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File 2764/1904 Pt 5 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; concessions proposed in respect of Kowait; negotations with Hakki Pasha in London; Anglo-Turkish agreement.' [‎170r] (352/536)

The record is made up of 1 volume (254 folios). It was created in 1912-1914. 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 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 4£/i July 1912.
W ilson has just returned to Naseri and his survey will be posted next
week and reach London 27th July. Meanwhile 1 have taken followino-
resume from him by telephone.
Naseri was fixed astronomically and Hawizeh both astronomically and
by triangulation. Position of Naseri is found to be several miles south of
position hitherto assigned to it in Survey of India Maps. Position of
Hawizeh is found to coincide with position indicated in identic map of 1851
Southampton 1873.
Frontier north-west of Hawizeh and north of Shuaib was laid down by
triangulation from Hawizeh. Western limits of Hawizeh district as observed
in practice for their own convenience by the Benitruf Arabs under Hawizeh
is the now dry branch of the river Douveyridge called Ghor-ed-Houvil in
identic map at point where its course runs north and south, but the frontier
claimed by Persia and locally observed on their side by Turks is the channel
six miles further west called Ghor-el-Monseycine. The intervening space is
uninhabitable owing to absence of drinkable water. Whichever of the two
alternative points be adopted the frontier from thence southwards runs
across the Ghor-el-Azem and eventually cuts the main channel of the marsh
just west of Shuaib as shewn in my sketch map. WLlson states that above
From Shuaib southwards frontier runs as shown in my sketch. Wilson
had with him my native surveyor and latter’s original survey and after
applying further tests by the light of present observations he is of opinion
relation to one another and to Hawizeh town are correct as shown in my
sketch as submitted to Government. He considers that discrepancy in the
distances between Hawizeh and Shat-el-Arab indicated in surveyor’s plane
table survey as compared with those appearing in identic map must have
occurred mainly in desert tract been Ivishki Busri and Shat-el-Arab and
is sufficiently explained by difficulty of satisfactory plane tabling in flat
desert devoid of reliable land marks.
boundary has been accepted by the Turks and at no time transgressed by
them.
that the relative positions of Yefair Ivishki, Hawizeh, and Ivishki Basri in
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From Gtrx, Bushire, 4th July 1912.

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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to a negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1912-1914.

The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military considerations impinging on British strategy for the international negotiations over the development of a railway to Baghdad and an extension to Basra. In particular the correspondence focuses on:

The principal correspondents in the volume are the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Secretary to the Board of Trade (Louis Mallet); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, Simla (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry McMahon); 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).

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (254 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject 2764 (Bagdad Railway) consists of five volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/56-60. The volumes are divided into five parts with each part comprising one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 256; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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File 2764/1904 Pt 5 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; concessions proposed in respect of Kowait; negotations with Hakki Pasha in London; Anglo-Turkish agreement.' [‎170r] (352/536), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/60, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100048418271.0x000099> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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