[31] Turco-German control of the Board of Directors was not inconsistent with the agreement of 1899 between the _Deutsche Bank_ and the Imperial Ottoman Bank, which assured French interests only 40% of the shares of the Bagdad Railway Company. For details of the organization of the Company see the _Report of the Anatolian Railway Company_, 1903, pp. 4–7; _By-Laws_, _passim_. [32] _Articles 1–4, 7, 12, 37–39_; _Specifications_, Article 30. [33] In this connection see Sir W. M. Ramsay, _The Historical Geography of Asia Minor_ (London, 1890); D. G. Hogarth, _The Nearer East_ (London, 1902); Jastrow, _op. cit._, Chapter II; Sir C. W. Wilson, _Murray’s Handbook for Asia Minor_ (London, 1895 and 1900); R. Fitzner, _Anatolien-Wirtschaftsgeographie_ (Berlin, 1902); F. Dernburg, _Auf deutscher Bahn in Kleinasien_ (Berlin, 1892). Good general accounts of the regions through which the Bagdad Railway was to run are: Baron E. von der Goltz, _Reisebilder aus dem griechisch-türkischen Orient_ (Halle, 1902); R. Oberhummer and H. Zimmerer, _Durch Syrien und Kleinasien_ (Berlin, 1899); E. Banse, _Die Türkei; eine moderne Geographie_ (Berlin, 1916); Sir Mark Sykes, _The Caliph’s Last Heritage—A Short History of the Turkish Empire_ (London, 1915), Part 2, Chapters II and IV. A well-informed article describing the projected route of the Bagdad railway is one by a member of the German technical commission, “Die anatolischen Eisenbahnen und ihre Fortsetzung bis zum persischen Golf,” in _Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen_, Volume 26 (1903), pp. 75–90. [34] For a description of the line from Konia to Adana, including an historical sketch of the principal towns served by the railway, _cf._ Karl Baedeker, _Konstantinopel und das westliche Kleinasien_ (Leipzig, 1905), pp. 156–172, and _Konstantinopel, Balkanstaaten, Kleinasien, Archipel, Cypern_ (second edition, Leipzig, 1914), pp. 270–306, generously supplied with excellent maps. [35] A popular account of the engineering difficulties facing the construction of the railway from Adana to Aleppo is to be found in _The Scientific American_, supplement, Volume 51 (1901), pp. 21248–21249. [36] _Cf._ W. H. Hall (of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut), _The Near East_ (New York, 1920), particularly an interesting map, p. 174. According to the convention of 1903, Article 1, Aleppo was to be connected with the main line by a branch from Tel-Habesh, but in 1910 the route was changed, on petition of the inhabitants, to include Aleppo as a station on the Bagdad line itself. _Report of the Bagdad Railway Company_, 1910, p. 8. Statistics regarding the population of Aleppo and other cities along the line are taken, unless otherwise indicated, from the _Statesman’s Year Book_, 1903, _passim_.