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File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway' [6r] (18/488)
The record is made up of 1 volume (242 folios). It was created in 1901-1908. It was written in English, French and Turkish, Ottoman. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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[This Document is the Property
/P,
Unic Majesty’s Governmaai
&
eastern sanitary reforms.
[December 13.]
f[45134]
CONFIDENTIAL. ^ Section 2.
IL^/l/1° ■
Mr. Marling to Sir Edward Grey *-(Received December 13.)
(No. 159. Commercial.) Constantinople, December 4, 1909.
Sir > , . ins Pnmmercial of the 17th ultimo, you were good
enough b.-S™ «*—
re8 '1 Thi to levy , »« U, lev the vnilntion o. «d.h .ud to »«,.
». Bo,,d * 0 M Wtott be .taolvri
tato^ll «,ntolbullon to^ri. te totio, on the -nit,., d.I.ne. ol
the Hedjaz Railway.
I entirely concur in principle with the e §ion of* the reduction of the
sSyZeHtg t. toKnTo^sr 1-
you .tote Ihto « it should b. made oleat that n~. ‘[SS^uotlon
S CJfiS 313»5 SSSfSl ft- the teuditlou. alttedy Md d„.
on this subject.” , • wi to me by Dr. Clemow, the probability
According to information now ^msbed to ^ tion in the san itary dues has
of success in the elforts of the Board o ar ^ 998 - 9 . The balance sheet,
been greatly lessened by the financial results of tW this year been a serious
which will be shortly issued, shows that 1^^ f ture; the sanit ary receipts
diminution in receipts and a considerable use ^ ^ averas?e for the preceding
amounting only to 8,1/0.b28 pias re , | 1( . l eX peiuliture was 7,098,481 piastres, as
five years of 8,830,711 piastres ; while the^expei of 6>268)392 pias t res . The
compared with an average to ‘ “ s %ervice has thus sunk from a five-year
margin of receipts over expenditure in this se ^ In t he “ quarantine
average of 2,562,319 piastres to one ot 1 ’ lc /’ satis fa C tory and growing surpluses,
service, which in /‘deficit oi 576,581 piastres, and consequent y
quarantine reserve fund is once more /' uff q last year greatly from the bad
q Although the “ sanitary f ^A’^ntt &c may probably increase, there seems
navigation conditions, the Austmn b^tt. «*•. J e P contrav y, it must have gone
no probability of the expenditure deereasi g ap p, ic ation of the new cadres
up enormously in the present year, 190J 1 ’ ^ t hope that the quarantine service
Xu various other ways. Nor ' s «iereany great ^ope ^ & y
ta —' “ “j;
venture to submit, therefore, that for the mo ^qo; if these should prove to be as
and await the publication of the likely that it will become necessary to drop
unfavourable as those for 1908-9 it seems hk y
S, teUStSS—i. »d H«ij» »»"*'> d “ re "" ”
• CHARLES M. MARLING.
, „f Trade, for observations,
U . Copies sent to
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
. ;Local Government Board, an
December 18, 1909.
[2570 n—2]
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This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its construction by members of the Muslim community in India.
A limited amount of the correspondence in the volume is in French, including a copy of a letter sent by Paul Cambon, the French Ambassador in London, to Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary (folio 15).
The volume contains a number of reports and related information about the railway. Of particular interest are the following:
- A report on the Hejaz Railway by Major Francis Richard Maunsell, dated July 1907 (ff 56-69)
- A memorandum respecting German influence on the Hejaz Railway by George Ambrose Lloyd, 1906 (ff 95-96)
- A list of the principal stations on the Hejaz Railway with approximate distances between Damascus and each station (f 100)
- A map of the Hejaz Railway with list of stations (f 106)
- A report by Mr Teofani Loiso, Vice-Consul at Mersina, based on information provided to him by his son who was employed as an engineer on the railway (ff 105-107)
- A report by Herr Otto von Kapp Kohlstein, a German engineer who inspected the Haifa-Damascus branch of the route and worked on the construction of the Damascus-Maan branch (ff 107-109).
In addition, the volume contains cuttings (and translations) of press articles related to several aspects of the railway and its construction. Also included are two maps. The Turkish (Ottoman) language material consists of the second of these two maps.
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (242 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 240; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. It should be noted that the covers of this volume have not been foliated.
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- English, French and Turkish, Ottoman in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 2r:6v, 8r:50v, 52r:85r, 88r:88v, 91r:105v, 107r:119v, 122r:129v, 131r:200v, 204r:235v, 238r:239v, back-i
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