Austria-Hungary, policies in Near East, 11; railways in Turkey, 58; trade with Turkey, 105-106; annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, 218; relations with Germany in Near East, 129-130. (See also Drang nach Osten.)
Backshish, 94.
Bagdad, 2, 31, 32, 62, 71, 73-74, 261, 281, 286, 296, 336.
Bagdad Railway, 3, 7, 21, 34; factor in Great War, 4, 172, 278, 288-289, 291, 299-300; strategic importance to Turkey, 22, 152-153; mileage, 90; construction, 94-95, 113-114, 289; political importance to Germany, 126-131; opponents and friends of enterprise in Germany, 137-142; economic success, 233-234; disposition of by Allies, 301; Angora Treaty, 325-326; status in 1922, 326; purchase by British bankers, 334. (See also Germany, Great Britain, France, Russia.)
Bagdad Railway Company, incorporation of, 70, 92; concession of 1903, 22, 70-75, 77-84, 219; attempt to internationalize (1903), 92-93; board of directors, 93, 115, 256, 263; preliminary concession of 1899, 61-65, 68; financing concession of 1903, 77, 91, 93-94, n6; concession of 1908, 96-97; convention of March, 1911, 111-112, 228-229, 252; Franco- German agreement of 1914, 170, 247-252; contracts with Lord Inchcape, 259-260, 264; agreement with Smyrna-Aidin Railway Company, 260, 264; proposed liquidation, 301.
Bagtché tunnel, 289.
Bahrein Island, 283.
Balfour, A. J. (Earl Balfour), 93, 180-185, 202.
Balfour of Burleigh, Lord, 117.
Balkan States, 11, 152; nationalism of, 7.
Balkan Wars, 246-275.
Ballin, Albert, 141, 281.
Banditry, 9, 12.
Bank für Handel und Industrie, 101, 116.
Bank für orientalischen Eisenbahnen, 32, 334.
Banque d'Orient, 99.
Barrow, General Sir Edmond, 282.
Basra, 2, 19, 62, 74, 255, 263, 282, 284, 336.
Bassermann, Herr, 120, 129, 170, 256.
Beersheba, 298.
Beirut, 30, 62, 72, 299.
Belgium. Railway concessions of Belgians in Turkey, 30.
Berger, Leon, 91, 115.
Bergmann, Dr. Carl, 260.
Berthelot, Philippe, 320.
Bethmann-Hollweg, von, 249.
Beyens, Baron, 249.
Bieberstein, Baron Marschall von, 43, 55, 170, 218, 254.
Bismarck, 40-42, 54-55, 349.
Bitlis, 340.
Black Sea Basin Agreement, 65, 149.
Black Sea Railways, 245-246, 248-249.
Boer War, 61, 179, 203.
Boli, 246.
Bowles, Gibson, 190, 210.
Bozanti, 325.
Breslau (Cruiser), 278, 282.
Briand, Aristide, 329.
Brusa, 14.
Bulgaria, 288, 290.
Bulgurlu, 94, 96.
Bülow, Prince von, 48, 135.
Cadman, Sir John, 321.
Caillard, Sir Vincent, 31, 32.
Caliphate, 27, 64, 278-279, 296.
Cambon, Jules, 268.
