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File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr' [292v] (186/228)
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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From Secretary of State to Viceroy, Foreign Department,
22 nd April 1904 .
P. Fubian Island. Ambassador at Constantinople, to whom your Foreign
Secret Letter of the Mh February last has been communicated, is of opinion
that claim by His Majesty's Government that the island is the property of
Sheikh of Foweit will be resented by the Forte as strongly now as it was in
1902 . Me points out that the occupation, on behalf of the Sheikh, of a post
on the north of the island would be contrary to the principle of maintaining
the status quo on which the representation made to the Forte in 1902 was
based (See his Despatch No. 158 , dated the 1 st April 1902 ). He thinks
however that it would be possible to press for the withdrawal of the Turkish
post from the island, and, after some months' interval, in the event of this
representation producing no result, to inform the Forte that we shall be
constrained to support Sheikh in establishing a post on the island, unless the
Turkish force is withdrawn. He requests, however, that it may be definitely
ascertained whether there are any Turkish troops still on the island, and
suggests that, if the question is alloioed to lie dormant, the whole force will
probably before very long be removed, since the number of troops in occupation
has been reduced from twenty to six during the last two years. He also
observes that request for evacuation of Bubian without mention being made
of JJm Kase will be regarded by the Turks as practical abandonment by
His Majesty’s Government of the claim of the Sheikh of Koweit to Urn Kase.
Flease let me have your opinion on Sir N. O' Conor's views and report
whether Turkish troops are still on island.
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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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