"الخليج العربي - الولاية القضائية التركية على طول الساحل العربي (الجزء الثاني)" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٤] (٤٥/١٥)

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# Dated 25th June 1877,
No. 436.
f From Foreign Office,
dated 28th July 1877,
No. 548.
| From Foreign Office,
dated 28th Aug. 1877,
No. 624.
§ To Foreign Office,
27th Sept. 1877, No. 624.
|| No. 62, dated 4th Oct.
1877.
See ante , p. 40.
** هذه التواريخ تقريبية Dated 27th June
1878, No. 389.
rliffi u • eetl meiltlone| i> as a possible source of
difficulty m procuring the submission of the
cQ.omsts of Odeid, that their Chief, who had been
m commumcation with the Turkish GoSS
T I • r n' at; t,lle iast moaieut hoist the
T arlash flag. But seeing that the British Govern-
ment had received no official intimation on the
thnftL^r f VAf"i WaS U0 tan g ible evidence
that the Chief of Odeid was under the effective
suzerainty of the Turkish Government, they appre-
henaed that the mere hoisting of the Turkish flao-
need in no way restrict the freedom of their action
in the matter.
,, On receipt of this Despatch, a letter was sent to
the foreign Office,* intimating.. Lord Salisbury's
concurrence in the views expressed in it, and re
questing that Her Majesty's Ambassador at Con
stantinople might be instructed to call the serious
attention of the Turkish Government to the in
crease of piracy along the Guttur coast which had
resulted from the extension of its authority in that
quarter, and to intimate that Her Majesty's Go
vernment would not permit the peace of the Persian
Gulf to be disturbed by expeditions which either
proceeded from ports, like El Bidaa,in actual Turkish
possession, or were organized by tribes recognizing
Turkish supremacy, and were despatched from the
territories of independent Chiefs, too weak to pre
vent the abuse of their ports. Lord Derby was
informed that Lord Salisbury proposed to approve
the instructions which had been issued to the Resi
dent in the Gulf in regard to Odeid, but that his
Lordship was of opinion that no reference should
be made to that matter in any communication
which Sir H. Layard might address to the Turkish
Government on the general question, it being both
doubtful whether that Government exercised any
substantial authority over the Chief of Odeid, and
inexpedient to provoke discussion on the point.
A note in the above sense was addressed by Sir
H. Layard to the Porte, under date the 9th July
1877,f to which a reply was received on the 2nd
August from Server Pasha,! to the effect that the
Governor General of the vilayet of Bussorah
declared that nothing of the kind alleged had taken
place, and that the most complete tranquillity pre
vailed, but that the Porte would be gtad to be
furnished with more precise particulars.
These were at once furnished§ to the Foreign
Office for communication to the Turkish Govern
ment by Sir H. Layard. Simnltaneously, the
correspondence was sent out to the Government of
India,|| with an intimation that Her Majesty's
Government approved the instructions^ which had
been issued to the Resident in the Gulf, in May,
with a vi®^ ^ prevent the port of Odeid being
used as a shelter for pirates.
Nothing more was heard in the matter until
June 1878, when a letter" was received from the
"FWeiffn Office, aivinsr cover to a despatch from Sir
H Layard, and a telegram from the Wali of
3000.
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