ملف ١٩٠٤/٢٧٦٤ الجزء ٣ "سكة حديد بغداد: مفاوضات عامة ١٩١٠-١٩١٢." [و‎‎١‎٦‎٤] (٥٤٤/٣٣٨)

CONFIDENTIAL.
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U 29 DEG 1910
Sir G. Buchanan to Sir Edward Grey .—{Received December 13, 9 p.M.)
St. Petersburgh, December 13, 1910, 7'52 P.M.
(No. 334. Secret.)
MY despatch No. 483, Secret.
I spoke to Minister for Foreicm Affaire: +Pio ^
agreement, and called his attention to wordino- of article 1 wlnVh s h<3 SU , b f ^ 0f . d i aft
Russia would henceforth disinterest herself iX 1 o,M ’ W f A ? eem, i d to ““P 1 ! tllat
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His Excellency replied that this was not the case and tW ,
only referred to railway as far as Bagdad and not to the whole radwIy^teTTo Se
Griill or to its various branches. This he said V y sysiem. to tiie
special mention was made of line from Konia to Bagdad q I salTthlt T had
that this must have been his intention but T wc® r-f+i ’ t • i ^i tliat . i iac ^
by itself, would lend itself to a contrary interpretation and that if Se^greemmd wele
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oeen sent to Beilin, but that Germany was perfectly aware of the real meaning of Hip !
hist article, as he had explained the whole matter quite clearly at Berlin No referpnpp
had been made to the right of Russia to construct Sadijehihanfkt branch ^ 1
was contingent upon control over Gulf section being given to Great BritMn
to a question which I addressed to him, Minister for Foreign Affairs said that as fa/as
h“l S 10n COnCemed ’ 116 W '° Uld giVe ,IS the Same W^ the’We 2
m y alluding to German Chancellor’s recent speech in the ReichsHp- hi^
Excellency said that French Ambassador had just been to see him, as some uneasiness
aton“* USed g Pans b yJ he P^sage referring to combinations directed either
against Russia or Germany. There was, he said, no ground for any such uneasiness as
dpm a h S n ran Tb exchan ^ ed a ! B ® rlm merely declared that, while neither Power wished to
faS bphf ° tl T Ler ±r ° m - lt f f 1 nends and allies ’ neither of the two combinations to which
each belonged was pointed against the other.
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