نسخة مذيلة من "بلاد فارس والشأن الفارسي" بقلم جورج كرزون، مع أوراق مدرجة [ظ‎‎٤‎٣‎٤] (١٨١٤/٨٧١)

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PERSIA
designed solely in the interests of Kussian trade or aggression •
whilst its rumoured extension in the direction of Baghdad w ’
equally intended to give access to a part of the Turkish •
which Russia may some day find it not incompatible wither
respect for the eighth commandment to appropriate.
In 1878 a French-Armenian of Constantinople, M. Alleon
presenting a Paris firm, obtained a concession, also inoperative'
Alleon f rom R es ht 1° Teheran. An Austrian engineer Herr
Concession V on Scherzer, even traced a line for the railway, avoiding
the lofty Kharzan Pass over the Elburz by a circuitous
route through theBakandi Valley, and climbing the central plateau
by serpentines with a gradient of one in thirty-three. The proiect
came to grief because of the refusal of the Persian Government to
give a guarantee for the seven per cent, interest promised on the
capital to be raised.
In the succeeding years, Mr. Winston, American Minister
Resident, and an eccentric personage, very nearly obtained an
American extensive railway concession, but was baulked at the last
and moment. The English Government were on the verge
of a similar success, with a line from the Upper Karan
to Teheran. This, however, came to nothing. When a
line asked for or conceded to an English firm or English represen
tatives is finally refused, there is never any doubt as to the quarter
from whence the opposition has been inspired. This could be
proved to demonstration.
Finally, a M. Boital, who is a concessionary on a large scale,
and who has, at different times, received concessions for gasworks
and electric light at Teheran, and for the construction of
roads, obtained a group of railway concessions, the chief
English
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o w ich was a line from Resht to the capital, to be con
tinued later on fiom thence to Bushire. In the grant were in
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eluded branch lines in connection with the main system, and the
right to work all mines within a distance of ten kilometres on
either side of the metals. The works were to be opened in 1885,
and the concession was to run for ninety-nine years, caution
money to the extent of 500,000 francs being lodged by M. Boital
in Paris, as security for the fulfilment of his part of the contract.
. ever f^ e less, the Nemesis that overhangs all projected undertakings
m Persia was not to be baffled, and the Boital proposals experi-
enced the customary fate.
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