'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 1 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab. (Kuwait's relations with Turkish Govt. and Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates)' [‎70r] (143/636)

in the way the f.heikh suggests as Abdul -'ahab Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. would have me
believe. As the deputy Ah^ed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ee Zobeir, the seller or tbe
land, is at Constantinople, he could, no doubt, satisfy the mi
nisters as to the position of Fadaghie. 1 think they do not want
to let Sheikh Mobarak acquire more ground here for purely poli
tical reasons and the Vali, 1 think, is not likely to endeavour
to induce them to change their minds as he fully appreciates the
anomaly of the Sheikh’s position and loses no opportunity of ha
ving a dig at me about the Aoweit question. Your Excellency may
have seen a statement in the Frankfurter Zeitung that Ahmed Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
^obeir had sold large tracts of land at Basra to tie British Go
vernment. An indignant denial of this was published by Zobeir’s
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brother, Abd el Mohsin, president of the Municipality, in the Basra p
newspaper ”lzhar el Hakk", but the statement no doubt, refers to
the present transaction and cannot but tend to increase the Turk
ish suspicions.
The Vali, however, practises,the Turkish maxim about being
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affable to ones friends and dissimulating with ones enemies and
1 hear Sheikh Mobarak has promised to assist him to get the stone
required for his new road by using Koweit boats to bring the ma
terial from Muscat, no charge being made for freight but the Vali
paying the cost of the labour employed. Whether the Koweit fisher
men will approve of this onerous arrangement is another question.
In any case the Vali is cultivating good relations with his neigh
bours to some purpose and, as long as continues on good terms with
the powerful Sheikh of Mohammerah, it is unlikely there will be
any armed disturbance in the Vilayet. There have been none of
importance this winter* Early last month Falih es Seyhood, who
is practically an outlaw, and who seems to have enlisted the good
offices of Sheikh Khazal in order to effect a reconciliation with
the Vali, came from M oh amine rah where he has been staying, to Basra
arid asked for pardon, saying he was ready to pay arrears of taxes
due and to give up the rifles of his Arabs to the Turkish Govern
ment, to which he expressed his loyalty. The Vali communicated
his application to the Minister of the interior but I have not
heard with what result. Falih returned to Mohamraerah the Vali
having given him to understand that he would be arrested if he re
mained here longer than twenty four hours.
Sheikh