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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [26v] (54/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 24 Oct 1911-26 Dec 1912. It was written in English, French and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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26
His Highness replied that he had been continually urging his Government
to give us their counter-proposals, and they had always replied that their time
was entirely occupied by parliamentary duties, Now that the Chambers were
dissolved, he expected that Djevad Bey would very shortly return with full
instructions. Sir A. Nicolson said that he hoped that this would be the case,
as we were anxious that no further delay should ensue.
I am, etc.,
E. GREY.
(Copy sent informally to the Army Department for transmission to the
Division of the Chief of the Staff.
{Received on the 19th February 1912 with Political Secretary''s letter No. ^
dated the 2nd February 1912.)
C. 596,
(3521.)
Board of Trade
(Commercial Department),
Gwydyr House,
Whitehall,
London, S,^.,
24th January 1912.
Sir,
I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 18th January (No. 1591), relative to the proposals for the
replacement of the existing ad valorem system of customs duties in Turkey by
a specific tariff, and for the construction of customs buildings and the exploita
tion of bonded warehouses at Baghdad and Basrah by the Baghdad Railway
Company.
In reply I am to say that the Board concur in the course which Sir E. Grey
proposes to adopt with regard to the first of these matters; and with regard to
the second proposal they are disposed to agree that Sir R. Crawford might
properly be urged to defer any arrangements of the kind indicated until the
Railway questions now under discussion have been settled.
The Under-Secretary of State,
Eoreign Office.
I have, etc.,
GEO. J. STANLEY.
{Received on the 19th February 1912 with Folitical Secretary's letter No. o,
dated the 2nd February 1912.)
No. 27.
Confidential.
(1591—12.)
Sir,
Eoreign Office,
30th January 1912.
I transmit to Your Excellency, with reference to my telegram No. 468 of
27th December 1911, copies of correspondence with the Board of Trade
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memorandums pertaining to Anglo-Turkish negotiations brought on by the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. Correspondents include: Percy Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, William Shakespear, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Louis Mallet, Assistant Under-secretary of State for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, Charles Marling, British Ambassador to Persia, Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador to Constantinople, George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, Admiral Edmond Slade, the Board of Trade, the Government of India, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and several private companies, including Trans-Atlantic Trust Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Ottoman Bank, and Imperial Persian Bank.
The form of the negotiations was a series of memorandums containing proposals and counter-proposals. The issues and subjects discussed are:
- ownership and control of the line;
- custom duty increases in the region;
- navigation of the Shatt al-Arab, including the establishment of a commission to oversee this;
- transport of railway materials by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers;
- delimitation of the Turkish-Persian border;
- status and territorial limit of Kuwait;
- other Gulf matters, including the statuses of Bahrain and Qatar, the suppression of arms traffic, piracy, and slavery, and the protection of pearl fisheries.
Folios 261-262 are a map showing the proposed territorial limits of Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (268 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (ff. 3-4) is a subject index, in no particular order but grouped under several broad headings. The numbers refer to folio numbers from the secondary, earlier sequence.
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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers positioned in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There are two earlier foliation systems running through parts of the volume. The first uses uncircled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and the top-left corner of verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages. This foliation system numbers pages if they have content on them, which is the case for all rectos and some versos. This foliation system appears intermittently through most of the volume. The other foliation system uses circled blue pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and appears from folios 5 to 42. Numerous printed materials contained in the volume have their own internal pagination systems. The following foliation irregularities occur: 1a, 34a, 51B, 219B, 250B.
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- 'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:5v, 16r:22v, 24r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:42v, 44r:49v, 51r:51v, 51br:51bv, 52r:54v, 56r:63v, 66r:67v, 72r:112r, 113r:134v, 136r:168v, 170r:182v, 184r:204r, 205v:213v, 215v, 219br:219bv, 222r:225v, 227r:236v, 238r:250v, 250br:250bv, 251r:261v, 262v:264v, back-i, back
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