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ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[March 2 .]
Section 1.
[9502]
No. 1 .
Foreign Office to Imperial Ottoman Bank.
(Confidential.)
T Foreign Office, March 2, 1912.
t WITH reference to the visit paid to this Office by two of yonr directors on the
29th nltimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir ft. Grey to inform you, with reference to
the several questions asked, that his views are as follows :—
1. As regards the sale of the shares of the Ottoman Bank in the Bagdad Railway
Company as far as Bagdad, the point is one on which His Majesty’s Government could
not presume to give the bank advice.
2 . His Majesty’s Government would willingly see an Englishman appointed on the
board of the Bagdad Railway, but the appointment of one Englishman alone under
present conditions is not of sufficient importance for His Majesty’s Government to press
for it or ask that any sacrifice should be made to obtain it.
3. His Majesty’s Government have not yet received the reply of the Ottoman
Government respecting the sections of the railway between Bagdad and the Persian
Gulf. On receipt of that reply they will give the matter of how British interests can
be most adequately represented their most careful consideration ; but they can give no
pledge whatever to the Ottomon Bank as to the financial arrangements which may be
made.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
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