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File 1855/1904 Pt 8 'Koweit:- Arabia Chiefs' attitude towards tribes of the interior (Nejd etc.)' [6r] (9/336)
The record is made up of 170 folios. It was created in 4 Feb 1904-30 Jan 1908. 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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territories, and not to interfere with the Arab
tribes in alliance with the British Government ” ;
and that, failing a satisfactory assurance on his
part, he should be warned that interference in
those localities would he regarded as an un
friendly act, and that “ suitable measures would
be taken to frustrate it.” “ These measures,”
the despatch concluded, “might amount, in our
opinion, to a more stringent embargo on the
import of arms at Koweit and elsewhere on the
Arabian coast of the Gulf, or even, in the case of
an attack being imminent, to actual armed
assistance from British ships to the Sheikhs
threatened, as might be necessary.”
lydia Office to In communicating this despatch to the Foreign
Febr uar v^m 906 some doubt wms expressed as to the
practicability of the Government of India’s sug
gestions, and it was suggested that no steps
should be taken, “ in the absence of any urgent
necessity caused by Wahabee action,” until
Sir N. O’Conor had been consulted on the
proposal to approach Bin Saoud otherwise than
through the medium of the Turks.
O
Major Cox to
Government of
India,
February 4, 1906.
&i/o£
Sir N. O’Conor,
March 20, 1906.
Meanwhile, on the 19th January, 1906,
Captain Knox, 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.
at Koweit,
had talked the matter over informally with
Mubarak, and after inquiring as to the truth
of the reports regarding Bin Saoud’s inten
tions, gave the Sheikh a hint that any inter
ference by the Wahabee Amir in the affairs of
States in Treaty relation with us would not be
likely to find favour with the British Govern
ment. Mubarak replied that he regarded Bin
Saoud’s plans as designed merely to extort money
from the Sheikhs on the coast, and that he had
himself written to Bin Saoud strongly advising
him against persisting in any such attempt.
Major Cox, in reporting this conversation to the
Government of India, suggested that he should
be authorized to inform all the Trucial Chiefs
that the Government of India “ would not
regard with complacency the intrigues of any
of them with Bin Saoud.”
The Government of India telegraphed on the
loth March, 1906, supporting Major Cox’s sug
gestion, which was approved, with the concur
rence of the Foreign Office, by Mr. Morley’s
telegram dated the 9th April.
As regards the warning to Bin Saoud con
templated by the Government of India, the
Foreign Office adopted the views of Sir N.
1098 (2) C
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The papers concern the attitudes of Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Koweit [Kuwait] and rulers of other Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. coast states toward the political activities of Bin Saood (also referred to as Ibn Saood) [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, (Ibn Sa‘ūd)] in Nejd [Najd].
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. (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); 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 (Major Stuart George Knox); HBM's Consul, Basrah (also referred to as Bussorah) [Basra] (Francis Edward Crow); the British Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor); and senior officials of the Government of India, the Foreign Office, 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 papers cover: papers concerning a proposed visit by Ibn Sa‘ūd to the Pirate Coast [ Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ] and Oman, including discussion of whether, in the event of his gaining ascendancy in the region, an approach should be made to him through the Shaikh of Kuwait or the Sultan of Muscat to safeguard the rights of British subjects residing in his territories and to ensure that there was no interference with Arab tribes in alliance with the British Government, October 1905 - February 1906 (including copies of treaties with chiefs of the Pirate Coast, 1862-92, folios 159-162) (folios 144-170); the decision of the Government of India, with Foreign Office approval, to authorise 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. to issue a warning to the chiefs of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. not to engage in 'intrigues' with Ibn Sa‘ūd, so as to avoid unrest that would be damaging to British commercial interests in the area, March-April 1906 (folios 121-143); papers concerning Ibn Sa‘ūd's relations with the Turkish [Ottoman] and British Governments, August-October 1906 (folios 108-120); papers concerning a possible Arab confederacy, November 1906 (folios 103-107); reports of fighting between Turkish troops and Arab tribesmen in Hassa [Al Hasa], overtures by Ibn Sa‘ūd to the British, and correspondence concerning the passage of Turkish troops through Kuwait, December 1906- April 1907 (including enclosures dated 1904) (folios 41-102); papers concerning Najd affairs, and the decision of the Government of India, with the agreement of 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. and the Foreign Office, that it was inadvisable to issue further warnings to Shaikh Mubarak not to interfere in Najd, as this might tend to weaken British influence over him, January-July 1907 (folios 11-40); and a memorandum concerning British relations with the Wahabees [Wahhabis], January 1908 (folios 4-10).
The date range gives the main covering dates of all the documents; however, the papers also include copies of treaties dated 1862-92 (folios 159-162). The date range of the Secret Department minute papers given on the subject divider on folio 1 is 1906-07.
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