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'File 73/7 III (D 24) Status of Kuwait & Anglo-Turkish negotiations' [296v] (604/709)
The record is made up of 1 volume (355 folios). It was created in 23 Nov 1912-2 Jul 1913. It was written in English, Arabic 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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102
The limits and period of the concession should be generally on the lines
already discussed between us. It would no doubt be necessary to provide
some means whereby a fair share of the future expansion of the trade of the
rivers would be carried by the British Company, which otherwise might find
itself driven out by the competition of the new Company.
If an arrangement on the above lines commends itself to the Imperial
Ottoman Government, it will probably be sufficient to make it the subject of a
declaration, leaving the details of the concession to be worked out between the
Imperial Ottoman Government and the concessionnaire. It would be useful if
some indication could be given of the payment which the Imperial Ottoman
Government would expect in return for transferring to the new Company its
interests in the navigation of the rivers.
H. LL. S.
A. H.
A. P.
Gth May 1913.
(Copy sent informally to the Army Department for transmission to the Divi
sion of the Chief of the Staff.)
{Extract.)
(Received on the 1st June 1913 with Political Secretary's letter No. 20, dated the 16th May
1913.)
Enclosure in Foreign Office covering letter^ dated the 9th May 1913.
20662—13 Foreign Office,
(Immediate and Confidential.) N 9th May 1913.
Sir,
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, for the con-*
fidential information of the Board of Trade, a copy of a memorandum com
municated by His Highness Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
on the 1st instant, setting forth the
various points to which the Ottoman Government desire to secure the assent
of His Majesty's Government.
As regards point 1, it will be observed that the Turkish Government ask
for the assent of His Majesty's Government to an increase in the customs
duties not for a limited period, but for an indefinite one. It has been urged
in the negotiations by Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
that if the increase were limited, say for a
period of seven years, as His Majesty's Government proposed in their note of
July 1912 to the Turkish Ambassador, the Turkish Government would not be
able to make full use of such an increase as security for advances.
Subject to the assent of all the Powers concerned being obtained to a
permanent increase. Sir E. Grey is disposed to concur in the request of the
Turkish Government. He would, however, be glad to receive the views of
your Department on this point; and, inasmuch as it was originally proposed
that the Shatt-el-Arab Conservancy Convention should be subject to denun
ciation after twenty-one years so as to coincide with the expiry of a period
(say, the third of seven years) for which His Majesty's Government would
have given their assent to the levy of customs duties at fifteen per cent,
ad valorem, the question now arises whether His Majesty's Government
should not stipulate that, if they assent to the levy in question for an indefinite^
period, the Shatt-el-Arab Convention should not be modified so as to remain
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The volume contains correspondence, memorandums, maps and newspaper cuttings relating to a proposed Baghdad to Basra railway, an extension of the German Berlin to Baghdad Railway. Correspondents include: 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, William Shakespear, 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, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Francis Bertie, British Ambassador to France, Louis Mallet, Assistant Under-secretary of State for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, Arthur Nicolson, Permanent Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs, Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador to Constantinople, George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, Edward Goschen, British Ambassador to Berlin, the Board of Trade, William Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, the Government of India, 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. , and Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait.
The volume covers the discussion over various matters, with numerous draft conventions and agreements sent back and forth between the various governmental offices and departments. Documents relating to Cox's successful attempts to obtain the acceptance of the agreement from Sheikh Khazal of Mohammerah and Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait are also included. The issues discussed as matters for agreement with Turkey include:
- the status of Kuwait, including territorial limits and relations with Britain and Ottoman Turkey;
- the conservancy of the Shatt al-Arab, including the establishment of a Navigation Commission;
- the ownership and control of the Baghdad Railway and the question of its extension beyond Basra;
- the boundary between Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. and Persia;
- other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. matters such as Turkish power and influence in Katr [Qatar] and Bahrain.
Other subjects that feature are Sheikh Mubarak's temporary illness, and reports of the dispatch of Turkish troops to Qatar, contrary to agreements.
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- 1 volume (355 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically.
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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages. There is an earlier foliation system that runs through the volume, using pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, as well as the top-left corner of any verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages bearing written or printed matter.The following anomalies occur: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 104b, 278a.The following folios are foldouts: 1 (attached to inside front cover), 14, 15, 25, 46, 66, 82, 83, 89, 92, 125, 126, 208, 218-22, 231, 294, 338, 340.
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- 'File 73/7 III (D 24) Status of Kuwait & Anglo-Turkish negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 1r:1v, 1br:1dv, 2r:5v, 9r:13v, 16r:24v, 26r:45v, 47r:57r, 58r:76v, 77ar:77av, 77r:88v, 90r:91v, 93r:102v, 103v, 103r, 104r:104v, 104br:104bv, 105r:124v, 127r:137v, 142r:226v, 228r:249v, 251r:266v, 269r:278v, 278ar:278av, 279r:293v, 295r:323r, 324r:334r, 335r:340v, 341v:350v, back-i, back
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