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File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying' [113v] (231/242)
The record is made up of 1 volume (119 folios). It was created in 1912-1914. It was written in English. 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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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.
IG They feel persuaded that the Ottoman Government wil 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. . . ,. i • i i ,
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 0 ^ the fr . 0n J 1 ® r
between Turkey and Persia in the region of Mohammerah When His Majestys
Government addressed their memorandum of July 1911 to the Ottoman Government
t} ia t question had been dormant for sixty years, and His Majesty s Government had
no desire to raise it. 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 negotiations. They have the honour to
submit a separate memorandum on the subject for the consideration of the Ottoman
Government.
(iii.) An increase 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 Pgypt, theiij subject to the assent of the other 1 owtis, His
Majesty’s Government will consent to the maintenance for a period of seven years,
counting from six months after the date of such agreement, of the increase m the
general rate of customs duty leviable on British goods on importation into the Ottoman
Empire from 8 per cent, to 11 per cent, ad valorem which was agreed to in 1907, and
also to the further increase of this general rate of customs duty from 11 per cent, to
15 per cent, ad valorem for the same period.
Foreign Office, July 18, 1912.
ANNEX 1.
HIS Majesty’s Government wish to mention a question to which they attach great
importance, but to which they have not referred in this memorandum.
His Majesty’s Government desire to secure that the duties leviable upon certain
classes of cotton yarns and manufactures shall in no case exceed certain rates to
be agreed upon.
His Majesty’s Government will furnish the Ottoman Government, with the least
possible delay, with a schedule specifying these classes of goods and the duties to be
applied to them.
Foreign Office.
ANNEX 2.
Draft Articles for a Convention between the British and Ottoman Governments in
respect of Railways in Asiatic Turkey.
Article 1.
NO discrimination of any kind shall be exercised on any portion of the railways
connecting Bagdad with other places in Asiatic Turkey, or on any of the branches
thereof, in respect of traffic passing over the said railways, whatever may be its origin
or destination.
The word “ traffic ” in this and the following articles shall apply to passengers and
their luggage, goods, animals, and things conveyed on the railways, and carriages^
waggons, and other vehicles adapted for running on the railways.
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to lighting and buoying installed by the Turkish Government in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Correspondence discusses concerns over the erection of a Turkish lighthouse in Fao and the basis upon which a protest could be lodged. Also discussed is the deployment of a Turkish lightship in the Shatt al-Arab, through the replacement of the old Turkish vessel ( Kilidi Bahr ) by a new lightship ( Jaffari ) and the ramifications of the correspondence with the Turkish Government about this matter. Dredging of various marine navigation channels by the Turkish Government is discussed. Part of these discussions and negotiations involved the creation of a Shatt al-Arab Navigation Commission.
The principal correspondents include the Viceroy (Charles Hardinge), the 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; HM Ambassador to Constantinople (Sir Gerard Lowther); and HM Consul at Basrah (Francis Edward Crow).
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- 1 volume (119 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 119; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- File 4259/1912 'Persian Gulf: Turks and lighting and buoying'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:98v, 101r:118v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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