BAGHDAD RAILWAY
AMENDED CONCESSION
GERMANY’S INTEREST IN PERSIAN
GULF SECTION.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received -March 10. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 18.
The Porto has agreed to allow the Baghdad Railway Company to extend the line to Baghdad. The company renounccs a lieu of 4 per cent, increase in the Customs duties, receiving instead a security upon the Empire s general revenues. The company builds a branch line from Osmanieh to Alcxandrctta and constructs a harbour at Alexandretta. Reuter's Constantinople agent reports that tho company lias agreed, to the Porte arranging for the construction of tho Baghdad- Persian Gulf section of the lino on the basis of Germany, having equal participation with any other foreign Power.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7391, 20 March 1911, Page 5
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