'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [‎211r] (427/540)

The views of the Government of India on the suggestion that our agreements
with the Shaikh should be confirmed by the Porte have not yet been received. It
would be better if this'could be held in reserve.
Paragraph 14. —After this insert:—" His Majesty's Government must there
fore ask the Turkish Government to recognise the right of Great Britain in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. {a) to control surveying, lighting, buoying, and pilotage; (6) to police
its waters ; and (c) to conduct all quarantine arrangements.
Paragraph 15 might begin: —" In submitting these final proposals for the accept
ance of the Turkish Government His Majesty's Government are not seeking terri
torial aggrandizement nor are they embarking upon any new developments of
policy. Their desire is simply to secure the recognition and to ensure the continu
ance of an order of things which has in fact grown up under their auspices and has
been proved by experience," etc.
Paragraph 17. —For the last sentence substitute :—" Now, however, that it has
been raised, by circumstances beyond their control, they feel that no settlement
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. could be complete which did not provide for this question, and
they regard a satisfactory adjustment of it as an essential part of the present ne
gotiations. They will, accordingly, have the honour to submit forthwith a separate
memorandum on the subject for the consideration of the Ottoman Government."
E nclosure N o . 2.
L imits of K uwait.
Descriptive note to accompany map.
His Majesty's Government consider the frontier on the north to be a line run
ning from Khor-as-Sabiyah so as to pass immediately south of Umm Qasr and
Safwan to Jabal Sanam and thence to the Batin. On the south his boundary is
considered to run westwards from Jabal Manifah on the coast to the Na'airiyah
hill at the north-western corner of Eadaif. On the west the Shaikhdom is bounded
between Jabal Sanam and Hafar by the Batin, and south of Hafar the border is
the line dividing Summan from Dahanah as far south as the point where that line
is intersected by the route from Wabrah to Riyadh.
Districts and Islands—The Shaikhdom, considered from the physical point
of view, falls naturally into two parts, one to the north and the other to the south
of a line joining Kuwait town and Kiqa'i. In the northern block lie the districts
or tracts of Batin, Shiqqaq, Batih, Umm-al-Khilan, Yah, Qira-d-Marru,, Zaqlah,
and Zor. The southern block comprises the three great divisions of Summan,
Dibdibah, and Umm-Janaib ; and the last, which lies along the coast to the south
of Kuwait Bay, is further sub-divided into districts named Shaqq, Qra'ab Adan,
Slau, Hazaim, and Sudah.
i The maritime possessions of Kuwait consist of the islands of Bubiyan, War-
ba and Failakah which, with its northern and southern outliers of Mashjan and
Auhah, is situated at the mouth of Kuwait Bay, and of the islets of Kubbar, Qaru,
and Umm-al-Maradim.