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P BEE A OB .

This prdois covers correspondnnoo on our records about Turkish Arabia
affairs from tho beginning of tho nineteenth century to tho year 1905, with a
retrospoct into tho previous history, for which wo have partly drawn upon the
Horn bay Government Precis in regard to the .first connection of the Uonble JEust
India Company with Turkish Arabia, 1G4G—184G (called hereafter merely
Turkish Arabia Precis, lo46—1846),
Tho Prdcis is divided into four parts:—
Part First.—Dealing with the internal tribal and other affairs of Turkish
Arabia and its external affairs in relation to Persia, the Wahabis and Maskat.
Part Second.—Dealing with the British Agents and Consuls and their
rights on Turkish Arabia.
Part Third.—Dealing with the British rights on the Turkish Arabia
Hi vers.
Tho British rights, arising out of treaties, engagements, firmans or usage
on these Divers comprise the following :—
(i) Tho right to keep one, if not two, armed steamers on tho Euphrates
aud Tigris.
(ii) The right of British or British-owned mercantile vessels to navigate
those rivers, aud that without being liable to pay certain river
dues exacted from Turkish vessels.
(iii) The right of British Postal Service between Baghdad and Basrah.
(iv) Tho right of British ships-of-war to visit Basrah, if not Kurna,
situated at the confluence of the Euphrates aud Tigris.
(v) The right of British mercantile vessels to free passage on the Shat-
cl-Arab as far as Mohammerah without being detained by
Turkish authorities for tho purposes of quarantine, customs, etc.,
and this especially when the vessels are bound to Mohammerah,
a Persian port.
(vi) This right not to bo menaced by any forliGcations being built on
cither side of the last mentioned river.
(vii) Tho right of protection of our traffic on the Sliat-cl-Arab from
piracies and our right to take the necessary measures on default
of Turkey and Persia.
The origin and history of these rights and tho attempts made by the
Turks and Arab tribes to disturb them are treated in tho several Chanters of
Part III.
Part Fourth.—Connected with tho protection of British Indian subjects
and their property.
The following subjects will, however, be treated in separate Prdcis :—
(1) Consular jurisdiction and particular cases in connection with the
cxerciso of Consular jurisdiction, protection of Christian sub­
jects and Jews, etc,
(2) Protection of pilgrims and tho pass-port rules.
(3) Sanitary matters.
(4) Dailway projects.
(5) Trade.

8th December 1905. J. A. SALDANHA.

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