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File 442/1907 'Persian Gulf: British and German shipping; German competition' [‎67r] (138/446)

The record is made up of 1 volume (220 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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as freight to other lines—by reason of the paucity of their own sailing -the
British Combine has thus benefited largely from the friendly terms on which it
has stood with the Russian steamer Agents.
But the German Agent at Bushire has already attempted in 1908 to obtain
the tobacco for his ships. Herr Heinicke has this year been named Agent at
Shiraz for the Societe flic# a British subject, and similarly at Mohammerah the
agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. has been lately transferred from Lynch Bros, to Ter Meulen, Gratama
& Co., a Dutch firm, who are shippers in German boats. In June last, the
Bushire Agents of the Anglo-Algerian Line wrote to the Director of the Societe
de Tombac at Constantinople asking for preference shipment by his steamers.
The reply was a non-committal one.
Of the various points brought forward and recommendations made in 1907
Desiderata put forward in .906-07 report. 0nl y N °-. ( 2 ), haS r P e , en actively taken Up
as yet, fl^., the Lighterage from British
steamers in British-owned lighters.
Some progress has been made at Bushire towards the establishment of a
Lighterage Company at Bushire. Lighterage Company. _ The British India
Company s agents received instructions at
the end of 1908 to have 6 sailing lighters built, and, in February 1909, orders to
undertake the lighterage of their own steamers at a rate of Rs. 2*8=3#. 4 ^-
per ton, the other British Shipping Companies having apparently not yet joined
them in the venture. The measure has created a little resentment amongst
lightermen and merchants owing to the high rate charged and suddenness of the
step, but this will die down. The sooner the Anglo’Algerian and Bombay—
Persian Companies decide to join the movement, the easier will the position
become, and it is again urged that a small steam tug-lighter will make all the
difference, both for speed on the many windless days of the year, and for proving
to the natives the superiority of the new scheme.
Apart from the subjects discussed above, there were several other features
other branches oi German actmty. ^ German interest in these regions during
the year under review.
This official was despatched in the capacity of Commercial delegate of the
n £ „ ,~ , German Empire to make an exhaustive
study of trade conditions in bouthern and
Eastern Persia with the object of putting German commerce in direct relations
with various Persian centres. He visited Yezd, Kerman, Bunder Abbas,
Bahrein, Bushire and Shiraz in succession.
At Bushire he inspected the bazaars, obtained statistics from the Customs,
and interviewed the principal merchants; to one of them he announced his inten
tion of seeing that on his return to Germany more inducement was offered to
direct trade between Persian and German merchants by better credits being
offered in Germany.
While in Shiraz he manifested to Mr. Grahame particular interest in the con
sumption oi sugar in the Shiraz district. In expressing his concurrence with the
pessimistic views of the commercial outlook held by the German merchant in
Shiraz, he regretted “ that he should yet be called upon to write in an optimistic
vein.”
The German Government were successful in obtaining for Messrs. Wonck-
The export of red oxide from island of Abu haus and Company the accjuiescence of His
Musa - Majesty’s Government on behalf of the
Sheikh of Shargah to their removing the oxide accumulated previous to suspen
sion of the disputed lease by the Sheikh of Shargah, and the S. S. Louise took
away some 1,800 tons in 1908.
The knowledge that German influence was also at work at Tehran with a
view to securing rights in connection with the more valuable deposits on the island
of Hormuz goes to prove that, apart from any political and strategic designs, the
German element is bent on securing a portion, or the whole, of the red-oxide
trade in order to provide a further stand-by for the business of both Wonckhaus
and the Hamburg-American Line.

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The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the issue of competition from German shipping, 1907-1911.

Included are a number of reports with statistical tables:

  • List of cargo shipped per SS Canadia from Antwerp (14 July) and Hamburg (16 July);
  • Report on trade done by Hamburg-American line with Basra (with four annexes of statistical tables) compiled by F E Crow, Consul, Basra;
  • Proposed state aid to British shipping companies in the Gulf;
  • Difficulties concerning lighterage at Bahrain.
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1 volume (220 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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