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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [209r] (423/540)
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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15. His Majesty's Government have no wish to formulate excessive demands.
Their desire is simply to ensure the continuance of an order of things which has been
proved by experience to favour the development of trade and the maintenance
of peace in a region which, but for long-sustained British intervention, would have
remained the scene of continual piracy and bloodshed.
16. They feel persuaded that the Ottoman Government will not oppose the
continuance of the political status quo of a hundred years, and they look forward
confidently to a complete adjustment of the questions enumerated, and to the
improved relations which cannot fail to ensue.
17. As the Ottoman Government are aware, there is a question which has
caused some concern to His Majesty's Government in recent months, that of the
frontier between Turkey and Persia in the region of Mohammerah. When His
Majesty's Government addressed their memorandum of July 1911 to the Ottoman
Government that question had been dormant for sixty years, and His Majesty's
Government had no desire to raise it. They feel, however, that no settlement
could be complete which did not provide for this question, and they will have the
honour to submit forthwith a separate
Memorandum. memorandum on the subject for the con
sideration of the Ottoman Government.
(iii) An increase from 11 "per cent, to 15 per cent, ad valorem in the Turkish customs
duties.
18. If the Ottoman Government are prepared to conclude an agreement in
the sense of this memorandum, and to concur in the removal of the existing veto
on the borrowing powers of Egypt, then, subject to the assent of the other Powers,
His Majesty's Government will consent to the further increase of the Turkish customs
for a period of seven years from April 1914, and they will also agree to the continued
levy of the existing 3 per cent, customs increase for a similar period.
ANNEX.
E l K atr.
•
His Majesty's Government maintain that prior to Midhat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's expedi
tion there were on the Arabian Coast no symbols of Turkish authority, no Turkish
officials, no Turkish jurisdiction or occupation, effective or ineffective. To show
the actual state of things as regards Katr at that date they may quote the follow
ing selection of evidence from a report, dated the 21st August, 1829, from an Indian
naval (not political) officer, and from other contemporary records, and it will be
observed that, there being no question then between the British and Turkish Gov
ernments, these reports, which were made by officers in the pursuit of their ordinary
duties, are necessarily impartial:—
Captain G. B. Brucks, writing on the 21st August, 1829, furnished the follow
ing report:—
" Al Bidder {El Bidaa) : The people are mostly fishermen. They are sub
ject to Bahrain.
c< Al Owhale {Hawaileh) is subject to Bahrain.
" Ruwais : The inhabitants are subject to Bahrain.
" Y oss fee*. A small village belonging to Bahrain.
" Khar Hassan : Belongs to Bahrain.
" Feyraha : Belongs to Bahrain.
" Zobara : The inhabitants are subject to Bahrain.
" Wardens Island : Belongs to Bahrain.
" Isle of Zucnonee (Zakhnuniyeh): The inhabitants acknowledge the authority
of the Shaikh of Bahrain."
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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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- 'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:5v, 16r:22v, 24r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:42v, 44r:49v, 51r:51v, 51br:51bv, 52r:54v, 56r:63v, 66r:67v, 72r:112r, 113r:134v, 136r:168v, 170r:182v, 184r:204r, 205v:213v, 215v, 219br:219bv, 222r:225v, 227r:236v, 238r:250v, 250br:250bv, 251r:261v, 262v:264v, back-i, back
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