, they proposed to send a tug and barge [19979, File
there to make a few trips with the view to the
establishment, if practicable, of a regular service.
They were prepared to run the tug either under
the British or Ottoman flag, or to form a nominal
Turkish Companv to run it. In view of the r jJ. u P! ,r ^ tes aTld
, . , i'ii ligris Steam
alteration of the status quo on the rivers by the Navigation
extension of the ri^ht of navigation to private ^
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persons, they urged, in a later letter, that the [26401, File
Porte should be pressed to remove the limitation 189/1,) ^
of the number of their steamers and the restric
tion of the employment of these vessels to the
Tigris. Subsequently they stated that, in ad- Euphrates and
ditiou to the native steamer service on the
Euphrates, navigation permits had been granted Company,
to natives for services above Bagdad, and between [37935,' File 1910
Bagdad and Bussorah. i«9/ioj.
Sir G. Lowther was of opinion that the Porte Sir G. Lowther,
would not sanction any increase in the number rv \ m u- ^ *
- ., „ , ^ (1 elegrapmc) and
ot the Company's steamers on the Tigris, or N o. 824, July 4
permit them to p^y above Bagdad or on the
Euphrates. He considered it futile for the 41320 '
company qua foreigners to apply to the Porte ' ' " i '
for a permit to send a tug and barge up the
Euphrates, or for a permit to form an Ottoman
Company to ply on the rivers, but suggested that
they might obtain permits ot navigation locally '
under cover of some Ottoman subject's name.'*
When the company were informed of Sir G. Euphrates and
-Low ther s opinion, they enquired whether foreign x igris Steam
capital was admissible in Turkish enterprises for Co^
the navigation of the rivers, and were told that 1910
the conditions attached to Agha Mohammed ^
a er s permit (the only one respecting which His ^ u P' lnito8 and
Majesty's Governmetit ♦I,,.,. ' 1 igris steam
• t j .- then possessed detailed Navigation
information) were to the effect that all sharp- < f"" lx ' ny
holders must be Ottoman subjects, and that the feffl/n].
steamers were not transferable to foreigners.
d'affaires" a^ Co 0n th ® author i t y of - the charge Mr. Marling,
airaires at Constantinople, that the Porte while No - S2 >
retraimnsr from anv + j • ' January 18, 1911
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confine the right to ply on the rivers to Ottomans,
apparently^d^^d^th^me^o^mide^coTer ^of ,U w^ U I SOr *^'
Dmini) (S "' G ' L0Wther ' No - "0. February 19, mi