"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)" [و‎‎٣‎٢] (٦٣٦/٦٤)

32 .
Gonf i ierrLi tl
1909.
Office of "the Politicil AiTen"t»ivoi"O
Kg we it/ 97t/li Jamra.r^ T 1909
l ^lor S.O.Knox,I.A.,
p 0 litlo <1 A^em., Koweit
Major P.^.0ox,0.1.>J.,
Poliaical Keaiden^ in ^ne
Persian imlf.
Buehire
Sir f
1 have a.he honour x»o inforu fou nn .t. 1
vicited Sheikh Llobarm this mominB ana he at once
opened the conversation with couplaints regarding
the conduct His hcoellenc^ the d tli of Basra,
who, it arrears, ha i been again agitating wi\ n soiue
vigour the question of Koweit subjects living or
trading in Basra taking out certificates of Turkish
nationality before their claius or coiupl tints are
entertained either b: H.S. or the Turkish Jourts.
2. It will,no loubt, be ffesh in ; our
recollection that, at t.he tiiue of ^tur recent vi >it
here, in the close of Leoeikber 1 ast. Sheikh Mob ar ok
was anxious about the coiupletion of nis purchase
of the ^adhagir/a property 7 and informed both ou and
uy self that H.K.was putting difficulties in the
way and insisting on nls taking out a certificate
of furitish nationality aid that one of the prin-
-cir il objects uz visit to Basra was to consult
with Abdul Aziz bin Haim bin Badar,ihe Sheikh’s
agent and H.B.H’s Gonsul at Basra with regard to
this very question.
3 . 1 found H.d.M*s Consul distinctly
averse to Shell h Mobarak taking ou.t a certificate