Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office: Persian Gulf : French and Portuguese possessions, no. 76-81H.M. Stationery Office, 1920 |
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Стр. 79 - The carrying off of slaves, men, women, or children from the coasts of Africa or elsewhere, and the transporting them in vessels, is plunder and piracy, and the friendly Arabs shall do nothing of this nature.
Стр. 45 - Government; (3) on no account to cede, sell, mortgage, or otherwise give for occupation, any part of their territory, save to the British Government.
Стр. 69 - In the third place — -I say it without hesitation — we should regard the establishment of a naval base, or of a fortified port, in the Persian Gulf by any other Power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal.
Стр. 25 - Two ranges of hills intersect it, one running from north to south, the other from east to west.
Стр. 50 - Abdullah bin Fysul that he will not injure or attack the territories of the Arab tribes in alliance with the British Government, specially on the Kingdom of Muscat, further than in receiving the zukat that has been customary of old.
Стр. 21 - Conference, established a special section whose duty it should be to provide the British Delegates to the Peace Conference with information in the most convenient form — geographical, economic, historical, social, religious and political — respecting the different countries, districts, islands, &c., with which they might have to deal. In addition, volumes were prepared on certain general subjects, mostly of an historical nature, concerning which it appeared that a special study would be useful....
Стр. 78 - If any individual of the people of the Arabs contracting shall attack any that pass by land or sea of any nation whatsoever, in the way of plunder and piracy and not of acknowledged war, he shall be accounted an enemy of all mankind and shall be held to have forfeited both life and goods.
Стр. 81 - ARTICLE 3. That in the event of an act of aggression being committed at sea by any of those who are subscribers with us to this engagement upon any of our subjects or dependants, we will not proceed immediately to retaliate, but will inform the British Resident or the Commodore at Bassidore, who will forthwith take the necessary steps for obtaining reparation for the injury inflicted, provided that its occurrence can be satisfactorily proved.