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File 1855/1904 Pt 10 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikh's properties at Fao and Fadaghia' [‎117v] (234/398)

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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My own experience in these matters is that the sheikh can manage his own
far better than we can, and that these difficulties settle themselves il left alone
I have, &c.
F. E. CROW. ' V| N
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Major Knox to Major Cox.
March 13, 1909.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. T. 100 of the
9 th March on the subject of the Fao embankment question.
1 enquired yesterday from Sheikh Mubarek how it was that the Fao authorities had
withdrawn their opposition to the repair of the embankment in question, and reminded
the sheikh that the matter was under reference to our embassy at Constantinople, and
that it was important that his Excellency should be kept informed of all develop
ments.
The sheikh replied that it was principally due to the changes among the military
authorities at Bussorah. He had, through Kassim-el-Khederi (agent of the Bombay and
Persian line), approached the new ferik, Yousuf Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with a request to be allowed to
put pipes into the plantation behind the enclosed ground that formed the subject of
dispute, representing that owing to the destruction of the embankment the plantation
behind it was endangered. Yousuf Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. did more than he was asked to. He
suggested that Sheikh Mubarek should repair the old embankment and plant it, thereby
ceding all that had ever been in dispute. He sent a yuzbashi down to see that no one
interfered with the execution of the work, which was carried out, according to Sheikh
Mubarek, unknown to the civil authorities of either Fao or Bussorah. Sheikh Mubarek
explained to me that the predecessor of Yousuf Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Tahir Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , was not actively
hostile to Mubarek’s execution of the work, and even assisted the sheikh by letters
addressed to the Yali of Bussorah. It will, however, be remembered that His Majesty’s
acting consul, Mr. Geary, at my visit to Bussorah in July last, came to a very different
conclusion regarding the attitude of the military commandant towards the embankments
in question.

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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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