File E/8 I Ibn Sa‘ud [‎128r] (270/606)

No. 1350, dated Bushire, the 10th (received 18th) May 1914.
From— M ajor S, G. K nox , C.I.E,, Officiating 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. in the Persian
Gnlf, Bushire,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Depart
ment, Simla.
In continuation of the correspondence ending with my letter No. 1296,
dated the 3rd May 1914, I have the honour to forward an extract from the
From Consul, Basrah, to Ambassador, Consfeinti- despatch, noted in the margin, a COpV
nople, No. 28, dated ind May 1914. of wllich has been reC ei V ed from His
Majesty's Consul at Basrah under cover of his endorsement No. 13, dated 2Dd
May 1914, in regard to the Turkish deputation to Bin Saud.
Enclosure.
Extract from a letter frona F. E. Crow, Esq., C.M G., His Majesty's Consul, Basrah, to His
Majesty's Ambassador, Constantinople, No. 28, dated the 2nd May 1914.
As reported in my telegram 35 of 28th April last, the Commission
appointed to effect a setilement of the Hasa question with Bin Saud left
Basrah in the Shaikh of Kuwait's launch for Kuwait on the morning of the
28th ultimo. The Commission consisting of Saiyid Talib Bey Naqibzadah
as President, Major Beha ad Din Bey, Chief of the Baghdad Staff,
Major Omar Fauzi Bey, Chief of the Basrah Staff, who had previously visited
Kuwait, and Sami Effendi Mutassarif of Hasa, was accompanied by Eumer
Bey, a Basrah lawyer. Muhammad al Nama, Arab notable and landed proprietor,
and Abdul Wahab Mandil and Abdul Latif Mandil; the latter are Arab
notables and landed proprietors and represent Bin Saud at Basrah as agents.
I understand that the instructions to the Commission are to settle the
question in a friendly way and that they will meet Bin Saud at Kuwait. The
1st class of the Osmanieh has been conferred on Shaikh Mubarak by the Sultan
and* as the decoration had not arrived at Basrah, an order was borrowed from
Saivid Talib Bey, presumably the same, and sent to the Shaikh by the hands of
Barhan ad Din Bey, Public Prosecutor of the Basrah Appeal Court, and Hilmi
Effendi, Director of Public Instruction. These gentlemen travelled with the
Commission on board the Shaikh's launch. On receipt of the decoration from
Constantinople, it is to be handed to Saiyid Talib in return for the one he lent.
The iudicial authorities were very loth to part with the Public Prosecutor,
whose services are required in the Courts where much business awaits him.
A letter addressed by the President of the Court to the Vali pointing out the
inconvenience caused by the Public Prosecutor's absence from his post and the
consequent delay to the business of the courts was not well received and the
Vali explained that it was only fair to the Public Prosecutor to give him the
chance of making a little money. Some irritation seems to have been caused
in the Serai by this observation.