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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [47r] (97/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 24 Oct 1911-26 Dec 1912. It was written in English, French and Arabic. 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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CONFIDENTIAL.
(Received on 18th March 1912 with Political Secretary''s letter No. 9, dated 1st March
1912.)
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA; [January 22.]
CONFIDENTIAL« Section 3.
[2866]
Sir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey,—{Received January 22.)
(No. 42.) Constantinople, January 17,1912,
Sir,
I have the honour to forward herewith a despatch from the British acting
vice-consul at Mosul respecting the Baghdad Railway.
I have, etc.,
GERARD LOWTHER.
Acting Vice-Consul Hony to Sir G, Lowther,
(No. 39.)
Sir, Mosul, December 22, 1911,
I have the honour to report to you that Meissner
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, who leaves to-day fou
Baghdad, called on me this morning. He said that the railway could not reach
Mosul in less than two years. Under the present conditions of transport it could
not possibly be completed to Baghdad in four years. But negotiations are now go
ing on with Lynch and the Nahriy6 and the Baghdad Railway Company for a fu
sion ; each is to have a third share in the navigation of the Tigris; new boats will be
put on; these will doubtless be built in England, as the contract for them is to be
given to Lynch; the amalgamated companies wish to profit by Lynch's experience
in this connection. Thus, the transport facilities will be increased and the progress
of the Baghdad Railway correspondingly accelerated. Lynch, he said, was quite
favourable to the scheme; he was doubtless afraid that if he did not become a party
to it, some other arrangement would be arrived at for the transport of materials
up the Tigris in which he would have no share at all.
I have, etc.,
HENRY C. HONY.
(Copy sent informally to the Army Department for transmission to the Division
of the Chief of the Staff.)
(Received on 18th March 1912 with Political Secretary's letter No. 9, dated 1st March
1912.)
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [February 19.]]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 1,
[7054]
Sir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey,—{Received February 19.)
(No. 129.) Pera, February 12, 1912,
Sir,
Assim Bey asked me to-day to express to you his very sincere regrets that the
promises he had recently made to me to the effect that the reply of the Turkish
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memorandums pertaining to Anglo-Turkish negotiations brought on by the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. 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, Louis Mallet, Assistant Under-secretary of State for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, Charles Marling, British Ambassador to Persia, Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador to Constantinople, George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, Admiral Edmond Slade, the Board of Trade, 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 several private companies, including Trans-Atlantic Trust Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Ottoman Bank, and Imperial Persian Bank.
The form of the negotiations was a series of memorandums containing proposals and counter-proposals. The issues and subjects discussed are:
- ownership and control of the line;
- custom duty increases in the region;
- navigation of the Shatt al-Arab, including the establishment of a commission to oversee this;
- transport of railway materials by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers;
- delimitation of the Turkish-Persian border;
- status and territorial limit of Kuwait;
- other Gulf matters, including the statuses of Bahrain and Qatar, the suppression of arms traffic, piracy, and slavery, and the protection of pearl fisheries.
Folios 261-262 are a map showing the proposed territorial limits of Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (268 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (ff. 3-4) is a subject index, in no particular order but grouped under several broad headings. The numbers refer to folio numbers from the secondary, earlier sequence.
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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers positioned in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There are two earlier foliation systems running through parts of the volume. The first uses uncircled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and the top-left corner of verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages. This foliation system numbers pages if they have content on them, which is the case for all rectos and some versos. This foliation system appears intermittently through most of the volume. The other foliation system uses circled blue pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and appears from folios 5 to 42. Numerous printed materials contained in the volume have their own internal pagination systems. The following foliation irregularities occur: 1a, 34a, 51B, 219B, 250B.
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