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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [58r] (115/398)
The record is made up of 199 folios. It was created in 12 Jan 1908-18 Sep 1912. It was written in English and French. 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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and that the latter had sent them to do so in consequence of certain proceedings
taken by the people of Zobeir against Shaikh Mubarak. For these reasons the
Vali is greatly annoyed. May God improve the situation.
It is said that the Vali’s annoyance has been brought about by Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
^ az»Zuhairwho repudiates the sale and wishes to use certain means which he has
in view.
(Translation of enclosure No. 4.)
Dated 28th Jemadi II1328, 7th June igro.
To His Excellency Mubarak
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
es Sub ah.
After Compliments .—l hope that you will always be in good health.
I beg to inform you that I have learned from persons whom I consider
reliable that Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
az Zuhair has been convinced by certain parties to
abandon the execution of the settlement on the presumption that the value
(paid) is less than what js the worth of the land and that the “ Tash ” (river
frontage) has not been included in the measurement and such nonsense. He
has made up his mind to send surveyors to take measurements, and, if the
surveyors are prevented from doing this, they will then turn out the farmers
through the Government because he holds Government papers, and the Govern
ment makes the land over to the party holding Government papers without
making a reference to the Courts. A certain friend of his has given him advices
—and I think it must have been Abdul VVahab-el-Kertas—(stating that) the
matter will result in litigation and it is advisable that he should wait, and he will
of course receive a letter from Shaikh Mubarak to effect a settlement and that
he should write that he has been deceived in the valuation, and the land is more
than the measurement and the “ Tash ” has not been included in the measure
ment, and that either he should make a second measurement with an addition of
so much money on every jarib, or, if he did not agree to this course, the land
should be restored to him (Ahmad) and the value to be refunded by instalments
in the course of 10 years. This is what his friend has told him. Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has kept quiet accordingly. The object of these devilish temptations is that
Abdul Wahab-el-Kertas should intervence in the matter and be benefited through
his intervention by (the forsaking of) the claim which you have against him, in
the same way that he was benefited from the 2,500 Turkish pounds which was
due to you by him, and which he took in lieu of brokerage when you purchased
the lands. And Ahmad
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
will probably not agree even if you pay him a
larger amount than the value of the property, and the truth or falseness of this
news will become evident to you whenever you wish to record his statement in
the Government Office for the purpose of taking out documents. This is what
was necessary to be stated to you.
(Sd.) ABDUL HAMID-EL-SHOAIBI.
P. S. —I shall let you know anything fresh that may take place.
G. C. B. P., Simla.—No. C 2866 F. D.— io-8-io.— 44-E. A. D’S.
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The papers concern relations between Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] and the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]; particularly in regard to the purchase by the Shaikh of date gardens at Fao [Al Fāw] on the Shatt-al-Arab, and property at Fadaghia, near Fao, both of which were in Turkish territory. In both cases, the Turkish authorities insisted that the Shaikh should first register himself as an Ottoman subject before they would allow the legal formalities of ownership to be completed.
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. (Lieutenant-Colonel 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; from 1909 Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the British Consul at Basrah (also referred to as Bussorah) [Basra] (Francis Edward Crow); the British Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Gerald Augustus Lowther); Shaikh Mubarak; and senior officials 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. , the Government of India, and the Foreign Office.
The papers cover: papers concerning the Fao property, including the Shaikh's appeals for a committee of inquiry and arbitration over the matter, January 1908 - July 1909 (folios 115-199); papers concerning the Fadaghia property, February 1909 - December 1910 (folios 6-114); Foreign Office paper containing a memorandum communicated to the Turkish Ambassador concerning the Bagdad railway question and other matters, July 1911 (folios 4-5); and correspondence concerning a false report in a Turkish newspaper that an allowance had been granted by the Turkish Government to Shaikh Mubarak, May-July 1912 (folios 2-3).
The French language content of the papers is confined to three folios of newspaper extracts (folios 133-135).
The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents contained in the papers; the covering dates of the Secret Department minute papers that enclose them, as given on folio 1, are 1908-1912.
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- el-Shoaibi, Abdul Hamid
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