Note 5 — Chapter III · GERMANS BECOME INTERESTED IN THE NEAR EAST
Reading edition
The story of these negotiations is well told in a new book by Dr. Karl Helfferich, Georg von Siemens—ein Lebensbild (Leipzig, 1923), the proofs of which I have had the privilege of reading. For an official copy of the convention and by-laws of the Anatolian Railway Company (Firman Impérial de concession et statuts de la Société du Chemin de Fer Ottomane d’Anatolie, Constantinople, 1889), I am indebted to Dr. Arthur von Gwinner, of the Deutsche Bank. Cf., also, Administration de la dette publique ottomane—Rapport sur les opérations de l’année 1888 (Constantinople, 1889); Report of the Anatolian Railway Company, 1889, pp. 1–2; Corps de droit ottoman, Volume IV, pp. 120–142.