"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٥‎٣‎٦] (١٧٨٢/١٦٩١)

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this unceremoniouB treatment, and hinted at claims for damages wl '\
they hoped would he supported by Her Majesty's Government
British Resident accordingly sent a further short official nrotest
Wall, but it passed unheeded. Perceiving signs of excitement in tt
town, which be feared might lead to disturbances endangering the II
and property of all Europeans at Baghdad, Colonel Tweedie confer J
with his French and Russian Colleagues on the subject of his difRnnl
ties with the Wilayat; and the former promised to aid him by add^t
ing the Wall officially, but the latter gave it as his opinion that there
was no danger and declined to take any action.
In the Utb July a British mail steamer, apparently the "Khalifal, "
arrived at Baghdad from Basrah. A Turkish guard was immediatelv
placed on board her, and neither crew nor passengers were allowed U,
land. The landing of the British parcels mail w as also prevented
fbe same evening Colonel Tweedie sent a Dragoman to remo.strate
with the Wall ma friendly and unofficial manner on his proceedings.
buion all points the Wall "was firm and determined, though courteous
and what be said about the parcels mail merely was that he would
• compel them (aic) to go down to Basrah and be brought up here aeain
on board a Turkish steamer." On the loth July the " Khalifai,"
left Baghdad for Basrah, the Turkish authorities being appaiiy
afraid to prevent her departure by force, as they had threatened to do"
she seems to have carried a letter mail, but no cargo or passengers.
The effects of the proceedings of the Turkish authorities wsus de-
scribed by the British Resident as a " blow now daily being inflicted on
our visible (and invisible) power in the presence of all Her Majesty's
"native Indian subjects here, and others." He further observed,
generally :
'n the eyes of these praotical and untutored people, it ,imp], look, as it war bad
bioken out between England and the Porto, and the hostilities had for three week,
been all confined to one side. Of course this is a wrong view, ha, nowhere do appear-
ancea go for more than here.
thettoihrf o'arto def 5 '- "t 0 " 11 "" 1 ' ^ 0ttOman Bureau has, oa
the stlength «l our trade having been stopped and all traffic diverted for a short time
into its hands, greatly raised its rate, for freight, much t„ the disgl
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Ihe tru his, If the navigation of the Tigris between Basrah and Baghdsd were bra .fr
possibility to fall w.th.i. the power of Turkish maladministra.ion and ™ LT
would gradually collapse. No capitalists having large ventures would bold t fm^