[6] _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, fifth series, Volume 21 (1911), pp. 241–244. [7] _Journal Officiel, Débats parlementaires, Chambre des Députés_, January 13, 1911, pp. 33–34. M. Jaurès was one of the Frenchmen who felt that their Government never should have opposed the Bagdad Railway in the first instance. [8] _Ibid._, January 16, pp. 64 _et seq._; _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, Volume 21 (1911), pp. 82 _et seq._, 243–244; _The Times_, January 17 and 19, 1911. [9] _Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons_, Volume 21 (1911), p. 82. [10] _Cf._ _supra_, pp. 224–225. [11] _Cf._ G. Saint-Yves, “Les chemins de fer français dans la Turquie d’Asie,” in _Questions diplomatiques et coloniales_, Volume 37 (1914), pp. 526–531; _Anatolia_, pp. 51–52. [12] It was proposed that the Anatolian Railways should construct three branches: one from a point east of Bulgurlu north and north-east to Kaisarieh and Sivas; a second from Angora east to the aforementioned branch, joining it near Kaisarieh; a third from Adabazar to Boli. The branch of the Bagdad Railway from Nisibin to Diarbekr and Arghana was authorized by the concession of 1903. [13] Much of the present account of the negotiations of the years 1910–1914 is based upon documentary material furnished by Dr. von Gwinner and upon additional information supplied by Sir Henry Babington Smith and Djavid Bey. Almost everything heretofore published has been very general in character, but one may find some illuminating details in the following: R. de Caix, “La France et les chemins de fer de l’Asie turque,” in _Questions diplomatiques et coloniales_, Volume 36 (1913), pp. 386–387; _Armenia and Kurdistan_, p. 36; _Commerce Reports_, No. 18a (1915), pp. 2–3; _Stenographische Berichte, XIII Legislaturperiode, 1 Session_, Volume 291 (1913), pp. 6274c _et seq._; _American Journal of International Law_, April, 1918; Commandant de Thomasson, “Les négotiations franco-allemandes,” in _Questions diplomatiques et coloniales_, Volume 37 (1914), pp. 257 _et seq._ [14] For certified copies of the minutes of the meetings of August 19–20 and September 24–26, 1913, and for the text of the convention of February 15, 1914, the author is indebted to Dr. von Gwinner. [15] _Stenographische Berichte, XIII Legislaturperiode, 1 Session_, Volume 291 (1913), p. 6274c. No. 111 of a series of despatches published by the German Foreign Office (Berlin, 1915), an English translation of which is to be found in E.D. Morel’s _Diplomacy Revealed_ (London, 1921), pp. 282–283. [16] _Parliamentary Papers_, No. Cmd. 964 (1920). [17] _Cf._ de Caix, _op. cit._, pp. 386–387.