Note 6 — Chapter IV · THE SULTAN MORTGAGES HIS EMPIRE
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A letter from Mr. E. Rechnitzer to the Sultan, dated August 16, 1899, accuses M. Constans of having publicly referred to the “accord” between French and German interests in Turkish railways. Dr. Karl Helfferich states that the agreement between the two railway companies was supplemented by a gentlemen’s agreement between the two ambassadors. Die Vorgeschichte des Weltkrieges (Berlin, 1919), p. 127. This would seem to be confirmed by André Chéradame, op. cit., pp. 48 et seq.