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Prom Secretary of State to Viceroy, Foreign Department,
3rd March 1911.
foreign Secret. Can you say which British buoys in Shat-el-Arab are in
Turkish or Persian waters ?
From Secret ami of State to Viceroy, Foreign Department,
[3th March Vm.
Foreigh Secret. Buoys in Persian Gulf. Flease expedite reply to my
telegram of 3rd instant. Odin should report exact distance of buoys from
nearest shore in each case.
Turkish Government contemplate a lightship and ten mooring buoys in
river off Basrah besides three shoal-marking buoys.
From Viceroy, lith March 1911.
Foreign Secret. Your telegram of 3rd March. At present there are no
British buoys either in Persian or 1 urkish Avaters. Number 2 block casket
buoy and inner bar buoys which for some time have been missing were in
Turkish Avaters according to existing charts. Position of boundaries of
Turkish and Persian waters cannot be correctly ascertained until survey is
completed. Further report on this point will folloAV in due course.
From Viceroy, 21st March 1911.
Foreign Secret. Your telegram of 13th March. Persian Gulf buoys.
According to present charts distances of buoys from nearest shore are as
follows :--Inner buoy is TG miles distant from Persian shore, this buoy is
at present missing, but Turks have replaced it by another in the same
position. Black casket buoy No. 2 is 2'8 miles distant from 1 ersian shore.
This buoy also is missing at present, but Turks have replaced it by a buoy
2'8 miles from Persian shore. No. 1 buoy is 4'4 miles trom lersian shore.
New red casket buoy is T'G miles from Persian shore and is missing at
present New black conical buoy is distant 7'8 miles from Persian shore.
Lawrence buoy, which is apparently missing but which is not to be replaced, is
8 4 miles from Persian shore. Buoy at outer bar .8 UP 3 miles from Persian
shore.