The railway age · Railway
Foreign powers protest about the unpaid railway workers
22 November 1891 (10 November 1891 old style) Proven
The Belgian company building the Myloi–Kalamata railway had collapsed and its foreign workers had lost their wages. On a Sunday in November 1891 the envoys of several powers handed the Greek government a joint note asking for about 2.5 million francs. Greece rejected the interference.
Note: Sources differ on the powers: Nea Efimeris names France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Turkey; Der Gesellige names France, Germany, Austria and Turkey.
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- Myloi (the village)
- Threads
- Railway
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Νέα Ἐφημερίς, 13-11-1891 (o.s.); cited in Dossier Myloi R2, LOGBOEK R7
- Der Gesellige (Graudenz), 1-12-1891, nr. 281, archive.org kpbc.umk.pl.KM_02475_1891_281_245861
- D. Dimitriou, Das Eisenbahnwesen auf der Balkan-Halbinsel (1894), pp. 84–85
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