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'Memorandum respecting Koweit' [148v] (12/27)
The record is made up of 1 file (11 folios). It was created in 30 Oct 1901. It was written in English. 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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action. If the report was true it was obvious
that Mubarak's death would seriously endanger
the Agreement of 1899, and a ship of war was
placed under orders. Colonel Kemball visited
Koweit (April 18). He found the Sheikh alive,
but was satisfied that he had been severely
defeated. Nothing was said to the Amir.
Mohsin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had remained comparatively
inactive since his diplomatic success of Novem
ber, but the defeat of Mubarak now brought on
Turkish interference in a more acute form. A
Turkish field-Marshal left Bagdad for Bussorah
on the 19th April, followed on the next day by
Turkish troops. It was generally believed that
the Ottoman Government intended to make use
of force with a view to the deposition of
Mubarak.
A British gun-boat was ordered to Koweit,
and Sir N. O'Conor was definitely authorized, in
the event of hostilities being resumed, to warn
the Porte "to refrain from any action against
the Sheikh in view of our arrangement with
him."
But the astute policy of Mohsin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
again
prevented matters from coming to a head. The
Turkish Field-Marshal stopped short of Koweit,
and the Yali himself, with a small escort, paid a
friendly visit to the Sheikh. He was unable to
enforce proposals for the establishment of a
Turkish garrison, but Mubarak accompanied him Mr. Wratislaw,
to Fao, renewed his protestations to the Sultan, No * 30 ' June L
and returned to Koweit after a second act of
apparently spontaneous loyalty.*
On the 28th May the Amir of Nejd appealed
for British protection, but, after consultation
with the Viceroy, 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.
expressed the
opinion, in which the Foreign Office concurred,
that it was not advisable to—
" incur the difficulties and embairassments which must i n( ji a office
ensue from the declaration of a Protectorate over June 14.
either the territories of the Chiefs of Koweit and
Nejd."
The Viceroy, however, pointed out that some
answer must be given to the Chiefs, and Colonel
Kemball again visited Koweit with general in
structions to find some modus vivendi between the
* Mohsin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has since been dismissed (Sir N. O'Conor
No. 358, October 2). Nouri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
replaces him as Vali and
Military Commander at Busrah.
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This is a confidential memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office on 30 October 1901, and authored by Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt, dated 29 Oct 1901. The memorandum primarily focuses on the position of Koweit [Kuwait] in regards to Turkey (Ottoman Empire) from 1871 onwards. In the left and righ hand margins there are references to various correpondence, reports and agreements between 1878 and 1901, as well as giving subject headings, which include: 'Difficulties with Turkey', 'German railway scheme', 'Dispute between Koweit and Nejd [Najd]', 'Defences of Koweit', 'Use of Turkish flag in Koweit', and 'Proposal to make Koweit a port of call for Mail-steamers'. Folios 150 to 151 include extracts of correspondence from Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Anthopoulo Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , dated 11 September 1901, and Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, Commander-in-chief, East Indies, to Admiralty, dated 31 August and 4 October 1901. There is an Annex between folios 152 and 153, which includes a translated agreement ('Arabic bond') with the Sheikh of Kuwait, Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ, dated 23 January 1899, signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm John Meade, 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. at Bushire, and witnessed by E Wickham Hore, Captain of the Indian Medical Service (IMS), John Calcott Gaskin, and Muhammad Rahim bin Abdul Nebi Saffer [Muḥammad Raḥim bin ‘Abd al-Nabī Ṣafar], Native Agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. at Bahrain and friend of the Sheikh of Kuwait; and a translation of an Arabic letter from Meade to the Sheikh of Kuwait, dated 23 January 1901.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 143, and terminates at folio 153, since it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in the top right-hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. These numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled.
Pagination: This section of the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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