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File 3208/1908 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Taona piracy case’ [193r] (23/206)
The record is made up of 102 folios. It was created in 16 Jun 1905-16 Jun 1913. 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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No. 36 of 1913.
GOVERNMENT OP INDIA.
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FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
External.
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To
The Most Hon’ble the MARQUESS of CREWE, K.G.,
Ms Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Simla, the 24:th April 1913.
My Lord Marquess,
We have the honour to refer to Lord Morley’s telegram, dated the
‘ 21st August 1908, regarding the murder of certain subjects of the Trucial
Chief of Abu Thabi on the pearl banks by Persian subjects.
2. It is unnecessary for us to recapitulate in this despatch the facts of
this case which are not disputed and are well known to Your Lordship.
It will be sufficient to remark that attempts to obtain from the Persian
Government adequate satisfaction for the crime have failed, and they have
declined to pay the blood-money and compensation which was assessed at over
£ 1 , 000 .
3. Sir P. Cox has now suggested that a sum of Rs. 11,000, out of the
• m* telega from Hi. E.cdlencj the Vieercy, fin0 ° f Es - 50,000* exacted from the
dated the 23rd January i 9 ii. Shaikh of Debai in connection with the
attack on the landing party from the “ Hyacinth ” in December 1910, may be
paid to the Shaikh of Abu Thabi as compensation for the murder of his
subjects.
4. As soon as the financial position of the Persian Government has be
come assured, His Majesty’s Government will doubtless press for a settlement
of the Abu Thabi claim. But in the meantime it is important, from more
than one point of view, to remove the grievance of the Shaikh of Abu Thabi.
The murder case has remained unsettled for ten years and is a chronic source i
of grievance to the Shaikh, who never fails to refer to it when the Political
Resident has any occasion to meet him. Moreover, it forms a continual basis
for the general complaint, on the part of the Trucial Shaikhs, that while we
exact claims against them with rigour we fail to exhibit the same energy in
exacting claims on their behalf. j
t * \
( 12 MAY1913 J
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Part 3 comprises correspondence relating to an incident occurring in 1902 in which four Abu Thabi [Abu Dhabi] pearl fishers (described as being of the Sudan tribe) were murdered near Charak [Bandar-e Chārak], Persia, by inhabitants of the nearby port of Taona [Bandar-e Ţāḩūneh]. The part’s principal correspondents are: Major Percy Zachariah Cox ( 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ); Sir George Head Barclay (British Minister at Tehran); William Graham Greene (Assistant Secretary to the Admiralty).
The correspondence covers:
- efforts by the British authorities to establish the identities and whereabouts of the perpetrators of the crime, and efforts to obtain compensation for the crime on behalf of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi. Much is also made in the correspondence of the long period of time taken to resolve the case, and the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi’s frustration at the delay;
- the capture in 1909 by HMS Redbreast of one of the men believed to have been involved in the murders (including a report of the capture by Lieutenant Commander Joseph Armand Shuter of HMS Redbreast , dated 5 July 1909, ff 222-225);
- the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi’s refusal to detain the suspect at Abu Dhabi, for fear of the unrest that it might cause in the town, chiefly amongst the relatives of the murdered men;
- a proposal made by the Government of India to pay 11,000 Indian rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. as compensation to the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, with hope of compensation forthcoming from Persia looking unlikely.
A minute at the end of the correspondence, written by Sir Thomas William Holderness of 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. , dated 1913 (f 190), offers a succinct précis of the events of the case.
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