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D. Foreign powers other than Britain in the Persian Gulf,
1894-1899 .
[Continued in Period XVII, headings D, E, F, 0-, H anv. I.)
(i) French Vice-Consulate established at Masqat, November 1894
(tt) Attempt by the Messageries Maritimes Company to start a steamer
service to the Gulf, 1896 . ..■•••
(in) Re-institution of subsidised French line contemplated, 1898
(iv) French obtain monopoly for antiquarian research in Peisia, 1835
(v) Russian Consul-General appointed, Isfahan, 1897
(vi) Despatch of Russian engineer officer to Hormuz and contemplated
Russian coaling station on that island, 1895 ....
(vii) Despatch of Russian medical officers to Bushehr, 1897 .
(win) Contemplated Russian railway from Tripoli to Kuwait, 1898 .
(ix) German Vice-Consulate established at Biishehr, 1897 <
(a;) Germany detains in 1898 a preferential right for construction of a
railway to the Persian Gulf ..•••••
E. Affairs and relation of ^Oman and the Arabian coast ; 1894--
1899
(Continued in Period XVII, heading J.)
(i) 'Oman *
Occupation of Masqat by rebels and alienation of Sultan
from Britain, 1895 • • • •
(b) Grant of coaling station (Bandar Jissah) to France, 1898,
iu disregard of the agreement with British of 1891 .
(ii) Trucial 'Oman .
(iii) Qatar
fa) Shaikhs of Qatar in 1898 intimated their willingness to be
included in same political circle as chiefs of Trucial
'Oman
{iv) Bahrain , . .
(a) Attempted invasion with Turkish support of Bahrain from
mainland frustrated by British action, over 40 vessels
being destroyed and 120 captured, 1895 .
(b) Proposal in 1897 to establish sanitary post of the Cons
tantinople Board of Health in Bahrain rejected by His
Majesty's Government as also a request in 1898 by the
Porte that British representative iu Bahrain should
obtain a Turkish exequatur,
(v) Kuwait
(а) Accession of Shaikh Muburak, 1896 . . . .
(б) Appointment of a Turkish sanitary official to Kuwait .
(c) Decision of British Government to enter into relations
with Shaikh, 1898 ......
F. British naval arrangements and maritime security, 1894-
1899 . . . .
(Continued in Period XVII, headings N and P (»).)
(i) Revision in 1895 of the subsidy arrangements between Home and
Indian Government
(it) Restrictions on the action of naval authorities on land, 1898 .
(iii) Salutes
(iv) Piracies in the Shatt-al-Arab and British gun-boat stationed iu the
river,
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