'File II. IRAQ (3) Vol. 1 Shaikh of Kuwait's Date Gardens on the Shatt-al Arab. (Kuwait's relations with Turkish Govt. and Turkish demand that Kuwaitis should take out Turkish Nationality Certificates)' [‎41r] (82/636)

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British 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. and Consulate-Ueneral,
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From
Lajor F.Z. Cox,
Political h.esident in the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
To
S.xi. Butler, Esquire, C.S.I.,
Secretary to the Government of India
In the Foreign Department,
CALCUTTA.
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Sir, r
I have the honour to refer to Ilajor i^nox*s letter Ko. 6
dated 4th January, a copy of which was forwarded with my letter
of 5th February to your address on the subject of the request of
3heixh iuUbarex for a loan. V;, ^
2. While in Calcutta I communicated to you the purport of
Consul Crow's telegram to me of Sth January (copy attached) and
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noted on it that GheiXh Mubarak would probably manage to get
^ round the registration difficulty by using a proxy and effecting
a “benami" transaction, if I may use an Indian term. I added that
pending further news from xvoweit no action seemed necessary.
3. On my return to headquarters, three furtlier reports from
Ro• 48 dated 27th January 1909. ( Major unox have been
t 55 M 1st February 1909. {
^ « 65 " 6th " 1909. } placed before me, dealing
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qjUyTirwith the same subject, namely the activity of the new Wali of
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1 ^ 4 ^. Busreh in obliging ivoweitis to register as Ottoman subjects.
Copies of them accompany.
It is only to be expected that the Porte should object, as
the Persian Government does, to foreign nationalists possessing
landed