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'Persian Gulf précis. (Parts I and II)' [‎25v] (50/120)

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The record is made up of 1 file (60 folios). It was created in 1913. It was written in English and French. 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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(d) There shall be no sort of discrimination in freight rates on any
railway in Asiatic Turkey connected with Baghdad.
(e) The British representation on the Board shall always be kept up to
a fixed minimum.
{f) of the capital of the line south of Baghdad shall be retained
in the hands of the British shareholders : and in order to secure
this, some arrangement, such as a right of pre-emption at 5%
above par, to vest in the Bank of England, shall be drawn up by
the Board of Trade.
{g) The above arrangements shall not be subject to a concession
granted for a limited time, but shall be continued so long as the
enhanced Customs duties are levied by Turkey.
(/<) The railway terminus shall be at Kuwait.
(i) The policing of the port of Kuwait, both ashore and afloat, shall be
carried out, in the interests of international trade, by the agents
of the Shaikh of Kuwait, under the direction of British officers
of experience.
(j) Kuwait shall in no circumstances be fortified.
{k) The harbour of Kuwait shall be constructed by British contractors,
and ir shall be built on land to be leased for this purpose by the
British Government, and controlled by a separate Company.
(/) Harbour dues, on a scale to be determined, shall be arranged, and
the net proceeds of those dues shall be divided in equal portions
between the Shaikh and the harbour company, which shall be
British.
(m) The territorial stains quo of Kuwait shall be guaranteed by Turkey
and Great Britain.
(w) An arrangement shall be made for the levy, in the interests of
Turkey, of Customs dues on all throuyh traffic entering Turkey
through the port of Kuwait.
(o) The administration of local affairs at Kuwait shall remain, as
heretofore, in the hands of the Shaikh or his successors.
(p) The suzerainty of the Sultan of Turkey over Kuwait shall be
recognised, and the limits of the Shaikh's jurisuiction defined
(territorially).
(<?) The Shaikh shall take out Turkish nationality certificates in the
names of his sons.
(?') Kuwaitis resident abroad shall enjoy Turkish consular protection.
(c) will perhaps be amended thus: "the number of members on the
Board [i e., of the new Company] shall be in proportion to the amount of the
British capital and the Chairman shall in alternate years be British **.
The question of a British Director on the Baghdad Kailway itself will
perhaps be taken up with the Germans.
(r) Kuwaitis abroad. This will probably be held in reserve.
In connection with the above negotiations His Excellency the Viceroy
telegraphed on the 29th April 1911 as follows
Private. —If an arrangement with Turkey on the terms * *
# * • * could possibly be secured, the result will be eminently
satisfactory. IheiL* are, however, a few amendments that I would like to
suggest:—
Paragraphs (/) and (w) —It might be laid down that w r e and the Shaikh
are to jointly administer the Customs and transit duties. It would have to
be so, and it is as well to state the fact clearly.
Paragraph (o;.—We should add that "except when subjects of the Shaikh
are alone concerned civil and criminal jurisdiction of the port should rest with
British officials ".
This is a counsel of perfection, but to obtain these points, if possible,
would, I think, be wise.

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A printed précis of correspondence on various Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. subjects, prepared for the Foreign Department of the Government of India, Simla, in July 1911 (Part I) and July 1913 (Part II). The document is divided into two parts. Most subjects relate to Turkish claims to sovereignty in the region, including the presence of Turkish garrisons, and were chosen and prepared because of the negotiations between the British and Turkish authorities connected to the Baghdad Railway plans.

Part I (folios 2-35) covers various subjects and is organised into eleven chapters, each devoted to a different topic or geographical area, as follows: Chapter I, British interests in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Extent of Arabian littoral; Chapter II, Extent of Hasa and Katif [Qatif], Claims of the Turks to the whole of Eastern Arabia, Extent to which Turkish claims on the Arabian littoral are recognised by His Majesty's government, Proposed arrangement with the Turkish Government defining their sphere of influence on the Arabian littoral; Chapter III, Turkish occupation of El Bida [Doha], Extent of the Katar [Qatar] Peninsula; Chapter IV, Turkish designs on Katar, Policy of His Majesty's Government; Chapter V, Trucial Chiefs (Pirate Coast); Chapter VI, Maskat [Muscat] and Gwadar; Chapter VII, Kuwait; Chapter VIII, Um Kasr [Umm Qasr], Bubiyan and Warba; Chapter IX, Bahrain, Zakhnuniyeh [Zahnūnīyah] and Mohammerah [Korramshahr]; Chapter X, Proposed British action consequent on Turkish aggression; Chapter XI, Pearl fisheries. There are three appendices containing further correspondence relating to the main text.

Part II (folios 36-60) relates entirely to the Baghdad Railway and the negotiations between the British and Ottoman authorities that the proposal of the railway initiated. The negotiations covered several matters, including: the political statuses of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar; the location of the railway's terminus; the ownership of the railway; and the creation of a commission for the improvement of navigation in the Chatt-el-Arab [Shaṭṭ al-‘Arab]. It opens with an introduction of the related issues (folios 37-41) followed by the relative correspondence (folios 42-53). It ends with the draft agreements (folios 53-60) - never ratified - drawn up by the two powers.

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1 file (60 folios)
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The document is arranged in two parts. The first part is then divided into chapters, each covering a different topic or geographical location. The correspondence section of the second part is in rough chronological order.

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Foliation: the sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Condition: folios 59 and 60 have both been torn in two corners, resulting in the loss of some text.

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