Note 36 — Chapter IV · THE SULTAN MORTGAGES HIS EMPIRE

Cf. W. H. Hall (of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut), The Near East (New York, 1920), particularly an interesting map, p. 174. According to the convention of 1903, Article 1, Aleppo was to be connected with the main line by a branch from Tel-Habesh, but in 1910 the route was changed, on petition of the inhabitants, to include Aleppo as a station on the Bagdad line itself. Report of the Bagdad Railway Company, 1910, p. 8. Statistics regarding the population of Aleppo and other cities along the line are taken, unless otherwise indicated, from the Statesman’s Year Book, 1903, passim.