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'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎185v] (375/386)

The record is made up of 1 volume (189 folios). It was created in 1907. 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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2. I forward, for Your Excellency’s information, copies of correspondence*
with the Foreign Office on the subject,
and would invite Your Excellency’s atten
tion to Lord Lansdowne’s despatch to His
Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople
IfUVi TToIrmfirv No. 50. anti
• To Foreign Office, da l ed 4th February 1904.
From Foreign Office, dated 6th February 1P04.
Telegram to Viceroy, dated 8th February 19' 4.
From Foreign Office, dated 18th March 1904, and
enclosures.
To Foreign Office, dated 29th April 1904.
His Excellency’s reply, dated the 26th February 1904, No. 129.
3. His Majesty’s Government agree in the opinion at which you have
arrived, that it would not be expedient at present to send an officer to Riadh
on a mission of enquiry. Should the circumstances^ hereafter induce your
Government to revive the proposal for^my further consideration, I shall desno
to be informed as to the methods by which it is proposed to conduct the inves
tigation.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship’s most obedient, humble servant,
St. JOHN BEODRICK.
75
No. 57 (Secret—External), dated Fort William, the 16th March 1903.
From—The Government of India in the Foreign Department,
To— The Right Hon’ble St. John Brodrick, His Majesty's Secretary of State for
India.
We have the honour to refer to our despatch No. 25 (Secret—External) of
4th February 1904, and to the subsequent telegraphic correspondence ending
with your telegram of 18th May 1905, on the subject of the measures that
should be taken to obtain the evacuation of Bubiyan Island by the Turkish
troops which are at present stationed there.
2. In that despatch we submitted, for your consideration, the following
alternative proposals: —
(a) That the Porte should be informed that we were unable to recognise
their right to maintain a station on Bubiyan, and should be requested to with
draw their troops ; while at the same time we should establish a post on behalf
of Sheikh Mubarak on the northern end of the island opposite to the southern
anchorage. We pointed out that he had several boats, and could easily, with
small support from us, prevent Turkish troops from crossing the Khor Subbiyeh
or channel between Bubiyan and the mainland on the west.
(b) Should His Majesty’s Government deem it advisable to spare the Sul
tan’s susceptibilities by the adoption of a less pronounced course of action, we
sugggested that our object might be secured by intimating that we regarded
Bubiyan Island as belonging to the Sheikh, and that, unless the Turkish force
were withdrawn, we should be constrained to support him in establishing a
poston the northern shore to balance the Turkish posts at TJm Kasr and A1
Geit. We observed that in this case the Turks would probably retire, and the
island would remain unoccupied. The Sheikh would then resume possession,
and it would only remain for us to carry out hereafter such further measures as
might be necessary for the maintenance of our legitimate interests.
3. Since then, the following action has been taken :—
In April 1904, His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople suggested to
the Marquess of Lansdowne that he should first remind the Porte of his pre
vious remonstrances against the maintenance of a Turkish military station on
the south-east corner of the island and press for its withdrawal, and that then,
if, after a lapse of some months, his representations had produced no effect, the
second alternative intimation referred to above should he made to the Turkish
Government.

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Printed at the GC [Government Central] Press, Simla.

The volume is divided into three parts: Part I (folios 5-47) containing an introduction; Part II (folios 48-125) containing a detailed account; and Part III (folios 126-188) containing despatches and correspondence connected with Part I Chapter IV ('The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', folios 28-47).

Part I gives an overview of policy and events in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region during Curzon's period as Viceroy [1899-1905], with sections on British policy in Persia; the maintenance and extension of British interests; Seistan [Sīstān]; and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . Part II contains more detailed accounts of selected topics, including sections on British policy in Persia, customs and finance, quarantine, administration, communications, and British and Russian activity in Seistan. The despatches and correspondence in Part III include correspondence from the Government of India in the Foreign Department, the Secretary of State for India, and the Viceroy; addresses and speeches by Curzon; and notes of interviews between Curzon and local rulers.

Mss Eur F111/531-534 consist of four identical printed and bound volumes. However, the four volumes each show a small number of different manuscript annotations and corrections.

This volume contains manuscript additions on folios 8, 11-12, 14, 42 (a sixteen word note concerning the use by the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] of a distinctive colour [flag] for Kuwait shipping), and 62-66.

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1 volume (189 folios)
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The volume contains a list of Parts I-III on folio 4; a table of contents of Part I on folio 6; a table of contents of Part II on folio 49; and a table of contents of Part III on folios 127-129, which gives a reference to the paragraph of Part I Chapter IV that the despatch or correspondence is intended to illustrate.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 191; 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. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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'SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS AND MEASURES OF THE VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, VICEROY AND GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. I. JANUARY 1899-APRIL 1904. II. DECEMBER 1904-NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV. PERSIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF.' [‎185v] (375/386), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F111/534, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100070118030.0x0000b0> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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