ملف رقم ١٦٠ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "الخليج الفارسي: قطر؛ تعيين مديرين أتراك؛ مسألة معاهدة الحماية مع قطر" [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎٨] (٨٦٠/٣٤١)

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the Assistant Political Agent at Bahrein, regarding the possibility of Yusuf
Beg’s return from El Bidaa to Wakra.
2. His Majesty’s Consul at Basrah has been informed, and requested to
bring the facts to the notice of the Wali.
No. 158, dated the 18th July 1903.
From—J. C. Gaskin, Esq., Assistant Political Agent at Bahrein,
To Captain V. deV. Hunt, First Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian
Gulf.
In continuation of my letter No. 129, dated the 28th June 1903, I have
the honour to report that I have received information to the effect that, while
Yusuf Beg is at El Bidaa acting for the Mudir of that place, who is away at
A1 Hassa, he has not removed his personal effects from Wakra, and that a
Turkish soldier is kept there to guard over the effects. This fact may be
brought to the notice of His Excellency the Wali of Basra through his
Britannic Majesty’s Consul. It would seem from this information that the
Mutassarif has not entirely carried out the orders alleged to have been sent by
the Turkish Government, and is temporizing until further correspondence on
the subject passes between him and the Porte, and the withdrawal of Yusuf
Beg to El Bidaa is only a temporary measure to make it appear that he has been
removed.
No. 141, dated Bushire, the 30th July 1903.
Captain V. deV. Hunt, for Officiating Political Resident in the Persian
Gulf,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
In continuation of the correspondence ending with my letter No. 140,
dated the 24th July 1901, on the subject of the appointment by the Porte of
Mudirs to certain posts on the Katr peninsula, I have the honour to forward,
for the information of the Government of India, copy of a letter addressed to
me by the Assistant Political Agent at Bahrein.
2. His Majesty’s Consul at Basrah has been requested to take steps to
secure the due carrying out of the Wali s orders by the Mutassarif of A1 Hassa.
No. 161, dated the 25th July 1903.
From - J. C. Gaskin, Esq., Assistant Political Agent at Bahrein,
q’o—C aptain Y. deV. Hunt, First Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian
Gulf.
Adverting to correspondence ending with this office letter No. 158, dated
ihe 18th July 1903, I have the honour to report that, on the occasion of a visit
paid to me by Sheik Muhammad Abdul Wahab Pasha on the 22nd instant, he
stated in his conversation that His Excellency the Wali of Basrah sent a
despatch by the Turkish transport Adana which reached Katif on the 3rd
instant, to the Mutassarif of A1 Hassa, to the effect that Yusuf Beg should
be dismissed from his post, and he is to be given no other Government
employment.
The Mutassarif has apparently carried out the orders sent him, and Yusuf
Beg arrived hereon Friday evening in a sailing boat from Al Bidaa. He states
that he has been directed by the MuPssarif to go and see him at Al Hassa,
whence he will go back to Basrah, and that the Mutessarif has written
officially to Abdul Rahman, son of Sheikh Jasim-bin-Thani of Katr appointing
him Mudir of Wakra on a salary of 62 Austrian dollars a month. A confiden
tial agent, who came from El Bidaa by the same boat, states that Sheikh
Ahmed-bin-Thani informed him of the appointment of his nephew to tbe
Wakra post on the pay stated above, so there can be no doubt of the new
appointment having been made.