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Enclosure 2 in No. 11.
Her Majesty’s Consul-General, Baghdad, to Sir P. Currie.
No. 293/52. British Consulate-General, Baghdad,
Sir, 22nd June 1896.
With reference to your Excellency’s despatch, dated 8th
Eehruary 1896, respecting British protection to subjects of the Sheikh
of Bahrein, copy of which with its enclosure was furnished by me to
Her Majesty’s Consul at Basrah, I have now the honour very re
spectfully to forward herewith, for your Excellency’s information,
copy of Despatch from Her Majesty’s Consul there, reporting that
His Excellency the Wall of Basrah had informed him that His
Excellency had received (at date of despatch) no instructions from the
Porte to recognise the right of Her Majesty’s Consul at Basrah to
protect Bahreinees visiting Basrah, hut had been ordered to report on
the case of the plundering of the
property of a subject* of the
Sheikh of Bahrein on hoard a native vessel in the Shat ul Arab, only a
few miles (about 10 miles) below the port of Basrah.
I have, &c.,
E. Mocklek, Colonel,
Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul-General,
Baghdad.
His Excellency
The Right Honourable Sir Philip Currie, G.C.B.,
&c., &c., &c.
* Abdul Azeez.
Enclosure in above.
From Her Majesty’s Consul, Busrah, to Her Majesty’s Consul-
General, Baghdad.
No. 863.
^ r ’ tiii ' 8 th June 1896.
1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your endorse
ment, No. 188, dated 28th April, giving cover to a copy of a despatch
rom His Excellency the Ambassador, dated 6th April, on the subject of
u ^ a of His Excellency the Wall of Busrah to recognise the right
ot this Consulate to address him on behalf of a subject of the Shaikh
ot Bahrein.
«- 2 'd T 0U n iufo f m 7 0u on receipt of the copy of His Excellency
Sir Philip Curries despatch, I inquired from His Excellency Hamdi
Pasha whether any fresh instructions on this subject had reached him.
s is xce ency s leply ivas in the negative I repeated the inquiry at
an interview which I had with him on 30th May last. 4 "
,,3 ExceUency’s reply was again to the effect that he had received
i So f 0 ! 1 ! a t h r inS l ' l r m t0 discuss the case me, or to admit
Sl, ,;iif Ak, e r, ko nlC M ?J est y’ s Consul to protect subjects of the
I r.lii a iIclli "' lul< : travelling or residing in the Ottoman dominions.
o ’ v° We * Ter ’ received a communication from the Sublime Porte
dnectmg mm to submit a report on the case.
I have, &c.,
J. E. Whyte.