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'Persian Gulf précis. (Parts I and II)' [33v] (66/120)
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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62
MEMORANDUM.
At the meetino' which took place this TnarniDg- it was decided that the reply to the
Turkish proposals should be drafted on the following- lines : —
The assent of His Majesty's Government to the customs increase shall be gfiven for a
fxed period subject to the following conditions ;—
(a) The assent of all other Powers, and especially France and Russia, must be secured
to the increase.
(i) A new'lurkish Company shall be formed for the line south of Baghdad : of the
capital of this Company, which shall arrange both for the construction and the
working of the line, 5 0 / 0 shall be British and the remainder German or Turco-
German.
(<?) There shall be two Bri'ish members on the Board, and the Chairman shall, in
alternate years, be British.
[d) There shall be no sort of discrimination in freight rates on any railway in Asiatic
Turkey connected with Bag-hdad.
{e) The British representation on the Board shall always he kept up to a fixed minimum.
{/J 50/o of the capital of the line south of Baghdad shall be retained in the hands of
the British shareholders : and in order to secnre this, some arrangement, sucb
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.
iff) The above arrang'oments shall not be subject to a concessjon granted for a limited
time, but shall be continued so long as the enhanced customs duties are
levied by Turkey.
{k) The railway terminus shall be at Kuwait.
(n) 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.
0) Kuwait shall in no circumstances be fortified.
(/t) The harbour of Kuwait shall be constructed by British contractors, and it shall he
built on land to he 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 procerds
of those dues shall be divided in equal portions between the Shaikh and the
harbour company, which shall be British.
{m) The territorial status quo ot Kuwait shall be guaranteed by Turkey and Great
Britain.
(«) An arrangement shall be made for the levy, in the interests of Turkev, of customs
dues on all throvgh 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 or the Shaikh s jurisdiction deiined ^territorially).
{q) The Shaikh shall take out Turkish nationality certificates in the names of his sons.
{I his was, 1 think, agreed toby the Government of India: it would also
facihtrte the matters relating to the Shaikh's Turkish date properties).
(r) Kuwaitis resident abroad shall enjoy Turkish consular protection.
(5) No fortified base, or naval arsenal, shall ever be created on the shores of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
(t) The southernmost limit of Turkish jurisdiction on the littoral of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
^ the district of El Katif The Ottoman Government shall renounce
all elaim to the supremacy over any point on the littoral of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
adjacent ield P 0111 ^ or t0 the islaQd8 of -Bahrain, Muharruq, Zakhnuniyeh, or
(w) His Majesty's Government and the Turkish Government both undertake to
recognise the territorial s/a/us quo on the littoral of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
(r) Bahrainis in Turkish territory shall enjoy British consular protection.
Subjects of the Trucial Chiefs, and of the Sultan of Maskat, who may be
resident in lurkey, shall enjoy British consular protection.
There shall be no interference with existing buoys and beacons, or with the erec
tion, should such be required for purposes of navigation, of beacons, or fixed
lights, on the coasts of the Gulf by British
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
.
[6) The
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
shall be open to the navigation of all countries.
{z} Existing restrictions on the borrowing powers of Egypt shall be removed.
SOtk March 1911. Alwyn ^
(w)
(*)
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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)
- Arrangement
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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- 'Persian Gulf précis. (Parts I and II)'
- Pages
- 1r:37v, 39r:53r, 60v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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