"الملف 73/7 I (D 19) وضع الكويت، سكة حديد بغداد، والمفاوضات الأنجلو تركية في ١٩١١" [ظ‎‎٢‎٢‎٦] (٦٣١/٤٨٦)

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The question of the kilometric guarantees is not alluded to in this letter
S8 it can lell be reserved for subsequent consideration. ^
Qir F rrpv ,{ ? full concurrence in the importance 01 a« oidirg
I am to express Mr E Grey s uu eon^^.^ ^ ^ used to our detn .
^ f^houTd^hrpresent negotiations with Turkey prove abortive ; and, for this
hels anZXt the'reply to theTurkbh proposals shouid bo drawn up in
close consultation with your Department.
r, , i,..,, ,1,,, oubieot of Kuwait, I am to advert to the view expressei' by
the Marquess of tansdowne, in his memorandum of the 21st March, ! 002 that the
British obligation to protect could not be interpreted as extending beyond Kuwait
• proper " to the " outskirts While Sir E. Grey is in agreement with the view
that the Shaikh's claims to Warba and Bubiyan might be upheld if it ^ -"ally
desirable to do so, bethinks that those claims could hardly be sustained with regatu'
to Urn Kasr, and certainly not as far south as Musulamiya Bay. If the terminus
of the railway is at Kuwait proper (Bandar Shweikh) the importance of Warba,
I Bubiyan and IJm Kasr, is largely reduced. In any case, if an agreement with Tur-
| key is reached it will be desirable to define precisely the limits of Kuwait territory
' in order to avoid future friction ; and 1 am to suggest that, with a view to expedi
tion, it might be desirable for the Government of India to be consulted by tele
graph in regard to those limits.
With reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter, 1 am to draw your
attention to the desire expressed by the Ottoman Government to del ue the position
of the two Powers in the Persian Gulf,—a desire which, if marked by sincerity, is
clearly satisfactory.
Finally, I am to express Sir E. Grey's opinion that it is extre-ne-y desirable,
if only, for tactical reasons, to obtain a concession for a line from Khor ^ isa and
Mohammareh to Khorremmabad, especially as the concession need not involve
more than an option to construct.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET,
(Copy sent informally to the Army Department for transmission to the Divi
sion of the Chief of the Staff).
[Rec.eivcd on 12th April 1911, with Political Secretary's letter, No, 12, dated 24th
March 1911.]
EASTERN DEPARTMENT .
SECRET SERIES^ "
[9875]
No. 1.
[March 20.']
Section 3.
Foreign Office to India Office.
(ConfideBtial.)
S ir,
Pore m Office, March 20,1911.
relative to September, 1910, from this Office
connecting Europe with India bv wav ~ f p t ''V? aus P ic es, of a railway
Edward Grey to transmit to you herewith T' 3 ' f m ( l llrecte d by Seoretary Sir
* m. m. timiriascfl and zwcn • i 1 " ^ letter addressed bv two
Mr. Jactaon lbrcU of the Russian gwup interested
whom it has been communicated to this Offl 00 PrOJeCt to Mr - Hutl1 Jackson * by
scheme, as officially ctmmunicatfdto'tte^rom'J Goverllmellt towards the
45 the Peters, and I am to ask that