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File 1421/1908 Pt 3 'Persia: oil; negotiations between the Shaikh of Mohammerah and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.' [374r] (313/338)
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Sir Edward Grey to Sir G. Barclay {Tehran).
Foreign Office, June 2, 1909, 6 p.m.
(No. 273.)
I' OLLOWING for Cox :—
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u p° m ^ e ^ e 8 rams 18th May : Loan to Sheikh of Mohammerah.
Company state that they are precluded under their Concession from the Persian
(government from agreeing to Sheikh’s first stipulation, as all buildings and machinery
at its expiration become property of the Persian Government, but they could give an
undertaking not to remove them at the end of the lease. On this assumption, and also
assuimng that Sheikh does not demand more than 650L a-year rental, do you think he
would be satisfied with a sum down of 12,500h, of which 6,500L would represent the
capitalized value of ten years’ rent paid in advance and 6 , 000 L would represent a loan
at (3 pei cent., repayable in ten years, either at the end of ten years in full or in
instalments ?
“As regards Company’s requirements summed up by Sheikh under six headings,
draft Agreement inclosed in Reynolds’lette/of 30th April represents what would be
acceptable to them. Will Sheikh accept this ?
Company do not understand reference to payment of 1,000?. a-year to Swintharis,
of which they know nothing.”
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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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