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r Despatched 12-20
Decypher Sir P. Currie , Therapia < > p.m ., July 16, 1897.
C Received 1-15 j
No. 465.
Following received from Her Majesty's Consul-General at Bagdad :—
** هذه التواريخ تقريبية British Consul at Bussorah (P reports) attack on Koweit June 30th by
Sheikh Usuf Ibrahim. Force consisting of eleven boats and eleven hundred
men with rifles, five hundred of which came from Hindo Persia were
repulsed.
On July 10th I directed Consul to proceed and report fully on this and
cases of piracy that have occurred at head of Persian Gulf, but have can
celled order pending further instructions from Your Excellency, llespect-
fully solicit Your Excellency's order.
Will Your Lordship inform me what instructions I should send in reply ?
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Decypher Sir P. Currie , Therapia < July 16, 1897.
(Received 6-30 J
No. 467.
My telegram No. 465.
Consul at Bussorah, who has been ordered to proceed to Koweit in Iler
Majesty's Ship Figeon, asks whether Her Majesty's Government have ever
acknowledged that place to be under Turkish protection. I propose to answer
him in negative, but should be glad to have Your Lordship's sanction in view of
acceptance by the Sheikh of the post of Turkish Kaimakan as reported in
» , c c , t xr -.Q TQrt-v Captain Why te's memorandum forwarded
• (See Secretary's No. 18, dated 9tb April 1897.) . 1 ,
m my despatch of March* 24ith last.
Cypher to Sir P. Currie , despatched 1-10 p.m ., dated 17th July 1897.
No. 306.
Your telegram No. 465 (of the 16th instant).
Unless the cases of piracy affect British subjects, or the Chiefs in the
Gulf, under engagements with us, intervene in the struggles at Koweit, so as to
disturb the general peace of the Gulf, we do not see that the matter calls for
action or enquiry on our part.
Cypher to Sir P. Currie , despatched 1-45 p.m ., dated 17th July 1897.
No. 307.
Your telegram No. 467 (of the 16th instant).
We have never acknowledged Koweit to be under Turkish protection.
But it seems doubtful whether we could deny that in fact it is under Turkish
influence.
(Copy).
Foreign Office to India Office.
Foreign Office, July 22, 1897.
Sir,
With reference to my letter of the 17th instant, I an directed by the Mar
quess of Salisbury to transmit herewith, to be laid before the Secretary of
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