ملف رقم ١٦٠ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "الخليج الفارسي: قطر؛ تعيين مديرين أتراك؛ مسألة معاهدة الحماية مع قطر" [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٠] (٨٦٠/٦٠٤)

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Constantinople.
March 23rd 1903.
®'vly Lord,
With reference to my tel No 51 of j^e I9th inst I havet
the honour to report to Y.L. that Mr Block informed the
M.P.A. " that the attention of H.M.Govt had been called to
a paragraph in the Ikdam of the 27th Nov last stafng that
certain administrative changes and the appointment of
Mudiis at Zohara , Wakra and El Odeid were in contempla
tion and that he was instructed by me under orders from
Y.L* to warn the Porte against any changes or disturbances
of the status quo in those regions and to remind the
Sublime Porte of t ne representatio ms and declarations wnich
~aa been made by the Embassy on the same subject since
1883".
In the course of conversation with the Minister Mr
Block pointed out the strong objections of H.M.Govt to any
interference on tnepart of Turkey in those pa ts and the
danger of provoking by taking steps such as were indi
cated in thelkdam an angry question with H.M.Govt. He fouad
also an opportunity of acquainting the Minister of the visif*
of a Russian ship of War to Koweit and the offer of aims
etc m&de to the Sheikh v§/hich seemed to impress H.E. a good
deal.
The Mini& er who seemed anly imperfectly acquainted
with the subject of ElKatr said that he i?ad not heard
anything of the appointment of Mudirs to those places
but that lie believed they had Mudirs there alreadyend he
und4er the impression that Turkish sovereignty extended N
from