'XXII/17 Boundary between Koweit & Katif Territory' [‎13r] (27/78)

(Continuation of Note, Precis or Draft.)
IceforoTiCQ to Bnbhire Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. letter Ni T/lO
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dated the 11th June 1905 is also invited.
-ion forced on nnmerons indei endent enquir
last three years from
^raany different yersons 9 Bedouins and othe
rs, 1
certainly snrrcrts the Sheikh’s claim • Tlhere is no
My rwn or in —
daring the
ies f/tf/
question of his reviving a claim to the Po
existence
Sheikh’s objection is to the o
continued
lost 9 for the// presence of foreign soldiers at a
rt; the
f a Turkish
-tion of their Government over them • In rc
Iblelieve
grour of desert wells naturally connotes tl^e jurisdic-
int of fact
^the resent fort was built by the ///Z/ZK Turkish troori
when the original mud-walled ere losure crumbled away.
The strongest evidence in favour of the Sheikh’s
claim lies in the following facts?-
'J'UmA'
(a) ftntil the o tier of the**' osts at Urom Kasr
and Safwan . it occurred to no one that Turkish
Jurisdiction went so fariv^
(b) that to the resent day disputes between Bedoui^i—
at these wells are referred to Ruwailt as a
matter of course;
(c) that persons looted by Arabs at thes
always resort to Kuwait for redress.
(d) All Arabs using these well conside
of Kuwait as the resronsible ruler of the
-ly s-jp^ojjj^dirjg tyact .
When the fcriM&Ataf distances of these wells f^om Zobair
s wells
the
mmediate-
and Basra is comrared with those from Kuwait it will
be conceded I think that without some very golod ground
or reason resort would not be had to the Kuwait Sheikh
for redress # in face of long existing tradition^
and fac^of the above descrirtion , which moreover are
surrorted by the rejorts of our own officials since
1866 it ay ears im-os ible to me to Ignore the
justice