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'Memorandum respecting Koweit' [150r] (15/27)
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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" Hie Marquess of Lansdowne to Anthopoulo
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
" Foreign Office,
" Your Excellency, September 11, 1901.
" I HAVE taken note with satisfaction of the telegram
from the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, com
municated by you on the 9th instant, in which his
Excellency states that the Turkish Government will
not send troops to Koweit, and will maintain the status
quo there, on condition that His Majesty's Government
will abstain from occupying that place or establishing a
British Protectorate there.
" I have pleasure in confirming the assurance which
has been given to his Excellency by His Majesty's
Ambassador at Constantinople that, provided the
Turkish Government abstain from sending troops to
Koweit and respect the status quo there, His Majesty's
Government will not occupy that place or establish a
British Protectorate over it.
" I am, &c.
(Signed) " LANSDOWNE."
In a Secret telegram dated the 7th September,
Lord Lansdowne, while pointing out that €< the
situation requires very careful handling as our
arrangement with the Sheikh is not very precise,
and it was entered into without the knowledge
or concurrence of the Porte," instructed Sir NT.
O'Conor that " we cannot recede from our posi
tion, and if Porte should insist on raising
question of their rights we may have to con
vert into something much more precise the
present indefinite understanding with the
Sheikh."
In view, however, of the assurances recorded
in the note quoted above, his Excellency has not
found occasion to communicate these instructions,
and the controversy with the Porte rests for the
moment on the basis of a mutual maintenance
of the status quo. The Turkish Ambassador has
expressed himself well satisfied with the present
state of affairs (October 1), and on the same day
Sir N. O'Conor was assured by the Minister for
Poreign Affairs most positively that the Im
perial Government had no intention whatsoever
of occupying or attacking Koweit." There is
an understanding that the two Governments are
to co-operate in maintaining the peace, Turkey
endeavouring to restrain the Amir, w r hile Her
Majesty's Government will do what they can to
discourage tin 4 Sheikh from aggressive action.
Mubarak has boon told that the good offices o£
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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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- 'Memorandum respecting Koweit'
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- 143r:155v, back-i
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