'File 73/7 V (D 38) Status of Kuwait, Anglo-Turkish Convention' [20v] (53/216)
The record is made up of 1 volume (104 folios). It was created in 3 Jan 1914-16 Jul 1919. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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{Received on tU 8th December 1913, with Political Secretary's letter, No. 47, dated
the 21st November 1913.)
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
,
Whitehall,
London, S. W.
19th November 1913.
P. 4704.
IMMEDIATE.
Sm,
I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter No. 50643 of the 17th instant regarding the German counterdraft
of the Anglo-German convention respecting the Bagdad Railway, &c., and to say
that he has instructed Sir A. Hirtzel to attend the proposed interdepartmental
conference.
The Marquess of Crewe agrees with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
in deprecating an explanatory note and secret stipulations.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
(Sd). T. W. HOLDERNESS.
The Under Secretary of State,
Foreign Office.
(Received on ike 15th December 1913, with Political Secretanfs letter, No. 48, dated
the 28th November 1913.)
Enclosures in Foreign Office covering letters dated the 2ht [and 22nd November
1913.
Foreign Office,
22nd November 1913.
Cofy.
Immediate and
Confidential.
No. 52549-13. -
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 14th instant
in which you state that, as the negotiations between Germany, Great Britain and
Turkey relative to the Bagdad Railway are to form one whole, and as it appears
highly desirable that the arrangements incorporated in the different treaties and
conventions should exactly correspond, it seems expedient for the present merely
to initial the agreements with the Turkish Government, in order that it may be
easier to insert any necessary alterations in order to bring about complete confor
mity. You add that, for this reason, the German Government will for the present
only initial the agreements to be concluded with Djavid Bey at Berlin.
In conveying to you the thanks of His Majesty's Government for this com
munication, I have to inform you that the agreement between His Majesty's
Government and the Ottoman Government relating to railways in Asiatic Turkey
will not be signed yet; but the agreements relating to the Euphrates and Tigris
Navigation Concession and to the Shatt-el-Arab Conservancy Commission were,
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, maps, and newspaper cuttings relating to Anglo-Turkish negotiations over the Baghdad Railway, status of Kuwait, and other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. matters. The correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, British Consul for Arabistan, Percy Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire (later Stuart Knox as acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. ), the Government of India, Henry Babington Smith, President of the National Bank of Turkey, Louis Mallet, British Ambassador to Turkey, the British Consulate at Adana, Hugh O'Beirne, Counsellor to the British Embassy in Russia, Richard von Kühlmann, Councillor of the German Embassy in London, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Board of Trade, William Grey, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait, the British Consulate at Basra, Arnold Wilson, Civil Commissioner in Iraq, and Ibn Sa‘ud, ruler of Najd and its dependencies. Some of the correspondence comes as enclosures.
The documents relate to the latter stages of negotiations and partly consist of drafts and counter-drafts of the eventual agreement, which was never ratified because of the outbreak of the First World War. They also reflect Britain's involvement in the agreement between the Ottoman Turks and the Baghdad Railway Company. Also covered is a discussion about what to do in case of Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait's sudden death and territorial claims made by Ibn Sa‘ud on what may be Kuwaiti land.
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- 1 volume (104 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (folio 1c) is a subject index, arranged alphabetically. The numbering refers to the folio.
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Foliation: The volume has been foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using pencil numbers positioning in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages. One document (folios 7-34) is an extract from a printed item that has its own internal pagination system, running from 125-179, before continuing from 180-205 (folios 38-50). The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 52a, 59a. There is one foldout in the volume, at folio 2.
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