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File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr' [242r] (85/228)
The record is made up of 113 folios. It was created in 8 Dec 1903-11 Apr 1910. 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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The third position, to which he also attaches special
practical importance, would he the Jeziret-es-Soof or
"■Wool Island", one of the islands in the creek almost
due E. of Urakasr Post, and prohahly the Island shown
A
on the top Margin of the "Sphinx" survey.
Shaikh Mubarak declares that to this Island especially
his claim cannot be disputed, for it has been used
from time immemorial and still is, as a depot for wool
under export from the hinterland, and that all the
wool merchaa ts ifrom Koweit proceed there regularly
at certain seasons.
I informed the Shaikh here, that I had only been in
structed to discuss Bubiyan with him and, in that con
nection, one post on the H. E. of the Island, to balance
t_Jhe Turkish posts at Umkasr and Al Geit- He begged me,
however, to communicate his complete views to Govern
ment*
(5) As a matter of faet, instead of threatening to
support Shaikh Mubarak in maintaining a post at the
N. E. end of Bubiyan to balance the two Turkish posts,
would it not be possible, and at the same time more
logical and more effective, to threaten them with a
block house apposite Al Geit and another opposite Um-
^asr, on Soof Island, to balance their two posts ?
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The papers concern the claims of Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr] against the competing claims of the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire].
The principal correspondents are the British Ambassador at Constantinople (Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor); the Viceroy of India (Baron Curzon of Kedlestone; from 1905 the Earl of Minto); 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); 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: the nature of the claims of the Shaikh of Kuwait to Bubiyan and Umm Qaşr, December 1903 - April 1904 (folios 285-312); the views of the Viceroy on the issue, April 1904 (folios 279-283); proposed representations to the Ottoman Government by the British Ambassador at Constantinople concerning the establishment of Turkish military posts on the islands, May 1904 - May 1905 (folios 246-278); the Shaikh of Kuwait's views on a proposal that he establish a post on Bubiyan Island, and the proposed establishment of a permanent British Agent at Kuwait, June 1905 (folios 231-245); and papers concerning the Shaikh of Kuwait's rights over Warba and Bubiyan islands, including the view of the British Government in 1910 that it was inadvisable to assert the Shaikh's rights at that time, November 1907 - April 1910 (folios 201-230).
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 200, are 1904-1910.
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- File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr'
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- 200r:313v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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