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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [62r] (128/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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POLITICAL
RESIDENCY
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
FOR 1906-1907.
Herr Wonckhaus, who has been the pioneer of German trade in the Persian
Gulf, has naturally become the chief agent and patron of the line. Their opera
tions have been somewhat facilitated by the extremely irregular sailings of our own
British Lines, which undoubtedly require to bestir themselves, if they intend to
prevent the German Line from picking up their clients. Though it is doubtless
an expensive procedure the latter are a sufficiently wealthy company to make their
sailings from home regular, whether they can fill their ships or not; whereas ouf
own lines apparently do not let their vessels leave home until they have secured
the full amount of cargo required.
An offer made by them to the British Indian Steam Navigation Company
to share with them the cost of the upkeep of the Shatt-el-Arab " Bar" buoys, an
overture which was politely declined, is an interesting indication of their serious
intentions in the direction of enterprise in the Gulf.
The entry of Germany into competition for the Gulf carrying trade has
. naturally caused her movements to be
German activity. , i. . , . . ..,
regarded with suspicion, with what serious
reason it is as yet difficult to say.
Thus in June 1906 a positive report was communicated to his journal by a
British newspaper correspondent in Con-
Reported desire to acquire Halool Island. stantinople to the effect that Germany was
negociating with the Porte for the acquisi
tion of the Island of Halool in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, a tiny islet to which the nearest
point of land is the extremity of the Katar promontory of the Arab Coast.
She was said to contemplate using it as a coaling station for German ships.
The islet in question is not far removed from the track of steamers passing
between Eas Mussendum and Bahrein, and is situated at the edge of the Great
Pearl Bank.
Curiously enough it is the only one of the numerous islands in the deep waters
of the Gulf to the possession of which the Porte might conceivably formulate a
colourable claim based on the ground that the nearest mainland to the island is the
coast of Katar, over which the Porte pretends to claim sovereignty, which however
we have always declined to recognise.
It is frequented by Dhows from Bahrein and A1 Bida the port on the Katar
Coast, in summer by pearlers needing shelter from the Shamal gales from which it
affords good protection, and in winter by fishermen from the same two localities.
Nothing further has been heard of the alleged German intention, and may
never be ; but it is difficult to understand the occurrence in Constantinople of
specific rumours regarding such a little known and insignificant islet, unless it had
actually attracted attention in certain quarters, and it seems possible that the
publicity given to the report may have been sufficient to stifle any negociations
that may have been on foot.
The record of the acquisition by Herr Wonckhaus of certain exclusive rights
. on Abu Musa Island, though it rightly
u usa oncession. belongs to the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
Keport may
preferably be recorded here as an item of German commercial activity.
In July 1906 on return from a short visit to Simla on duty the Kesident received
information to the effect that Herr Wonckhaus had subleased the Island of Abu
Musa from one Hassan Samaiyeh of Lingah, who with two associates enjoyed from
-the Shaikh of Shargah a concession for the quarrying of Red Oxide on his island
possession. Confidential inquiries made at Lingah elicited the fact that the con
cession had not been actually transferred but that Hassan Samaiyeh had, in a con
tract drafted in English, given Herr WonckhaUs a monopoly of the output for a
period Of four years with right to renew. There was reason however to suppose from
Hassan Samaiyeh's secretive behaviour that he had come to this understanding
with Herr Wonckhaus's representative without the knowledge of the third partner
ift the Concession, (viz., Esa bin Abdul Latif of Shargah) and again without the con-,
currence of the Shaikh of Shargah, the sovereign of the Island. The Government
of India accordingly directed that inquiries be made from the Shaikh on this point,
and that he be reminded of the trouble to which Government had been put on his
account to recover the Island for him in 1904 after it had |been unwarrantably
invaded by the Director-General of Customs at Bushire on hehalf of the Persian
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The volume contains Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. and the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews by 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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There is a list of contents at the front of each Report.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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