مجموعة ٣٠/٩٠ "المطالبة الفارسية بجزيرة البحرين" [و‎‎٤‎٨‎٩] (١٠٦٢/٩٩٠)

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tlie Person ('o 7 “ & ° ver 1 Ilmellt of India so to inform
tne Persian Crovermnent. As, however, the Amin-us-Sult™
on being questioned disavowed all designs on Bahrein W
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Warning to Turkey, 1888 .
■ t :> ' 1 n i ^ ' ilY ‘b 1883 the Turkish Government were
informed that any attempt to effect a landiiio “ n Bahrein
would be opposed by force, and that no clainTby the Porte
MnieT- P 10U 0Ver Bahrein CouId be admitted, y sinee He?
rulfr with wh?m P ent regal ' ded thS 8heikh aS an “dependent
ruler with whom they were in treaty relations.
Second Exclusive Agreement between Her Majesty’s
Government and Bahrein (1892).
. 11 1 4 * 0n ^ March 1892 the Political Resident
signed a second Exclusive Agreement with the Sheikh of
Bahrein on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government. The
r V T Q r of the Agreement (which was ratified on 12 th
imAVi : a 1 nd whlch was ex P r essed to be binding on the
oneiknHns heirs, and successors) were as follows
(1) “That I will on no account enter into any agreement Aitchison
or correspondence with any Power other than the ( 1933 )>
British Government. VaL XI,
“That without the assent of the British Government No - xiii > 238 -
will not consent to the residence within my
^ territory of the agent of any other Government.
That I will on no account cede, sell, mortgage or
otherwise give for occupation any part of my
territory, save to the British Government.”
( 2 )
(3)
Further Warning to Turkey, November 1892.
115. In November 1892 the Ottoman Government were Const. Desp.
warned (apropos of the position of Bahreinis at Basra) that No. 348 of
Bahiem was under British protection, and that no interference •^•11.1892.
with its natives by the Ottoman authorities could be
admitted. In the same year the Porte was informed, with
reference to a rumoured intention to land Turkish troops,
that such action would be opposed by Her Majesty’s ships.
Summary, 1880-92.
116. The Turkish claim was again pressed vigorously
during this period and was consistently rejected by Her
Majesty’s Government.
The Shah raised the question of the Persian claim in
1886, but did not press the matter.
In 1892 the Sheikh entered into his Second Exclusive
Agreement with Her Majesty’s Government.
XII.—1892-1913. From the Second Exclusive Agreement to the
Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913.
British repudiations of Turkish Claims, 1892-98.
117. In 1895 steps w^ere taken at Constantinople by Her
Majesty’s Government to check an attempted invasion of
Bahrein from Qatar, which seemed not improbably to have Lor. I, 935.
been inspired by the Turks, and later in the same year Her
Majesty’s Government twice reiterated to the Porte that
Bahrein was under British protection and that no inter
ference with it would be tolerated. The views of Her
Majesty’s Government on the status of the island were again
officially repeated at Constantinople on two occasions in
1896. In 1897 the Constantinople Board of Health
proposed to establish a sanitary post in Bahrein. The
proposal was abandoned on the objections of the British
delegate, who represented that Bahrein was an independent
principality under British protection.
118. In 1898 a Turkish request that a British Vice-
Consul alleged to have been appointed at Bahrein should