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tiio aams oonornaion from Pa&d'a Bey f a qioations or gonoral
(?)
L
%nd the old
y regard as
Anglo*Tnricia^-otsn-^'a'barak politics 9 questions sncn as iaearak
date-pardons up-river 9 Ais inflnencc wit A tne iio4o'sin wribea
I
oto whion h&l nothing to do with railways I He ssiid t^at the
^Saaib" ( /oney) liept asking Fnad Bey to tail Ain ^ Aat wa3 pass
-ing in oonvarsation but t^at na generally roeeiv^d very 3i.*ort
and inadequate anawore!
tfhat aeenod to strike the ShoikJ5. # 8 seoretary
gentleman .ilmaalf moat was how Ftiad Hoy f who* the
somewhat represantativo of the old regime of Abdul hamid , s gov
ornitont in Turkey is in alliance with an Englishman represent
-ing the Young Turkey of to-day in tao National Ba.nk • I tol
Mubarak tuat wo did not know much about taom beyor.d tnat iionoy
said he was looking at the trtoo of tao German oohoesaion with
a view to seeing that their estimates for tne railway were not
exorbitant and that the trace followed tnc best line , that cv
•idently tne now Turkish oovt wu.3 acoptical as .0 getting full
value for thoir money under the original oonoeaaidn and so .iad
apparently aent ^oney on this mission confidentially • The
Sheik.i said apparently they had got hold of iat^ama as the re
sult of the roport of the German engineers who vi
some C or 6 years ago (during Col Kemball , « time)
not much in the above but it m^y be of interest «
sited a owe it
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