Part III; J. Courau, _La locomotive en Turquie d’Asie_ (Brussels,

1895), pp. 18–47; _Corps de droit ottoman_, Volume IV, pp. 117 _et seq._

[3] _Corps de droit ottoman_, Volume IV, pp. 202–223, 237–242, etc.

[4] _Bulletin de la Chambre de Commerce française de Constantinople_, August 31, 1888, p. 10; September 30, 1888, p. 31. _Cf._, also a prospectus issued by a banker, Mr. W. J. Alt, “Heads of a Convention for the extension of the Haidar Pasha-Ismid Railway” (London, 1886), a copy of which was loaned to the author by Mr. Ernest Rechnitzer.

[5] The story of these negotiations is well told in a new book by Dr. Karl Helfferich, _Georg von Siemens—ein Lebensbild_ (Leipzig, 1923), the proofs of which I have had the privilege of reading. For an official copy of the convention and by-laws of the Anatolian Railway Company (_Firman Impérial de concession et statuts de la Société du Chemin de Fer Ottomane d’Anatolie_, Constantinople, 1889), I am indebted to Dr. Arthur von Gwinner, of the _Deutsche Bank_. _Cf._, also, _Administration de la dette publique ottomane—Rapport sur les opérations de l’année 1888_ (Constantinople, 1889); _Report of the Anatolian Railway Company_, 1889, pp. 1–2; _Corps de droit ottoman_,