"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎١‎٧‎١] (١٧٨٢/١٣٢٦)

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ftelations of Abdul Aziz-bin-Mafab with British Government
1897-1906. ,
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and^bu^ud^b^l 1 '? 6 C i as!m by Shaikh of Kuwait
actio., of thflVk. ™ hlrbehEl 11 ^ ^ , th - ^'^'T and i, ' effect " al
tage. which the Shaikh of Kuw^a'KiSa' S™"
ZJion^r:mes^sLTrtyVe^B T h h The
^gesting that he should settle his differences with Shaikf Mutoak' to
which the Amir rephed by a letter written in a somewhat hauS sS, "
but simultaneously he caused his agent at Basrah to inform Mr.* Wratislaw'
bhnd I'ftb fT th n re ' ^ the Written co mmunication wait mere
blind and that he really desired to cultivate good relations with tl,,.
British Government. He Rno-o-psfAfl fnof x? i / , '
4. i / : , . ^ug-^estea tiiat the British Government shnnlH
undertake to supply him. at his own nnsf w^i, J'-'vyumeuc snouicl
and that they should depose his enemy, the sliS rfKuSTn
Sere inVutry - 6 ^ ^ W0Uld S
J .1.^ ! n K - ,lwai . t affairs, and would guarantee the safe constrnetlrm
by British enterprise of railways across Arabia.
The Government of India, while they considered that the Amir's
htsyms '"tlie'v the ^ were anxiot16 not to ali ^ te
sent f3 the sMe of ^ eie f or 1 « P 1,0 ? 0 ^ .^at a British officer should be
sent tiom the side of Aqabah to interview the Amir and to ascertain
more particuarly his views and the nature of his personality, and they
thought it might even be advisable that the British Government should
undertake to restrain the Shaikh of Kuwait in future from hostilities
against the Amir and to use their good offices to prevent Turkish ao-ores-
sions on^ Najd; but His Majesty's Government, fearing that a mission
might give rise to complications with Turkey and that anything- in
the nature of a protectorate might involve obligations which could not
be discharged without resort o material force, withheld their approval
Accordingly no action was taken; and a few months later, as we have
seen the Shammar Amir fell more completely than before into the hands
of the Turks and even joined with them in threatening an attack on
AmT 'Al fMA 1 / 1 ? u ! 1 . 0 ^ communications passed between the
Amu Abdul Aziz and the British Government.
Overtures
from the
Shammar
Amir to the
British Gov
ernment,
1901.
Orders of His
Majesty's
Government
on the same
and result.
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'Abdul 'Aziz was succeeded by his eldest son Mat'ab, a youth abonf p £
18 years of age, whose straightforwardness and generosity, aided by Man'r.t hi,
83 a
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MAT'AB-BIN-'ABDUL 'AZIZ.
1906-07.
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