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File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.' [349r] (263/338)
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PERSIA.
[June 12 .] fn \\ > o
JNFIDENTIAL.
Section 3-
[21595]
No. 1 .
X'-
(No. 1 . Confidential.)
Sir,
Foreign Office to Consul-General Cox.
Foreign Office, Jane 12, 1909.' 1
.WITH reference to the telegram No. 292 of this day’s date to His Majesty’s
Minister at Tehran, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you copies
i C o^ ie -vR° n( ] e w C ?’ aS rnar ^ e ^ th® margin,* on the subject of the proposed loan to
the Sheikh of Mohammerah.
Ton will find the exact terms on which the company are willing to grant a loan
of 10,0001 in the draft lease enclosed in Mr. Wallace’s letter of the 9 th instant.
Sii E. Grey amU be glad if you will concert with Mr. J. JB. Lloyd, the company’s agent,
who is now at Mohammerah, as to the steps that should he taken to communicate the
draft to the Sheikh.
His Majesty’s Government trust that the terms contained in the form of lease,
which appear reasonable, will be accepted by the Sheikh "without alteration, but should
in the course of the negotiations a deadlock arise over any point, Mr. Lloyd has power
to effect a settlement on the spot.
I am to invite your special attention to the fact that the company must insist on
their lease from the Sheikh being coextensive with their concession from the Persian
Government or any extension thereof, and also that as regards the question of the
lapse of the company s buildings, machinery, &c., at the expiration of their concession
from the Persian Government, or of any extension thereof, the company are unable, in
view' of their engagement to the Persian Government, to agree to the proposed reversion
to the Sheikh, but they are quite willing, if it is thought advisable to dispense with a
definite pronouncement, that such buildings, &c., shall lapse to the Persian Government,
and it does^ not seem necessary to raise this question with the Sheikh, who should be
contented with a statement that the company undertake that the buildings, machinery,
&c., will not be removed at the expiration of the concession, or of any extension
thereof.
* To Anglo-Persian Oil Company, May 24; Anglo-Persian Oil Company, May 27; ditto, June 9, 1909.
I am, &c.
LOUIS MALLET.
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Part 3 consists of correspondence relating to an agreement between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Shaikh Khazal-Bin-Jaber [Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India (Foreign Department), Foreign Office, and 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. . Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary;
- British Minister to Persia, Tehran;
- representatives of Anglo-Persian Oil Company;
- 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. ;
- Shaikh Khazal of Mohammerah;
- Messrs Lloyd, Scott, and Co., agents of Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Mohammerah;
- Persian government officials;
- Arnold Talbot Wilson, Acting Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- the negotiations over a loan to Shaikh Khazal by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for the use of land on Abadan Island for an oil refinery;
- the question of what is to be done with company buildings on the island when the concession period ends;
- the nature of Shaikh Khazal's rights to the land in question;
- the Persian Government's exceptions to some of the terms of the agreement;
- the question of guards for the refinery and who will pay for them.
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- File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.'
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- 218r:242v, 243v:246v, 247v:255r, 256v:257r, 258v:264r, 265r:267v, 269v:271r, 272v:273v, 275v:278r, 280r:282r, 283v:284v, 285v:293r, 294r, 295v:315r, 316r:316v, 319v:325v, 328r:328v, 329v:331v, 332v, 333v:336v, 337v:338v, 339v:340v, 341v:347v, 349r:349v, 351v, 353v:358v, 362r:382v, 384v:386v
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