Upon the expiration of the concession all rights of the concessionaires in the railway, port works, and other subsidiary enterprises were to revert, free of all debt and liability, to the Imperial Government. In the meantime, a semblance of Turkish nationality was to be assured the enterprise by the stipulation that the railway employees and officials should wear the fez and such uniform as might be approved by the Government. It was contemplated, also, that within five years after the opening of each section to traffic the whole of the operating staff, except the higher officials, should be composed exclusively of Ottoman subjects.[59] Appended to the Bagdad Railway Convention was a secret agreement binding the Company not to encourage or install foreign settlements or colonies in the vicinity of the Anatolian or Bagdad Railways.[60] Although the Sultan had mortgaged his empire, at least he was determined to retain possession![61] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES [1] On this point _cf._ M. Solovieff, _La Terre Sainte et la société impériale de Palestine_ (Petrograd, 1892). The society there referred to was said to be liberally patronized by the Tsar and other members of the imperial family. [2] For details of the Kapnist plan see _The Times_ (London), December 17, 1898; _The Euphrates Valley Railway_—a prospectus (London, 1899). [3] In a memorandum of June 10, 1899, to the Sultan, Dr. Kurt Zander, General Manager of the Anatolian Railway Company, said that, in accordance with the wishes of the Sultan—and “to avoid all obstacles and avert every possibility of opposition”—his Company sought to arrive at a satisfactory understanding with the Smyrna-Aidin and Smyrna-Cassaba railways. All proposals to the Smyrna-Aidin Company, however, “met with evasive answers, which finally resulted in a termination of negotiations.” _Cf._, also, E. Aublé, _Bagdad—son chemin de fer, son importance, son avenir_ (Paris, 1917), pp. 9 _et seq._ [4] For a copy of the text of this agreement the author is indebted to Mr. E. Rechnitzer. Summaries were published in _The Times_, August 10, 1899; _Le Temps_ (Paris), August 15, 1899; _Corps de droit ottoman_, Volume IV, pp. 155–156. [5] In June, 1899, the Anatolian Railway Company elected to its Board of Directors M. L. Rambert, of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, and in June, 1900, M. Gaston Auboyneau, of the same institution. The new directors replaced Mr. George Henry Maxwell Batten, of London, and Sir Edward F. G. Law, of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration. The refusal of the Smyrna-Aidin line to come to a working agreement with the Anatolian Company thus removed the last British directors from the board of the latter. _Cf._ _Reports of the Anatolian Railway Company_, 1898–1900, _passim_.