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File 160/1903 'Persian Gulf: El Katr; appointment of Turkish Mudirs; question of Protectorate Treaty with El Katr' [112r] (228/860)
The record is made up of 1 volume (425 folios). It was created in 26 Apr 1902-16 Dec 1910. 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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Secret,
No. If I.
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.
^ London,
M&tetegost 1904.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
Mr Lord,
With reference to the letter from the Government of India,
^ 0 * (Secret, External) of the
elude ^protectorate 3/y wM^he 31st March !ast - 1 forward here -
Sheikh of El Katr. wltl1 a co Py of correspondence*
with the Foreign Office on the
subject of the proposal to conclude a protectorate treaty with Sheikh
Foreign Office, dated 18th Maj
* To
1904.
From ditto, dated 18th July 1904, and
enclosures.
To ditto, dated
From ditto, dated
Ahmed-hin-Thani of El Katr.
2. Your Excellency will observe
that His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Constantinople regrets that a
further question should be raised with the Turkish Government at
the present moment, when there are already other matters of importance
under discussion between the Porte and His Majesty’s Government, and
that he does not consider that the conclusion of the proposed agreement
with Sheikh Ahmed is warranted by the delay of the Turkish Govern
ment in cancelling the Mudirate at Wakra. It appears, however, from
^his Excellency’s Despatch of 28th June 1904, that he considers that
such an agreement might be justified to the Turkish Government on the
ground that its object is to give His Majesty’s Government the right to
restrain foreign interference in El Katr, without attempting in any
other way to disturb the status quo so far as the Turkish Government
is concerned.
3. The decision, therefore, depends upon the question whether the
objects to be attained by the proposed agreement are of sufficient
importance to counterbalance the suspicion and ill-will which it would
be calculated to arouse in the minds of the Turkish Government. The
El Katr coast at present constitutes a break in the continuity of our
maritime influence along the shores of this part of the Gulf, lying as it
does between the island of Bahrein and the Pirate Coast. The absence
of any agreement with the Sheikh may prove, in centum contingencies,
a hindrance to the proper exercise by His Majesty’s ships of their duties
in the suppression of piracy and the maintenance of the peace of the
Gulf. It also presents a difficulty of considerable importance from the
point of view of the protection of the pearl fiisheries from outside
interference, to which reference is made in your letter under reply,
S. 35. A
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This volume contains memoranda, copies of correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding:
- Turkish claims over El Katr (Qatar), and the creation of Turkish administrative posts on the Qatari coast, with 'mudirs' (sub-governors) being assigned during 1903 to Odeid (Al Udeid), Wakra (Al Wakrah), Zobara (Al Zubarah 18th-century town located 105 km from Doha. ), and Musalamia Island (Suwad ash Shamaliyah);
- 'the desire of Sheikh Ahmed bin-Thani, Ruler of Qatar, to be taken under British Protection', in 1902, and a Proposed Protectorate Treaty with the Ruler of Qatar, in 1904;
- the Ruler of Abu Dhabi's intention to occupy Odeid in 1906.
The main correspondents are: the Viceroy, the Foreign Office (Thomas Henry Sanderson), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne), and 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. .
The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.
The volume also contains the translation of a Turkish press article.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (425 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 428; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Condition: the spine is detached from the volume and preserved in a polyester sheet, on folio 427.
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- File 160/1903 'Persian Gulf: El Katr; appointment of Turkish Mudirs; question of Protectorate Treaty with El Katr'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:427v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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