BAGHDAD RAILWAY.
(Press Assn.—By Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Received May 4, 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 3. •. In the House of Commons Mr Asquith, m reply to Mr Mason^ said the Government were m . negotiation with the Porte iri respect to British participation m the Baghdad-Busra I'ailway m Return for . compensation elsewhere. They had bought out others interested m that section of the line, subject to conditions regarding German participation. >
On March 8 Sir Edward Grey, m reply to criticisms of the ! Government, said : "The Baghdad Railway is a German concession m Turkish territory, and as such we have no right to object to the German concessionaries aiid the Turks carrying it out m accordance with the concessions m Turkish territory. But when we are asked to ,give our consent to provide further sources of revenue, to the Turkish government, then we do come m, because we have a right to demand that before we agree to those increased burdens the ' Turkish Government should make it clear that the revenue is going to be applied to the purposes to which we wish ... to see it applied — namely, the good government and strengthening of the Turkish Empire — and it is not going to be used to construct railways, which for strategical or other reasons, the Turkish Governmeht may be very anxious to have, but wliich may incidentally prejudice the interests of British trade." With regard to the prospects of extension of the railway tb Koweit, Sir Edward said, "If the Baghdad, railway is. to proceed, farther than Turkish territory, then, of course, our diplomatic position m the matter becomes a very different one." In. March the Imperial Baghdad Railway Company renounced their right to the section of the Baghdad Railway between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf and their right to continue a port m Busra, on condition that they received a share m a new company, formed to carry out that section. Then followed negotiations between the British and Turkish Governments, i *;»
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12754, 4 May 1912, Page 5
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