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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [242r] (491/540)
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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J l T ihs Document is the Property of His Britamiic Majesty's Government.]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[September 2.]
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Mr. Marling to Sir Edward Grey.—{Received September 2.)
(No. 713. Confidential.)
Sir, Constantinople, August ^3, 1912.
ON the receipt of your despatch No. 271 of the 24th June, I requested the
commercial attache to this Embassy to endeavour to obtain a copy of the exact trace of
the new section of the Bagdad Railway between Eregli and the Euphrates River.
Mr. Weakley now states that, though his efforts in this direction have not yet been
successful, he has reason to believe that he will be able to obtain the document in
course of time. Meanwhile, he informs me confidentially that, he has had an opportunity
of consulting the engineer-in-chief of the Bagdad Railway, who surveyed the line
between Eregli and Aleppo, and is at present in charge of the work of construction of
the railway through the Taurus, as to the accuracy of the trace shown in the new
sections of the Kiepert map of Asia Minor, viz.:—
Section C 4, Kaiserije.
„ D 4, Adana.
„ D 5, Haleb.
The engineer, who is particularly anxious that it should not be known that he
gives this Embassy any information, examined these maps very carefully and informed
Mr. Weakley confidentially that the trace was quite accurately shown on tl.em, and that
it was evident that the maps had been compiled from surveys and data supplied
to Kiepert by the Deutsche Bank.
Mr. Weakley adds that the three tunnels now being pierced in the gorge of the
Tchakit River are the ;—
1. Belamadik Tunnel of 1,800 metres in length.
2. Tashdeunmez Tunnel of 100 metres in length.
3. Hadj Kiri Tunnel of 2,100 metres in length.
The line will be carried through the Amanus Range by a tunnel 5,500 metres in
length at Bagtcheh.
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CHARLES M. MARLING.
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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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