'File 14/115 VII Annex (B 9) Abu Musa oxide: collected background material on the case' [‎844r] (1762/1904)

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Afcdul Latif ' m cs frx
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To v •
Hajl Hassan. Saataiyeh ,
dated *iiiHiir
After coaplisients ®
Your esteemed letter has reached we In due course j and I have
no^ed ius contents • Tfhen your' coamunication reached mo saying,
that you had sold to the German "before mentioned oxide from Abu
Musa , every year 2000 tons Oxide , at 15 shillin£s per ton
I sent you back an answer date® gist Rabi II 1224 which f.sv : or
-ted to convey acquiescence , "but in the course of the same let
uer j cautioned you against entering into any agreement in the
nature of a leasehold or into any realtion likely to result in
oxspute , or tne grounds that the overlords of cur affairs
would net agree to it . I asked you to give ue immunity against
the complications of the world (time ) , My letter in question
is no doubt with you .[ since writing it I tjg#* never received
existing between you and the ^erman
tro a you to e copy of the deed of agr eemeht ^mti l oth Zilkaadeh
| - whon lt -^ ge ln ■ had
'' " ' ' ftei li , I aiont" l on i .i- a?TiYal to
ycu .aimj, tter ©f 6th Zilka" l" ^ . *>. wur-n w _ trans
la&cr -mo translated the English document , it became plain to
us that you had launched yourself into the very thing agaiast
which we had cautioned you and had tied yourself up by giving
a lease , Consequently my son ss does not agree to this documon]
wnich does not leave you any power- of control or modification in
regard, to the Oxidemines of Abu Musa . And r.revioua to t/'jV"ccm
muni cat ion - you in my letter dated 8th ZilhiJ.ieh a
transl at.ion ox" t.lie deed for your- irformation , and * said that
you would perceive that the question was not one of sere sale an
stated by you , but one of leasehold , against which I bad
warned you • Moreover Shaikh Sagar does not agree tr the lease of
the oxl le to outsiders from foreign powers and claim® t^-at the
ag -• : ■ wim him ) was that you should do the work yourselves
ana not far* .it- *ut « This la what had to be explained •