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{Received on tU 8th December 1913, with Political Secretary's letter, No. 47, dated
the 21st November 1913.)
India Office,
Whitehall,
London, S. W.
19th November 1913.
P. 4704.
IMMEDIATE.
Sm,
I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 50643 of the 17th instant regarding the German counterdraft
of the Anglo-German convention respecting the Bagdad Railway, &c., and to say
that he has instructed Sir A. Hirtzel to attend the proposed interdepartmental
conference.
The Marquess of Crewe agrees with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
in deprecating an explanatory note and secret stipulations.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
(Sd). T. W. HOLDERNESS.
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
(Received on ike 15th December 1913, with Political Secretanfs letter, No. 48, dated
the 28th November 1913.)
Enclosures in Foreign Office covering letters dated the 2ht [and 22nd November
1913.
Foreign Office,
22nd November 1913.
Cofy.
Immediate and
Confidential.
No. 52549-13. -
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 14th instant
in which you state that, as the negotiations between Germany, Great Britain and
Turkey relative to the Bagdad Railway are to form one whole, and as it appears
highly desirable that the arrangements incorporated in the different treaties and
conventions should exactly correspond, it seems expedient for the present merely
to initial the agreements with the Turkish Government, in order that it may be
easier to insert any necessary alterations in order to bring about complete confor
mity. You add that, for this reason, the German Government will for the present
only initial the agreements to be concluded with Djavid Bey at Berlin.
In conveying to you the thanks of His Majesty's Government for this com
munication, I have to inform you that the agreement between His Majesty's
Government and the Ottoman Government relating to railways in Asiatic Turkey
will not be signed yet; but the agreements relating to the Euphrates and Tigris
Navigation Concession and to the Shatt-el-Arab Conservancy Commission were,
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