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'Memorandum by Mr Bertie on Questions with the Porte in the Persian Gulf, August 1892 to October 1893.' [101r] (3/6)
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Printed for the use of the Foreign Office. November 1898.
CONFIDENTIAL.
(6413.)
El Katr Coast.
Memorandum by Mr. Bertie on Questions
with the Porte in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
August i8g2 to October 1893*
Sir Clare Ford,
No. 131, Secret,
April 10, 1893.
Sir Clare Ford,
No. 60, Tele
graphic, April 12,
1893.
To Sir Clare Ford,
No. 97, April 19,
1893.
To Sir Clare Ford,
No. 38, Tele
graphic, April 20,
1893.
Sir Clare Ford,
No. 67, Tele
graphic, April 23,
1893.
Sir A. Nicolson,
No. 287, Confiden
tial, June 28,
1893.
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.
,
August 10 1893.
[In contiimatioii of Memorandum of
August 6, 1892.]
Guttur or El-Katr Coast.
SIR C. EOIID lias learnt, from a secret source,
that the Council of Ministers at Constantinople
have recommended to the Sultan to endeavour to
separate from England those Sheikhs in Arabia
who have made Treaties with her, and, for that
purpose, to send emissaries to them with
presents.
In April the Porte informed Sir C. Eord that
the Sultan contemplated sending a punitive
expedition to the El-Katr Coast, where Jasim-
hin-Muhammad-bin-Thani, the Kaimakam, had
made opposition to the authority of the Yali of
Bussorah. The Sultan hoped to receive the
support of Her Majesty's Government.
Colonel Talbot, the British Resident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, was instructed to go in a ship of
war to make inquiries and arrange matters, and
the Porte was recommended to leave the question
to the mediation of Her Majesty's Government.
To this the Porte objected, maintaining El-Katr
to be Turkish territory, and the Sultan, rather
than give any countenance to British interven
tion, seems to have preferred to abandon the idea
of proceeding to extremities, and to endeavour to
procure by indirect means the voluntary sub
mission of Jasim-bin-Thani.
Colonel Talbot arrived at El Bidaa on the 26th
April.
The Vali of Bussorah, who had taken refuge
on board the Turkish ship of war off El Bidaa,
refused to recognize any mediation by Colonel
Talbot, and protested against his landing at
♦ Extracted from Eastern Department Memorandum of
October 15, 1893 (Confldential Paper No 6404).
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The memorandum, written by Francis Leveson Bertie of the Foreign Office, 15 October 1893, discusses questions relating to the Guttur or El-Katr [Qatar] following rumours that the Ottoman Government intended to separate England from the Sheikhs on the Arabian Coastline of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. that had signed treaty agreements with the British Government.
The questions discussed include:
- the actions of Jasim bin Muhammad bin Thani, Kaïmakan (Shaikh of Qatar) in opposing the authority of the Vali of Bussorah [Basra];
- the Porte's (Government of the Ottoman Empire) desire to punish the Shaikh, and the British Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Colonel Adelbert Cecil Talbot)'s desire to mediate between the two parties which the Porte objected too;
- attempts by the Vali of Bussorah to bring about a conflict with Shaikh Jasim and Colonel Talbot's recommendation that the El Katr Chief's be reinstated on an independent footing and the 1868 treaty be renewed.
Also referred to in the memorandum are:
- A complaint made by the Porte of the intervention of British Consular authorities in matters concerning the inhabitants of Bahrein [Bahrain], and a reminder to the Porte that Bahrein was under British protection;
- Work undertaken by Ottoman Engineers to build three military guard posts at Fao [Al Fāw], which were considered to be a potential threat to British commerce on the Shat-el-Arab [Shaţţ al ‘Arab].
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Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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