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'14/172 I VOL. B. 68. ARAB COASTS & MISCELLANEOUS' [162v] (333/420)
The record is made up of 1 volume (204 folios). It was created in 14 Jul 1914-20 May 1947. It was written in English, Arabic and French. 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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was beyond doubt that the Sheikh of the Jovvasirai of Oman owned the
island, and, as in dealing with the question we had to_ reckon with patent
facts, it seemed waste of time for us to discuss the question no a .
27. In February 1913 the Persian Foreign Office raised the question
with the Minister at Teheran, urging that the ownership of the island was
contested by Persia. Sir Percy Cox, on reference being made to him,
'b* tf to min 1 feb. 23 intimated§§ that he had recently made it clear to the Governor of the Gulf
i9i3, p. isi'g/is. Ports that the ownership oJ Tamb was not open to question, and added that
"since the correspondence of 1905 the subjects of the Sheikh oi bhargah
and his flag have remained established on the island ; that if the question
was now reopened His Majesty's Government would no doubt revive the
question of Sirri; but that a flat refusal to discuss it would probably
be best.
28. The matter does not appear to have been taken further by Persia.
The light was exhibited at Tamb on 15th July 1913, and His Majesty's
Government agreed that notification of its erection should be made to
iiiyfms' 0 '' foreign consular representatives in the usual manner by the Government
p. 2M7/13.' of India. 1111
VII.—Statements made by His Majesty's Government to German
Government as to ownership of Abu Musa, 1907—14.
29. It may be remarked at this stage that in the lengthy negotiations which
took place with the German Government between 1907 and 1914 over the
claim of Messrs. Wonckhaus in respect of the cancellation of their red oxide
concession in Abu Musa by the Sheikh of Shargah, no reference was made
to the Persian Government, who were, indeed, privately reminded by the
Charge d'Affaires in 1908 of the incident of 1904, and warned against any
attempt to renew the Persian claim.® His Majesty's Government con
sistently referred, in their communications to the German Government, to-
the " sovereignty " exercised in Abu Musa by the Sheikh, and a quantity of
local evidence was produced to show that the ownership of Abu Musa vested
t Cp. e.g. Memo, to ^ ( | ie ru ]i n g Sheikh of the Jowasimi of Oman residing at Shargah. j It
German ovt. un er c | ear }y j , av e been impossible for His Majesty's Government to have
taken the very definite line actually taken by them vis-d-vis Germany had
the status of the island been, in their view, a matter at all open to dispute.
* Teh. tel. 6 to P.O.
Jan. 6 1908.
Sir E. Grey's letter
to Count Metternich,
Dec. 6 1911,
P.4859/11.
+ Teh. tel. 123 to
F.O., April 27 1923,
P. 1625/23.
§ P.O. tel. 88
May 1 1923,
P.1647/23.
|| Teh. Desp. 220,
May 18 1923,
P. 2664.
% Teh. Desp. 236,
May 29 19^3,
P. 2653.
VIII.—Reassertion of Persian Claim to Tamb and Abu Musa, 1923.
30. In 1923 the Minister at Teheran reported that he had learned
confidentially that the Persian concessionnaire of the Hormuz red oxide
concession, Moin-ut-Tujjar, a person of great wealth and considerable political
influence, was urging the Persian Government to raise the Persian claim to
Abu Musa, couple it with that to Bahrein, and refer both to the League of
Nations J
Sir P. Loraine was instructed by the Foreign Office to draw the attention
of the Prime Minister to the incident of 1904, when His Majesty's
Government had been prepared to take naval action to remove the Persian
flag from Tamb and Abu Musa, and hint that revival of the Persian
claim might lead His Majesty's Government to take the measures then
contemplated. §
31. The Minister made the required communication to the Prime
Minister, making, however, no reference to Tamb in his Aide Memoire. His
Highness made no reply on the matter of Abu Musa.H Ten days later a
Note asserting Persian rights over both Tamb and Abu Musa, " of which
notification was made to His Majesty's Legation in the year 1903-4,
having been addressed to the Minister by the Persian Foreign Office,
Sir P. Loraine adopted an uncompromising attitude, and returned the Note
to the Prime Minister with a strongly worded covering letter.^" It seemed
probable that the despatch of the Note was due to ignorance on the part
of the Acting Foreign Minister of the communication which had been made
to the Prime Minister, and, the position of His Majesty's Government having
been made clear, the incident went no further.
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This file contains reports and correspondence relating to the ownership of some islands in the Gulf, namely, the islands of Farsi, Arabi, Harqus, Al Karan and Al Kurain. The reports and correspondence are mainly between the 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. , London; the Foreign Office, London; 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. Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. Kuwait; Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. Bahrain; the Anglo Persian Oil Company. The discussion over the territorial status bears on whether the islands would come in the concession area of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company or Kuwait. One letter notes that if the ownership of the islands is undetermined up until that point this was of no importance; however, with the possibility that they may contain oil it was now imperative that they should belong to either Her Majesty's Government or to Kuwait rather than a foreign power. Therefore, the Shaikh of Kuwait is encouraged to erect beacons on some of the islands to support his claim to ownership. As the British were keen to avoid territorial disputes with Persia this was thought more unobtrusive than the raising of flags. There is also discussion over the island of Hawar and whether it belonged to Bahrain or Qatar.
It also includes a translation of a letter from Shaikh Hamdan bin Zayed [Shaikh of Abu Dhabi] to Colonel Stuart Geoge Knox, 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. Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , a small hand drawn sketch map showing location of a village on Dalma Island with H.M.S. Fox anchorage position (folio 3), and a table on sources of oil supply to Britain in the years 1935, 1936 and 1937.
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: The sequence consists of small circled numbers located in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, commencing on the first full page of text.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:16v, 18r:36v, 38r:204v, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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