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telegraphing to the Government of Intfia on P9th March
1911 and on 6th July 1919 (No. • 1 '"brent from
my headquarters and archives and had to renly without re-
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ference to them.
S* I may oormnence by invitinr reference to the line
which Captain Ghakespear indicated, in a renort on his
tour in the Koweit hinterlanr, oeing in his opinion the
/ fT r boundary of the principality# It is somewhat less extern-
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sive, but to the southwards, a good deal more definite, than
No #153 of PGrd March 1910 forwarded! ... -u
to Governnent of India under Re- ! thftt lndicat * d ^ r *
9ident*B letter No.977, dated 14 |
April 1910. -j Lorlmer « u P° n mt!h
scanty information upon the subject as was available to him.
It however includes Anta*a'(Nta*)> a group of villages of
vide Map of the Koweit hinterland f
Survey of India, June 1910, 9 miles! considerable import-
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ance, which Captain Knox^ reports of loop giv#» good grounds
for regarding ao within the domains of Sheikh Yobarak; and
the statement of the Porte that it is mart of the vilayat
of Busreh is presumably on all fours with their claim that
Refaat Pahha^s Memo of May 6th 1908 ! Koroit 1 a Mnn in
received under Foreign Department !
endorsement No.PlOl-F.B*, d®
June 4 1908. ' ' '
ated 19 I ^hat province. It
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headman in 1908> a t any rate, was a nominee of the Pheikh
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of Koweit. \fvQ
4. It will be seen that Captain Shakespear also inclu
des within the limits of Koweit district, Jazirat •al Amayir,
an island'inside*Musallamiyah Bay. 'This is identical with
No.138, dated Pfth March 1908 forwarded! p _ v ~
to Government of India under Fesi- ! 0Py OT
dent^ letter No.1098, dated 5th April!
1908 & No.Pff dated P 5 rd May 19 op ! which was described
forwarded to Government of India un- !
der Residents No. 1814, dated 8th ! py Mr.J.C.Gaskin,
June 1908• !
in his report to the Resident on 6th September 1897, as the
Southern, boundary of Koweit. This report, it would appear,
was not forwarded to Government, though an account of the
results of Mr.Gaskin’s visit, in connection with which the