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'File 73/7 V (D 38) Status of Kuwait, Anglo-Turkish Convention' [‎10v] (33/216)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (104 folios). It was created in 3 Jan 1914-16 Jul 1919. 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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(Received on the 18th December 1913, with Political Secretary s letter No. 47, datei
the 21st November 1913.)
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [November 7.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 5.
[50552] No - 1 -
Hen von Kuhlmann to Sir Edward Grey .—{Received N ovember 7 .)
(Translation.) German Embassy, November i, 1913.
Your Excellency,
In the course of negotiations relative to the Baghdad Railway, your Excellency
expressed the wish (memorandum of the 29th August, 1913) to receive certain
assurances respecting the publication of rates of f reight on the Baghdad Railway.
The Imperial Govermnent are ready, by means of an exchange of notes, to declare
as follows : The Baghdad Railway Company have assured the Imperial Govern
ment that all rates of freight and conditions of transport shall be duly (•' ange-
messen ") published, and the same with every change proposed therein ; further,
that any change in these conditions or rates of freight, both increases and decreases,
shall be published at least two months before they come into force. The imperial
Government will do their best to keep the Baghdad Railway Company to these
assurances.
It would perhaps be most practical for the notes exchanged to be signed at
the same time as the Baghdad Railway Convention.
I have, etc.,
KUHLMANN.
[Received on the 1st December 1913, with Political Secretary's letter No. 46, dated the
14th November 1913.)
[B]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [November 7.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 1.
50632] No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to German Charge d'A flaires.
SirE. Grey presents his compliments to the German Charge d'Affaires and
has the honour to state, for the confidential information of the German Government^
that Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has recently communicated to the Foreign Office, a telegram
which his Highness had received from Djavid Bey, at present in Berlin, asking for
the full text of the declarations which, in the opinion of His Highness, should be
signed by the Ottoman Government and the Baghdad Railway Company with
reference to the terminus of the line and cognate matters.
... Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , wishing to expedite the negotiation and to preclude all possi
bility of misunderstanding, has requested His Majesty's Government to assist him
m the preparation of a draft, and Sir E. Grey, with similar objects, has, as Herr
von Kuhlmann is aware, authorised his Department to enter into informal, and
mutually non-committal, communication with the German Embassy on the subject.
, v 'V/ 8 Majesty's Government now propose to inform Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. forthwith
that the following text appears to meet the case :—
. 1 " V-' La . S i )Ci p t6 ^ Cliemin de Fer de Baghdad renonce a la concession
?7r>hAir\ nil !q C f n f I 6x P 1 . oltatlon de I'embranchement partant de Basra
,Zobeir) ou de tout autre point de la hgne et aboutissant a un point du Golfe

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The volume contains letters, telegrams, maps, and newspaper cuttings relating to Anglo-Turkish negotiations over the Baghdad Railway, status of Kuwait, and other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. matters. The correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, British Consul for Arabistan, 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 (later Stuart Knox as acting 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. ), the Government of India, Henry Babington Smith, President of the National Bank of Turkey, Louis Mallet, British Ambassador to Turkey, the British Consulate at Adana, Hugh O'Beirne, Counsellor to the British Embassy in Russia, Richard von Kühlmann, Councillor of the German Embassy in London, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 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. , the Board of Trade, William Grey, 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, the British Consulate at Basra, Arnold Wilson, Civil Commissioner in Iraq, and Ibn Sa‘ud, ruler of Najd and its dependencies. Some of the correspondence comes as enclosures.

The documents relate to the latter stages of negotiations and partly consist of drafts and counter-drafts of the eventual agreement, which was never ratified because of the outbreak of the First World War. They also reflect Britain's involvement in the agreement between the Ottoman Turks and the Baghdad Railway Company. Also covered is a discussion about what to do in case of Sheikh Mubarak of Kuwait's sudden death and territorial claims made by Ibn Sa‘ud on what may be Kuwaiti land.

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1 volume (104 folios)
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The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (folio 1c) is a subject index, arranged alphabetically. The numbering refers to the folio.

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Foliation: The volume has been foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using pencil numbers positioning in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages. One document (folios 7-34) is an extract from a printed item that has its own internal pagination system, running from 125-179, before continuing from 180-205 (folios 38-50). The following foliation anomalies occur: 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 52a, 59a. There is one foldout in the volume, at folio 2.

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