File 4919/1912 Pt 2 'Abu Musa Oxide Concession: transmission of files of German Consulate at Bushire' [‎6r] (11/64)

TRANSLATION.
-C.44.
Bushire, 19th May 1910.
From
To
In continuation of5
Despatch No.42 of i
6th irstant. $
Listemann, Bushire.
Imperial Chancellor, Berlin.
L$»- Colonel Cox wrote me officially yesterday that
Haji Hassan bin ^amaye had already approached him direct in the
matter of the shipment of oxide mentioned in my despatch No.42
and that he had refused him permission; this for my personal in
formation. He said that he was not empowered to accept my inter
vention in the matter of a shipment undertaken by Hassan for his
own account; that it on the occasion of the last shipment he had
corresponded with the Imperial Vice-Consulate this was due to a
misunderstanding, he having thought the shipment was for Wonkhaus
and Co:.
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On what Cox bases this latter assumption I cannot comprehend
for all we asked after the initial hindrance of shipment was
whether shipment would be allowed if it was on account of Messrs:
Wonckhaus. For such a case also the Acting English Consul-General
refused his consent or the ground that he had no instructions
from his Government, and then when Cos on his return from leave
spoke to Hassan at Lingeh he gave him the desired permission
(so he ^rote to me) without wishing to raise the question of
whose account the shipment was for. Of course I do not know
whether Hassan when on the subject of the new shipment informed
the Consul-General direct that it was for his own account. Messrs
Wcrckhaus in their letter on the subject to me only say that
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Hassan wished to cleanse, break up and convey the oxide gf the
beach with a view to shipping it to India after completio^of the
cleansing etc: operations, which would take a month or two.
own
Whether on nis/account ( or -mining Company’s) or whether on
account of others is not stated. As Cox sent me his letter, as
usual, a few hours after the fortnightly post to Lingeh had left.
i can only obtain information on this point by next post