Note 23 — Chapter IV · THE SULTAN MORTGAGES HIS EMPIRE
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No attempt is made here to analyze the convention of March 18, 1902 (which had been preceded by a draft convention of January 8, 1902), as it was superseded by the convention of March 5, 1903. Cf. infra, pp. 70–71, 77–84. The text of the convention of 1902 is to be found as an appendix to R. LeCoq, Un chemin de fer en Asie Mineure (Paris, 1907). George von Siemens (1839–1901) did not live to see the consummation of his great plans for the development of Turkish railways. After his death in 1901 his work was taken up by his successor as Managing Director of the Deutsche Bank, Dr. Arthur von Gwinner. For a short account of the life of von Siemens see an obituary by Professor J. Riesser, in Bank-Archiv, No. 2, November, 1901. The work of von Siemens in the development of German economic enterprises in the Near East is told in a biography by his son-in-law, Dr. Karl Helfferich; Georg von Siemens (Leipzig, 1923).