Note 3 — Chapter IV · THE SULTAN MORTGAGES HIS EMPIRE

In a memorandum of June 10, 1899, to the Sultan, Dr. Kurt Zander, General Manager of the Anatolian Railway Company, said that, in accordance with the wishes of the Sultan—and “to avoid all obstacles and avert every possibility of opposition”—his Company sought to arrive at a satisfactory understanding with the Smyrna-Aidin and Smyrna-Cassaba railways. All proposals to the Smyrna-Aidin Company, however, “met with evasive answers, which finally resulted in a termination of negotiations.” Cf., also, E. Aublé, Bagdad—son chemin de fer, son importance, son avenir (Paris, 1917), pp. 9 et seq.