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'Historical Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf, 1907-1928' [‎58r] (122/188)

The record is made up of 1 volume (90 folios). It was created in 1928. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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23. The incidents at Tamb and Basidu in the summer of 1928
necessitated consideration of the action to be taken at Henjam in the event
-of Persian aggression under the Telegraph Concession there; and in
September 1928 the Admiralty suggested that the Senior Naval Officer Adm. toF.o.,
should be authorised to take action on the lines approved in the case of ® e ^ t, t J ) 5 A 1 c ^ 8 "
Basidu (compare page 121, para. 25). The Foreign Office, however, sept. 221928
-expressed the view that, having regard to the weakness of the British p - 52,0 / 28 ■
position at Henjam, and to the desirability of regularising that position,
in agreement with Persia, and of securing the maintenance of uhe use of
the concession as a naval depot and recreation ground, for which Persian
permission had never been obtained, the Senior Naval Officer should be
instructed that conflict with the Persian authorities in the island, military
or civil, should be avoided in all circumstances save in a grave emergency
when British lives and property are in danger, and that even then force
should be used only in the last resort.
Henjam Wireless Station.
24-. The history of the wireless station established at Henjam in 1916,
the present importance of that station, and the threat to its continued
maintenance constituted by the Persian prohibition of the import of spare
parts, is dealt with in the Memorandum on Wireless in the Gulf on page 125,
Relations between the Sheikh of Henjam and Persia: 1904-28.
25. The Arab Sheikh of Henjam, now over 80 years of age, is the direct
descendant of the Arab leader to whom permission to occupy Henjam
was granted by the Sultan of Muscat about 1826. He is the hereditary
ruler of the Arabs of the Beni Yas tribe who inhabit the island ; he claims,
as do his people, never to have acquiesced in Persian claims to sovereignty
over Henjam or to have acquired Persian nationality, and so recently as
1927 he informed the Officer Commanding H.M.S. Lupin that he regarded
action in Henjam by the Persian customs authorities against his property
as a violation " of his rights, as he considered himself a subject of the Sultan
of Muscat."® The general attitude of the Sheikh and his subjects on the *, 1 o
question of Persian nationality, and their close relations with the Trucial Aug. i6i927 ) 'p 0 3945!
Sheikhdoms of the Arab coast, and particularly with Dabai, are described
in para. 3 above.
26. His Majesty's Government, on the other hand, have, as already stated,
consistently held that the island of Henjam belongs to Persia, and that the
•claims of the Sultan of Muscat, on which the Sheikh of Henjam to some
extent bases his attitude, cannot be entertained.
27. The gradual assertion of Persian authority in the island since the
establishment on it of a customs port in 1904; (see para. 14 above) has led
during ihe last 25 years to considerable friction between the local Persian
officials and the Arab inhabitants. Tension was particularly marked t f.o . tel. to Teh.,
between 1904 and 1907,t during which period an appeal to the Sultan of ! 4 ^ e ^oTi'
Muscat^ by the Henjam Arabs led to a visit to the island by His Highness to G. of 1., Dec! 27
in 1905, and a formal protest by him to His Majesty's Government against
Persian action. A proposal to transfer the Arabs to Basidu was rejected by tod.of 1., Dec. 7
His Majesty's Government in 1906 on political grounds. Difficulty again 1905, p. 1923/06.
1 rv 1 1 c' S Lr. from Pol. Res.
arose m 1914.§ _ L Cx. of 1, May 10
A serious incident would appear to a large extent to have been avoided 1914, p. 2407 /14.
in the past owing to the knowledge of the Sheikh that His Majesty's
Government recognise Persian sovereignty, and the fact that the Persian
customs post lies within the boundary of the British concession.
28. Ill-feeling of long standing came to a head, however, in April 1927,
when, consequent on the seizure by the Persian customs officials of a dhou r
belonging to the Sheikh of Henjam en route to Khassab on the Arabian
coast and carrying Rs. 3,000 in cash, the customs post, though w T ithin the
British concession, was attacked and looted by the Sheikh and his followers,
the Customs Mudir being killed, the local Persian Postmaster wounded,
and more serious disturbances being prevented only by the landing of a

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The volume is entitled Summary of Events in Territories of the Ottoman Empire, Persia and Arabia affecting the British Position in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , 1907-1928 (printed by the Committee of Imperial Defence, October 1928).

Includes sections on The Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia (Nejd [Najd]), Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Muscat, and Bahrein [Bahrain].

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1 volume (90 folios)
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There is a table of contents at the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 90 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 86, 86A. Two folios, f. 3 and f. 4 have been reattached in the wrong order, so that f. 4 precedes f. 3. The following map folios need to be folded out to be examined: f. 87, f. 88.

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