TURKEY AND ENGLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12712, 15 November 1904, Page 5

TURKEY AND ENGLAND.

THE KOWEYT QUESTION, A DEMAND BY TURKEY. • .■BfiFU&ED BY BRITAIN. k liy Mfefcwph -»Prei» A»scela«oi».~Csprrfgi.t (iUdeivid *fot«mbef I*, 10.20 p.m.) 1 . London, November 14. Muburus Pasha, the Turkish Ambas sador in London, has elicited from Lord Lafiedowne that the Government of India have sent a temporary agent to Koweyt, on the Persian Gulf, to settle certain affairs. \ The Turkish Ambassador said that the presence of the agent at Koweyt was a violation of the law of nations and demanded his recall. He added that the presence of the.agent at Koweyt would delay the settlement of the frontier of the Aden hinter.land. AclilU. Lord Lanßdowrg replied that he was unable to deal with the question of Koweyt while the question of the hinterland of Aden remained unsettled' ______'• • ■'■'■ : "•■'■■ ■ ■. —-— -r~— There is a dispute between Turkey and ; Britain 1 regarding Koweyt, which is.; ; a town; ! of 25,000 inhabitants on the Persian " Gulf. . The ' dispute led in 1901 to raids by Bedouin, tribes, at the instance of th Turkish Go-. ' vernment, which were met and fought .by, tribes friendly to the British. Turkey claimed that Koweyt came,under her nd-, ministration, C but. Great Britain refuted to allow the claim. The fighting between the tribe? has been frequent einoe 1901. In 1903 the Viceroy of India:. (Lord Oureon) made an official visit to Koweyt. ' The chief significance."of Koweyt'is that -it Wis pro- ■-. posed that the ftlaoft should be the terminus of a railway to be built Germans, at the instoo of the Kaiser, Constantinople through Bagdad, us a neat route to India. The British Government blocked! the scheme ■■ on the-ground thai jt should hot proceed; ■■ Unless ■/■ the British % interest ;in ■■■ it - Was ' para- ' mount. It is probable, therefore, that Tur- : key's action in . this ■ matter has been " inspired" from Berlin. ' ' ■ i ,—■'.■ i" '" i '——————• ■