"ملف II. العراق (٣) المجلد ١ بساتين التمر العائدة لشيخ الكويت في شط العرب. (علاقات الكويت مع الحكومة التركية والمطالبة التركية بضرورة استخراج الكويتيين شهادات الجنسية التركية)" [و‎‎٣‎٣] (٦٣٦/٦٦)

3 3, (§)
cf Turkish nation iliiv ^ U5.2. rat#0 on t/nis aocounx»t
atnd diaapnroving generi.112. of H.B # t/ha Mali's aPPi-
-pn ie on ’this pieiPion, vi IP would ir uiiio
H.E.has iJ-so been giving trouble of a similar kind
to British subjects,rroprietors of land in Turkish
territoi^aHis jxcellenc^ 1 a attitu ie vtpe ired, so 1
understood, to H.B.H* s Jonsul of loubtful leg ality
ui i vfith special reference to koweit, calculated
to rai se inconvenient questions better left un-
iisturbed.
4. Abdul As is bin Salim bin balar was
distinctly no? eful tint the iali was //©ai^ening
in his opposition to ine s tie iiid tnat tne mitter
would be eventually adjusted to Sheikh IVbarik* s
sitisfaction.
/
5 # It would now at tear from Shell h Mobarak
latest conversation with me on the subject that
Abdul Asiz bin Salim bin Hadar was too sanguine .
an i that the question of certificates of LhirLish 0 ' ^
nationtlity is being raised in an acute form.
o.
This form is however not tl to wether
novel and was reported in ;C’ letter No.3Pb, dated
the 3dth July 1907 to your address, when Sneikn
llobarak reported that certain Koweit meron-uits
trading in Basra had been warned bi tne then vfaii
of Basra to take out certificates of Airkish n.^-
-tionality or they would be expelled the town.
S n. e i 1 h l lob a rak 1 s inform ^tion was at tne time too
vague ant scanty for .my further action to be
taken thereon ant the matter came to rest of it-
-self, as the especial merchant of 'Whom xat-wn ion
was made, Isa bin Abdul Jalii, left Basra to suit
his o^vn convenience ant no further questions were
asked about him.
7 . Sheikh I lobar ak now informs me that
one Hammaid al Khalid,a member of the firm of A1
iihathair, one of our biggest pe ,rl merchants, had