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'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations' [105r] (215/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 24 Oct 1911-26 Dec 1912. It was written in English, French and Arabic. 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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [June 17.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 3.
[25548] No- !•
Sir G. Lowiher to Sir Edw — (Received 17.)
gj r Constantinople, June 8, 1912.
WITH reference to your despatch No. 226 of the 28th May last, I have the honour
to forward herewith a memorandum from the commercial attache to this embassy
reporting on the present negotiations between the customs and the Bagdad Hailway
authorities as to construction, &c., of new premises at Bagdad.
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1 have, &c.
GERARD LOWTHER.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Memorandum hy Mr. Weakley respecting Bagdad Customs.
[Foreign Office despatch No. 226 of the 28th May, 1912, transmitting letter from
the Board of Trade of the 24th May, 1912.]
FROM enquiries made at the customs, it would appear that, beyond an exchange
of views between the department and M. Hugenin,the director-general of the Anatolian
and Bagdad Railways, no attempt has yet been made to enter into serious negotiations
relative to the construction of the new customs premises and warehouses at Bagdad.
The railway company have arranged to prepare plans of the proposed buildings, and,
until these have been submitted to and examined by the administration, no further
steps are likely to be taken for the present. ^ ^ . ,
It is not possible therefore, at the present moment, to define the basis on wnicn
negotiations will take place ; I understand, however, that the customs are disposed to
agree to hand over all the warehousing of goods—goods lor local consumption as "well
as those in transit—to the railway company, in accordance with the stipulations ot
articles 23 and 24 of the Bagdad Railway Convention of the 5th March, 1903, but on
the condition—
1. That goods intended for Bagdad are trausponed across the river to the town
side by the railway company free of charge. „ -r
2. That goods shall enjoy free warehousing lor the fivst eight days after landing
and storing.
3. That storage dues shall only be levied after that period. a
4. That the " ardieh," or progressive warehousing charge levied in customs depots,
shall be abolished as far as Bagdad is concerned.
The railway company apparently claim their right under article 24 of the
convention, to erect and maintain bonded warehouses on any section of the railway ;
the question seems to be a debatable one, and turns on the interpretation of the
Turkish text of the article. This matter will be gone into, as well as the question of
the building of the new customs offices, the expense of which will presumably be
borne by the administration.
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memorandums pertaining to Anglo-Turkish negotiations brought on by the Baghdad Railway and particularly the extension to Basra. Correspondents include: 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, William Shakespear, 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, Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Louis Mallet, Assistant Under-secretary of State for Near and Middle Eastern Affairs, Charles Marling, British Ambassador to Persia, Gerard Lowther, British Ambassador to Constantinople, George Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, Admiral Edmond Slade, the Board of Trade, the Government of India, 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. , and several private companies, including Trans-Atlantic Trust Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Ottoman Bank, and Imperial Persian Bank.
The form of the negotiations was a series of memorandums containing proposals and counter-proposals. The issues and subjects discussed are:
- ownership and control of the line;
- custom duty increases in the region;
- navigation of the Shatt al-Arab, including the establishment of a commission to oversee this;
- transport of railway materials by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers;
- delimitation of the Turkish-Persian border;
- status and territorial limit of Kuwait;
- other Gulf matters, including the statuses of Bahrain and Qatar, the suppression of arms traffic, piracy, and slavery, and the protection of pearl fisheries.
Folios 261-262 are a map showing the proposed territorial limits of Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (268 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically. At the beginning (ff. 3-4) is a subject index, in no particular order but grouped under several broad headings. The numbers refer to folio numbers from the secondary, earlier sequence.
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Foliation: The volume is foliated from the front cover to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers positioned in the top-right corner of each recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. . There are two earlier foliation systems running through parts of the volume. The first uses uncircled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and the top-left corner of verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. pages. This foliation system numbers pages if they have content on them, which is the case for all rectos and some versos. This foliation system appears intermittently through most of the volume. The other foliation system uses circled blue pencil numbers in the top-right corner of recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. pages, and appears from folios 5 to 42. Numerous printed materials contained in the volume have their own internal pagination systems. The following foliation irregularities occur: 1a, 34a, 51B, 219B, 250B.
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- 'File 73/7 II (D 22) Status of Koweit [Kuwait] - Baghdad railway, Anglo Turkish negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:5v, 16r:22v, 24r:34v, 34ar:34av, 35r:42v, 44r:49v, 51r:51v, 51br:51bv, 52r:54v, 56r:63v, 66r:67v, 72r:112r, 113r:134v, 136r:168v, 170r:182v, 184r:204r, 205v:213v, 215v, 219br:219bv, 222r:225v, 227r:236v, 238r:250v, 250br:250bv, 251r:261v, 262v:264v, back-i, back
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