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What Rosebery instructed his ambassador to object to, on the basis of information provided by Vincent, was not the Angora to Bagdad line, but a second, smaller, politically and strategically less significant one. Because the line to Bagdad would run through difficult terrrain, it would be extremely costly and take years to build. Kaulla had proposed therefore, in exchange for undertaking to build this line, that he should be given the concession to extend the Hidar Pasha-Ismidt line south to Konia.
5 Further, if a Russo-German rivalry should develop in the Near East, and end in war, that war would, logically, be fought in Poland rather than Asia Minor. Cooperating with the Germans, then, offered the possibility of long-term political advantage, but it also offered financial rewards: the sultan’s immediate motive for granting the concession of 1888 had been the promise of a loan. 6 When Kaulla, joining with a German commercial company, responded favourably to the sultan’s s proposal in December 1892, he did not bother to inform the British, their participation having disappeared some time ago.
O. 78/4486. Malet to Rosebery. No. 8 confidential, 7 Jan. O. 64/1293. Ibid. Flaningam, ‘German Eastward Expansion, Fact and Fiction: A Study in 40 MODERN EGYPT 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. German-Ottoman Trade Relations, 1890–1914’. Journal of Central European Affairs, (January 1955). See the minute by Sanderson on Cromer to Rosebery, telegram no. 12, confidential, 7 Jan. O. 78/4517B. Rosebery to Malet, No.