ملف رقم ١٦٠ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "الخليج الفارسي: قطر؛ تعيين مديرين أتراك؛ مسألة معاهدة الحماية مع قطر" [و‎‎٣‎٩‎١] (٨٦٠/٧٨٦)

Enclosure 1 in No. 11.
Mr. M. H. Herbert to the Marquis of Salisbury.
No. 574. Therapia,
My w r u c July 1896.
VViUi reference to Sir P. Currie’s Despatch, No. 141, of 19th February,
enclosing copy of a Note Verbale addressed to the Sublime Porte on the
right o! British Consular officers to protect subjects of the Sheikh of
Bahrein, I have the honour to report that, on the 4th of April, His
Excellency addressed a further Note Yerbale to the Sublime Porte on the
same subject, copy of which I now enclose.
Ihe Porte have not returned any answer to either of the two above-
mentioned notes, and it would appear from the enclosed despatch from
Her Majesty’s Consul-General at Bagdad that they intend to disregard
our contention that Bahreinees are British protected persons, and that
the local authorities still refuse to recognise the right of our Consular
officers to intervene on their behalf.
The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G.,
&c., &c,, &c.
I have, &c.,
Michael H. Herbert.
Enclosure in above.
Note Yerbale to Sublime Porte, 4th April 1896.
Her Majesty’s Embassy have now received further details respecting
the case of a Bahreinese subject to whom allusion was made in their
Note Yerbale, No. 16, of 8th February.
Abdul Aziz bin Ali, a subject of the Sheikh of Bahrein, and con
sequently under the protection of Her Britannic Majesty, has preferred
a complaint to Her Majesty’s Consul at Busrah, stating that a Koweit
baghla in which he was a passenger was, on the night of 1st December,
stopped by a boat containing seven men at a place between Abunghua
and Sibiliat on the Shat ul Arab. The occupants of the boat, who
stated that they were employes of the Begie Department, and who
were all armed, boarded the baghla and compelled the crew and
passengers to deliver up all their valuables. Three hundred dollars and
400 rupees in cash and some clothes were taken from Abdul Aziz. The
correspondence which ensued on the subject between Her Majesty’s
Consul and His Excellency the Yali has already been brought to the
notice of the Sublime Porte in the above-mentioned Note Yerbale.
Her Majesty’s Embassy have now the honour to request that instructions
may be sent to the Yali to comply with the desire of Her Majesty’s
Consul that effectual measures may be taken in order to obtain the
restitution of the stolen property, failing which Her Majesty’s Embassy
trust that adequate compensation may be granted to the aforesaid
Abdul Aziz bin Ali.
Philip Currie.