File 1247/1912 Pt 2 'Anglo-Turkish Agreement. Acceptance by Sheikhs of Koweit and Mohammerah.' [‎17r] (29/166)

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(1U). tlio ciauoa providing for the eetebllahmont of uio-
torau Offloan In article a*
It v»a •;> I ten (l) with which the dlscunslon which fol
lowed wee B#inljr concerned, hut it will be nore convenient to
dispose of (11) and (111) flret.
9. Ao rornrdo the question of terBlnologf In (11), I woe
rot posltlvo off—hand what the ^rahlo word used In previous
®hgageciento with hln wee, but without pursuing *h&t point
It was explained to him that as the lurks hod egpreseily un-
dertaken not to interfere In the ouooeeelon. It seemed of
little consequence whether this particular Convention used the
word "euooeesor* or sons other cognate expression, as the
question was one will oh rested between himself and us alone,
without the Arable text It was difficult to say more on this
point than what I have recorded above{ but It la referred to
/ enclosures 9 and 4.| In the Oialkh's letter to me and mp re
ply* It will bo frtxid that In the thwalkh /^groeaent the word
"oone* (aolad) was not used as the Obaikh thought but the
iford "h«lro* (warasah), and that we managed to fence with the
vltio eoFroepor.doncs ending with foreign) dynastlo Issue then
hepartwent letter ho.l054-E,3., da- I
tedldth .arch 1900. | raised by the Shaikh.
i%r written reply to the latter (enclosure 4) leaves the ques-
tion in the earn# position as did the Shwalkh Agreenont, and I
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«hall bo glad to know what further# if tmyVilngj*7iii§
Jovemuent would wiah mo to »ay to him. It might ha worth
whila # if Lhaikh ^obaralc himaalf wiahaa it, that wa should of-
• r fjC r ° r ’° r !• ouoooaaor - prosunably hi# aom and derputy
Shaikh Jabr - in hia lifa lira, this would probably oat hi#
mind at root coaaplataly as regard# hia own mjoceasion and load
him to forgot or drop all further effort# to aoouro a parr*a-
dynaatio guarantoa* I aolioit talagraphlc orders on this
point.
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Uii). tha Customs clause, at w!iioh ha at onca call ad a
bait* brou??ht ua on to M>m»wh&t delicate groxmd, but It eeased
to ma that the boat line to take wa# the Article disoussad
oontingencloe which might never take eh&pa, eo ttimt in any