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File 1855/1904 Pt 4 'Koweit:- Loans to Sheikh.' [118r] (235/242)
The record is made up of 121 folios. It was created in 1 Jun 1904-4 Apr 1918. 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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the Jong at Gyantse too strong to be assaulted
without additional artillery support.
35. On the 11th, further Tibetan reinforce
ments arrived from the Rong valley, and on
the J 3th and 14th more cannon and jin gals
were mounted in the Jong.
36. On the 20th, a
dak
System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company.
patrol of eight
mounted infantry was ambuscaded and sur
rounded near Gyantse, but eventually extricat
ed with the loss of one killed and one wounded.
37. On the 22nd, a column was sent out
to attack certain villages threatening the line
of communications about 1^ miles south of
Gyantse. Stubborn resistance was offered, and
a
Havildar
Custodian; police sergeant; jail or prison guard.
and one
sepoy
Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
were killed, and
Lieutenant Hodson and three
sepoys
Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank.
wounded.
38. On the 24th May, reinforcements
consisting of 160 rifles and two 10-pounder
guns reached Gyantse.
39. On the 26th May, the enemy having
occupied Palla, a village 800 yards east of Jong
and 1,100 yards from the post, and having
begun to connect the village with the Jong
by a vail, Colonel Brander moved out at
2-30 a.m. with four companies infantry, 4
guns, and ^ company sappers to attack the
village. Breaches were effected in two places
at 4 a.m., but the enemy’s resistance was most
obstinate, and the village did not fall into our
hands till 1-30 p.h.
40. Our casualties were as follows:—•
Killed, Lieutenant Garstin, R.E., and three
men; wounded, Captain O’Connor, R.A., in
shoulder severe, Lieutenant Mitchell, 32nd
Pioneers, in leg severe, Lieutenant Walker,
R.E., slight, and also 9 men wounded whose
degree of injury is not stated.
By the occupation of Palla village the
water-supply of the Jong has been completely
cut, and it is hoped that it may be possible to
resume more frequent mail services which have
recently been suspended.
41. Telegraphing on the 16th from
Gyantse, Colonel Brander reported that the
garrison then had three months* supplies in
hand.
42. As the result of the attack made on
the Mission on the 5th May, it was proposed to
the Secretary of State that some definite limit
of time should be fixed, and that, unless
proper representatives of the Chinese and
Tibetan Governments with full powers to
negotiate arrived at Gyantse within that time,
a further advance should at once be made.
On the 12th, the Secretary of State replied,
sanctioning an advance to Lhasa, if the
Tibetans would not consent to negotiate at
Gyantse.
43. In accordance with instructions of
the Secretary of State, Colonel Younghusband
was instructed at once to give notice to the
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The volume concerns the payment of loans by the Government of India to Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Koweit [Kuwait].
The principal correspondents are the 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. ; the 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. , Kuwait; the Viceroy of India; the Shaikh of Kuwait; and senior officials at the Foreign Office, 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 Treasury, and the Government of India.
The papers cover: loan of 100,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. to the Shaikh of Kuweit in 1904 'to meet the payment due to his nephews under the recent arbitration award' (f 114v), June 1904 - February 1905 (ff 90-121); loan of 200,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. to the Shaikh of Kuweit in 1909, who needed ready money as a result of 'large advances made to pearl merchants who cannot be pressed for immediate repayment, and to the fact that his brother, Sheikh Khazal, has asked for postponement of large loan due to Sheikh Mubarak' (f 79), February - October 1909 (ff 37-89); loan of 200,000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. to the Shaikh of Kuweit in 1913 as a result of financial needs arising from water supply difficulties in Kuwait, distress amongst the diving community caused by a falling pearl market, the Shaikh's inability to sell stocks of dates, and the need to support the owners of pearl boats and so prevent a reaction on the local trade of Kuwait (ff 24-25), December 1913 - February 1914 (ff 17-36); papers concerning the water supply at Kuwait, contained in Government of India memoranda dated September-October 1914 (ff 4-16); and 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. letter proposing remission of the loan of 1914, in view of the assistance rendered by the Shaikh of Kuweit 'in maintaining the blockade at Koweit', 4 April 1918 (f 2).
The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents in the file; the covering dates of the minute papers given on the subject divider on folio 1 are 1904-14. There are no papers between 1914 and 1918.
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