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I should be glad to learn what action you have taken and whether you expect
to obtain the desired assurances shortly. I am anxious to settle this matter, upon
which negotiations with Turkey and other Powers depend, without further delay.
(Repeated to Constantinople, No. 527.)
{Received on the 15th December 1913, with Political Secretary s letter No. 48, dated the
28th November 1913.)
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [November 19].
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 2.
[52549] No. 1. ,
Herr von Kuhlmann to Sir Edward Grey.—[Received I\ ovember 19).
(Translation.)
London November 14,1913.
Sir,
I did not fail to communicate at once to the Imperial Government the pro
posals made by you with regard to the declarations to be made by the Baghdad
Railway Company to the Turkish Government. In conformity with my instruc
tions, I have to-day communicated to the proper department in the Foreign Office
a copy of the counter-porposals which the Imperial Government desire to put for
ward in connection with these declarations.
As the negotiations relative to the Baghdad Railway between Germany, England,
and Turkey 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 conformity. For this reason the
Imperial Government will, for the present, only initial the agreements to be con
cluded at Berlin with Djavid Bey.
I have, etc.,
KUHLMANN.
{Received on the 15th December 1913, with Political Secretary's letter No. 48, dated
the 28th November 1913.)
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [November 25].
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 1.
[53422] No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to German Charge d'Afjaires.
Sir E. Grey presents his compliments to the German Charge d'Affaires, and,
with reference to the draft, communicated by Herr von Kuhlmann on the 14th
November, of the proposed agreement between the Baghdad Railway Company and
the Ottoman Government, has the honour to transmit the accompanying counter-
draft, which, in so far as British interests are concerned, appears to His Majesty's
Government to meet the requirements of the situation.
A sentence has been added to article 1 so as to bring that article into accord
with the corresponding stipulation in the Anglo-German draft.
No changes are made in articles 2 and 3.
Article 4, as drawn in the German draft, is impossible of being carried into
execution. In the first place, a vessel drawing 24 feet would require a depth of