BAGDAD RAILWAY
ENGLAND EVADING THE TRAP. DE PRESSED I’O R EIGN E RS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copytigbt Received 9.00 p.m., April 2-1. London. April 24. Mr Balfour unnounci* that Government lately considered an n't,.- native pivpnstil de-igiicil to secure iiiUmn'Luini control throughout Anatolian Bagdad railway, to prevent differential treatment in favor of Germany- The proposal did not aliord Great Britain ad,quale security for the realisation of such principles. The Government therefore wore unable to give suggested assurances regarding their future policy. Reuter states that the British refusal to support the Bagdad railway, and consequent decision of British financiers not to participate, lias caused consternation in Berlin. The promoters confess that they ate considerably depressed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 874, 25 April 1903, Page 2
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