'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [‎43v] (91/228)

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8 After having considered the views
of the* local officers on
award, the Government of I^ia te g p
to the Secretary of State on the Octoher,
reply to his telegram of 10th August last, to the
effect that they regarded the Hague Trihun ^
award as generally satisfactory. T y p P
to authorise Major Grey to mvite M. Laronce
to co-operate in drawing up a list of P e i s o“s
now authorised to fly the French flag and the
proclamation to he issued by t ie „
announcing the result of the arbitration. The
list and proclamation would be subject to the
approval of the British and Trench Govern
ments, to whom would be referred doubtful
points arising in course of preparation.
At the same time the Government of India
addressed the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian
Gulf on the steps which he proposed should be
taken to give effect to the award.
They agreed with him that it might ulti
mately be necessary to exercise some vigilance
with a view to securing the assertion by the
Sultan of his full rights under the award; but
they pointed out to him that the first step to be
taken should be for Major Grey and M. Laronce
to endeavour to arrive at an understanding on
all points of doubtful interpretation, and also
on the public notification which it was pro
posed should be issued by the Sultan. When
necessary, reference could be made to the
Government of India for guidance.
In regard to his proposal that the Trench
flag should not be flown in the creek which
divides the two settlements at Sur, the Govern
ment of India stated that they could hardly see
their way, with the present data before them,
to express any opinion on the proposal.
They thought that the right to fly the
Trench flag would presumably continue to
be the same in all parts of the territorial
waters of Maskat, and it was unlikely that
the Trench Government, who had already
been deprived of a substantial portion of the
rights claimed by them, w r ould consent to a
further diminution of these without a quid
pro quo. A more detailed report on this
question was accordingly called for; as also
on the proposal to appoint a British officer at
Sur.
On the 25th October, Major Grey tele
graphed that M. Laronce had arrived by the
previous mail.
9. M. Auguste Goguyer, one of the sons
of M. Goguyer, the Trench arms merchant of
Maskat, arrived from Baghdad on the 20th
September by the S. S. “ Kapurthala
10. (Vide paragraph 14 of the Memo
randum for September 1905.) The British
Consul at Bunder Abbas reported bv telegram
on the 26th October the removal of the flagstaffs