'File 53/11 II (D 11) Kuwait: Sheikh's Fao Properties, 1905-1910' [‎163r] (353/587)

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ms broken dowi by the soldiers under the immediate
orders of the Goriimandant of the Fao fort and in
consequence of some rather ambiguous orders issued
by the Goxamandant at Ba^ra and that the question was
a militazy one^The claim of the military
authorities which was, so said, supported by the
finding of the cirbt commission of ©inquiry consisting
of the Fort Oommandant, the Commander of the 'Turkish
cornette,and the Kaim Mokam of Fao, was to the effect
that Sheikh Mobarak had by advancing his embankment
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enclosed some 39,000 square metres of newly reclaimed
Tash land,which was Government property and was re
quired for military purposes vis: the safety ^/aone
of the fort^This safety zone, so H»E«assured us,he had
ascertained from the local Commandant haxi been recently
laid down by regulation to be a distance of 330
metres radiating from the Fort in all directions for
a fiVe sone and for a second "view" aone as one might
call it a similar distance of 600 metres also radiat
ing from the Fort in all directionssaid that he
had been assured by the military surveyors that the
land that Sheikh J/Iobarak had attempted to reclaim lay
within the safety sones,
5, I asked my colleague to inform H f B t that
Shei&h Mobarak was under the impression that this
committee Had come to a different conclusion via: that
the disputed ground foimed part of the Fao properties
but that the eabanlnaent was prejudicial to the safety
of the '•"orb.To this H«E.made no definite replj.
6, i said to my colleague that possibly H.w,
might like to hear from me what were Sheikh Ilobarak's
pretentions with regard to the land in question and
H .B.courteously expressed his willingness to hear
anything I might have to say on the subject.On this
1 said that Sheikh Hobarak claimed that the piece of
land in question was of long standing and at any rate