Note 7 — Chapter V · PEACEFUL PENETRATION PROGRESSES

Paul Imbert, “Le chemin de fer de Bagdad,” in Revue des deux mondes, Volume 197 (1907), p. 672. The Deutsche Bank, with its capital and surplus of about $75,000,000, was the foremost of the German banks. Associated with it in the Bagdad Railway enterprise were a number of other financial institutions, including, it is said, the Dresdner Bank and the Darmstädter Bank, ranking second and fourth respectively among the great banks of the German Empire. Riesser, op. cit., pp. 642–644.