PERSIAN GULF QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 7

PERSIAN GULF QUESTION.

ANGLO-TURKISH ARRANGEMENT. GERMAN DESIGNS FEARED. London, May 14. Ilakki Pasha has been in negotiation with the Foreign Office to adjust mutual interests in the Bagdad railway and Persian Gulf. Turkey undertakes not to try to undermine Great Britain's position, while Great Britain consents to an increase in Turkish Customs duties. The net result of the negotiations brings the Gulf section of the railway practically under British control. The appearance of a strong squadron of vessels belonging to (he Triple alliance in the neighborhood of Aloxundrettii has caused considerable anxiety among the Turks, who suspect naval designs on the Levant.

Germany already holds important concessions in Alexnndrctla. where a .newport to Bagdad is being create! The liagdad railway will join Srulari on the TSosphorus just opposite C.■■-.:i-i,mi-tinnplc. mid the heal of !,!.,> iV-sian (.'nlf. passing through Bag hid „ n i! ie way. "Much diplomatic Inipovrair- ■ is ,\itaeh"d to (In- of I he line, and German diploinaey ha.! a "ictory ;u securing control ..',',.)• hi,. r. VJ i- .|V) , m |.■-• of Is leiu'Mi fiv.;u s =n t| r j The Germans gavi' up tneir vijit to \i M ih,. seeiN.ns between J'ie-.i „'! an ; th- P-rsmr Gi.lf (the section which Great Britain now controls), and in return received the right to construct a branch line to Alcxandretta. on the .Mediterranean .Sea.