"مسألة الشرق الأوسط أو بعض المشكلات السياسية المتعلقة بدفاع الهند" [ظ‎‎١‎٣‎٠] (٦١٦/٢٦٥)

CHAPTER XVIII
THE BAGHDAD RAILWAY CONVENTION OF 1903
IF, as I have shown, it was Germany's interest to
try and enlist the co-operation of foreign capital
and the political support of other powers—and more
especially of England—for the Baghdad Railway, it
was clearly necessary that the Anatolian Company, of
which the essentially German character was too patent
to all, should retire discreetly into the background and
make room for an at least outwardly more cosmopolitan
arrangement. Whilst the Deutsche Bank was preparing
the ground in London and Paris, fresh negotiations
were being conducted all through 1902 at Constanti
nople, which resulted in the creation of a new Company
to be styled the " Imperial Ottoman Baghdad Railway
Company," and the conclusion of a Convention between
the founders of that company and the Ottoman Govern
ment, embodying with certain amendments and addi
tions the provisions contained in the Convention of
January 16th, 1902. The definitive Convention was
signed at Constantinople on March 5th, 1903, by
Zihni Pasha, the Minister of Commerce and Public
Works, on behalf of the Turkish Government, and by
Herr Arthur Gwinner, President of the Deutsche Bank
of Berlin, and Dr. Zander, Director - General, and
M. Huguenin, Assistant Director - General of the
Anatolian Railways on behalf of the new Company.
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