"تجارة الأسلحة في الخليج العربي" [و‎‎٣‎٤] (٦٢/١٠)

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In January 1910 the Sultan of Muscat furnished the Political Agent with
a statement showing that his average customs receipts from the arms traffic
. for the last three years worked out at
at about 12,000L per annum {see
paragraph 66), the actual figures, according to His Highness' statement, being
approximately—
£
14,475 in 1907.
14,569 in 1908.
7,774 in 1909.
The following table shows the total value of the imports of arms and
ammunition into Muskat from the various countries engaged in the traffic ;
Value of Imports of Arms and Ammunition into Muskat.
Country of Origin.
1906-07.
1907-08.
1908-09. i
Belgium
France - - - -
United Kingdom
Germany - - - j
Ronmania -
£
54,016 |
5,995
52,327
£
141,020
26,343 !
101,432 |
10,255
£
114,694 i
19,911
82,017
10,842
10,177
Total
112,338
279,050
237,644
In other words, the total import trade in arms and ammunition at Muskat
was divided in the following percentages among the countries concerned
1906-07.
1907-08.
1908-09.
!
Belgium
France -
United Kingdom
Germany
Roumania -
48-1
5 • 3
46'6
50-5
9-5
36-3
i 7
48-2
8-4
345
4'6
4-3
Total
100
100
100
Tt =1^,1,1 bp observed that, owing to the fluctuating value of the Maria
Xch is t^ umt of all the Muskat returns, the sterling
Ssxi s i «— * •• — ' h "
approximately correct.
18 , Th. pro— 'I. r s S™cS:'X "S3
M. Goguyer. himself at Muskat in March 1899, and
• f 1 tliP local Indian merchants, on his arrival, that his operations
informed the ioca \. a ^ ^f Pr f eren ce as he would export arms
would be flag- M. Goguyer, from
purchased from A™ ^ J t0 the Sultan of Muskat Corn-
time to time, la « 'co ndl| c t were m ore than once made to the French
plaints as to ^ . T »,^ did not see their wav to interfere. On the
Government, who, howeT^, dMl not^e^ttoi^ ^ ^ reply to
1st October 1903 the l ie T downe f u ll y admitted that M. Goguyer was
representations fiom Lou • > r , j j f r iends in the French
a " very troublesome personage, b"t said th t h had trie
Chamber, and that it might not ver y t0 ^ tu ® ned b , tbe Political
from Muskat. A somewhat ^ the French'Foreign Office
3270/07. complaints made on the 1st July 1907
i tj 'ficlT Fmbassv in Paris. M. Louis, after remaiking that M. (-rogu^er
tL a 9 '* terrible thorn in the flesh for the Quai d'Orsay,' promised that he
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