'File 53/7 D (D 7) Koweit [Kuwait] Affairs, January 1905 - December 1905' [‎59r] (124/366)

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Inelosure 1 in No. 1.
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. , Persiaa Gulf, to Government of India.
(Confidential.)
(Not printed.)
Bushire,
29th October 1904.
Inelosure 2 in No. 1.
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. , Koweit, to 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
(Confidential.)
Koweit,
/]vj- j. . , , * ^th October 1904.
(Not printed.)
{Received on 13th February 1905, wi
dated 37th Ja
PERSIA AND ARABIA. . . .
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CONFIDENTIAL. J
— ^ Section 2.
No. 1.
Me. Townlbt to the mieqciss of Lansdowne.— (Received 9tli January.)
No. 2.
(Confidential.)
Constantinople,
my iio»d, 2nd januar y 1905-
T telegram of to-day's date, informing your
^ H,s Majesty s Acting Consul at Basrah has telegraphed that
T n v H 0U t, 0p ! t a * P laee have ' )een dispatched to Nejd Kid Baghdad,
l' 6 h ° n0Ur i 0 , st , ate tha , tthis re P or ' ^ Mr. Monahan confirms the
latest information that has reached me on this subject.
PakcV^r^? 0 V er £ g ^ d aut . b , 0r i ty ^ after ' l0B S deliberations at the
rliwf' the / f u 1 | tan ? Da ; 11 ^ declded an active policy in the Nejd
direction, and has ordered that a new and more powerful expedition shall be
prepared without loss of time, for the ostensible purpose of assisting Ibn Rashid
to crush Ibn Saoud and his Wahabi followers.
The ulterior intention is that the expedition shall, when it has achieved its
object, permanently occupy all the principal places, both on the coast and in
the mtenor of the perunsuia. after removing all the local Chiefs to Constanti-
. i,^ e o^podition is to be conducted on a large scale is shown by the
fact that Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , of the Milli, has been ordered by telegraph to collect
and forward to Baghdad 6,000 camels to serve for the transport of the stores and
ammunition.
Monahan has also informed me by telegram, dated the 29th December
1904, that the Acting Vali of Basrah invited Ibn Saoud to that place in a
tnendly letter some two months ago, and that, about a month ago, Ibn Saoud's
father sent a telegram to the Sultan (possibly the communication contained in
my despatch No. 862-Secret, of the 8th November 1904) professing loyalty,
but claiming ownership of Kassim, and deprecating the dispatch of troops,
which would cause bloodshed.
Mr, Monahan adds that the semi-independent Kaimakam of Katr also
sent a telegram in the same sense to the Sultan about the same time, in which