'File 14/115 IX B 25 Abu Musa Red Oxide.' [‎110r] (236/471)

Ealtio House,
Leadenhall Street,
London, E.G.3.
ftth July 1923.
Dear Sir Arnold,
Many thanks for your letter of 13th ult., enclosing
copy of letter received "by you from the 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. , Bushire,
which I have perused with much interest.
Owing to the lateness of the Season, I have decided
not to send a boat to load at Ahu I!usa until the Autumn.
Reading between the lines, I presume that there will be no
difficulty in ny shipping the old stock as well as the
newly mined Oxide, it being understood that if the old stock
realises a price that leaves a decent margin of profit,
after paying freight and charges, I shall make some fair
allowance to the man Isa, who, I understand, had some
interest with the late concessionnaire Abdullah bin Hassan
Samaiyeh*
I had already heard from our Agents at Teheran tnat
the Hoin -ut -Tojjar was "pulling the strings" with the view
of getting the Persian Government to put forward a claim
to the Island of Abu Musa, but I had not taken it very
seriously, seeing that, many years ago they put forward a
similar claim and so far as* my memory serves me the British
Government then finally decided that the Island belonged to
the Sheikh of Shargah, which decision, I presume, they will
adhere to.
With kind regards.
Yours sincerely,
Sd. Illegible.
. i ^1son, K.O•I .E., etc*,
Mohammerah*