[12] _Cf._ foreign correspondence of _The Times_, March 21, 1911. [13] _Troisième convention additionelle à la convention du 5 Mars, 1903, relative au chemin de fer de Bagdad_ (Constantinople, 1911); _supra_, pp. 111–113. [14] _Cf._ _infra_, Chapter X. [15] _The Nineteenth Century_, Volume 65 (1909), pp. 1083–1084. [16] _Diplomatic and Consular Reports_, No. 3140 (1903), p. 29. [17] _Société du chemin de fer d’Anatolie-Jahresbericht des Agrikultur-Dienstes_ (Berlin, 1899 _et seq._), _passim_. [18] _Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen_, Volume 31 (Berlin, 1908), pp. 207–211, 1485–1491; _Commerce Reports_, No. 18d (Washington, 1915), p. 9; _Diplomatic and Consular Reports_, No. 4835 (1911), p. 17; _Report of the Anatolian Railway Company_, 1910–1913, _passim_. [19] _Report of the Anatolian Railway_, 1911–1914, _passim_. [20] Compiled from the _Report of the Bagdad Railway Company_, 1903–1914. Figures for the years 1904 and 1905 are incomplete and have therefore been omitted. It should be kept in mind in reading this table that the years 1912–1914 were abnormal, especially as regards passenger traffic, because of the two Balkan Wars and the Great War. [21] _The Levant Herald_ (Constantinople), October 25, 1893. [22] Caillard, _loc. cit._, p. 439. [23] _Commerce Reports_, No. 18d (1915), pp. 1–2. [24] _Cf._ _Questions diplomatiques et coloniales_, Volume 26 (1908), pp. 475–477. CHAPTER X BARGAINS ARE STRUCK THE KAISER AND THE TSAR AGREE AT POTSDAM During the early days of November, 1910, William II entertained at the Potsdam palace his fellow sovereign Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russias. He extended his royal hospitality, also, to the recently chosen foreign ministers of Germany and Russia respectively—Herr von Kiderlen-Waechter, next to the ambassador at Constantinople the Kaiser’s most competent expert on the tortuous affairs of the Near East; and M. Sazonov, subsequently to guide Russian foreign policy during the critical days of July, 1914. It was apparent even to the untutored that there was some political significance to the conference between the German Emperor and his distinguished guests, and the press was rife with speculation as to what the outcome would be. The answer was forthcoming on November 4, when it was announced that the Kaiser and the Tsar, with the advice and assistance of their foreign ministers, had reached an agreement on the Bagdad Railway question.