"ملف 73/7 IV (D 25) المفاوضات الأنجلو تركية" [و‎‎٣‎١] (١٠٣/٧١)

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ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA.
[August 23.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 4.
[37990]
No. 1.
Foreign Office to India Office.
Sir, Foreign Office, August 23, 1913.
I AM directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you the accompanying copy
of a telegram, No. 411 of the 16th August, respecting the further concessions which
Hakki Pasha desires to obtain from His Majesty's Government.
It will be within the recollection of Sir Arthur Hirtzel that during the recent
negotiations Hakki Pasha made a desultory remark to the effect that he supposed
eventually the blue line, which is indicated on annex No. 5 a of the convention signed
on the 29th July last, would be extended to the Aden boundary.
Sir E. Grey is anxious, if possible, to confine the counter-concessions, which His
Majesty's Government should request from the Ottoman Government in return for the
further concessions which Turkey now desires, to commercial ones, but he is prepared,
if the Secretary of State for India so desires, to make an attempt to get the Ottoman
Government to agree to the line from the Ruba-al-Khaila being prolonged to the Aden
boundary.
There may be advantage in this, as possibly the Hadramaut and adjoining regions
contain oil deposits, and, on the conclusion of an arrangement with France about
Muscat, they might become places of refuge for the arms traffic, but before expressing
any final opinion upon the question Sir E. Grey would be glad to be furnished, if
possible at an early date, with the views of the Marquess of Crewe.
I am, &c.
W. LANGLEY.
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