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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [87r] (173/398)
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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Dated Bushire, the 29th May (received 6th June) 1910.
From-LIEUTENANT-COLONEL P. Z. Cox, C.I.E., I.C.S., Resident in Persian Gulf’
To-The Hon’ble Mr S. H. Butler, C.S.I., C.I.E., Secretary to the Govern
ment of India, Foreign Department, Simla.
In connection with the general question of our policy at the head of the
ljult and the present relations of the Busreh authorities with Koweit and
Mohammerah, I enclose for your information copies of certain demi-official
correspondence.
Without putting too much value on the suggestions made, I think they are
onsuthcient interest, in connection with recent developments, to communicate to
Demi-official.
Confidential.
u. f. s. to Major Trever.
(Dated probably 30th September 1909 received 1/10 A. P. T.)
His Majesty’s Consulate,
Mohammerah.
My dear Shakespear,
Jhe following secret information has been given me by Sheikh Atab, a local
Consul here° 0d Standlng and for 20 years fnendl y and indeed intimate with the
* have no me ans of testing his authenticity, and send it to you for what it is
worth : it may very likely be stale news, or not true.
c v ? d f y [ r0 ™ FaiIi y ah > where he saw the son of the late Sheikh
Sahm (Bin Budar) who is now a scribe of Sheikh Mubarek and who has formerly
been imprisoned in Busreh by the Turks. This man was said by Mirza
Hamza to be planning a movement towards the reunion of Koweit^nd
Ottoman Empme. Sheikh Mubarek’s son Jabir is said Jo favour sS a mote-
"1 , n h ^irza Hamza also said that there was talk in Busreh to the same effect
ar ? < L hurks were thinking of sending an emissary to Sheikh Mubarek
S question m VleW ’‘ ^ ^ m0re0ver beIieved to be indisposed to considei
Yours sincerely,
A. T. WILSON.
May noth, igio.
My dear Wilson,
b n ° te from f tbe tbat or about 30th September 1909 you wrote to
Sheikh 5 A?h U ‘ f " !i' through Trevor, relating some information given you by
Sheikh Atab regarding a reported rapprochement between Koweit and the Porte/
Have you heard anything further on the subject since ?
result^ 0 * 1 m ' Sht t3ke an 0 PP° rtunity of s °unding Sheikh Atab and let me know
Your sincerely,
P. Z. COX.
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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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